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Problem

A web or desktop message sent as its socket closes loses its optimistic row and returns to the composer. If the server already accepted it, resending from the composer allocates a different command ID and can duplicate the message. Reproduced on current main by dropping an existing thread's first message.dispatch frame.

Change

Keep the in-flight message dispatch pending across socket loss, then resend the identical command on the replacement session. The existing server command receipt deduplicates a lost acknowledgment. Retry only message dispatches, with at most two resends; terminal rejections and exhausted retries retain draft restoration. No persisted outbox or wire contract changes.

Scope and approval

Fixes #24659

GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/24659

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. Scope is an existing thread's in-flight message dispatch; already-offline sends, initial bootstrap launches, and guest-message resolution are unchanged.

Verification

• Red regression test on base c79ef8c454: expected two dispatches with the same command ID, received one. Other 14 tests passed.
• Head 27039417731e85cc54026b1b960df4e9a08e0ad4: vp test run src/operations/commands.test.ts passes 16/16, including retry and three-attempt limit. Package typecheck, targeted lint, and formatting passed.
• Real Chromium/Linux app, isolated dev server, Codex provider: pre-delivery loss retries twice total with identical payload; lost acknowledgment produces two wire attempts and exactly one durable message, completed run, provider attempt, and accepted receipt. Third-attempt success, exhausted retries, and typed business rejection were also exercised.
• Evidence index, recordings, wire/DB logs, and uploaded drivers. Fixture matrix: Pass 2 accepts core rows 3–6; rows 1, 2, 7 and 9 are partial, and rows 8 and 10–16 are unverified.

Before — c79ef8c454	After — 2703941773	Diff0 ×8	Diff threshold 16
Lost dispatch recording	Recovered dispatch recording	Amplified difference	Threshold difference

Lost acknowledgment recording. Steps, timing, exact IDs, and database counts are in the index and per-row logs. Head captures cover CSS 1440×900 and 390×844, light/dark; desktop PNG output was 1280×800 despite the requested CSS viewport, narrow output DPR 2. These compare behavior, not CSS: draft versus submitted bubble/reply, timeline history/scroll, timestamps, branch labels, diff summaries, and sidebar recency differ. No rendering code changed. Later stale-Vite baseline attempts were excluded; the first baseline lacks a served-module hash.

Unverified: steer/restart, Resume, compaction, plan implementation, app-origin send and cancellation fiber; native mobile, Electron/macOS, and remote/relay/T3 Connect. No claim of complete matrix coverage. A never-reconnecting environment leaves the command pending until interruption; no new Cancel control is added. CI, bot findings, and proof completion remain gates before applying bugfix.

Proof audit pass 2 returned INSUFFICIENT: retake the baseline with served-source provenance and the pre-delivery head recordings through settled controls; add timestamped scenario/SHA annotations to silent recordings. Attachment-bearing retry/no-reupload, cancellation and specialized callers remain unproved. The independent auditor reproduced stable-ID recovery and one persisted message/run/provider attempt: trace.

Implemented by Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude harness; led and reviewed by GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Message sends now automatically wait for reconnect and retry with the same command ID, while the mobile outbox opts out. This changes default delivery behavior, and an unresolved review concern identifies sends potentially waiting indefinitely on non-socket RPC failures.

No code changes detected at 9c3c92b. Prior analysis still applies.

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[GPT-6.1-sol][Codex] on behalf of shivam.

Handoff from #24722. I reproduced the lost-acknowledgement path in the macOS desktop app at baseline 8f26ed7e27: forward the send, suppress its acknowledgement and close the socket. The optimistic message disappears and its draft returns; resync reveals the accepted message alongside the duplicate draft. This injects socket loss and does not establish the original server-load/T3 Connect cause.

On shiv, macOS 27.0.1 arm64, Electron 44.9.3, I tested our isolated desktop development build at 2c7b767339 with synthetic messages and PNG uploads:

• Lost acknowledgements for a new-thread launch and an existing-thread follow-up recover to one message each, with an empty composer. Switching away and back while waiting preserves the image preview.
• Withhold a queued send before delivery, type a newer draft, then Cancel. The queue entry disappears and the original text/image return alongside the newer typing. This went through the real composer hook.

Recordings: baseline failure, launch/follow-up recovery, queued cancellation.

Our final 03fc6a26f0 differs from that native build only in browser-test cleanup. vp run check:changed passed with 172 tests in 10 files, 33 package typechecks, format, lint and knip. Boat job j_sevw6s7wrdiwpmsqpbxf, stage changed-checks, machine default, sandbox bx_7n42pjzc, attempt 1, exit 0; artifacts out/check-changed.log and out/result.json. GitHub required checks also passed on that commit.

Useful regression cases from review: synchronous observer cleanup, acknowledgement before projection after navigation, retained attachment overflow, restoration after draft promotion, terminal-context ID deduplication, deleted-launch IDs, and cancellation of uncertain queued sends. Thread creation and first-message acceptance are separate writes; shell presence alone cannot prove message delivery.

Unverified: your #24761 build, Windows/mobile runtime, plan-follow-up UI, native overflow/context restoration, and the original Connect/load incident. All our test apps, servers and temporary files were cleaned up. Stopping work here; testing is yours.

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Walkthrough

Message dispatch can retry eligible transport failures after supervisor recovery, using the same command ID and allowing up to two resends. Callers can disable retries. Both start-turn dispatch paths use the helper, and mobile outbox requests disable automatic retries.

Changes: Message dispatch retry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retry after session change packages/client-runtime/src/operations/commands.ts	StartThreadTurnInput adds resendAfterSocketLoss, which defaults to true. dispatchMessage retries interruption-only causes or causes containing an RPC client error, up to two resends. It returns the original failure for other causes or when supervisor state becomes available or blocked without a replacement session.
Dispatch integration and caller behavior packages/client-runtime/src/operations/commands.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/operations/commands.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/threadOutboxDelivery.ts	Both startThreadTurn dispatch paths use dispatchMessage. The start payload includes manualContinuationOfRunId. Mobile outbox requests set resendAfterSocketLoss to false. Tests cover successful retry, retry exhaustion, and opted-in versus opted-out behavior.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant startThreadTurn
  participant dispatchMessage
  participant RPC dispatch
  participant EnvironmentSupervisor
  startThreadTurn->>dispatchMessage: Dispatch with commandId and retry option
  dispatchMessage->>RPC dispatch: Send command
  RPC dispatch-->>dispatchMessage: Return eligible failure
  dispatchMessage->>EnvironmentSupervisor: Wait for replacement session
  EnvironmentSupervisor-->>dispatchMessage: Provide available session
  dispatchMessage->>RPC dispatch: Retry with the same commandId

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Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: Mobile: first message of a new thread reappears in the composer after a lost launch reply (network drop) #32313: The issue describes related lost-acknowledgment behavior, but notes that the mobile new-thread path is not implemented by this pull request.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24419: Both changes affect message-dispatch failure handling. The retry path must preserve the timeout and terminal-failure behavior from that PR.
• pingdotgg/t3code#29116: This change waits for supervisor recovery and a replacement RPC session, which are affected by the connection-state behavior in that PR.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, shivamhwp

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review f09f2

Message retry after socket loss works for the main case. A non-socket client error can leave a send pending with no draft restoration. A replacement session that drops before the resend can fail the send early. Resolve or accept these before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Issue #24659 requires reconciliation after reconnect and resync. If the resynced thread already contains the pending messageId, the client must remove the pending send without another dispatch. The …	Add resync reconciliation for pending message dispatches. Remove a pending entry when the target thread contains its messageId, and do not resend that command. Add an automated test for this case.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: retrying messages after socket loss with the same command ID. It uses a suitable conventional commit format.
Description check		The description includes all required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It explains the behavior, links the related issue, documents testing results and limitations, and…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain connected to issue #24659. commands.ts adds bounded same-commandId retry handling for message.dispatch; the tests verify transport-loss behavior; and mobile callers opt out be…

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The changes remain connected to issue #24659. commands.ts adds bounded same-commandId retry handling for message.dispatch; the tests verify transport-loss behavior; and mobile callers opt out because they have a separate outbox. No unrelated product area, persisted web or desktop outbox, or wire-contract change is shown.

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Issue #24659 requires reconciliation after reconnect and resync. If the resynced thread already contains the pending messageId, the client must remove the pending send without another dispatch. The current dispatchMessage implementation retries the same commandId after a replacement session, but it does not inspect resynced thread state or match messageId. The new tests cover same-ID retries, retry limits, interruption, and opt-out behavior, but they do not cover message-present reconciliation.

Resolution

Add resync reconciliation for pending message dispatches. Remove a pending entry when the target thread contains its messageId, and do not resend that command. Add an automated test for this case.

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Retry only errors that indicate socket loss.

isRpcClientError also accepts RpcClientDefect, which can represent a decoding or protocol failure while the session remains connected. In that case, this helper waits for a different session indefinitely instead of returning the terminal error and restoring the draft. Classify result.failure.reason before waiting. The tests use RpcClientDefect to simulate a socket close, so they do not exercise a socket-specific classification. (effect.website)

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Keep waiting when the replacement session closes before the resend.

After Stream.runHead returns session B, dispatchMessage reads the session again. If B has closed by then, that read returns None. The resend then calls dispatch(command). requestGuarded reads the session at call time and fails with EnvironmentRpcUnavailableError. That error is not an RpcClientError, so the helper returns it immediately. The send fails and the draft is restored, even though no resend was sent and a later session could reconnect.

Allow the wait to continue when the failure happens on a resend. Keep the first attempt unchanged, so an already-offline send still fails at once. A resend that finds no session uses one of the two resends.

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-import { getInitialServerConfig, isRpcClientError, request } from "../rpc/client.ts";
+import {
+  EnvironmentRpcUnavailableError,
+  getInitialServerConfig,
+  isRpcClientError,
+  request,
+} from "../rpc/client.ts";

-    if (!isRpcClientError(result.failure) || resends >= MAX_LOST_TRANSPORT_RESENDS) {
+    const lostBeforeResend =
+      resends > 0 && result.failure instanceof EnvironmentRpcUnavailableError;
+    if (
+      (!isRpcClientError(result.failure) && !lostBeforeResend) ||
+      resends >= MAX_LOST_TRANSPORT_RESENDS
+    ) {
       return yield* result.failure;
     }

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Evidence

Real web client, Chromium, 1280×800, light theme; identical synthetic history on fresh isolated servers.

1. Send in an existing thread; discard its dispatch and close the WebSocket.
2. Reconnect automatically and capture recovery.
3. Send again; forward dispatch, suppress its acknowledgment, and close the socket.
4. Reconnect, capture, then reload to verify persistence.

Proven: base restores resendable drafts; head retries with the original command IDs and persists exactly one message per send.

	Before	After
Commit	3a8c250cb0	8ce300064f
Dropped dispatch
Lost acknowledgment
After reload
Recording	Before interaction	After interaction

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• Desktop and mobile clients were not exercised; this proof covers the real web client.
• Fault injection used the browser WebSocket boundary rather than an external proxy.
• Repeated reconnect exhaustion and callers opting out of automatic retry were outside this reproduction.

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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

someone else pushed to fix/issue-24659 (head is now f09f28d); the pipeline does not build on commits it did not review

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