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fix(server): preserve the crash recovery budget across restarts - #25603
The automatic restart guard forgets older crashes after five minutes, so an unfinished turn can keep restarting the server indefinitely. Addresses #24059 and keeps the existing three-recovery limit across unplanned restarts.
The continuation intent now carries a cumulative process-loss count, the worker forwards it, and the fourth recovery is declined. Planned shutdowns and provider-completed turns reset the count, and outbox cleanup keeps the predecessor intent while its continuation run is live. Intents written before this change keep the old time-window guard. Compared with https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/24177, this leaves out environment-wide admission, child-first scheduling, and parent-wake suppression, which are separate policy decisions.
Verified with vp run check:changed on Blacksmith (150 tests in the six affected files) after rebasing onto current main, and earlier with a live Codex run: four forced restarts persisted counts 1 to 4, resumed the first three, and declined the fourth, including after a 310-second pause; a planned shutdown reset the count (runtime transcript). Unverified: other providers, desktop and mobile, and remote modes. Macroscope asks for human approval of the recovery policy.
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Automatic recovery now preserves a three-crash budget across restarts rather than resetting after five minutes, changing when unfinished threads require user input. Human review is needed for that default behavior change and the unresolved legacy-intent case that can permit extra recoveries.
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Restart continuations now carry a cumulative process-loss count. Recovery updates the count based on run state, and delivery applies a count-based limit. Outbox pruning retains continuation effects while matching runs remain active. Tests and documentation cover these rules.
Changes: Restart continuation recovery
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Continuation intent and retention apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts
Continuation requests can include a nonnegative processLossCount. Pruning retains settled continuation effects while a matching run is queued, preparing, starting, running, or waiting.
Startup recovery derives the count from prior continuation effects and run state. Shutdown continuations use zero. Tests cover count increments and resets.
The worker passes a defined count to continueRestartedRun. Retry intents preserve the prior count. The function applies the count-based limit when a count is supplied and retains the legacy chain-length check when it is absent. Tests and documentation describe these rules.
Automatic crash recovery now keeps its three-recovery limit across restarts. Two narrow edge cases can allow extra automatic recoveries: continuations that started from intents written before this change, and a rare case of a failed start after a very long wait. Neither is likely to affect most users, but both should be addressed or accepted by the owners.
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The title "fix(server): preserve the crash recovery budget across restarts" matches the main change. The changeset adds a cumulative process-loss count to provider-runtime.continue intents, forwards it through the worker and retry path, and declines the fourth crash recovery. The title is a conventional commit, short, and specific to the server.
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The description follows the template. It states the problem (the five-minute restart guard forgets older crashes, so an unfinished turn can restart indefinitely) and links issue #24059. It explains the change (a cumulative process-loss count, the fourth recovery declined, resets on planned shutdown and completed turns, outbox retention of predecessor intents, and legacy intents keeping the time-window guard). It also gives verification detail (test counts, a live Codex run with recorded counts, and unverified areas). The Scope section links the issue and notes the scope is a bug fix. The template's agent-attribution line is present. Minor gaps: the Scope section does not clearly say why the change is a bug fix rather than a feature, and the description mixes in comparison to another PR, which is noise for a reviewer. Neither gap leaves the description incomplete.
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verified as-is at 0475b3da8e27d0e8667f8955978642c6742201f3 on a linux boat vm. no code changes.
reproduced on freshly fetched github/main (48a292364a) in a separate worktree. after three automatic recoveries, waited over 326 seconds before the fourth crash. main incorrectly started another real codex run.
repeated through the pr's web composer using repo playwright, /usr/bin/google-chrome, a project added through the app pointing at a real git repo, and real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns. no mocks or database/timestamp injection.
the pr persisted counts 1, 2, and 3 and resumed each time. after a live wait over 328 seconds, the fourth crash persisted count 4, logged the recovery-limit warning, and created no automatic successor. a new user message then read the repo's readme and completed with MANUAL_RESUME_OK.
neighboring behavior passed: stop, the resume-thread control, a completed turn starting a fresh recovery sequence, and graceful shutdown resetting count 2 to 0. the next crash used count 1, resumed, and completed with RESET_RECOVERY_COMPLETE.
blacksmith: 111 focused tests passed. vp run check:changed against the pr base passed format, lint, both knip checks, generated graphql, affected typechecks, and 125 related tests. hosted checks: 28/28 green.
main after the fourth crash, still running:
pr after the fourth crash, stopped after three recoveries:
new user message after the cap, real terminal read, and provider completion (20 seconds):
native desktop/iOS/Android, macOS/Windows, other providers, and remote/relay/tunnel connections were not exercised on this linux vm. week-long outbox retention and completed/waiting background-work recovery were covered by existing tests, not live waits.
an initial root launch selected the old runner's default home; it was stopped and excluded, then the pr scenario was recreated with an explicit isolated home. one recording attempt failed during vm cpu overload (a 19-second freeze notification); the replacement recording was inspected and its uploaded playback and seeking were verified in t3 preview. browser reloads recovered; no ten-minute provider/app stall occurred.
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@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.ts:
- Line 863: Update the processLossCount recovery logic used by
continueRestartedRun so an unknown predecessor budget remains undefined rather
than becoming a defined count. Preserve the legacy chainLength guard for that
case, and only set a count when a predecessor count is known, so the existing
count-budget behavior remains intact.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Keep the legacy chain guard when the predecessor budget is unknown.
When an unplanned restart finds a running continuation whose predecessor intent has no processLossCount, the count becomes a defined 1. continueRestartedRun applies the legacy chainLength >= 3 check only when the count is undefined. A defined count skips that check, so a fourth recovery can start that the legacy guard would have blocked.
The count budget still limits the result. Counts 2 and 3 continue, and count 4 is declined. The impact is at most three extra recoveries for each affected chain, and only when the restart lands on a running third continuation.
Leave the count undefined when the predecessor budget is unknown. The legacy guard then applies to that chain, as it did before this change.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.ts at line 863:
Update the processLossCount recovery logic used by continueRestartedRun so an unknown predecessor budget remains undefined rather than becoming a defined count. Preserve the legacy chainLength guard for that case, and only set a count when a predecessor count is known, so the existing count-budget behavior remains intact.
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Started one unfinished replay turn, crashed and restarted the real server three times, kept its third continuation active for 6m07s, then crashed and restarted it a fourth time. Both sides used fresh synthetic data, Chromium at 1280x800, and light theme. No timestamps were edited.
Budget resets after a completed turn, planned shutdown, or user intervention were not exercised; this scenario kept one turn unfinished through four unplanned losses.
The live Codex provider path was not rerun; deterministic ACP replay replaced the model while exercising real server recovery and real sleep commands.
A retried continuation start wrote its intent without processLossCount, so
the next crash recovery restarted the count at 1 and a host that crashes
under load could resume forever. The retry now copies the count from the
intent of the run it continues.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 3258-3260: Preserve the predecessor’s crash budget until the
failed-start retry has consumed it. Trace the retry lookup in the run-update
consumer and the protection logic in pruneSettled, then update the prune
predicate or the retry data flow so pruning cannot remove the predecessor before
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Keep the predecessor's crash budget until the failed-start retry reads it.
When a continuation run commits failed, its predecessor intent is no longer protected from pruneSettled. The protection query counts only live statuses, and failed is not one of them. The retry lookup at Orchestrator.ts:3258 runs later, in the run-update consumer, outside the transaction that committed the failure. The prune worker does not take the thread lock. If the predecessor's completed_at is older than the seven-day retention, a prune batch can delete it in that gap. The lookup then returns none, and the retry writes an intent without processLossCount. That drops the cumulative count.
This needs a continuation that stays live for more than seven days before it fails, and a prune run that lands in the gap. The likelihood is low, but no ordering guarantee in the code rules it out.
Keep the predecessor protected while a failed continuation's retry is still pending. The fix belongs in the prune predicate or in how the count reaches the retry. Verify the chosen approach against the delivery path before merging.
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Preserve the predecessor’s crash budget until the failed-start retry has consumed it. Trace the retry lookup in the run-update consumer and the protection logic in pruneSettled, then update the prune predicate or the retry data flow so pruning cannot remove the predecessor before the retry reads its processLossCount; verify the chosen approach against the delivery ordering.
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Used real source servers with fresh databases and a deterministic ACP agent holding an unfinished foreground sleep 400 turn. After three SIGKILL/restart cycles, waited 6m07s, then crashed and restarted a fourth time. Base resumed a fourth time; head stopped after three automatic resumes.
Captures render recorded CLI responses and process events; videos show the timeline at 12x.
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Co-authored-by: Julius Marminge <julius0216@outlook.com>
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The automatic restart guard forgets older crashes after five minutes, so an unfinished turn can keep restarting the server indefinitely. Addresses #24059 and keeps the existing three-recovery limit across unplanned restarts.
The continuation intent now carries a cumulative process-loss count, the worker forwards it, and the fourth recovery is declined. Planned shutdowns and provider-completed turns reset the count, and outbox cleanup keeps the predecessor intent while its continuation run is live. Intents written before this change keep the old time-window guard. Compared with https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/24177, this leaves out environment-wide admission, child-first scheduling, and parent-wake suppression, which are separate policy decisions.
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vp run check:changedon Blacksmith (150 tests in the six affected files) after rebasing onto current main, and earlier with a live Codex run: four forced restarts persisted counts 1 to 4, resumed the first three, and declined the fourth, including after a 310-second pause; a planned shutdown reset the count (runtime transcript). Unverified: other providers, desktop and mobile, and remote modes. Macroscope asks for human approval of the recovery policy.Replaces https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/24177, with thanks to @Zheruel for the original implementation.
Built with GPT-6.1-Sol in the Codex harness on T3 Code, second pass by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code.