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fix(server): a failed turn start no longer leaves the thread stuck starting - #14424
A failed turn-start effect can exhaust its retry budget while its run remains starting, leaving the thread busy and queued work blocked even after storage recovers.
On the last budgeted start failure, settle the still-starting run, attempt, root node and a “Turn failed to start” error item through the existing atomic status/attempt guard. If that settlement cannot persist, keep the effect pending on the existing capped backoff. Stop and replacement attempts remain protected. Missing root/attempt records are treated as corrupt state rather than retried indefinitely.
For restarts, settlement applies only after interruption and detach succeed. Failed interruption or detach keeps its retry owner; this change does not invent an interrupted status for an external provider. Inherited restart work is outside this PR. Once startup has committed running, the existing run-execution path owns finalization. An escaping failure there cannot invoke starting-run settlement against a newer steered attempt.
Verification
Current recovery head: 78a4b9dbe9, integrating main a4723422e7 without rewriting contributor or maintainer commits. The fallback now carries the original starting attempt/root identity through the failure boundary and refuses settlement if a replacement became current before the fallback read. A failed read before identity capture retains retry ownership. Main's turn-start reservation, workspace lease and running-execution ownership are preserved.
The replacement-before-fallback-read regression fails before this repair and passes after it.
check:changed: 82/82 tests across three files, all three affected package typechecks, formatting, lint, knip and GraphQL checks passed. Fresh GitHub readback also satisfies all eight required checks (five success, three skipped); Macroscope correctness passed. Approvability remains neutral/needs human approval. The addressed fallback review thread and the separate running-preparation terminal-write concern remain unresolved on GitHub; the latter is outside starting-run settlement scope.
Fresh independent review by OpenAI Codex gpt-6.1-sol, high effort, inspected the complete frozen contribution and the final two-line schema-predicate hoist: no actionable P1/P2/P3 findings.
The lifecycle tests use the real worker, executor, start service and SQLite outbox with storage-failure/race fixtures and a controlled test clock. No UI change; screenshots do not establish the settlement boundary. No live-provider or whole-disk-outage experiment was performed. No repo-wide suite or native-client proof was run.
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Reviewed and tested head: 152d44dd0f. Current-head build, typecheck, lint, all eight server test shards, aggregate tests, and Macroscope correctness/approvability checks passed. The cancelled duplicate mobile fingerprint run was superseded by a successful run on this same head. CodeRabbit reports its review was rate limited; no unresolved review threads remain. Maintainer approval remains for handoff.
Validated against main 9077e818d8, merged into the contributor branch without rewriting history:
Focused worker, persistence and start-service suites: 96 passed (104 before takeover). Preserved all 89 main cases and replaced overlapping PR additions with seven lifecycle regressions in the existing test file.
The four test-stage regressions fail against main. The restart interruption regression also fails against the original PR implementation, which incorrectly completed its effect after interruption failed.
A new regression reproduces an old start whose terminal-write storage failure escapes after steering has committed a replacement. It fails before the boundary fix and passes after; with healthy terminal-write storage, the control also passes.
Server typecheck and scoped formatting/lint pass; lint reports four preexisting unused-symbol warnings.
Lifecycle proof runs the real worker, executor, start service and SQLite outbox, with the existing projection/event-sink fixture for storage failures and guard races. It drains the worker and advances the test clock; no sleep-based assertions.
No UI changes, so screenshots do not establish this behavior. No live provider or whole-disk-outage experiment was performed. macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Electron desktop were not exercised.
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Already dead-lettered rows are not revived. Run execution owns finalization once startup commits the run as running; an escaping finalization failure is logged without invoking starting-run settlement. Existing post-success outbox completion-write handling is unchanged. An outage that also prevents both retry and immediate requeue writes still requires lease recovery, Stop or restart. Permanent restart interruption or detach failures retry at the 30-second cap and block that thread’s later outbox effects (except title generation) until Stop or recovery. Runs that have already reached running and inherited requests/subagents remain owned by their existing lifecycle paths.
Original implementation and reported reproduction by @saphid in #14424. Rebuilt with GPT-6.1 Sol (high), tests by GPT-6 Astra (high), through the Codex harness in T3 Code. Independent review: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol. Round 1 found the replacement-attempt race; round 2 found no blocking code issues after its fix.
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The change settles exhausted startup failures while protecting replacement attempts. An unresolved concern remains that suppressing a failed preparation-finalization write can leave a run stuck running; its retry or recovery ownership needs resolution.
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The start service now exposes conditional failure settlement for runs that remain in starting. The worker applies this settlement to eligible exhausted start and restart failures. Tests cover retries, settlement writes, and concurrent run changes.
The service adds failStartingRun and a shared settlement helper. The helper conditionally records terminal events for the run, active attempt, and root node. It records settlement analytics after a committed write. Run-execution failures after the running transition are logged unless they contain only interrupts.
Start-effect retries and final-attempt handling apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts
Start and restart effects use a shared start flow. On eligible final failures, the worker calls failStartingRun. Missing run state remains eligible for retry. Interruption or detach failures prevent the start helper from running.
Retry and settlement tests apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts
Tests cover exhausted start and restart failures, failed settlement writes, concurrent run changes, and replacement attempts. The harness adds worker and projection controls for these cases.
A rare persistence failure during run preparation could leave a thread stuck in a running state until a manual Stop or recovery. The change is otherwise well tested, so resolve or explicitly accept this gap before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 1b6fc
Failed restart attempts can now appear terminal before the previous provider turn is confirmed stopped. This creates a meaningful cancellation and failure-containment risk. Broader access or privilege expansion was not established.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: The new fallback can mark a restarted run failed and complete its effect after interruption of the previous provider turn fails or times out. Settlement updates only the current run, attempt, root node, and failure item; it does not establish termination of the previous provider turn. Run-targeted interruption subsequently returns already_terminal. This introduces terminal reporting without demonstrated external execution containment, although the underlying interruption failure predates the PR and adapter cleanup or broader Stop paths may provide additional containment.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The identified containment uncertainty concerns the restarted run and its previous provider turn/session. The transition does not grant new authority; any continued execution would retain existing provider authority. Maximum downstream resource or credential exposure was not established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A conditional failure path is restart initiation, unsuccessful interruption or missing terminal confirmation, final-attempt fallback, and successful local failure settlement. The previous provider turn may remain externally active while the run is reported failed. No attacker-triggered exploit or approval bypass was verified; adapter-specific termination and broader cancellation remain unresolved.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The worker supplies identifiers from the claimed effect, and settlement enforces thread/run/status/attempt identity at persistence. These controls constrain cross-thread writes and stale-attempt settlement; they do not demonstrate termination of external provider execution.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The restart control attempts interruption and waits for projected terminal state; when no live adapter session exists, it skips waiting. Existing startup/shutdown reconciliation assumes provider processes are gone and clears active provider-thread state. These are meaningful containment and recovery countermeasures, but do not establish immediate cleanup after a live-session interruption failure.
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The description is detailed and covers the problem (a failed turn-start effect exhausts its retry budget while its run stays starting, blocking the thread), the change (settling the still-starting run, attempt, root node, and error item through the existing guarded write; keeping the effect pending on capped backoff when settlement fails; restart handling; ownership after running), and extensive verification (focused test counts, check results, the replacement-before-read regression, and explicit untested areas). It does not follow the repository template's section headings exactly: there is no explicit 'Scope' section that links the bug issue. It references #14424 as the original implementation and reproduction, and describes the bug, but the template asks for a linked issue or a justification for no issue, and a clear statement that this is a bug fix rather than a feature. The Verification section is strong. The description also carries a long amount of history and Limits content that goes beyond the template. The title is not part of the description provided, so conventional-commit formatting cannot be assessed here.
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Thanks for this one. Never dead-lettering the start effect is simpler than the repair effect I'd been carrying on my fork, so I reworked mine on top of your branch.
What's left is the restart case: failStartingRun fails the run, but work inherited from the interrupted attempt stays open (pending approvals and questions, streaming messages, running items, subagents and their child threads). My commit settles those in the same guarded write, reading them inside its transaction so nothing can land in between, with tests:
Thanks, Mike. I'd like to keep this PR to the start-effect fix so it stays one problem per PR. Settling the work inherited from the interrupted attempt (pending requests, streaming messages, running items, subagents) is a separate defect with its own tests, so please send your commit as a follow-up once this lands. I'm rebasing this branch onto current main now.
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- Line 284: Update failStartingRun so missing rootNode or attempt records can
still terminate the run instead of returning ProviderTurnStartError; either
return a distinct error that EffectWorker routes to outbox.fail, or write a
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…arting
The last budgeted attempt of a provider-turn.start or provider-turn.restart
effect now fails the run for any failure, and the queue is held for the
user to resume. These effects are no longer dead-lettered when the attempt
budget runs out: if the run cannot be failed either, the effect keeps
retrying on the capped backoff. A failed read in start's post-load recheck
is now a start failure instead of "the run moved on".
ProviderTurnStartService gains failStartingRun, which reuses the guarded
settleRunBeforeStart write.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
… settle
A starting run whose root node or attempt is missing from the projection
can never be started or failed, so its start effect was retried forever
past the attempt budget. failStartingRun now reports that case with its
own error, and the worker fails the effect instead of retrying it.
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- Around line 454-460: Update the final-attempt failure flow around
failRunOnLastAttempt so it does not mark the restart run and attempt failed
while the interrupted provider turn may still be active. Retry the interruption
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…s run
A steering restart that gives up after its interrupt failed now ends the
run's still-running provider turn in the same guarded write that fails the
run. Startup recovery only cancels active runs, so it would otherwise stay
running forever.
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…o longer leaves the thread stuck starting
Preserve the scoped contribution against upstream 70d60e0.
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Taking over this one as maintainer for batch sidebar-threads-16. I will keep this focused on failed startup leaving a run stuck starting, reduce the implementation and tests where possible, and verify it against current main. Inherited restart-work settlement is outside this takeover. No merge is planned.
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sed -n '1290,1485p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts
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Pass the failed attempt identity to failStartingRun.
If the old attempt's guarded settlement fails with a persistence error, the worker retries the start effect and eventually calls failStartingRun with only threadId and runId. If steering commits a replacement before that fallback reads the run, failStartingRun uses the replacement's activeAttemptId and can mark the replacement run, attempt, root node, and error item as failed. Require the failed attempt to remain current before writing the fallback settlement.
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Update failStartingRun to receive the identity of the attempt whose start failed
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Merged main to resolve conflicts. failStartingRun now records the settled run in turn analytics through the shared settlement helper. Main's single-transaction event sink and its retry of the completion write on a database lock are kept unchanged. An independent GPT-6.1 Sol review approved the merge: EffectWorker + ProviderTurnStartService tests passed (62), the ProviderEventIngestor lock tests passed, and server typecheck passed.
startRun is a reusable Effect helper. It is called for provider-turn.start at line 198 and again at line 446. It is a plain arrow with no span and no stated reason. The OrchestrationEffectExecutorV2.execute span already covers these calls. A named Effect.fn would add a second span for the same operation. The project rules allow an untraced helper when an enclosing span covers it, but the reason must be stated beside the helper.
Add the reason above the helper, and use Effect.fnUntraced for it:
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+ // Deliberately untraced: startRun runs inside the OrchestrationEffectExecutorV2.execute+ // span, which already covers the start and failure settlement for this turn.
const startRun = (
effect: EffectOutbox.OrchestrationEffectV2,
runId: RunId,
willRetry: boolean,
) =>
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts around lines 115 - 119:
Update the startRun helper to use Effect.fnUntraced and add a brief adjacent comment explaining that OrchestrationEffectExecutorV2.execute already provides the enclosing span for its calls. Preserve the existing start and failure-settlement behavior.
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- Around line 1802-1803: In the preparation failure path around
Effect.catchCauseIf, retry the writeFinalRunEvents terminal write with an
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Retry the preparation terminal write before the start handler suppresses its failure.
If the preparation step fails and its writeFinalRunEvents call also fails, the error escapes RunExecutionService. The start handler logs it and completes the effect. The attempt then remains running, and no retry in the inspected run-execution path settles it. The run stays stuck until a later recovery path, Stop, or restart settles it.
Add an attempt-guarded retry to the preparation terminal write, similar to the ingestion retry at RunExecutionService.ts:1820. Keep the guard so a newer steered attempt is not settled. Confirm that the same guard protects the other callers before changing the shared write.
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In the preparation failure path around Effect.catchCauseIf, retry the writeFinalRunEvents terminal write with an attempt guard so it settles only the attempt that failed and cannot settle a newer steered attempt. Before changing shared writeFinalRunEvents behavior, verify that the same guard is valid for its other callers; otherwise keep the retry scoped to this preparation path.
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A failed turn-start effect can exhaust its retry budget while its run remains
starting, leaving the thread busy and queued work blocked even after storage recovers.On the last budgeted start failure, settle the still-starting run, attempt, root node and a “Turn failed to start” error item through the existing atomic status/attempt guard. If that settlement cannot persist, keep the effect pending on the existing capped backoff. Stop and replacement attempts remain protected. Missing root/attempt records are treated as corrupt state rather than retried indefinitely.
For restarts, settlement applies only after interruption and detach succeed. Failed interruption or detach keeps its retry owner; this change does not invent an interrupted status for an external provider. Inherited restart work is outside this PR. Once startup has committed
running, the existing run-execution path owns finalization. An escaping failure there cannot invoke starting-run settlement against a newer steered attempt.Verification
Current recovery head: 78a4b9dbe9, integrating main a4723422e7 without rewriting contributor or maintainer commits. The fallback now carries the original starting attempt/root identity through the failure boundary and refuses settlement if a replacement became current before the fallback read. A failed read before identity capture retains retry ownership. Main's turn-start reservation, workspace lease and running-execution ownership are preserved.
check:changed: 82/82 tests across three files, all three affected package typechecks, formatting, lint, knip and GraphQL checks passed. Fresh GitHub readback also satisfies all eight required checks (five success, three skipped); Macroscope correctness passed. Approvability remains neutral/needs human approval. The addressed fallback review thread and the separate running-preparation terminal-write concern remain unresolved on GitHub; the latter is outside starting-run settlement scope.gpt-6.1-sol, high effort, inspected the complete frozen contribution and the final two-line schema-predicate hoist: no actionable P1/P2/P3 findings.The lifecycle tests use the real worker, executor, start service and SQLite outbox with storage-failure/race fixtures and a controlled test clock. No UI change; screenshots do not establish the settlement boundary. No live-provider or whole-disk-outage experiment was performed. No repo-wide suite or native-client proof was run.
Earlier validation history
Reviewed and tested head: 152d44dd0f. Current-head build, typecheck, lint, all eight server test shards, aggregate tests, and Macroscope correctness/approvability checks passed. The cancelled duplicate mobile fingerprint run was superseded by a successful run on this same head. CodeRabbit reports its review was rate limited; no unresolved review threads remain. Maintainer approval remains for handoff.
Validated against main 9077e818d8, merged into the contributor branch without rewriting history:
No UI changes, so screenshots do not establish this behavior. No live provider or whole-disk-outage experiment was performed. macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Electron desktop were not exercised.
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Already dead-lettered rows are not revived. Run execution owns finalization once startup commits the run as
running; an escaping finalization failure is logged without invoking starting-run settlement. Existing post-success outbox completion-write handling is unchanged. An outage that also prevents both retry and immediate requeue writes still requires lease recovery, Stop or restart. Permanent restart interruption or detach failures retry at the 30-second cap and block that thread’s later outbox effects (except title generation) until Stop or recovery. Runs that have already reachedrunningand inherited requests/subagents remain owned by their existing lifecycle paths.Original implementation and reported reproduction by @saphid in #14424. Rebuilt with GPT-6.1 Sol (high), tests by GPT-6 Astra (high), through the Codex harness in T3 Code. Independent review: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol. Round 1 found the replacement-attempt race; round 2 found no blocking code issues after its fix.