[juliusmarminge]

Problem

When the agents slice is throttled for memory, every agent freezes and nothing in T3 says why. Turns just keep saying Working.

Fix

• Server (HostResources) reads memory pressure:
  • Linux: PSI /proc/pressure/memory for the host, plus the agents slice's memory.pressure, located through the new AgentScope.controlGroups.
  • macOS: kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level, read by the already-running native resource monitor through sysctlbyname. Sampling never spawns a process: under memory pressure a new process may fail to start, which is exactly when the reading matters. The sidecar answers a new memoryPressure command; releases build and bundle it from the same commit as the server.
• Derived level none / elevated / severe, with hysteresis: a level is entered above its threshold and left only well below it, so it does not flicker.
  • Elevated: host full ≥ 2 %, host some ≥ 10 %, or agents full ≥ 5 %.
  • Severe: host full ≥ 10 %, agents full ≥ 20 %, or macOS critical.
  • The agents slice gets looser thresholds because the kernel throttles it first.
• Heaviest agents. While pressure is not none, the top three agent scopes by memory.current are included with their thread (shared processes appear as e.g. codex (shared)). Sizes are rounded to about 1/8 of their magnitude so normal growth doesn't push an update every sample.
• Transport.
  • HostResourcesSnapshot gains an optional memoryPressure.
  • Clients that opt in with memoryPressure: true (capability memoryPressure) get memoryPressureUpdated on the config stream, mirroring how usageLimitSources was added so older clients never see an unknown event type.
  • Sampling is a Stream.shared 5 s poll that runs only while someone listens, and emits only on change.
  • The payload carries only the level and the heaviest agents; raw stall percentages changed every sample and no client read them. A none update that changes nothing leaves the client's config untouched, so nothing re-renders.
  • When no source can be read for 30 s (for example a dead sidecar), the level falls back to none, so a warning cannot outlive the pressure.
  • Pressure is never cached and is carried across reconnect snapshots.
  • No protocol version bump is needed: the field is optional and the event is opt-in.
• Web. A warning pill in the sidebar footer, "Low on memory", appears only while severe. Its popover names the heaviest agents with links to their threads and Force stop from the previous layer.
• Mobile. The same as a banner at the top of the thread list, with a confirmation before Force stop.

Verification

• Tests:
  • PSI parsing and a hysteresis table, including the incident's throttled-agents reading and macOS critical.
  • Agent memory rounding (regression: a 28 MB agent used to round to 0 and vanish from the list).
  • AgentScope.controlGroups maps scopes to threads in the fake-systemd harness.
  • The config projection carries pressure across a reconnect snapshot, drops it once pressure ends, and ignores a none update when nothing is stored.
  • On macOS a sidecar that stops answering clears a severe level after 30 s.
  • On macOS, HostResources takes the level from the sidecar; the test's spawner fails if sampling spawns anything (it did before).
  • The sidecar's Rust tests ran on macOS (macmini), where memoryPressure returned level 1 from the real syscall, and on Linux, where it returns null.
• vp run check:changed passes for the stack.
• Runtime on Linux: Force stop from the list killed exactly the chosen agent and left the other two running.

Evidence (web)

No load was generated on nucbox-1. For the capture only, an uncommitted two-line patch pointed the PSI reads at a fixture file holding severe readings (host full avg10=6.4, agents full avg10=84.7). The agents, their scopes and memory.current, the stream, and the UI are all real.

Before (main): nothing tells the user agents are starved	After: sidebar warning naming the heaviest agents, with Force stop

Limits

• The mobile banner is not captured; Metro on nucbox-1 was ruled out while it hosts the live server.
• Heaviest agents need systemd scopes, so on macOS and Windows only the level shows.
• Real pressure behavior is verified on the separate VM.

Model: Claude Opus 5.5, harness: Claude Code (in T3 Code).

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Adds memory-pressure warnings and agent memory rankings, with permission-gated force-stop controls. Web and mobile enable this experience automatically; the default-on rollout needs human confirmation.

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Walkthrough

The server samples Linux and macOS memory pressure and streams updates to opted-in clients. Client state retains and projects those updates. The web and mobile interfaces display severe-pressure warnings with agent memory details and conditional thread and force-stop actions.

Changes: Memory-pressure reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pressure contracts and agent-scope shape packages/contracts/src/*, packages/shared/src/AgentScope.ts	Contracts define pressure levels, agent memory details, subscription options, and update events. AgentScope exposes control-group information for agent scopes.
Agent control-group discovery apps/server/src/process/agentScope.ts, apps/server/src/process/agentScope.test.ts	AgentScope reads matching systemd scope directories and associates tracked thread IDs. Tests cover unavailable data and owned agent and shared scopes.
Host pressure sampling and classification apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/HostResources.ts, apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/HostResources.test.ts, apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/NativeTelemetryClient.ts, native/resource-monitor/src/main.rs, apps/server/src/server.ts	HostResources samples Linux PSI or macOS pressure, classifies pressure levels, and reports up to three high-memory agents when pressure is active. The native monitor supplies macOS pressure readings. Tests cover parsing, rounding, classification, and sidecar sampling.
Subscription, replay, and client projection apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/session.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/session.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/serverConfigProjection.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/serverConfigProjection.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/connection/runtime.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/server.ts, apps/web/src/connection/runtime.ts, apps/web/src/state/server.ts	The server advertises the capability and streams updates to opted-in subscribers. Client sessions retain pressure events for replay, and config projections preserve pressure across capable snapshots and clear it when the level is none. Mobile and web connections enable the subscription.
Web and mobile pressure warnings apps/mobile/src/features/home/HomeScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/home/MemoryPressureBanner.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarChrome.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarMemoryPressureWarning.tsx	The mobile home header and web sidebar display warnings for severe pressure. Agent rows show memory use and provide thread links and conditional force-stop actions.

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HostResources
  participant ServerConfigSubscription
  participant RpcSession
  participant ServerConfigProjection
  participant PressureWarnings
  HostResources->>ServerConfigSubscription: Provide sampled pressure
  ServerConfigSubscription-->>RpcSession: Send updates when the client opts in
  RpcSession->>ServerConfigProjection: Retain and project pressure events
  ServerConfigProjection-->>PressureWarnings: Update client configuration

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#26004: This PR detects and reports Linux memory pressure, but does not add MemoryLow protection or change slice limits.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24048: This PR adds macOS memory-pressure detection and displays the pressure level, but does not add macOS agent memory limits.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#27254: Both PRs extend the live server-config stream and replay state, and their projection changes must coexist.
• pingdotgg/t3code#27176: Both PRs use the agent cgroup hierarchy for Linux resource-pressure behavior.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24266: Both PRs update cache handling for transient server-config fields.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 8f206

The largest agent may be omitted from the memory warning when usage values round equally. The change is otherwise mergeable with this limitation understood.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Description check		The description follows the required template: it has Problem, Fix (Change), Verification, and Limits sections, and it states the problem, the approach, and the test results. Scope and approval is mis…	Add a "Scope and approval" section. Link the triaged bug issue or the discussion with explicit maintainer approval of this direction, including the approval comment. The PR adds a new feature (memory-pressure reporting and warnings for web …

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: client warnings for host memory pressure and high-memory agents.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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The description follows the required template: it has Problem, Fix (Change), Verification, and Limits sections, and it states the problem, the approach, and the test results. Scope and approval is missing. The description does not link a triaged issue or a maintainer-approved discussion, and it does not explain why the change qualifies for an exemption. The PR adds a new capability, so the template requires that approval. Verification is detailed and includes test names, a macOS sidecar run, a Linux runtime check, and before/after screenshots. The mobile banner was not captured, and the author states this. The description also omits a conventional commit title, which the template requests in its header comment.

Resolution

Add a "Scope and approval" section. Link the triaged bug issue or the discussion with explicit maintainer approval of this direction, including the approval comment. The PR adds a new feature (memory-pressure reporting and warnings for web and mobile), so a simple exemption does not apply. Consider adding a conventional commit title in plain language, such as "feat(server): show when the host is short on memory". If you want the mobile banner covered by evidence, add a screenshot or state the gap clearly again in Verification.

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Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−29 B (−0.6%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	−29 B (−2.3%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.6 KiB	21.5 KiB	−41 B (−0.2%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	1	−1 (−50.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.3 KiB	1.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: eca102b · PR result: 906b4c4 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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[juliusmarminge]

@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff Minor at packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.ts:433-438 (exclude memoryPressure from the persisted config cache): valid, fixed in 165f230. persist now strips memoryPressure with the other live-only fields, so pressure changes no longer write to the cache. The existing "shows a reported stall but never caches it" test now puts pressure in the live snapshot and asserts the saved config omits it; it failed before the change. #27254 (6611a2c) strips quietRuns the same way, with the same assertion.

The inline serverConfigProjection.ts finding from that review was fixed earlier in 7586be0 (the thread is resolved).

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@juliusmarminge Confirmed by source inspection: persist removes memoryPressure before cache comparison and saving. Pressure-only changes therefore do not cause cache writes.

The updated test includes pressure in the live snapshot and asserts that the saved config omits it. This addresses the outside-diff finding. I did not run the test.

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Timestamp: 2026-10-30T01:38:47.978Z
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• apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/HostResources.ts:9,22: import the AgentScope and NativeTelemetryClient service modules as namespaces and acquire their qualified service tags.
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Adversarial review follow-up (c2ee4be):

• Dropped hostStallPercent/agentsStallPercent from the payload. They changed almost every 5 s sample and no client read them, so every client re-rendered on every sample. A none update with nothing stored now leaves client config identity alone.
• The level now falls back to none after 30 s with no readable source (a dead macOS sidecar), instead of keeping severe indefinitely.
• Rebased on main now that fix(server): Stop always completes, and an agent that ignores it can be force stopped #27252 has merged. Its restart-path follow-up is a separate PR: #27800.

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A measured case of the problem this PR describes, from a Debian 13 LXC host (22 GiB RAM, t3 0.1.6, t3 service protect applied). Up to 21 Claude scopes ran at once. The agents slice sat between MemoryHigh and MemoryMax with swap full: memory.events high 136849540, oom_kill 0, about 4.9 h of full memory stall in ~20 h. The server itself saw 0.14 s. Every agent froze and nothing in T3 said why.

I proposed a follow-up on #23718 that uses this PR's pressure level: hold agent-started runs as queued while the agents slice is under pressure, and admit them one at a time once it clears. Feedback on the scope there would be welcome.

Written by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code on behalf of @OmarAlex24.

[jappyjan]

This would be useful. It's the visibility half of a problem several people have hit: too many parallel threads or runs overloading one host (#27530, #32205).

Would you be open to a follow-up that uses the same signal to prevent overload, not only report it?

• A per-environment cap on how many turns run at once (off by default). Turns over the cap wait in the existing run queue and show as "Queued", not "Working".
• Optionally, new turns also wait while pressure is severe, so a host that is already thrashing isn't pushed further.

That covers composer threads, scheduled tasks and delegate_task children with one rule on the server, rather than a prompt-level semaphore like the one in #27530. I'm prototyping it on top of this PR in my fork and can share it as a proposal if the direction sounds right.