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fix(server): preserve queued steering across restarts - #21610
Restart recovery can retire accepted steering before it reaches a provider. This carries the original message identities, text, projected context, and attachments through recovery, including a completed source waiting on its checkpoint and a second crash before delivery. Completed, queued, live, and explicitly interrupted sibling runs retain ownership of their steering.
Recovery records the pending IDs and a replayable follow-up in the existing transaction. Continuations use the same ownership rule when building the prompt and starting the provider. Attachment path notices retain each original message's budget across joined prompts. Codex receives actual input for carried steering and retries an exact empty-input rejection only for an active goal. Cut assistant, reasoning, and plan items stop streaming.
Rebuilt from @maria-rcks's #17589. The launch-key concern is the next stack layer. Main already supplies the continuation default, chain cap, shared-session recovery, and waiting-user guards.
Verification:
Codex integration suite: 169 baseline cases → 179, with ten new behavior cases; all 179 pass. Existing recovery cancellation coverage was strengthened. Another 97 recovery cases pass.
Real SQLite crash snapshots, persisted event milestones, and actual outbound Codex input prove steering text/context/image bytes/file paths, repeated restart, completed/held/interrupted siblings, and active-goal retry. External Codex replies are controlled.
Scoped server/contracts typechecks passed before the final type-neutral stop fix; targeted lint and formatting pass afterward. Prior combined stack run: 417/417; final affected suites were rerun separately.
Delivery without a completed provider turn remains at least once: a cut run's own steering and a failed sibling can be carried again. This does not promise exactly-once external side effects. Multiple accepted steers can collectively exceed ordinary single-message attachment ingress limits; that extreme was not exercised. Identical captured-window notices now dedupe, including within ordinary messages.
No live external provider, physical OS restart, real HTTP MCP credential rotation, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, or Electron desktop verification. The synthetic continuation's visual presentation was not checked. The headless proof exercises server/adapters; there is no client UI implementation change. Those platform and account checks remain for a human.
Implementation: GPT-6.1-Sol; tests: GPT-6-Astra; independent full-diff reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6-Sol, through T3 Code's Codex and Claude harnesses.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Preserves queued steering, including context and attachments, through server restarts. Recovery remains governed by existing continuation settings and user-stop guards, with stable message identities and ownership checks limiting duplicate follow-ups.
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The change records pending steering messages during provider recovery, queues replayable follow-up effects, and redispatches eligible messages through restart continuations. Continuations include pending message context and attachments. Codex retries an empty continuation with its original prompt only when the thread goal is active.
Changes: Steering recovery and continuation
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Summary
Pending steering state packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartSteering.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts
The run contract and recovery state retain pending message IDs. Runtime recovery queries pending steering effects and preserves recorded IDs during run updates.
Recovery and follow-up effects apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
Reconciliation records eligible pending steering and queues replay-safe follow-up effects. Continuation checks account for qualifying pending messages.
The effect worker redispatches recorded messages. Continuation prompts include pending message text, context, and attachments. Tests cover recovery across restarts and sibling-run states; documentation describes the recovery behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant Recovery as ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService
participant Projection as ProjectionStore
participant Outbox as EffectOutbox
participant Worker as EffectWorker
participant Orchestrator
participant TurnStart as ProviderTurnStartService
Recovery->>Projection: Read pending steering state
Recovery->>Outbox: Queue steer-follow-up effect
Worker->>Orchestrator: Redispatch recorded steering message
Orchestrator->>TurnStart: Start restart continuation
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This change preserves queued steering across server restarts, but two gaps remain. A temporary settings-read failure during recovery can silently drop accepted steering instead of retrying. Recovered steering can also release queued work that the user had stopped. Both should be fixed before merging.
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The title "fix(server): preserve queued steering across restarts" names the main change. The changeset records pending steering message IDs during restart recovery and replays them as follow-ups, so queued steering survives restarts. It follows the conventional commit style the template asks for.
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The description follows the template sections: Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification. It states the problem (accepted steering can be lost during restart recovery) and explains the change (pending IDs and a replayable follow-up recorded in the existing transaction). It also gives detailed verification with test counts and clearly lists what was not verified. The Scope section does not link an issue. It references the predecessor PR #17589 and a related stack layer, but does not link an issue that shows the bug or say why an issue is not needed. The Problem section lacks explicit reproduction steps. Comments indicate the PR also contains a streaming change that a reviewer asked to remove, which the description still includes.
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- Around line 698-703: Update EventSink.commitCommand and its
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These are field observations supporting the active-goal EmptyInput retry. They come from Windows desktop nightlies up to 0.1.3-nightly.20261023.3579. They're from protocol logs, not a review of the diff.
On three restarts, the restart continuation failed only on threads whose goal was still active at resume. The same empty turn/start was accepted everywhere else:
Restart (UTC)
Codex app-server
Empty turn/start accepted
Rejected with EmptyInput
10-22 00:02
0.163.0
none sent (the other thread got prompted input)
1, active goal
10-23 01:02
0.163.0
1, goal paused
1, active goal
10-23 20:11
0.164.0
4, goal cleared or none
2, active goals
Every rejected case shows the same order. During thread/resume, Codex emits thread/goal/updated status=active and then turn/started within about 35 ms, before T3 sends anything. T3's empty turn/start follows 3-18 s later and is refused. One example, with selected fields only:
20:11:23.076 out thread/resume thread A
20:11:23.847 in thread/goal/updated status=active thread A
20:11:23.881 in turn/started status=inProgress thread A
20:11:29.108 out turn/start input=[] id=9 thread A
20:11:29.114 in error -32603 "failed to submit turn input: EmptyInput" id=9
So scoping the retry to "exact EmptyInput with an active goal" covers every failure in these logs and none of the successful empty starts.
The rejection is local to the app-server, coming 2-30 ms after the request in the 10-23 cases. No model request was involved, so provider configuration doesn't affect it. Main at 22dc1da still sends [] for restart continuations (CodexAdapterV2.ts L6854-6858). /goal resume hits the same race and is tracked in #20232 and #20247.
Thanks for the thorough recovery work. #28646 already stops cancelled items streaming on main (7a03a74189). Please cut the covered streaming change and focus this PR on the remaining queued-steering recovery and related continuation fixes.
Current field confirmation for this PR's existing active-goal retry scope: on Windows nightly 0.1.8-nightly.20261109.4433, with codex-cli 0.163.0, four unfinished threads retained goal.status=active after an OS crash. Their restart continuations again failed with CodexAppServerRequestError: failed to submit turn input: EmptyInput. Explicit nonempty messages to the original threads resumed the assignments and preserved their worktrees, goals and provider sessions. This repeated after another OS crash the same evening.
I verified the active goal and effective Standard service selection from each live projection before the explicit resumes. This supplies current Windows evidence for the branch already described here; it does not show a failure with an absent or paused goal, and I am not proposing broader retry scope. The OS crashes had a separate diagnosed cause.
The local workaround is the explicit resume message. Automatic empty restart recovery remains unfixed in the installed nightly. No private transcript, credentials or project data are attached.
Resolve against main for this layer's launch-retry change only:
- the restart-steering files from the base layer (#21610) take main's
version, since main has since rewritten them; that layer stays its own PR
- migration 65 becomes 81 after main's 65-80
- the mobile branch-name fix moves to threadOutboxDelivery.ts
- launch intent hashing uses effect/crypto/Digest
- the credential-namespace regression moves from a full MCP launch test
to McpSessionRegistry.test.ts
- two newer main tests follow the launch-intent rule: a changed-argument
retry fails at validate-intent, and a claimed-only launch is simulated
by interrupting a real launch after its fingerprinted claim
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
Resolves conflicts onto main's current shape:
- Drop the per-message attachmentPromptParts budget. Main now always
lists attachment paths regardless of the input budget, which was the
failure it guarded against, and providerMessageTextWithAttachmentPaths
became an Effect. Provider packages and the provider-core contract
return to main's versions.
- Fold main's steerDeclined/linkedSender/notification rules into the
shared followUpSteer helper.
- Read pending steering in the single recovery UNION query so the
recovery read stays at two statements.
- Re-apply the Orchestrator, turn-start, and Codex EmptyInput changes on
main's restructured code.
- Take main's recovery test (the streaming cancellation is on main) and
cut the Codex crash scenarios to the five that guard distinct paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts:
- Around line 185-186: Remove the success fallback around settings.getSettings
in the EffectWorker flow so settings-read failures remain in the error channel
and can be retried. Keep the early return only for settings that explicitly
disable continuation.
- Line 140: Update the sentByUserFromClient classification in EffectWorker so
restart continuations identified by restartContinuationOfRunId are not treated
as client sends, preserving queue holds after Stop. Add a focused test that
stops between the recovered S1 and S2 dispatches and verifies queued work
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Keep recovered steering from releasing a stopped queue.
Recovery preserves the original user/web or user/mobile origin. sentByUserFromClient excludes steerFollowUpOfRunId, but not restartContinuationOfRunId.
If Stop interrupts recovered S1 between the S1 and S2 dispatches, S2 can pass the new sibling exception while S1 is still running. S2 then clears existing queue holds as a client send. Queued work can resume after Stop.
Exclude restart continuations from the client-send classification. Add a focused case that orders Stop between the recovered dispatches.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts at line 140:
Update the sentByUserFromClient classification in EffectWorker so restart continuations identified by restartContinuationOfRunId are not treated as client sends, preserving queue holds after Stop. Add a focused test that stops between the recovered S1 and S2 dispatches and verifies queued work remains held.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Propagate settings-read failures so steering recovery can retry.
If settings.getSettings fails, this code returns successfully without dispatching any steering. The worker then marks the follow-up effect succeeded, even when retry attempts remain. Accepted steering receives no delivery attempt.
Keep settings-read failures in the error channel. Reserve successful early returns for settings that explicitly disable continuation.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts around lines 185 - 186:
Remove the success fallback around settings.getSettings in the EffectWorker flow so settings-read failures remain in the error channel and can be retried. Keep the early return only for settings that explicitly disable continuation.
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Restart recovery can retire accepted steering before it reaches a provider. This carries the original message identities, text, projected context, and attachments through recovery, including a completed source waiting on its checkpoint and a second crash before delivery. Completed, queued, live, and explicitly interrupted sibling runs retain ownership of their steering.
Recovery records the pending IDs and a replayable follow-up in the existing transaction. Continuations use the same ownership rule when building the prompt and starting the provider. Attachment path notices retain each original message's budget across joined prompts. Codex receives actual input for carried steering and retries an exact empty-input rejection only for an active goal. Cut assistant, reasoning, and plan items stop streaming.
Rebuilt from @maria-rcks's #17589. The launch-key concern is the next stack layer. Main already supplies the continuation default, chain cap, shared-session recovery, and waiting-user guards.
Verification:
Delivery without a completed provider turn remains at least once: a cut run's own steering and a failed sibling can be carried again. This does not promise exactly-once external side effects. Multiple accepted steers can collectively exceed ordinary single-message attachment ingress limits; that extreme was not exercised. Identical captured-window notices now dedupe, including within ordinary messages.
No live external provider, physical OS restart, real HTTP MCP credential rotation, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, or Electron desktop verification. The synthetic continuation's visual presentation was not checked. The headless proof exercises server/adapters; there is no client UI implementation change. Those platform and account checks remain for a human.
Implementation: GPT-6.1-Sol; tests: GPT-6-Astra; independent full-diff reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6-Sol, through T3 Code's Codex and Claude harnesses.