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Problem

Archiving a thread leaves its side chats running. Their work keeps going, they still accept and answer new messages, and the app gives no way back to them until the parent is unarchived: the side panel closes, the parent leaves the sidebar, and Settings › Archive lists only the parent. Deleting a thread, by contrast, already deletes its side chats and cancels their work, and the docs describe side chats as living inside their thread.

To reproduce on main (checked at c52df24d28; the archive path is unchanged at b90e554e0a) (web, Claude Haiku 5.5): in a side chat, run "for i in $(seq 1 120); do echo $i; sleep 1; done", then archive the parent about 30 seconds in. The loop keeps running and finishes about 90 seconds after the archive. Opened by its URL, the side chat still answers a new message while the parent is archived. Unarchiving the parent brings it back under Side chats.

The side chat still running after its parent was archived, on main:

Side chat still running its command after the parent thread was archived, before the change

The same side chat answering a new message while its parent is archived, on main:

Side chat answering a new message while its parent thread is archived, before the change

Change

Archive and unarchive now cascade to a thread's side chats, the same way delete does:

  • They use the same lookup (liveSideChatIds) and the same lock order: the parent's lock, then each side chat's.
  • Everything commits together. The parent's and the side chats' events land in one commit, each side chat under a derived command id (<commandId>:side-chat:<threadId>), as in the deletion plan.
  • Each side chat goes through the same dispatchThreadMutation path as archiving it directly. That detaches its provider sessions, revokes their MCP credential, cancels queued and preparing runs, and cleans up terminals. A running turn is stopped by that session detach, as it is for any archived thread.
  • A side chat still waiting on delegated tasks stays active. Archive refuses such a thread (fix(server): archive refuses a thread with running delegated tasks #26078), and before this, one busy side chat failed the parent's whole archive.
  • Unarchiving the parent restores the side chats that its archive archived. A side chat that was archived separately, before the parent, stays archived. The test is "the side chat's archivedAt is at or after the parent's".
  • Archiving a side chat on its own is unchanged and does not touch its parent.

The user guide's Side chats section gets one sentence beside the delete sentence.

No contract or client changes. When the parent is unarchived, thread details shows the side chats again through the existing active-shell path.

Scope and approval

This is the archive cascade that #26901 left out ("Not in this PR: … archive cascade"). A small, focused fix for an obvious bug: archive now does for side chats what delete already does, through the same lookup, lock order and archive path, with no new state, contract or client change. Unarchive is included so archiving stays reversible for side chats too.

Important: #33921, still open, cascades archive to sub-agent threads and changes the same code in Orchestrator.ts. The two archive different threads, but their changes would conflict. If you'd rather merge #33921 first, I'll rebase this onto it so side chats join its cascade, and I've offered the same on #33921.

Verification

  • New test in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadFork.execution.test.ts: archiving a parent stops and archives its side chats; unarchiving brings them back. Its setup:

    • a parent with two side chats;
    • one side chat has a running run, a queued run, and an attached provider session;
    • the other side chat was archived on its own first, which leaves the parent unarchived.

    After the parent is archived:

    • the busy side chat is archived;
    • its queued run is cancelled;
    • its session binding is gone;
    • its effect outbox has the same provider-session.detach ("Thread archived.", revokeMcpCredential: true) and terminal.cleanup effects as the parent's.
    • the side chat archived earlier keeps its earlier archivedAt.
    • a guest share opened on the busy side chat is gone, as archiving any thread clears its share.

    Unarchiving the parent restores the busy side chat, without its share, as unarchiving any thread leaves a cleared share cleared, and leaves the earlier one archived.

  • Fails on main: with only Orchestrator.ts reverted to c52df24d28, the test fails at assert.isNotNull(archivedBusy.thread.archivedAt) (expected null to not equal null). On main the side chat is never archived.

  • Busy side chat: the test also gives a third side chat a running delegated task. Without the last commit, the parent's archive fails with "has running delegated tasks"; with it, the parent and the other side chat are archived and the busy one stays active.

  • Mutation check: making unarchive restore every archived side chat fails the test at the last assertion, because the separately archived side chat comes back.

  • Delete unchanged: the existing delete-cascade tests pass. In ThreadFork.execution.test.ts those are closing a side chat deletes it only while unused; a deleted parent takes no more and a side chat opened during the parent's first turn starts from a digest. In runtimeLayer.test.ts, the side-chat delete lock-order tests pass.

  • Threads without side chats unchanged: the existing archive tests pass, for example cancels preparing work on archive and keeps it cancelled through replay.

  • Commands run: vp test run on ThreadFork.execution.test.ts, runtimeLayer.test.ts, ThreadDeletion.test.ts, GuestShare.test.ts, Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts, guest/GuestShareService.test.ts, and peer/PeerLinkRequests.test.ts. All passed. vp run typecheck in apps/server is clean, and the changed files pass lint and fmt.

  • Live check on this branch (39e582a1d8, before a rebase that changed only a comment, web, Claude Haiku 5.5, isolated dev server), with the same scenario as above: a side chat ran a 120-second shell loop and the parent was archived 25 seconds in.

    • The side chat was archived in the same command, 19 ms after the parent. Its Claude session closed at once, the shell loop stopped, and no more output arrived.
    • Opening the archived side chat by its URL now redirects to a new draft, as an archived thread's URL does.
    • Unarchiving the parent restored the side chat in the same command, with its history, under Side chats in thread details. It then answered a new message.
    • A second side chat, archived on its own before the parent, stayed archived through the parent's archive and unarchive.

Settings › Archive, before: only the parent is listed, while its side chat keeps running.

Settings Archive list before the change: only the parent thread

Settings › Archive, after: the side chat is listed beside its parent, as a side chat archived on its own already is.

Settings Archive list after the change: the parent and its side chat as two rows

Not covered:

The restored side chat after unarchive, with the stream-closed error and leftover Running row from #15993

  • Archived side chats are listed in Settings › Archive as their own rows (shown above). I left the list as it is; hiding side chats there would be a separate change.
  • Queued work in a side chat was covered by the test, not by the live check, as were providers other than Claude.

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Archiving a thread now automatically archives its side chats and stops their work; unarchiving selectively restores them. Human review is needed to confirm this changed default, including its effects on active side-chat work and sharing.

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Thread archive and unarchive commands now cascade to eligible live side chats under locks. Archive skips side chats with running delegated tasks. Unarchive restores side chats archived at or after the parent’s archive time. Execution tests and documentation cover the cascade.

Changes: Side-chat archive lifecycle

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Archive cascade and validation
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadFork.execution.test.ts, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
The orchestrator locks the parent and its live side chats before dispatching archive and unarchive commands. Archive skips side chats with running delegated tasks. Unarchive restores side chats archived at or after the parent’s archive time. Tests cover queued-run cancellation, provider-session removal, and timestamp preservation. The documentation describes the cascade.

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

Change: Bug fix

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Archiving a parent thread can also archive a side chat that still has a running remote delegated task, so the task's result no longer reaches it. A few smaller edge cases remain: restoring a separately archived side chat, forks racing an archive, and documentation wording. Fix the remote-task case before merging.

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On the two side effects Macroscope asked a human to confirm:

Active side-chat work. A side chat archived with its parent is stopped the way any archived thread is: its provider session is detached, which stops a running turn, and its queued and preparing runs are cancelled. In the live check on this branch, the side chat's shell loop stopped at the archive and produced no more output, and its Claude session closed in the same command. Before this change, that loop ran to completion with the parent archived. Unarchiving the parent brings the side chat back with its history, and it answered a new message. The one leftover is #15993's stale "Running" row on the interrupted command, which archiving any thread mid-command shows today and #29036 addresses for Claude.

Sharing. Archive clears a thread's guest share (guestShare: null in the thread.archive mutation), and an archived thread can't be shared or viewed by a guest. A side chat now goes through that same mutation, so a guest share on a side chat ends when its parent is archived, and unarchiving doesn't restore it, the same as for the parent itself. The PR's test now covers this (54a49ab15b): a guest share opened on a side chat is cleared when the parent is archived and stays cleared after unarchive. It wasn't tried in the live check. Deleting the parent already removes side chats along with any share on them.

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Archiving a thread left its side chats running and reachable only by URL:
their work kept going, they still took new messages, and unarchiving the
parent showed them again. Deleting a thread already takes its side chats.

Archive and unarchive now cascade to the parent's live side chats the way
delete does: the same lookup, the parent's lock before the side chats'
locks, and one commit for all of them. Each side chat is archived exactly
as archiving it directly would, which detaches its provider sessions and
cancels its queued and preparing runs. Unarchiving the parent restores the
side chats its archive took, and leaves ones archived before it archived.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…its parent's archive

Archive refuses a thread with running delegated tasks, so cascading to such a
side chat failed the parent's whole archive. The cascade now leaves that side
chat active, as archive does for sub-agent descendants in pingdotgg#33921.

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Minor · Refuse side-chat forks from archived sources. · Orchestrator.ts:5672

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:5672
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Refuse side-chat forks from archived sources.

A side-chat fork that waits on the parent lock can run after the parent archive commits. The guard at line 5672 rejects only deleted sources. plan does not check archivedAt, so the fork creates an unarchived side chat under an archived parent. The archive cascade does not cover that child. The child can then receive work.

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-    if (command.sideChat === true && sourceProjection.thread.deletedAt !== null) {
+    if (
+      command.sideChat === true &&
+      (sourceProjection.thread.deletedAt !== null || sourceProjection.thread.archivedAt !== null)
+    ) {
       return yield* new OrchestratorDispatchError({
         commandId: command.commandId,
         commandType: command.type,
-        cause: `Thread ${command.sourceThreadId} was deleted.`,
+        cause: `Thread ${command.sourceThreadId} is not active.`,
       });
     }
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts at line 5672:
Update the side-chat source guard that checks command.sideChat and sourceProjection.thread.deletedAt to also reject threads with a non-null archivedAt. Preserve the existing rejection for deleted sources and return a dispatch error for either inactive state, preventing forks from archived parents.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:
- Around line 15030-15031: Replace the timestamp-based ownership check in the
archive restoration logic with explicit tracking of which parent archive
operation caused each cascaded side-chat archive, and restore only side chats
owned by that parent operation. Extend the existing test to cover unarchiving a
side chat after the parent archive, separately archiving it, then unarchiving
the parent; preserve that separate archive.

Review comments at @docs/user/thread-sidebar.md:
- Around line 320-321: Update the side-chat archiving description to clarify
that running delegated tasks remain active when the cascade skips that side
chat, and that separately archived side chats stay archived when the parent
thread is unarchived. Preserve the existing behavior description for other side
chats.

---

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:
- Line 5672: Update the side-chat source guard that checks command.sideChat and
sourceProjection.thread.deletedAt to also reject threads with a non-null
archivedAt. Preserve the existing rejection for deleted sources and return a
dispatch error for either inactive state, preventing forks from archived
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DateTime.toEpochMillis(sideChatArchivedAt) >=
DateTime.toEpochMillis(parentArchivedAt);

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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Track archive ownership instead of inferring it from timestamps.

If a user archives the parent, unarchives a side chat, then archives that side chat separately, its timestamp still satisfies this comparison. Unarchiving the parent then restores the separately archived side chat. A separate archive immediately before the parent archive can also match within the same millisecond.

Record which archive operation owns each cascaded archive. Restore only matching archives. Extend the existing test with an intervening separate archive.

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Replace the timestamp-based ownership check in the archive restoration logic with explicit tracking of which parent archive operation caused each cascaded side-chat archive, and restore only side chats owned by that parent operation. Extend the existing test to cover unarchiving a side chat after the parent archive, separately archiving it, then unarchiving the parent; preserve that separate archive.

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Comment on lines +320 to +321
side chats. Archiving a thread also archives its side chats and stops their work, and
unarchiving the thread brings them back.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Document the side chats that remain active.

If a side chat has running delegated tasks, the cascade skips it and leaves its work active. The new test explicitly checks this exception. Qualify the stopping claim so users know that archiving the parent does not stop that work. Also state that separately archived side chats remain archived.

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Review comment at @docs/user/thread-sidebar.md around lines 320 - 321:
Update the side-chat archiving description to clarify that running delegated tasks remain active when the cascade skips that side chat, and that separately archived side chats stay archived when the parent thread is unarchived. Preserve the existing behavior description for other side chats.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head 35e7f126ca45a14e3c578a6d7d4ff1bc7b011ddd on a disposable linux vm, using the real dev web app, repository playwright, /usr/bin/google-chrome, and codex gpt-6.1-sol through the local proxy. projects, threads, side chats and provider turns were created through the app, without mocks or seeded data. main and pr servers ran separately, one at a time.

  • reproduced on github/main at cef95b6db91d75293489a5a0b42a59758d97a868: archiving the parent left the side chat active. its actual 180-second shell loop was still running 67 seconds after the parent archive, and its direct url still displayed the running turn.
  • on this pr, the same flow archived the parent and side chat, detached both provider sessions, and stopped the side chat's shell process. settings > archive listed both. opening the archived side chat's direct url redirected to a draft.
  • unarchiving the parent restored the side chat and its history. a new real codex turn replied SIDE CHAT RESTORED AND RESPONDING.
  • archiving a second side chat independently left its parent active. after another parent archive/unarchive cycle, that independently archived side chat remained archived and the other side chat returned.
  • blacksmith-check ran the existing ThreadFork.execution.test.ts and ThreadDeletion.test.ts: 18 tests passed, including the archive cascade test. existing github ci checks are green on this head. no source changes or push were needed.

before, on main: only the parent appears in archive while the side chat keeps running.

main archive contains only the parent

after, on this head: parent and side chat both appear in archive.

pr archive contains the parent and side chat

recording of the running codex shell loop, parent archive action, and resulting archive list:

running codex side chat stops when its parent is archived

restored side chat answering a new codex message:

restored side chat responds through codex

runtime transcript: archive timestamps, session detach events, process inspection and independent archive check

Not verified

native ios/android and electron clients, macos/windows, remote/relay/tunnel connections, and providers other than codex were not exercised on this linux web setup. guest-share revocation, queued/preparing work cancellation, and the running delegated-task exception were covered by the existing automated archive test rather than live scenarios. no external guest-sharing service was configured.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadFork.execution.test.ts: 1

1302-1302: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the side-chat cleanup effects in this test.

This case checks providerSessions emptiness, but that projection only reflects the provider-session.detached event. It does not show that the child provider-session.detach effect with revokeMcpCredential: true, or the terminal.cleanup effect, was persisted. The effect worker is disabled in this harness, so no effect runs and no assertion observes the outbox rows. Omitting either effect in the cascade would leave this test passing.

Extend this case to read the persisted child effect rows after the parent archive. Assert one provider-session.detach request with revokeMcpCredential: true for the busy side chat's session, and one terminal.cleanup request for that side chat. Do not drain the worker or add polling to check them. Keep the check in this case rather than adding a new one, because the cascade behavior is already exercised here.

Backend behavior changes ship with focused tests for that behavior. This case already covers the cascade, so the missing assertions belong here.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadFork.execution.test.ts at line 1302:
Extend the existing side-chat cascade case around archivedBusy to inspect persisted child effect rows after the parent archive. Assert that the busy side chat has one provider-session.detach request with revokeMcpCredential set to true and one terminal.cleanup request; use the existing persistence access pattern and do not drain the effect worker or add polling.

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- Line 15046: Update hasRunningDelegatedTasks to count active app-owned tasks
with either a local child thread or a remoteChild, so both the archive cascade
and direct thread.archive guard block archiving while a remote delegated task is
running. Extend the existing archive cascade test to verify that a side chat
with a running remote delegated task stays active.

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const { subagents } = yield* projectionStore
.getThreadRecords(threadId, ["subagents"])
.pipe(mapDispatchError(command));
if (hasRunningDelegatedTasks(subagents)) continue;

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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Count running remote delegated tasks as blocking side-chat archive.

hasRunningDelegatedTasks requires childThreadId !== null. A running remote task has childThreadId: null and a remoteChild, so the check misses it. The archive cascade then archives a side chat that still has a running delegated task, which the PR contract says must stay active. The direct thread.archive guard uses the same predicate, so it has the same gap. Its error message already says running delegated tasks must be waited for or cancelled before archiving, so the shared predicate should include remote children.

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 const hasRunningDelegatedTasks = (subagents: ReadonlyArray<OrchestrationV2Subagent>) =>
   subagents.some(
     (task) =>
       task.origin === "app_owned" &&
-      task.childThreadId !== null &&
+      (task.childThreadId !== null || task.remoteChild !== undefined) &&
       isOrchestrationV2WorkActive(task.status),
   );

Extend the existing archive cascade test with a side chat that has a running remote delegated task. Assert that the side chat stays active.

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Update hasRunningDelegatedTasks to count active app-owned tasks with either a local child thread or a remoteChild, so both the archive cascade and direct thread.archive guard block archiving while a remote delegated task is running. Extend the existing archive cascade test to verify that a side chat with a running remote delegated task stays active.

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Evidence

Created a synthetic parent with Replay, submitted the reported /side loop prompt, archived the parent through its breadcrumb actions, waited for completion, and opened Settings → Archive. Environment on both sides: real web client/server, fresh database, Chromium, 1280×800, light theme. Replay did not execute the shell loop.

Archive cascade proven: the scenario failed on base (one archived thread instead of two) and passed on head. Unarchiving the parent on head also restored its side chat.

Before c910b1bbe9 After f2ef62725e
Side chat before archive Base: side-chat pane Head: side chat before archive
Archive after parent Before: only parent archived After: parent and side chat archived
Assertion Expected two archived threads; observed one Passed
Failure capture Base assertion failure
Restore parent Not reached after base assertion After restoration: no archived threads
Recording Before recording After recording

Scenario source

Scope: proves archive cascade and restoration of the cascaded side chat. Real shell-process termination, independent archives, and active app-owned delegated tasks were not exercised.

Not shown:

  • Real shell-process termination and the subsequent STILL-ALIVE messaging reproduction were not exercised: Replay emitted recorded replies and did not execute the submitted loop.
  • Preservation of independently archived side chats was not exercised; the scenario contained one initially unarchived side chat.
  • Side chats with running app-owned delegated tasks were not exercised; no delegated task was created.

@juliusmarminge juliusmarminge added takeover:needs-julius Takeover done; route gate says Julius decides and removed takeover:in-progress A takeover lead is working on this PR labels Nov 15, 2026

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