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Problem

Fixes #25245. On Windows, child_process.spawn() runs CreateProcess on the calling thread. Defender, endpoint security, a busy disk or a bloated kernel token table can hold that call for 0.5 to 10 s, and the server launches git, gh, netstat and provider CLIs on its RPC thread. Each slow launch freezes RPC and heartbeats for that long; past 15 s the client drops to "Connecting".

Change

On Windows the shared Effect ChildProcessSpawner now launches through apps/server/src/process/SpawnWorker.ts, a pool of worker threads:

• A worker owns each child process. The server thread gets a stand-in handle that relays stdin, stdout, stderr, extra descriptors, exit, close, kill and ref/unref over postMessage, with backpressure.
• A worker blocked inside CreateProcess takes no new launch. Launches go to an idle worker, up to 4; one idle worker stays warm (about 12 MB each).
• Effect's Windows taskkill (process-tree kill on interrupt or timeout) goes through the same launcher instead of execFile on the server thread. That is the one change to the Effect patch.
• If a worker dies, its children's process trees are killed through another worker, their output ends so readers finish, and the exit reports the kill once taskkill has returned. If taskkill fails, the direct child is killed, the same fallback Effect's own kill uses.

It plugs into NodeChildProcessSpawner.layerWithSpawn, a small hook this PR adds to the Effect patch. #30209 adds the same hook for its Linux launcher, so whichever lands second drops its copy of the patch and both platforms share it.

Because it sits in the shared spawner, it covers every launch that goes through Effect: processRunner, GitVcsDriverCore, VcsProcess, Codex, the ACP providers, OpenCode, the port scanner. #32234 targets the same issue with a worker per command, wired into processRunner and GitVcsDriverCore only, so provider launches through the spawner stay on the RPC thread there. Maintainers should pick one; I'd close whichever doesn't land.

Not covered: launches that call node:child_process directly (the Claude CLI in ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, speech, document text) and node-pty. macOS and Linux keep the stock spawner; #30209 covers Linux.

Scope and approval

A focused fix for the triaged bug #25245, no behavior or setting changes. It is the Windows half of the direction #30209 takes for Linux.

Verification

Windows 11, Node 24.13, Git 2.55, this PC.

Is CreateProcess safe to move off-thread? One launch of a freshly written 400 MB git.exe (Defender scans it inside CreateProcess): from the server thread it blocked 651 ms and froze the thread 646 ms; from a worker it blocked 556 ms and froze the server thread 2 ms. No process-wide lock.

The real spawner under load (chart above): 60 git --version runs, 8 at a time, through ChildProcessSpawner with the stock layer vs this one. With fresh large copies so every launch is scanned, the longest server-thread freeze went from 1,122 / 500 / 391 ms to 6 / 7 / 18 ms, and total time from 2,606 / 1,411 / 2,192 ms to 1,541 / 1,334 / 1,463 ms. With healthy launches: 29 ms to 6 ms, total 318 to 372 ms.

Which thread launches each command in the running server (found in review): a preload that logs isMainThread for every child_process.spawn, 45 s of t3 --auto-bootstrap-project-from-cwd on this repo. Before the last commit all 11 launches ran on the server thread, git included: NodeHttpServer.layer also outputs NodeServices, so Node's own spawner replaced the worker one for every layer above the HTTP server. After it, 10 of 11 run on a worker: git, codex --version, codex app-server, claude --version, npm view and taskkill. The one left is the Claude CLI, which calls node:child_process directly.

before                         after
11 MAIN                        10 WORKER
                                1 MAIN  claude.exe (direct node:child_process)

Then vp run dev with the same preload, seeded with real threads: a Replay turn with approval, the diff panel listing this branch against origin/main, and a terminal running a local server all worked. The server made 897 launches; 896 ran on a worker, and the one on the server thread was the Claude CLI. An earlier 2-minute A/B in the dev app came out within noise; it predates the wiring fix, so its launches never left the server thread, and I've dropped it.

A launcher thread dying (raised in review), measured on Windows 11 with a harness that drives the real layer and counts every launcher thread's errors and exits. The grandchild is started detached, so it leaves libuv's kill-on-close job the way a git or cmd grandchild would, and only a tree kill can end it.

Check	Result
275 hostile commands (missing executable, NUL bytes in command and arguments, a directory as the executable, missing cwd, shell syntax error, stdin to an exited child, kill after exit twice, stdout dropped mid-flood, interrupt during launch, stderr flood with stdout closed), then 300 launches at once	launcher thread errors 0, exits the pool did not ask for 0
Launcher thread terminated while its child runs a grandchild, 50 times	exit reported 50 / 50 (as a failure), child left running 0, grandchild left running 0
taskkill /T /F against our own running child with a grandchild, 200 times	failed 0, nothing left running
taskkill cannot start (PATH without System32), the only way it failed here	main's Effect spawner and this PR both end the child and leave the grandchild, identically

So a launcher thread does not die from anything a command does; when one is killed anyway, the whole tree ends before the exit is reported; and the remaining case needs taskkill itself to be missing, where this PR behaves exactly like main.

Tests: vp test run apps/server/src/process/SpawnWorker.test.ts, 4 passed on Windows. They run on every platform, since the worker layer works anywhere. "runs children on a launcher thread" checks that the server thread holds no ProcessWrap while a child runs; it fails against the stock spawner. vp run check:changed passes.

Not checked: a packaged desktop build (the SQLite reader worker already runs inline worker source the same way in packaged builds), and macOS.

Built with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code), reviewed by GPT-6 Astra.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Windows process launches move to worker threads to keep the RPC thread responsive. The new file-level nodeBuiltinImport:off diagnostic suppression requires human review under the repository’s explicit approval rule.

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Walkthrough

The change adds worker-thread-backed process spawning, integrates it into the server’s platform services, and adds live tests for process streams, launch failures, exit codes, and child termination.

Changes: Off-thread process spawning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Injectable process spawner patches/@effect__platform-node-shared@4.1.2.patch, pnpm-workspace.yaml	The shared spawner accepts a supplied spawn function for command and Windows taskkill launches. The workspace applies the patch to @effect/platform-node-shared@4.1.2.
Worker-thread process spawning apps/server/src/process/SpawnWorker.ts, apps/server/src/process/SpawnWorker.test.ts	The worker pool relays child-process streams and lifecycle events, manages up to four workers, and retains at most one idle worker. Live tests cover launch options, output, failures, exit codes, and termination.
Server spawner integration apps/server/src/server.ts	The server adds SpawnWorker.layerServer to its platform services and provides it with Node services.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ServerThread
  participant SpawnWorker
  participant WorkerThread
  participant ChildProcess
  ServerThread->>SpawnWorker: Submit child launch
  SpawnWorker->>WorkerThread: Forward launch request
  WorkerThread->>ChildProcess: Spawn process
  ChildProcess-->>WorkerThread: Emit stdio and lifecycle events
  WorkerThread-->>SpawnWorker: Relay stdio and lifecycle events
  SpawnWorker-->>ServerThread: Expose process streams and events

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 0ac07

Source-control launches can still block the RPC thread, and shutdown may leave child processes or descendants running. The Windows launch fix remains incomplete.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main Windows process-launch improvement.
Linked Issues check		[#25245] SpawnWorker.layerServer routes Windows launches through worker threads. server.ts supplies that layer to shared platform services, including Git. The Effect patch routes Windows `taskkill…
Out of Scope Changes check		[#25245] The worker pool, server wiring, Effect patch, dependency registration, and tests support the Windows responsiveness fix. The change since the previous review guards access to child.stdio af…
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It has all four required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. The Problem section states the bug (#25245, Windows C…

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Explanation

[#25245] SpawnWorker.layerServer routes Windows launches through worker threads. server.ts supplies that layer to shared platform services, including Git. The Effect patch routes Windows taskkill through the same launcher. Tests cover off-thread launches, streams, launch errors, later launches, and interruption. The PR reports reduced Windows event-loop stalls.

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Explanation

[#25245] The worker pool, server wiring, Effect patch, dependency registration, and tests support the Windows responsiveness fix. The change since the previous review guards access to child.stdio after a launch failure. Other platforms retain the default server spawner.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has all four required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. The Problem section states the bug (#25245, Windows CreateProcess blocking the RPC thread) with environment and symptoms. The Change section explains the worker-pool design, the Effect patch hook, and the taskkill routing. The Scope and approval section links the triaged issue #25245 and explains why the change is a focused fix of an obvious bug, with a note on the related Linux work in #30209. The Verification section is detailed: it names the Windows 11 environment, reports before/after timings, lists the hostile-input and grandchild-kill checks with counts, gives the exact focused test command with 4 passing, and states what was not checked (packaged build, macOS). The template's agent-attribution note is also present at the end. The author also explicitly lists what is excluded from scope. The description is thorough and specific, not vague.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/process/SpawnHost.ts:
- Around line 43-55: Coordinate signal decisions in HostedChild.kill and the
Effect cleanup path that sends group signals with the host’s child lifecycle,
using a lifecycle-safe mechanism that prevents signaling a reused PID after the
child is reaped. Preserve cleanup of surviving process-group members.

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Supported by static analysis

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git diff d5fc29fe5cb62db68bfbf824cfabe0ae94ac6ac4 b1f00f33e39dace23d97c99f0cadec46046f8cb0 -- apps/server/src/process/SpawnHost.ts
printf '\n--- SpawnHost.ts ---\n'
nl -ba apps/server/src/process/SpawnHost.ts | sed -n '1,300p'
printf '\n--- process files ---\n'
rg --files apps/server/src/process
printf '\n--- spawner references ---\n'
rg -n -F -e 'NodeChildProcessSpawner' -e 'layerHost(' -e 'killProcessGroup' -- apps/server/src/process apps/server/src
printf '\n--- Effect source candidates ---\n'
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printf '%s\n' '--- host process ---'
nl -ba apps/server/src/process/spawnHostProcess.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- tests and representative lifecycle ---'
nl -ba apps/server/src/process/SpawnHost.test.ts | sed -n '1,270p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Effect source / patch and versions ---'
rg -n -F -e 'layerWithSpawn' -e 'SpawnedChildProcess' -e '@effect/platform-node-shared' -- patches package.json pnpm-lock.yaml bun.lock .repos apps/server/package.json 2>/dev/null || :
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant directories ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- local dependency candidate ---'
find node_modules/.pnpm -path '*/@effect/platform-node-shared/dist/NodeChildProcessSpawner.js' -print 2>/dev/null
printf '%s\n' '--- shared spawner kill usage ---'
rg -n -F -e '.kill(' -e 'ChildProcessSpawner' -- apps/server/src/processRunner.ts apps/server/src/process/SpawnHost.test.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- catalog ---'
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@effect/platform-node-shared 4.1.2 NodeChildProcessSpawner.js make kill process group github source

Result:

Sources consulted:
- @effect/platform-node-shared - npm — https://www.npmjs.com/package/%40effect/platform-node-shared
- Effect-TS/effect @effect/platform-node-shared@4.0.0-rc.113 on GitHub — https://newreleases.io/project/github/Effect-TS/effect/release/%40effect%2Fplatform-node-shared%404.0.0-rc.113
- @effect/platform-node - npm — https://www.npmjs.com/package/%40effect/platform-node
- Command processes survive SIGINT when parent exits · Issue #5592 · Effect-TS/effect · GitHub — GitHub issue 5592 in Effect-TS/effect (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- Issue · GitHub — https://github.mosekj.com/Effect-TS/effect/issues/8338
- …and 24 more

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p='node_modules/.pnpm/@effect+platform-node-shared@4.1.2_patch_hash=06952843c6f431ca83c78762fd18d23cda7688380_13a9722174ca9ad43540bb129ffe9987/node_modules/@effect/platform-node-shared/dist/NodeChildProcessSpawner.js'
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant dependency symbols ---'
rg -n -F -e 'hasExited' -e 'isProcessAlive' -e 'process.kill' -e 'handle.kill' -e 'childProcess.kill' -e 'kill:' -e 'forceKillAfter' -e 'addFinalizer' -- "$p"
printf '%s\n' '--- spawner helpers ---'
nl -ba "$p" | sed -n '35,105p'
printf '%s\n' '--- spawner acquisition, kill, cleanup ---'
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Web query:

Node.js child_process subprocess.kill exited child PID reassigned reused signal other process documentation

Result:

Sources consulted:
- Child process | Node.js v26.13.0 Documentation — https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html
- Child process | Node.js v26.3.0 Documentation — https://nodejs.org/download/release/v26.3.0/docs/api/child_process.html
- ChildProcess | Node.js 26.13.0 Documentation — https://beta.docs.nodejs.org/child_process/ChildProcess
- Child Process | Node.js v8.2.0-rc.1 Documentation — https://nodejs.org/download/rc/v8.2.0-rc.1/docs/api/child_process.html
- Child Process | Node.js v7.10.1 Documentation — https://nodejs.org/download/release/v7.10.1/docs/api/child_process.html
- …and 29 more

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Coordinate signals with the host’s child lifecycle.

On Linux, the host can reap a child before the server receives its exit event. If the PID is reused in that window, an Effect kill or scope cleanup can signal an unrelated process.

Route kill decisions through the host or use another lifecycle-safe mechanism. Effect also sends group signals directly, so changing HostedChild.kill alone is not sufficient. Preserve cleanup of surviving group members.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/process/SpawnHost.ts around lines 43 - 55:
Coordinate signal decisions in HostedChild.kill and the Effect cleanup path that
sends group signals with the host’s child lifecycle, using a lifecycle-safe
mechanism that prevents signaling a reused PID after the child is reaped.
Preserve cleanup of surviving process-group members.

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Not changing this here: SpawnHost.ts is the Linux launcher from #30209, which this PR stacks on. A change to its kill path belongs in that PR. The Windows launcher this PR adds sends kill to the worker that owns the child, which calls ChildProcess.kill on its live process handle, so it does not signal by a possibly reused PID.

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@SunkenInTime Thanks for clarifying. This finding concerns the Linux launcher in #30209, not the Windows launcher under review here. Following the repository’s stacked-PR review guidance, I won’t request a fix in this PR.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for the Linux PID-reuse concern?

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Learnt from: juliusmarminge
Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 21805
File: apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:1867-1867
Timestamp: 2026-10-19T16:42:53.909Z
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Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Fixed in 9139b35. When the launcher thread dies, fail() now reports the child's exit and ends its streams only after taskkill /T /F exits. If taskkill fails to start or exits nonzero, it falls back to process.kill(pid, "SIGKILL") on the direct child before reporting, so a failure is no longer swallowed. I did not add the held-taskkill test: worker death and the taskkill path aren't reachable from the test layer without exposing pool internals, and that would grow this PR.

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Remove the Linux-only process-host code from this PR: the hosted-spawner branch
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spawner otherwise), the `layerWithSpawn` hook, and the `SpawnWorker` files.
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- Line 92: Extend the launch-failure regression test for SpawnWorker to simulate
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an already-running child remains alive, and a subsequent launch succeeds;
preserve the existing missing-command coverage.

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Remove the Linux-only process-host code from this PR. This covers the
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Add a regression test for descriptor exhaustion.

The existing missing-command test does not exercise the null-stdio path. Node returns before setting stdio for EMFILE and ENFILE. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Extend the launch-failure test to simulate that condition. Verify that the launch fails, an existing child remains alive, and a later launch succeeds.

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Extend the launch-failure regression test for SpawnWorker to simulate an EMFILE
or ENFILE error where child.stdio is unset. Verify the launch fails, an
already-running child remains alive, and a subsequent launch succeeds; preserve
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Not adding this. Producing a real EMFILE inside the launcher thread means exhausting the test process's descriptor limit, which would make the shared test runner flaky, and the worker source is an inline string with no seam to stub spawn. The guard is a one-character optional chain on a value Node documents as unset in that case.

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@maria-rcks Understood. I accept the test stability trade-off and won’t pursue the test. The worker’s EMFILE and ENFILE paths remain untested.

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# T3 Code

## Verifying

- Proof for a bug fix depends on the bug. Logic, data, state, and protocol bugs get a failing test first (the fewest that fail on `main` for that reason, in an existing case of the module's test file where one fits), then the fix. Purely visual bugs (spacing, colour, alignment, a layout shift) get before/after captures as their proof and no test: do not add UI tests for nitpicks, and do not ask for one in review when a capture already shows it. A server-only fix with no visible surface ships the test plus a short runtime transcript.

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Note

Written by Claude Opus 5.5 on behalf of Dara

No change for the taskkill fallback. When taskkill fails, this matches what Effect's own Windows kill does on main today: terminateProcessGroup catches the failed taskkill, kills the direct child with childProcess.kill(), then reports the exit. Holding the exit open instead would leave the caller's exitCode and its scope finalizer waiting forever on a process nobody can signal.

This path only runs if a launcher thread dies, and the thread doesn't die on its own: spawn, write and kill errors are caught and returned per command (0ac0733 closes the last gap). No EMFILE test either, since a real EMFILE inside the launcher means exhausting the test runner's descriptors.

The Linux launcher from #30209 is no longer in this PR (a9549c1). The diff is now the Windows launcher, its tests, the Effect hook and the server wiring.

[juliusmarminge]

Evidence

Measured the real server on Windows Server 2025 with Defender enabled, Node 24.22.2 and Git 2.56.1.windows.1. Each batch ran 60 freshly enlarged git.exe copies with --version, eight concurrently through the server's actual Effect spawner. An authenticated WebSocket client sent RPCs and heartbeats every 20 ms. Five batches per commit; all 600 commands produced identical successful output.

Before	After
3eadb214e8	9bfde056e3
Measurement output	Measurement output
Median maximum scheduling gap: 1,994.9 ms; range 1,916.9–2,584.1 ms	Median maximum scheduling gap: 17.7 ms; range 16.7–31.0 ms
Median maximum RPC latency: 11,336.0 ms	Median maximum RPC latency: 45.9 ms
Median maximum heartbeat latency: 7,862.6 ms	Median maximum heartbeat latency: 30.5 ms
Median batch duration: 12,019.2 ms	Median batch duration: 11,411.8 ms

The 1,977.2 ms reduction in median maximum scheduling gap exceeds both run-to-run spreads: 667.2 ms before and 14.3 ms after. Total batch duration did not improve beyond its observed spread.

Driver script, server probe, WebSocket client, complete setup and driver bundle.

Before raw output, after raw output.

Not shown:

• Windows 11 was not available; measurements used real Windows Server 2025 and reproduced slow native process creation with Defender enabled.
• The multi-project, unarchived-thread background PR/status sweep workflow and connected graphical client were not exercised. Evidence covers the quantified workload inside the real server and its real WebSocket RPC/heartbeat transport.
• Provider-event delivery, direct Claude launches, cancellation, process-tree cleanup, and packaged desktop behavior were not measured.
• Total batch-duration improvement was smaller than run-to-run spread, so no throughput improvement is claimed.
• Defender was enabled, but individual antivirus scan events were not independently traced.