[saphid]

Problem

Clicking Refresh in Provider settings or opening the welcome wizard probes every provider, and a Codex probe can take several seconds. If the user changes that provider during the probe, T3 Code rebuilds the provider instance. This covers editing its binary path or home, toggling it off, or removing it.

The old instance's probe still finishes, and the registry wrote its result anyway. That stale snapshot replaced the rebuilt instance's row. For example, the client shows "not installed" for the old binary path while the new path works. A removed provider could also come back as a ghost row. The stale row was persisted to the status cache too, and it stayed until the next refresh or settings change.

Change

After the probe, refreshOneSource now checks that the instance registry still holds the same instance it probed. If not, it drops the result, whether the probe succeeded or failed (the probe runs under Effect.exit, so a retired instance's failure can't mark its replacement's row as failed). refreshAfterUpdate also leaves replaced instances out of the rows it treats as verified. refreshWorkspaceSnapshot already applies the same identity check (currentInstance !== instance). It also follows the "read the registry" note on getProviderMaintenanceCapabilitiesForInstance.

refreshOneSource now takes the ProviderInstance, so callers pass instances from liveSubsRef or listInstances. The getLiveSources helper became unused and was removed.

Scope and approval

Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so no prior issue: a retired instance's result should never replace the current instance's state, and the sibling workspace refresh path already enforces this. One file plus one regression test.

Overlap search: I checked the local PR index and ran GitHub searches for refreshOneSource, retired instances, and stale refreshes. #29627 (merged) changed refreshOneSource only to re-read getSnapshot after an enrichment race. #24777 (merged) releases retired scopes but does not guard registry writes. Neither covers this case, and I found no open PR or issue for it.

Verification

• Red on main: the new test ignores a probe from an instance that settings replaced mid-refresh fails because the registry ends up with the retired probe (status: "error", installed: false, version: "1.0.0") instead of the rebuilt instance's ready / 2.0.0.
• Green: vp test run src/provider/ProviderRegistry.test.ts: 53/53 passed, also after rebasing on current main.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (3 packages), and tests (54) all passed.
• Not checked: a live run against a real Codex install. The test drives the race deterministically with Deferreds and a fake instance registry.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 1 round with GPT-6.1 Sol on high. Sol verdict: approved.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The change discards stale provider probes after settings replace an instance. A reproduced check-to-update race still permits stale status to be written and returned; maintainers need to decide whether that residual behavior is acceptable.

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Walkthrough

Provider refresh paths now use live provider instances. They discard probe results and failures when the probed instance has been replaced or removed. A regression test covers manual refresh and post-update refresh during instance replacement.

Changes: Provider refresh

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Instance-based refresh and stale-result guard apps/server/src/provider/ProviderRegistry.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ProviderRegistry.test.ts	Refresh-all, provider-specific, and post-update paths pass live instances to refreshOneSource. The function returns cached providers without applying a probe result or failure when that instance is no longer current. The regression test covers replacement during an in-flight refresh.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: A provider refresh can overwrite a newer enriched status with its pending probe snapshot #29593 — This change handles results from replaced instances. The issue summary notes that stale pre-enrichment results from the same instance are not addressed.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#29627 — Both changes protect ProviderRegistry from late refresh state.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24763 — Both changes affect post-update refresh verification.
• pingdotgg/t3code#27115 — This change prevents an in-flight refresh from a replaced provider instance from publishing its result.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: yordis, yashranaway, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to e2e24

A refresh can briefly return an outdated provider status after settings change, and the stale status may remain until another provider write. Close the check-to-write window before merging unless this risk is explicitly accepted.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title names the main behavior change: provider settings changed during a refresh no longer revert the provider row to the old status. The changeset adds an identity check in refreshOneSource that …
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The title names the main behavior change: provider settings changed during a refresh no longer revert the provider row to the old status. The changeset adds an identity check in refreshOneSource that drops stale probe results from a retired instance, which matches the title. The title uses the conventional commit form and is specific enough for a teammate scanning history.

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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and each contains specific content. The Problem section gives the expected and actual behavior with reproduction steps. The Change section explains the identity check and the removal of getLiveSources. The Scope section gives a reason for the missing prior issue and a search for overlapping PRs. The Verification section names the red and green test runs and states what was not checked. The description does not include the title-style reminder from the template comment, but that comment is guidance for the author and does not count as a required section.

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Make the identity check cover the provider update.

syncProvider performs effectful work after refreshOneSource checks instance identity and before upsertProviders updates providersRef. Instance replacement uses a different semaphore, so the check and update are not serialized. A retired probe can therefore merge over the replacement's provider state.

Use one synchronization boundary for instance replacement and the provider-state update. Add a race test that replaces the instance after the identity check and before the update. The existing refreshWorkspaceSnapshot path has the same check-to-update window.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/ProviderRegistry.ts at line 607:
Use a shared synchronization boundary for instance replacement and
provider-state updates in syncProvider, including the refreshOneSource identity
check through upsertProviders, and apply the same protection to
refreshWorkspaceSnapshot. Add race tests that replace the instance between the
identity check and provider-state update, verifying the retired instance cannot
overwrite the replacement’s state.

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[saphid]

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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of saphid

I was going to decline this on the grounds that nothing between the check and Ref.modify yields. An independent review showed I was wrong: Effect's scheduler can yield there once a fiber has used up its op budget. With Scheduler.MaxOpsBeforeYield forced to 32 and the instance replaced right after the identity check, the retired snapshot is written. What that write actually does in that run, on e2e24a8 and with a write semaphore added:

FINAL ["2.0.0"]  RESULT ["1.0.0:error"]

The stale row appears briefly, and that one refresh() call returns it. The replacement's probe then writes after it, so the published and stored state ends on the replacement (2.0.0). A semaphore around check-and-write didn't change either value in any interleaving I could reproduce. For the final state to go stale, the late fiber would have to stay paused through the replacement's whole probe and write. Fully closing the window means serializing with instance replacement, which happens in ProviderInstanceRegistry, a separate service. So I'm leaving this as is with the evidence above, for maintainers to judge. refreshWorkspaceSnapshot has the same shape on main, and this PR doesn't touch it.

[coderabbitai]

@saphid Understood. Your reported run confirms a stale write and a stale refresh() result. It does not demonstrate that the final published or stored state remains stale. My original comment should distinguish those outcomes.

The check-to-write window remains valid, but a write-only semaphore does not serialize the update with instance replacement. I accept your decision to leave that broader change for maintainers to assess.

I also agree that the existing refreshWorkspaceSnapshot path need not expand this PR’s scope. The remaining concern here is the transient stale state and return value, not a reproduced persistent regression.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for cross-service synchronization and a deterministic check-to-write race test?

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Learnings used

Learnt from: Yash-Singh1
Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 18778
File: apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:9115-9127
Timestamp: 2026-10-13T01:22:18.348Z
Learning: In TypeScript Effect code, Ref.get and Deferred.make are synchronous effects, but the runtime can automatically yield when its operation budget is reached. Do not assume that a sequence of synchronous effects cannot interleave with another fiber. In apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, stopSubagent must recheck the session registry after registering its Stop deferred to detect native confirmation recorded during that window, with a matching startedAt to protect task execution identity.

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Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head 7f96b530e82ddfc71c1b589872fc35df26790623 on a linux boat vm using the dev web app, repository playwright, google chrome, and real codex cli 0.164.0 through the local proxy. main and the pr ran separately with isolated state and only one dev server at a time.

on github/main (61c3794c32), i clicked refresh in settings > providers and changed codex's binary path to /nonexistent/codex before refresh finished. the saved path was invalid, but the late probe left codex marked available. a subsequent ordinary refresh correctly reported not found.

on this pr, the same interaction kept codex marked not found after the old refresh finished. captured websocket provider-status events stayed status=error, version=null, rather than reverting to the old ready, 0.164.0 snapshot.

nearby behavior passed: restored the binary path, refreshed normally, disabled codex (0 models), and re-enabled it (8 models). added and removed an extra codex instance through the app; it stayed absent after reload. created a real git project through the app, selected codex gpt-6.1-sol, and completed a turn that ran git rev-parse --show-toplevel and git status --short, returned REGISTRY_PROVIDER_OK, and left the project clean.

blacksmith checks passed: ProviderRegistry.test.ts (53/53), and vp run check:changed HEAD^ (format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck of 3 packages, and 54 tests). reported github ci checks pass or are skipped. no code changes or pushes were needed.

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Not verified

native desktop, ios/android, macos/windows, remote relay/tunnel connections, other provider drivers, home-path changes, concurrent provider installation/update, and server-restart cache hydration. removal worked after refresh and reload, but i did not prove removal overlapped an active probe. these results cover the real codex binary-path replacement race and the neighboring flows above.

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate e2e24a8

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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of saphid

Delta since your verification at 7f96b53: one commit, e2e24a8, answering CodeRabbit. A retired instance's failed probe no longer marks its replacement's row "Provider refresh failed after update.". refreshAfterUpdate also no longer counts a replaced instance as verified. The binary-path race you verified uses the same path and is unchanged. The race test now covers manual refresh and both post-update cases, and each new case fails on 7f96b53. The remaining check-to-write window is described in the CodeRabbit thread, with a scheduler-forced run showing the final state still settles on the replacement.