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fix(server): queued messages keep starting after a failed startup read - #24469
When the server starts, the V2 orchestrator subscribes to run.updated, provider-thread.updated and subagent.updated events once. Those subscriptions drive queue promotion and delegated-child finalization. Subscribing reads the event table: the high-water sequence first, then a replay of anything written since startup. If that read fails with any SQL error, the stream fails. The subscription fiber then ends, and nothing restarts it.
After that, for the life of the process:
a message queued behind a running turn never starts when the turn ends;
a delegated child whose run ends never delivers its result to the parent;
no log entry explains the stall, because the only trace is the lost fiber.
Restarting the server fixes it until the next failed read.
Change
Each of the three subscriptions now resubscribes after a failed read. It resumes after the last event it received, so nothing is skipped or handled twice. Retries back off exponentially from 1 second, capped at 30 seconds, the same schedule ProviderSessionManager uses for its release retries. The backoff resets once events flow again. Each failure logs a warning naming the event type and the sequence it resumes from.
After the replay the live part reads from an in-memory PubSub and cannot fail, so in practice only the startup read is retried.
Alternatives I rejected:
Stream.retry around the original stream restarts from the startup sequence and replays events that were already handled.
Retrying inside EventSinkV2.stream would change every subscriber. CommandOutputHub deliberately ends its stream with an error when the subscription fails.
The test harness gets an eventSink option on layerWithRegistry so a test can wrap the event sink the orchestrator uses.
Scope and approval
There is no issue for this. It is a focused fix of an obvious failure mode: a server-lifetime reactor that dies on its first failed read. It touches the two subscription sites in Orchestrator.ts, one test-harness option and one new test file. Nothing changes on screen in normal operation, and no UI path can trigger a failed startup read, so there are no screenshots. The test below is the evidence.
Verification
New test Orchestrator.reactors.test.ts: the wrapped event sink fails the orchestrator's first run.updated subscription with a database is locked error. The test then queues a message behind a running one and writes the active run's completion while no reactor is subscribed. It advances the test clock past the first retry and waits for the queued run to leave queued.
vp test run src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.reactors.test.ts with main's Orchestrator.ts: fails. The queued run never starts, so the test hits the 120 second ceiling.
The same command on this branch passes in about 0.2 seconds. Five repeated runs all pass.
With a temporary, uncommitted edit that writes the test's Effect log to a file: one Resubscribing to V2 events after a failed read warning for run.updated at sequence 0. The committed test prints no log.
vp test run on DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts, SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts, ThreadStop.test.ts, BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.ts and Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts: 102 tests pass.
vp run check:changed main: format, lint, knip, typecheck and tests pass.
Runtime transcript. I ran the real V2 orchestrator layers on the replay harness's SQLite database, with synthetic data and logging on the wall clock. The fixture fails the first run.updated subscription read once.
On this branch:
11:01:37.458Z [fixture] failing the run.updated subscription read once
11:01:37.489Z WARN Resubscribing to V2 events after a failed read {"eventType":"run.updated","afterSequence":0,"cause":EventSinkStreamError: Failed to stream orchestration V2 events. (cause: "database is locked")}
11:01:37.522Z INFO queued run waiting {"status":"queued"}
11:01:37.523Z INFO writing the active run's completion
11:01:38.505Z INFO queued run after completion {"status":"starting"}
With main's Orchestrator.ts:
11:01:10.813Z [fixture] failing the run.updated subscription read once
11:01:10.860Z INFO queued run waiting {"status":"queued"}
11:01:10.860Z INFO writing the active run's completion
11:01:20.868Z WARN queued run did not leave queued within 10 seconds of the completion
11:01:20.870Z INFO queued run after completion {"status":"queued"}
The new test on main's orchestrator times out because the queued run never starts.
On this branch the test passes.
Not checked:
Which real SQL errors reach this read on a running server. In WAL mode a long write does not block it, so the likely triggers are I/O errors or SQLITE_BUSY during another connection's WAL recovery. The test injects the failure at the event sink.
The provider-thread.updated and subagent.updated subscriptions under failure. They use the same helper; the test covers run.updated.
A failure after events were already handled. The test fails the first run.updated subscription, when the resume cursor is still at the startup sequence.
Desktop and mobile clients. The change is server-only.
Prior PRs
No earlier PR makes this fix. #24400 by juliusmarminge does the same thing on the client: durable subscriptions resubscribe with exponential backoff capped at 30 seconds.
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The orchestrator's startup reactors subscribe to run, provider-thread and
subagent updates once and fork the stream detached. Subscribing reads the
event table, so a failed read there ended the reactor for the life of the
server: queued messages stopped promoting and delegated children stopped
finalizing until a restart. Each reactor now resubscribes with a capped
backoff, resuming after the last event it received.
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused server bug fix that makes existing event reactors retry failed startup reads and resume from their last event, restoring queued-run promotion and delegated completion handling. Normal event processing, APIs, schemas, and product defaults remain unchanged, with regression coverage added.
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Orchestrator reactors now retry failed event-stream reads from their last received sequence, with exponential delays capped at 30 seconds. The replay harness can transform the event sink, and a regression test checks queued-run promotion after a failed subscription.
Run-update, provider-thread, and subagent reactors now resume after the last received sequence. They log read failures and retry with exponential delays capped at 30 seconds.
Replay harness and regression test apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderReplayHarness.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.reactors.test.ts
The harness accepts an optional event-sink transformation. A regression test fails the first run-update subscription and verifies that replay promotes the queued run.
The subscription recovery works as intended on the inspected path. A test for failures after events would strengthen protection, but this gap does not block merging.
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Main renamed the reactor forks to forkScoped and reworded the run-update
comment. The resubscribing reactorEvents helper keeps both changes. The test
harness keeps the eventSink option beside main's managedPolicy option and
layerRuntime.
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I merged main into this branch in 9584e1f to clear the conflict in Orchestrator.ts and the replay test harness. Nothing was dropped, because main still has no retry on these startup subscriptions. The fix now wraps the reactors exactly where main's orchestrator starts them, and it keeps main's forkScoped and its comment wording. The new test still times out with main's Orchestrator.ts and passes on this head. I added a short runtime transcript to the description.
Extend the reactor test with repeated failures, an emitted event, and another failure. Assert that the next retry occurs after one second. This will catch a regression that retains the earlier backoff.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts around lines
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Extend the reactor test for reactorEvents to simulate repeated stream failures,
a successfully emitted event, and a subsequent failure; assert that the next
retry occurs after one second, confirming the backoff resets after the event.
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- Around line 14316-14339: Extend the reactor test for reactorEvents to simulate
repeated stream failures, a successfully emitted event, and a subsequent
failure; assert that the next retry occurs after one second, confirming the
backoff resets after the event.
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On the nitpick to test that the backoff resets after an event: I'm leaving this as is. This PR adds no reset logic. reactorEvents passes the schedule to Stream.retry, and Effect's Stream.retry resets its schedule as soon as an element passes through the stream again. That is documented behavior: in 4.1.2, Channel.retry clears the schedule step on the first element. A test for it would check Effect rather than this change. The PR's own test, "promotes the queue after the run-update subscription fails to start", covers what this PR adds: the reactor resubscribes after a failed read and the queue still starts.
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Problem
When the server starts, the V2 orchestrator subscribes to
run.updated,provider-thread.updatedandsubagent.updatedevents once. Those subscriptions drive queue promotion and delegated-child finalization. Subscribing reads the event table: the high-water sequence first, then a replay of anything written since startup. If that read fails with any SQL error, the stream fails. The subscription fiber then ends, and nothing restarts it.After that, for the life of the process:
Restarting the server fixes it until the next failed read.
Change
Each of the three subscriptions now resubscribes after a failed read. It resumes after the last event it received, so nothing is skipped or handled twice. Retries back off exponentially from 1 second, capped at 30 seconds, the same schedule
ProviderSessionManageruses for its release retries. The backoff resets once events flow again. Each failure logs a warning naming the event type and the sequence it resumes from.After the replay the live part reads from an in-memory PubSub and cannot fail, so in practice only the startup read is retried.
Alternatives I rejected:
Stream.retryaround the original stream restarts from the startup sequence and replays events that were already handled.EventSinkV2.streamwould change every subscriber.CommandOutputHubdeliberately ends its stream with an error when the subscription fails.The test harness gets an
eventSinkoption onlayerWithRegistryso a test can wrap the event sink the orchestrator uses.Scope and approval
There is no issue for this. It is a focused fix of an obvious failure mode: a server-lifetime reactor that dies on its first failed read. It touches the two subscription sites in
Orchestrator.ts, one test-harness option and one new test file. Nothing changes on screen in normal operation, and no UI path can trigger a failed startup read, so there are no screenshots. The test below is the evidence.Verification
New test
Orchestrator.reactors.test.ts: the wrapped event sink fails the orchestrator's firstrun.updatedsubscription with adatabase is lockederror. The test then queues a message behind a running one and writes the active run's completion while no reactor is subscribed. It advances the test clock past the first retry and waits for the queued run to leavequeued.vp test run src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.reactors.test.tswithmain'sOrchestrator.ts: fails. The queued run never starts, so the test hits the 120 second ceiling.Resubscribing to V2 events after a failed readwarning forrun.updatedat sequence 0. The committed test prints no log.vp test runonDelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts,SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts,ThreadStop.test.ts,BackgroundWorkStop.integration.test.tsandOrchestrator.control-reads.test.ts: 102 tests pass.vp run check:changed main: format, lint, knip, typecheck and tests pass.Runtime transcript. I ran the real V2 orchestrator layers on the replay harness's SQLite database, with synthetic data and logging on the wall clock. The fixture fails the first
run.updatedsubscription read once.On this branch:
With
main'sOrchestrator.ts:The new test on
main's orchestrator times out because the queued run never starts.On this branch the test passes.
Not checked:
SQLITE_BUSYduring another connection's WAL recovery. The test injects the failure at the event sink.provider-thread.updatedandsubagent.updatedsubscriptions under failure. They use the same helper; the test coversrun.updated.run.updatedsubscription, when the resume cursor is still at the startup sequence.Prior PRs
No earlier PR makes this fix. #24400 by juliusmarminge does the same thing on the client: durable subscriptions resubscribe with exponential backoff capped at 30 seconds.
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