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Problem

Retrieving a linked task's final result scans its entire timeline, transferring and decoding text that the follower discards. Success scans every message page; failures scan activity to prefer the last error from the task's own run.

Change

For completed successful tasks, read the first page normally, then try the final page at its existing canonical page boundary. A terminal page containing the last applicable assistant reply is authoritative, so middle pages can be skipped. An inconclusive, growing or empty tail falls back to the normal scan. Failed, cancelled and interrupted runs retain the established scan. No-run recovery can also use the shortcut.

For failed scans, shorten text only on known middle activity pages. Keep the first and expected final page's default limit. Existing item-ID/offset reads reconstruct the full selected reply/error when truncated. No cache, lock, schema, concurrency or client change.

Costs: a successful result followed by another run's history can add one speculative RPC and duplicate its small tail response, and under main's 30 KB page cap that probe is also wasted when the trailing page does not fit the budget. A selected middle-page failure can add a refill RPC. Either extra request adds latency and exposure to transient failures. The follower's existing retry/disappearance protocol is unchanged. This is an accepted tradeoff, not a zero-cost claim.

Scope and approval

Proposed under the focused obvious-bug exception: the remote result follower repeatedly materializes/transfers history that it immediately discards to select one result. This addresses that single existing retrieval workflow with existing paging/refill contracts. No prior maintainer approval or triage exemption is claimed.

Verification

Rebased onto main 4c2f04d35d371c2b2ecb04b283e282325026be8a; current head 90eb8ec0d16a7d8798237a2fe72ae81da9b8c443. Main's runLimit50/recent-run metadata, executed-model result note, newest-first paging, 30 KB response cap and maxCharsPerItem default are preserved. The terminal/long tail-probe cases assert the exact reported-model note plus complete selected text, and now assert the budget-capped paging (probe offset, middle-page trimming, forward-only fallback) instead of fixed item offsets.

52 focused RemoteDelegation cases passed on the rebased head, plus scoped vp fmt, vp lint, vp run --filter t3 typecheck and diff checks. Repo-wide local hooks were not run in the filtered worktree; CI owns the full suite.

Measurement on the current base

Main moved under the original benchmark in #33428 (59e64eef881): agent reads became newest-first, pages gained a 30 KB response cap and maxCharsPerItem, so the original tables were taken on bf469bb19669671d0df2efda74ed73867a7137c0 and no longer described the code this merges into. Read counts and decoded response bytes were re-measured on the current base through the peer MCP path (t3_thread_read calls), with a linked thread whose history is N single-item messages and whose result is the final item, client limit 100 but the 30 KB cap decides the page:

Workload	Main reads / bytes	PR reads / bytes
success, 300 × 60 ch	7 / 345,179	3 / 102,567
success, 300 × 2,000 ch	29 / 1,575,053	3 / 96,083
failed, 300 × 2,000 ch	29 / 1,574,675	13 / 665,671
success, 399 × 2,000 ch (tail window over the 30 KB cap)	38 / 2,082,158	39 / 2,138,503

The fast path holds on the new base. The last row is the disclosed cost in its worst shape: when the trailing 100-item window cannot fit the 30 KB cap, the probe is discarded and costs exactly one extra read on a scan that already needed 38, with no change to how the scan grows. Failure scans still halve reads and cut bytes by about 58% at this size. Reads and bytes only here; CPU and RSS for this base are in the cohort below. The repo's test:perf:v2-wire suite passes (16 files, 408 tests) but covers wire projection, history paging and streams, not this read path, so it is a guard rather than evidence of the saving. Read counts and bytes here use 2,000-character items so that several fit the 30 KB cap; the timing cohort below uses 20,000-character items, where one item fills a page.

Current-base matched measurements (4c2f04d, after #33428)

Supersedes the bf469bb cohort, which measured a base that no longer exists. This re-runs the same fixture family and rig: 500-item histories of 20,000-character messages whose result is the last applicable item, origin/main 4c2f04d35d3 against head 90eb8ec0d16. Both legs run HEAD's test spine and fake; only apps/server/src/peer/RemoteDelegation.ts is swapped between legs, then restored and hash-verified. Six latency samples per workload per version in four processes (main, PR, PR, main), 25 ms added to every t3_thread_read, gzip asserted on every measured read. Decoded-byte passes are separate.

Workload	Main median [range], ms	PR median [range], ms	Change, ms	Change	Read RPCs
one-short	46.9 [38.5, 58.9]	45.0 [39.7, 54.0]	-2	-4.09%	1 → 1
one-medium	44.0 [41.0, 72.8]	50.6 [42.5, 52.6]	+7	+14.93%	1 → 1
one-long	121.1 [102.9, 134.7]	124.9 [113.0, 141.9]	+4	+3.13%	3 → 3
success-history	16,752 [16,225, 17,545]	78.8 [67.7, 91.2]	-16,673	-99.53%	501 → 2
failed-history	16,396 [16,122, 16,706]	2,613 [2,573, 2,647]	-13,783	-84.07%	501 → 75
failed-long-error	16,443 [16,282, 16,635]	2,693 [2,604, 2,760]	-13,750	-83.62%	504 → 78
middle-error-later-run	16,373 [15,943, 16,626]	2,694 [2,612, 2,866]	-13,679	-83.55%	501 → 80
no-error-fallback	16,333 [16,054, 16,521]	2,532 [2,506, 2,626]	-13,802	-84.50%	501 → 75
success-middle-later-run	16,347 [16,067, 16,757]	16,547 [16,346, 18,476]	+200	+1.22%	501 → 502
sparse-success	8,125 [8,043, 8,308]	75.4 [67.4, 80.5]	-8,049	-99.07%	251 → 2

Workload	Main reads	Main decoded	PR reads	PR decoded	Decoded change
one-short	1	5,129 B	1	5,129 B	+0.0%
one-medium	1	20,729 B	1	20,729 B	+0.0%
one-long	3	102,251 B	3	102,251 B	+0.0%
success-history	501	22.0 MB	2	63,802 B	-99.7%
failed-history	501	21.9 MB	75	3.4 MB	-84.6%
failed-long-error	504	22.1 MB	78	3.5 MB	-84.1%
middle-error-later-run	501	21.9 MB	80	3.6 MB	-83.6%
no-error-fallback	501	21.9 MB	75	3.4 MB	-84.6%
success-middle-later-run	501	22.0 MB	502	22.0 MB	+0.2%
sparse-success	251	11.0 MB	2	63,802 B	-99.4%

The win survives the base change, and grew: main now sends maxCharsPerItem: 20000 and caps a read result at THREAD_READ_RESULT_MAX_BYTES = 30000, so a 20,000-character item fills a page by itself and a reader that scans forward advances one position per read. The same 500-item workloads cost 6 reads on bf469bb and 501 now, so the tail probe's 2 reads are worth 501 round trips instead of 6. The failed scans gain too, because the middle-page text shortening now pays off against a byte cap rather than a fixed page.

Disclosed cost, at this size: success-middle-later-run buries the result under a later run's 350 items, so the probe lands on an item from another run and immediately falls back to the full scan — 501 → 502 reads, 16,347 → 16,547 ms (+1.22%), decoded bytes +0.2%. The one-page controls read the same count and the same decoded bytes; their elapsed differences are 2–7 ms on 40–150 ms workloads and are not resolved by six samples.

Workload	CPU ms main → PR	Thread CPU ms main → PR	RSS MiB main → PR
one-short	31 → 16	24 → 16	437.2 → 434.9
one-medium	23 → 31	16 → 16	477.1 → 471.3
one-long	54 → 32	31 → 16	518.7 → 508.3
success-history	3,610 → 8	2,672 → 8	568.7 → 543.4
failed-history	2,953 → 804	2,118 → 578	556.4 → 650.7
failed-long-error	3,298 → 414	2,437 → 258	558.4 → 676.1
middle-error-later-run	3,116 → 452	2,242 → 374	557.9 → 659.3
no-error-fallback	2,868 → 531	2,070 → 351	573.6 → 620.2
success-middle-later-run	2,976 → 3,601	2,242 → 2,812	563.5 → 530.7
sparse-success	1,407 → 24	1,062 → 23	568.2 → 510.9

Every sample of every workload produced a byte-identical parent task result on both versions, including the reported-model note. CPU is quantized on Windows at roughly 15.6 ms, so the small controls are inconclusive. RSS snapshot medians are ~100 MiB higher on the PR legs for the failed workloads (failed-history 556 → 651 MiB) while per-sample heap deltas stay within −19 to +37 MiB and include negative values; that is unattributed drift inside one long single-process run, not a leak claim and not neutrality. responseBytes is the decoded gzip body the process must inflate and parse, not compressed wire bytes. No app, tunnel or network latency is claimed.

Model: gpt-6.1-sol through Codex in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 90eb8ec

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This optimizes remote task result reads by avoiding unnecessary history text while retaining fallback scanning and full result retrieval. Its effects are limited to retrieval efficiency, with no material change to product defaults or access.

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Walkthrough

RemoteDelegation limits text in long failed-task timeline reads and probes the final messages page for completed runs. Tests cover paginated timelines, result selection, item refills, and interruption.

Changes: Remote task result retrieval

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Page through task timelines apps/server/src/peer/RemoteDelegation.ts	lastReply tracks remaining items, limits text on long failed-task scans, and probes the final messages page for completed runs. followOnce enables the probe for completed runs.
Model and verify paginated reads apps/server/src/peer/RemoteDelegation.test.ts	The test thread supports configured timelines, page sizes, and held reads. Tests cover failed and successful task results, page requests, refills, and interruption.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant followOnce
  participant lastReply
  participant t3_thread_read
  followOnce->>lastReply: pass completed-run probe flag
  lastReply->>t3_thread_read: request timeline page
  lastReply->>t3_thread_read: probe final messages page
  t3_thread_read->>lastReply: return page items

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#29268: Both PRs change RemoteDelegation.lastReply timeline reads and text limits.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26776: Both PRs address run-specific replies on remote threads.
• pingdotgg/t3code#33079: Both PRs use thread history to reach recent items without scanning earlier pages.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 867ac

The change reduces history reads when retrieving remote task results and keeps the existing fallback behavior for uncertain cases. No actionable merge-blocking risk was found.

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The PR description follows the repository template closely. It has all four required sections (Problem, Change, Scope, Verification) and fills each with specific, relevant content. The Problem section states the cause: the follower reads full timelines and discards most of the content. The Change section explains the tail-probe and failed-scan shortening logic and states the tradeoffs. The Scope section explains why the change qualifies as a focused obvious-bug fix and claims no prior approval. The Verification section lists the test runs, rebase details, and benchmark tables with read counts, bytes, latency, CPU, and RSS. The description also ends with the model and harness, as the template asks. Minor gaps: the Scope section does not link an issue, and it relies on the obvious-bug exception rather than linking one. The description also has no conventional commit title, which the template comment mentions. The description is long and dense, but it stays on topic and does not cover all the material the reviewer may need.

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apps/server/src/peer/RemoteDelegation.test.ts: 1

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Extract the duplicated t3_thread_read capture into one helper.

Both new tests contain the same fetch wrapper. The wrapper decodes the request body, filters tools/call for t3_thread_read, and pushes the arguments into reads. The two copies can drift when the RPC envelope changes.

Add one helper, for example recordThreadReads. It returns { reads, fetch } and takes the nativeFetch value. Both tests then call it.

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const recordThreadReads = (nativeFetch: typeof globalThis.fetch) => {
  const reads: Array<OrchestratorMcpThreadReadInput> = [];
  const fetch: typeof globalThis.fetch = (input, init) => {
    const body = init?.body instanceof Uint8Array ? new TextDecoder().decode(init.body) : null;
    if (body?.startsWith("{")) {
      const rpc: {
        method?: string;
        params?: { name?: string; arguments?: OrchestratorMcpThreadReadInput };
      } = JSON.parse(body);
      if (
        rpc.method === "tools/call" &&
        rpc.params?.name === "t3_thread_read" &&
        rpc.params.arguments !== undefined
      ) {
        reads.push(rpc.params.arguments);
      }
    }
    return nativeFetch(input, init);
  };
  return { reads, fetch };
};

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apps/server/src/peer/RemoteDelegation.test.ts: 1

1453-1470: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Extract the duplicated t3_thread_read capture into one helper.

Both new tests carry the same code. It wraps FetchHttpClient.Fetch, decodes the JSON-RPC body, filters tools/call for t3_thread_read, and pushes the arguments into reads. The Effect.scoped and Effect.provide(NodeHttpServer.layerTest) wiring is also identical. A change to the capture logic, such as handling batched or SSE bodies, must now be made twice.

Move the capture into a small helper. For example, captureThreadReads could return { reads, fetch }. Both tests would then call it and pass fetch to Effect.provideService(FetchHttpClient.Fetch, fetch).

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified head 90eb8ec0d16a7d8798237a2fe72ae81da9b8c443 against github/main 47f2e91210 on this linux vm. used the actual web client with repository playwright and google chrome, plus real codex gpt-6.1-sol parent and linked-child turns through the local proxy. projects, threads, links, and history were created through the app; no mocks or demo data.

• main reproduced the unnecessary scan: 5 reads / 222,316 decoded response bytes. the pr used 2 reads / 87,016 bytes against the same completed 229-item child history. both parents received exactly LINKED_SCAN_SUCCESS_110_END.
• a later run in that same linked thread returned a 24,425-character final answer. the speculative tail was inconclusive, forward scanning resumed, and the item-ID refill at offset 20,000 recovered the complete answer. parent and child text were byte-identical; both markers and all 100 numbered lines survived.
• terminating the isolated task's provider process during an active turn produced a real failed run. the parent received failed and "The provider event stream closed unexpectedly. Retry the turn; if it keeps failing, check the provider and server logs." it selected that run's error rather than an older reply. actual activity requests used maxCharsPerItem: 1 on three middle pages and 20,000 on the first and final pages.

for matching data, i replayed a snapshot of the app-created pending parent against the same completed peer. current main's migration 92 partial index cannot serve the older pr's queries, so i restored that isolated index to the pr's migration 86 definition. no application records or source code were changed. this does not verify database downgrades.

blacksmith passed the 52 focused remote delegation cases and vp run check:changed 4c2f04d35d371c2b2ecb04b283e282325026be8a (including 54 tests across two files and scoped typechecks). github checks pass on the tested head. no code fix was needed.

command transcript, request timestamps, and exact-result assertions

Not verified

native desktop, ios, and android clients; other providers; relay/tunnel or non-loopback networks. no-run recovery, cancellation races, concurrent growth, executed-model mismatch notes, and long middle-page errors were covered only by focused tests, not real provider turns here. no cpu/rss or general latency claim.