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Problem

Visit times that the web app stored locally, before servers tracked visits, are meant to be sent to the server once for each thread whose server watermark is still unset. On a reload, the cached thread list loads before the WebSocket connects. The migration sends right away, the send fails because the environment is not connected yet, and the thread is marked done anyway. No send reaches the server for the rest of the session.

Until the watermark is set, an unseen completion has no indicator, and a failed run the user already saw is still marked unseen, for example the Failed pill in Recent Threads.

Change

startThreadVisitedMigration now acts only on environments in the existing liveShellEnvironmentIdsAtom, so it reads the server's current watermark rather than a cached one. Sends are tracked per environment and forgotten when the environment leaves the live set, so its threads are sent again once it is live, even if disabling it removed them from the thread list in between. It subscribes to the live set as well as the shell list, because an unchanged snapshot after reconnecting does not emit a new shell list. Once the server records a visit, the existing lastVisitedAt !== null check skips the thread, so the Mark unread guard from #25746 still applies first.

Scope and approval

This is a small fix to one web module and its test, for an obvious bug with no behavior change beyond making the existing migration work. It uses the same live-environment gating as BackgroundThreadAnnouncer. Mobile has no equivalent migration, and there is no server, contract or provider change. A visit the server rejects while live is sent again at most once per resync.

Prior PRs: #25746 added the Mark unread guard and #25239 moved the migration into startThreadVisitedMigration. Neither changed when the send happens or what happens when it fails. No open PR covers this.

Verification

  • vp test run src/hooks/useThreadVisitedMigration.test.ts (from apps/web). The new case "sends once the environment is live, and again after it resyncs", which also disables and re-enables the environment, fails on the base hook with expected "vi.fn()" to not be called at all, but actually been called 1 times (1 failed, 5 passed). With the fix, all 6 pass.
  • vp run check:changed a9e709f15f825cacac1b6d665fa1920c328d68b7 passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests and React Compiler.
  • Web, in a local dev server running on fake data. The project and threads were created through the CLI with the Replay provider. A thread that has a run but no watermark exists only in data from before visit tracking, so I set lastVisitedAt to null on those two projection rows while the server was stopped. Legacy local visit times went into threadLastVisitedAtById: 4 minutes before "Release notes draft" completed, and 2 minutes after "Nightly build check" failed. Then I did a plain reload with the backend running and never opened either thread.
    • Base: both server watermarks stayed null after the reload, in 3 of 3 runs.
    • With the fix: the server recorded both local times.

Before, sidebar: "Release notes draft" has no completion indicator.

Before: sidebar after reload

After, sidebar: the same reload marks "Release notes draft" Done. The sidebar's Failed label follows the run status, so it shows in both.

After: sidebar after reload

Before, Recent Threads: a Failed pill on "Nightly build check" and nothing on "Release notes draft".

Before: Recent Threads after reload

After, Recent Threads: no Failed pill on "Nightly build check", and "Release notes draft" shows Completed.

After: Recent Threads after reload

  • Desktop, with the Electron dev app (vp run dev:desktop) and the same fixture and local times. Base: a plain reload left both watermarks null. Candidate: in the same window, the fixed hook was hot-reloaded, the page was reloaded, and the server recorded both times.

Desktop before, Recent Threads: a Failed pill on "Nightly build check" and nothing on "Release notes draft".

Desktop before: Recent Threads after reload

Desktop after, Recent Threads: "Release notes draft" shows Completed and "Nightly build check" has no pill.

Desktop after: Recent Threads

Desktop before, sidebar: "Release notes draft" has no completion indicator.

Desktop before: sidebar after reload

Desktop after, sidebar: "Release notes draft" shows Done.

Desktop after: sidebar

Not checked: a remote environment that stays offline for a long time and then connects. The unit test covers that case.

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Cached thread shells can arrive before their environment connects, so the
one-time visit migration sent too early, failed, and never retried that
session. It now waits until the environment's threads are live, which also
means it reads the server's current watermark instead of a cached one, and
sends again after each resync while the server still has none.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at 59a29f0

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Legacy visit timestamps now wait for live server state and retry after resync until recorded. Existing server visit values are preserved, keeping the change limited to missing visit metadata.

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Walkthrough

Thread visit migration now runs only for threads in live environments with a null server watermark. It tracks migrated thread IDs by environment and reruns migration when shell or live-environment state changes.

Changes: Thread visit migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gate and retry migration by live-environment state
apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadVisitedMigration.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadVisitedMigration.test.ts
The migration skips threads with a non-null watermark or a non-live environment. It tracks migrated thread IDs by environment and clears tracking for environments that are no longer live. It subscribes to shell and live-environment updates. Tests cover offline environments, migration when an environment becomes live, resync, and restoring removed threads.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, michaelihc

Merge Risk: Low · up to d18d9

In a narrow reconnect race, a legacy visit can clear a thread’s unread status. The change is mergeable with awareness of this limitation.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title "fix(web): legacy visit times retry until the server records them" matches the main change: the migration in startThreadVisitedMigration now sends legacy visit times only for live environmen…
Description check Passed The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the failure: the migration sends before the WebSocket connects…
Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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The title "fix(web): legacy visit times retry until the server records them" matches the main change: the migration in startThreadVisitedMigration now sends legacy visit times only for live environments and retries after resync until the server records them. It is a conventional commit title in plain language and names the web scope.

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Explanation

The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the failure: the migration sends before the WebSocket connects and marks threads done anyway. The Change section explains the gating on liveShellEnvironmentIdsAtom, per-environment tracking, and the extra subscription. The Scope section links prior PRs #25746 and #25239, explains why the change is small, and cites the same live-environment gating as BackgroundThreadAnnouncer. It gives a specific test command, a failing-then-passing unit test result, and before/after evidence for web and desktop. The Scope section does not link a triaged issue or maintainer approval comment, which the template asks for. It also does not state a concrete approval reference for the bug. The description is mostly complete, so the check passes, but the approval gap should be noted.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadVisitedMigration.ts:
- Around line 24-25: Update the useThreadVisitedMigration cleanup so attempted
thread keys are cleared for an environment when it leaves liveEnvironmentIds,
independently of the current thread list; retain enough environment association
to identify those keys when threadShellsAtom no longer contains the threads.
Extend the existing retry test to cover thread-list removal during the offline
interval and verify the threads are retried after the environment is re-enabled.

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Disabling an environment drops its threads and its live entry together,
so per-thread clearing never ran and its attempted keys stuck. Track
attempts per environment and drop them when it leaves the live set.

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