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Problem

Returning to the web or desktop client while the server is busy can make one foreground health probe miss its 15-second deadline. The client then replaces an otherwise live session, even while other WebSocket messages arrive. Reproduced on Linux with the real web dev server by suppressing one foreground server.probe; the original socket closed at 15.08 seconds.

Change

Keep the session through the first foreground probe timeout and automatically try one more probe with the existing deadline. A successful follow-up keeps the lease; a second timeout reconnects without another foreground event. Explicit retry, network signals, definite failures, and native mobile resume behavior retain their existing recovery rules.

Scope and approval

Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/7231

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. The reproduced defect is premature session replacement; composer typing remained editable during reproduction.

Verification

  • Focused connection tests: 135 passed across 10 files, including automatic follow-up success, bounded replacement after two misses, and explicit retry during a foreground probe.
  • Client-runtime typecheck: passed with exit 0; existing Effect suggestions only.
  • Targeted lint: no errors; existing polling-helper warning outside the changed lines. Diff whitespace check passed.
  • Two independent full-diff reviewers (GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5) returned MERGE on the fixed revision after the missing automatic retry was corrected.

Before runtime transcript: base closes the original socket at 15.08 seconds despite incoming traffic. After runtime transcript: automatic follow-up at 15.005 seconds, original socket remains open at 49.953 seconds, no reconnect warning, composer editable.

The required full before/after recording matrix and pixel diffs are incomplete. Browser/tool stalls and an interruption exhausted the capture budget. These transcripts verify runtime behavior and do not replace the missing recordings. Proof audit pass 2 returned INSUFFICIENT: no complete before/after matrix cell is established. This PR is not represented as fully verified.

Before 1440-wide light recording reproduces replacement at 15.084 seconds.

Before: desktop-width idle composer

Missing matrix proof: all AFTER recordings; 390-wide BEFORE recordings; validated dark BEFORE footage; network override at 13 seconds on both revisions; paired zero-threshold and thresholded pixel diffs; a committed replay fixture.

Desktop/Electron and Windows were not exercised. Native mobile uses separate resume signals and its behavior is unchanged; contracts, providers, and connection routes are unchanged.

Implementation and tests: Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude harness; reviews and proof: GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 through T3 Code delegated tasks. Coordinated by GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

Fixes #7231

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…own a live session

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… live session

A busy server that missed a single application-active health probe
deadline had its healthy websocket replaced. The connected lease now
tolerates one missed foreground probe; an answered probe resets that
tolerance, and a second consecutive miss replaces the session as before.
Probe failures, quick probes, and long resumes are unchanged.

Fixes #7231

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… definitely

An explicit retry that arrives near the end of an application-active probe
has a later deadline than the probe, but it asks for a definite answer, so
the one-miss foreground tolerance must not swallow it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first tolerated foreground probe timeout ended the probe without a
second attempt, so a session whose transport kept answering pings but
whose app RPC stalled stayed connected until the user refocused. The
first miss now starts one follow-up probe with the same deadline; its
answer keeps the lease and its miss replaces the session.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at f382f90

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Foreground health checks now retry once before replacing a slow session. The effect is a bounded additional recovery wait, while disconnect and credential-change handling remain intact.

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The supervisor now gives an application-active health probe one follow-up after a timeout. A further timeout follows the existing failure path. A non-foreground probe signal during probing disables this tolerance. New tests cover these cases.

Changes: Foreground Probe Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Foreground probe timeout policy
packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts
The supervisor identifies application-active probes and allows one timeout before failure handling. It starts a follow-up probe with a fresh deadline after the first timeout. A non-foreground probe signal during probing disables the allowance.
Probe timeout behavior tests
packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.test.ts
Tests cover a successful follow-up that keeps the session, two timeouts that replace it, and an explicit retry during a stalled foreground probe that leads to replacement.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · previous review f382f

An offline report can leave a stalled foreground session connected for one extra probe interval. This is a bounded edge case, but the offline recovery behavior should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check Warning The current head adds connection changes beyond #7231. In supervisor.ts, targetNetwork changes primary offline handling, waitForEstablishmentInterrupt changes offline and resume recovery, `await… Remove these unrelated network, silent-socket, route-backoff, and mobile-resume changes and their tests, or move them to a separate pull request. Keep the one-foreground-timeout follow-up logic and its focused tests in this pull request.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving live sessions when foreground probes are slow.
Description check Passed The description includes all required sections, explains the problem and fix, links the issue, and provides detailed verification results. It also clearly documents incomplete recording coverage and u…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #7231 requires the client to keep a live session after one slow foreground health probe. The reviewed head retains the isForegroundProbe path in `packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervi…
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Issue #7231 requires the client to keep a live session after one slow foreground health probe. The reviewed head retains the isForegroundProbe path in packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts and the automatic follow-up behavior. The follow-up uses the probe deadline, while a second timeout uses the existing replacement path. The focused supervisor tests cover live-session retention and bounded replacement. The issue does not require backend changes. Related issues provide background only.

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The current head adds connection changes beyond #7231. In supervisor.ts, targetNetwork changes primary offline handling, waitForEstablishmentInterrupt changes offline and resume recovery, awaitSilentSocket adds host and inbound-frame replacement checks, and silent-route backoff changes better-route selection. The tests also change long mobile resume behavior from replacement to session retention. These changes alter network and native resume rules that the PR states are unchanged. They are not required to tolerate one slow foreground probe.

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Remove these unrelated network, silent-socket, route-backoff, and mobile-resume changes and their tests, or move them to a separate pull request. Keep the one-foreground-timeout follow-up logic and its focused tests in this pull request.

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if (signalTimeout !== undefined) {
// A retry or network signal wants a definite answer, even when its
// own deadline lands after the foreground one.
if (!isForegroundProbe(probeEvent.signal)) toleratesMiss = false;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Clear tolerated misses for every NetworkChanged signal.

While a foreground probe is stalled, an unknown → online signal can arrive. probeTimeoutFor returns undefined for that signal, so the current branch does not clear toleratesMiss. The first timeout can therefore start a follow-up probe.

Handle NetworkChanged before checking signalTimeout, while preserving the existing rule for other timed signals.

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--- "a/packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts"
+++ "b/packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts"
@@ -667,12 +667,17 @@
           yield* Fiber.interrupt(probe);
           return endDuringProbe === "reset";
         }
         const signalTimeout = probeTimeoutFor(probeEvent.signal);
+        if (
+          probeEvent.signal._tag === "NetworkChanged" ||
+          (signalTimeout !== undefined && !isForegroundProbe(probeEvent.signal))
+        ) {
+          toleratesMiss = false;
+        }
         if (signalTimeout !== undefined) {
           // A retry or network signal wants a definite answer, even when its
           // own deadline lands after the foreground one.
-          if (!isForegroundProbe(probeEvent.signal)) toleratesMiss = false;
           const signalDeadline =
             (yield* Clock.monotonicTimeNanos) + Duration.toNanosUnsafe(signalTimeout);
           if (signalDeadline < deadline) deadline = signalDeadline;
         }
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Update the probe-event handling around `probeTimeoutFor` so every
`NetworkChanged` signal clears `toleratesMiss`, even when it has no timeout.
Preserve the existing rule that other timed signals clear it when they are not
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CodeRabbit network-status finding: these signals intentionally differ. NetworkChanged with online or unknown does not request a health probe, matching the existing probeTimeoutFor policy. Offline reports and actual network-path changes (Wakeup("network-changed")) request strict probes and already remove the foreground allowance. Clearing it for a positive or unknown connectivity report would reintroduce premature teardown of a slow foreground probe. The automatic follow-up still bounds recovery. Verified against the pinned supervisor, signal producers, and existing route tests; no change needed.

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- Around line 778-782: Update the foreground probe policy in the supervisor flow
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ensuring the probe policy applies strict offline recovery rather than starting a
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Comment on lines +778 to +782
let probe = yield* Effect.forkChild(lease.session.probe);
// A busy server can miss one foreground probe while the socket is still
// healthy, so the first miss asks again and only the follow-up's miss
// replaces the session.
let toleratesMiss = isForegroundProbe(next);

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

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Preserve offline reports for the probe policy

If a primary target is already projected as unknown, an offline report during a foreground probe is suppressed. An unanswered probe can then start the follow-up instead of using strict offline recovery, delaying replacement by up to another 15 seconds.

Forward the offline report to the probe policy even when the primary projection is unchanged, while keeping the primary target exempt from the offline gate.

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Review comment at @packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts around lines 778 - 782:
Update the foreground probe policy in the supervisor flow so offline reports are forwarded even when the primary target is already projected as unknown; keep the primary target exempt from the offline gate while ensuring the probe policy applies strict offline recovery rather than starting a follow-up probe.

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Evidence

Web, Chromium, 1280×800, light theme; fresh synthetic project and replay thread on each commit. Trigger one foreground visibility event, suppress only its first server.probe response, and leave other WebSocket traffic flowing. Observe at 20 seconds; then suppress both responses for another foreground event and observe recovery after 35 seconds. The overlay reports observed transport events.

Proven: the scenario fails on base and passes on head.

Before — b5256ad09c After — cce32aa958
Result Retention assertion failed: original socket replaced after one miss Passed: follow-up answered on original socket; two misses still caused replacement
One missed deadline Before: socket replaced After: original socket retained
Two missed deadlines Before: recovery After: recovery after both responses missed
Recording Watch before Watch after

Scenario source

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

  • Definite probe failure was not injected; this reproduction exercised unanswered-response deadlines.
  • Desktop and mobile clients were not run; evidence covers the web client.
  • Natural intermittent backend overload and sustained streaming were not reproduced; the controlled response suppression exercised the specified connection failure deterministically.

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