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perf(mobile): thread list updates right after reopening the app - #30317
When you reopen the iOS app with several remote environments, the cached thread list shows at once, but it stays stale for a few seconds before it updates. There are two causes:
After iOS has killed the app, every environment downloads the full thread list (shell snapshot) over HTTP before it subscribes, even though the cache holds a cursor the server could resume from.
After a long background the socket is usually dead, but the connect chain starts only when the liveness probe gives up.
Change
This builds on #28487 by @Bil0000 (with merges by @maria-rcks). Its commits are kept unchanged with their authors, and the three commits on top are ours. #28487 already resumes the thread list from the in-memory cursor on a new session and shortens the long-resume probe to 1.5 s. This PR covers the two cases it leaves:
Resume from the saved cache after a cold start (ddbe5d3f51). The shell cache now stores a vouch next to the rows, { omissionKey, serverVersion, authoritativeAt }, and stores it only for data that comes from an authoritative server snapshot. On the first session after launch, the client subscribes with afterSequence set to the cached sequence and skips the blocking HTTP snapshot, but only when all of these hold:
the omission options match;
the server version matches;
the vouch is less than 12 hours old.
Anything else takes the HTTP path as before: no vouch, a legacy cache, a mismatch, an unreadable config, or a failed first resume. Replay does not refresh authoritativeAt, so chained resumes still get a full snapshot at least every 12 hours. That bounds drift that replay cannot fix: the older-settled cut, rows that left the newest window, and projections rebuilt by a server upgrade. Project-metadata enrichment snapshots no longer mark the list as authoritative. The vouch is an optional field, so there is no cache schema bump and older apps still read the cache. Mobile and web both persist it.
Start a replacement socket while a long-resume probe waits (ff9cb58627, f01279ffdd). On a remote route, if the probe of the old socket is unanswered 500 ms after a long iOS background, a replacement session starts beside it.
A frame or a probe answer on the old socket cancels the replacement. That includes a frame that lands between two frame checks just before the replacement is ready.
A ready replacement swaps in. The next attempt adopts it instead of connecting again.
A failed replacement leaves the decision to the probe.
LAN and loopback routes keep the previous behavior.
Reload when a reconnect reaches an upgraded server (13330c570f). perf(mobile): faster thread sync, connects, and reconnects on bad wifi #28487's in-memory resume checked only the omission options. It now also requires the server version to match, because an upgrade can rebuild projections that replay would not resend.
Drop shell items buffered from a superseded session (2e92c03ee8). switchMap can buffer values across a session change, so a stale snapshot could have been stamped with the new session's vouch. The shell now uses subscribeDynamicWithSession, the same way state/server.ts does, and drops items from a session that is no longer active before they change any state. docs/internals/connection-runtime.md describes the resume probe as it is now.
No stuck pending catalog for providers that cannot scan a folder (e7d710dcbc). In perf(mobile): faster thread sync, connects, and reconnects on bad wifi #28487's on-demand catalog refresh, an instance without snapshotForCwd got the machine catalog marked slashCommandsPending: true, which never clears. That instance already keeps its machine catalog in the config stream, so the refresh now returns no cwd snapshot for it.
Why the server replay is enough: it sends a full thread.updated row for every thread that changed, including threads the cache omitted (apps/server/src/ws.ts, orchestration-v2/ShellStream.ts). The client upserts unknown ids, and deletes and archives arrive as thread.removed. A cursor ahead of the head, or a gap over 1000 events or 8 MiB, falls back to a full snapshot.
Scope and approval
This is a performance fix for slow mobile sync, the same problem #28487 addresses, and it is meant to land with or after it. There is no separate triaged issue. If you'd rather review it on its own, the commits after ea338f2022, other than the merge of main, are the whole change.
Verification
Every change has a test that fails without it:
shell-sync.test.ts has 10 new cases. A table checks resume versus HTTP for: a matching vouch, a vouch just inside the cap, no vouch, another omission key, another server version, a vouch at the cap, and a vouch from the future. Other cases check that a retried or enrichment-only resume reloads over HTTP, that chained resumes keep the original authoritativeAt, and that an HTTP snapshot is stamped.
environment-cache-store.test.ts checks the vouch round trip and that a legacy record loads.
supervisor.test.ts:
the replacement starts at exactly 500 ms, not at 499;
the client swaps when the replacement is ready;
the client adopts a replacement that is still connecting when the probe gives up;
a failed replacement leaves the probe to decide;
a frame cancels the replacement, including a frame between two polls;
LAN and loopback get no early replacement.
vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck of 36 packages, 11 test files with 190 tests, and the react compiler check.
shell-sync.test.ts: a reconnect to an upgraded server reloads over HTTP. A snapshot buffered from a superseded session is dropped; the test reproduces the buffering deterministically with Deferred gates.
ws.test.ts: a non-scanning instance gets no cwd snapshot, and a scanning instance whose scan failed still gets the pending fallback.
Reviewed with sol-loop: 5 rounds with gpt-6.1-sol, the last one on the catalog fix (e7d710dcbc). Round 1 found the frame-between-polls race (f01279ffdd). Rounds 3 and 4 checked the two CodeRabbit fixes (13330c570f, 2e92c03ee8). The final round approved.
Not verified: I have not measured this on a physical iPhone. The behaviour is proven by the deterministic tests above, not by a device timing. The existing spans environment.initialSync and clientRuntime.state.fetchEnvironmentShellSnapshot should show the HTTP snapshot gone from cold-start resumes.
…inks
These streams waited for one client ack per chunk. On a 300ms link that is
one round trip per chunk. They now use the same bounded in-flight window as
terminal output (8 chunks or 64KB).
A shell loaded from a server snapshot now resumes from its sequence on a new
session instead of downloading the full HTTP shell again. Cached data, or a
snapshot taken with other omissions, still reloads in full.
When a socket closed, teardown sent an interrupt for each open stream.
Each write to the dead socket waited out the client's 1s interrupt
timeout before the reconnect could start. Writes other than requests
now skip a closed socket, and requests still fail fast.
…kground
After a long background the socket is likely dead. The silent-socket
check no longer waits the extra 2.5s meant for live remote sockets, and
the health check gives up after 1.5s instead of 3s.
…onfig
The config snapshot carried every provider's slash commands and skills,
187KB of 211KB on a real host. Mobile reads them only through the
per-folder snapshot it fetches for the composer, so it now opts out of
the machine-wide lists for providers that can scan a folder.
…er a cold start
After iOS killed the app, the cached thread list was shown but every
environment still downloaded the full shell snapshot over HTTP before
subscribing, so the list stayed stale for seconds.
The cache now records which server snapshot vouches for it (omission
options, server version, time). A first session resumes from the cached
sequence when all three still match and the vouch is under 12 hours old;
anything else reloads over HTTP as before. Project-metadata enrichment
snapshots no longer mark the list as authoritative.
…probe waits
After a long iOS background the old socket is usually dead, but the
connect chain only started once the probe gave up. On remote routes a
replacement session now starts 500 ms into the probe. A frame or probe
answer on the old socket cancels it; a ready replacement swaps in and the
next attempt adopts it instead of connecting again. LAN and loopback
routes keep the previous behavior.
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Walkthrough
This change adds validated metadata for cached shell resumes, enables on-demand provider catalogs across client and server RPCs, expands WebSocket stream windows, and changes long-resume recovery to probe existing sessions while starting replacement connections on remote routes.
Changes: Shell Cache Resume
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Summary
Cache vouch contract and storage packages/client-runtime/src/platform/orchestrationCache.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/platform/persistence.ts, apps/mobile/src/connection/environment-cache-store.ts, apps/mobile/src/connection/environment-cache-store.test.ts, apps/web/src/connection/storage.ts
The cache record and persistence interfaces support an optional vouch. Mobile and web storage load and save it when present.
Vouch validation and shell synchronization packages/client-runtime/src/state/shell.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/shell-sync.test.ts
Shell synchronization permits cached resume when the vouch matches the omission settings and server version and is less than 12 hours old. Authoritative snapshots update the vouch; replay and deferred-link updates preserve it.
RPC contracts and client configuration support providerCatalogsOnDemand; the mobile connection and server environment enable it.
Server catalog filtering and refresh apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/ws.test.ts
The server filters machine catalogs for cwd-capable providers and returns a pending catalog snapshot when an on-demand cwd snapshot is unavailable. Tests cover provider updates and failed cwd scans.
WebSocket Subscription Stream Windows
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Summary
Window initialization and coverage apps/server/src/terminal/OutputProtocol.ts, apps/server/src/terminal/OutputProtocol.test.ts
Window initialization now includes server-config, shell, and thread subscription methods. The pending-chunk limit test covers these methods.
Long-Resume Connection Recovery
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Summary
Replacement connection lifecycle and session closure packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/session.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/session.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.test.ts
The supervisor manages replacement connection scopes and handoff. The RPC protocol suppresses non-request sends after disconnection, and tests cover session stream termination and retry timing.
Long-resume probe and replacement decisions packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.test.ts, docs/internals/connection-runtime.md
Remote long resumes can start a replacement while monitoring the existing session. Probe responses, inbound frames, host checks, and replacement outcomes determine whether the supervisor retains or replaces the session. Tests cover remote, LAN, and loopback cases.
pingdotgg/t3code#24997 — The cache-vouch resume and stale-session batch filtering concern shell-list state recovery after cold start.
pingdotgg/t3code#29255 — Long-resume recovery and shell resume overlap with the reconnect path described, but the issue concerns thread-message acknowledgement.
No merge-blocking defect was established. iOS device timing remains unmeasured.
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The subscription handler now reads provider capabilities and applies catalog policy. The refresh handler applies related policy through a separate path. Put both decisions in the provider service so the two responses share one policy. As per coding guidelines, “A transport handler does three things: decode the request, call one service method, and map the service's typed errors to the transport's error. Nothing else.” The path instructions apply the same rule to this file.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/ws.ts around lines 3267 - 3273:
Move the catalog filtering performed with workspaceSnapshotsOnDemand,
currentCatalogsPerCwd, and withoutWorkspaceSnapshots out of the subscription
handler and into the provider service; route both subscription and refresh
responses through the same service policy. Keep the transport handlers limited
to request decoding, one service call, and mapping typed service errors to
transport errors.
Re the CodeRabbit follow-up on ws.ts 3267-3273 (move catalog filtering into the provider service): that code comes from #28487, and its author already declined the same suggestion there, because it is per-client wire shaping. This PR does not change it.
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Tag shell snapshots with their originating subscription.
339-339: Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Tag shell snapshots with their originating subscription.
The apply block at shell.ts:339 reads activeSubscription when an item is applied, not when the item was produced. subscribeDynamic runs through Stream.switchMap, and the repository notes that switchMap can buffer values across a session change. If a snapshot from a superseded session is applied after the new subscription has written its serverVersion, the vouch at lines 340-347 records the new version. The hasAuthoritativeSnapshot check at lines 474-476 can then accept stale rows as current, and the persisted vouch can carry the wrong version.
Carry the session or subscription identity with each item. Use subscribeDynamicWithSession from rpc/client.ts, then compare that session with the current subscription before the vouch or authoritativeOmission is written. Discard items from superseded subscriptions.
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Review comment at @packages/client-runtime/src/state/shell.ts at line 339:
Update the apply flow around `activeSubscription` to associate each item with
the session or subscription that produced it, using
`subscribeDynamicWithSession` from `rpc/client.ts`. Before writing a vouch or
`authoritativeOmission`, verify that the item’s originating session still
matches the current subscription; discard items from superseded subscriptions.
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Re the CodeRabbit follow-up on shell.ts 339 (tag shell snapshots with their originating subscription): fixed in 2e92c03. The shell subscription uses subscribeDynamicWithSession, and items from a session that is no longer active are dropped before any state, vouch, or authoritative-omission write. The new subscription resumes from state that was applied, or reloads. Test: drops a superseded session's snapshot applied after the next session subscribes, which failed before the fix.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/ws.ts:
- Line 440: Set slashCommandsPending only when the current provider instance can
scan the cwd, using its scansCwd capability before marking a refresh pending.
Update the related test to expect no pending state when scansCwd is false, while
preserving pending behavior for providers that can scan.
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verified the shared web cache/resume path at 0f9a957f5eda309a16098df281c4dc4c05dc696e on linux, using repository playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. ran vp i and the real background dev server on both github/main (8b44f42b14) and this exact head, one server at a time. created the project through the app against a real git repo and ran codex gpt-6.1-sol turns without fixtures or replay providers.
main: a cold reload fetched /api/orchestration/shell before subscribing, despite cached rows.
pr: repeated cold reloads used the saved cursor with no shell http request. the persisted vouch contained the matching version and omission settings.
put the web client offline, completed another real codex turn through t3 thread send --wait against the same running server, then cold-reloaded the client. it subscribed from sequence 97, replayed the third run, and displayed cold resume verification gamma. without a shell http fetch.
a follow-up turn from the web composer completed. settle and un-settle both updated the thread list and conversation.
blacksmith: 132 focused tests passed across shell sync, connection supervisor, rpc session, mobile cache storage, output protocol, and the on-demand provider-config case. no code changes.
main cold reload: GET /api/orchestration/shell -> subscribeShell(afterSequence=45)
pr cold reloads: 0 shell HTTP requests; subscribeShell(afterSequence=50), then 51
client offline -> t3 thread send --wait -> cold resume verification gamma.
pr cold reload: 0 shell HTTP requests; subscribeShell(afterSequence=97)
received third-run replay; gamma visible; settle/un-settle passed
same conversation before and after; these screenshots show retained data, while the network transcript establishes the changed request path.
Not verified
native ios/android lifecycle, an ios-killed process, multiple remote environments, the 500 ms replacement-socket race on a real remote route, and device performance. this local web run proves the shared cache/replay path, not an iphone timing improvement. separate freshly paired browser attempts stalled at startup, so cross-client verification was not completed; the successful checks used the original paired browser. no desktop shell or external relay/tunnel verification.
Hey @emmems, nice find. The cold-start resume is a real gain for mobile: iOS kills the app often, and downloading the full thread list again on weak wifi hurts. We built on your work in #30732, and it keeps your 3 commits with your authorship.
What we changed and why:
Parallel replacement socket: not included. That connect skips progress, so it gets only the 15 s per-route timeout and none of the 75 s sync budget. On a thin link it also uses the same bandwidth as the probe it races. We had no measurements to show that it helps, so we left it out for now. A separate PR with numbers would be good.
One vouch rule for every resume. One canResume check covers memory and cache: omission key, server version, and age under 12 h. When the cursor is too old or the gap is too large, the server already sends a full snapshot (canReplayPersistedRange in apps/server/src/ws.ts), so a retried resume no longer forces an HTTP load.
One bug fixed. After a valid cache resume, generation stayed 0. Thread families, older settled threads, and search wait for generation > 0, so they stayed blocked. A synchronized marker now bumps it once.
Closing in favor of #30732, which carries the cold-start cache resume and the catalog fix from this PR on top of #28487, with a simpler vouch rule and the generation fix. Thanks @Bil0000. The parallel replacement socket is left out of #30732; I will bring it back as its own PR only with iPhone measurements that show it helps.
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Problem
When you reopen the iOS app with several remote environments, the cached thread list shows at once, but it stays stale for a few seconds before it updates. There are two causes:
Change
This builds on #28487 by @Bil0000 (with merges by @maria-rcks). Its commits are kept unchanged with their authors, and the three commits on top are ours. #28487 already resumes the thread list from the in-memory cursor on a new session and shortens the long-resume probe to 1.5 s. This PR covers the two cases it leaves:
Resume from the saved cache after a cold start (
ddbe5d3f51). The shell cache now stores a vouch next to the rows,{ omissionKey, serverVersion, authoritativeAt }, and stores it only for data that comes from an authoritative server snapshot. On the first session after launch, the client subscribes withafterSequenceset to the cached sequence and skips the blocking HTTP snapshot, but only when all of these hold:Anything else takes the HTTP path as before: no vouch, a legacy cache, a mismatch, an unreadable config, or a failed first resume. Replay does not refresh
authoritativeAt, so chained resumes still get a full snapshot at least every 12 hours. That bounds drift that replay cannot fix: the older-settled cut, rows that left the newest window, and projections rebuilt by a server upgrade. Project-metadata enrichment snapshots no longer mark the list as authoritative. The vouch is an optional field, so there is no cache schema bump and older apps still read the cache. Mobile and web both persist it.Start a replacement socket while a long-resume probe waits (
ff9cb58627,f01279ffdd). On a remote route, if the probe of the old socket is unanswered 500 ms after a long iOS background, a replacement session starts beside it.LAN and loopback routes keep the previous behavior.
Reload when a reconnect reaches an upgraded server (
13330c570f). perf(mobile): faster thread sync, connects, and reconnects on bad wifi #28487's in-memory resume checked only the omission options. It now also requires the server version to match, because an upgrade can rebuild projections that replay would not resend.Drop shell items buffered from a superseded session (
2e92c03ee8).switchMapcan buffer values across a session change, so a stale snapshot could have been stamped with the new session's vouch. The shell now usessubscribeDynamicWithSession, the same waystate/server.tsdoes, and drops items from a session that is no longer active before they change any state.docs/internals/connection-runtime.mddescribes the resume probe as it is now.No stuck pending catalog for providers that cannot scan a folder (
e7d710dcbc). In perf(mobile): faster thread sync, connects, and reconnects on bad wifi #28487's on-demand catalog refresh, an instance withoutsnapshotForCwdgot the machine catalog markedslashCommandsPending: true, which never clears. That instance already keeps its machine catalog in the config stream, so the refresh now returns no cwd snapshot for it.Why the server replay is enough: it sends a full
thread.updatedrow for every thread that changed, including threads the cache omitted (apps/server/src/ws.ts,orchestration-v2/ShellStream.ts). The client upserts unknown ids, and deletes and archives arrive asthread.removed. A cursor ahead of the head, or a gap over 1000 events or 8 MiB, falls back to a full snapshot.Scope and approval
This is a performance fix for slow mobile sync, the same problem #28487 addresses, and it is meant to land with or after it. There is no separate triaged issue. If you'd rather review it on its own, the commits after
ea338f2022, other than the merge ofmain, are the whole change.Verification
shell-sync.test.tshas 10 new cases. A table checks resume versus HTTP for: a matching vouch, a vouch just inside the cap, no vouch, another omission key, another server version, a vouch at the cap, and a vouch from the future. Other cases check that a retried or enrichment-only resume reloads over HTTP, that chained resumes keep the originalauthoritativeAt, and that an HTTP snapshot is stamped.environment-cache-store.test.tschecks the vouch round trip and that a legacy record loads.supervisor.test.ts:vp run check:changedpasses: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck of 36 packages, 11 test files with 190 tests, and the react compiler check.shell-sync.test.ts: a reconnect to an upgraded server reloads over HTTP. A snapshot buffered from a superseded session is dropped; the test reproduces the buffering deterministically withDeferredgates.ws.test.ts: a non-scanning instance gets no cwd snapshot, and a scanning instance whose scan failed still gets the pending fallback.e7d710dcbc). Round 1 found the frame-between-polls race (f01279ffdd). Rounds 3 and 4 checked the two CodeRabbit fixes (13330c570f,2e92c03ee8). The final round approved.environment.initialSyncandclientRuntime.state.fetchEnvironmentShellSnapshotshould show the HTTP snapshot gone from cold-start resumes.Original work: #28487 by @Bil0000 and @maria-rcks.
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