[Yuruzuu]

Problem

Reopening a thread after a reload or app restart downloads every committed attachment again, even though the same browser profile already has the bytes. On a 5 Mbps / 120 ms link, a thread with a 6.22 MB image took a median 12.8 s to show the image again. The image fetch alone took 10.8 s.

Change

Every assets.createUrl mint signed a new expiry, so every mint produced a new URL. The browser cache is keyed by URL and never matched.

• 5-minute expiry rounding for committed ids. issueAssetUrl in apps/server/src/assets/AssetAccess.ts rounds the expiry of committed attachment ids down to a 5-minute boundary, so mints in the same window sign the same URL.
  • Committed ids are immutable. Every writer either uses a random UUID (createAttachmentId) or a deterministic id that includes a SHA-256 of the bytes (chatAttachmentStableKey), and writes the file once.
  • Rounding down only shortens a token. No token lives past the old now + 60 min. The shortest resulting validity is just over 55 minutes.
• Pending ids keep a URL per mint. A still-valid upload token can publish different bytes under the same pending id after deletion.
• max-age is bounded by the token. Attachment responses now send max-age = min(3600, seconds the token has left). Upstream sent 3600 with about 3588 s of token left, so the cached copy outlived its token. A shared URL now never stays fresh in the cache after its token expires.
• Unchanged. Mints still go through the same scope checks. Workspace files, media files, favicons and source-control media keep their current minting and revision rules. Missing attachments are still refused, because resolveAttachmentPathById checks the file exists.

Retries. #19654 added the 30-minute HTML bucket and wrote that image retries depend on a new URL per mint. I checked each retry caller:

Caller	Shows committed attachments	Reload when the URL is identical
web MediaVideoPlayer callers (ChatMarkdownMedia, ExpandedImageDialog, TimelineUserMessageRow)	video	Retry remounts via key={loadAttempt}. Video responses are no-store.
web AttachmentFilePreview	yes	Retry bumps revision, which unmounts and remounts the viewer. Text reads use cache: "reload".
web timeline, dialog and markdown images	yes	No retry control. Recovery comes from a remount, or a re-mint at least 5 minutes later, which lands in a new window.
web FilePreviewPanel, PullRequestMarkdown	no	Minting unchanged.
mobile video players, FilePreviewSession, attachmentDocument	yes	replaceAsync on each attempt, a fresh download per presentation, or a revision key with no-cache.
mobile ThreadFeed image	yes	Relied on a new URL. onError re-minted once, and expo-image reloads only when the URI changes.

ThreadFeed now remounts the image after the re-mint (3 lines). The remount makes a retry reload even when the URL is unchanged. The rewritten HTML-bucket comment now says that.

I did not add a wire flag asking the server for a fresh URL on refresh. It would change contracts for one call site.

Known tradeoff. An installed mobile app without the remount, talking to a patched server, loses its automatic image retry in one case: a load fails transiently and the re-mint lands in the same 5-minute window as the failing URL's mint. The image heals at the next automatic re-mint or when the thread is reopened. A retry after token expiry always lands in a later window.

Scope and approval

I found no matching issue or Ideas discussion. Approval is outstanding. This is a behavior change to signed asset URLs and cache headers, so the small-bug exception does not fit. It changes no contracts or product defaults.

Verification

Built server and real web UI in headless Edge, with a persistent profile on disk. The thread holds a committed 6.22 MB image. Each sample opens the thread, relaunches the same profile, and reopens at 5 Mbps / 120 ms. Five pairs, interleaved A B / B A.

Run	Baseline fetch	Patched fetch	Baseline visible	Patched visible
0	11,285 ms	10 ms	13,407 ms	2,983 ms
1	10,792 ms	9 ms	12,643 ms	1,661 ms
2	10,692 ms	11 ms	12,468 ms	2,050 ms
3	10,840 ms	20 ms	12,786 ms	2,114 ms
4	11,182 ms	10 ms	13,472 ms	2,166 ms
Median	10,840 ms	10 ms	12,786 ms	2,114 ms (6.0x)

• The SHA-256 matched the fixture on every load.
• Each patched reopen got the same URL and loaded the image from the browser cache, transferring zero image bytes. Total traffic for the reopen was 38–51 KB of page and websocket data; the baseline re-downloaded 6.26 MB.
• In every patched run, max-age stayed within the token's remaining time (for example 3399 s with 3394 s left).

End-to-end correctness, both builds:

Case	Baseline	Patched
Pending id republished with different bytes after deletion	new URL, new bytes	new URL, new bytes
Committed id minted twice	different URLs	same URL
Committed URL's max-age within the token	yes	yes
Missing attachment	mint refused, old URL 404	mint refused, old URL 404
Session without orchestration:read	mint refused	mint refused

Failed load, then reopen, in the real web client (failure injected with CDP Network.setBlockedURLs, with the HTTP cache on):

• Timeline and dialog: both failed while blocked and both recovered on reopen, on both builds.
• Patched timeline reopen: reused the URL of the failed load and fetched it from the network. A failed load is not served from cache.

vp test run src/assets/AssetAccess.test.ts src/http.test.ts src/assets/AttachmentUpload.test.ts: 62 passed, 10 skipped. The new case "reuses committed attachment URLs within a window but not pending ones" fails without the fix. So does the extended "serves document attachments inline when a viewer requests it". vp run typecheck passes in apps/server and apps/mobile. Lint and format pass on the touched files.

Not checked:

• The mobile change was not run on a device; it has typecheck, lint and format only.
• Expiry end to end is covered only by the TestClock unit test.
• All runs were on one Windows machine.

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[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at ca892e3

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Committed attachments reuse signed URLs within five-minute windows, improving cache reuse while keeping freshness bounded by token expiry. Mobile retries remount the image; the changes do not broaden access or modify stored data.

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Walkthrough

Committed attachment URLs now use five-minute expiry buckets, and resolved assets provide a cache lifetime based on remaining token validity. Mobile attachment images remount after an initial load error to retry loading.

Changes: Attachment URL flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Attachment token expiry and cache lifetime apps/server/src/assets/AssetAccess.ts, apps/server/src/http.ts, apps/server/src/assets/AssetAccess.test.ts	Committed attachment claims use five-minute expiry buckets; pending attachment claims retain per-mint expirations. Resolved assets report remaining claim lifetime, and response headers use the supplied cache lifetime or the 3600-second default. Tests cover URL reuse, expiry, and missing attachments.
Mobile image retry remount apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx	After the first image error, the image refreshes its URL and remounts. A successful load resets the existing retry guard.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ca892

The attachment caching and mobile retry changes are mergeable after normal checks; no material regression was established.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description covers the problem, change, scope, and verification in detail. However, the required scope approval is outstanding, and the description provides no before-and-after screenshots for the…	Add a link to a triaged issue or discussion with explicit maintainer approval, or explain why the change qualifies for the small, focused fix exception. Add before-and-after screenshots for the UI change; include a short recording if needed…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: faster display of committed images when reopening threads. It is longer than preferred, but remains specific and readable.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Files selected for processing: 4

• apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx
• apps/server/src/assets/AssetAccess.test.ts
• apps/server/src/assets/AssetAccess.ts
• apps/server/src/http.ts

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Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head ca892e3f59d697c163236a65b4d8a9456f5120ec on linux with the real dev server, repo Playwright, and /usr/bin/google-chrome.

on github/main (d91915db9e), i added a real git worktree as a project through the web ui, attached the machine's mount fuji wallpaper, and sent a Codex gpt-6.1-sol turn. it described the image. reopening the thread minted a different committed attachment url and downloaded the image again.

i stopped main, started the exact pr head with a copy of that app-created state, and reopened the same thread. reloading reused the url. restarting chrome with the same profile loaded the image from disk cache. a real Codex follow-up on the pr answered "mount fuji and the sky."

chrome network transcript:

main reopen: HTTP 200, changed URL, 3,383,186 encoded bytes
pr reload:   HTTP 200, same URL, 0 encoded bytes
pr restart:  HTTP 200, fromDiskCache=true, 0 encoded bytes
pr response: Cache-Control: private, max-age=3375

the response's cache lifetime was bounded by its signed token expiry. expanded image preview opened and closed correctly. after blocking asset requests with chrome's network controls, the image failed with naturalWidth=0 and recovered to naturalWidth=2000 after unblocking and reopening the thread.

focused checks through blacksmith:

cd apps/server && vp test run src/assets/AssetAccess.test.ts src/http.test.ts src/assets/AttachmentUpload.test.ts
3 files passed; 72 tests passed

before, main:

after, pr, same conversation:

image preview interaction on the pr:

Not verified

native iOS/Android image retry remount, electron/macOS/Windows clients, remote relay/tunnel connections, and live token expiry after an hour were not exercised. pending-id replacement, missing-file refusal, permissions, and expiry have the passing focused tests above, but were not separately driven end to end. i did not reproduce the title's timing ratio. no source changes or pushes were needed. task dev servers and blacksmith worker were stopped.