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Problem

With omitIdleSubagents, the shell still sends every idle subagent that is the parent of another subagent. Nested idle chains ride along on every connect and reconnect (#29128).

Change

Clients now also send omitIdleSubagentParents, over the WebSocket and the HTTP snapshot. With it, the server keeps an idle subagent only while a live subagent, a side chat, a fork, or a subagent with a task in a linked environment is below it.

A chain that wakes later comes back as a delta for the woken child only. The client sees a shell row whose parent is missing, reads that family once, and merges it behind the shell rows. Badges, child inputs, the Lineage panel and sidebar selection then see the whole chain.

This continues #29129 by @fireboltdude1357, merged with main. The server trim, the flag and the missing-parent family read are that PR's work. The route commits by @maria-rcks are kept in the history.

What I changed on top:

• main now mounts the family of an open thread the shell left out (useOpenThreadFamily, web). So I removed the second mount on every web thread open, the retry screen, and the in-query retry. Mobile keeps one mount per open thread; see Mobile below.
• While tags are hidden, the off-shell redirect waits for that family read. A read cached from an earlier mount does not answer before its rows are merged.
• Opening an idle subagent read its family twice: once for the open thread, once more under the root's id when the visit delta arrived. It now reads once.
• The transfer budget test sends the new opt-in, and its fixture has 20 nested idle chains.
• [Bug]: A remote delegated task shows up as an active thread once its settled parent falls out of the newest 25 settled threads #30320 is covered for the new opt-in. See below.

#30320: tasks on a linked environment

#34870 fixed #30320 on main: an idle subagent that has a task on a linked environment stays in the shell, so that environment's clients can nest the task under it. An earlier head of this PR would have dropped such a parent when it also had a subagent child.

Now a subagent with a remote task counts as live for the kept chains (liveSubagentChainIds in ShellStream.ts). It stays, and so do the idle subagents above it. Without the opt-in, both filters are the ones on main.

Tests, each over a chain root > idle subagent > idle subagent with a remote task:

• ws.test.ts: the WebSocket shell keeps both subagents, and the ids the store is asked to build include them.
• http.test.ts: the HTTP shell keeps both. This one runs the real index SQL over a real subagent.updated record with a remoteChild.

Both fail when either filter loses its remote-task term, and when both do (the earlier head merged with main).

Mobile

A device pass found that mobile read the shell rows of a parent or a subagent and, for an idle chain, found nothing. The sender label read "Agent" two levels down, a middle subagent's header lost "Subagent of ...", and a workflow member with idle children could not be opened.

• The mobile thread screen now mounts the open thread's family until the screen leaves (useOpenThreadFamily in apps/mobile/src/state/threads.ts). It is the same shared threadFamilies.mount web uses, so every mobile reader of those rows finds them. Web mounts only when the thread or its parent is missing. Mobile mounts for every open thread, because its subagent cards and workflow rows also read the rows of children, and the shell cannot say which children it left out. The cost is one cached getThreadFamily read per opened thread per shell generation.

• The detail fallback for a thread with no shell row (threadDetailToShell) keeps delegatedFrom and linkOrigin, so the header is right before the family read lands.

• The shell cache stores its origin as originV2. A client from before this PR ignores origin flags it does not know, so a new flag under origin would not stop it: it would resume rows that lack the idle parents it expects. It now finds no origin and loads a fresh snapshot. A client with this PR that finds an older cache does the same once.

• iPad with columns reopens the last chat by its reference, the way a link opens it. Before, a tab switch or a cold start reopened it only when the shell rows held it, so an idle subagent with idle children would no longer come back. It now stays closed only when the shell applied its removal in this session (archived or deleted) or its environment is gone. A chat the app reopened by itself closes again when its detail says it was archived or deleted, or when it cannot load. A chat opened from a link or a tap is not affected: an archived thread still opens from a link.

• This also fixes what main gets wrong today: an idle leaf subagent and an older settled thread are now reopened after a tab switch, and a thread deleted or archived while the app was closed is no longer reopened on a cold start.

• The cold start link for the last chat no longer goes through Linking.createURL, which encodes the path a second time. A delegated subagent's id holds % and :, so on main a cold start with such a subagent open ends on a new draft.

• A thread route waits for the open thread's family read before it gives up on a failed detail read (the CodeRabbit finding). On main an idle subagent with idle children has a shell row and keeps its route in that case.

Numbers

Cold-connect shell, as current clients ask for it, against main at 476fc9be669:

Data	main	This PR
Real database, 3,959 active threads (index read, read-only)	84 rows, 22 subagents	60 rows, 4 subagents
Same, stored thread row JSON	180.3 KB	135.8 KB
Copy of real data in a dev server (1,642 active threads), HTTP snapshot	37 rows, 114.8 KB	30 rows, 95.8 KB
Budget fixture	47 rows, 72.8 KB	27 rows, 42.0 KB

The main column is the same read without the flag, which runs the filters on main.

On the real database that is 24 rows and 44.5 KB less per cold connect: 18 idle subagents, and 6 older settled threads that main keeps only because an idle chain is below them. Those 6 move to the Settled count, which stays the same (231 on both in the dev copy).

The gain depends on how many nested chains the database has. The original PR measured 331 rows down to 54 on another database.

Compatibility

• A client that does not send the flag gets the same rows as main. The filters without the flag are unchanged.
• An older server ignores the flag. The WebSocket input schema and the HTTP query drop unknown keys: checked by decoding the input with an unknown key, and by an HTTP shell read with an unknown query key that returned the same 37 rows.
• A new client on an older server gets the old rows. Those keep every parent of a subagent, so the missing-parent read can only run for a side chat whose idle subagent parent that server left out. A server that leaves rows out also answers getThreadFamily. This is from reading the code, not from a run against an old server.
• A cached shell written by an older client is loaded fresh once (its origin is under the old key). A cache written by this client makes an older client load fresh too. orchestrationCache.test.ts covers both directions.
• #35071 (the shell loads over HTTP while the socket connects) is merged in. The early HTTP request and the socket subscription take the flag from the same value, so they agree. The server's descriptor does not need to name the new flag, because the client sends it whenever it sends omitIdleSubagents and an older server ignores it.

Verification

• ShellStream.test.ts, ws.test.ts, threadFamilies.test.ts and shell-sync.test.ts fail against the sources on main and pass here (checked on the earlier head; all pass on this one).

• The transfer budget test fails without the opt-in (47 rows, cap 27) and passes with it.

• vp run check:changed passes.

• Web, two dev servers on the same copy of real data, this PR beside main:

  • The sidebar is the same: 3 active threads, Snoozed 1, Settled 231, and the same 234 rows in the same order with the Settled shelf paged to the end.
  • An idle subagent two levels down opens from a link, in the app and on a cold load, with its breadcrumb, its parent and the Lineage panel. In the app it sends one getThreadFamily, and its parent then opens with no further read.
  • A nested subagent that turns live (Replay provider, question scenario) reaches a second client that is on another thread. That client sends one getThreadFamily and then shows the same sidebar and the same root details as the client on main.
  • Search finds the root of the largest left-out family (432 rows) and opens it in about 1 second with one getThreadFamily.

• Mobile, iPhone 17 Pro simulator (iOS 26.5), this PR's bundle and server beside main's bundle and server on the same copy of real data, with a Replay family root > middle > leaf and a workflow fixture whose member is the idle middle subagent:

  • The sender label two levels down and the header subtitle of a middle subagent equal main.
  • The workflow member is a link and opens the subagent, as on main.
  • A subagent one and two levels down opens from its card, the Agents sheet, a message link, a wake link, a deep link and a cold deep link. Back returns through each level to the list.
  • A leaf that turns live (Replay) shows as working in its parent with no relaunch.
  • The home list equals main: the same 44 rows in the same order with Snoozed and Settled expanded.
  • Update (cache from main's bundle, then this bundle) and downgrade (cache from this bundle, then main's bundle): no crash, correct labels, and the server trace shows a fresh snapshot request with no resumeFrom. A relaunch of the same bundle resumes with resumeFrom.
  • This bundle against main's server, and main's bundle against this server: same labels and the same list.

• Web again after the mobile change: the sidebar equals main (same 39 rows), and an idle subagent two levels down opens with its breadcrumb and the Lineage panel.

• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) simulator (iOS 26.5), split view, this PR's bundle and server beside main's bundle and server on the same data. main here is 4fd40e1a16e; two later merges of main touched no mobile file.

  Last chat in the detail column	Tab switch away and back	Background and foreground	Cold start
  Idle subagent with idle children	reopened, as on main	kept, as on main	reopened; main ends on a new draft
  Idle leaf subagent	reopened; main shows the empty detail	kept	reopened; main ends on a new draft
  Normal thread	reopened, as on main	kept, as on main	reopened, as on main
  Older settled thread	reopened; main shows the empty detail	kept	reopened, as on main
  Archived while open	not reopened, as on main		not reopened, as on main
  Deleted while the app was in the background			not reopened; main reopens it
  Older settled thread archived while the app was in the background	not reopened		not reopened; main reopens it and keeps it
  Thread of an environment removed from the device			not reopened

  An empty cell was not run. main also keeps what it shows through a background and foreground.

  • Collapsing and showing the sidebar and rotating keep the detail, as on main.
  • A subagent one and two levels down opens from its parent with the list visible, and Back returns, with the same screens as main.
  • The sender label two levels down and the middle subagent's "Subagent of ..." subtitle equal main. The idle leaf's header shows "Subagent of ..." where main drops it, the same difference as on the phone (see Not verified).
  • A leaf that starts a Replay turn shows as working in its idle parent with no relaunch.
  • A message typed in a new thread and sent at once reached the server once in each of three runs: plain, with the app killed right after the send, and with the app sent to the background, killed and relaunched so that the new thread was the reopened chat.

Not verified:

• Desktop on a device.
• The failed detail read with a pending family read on a device. I had no tool that fails one subscribeThread request on a live socket, so thread-route-hydration.test.ts is the proof.
• An iPad on iPadOS 18 to 25, which draws the columns in JS, and the iPhone Duo.
• A header on mobile now differs from main on purpose: an idle leaf subagent of a delegated task shows "Subagent of ...". main shows it while that subagent is live and drops it when idle, because the idle row is not in the shell. Web always shows it.
• The tag-hiding redirect in a browser. Only the atom it reads has a test.
• A task on a linked environment in a real client. The real database has no subagent with a remote task, so only the tests above cover it.
• A real provider turn waking a chain.

Known limits

• On an iPad, deleting the remembered chat from another client while a different tab is open replaces that tab with a full screen new draft. main does the same: iOS keeps the old thread screen mounted, and its draft redirect acts on the page in front. Not changed here.
• The family read returns the whole family. On the real database the largest nested family is 432 rows and 831 KB of stored thread JSON, read once per shell generation when one of its idle chains wakes or is opened. That is the cost against 24 rows and 44.5 KB less on every cold connect. The database has 6 families with a nested subagent; the median has 19 rows.
• A new snapshot that already holds a row with a missing parent reads that family twice when it arrives. The real database has no such row.

Fixes #29128

Co-authored-by: Tanner Sharon tannermsharon@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: maria-rcks maria@kuuro.net

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	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	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	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	1.2 KiB	1.2 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	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Other scenarios

All 64 scenario measurements match main.

All 64 scenario measurements

Provider	Scenario	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	short turn resume	WebSocket decoded	10.5 KiB	10.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	12.7 KiB	✅
Codex	short turn resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	long turn running, cold open	HTTP decoded	281.7 KiB	281.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	302.7 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn running, cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	long turn running, history page	HTTP decoded	92.4 KiB	92.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	107.4 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn running, history page	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	long turn finished, cold open	HTTP decoded	381.5 KiB	381.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket decoded	381.6 KiB	381.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Codex	long turn finished, work page	HTTP decoded	186.2 KiB	186.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	200.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, work page	rows	150	150	0 (0.0%)	150	✅
Codex	idle thread resume	WebSocket decoded	65 B	65 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Codex	idle thread resume	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Codex	fleet shell snapshot	HTTP decoded	41.6 KiB	41.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Codex	fleet shell snapshot	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Codex	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket decoded	65 B	65 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Codex	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Codex	fleet shell resume check	HTTP decoded	18 B	18 B	0 B (0.0%)	100 B	✅
Codex	fleet shell resume check	rows	0	0	0	0	✅
Codex	stale shell reload	HTTP decoded	41.6 KiB	41.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Codex	stale shell reload	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Codex	stale shell resume	WebSocket decoded	140 B	140 B	0 B (0.0%)	400 B	✅
Codex	stale shell resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	HTTP decoded	72.4 KiB	72.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	83.0 KiB	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	nodes	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	subagents	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	plans	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	providerTurns	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	checkpoints	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	short turn resume	WebSocket decoded	10.6 KiB	10.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	12.7 KiB	✅
Claude	short turn resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	long turn running, cold open	HTTP decoded	283.3 KiB	283.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	302.7 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn running, cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	long turn running, history page	HTTP decoded	93.4 KiB	93.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	107.4 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn running, history page	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	long turn finished, cold open	HTTP decoded	384.2 KiB	384.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket decoded	384.3 KiB	384.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Claude	long turn finished, work page	HTTP decoded	188.1 KiB	188.1 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	200.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, work page	rows	150	150	0 (0.0%)	150	✅
Claude	idle thread resume	WebSocket decoded	66 B	66 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Claude	idle thread resume	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Claude	fleet shell snapshot	HTTP decoded	42.2 KiB	42.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Claude	fleet shell snapshot	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Claude	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket decoded	66 B	66 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Claude	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Claude	fleet shell resume check	HTTP decoded	18 B	18 B	0 B (0.0%)	100 B	✅
Claude	fleet shell resume check	rows	0	0	0	0	✅
Claude	stale shell reload	HTTP decoded	42.2 KiB	42.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Claude	stale shell reload	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Claude	stale shell resume	WebSocket decoded	140 B	140 B	0 B (0.0%)	400 B	✅
Claude	stale shell resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	HTTP decoded	73.4 KiB	73.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	83.0 KiB	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	nodes	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	subagents	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	plans	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	providerTurns	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	checkpoints	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅

Baseline: 371963c · PR result: 0387a9f · 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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Walkthrough

The change adds optional omission of idle subagent parents from shell requests, reads thread families for shell rows with missing parents, and updates web and mobile thread-route handling. Mobile workspace navigation also tracks reopened threads and closes reopened routes when the thread is gone.

Changes: Shell snapshots and idle subagent chains

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Server filtering and request options packages/contracts/src/*, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/*, apps/server/src/ws*, apps/server/integration/*	HTTP and WebSocket shell requests accept omitIdleSubagentParents. When enabled with idle-subagent filtering, the server retains live subagents and required ancestor chains. Tests cover nested chains, live descendants, side chats, and linked-task parents. Integration fixtures add nested idle subagents and update fleet-shell estimates.
Client requests and shell cache compatibility packages/client-runtime/src/state/shell.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/shellSnapshotHttp.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/shell-sync.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/platform/orchestrationCache.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/platform/orchestrationCache.test.ts, apps/web/src/connection/storage.ts, apps/mobile/src/connection/environment-cache-store.ts	The client sends the parent-omission option with idle-subagent omission. Shell cache origins use originV2. Tests cover decoding snapshots with this field using an older schema decoder.
Family reads for shell rows with missing parents packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadFamilies.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadFamilies.test.ts, docs/internals/connection-runtime.md	Family snapshot merging reads rows for subagents or side chats whose parents are missing. Tests cover failed reads, retries, and merging family rows for an unmounted child. The documentation describes family reads when ancestors are omitted.
Thread routes wait for family state apps/web/src/components/ThreadRouteView.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-route-hydration.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/threads.ts	Web and mobile thread routes mount the selected thread family. Web redirects wait until a family read is no longer pending. Mobile hydration and reopened-thread handling use family state.
Mobile thread detail to shell conversion apps/mobile/src/state/thread-detail-shell.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/thread-detail-shell.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-selection.ts	Mobile thread-detail conversion moves to an exported helper. The helper maps projection and runtime data into a shell, and its test checks delegated-thread and link-origin metadata.

Mobile workspace thread reopening

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workspace reopening state and navigation apps/mobile/src/features/layout/AdaptiveWorkspaceLayout.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/layout/workspace/workspace-selection-store.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/layout/workspace/workspace-tab-navigation.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/layout/workspace/workspace-tab-navigation.test.ts	Workspace navigation marks a thread as reopened when a tab switch adds its route. The selection store tracks reopening state, validates remembered threads, and marks cold-start thread URLs.
Reopened thread route handling apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-route-hydration.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-route-hydration.test.ts	The route checks whether a reopened thread is confirmed or gone. If it is gone, the route forgets the selection and navigates back when the route is still present.

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

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClientRuntime
  participant ShellSnapshot
  participant ShellStream
  participant ThreadFamilies
  ClientRuntime->>ShellSnapshot: Request shell with idle-parent omission
  ShellSnapshot->>ShellStream: Load filtered shell snapshot
  ShellStream-->>ClientRuntime: Return shell rows, possibly with missing parents
  ClientRuntime->>ThreadFamilies: Read family for shell row with missing parent
  ThreadFamilies-->>ClientRuntime: Merge family rows into snapshot

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 0387a

The server opt-in is additive. Clients that do not send it, and older servers, keep the existing shell behavior. Remaining issues are confined to mobile reopening edge cases: a chat can occasionally close early from stale archived cache, or a background screen can navigate back from the wrong route. Both are recoverable and affect few users, so the change is mergeable with these follow-ups.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: cold connects skip idle nested subagent chains, which cuts shell rows by about a quarter. The changeset adds the omitIdleSubagentParents opt-in to the shell snapshot, …
Linked Issues check		[#29128] requires that idle subagents not above a live subagent be left out of the shell snapshot when the client sends omitIdleSubagents, and that omitted chains load on demand through `getThreadFa…
Out of Scope Changes check		The server trim, opt-in plumbing, remote-task retention term, and transfer-budget fixture support [#29128]. Client changes send the flag, read missing-parent families, or remove the duplicate family m…
Description check		The description follows the template's Problem, Change, Scope, Verification, and compatibility-related sections, and it is detailed. It explains the bug (idle nested subagent chains sent on every conn…

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Explanation

The title names the main change: cold connects skip idle nested subagent chains, which cuts shell rows by about a quarter. The changeset adds the omitIdleSubagentParents opt-in to the shell snapshot, which matches the title's perf claim. It uses the conventional commit form the template suggests.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

[#29128] requires that idle subagents not above a live subagent be left out of the shell snapshot when the client sends omitIdleSubagents, and that omitted chains load on demand through getThreadFamily. The head adds the omitIdleSubagentParents opt-in. ShellStream.ts keeps an idle subagent only when a live subagent, side chat, fork, or subagent with a linked-environment task lies below it. The flag is carried over WebSocket (ws.ts, orchestrationV2.ts) and HTTP (http.ts, environmentHttp.ts). Clients send it with omitIdleSubagents (shell.ts, shellSnapshotHttp.ts). threadFamilies.ts reads the family of a shell row whose parent is missing and merges it behind the shell rows. ThreadRouteView.tsx and mobile useOpenThreadFamily cover the open-thread case. Tests cover the server trim (ShellStream.test.ts, ws.test.ts, http.test.ts), request wiring (shell-sync.test.ts), the orphan read (threadFamilies.test.ts), and the transfer budget. The remote-task retention term (liveSubagentChainIds) addresses the linked-environment case. [#30320] is closed and is historical context only. The mobile iPad reopen gap (idle subagent with idle children not reopened after tab switch or cold start) is disclosed by the author as a known limit. The issue does not state an iPad requirement, and main already has the same behavior for idle leaf subagents. Browser, device, and real-provider checks were not run. These are verification gaps, not missing coding requirements.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

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The server trim, opt-in plumbing, remote-task retention term, and transfer-budget fixture support [#29128]. Client changes send the flag, read missing-parent families, or remove the duplicate family mount described in the PR. The originV2 rename in the shell cache (orchestrationCache.ts, environment-cache-store.ts, storage.ts) is a compatibility guard for the new flag and has a test. The mobile threadDetailToShell move and its test cover delegatedFrom and linkOrigin preservation for omitted rows. The mobile workspace reopen and hydration changes (workspace-selection-store.ts, workspace-tab-navigation.ts, thread-route-hydration.ts, ThreadRouteScreen.tsx, AdaptiveWorkspaceLayout.tsx) handle threads that the shell now omits. Their link to #29128 is indirect, and the PR description does not describe them as separate work. This is a minor point and does not show an unrelated change. connection-runtime.md documents the omission rules. No change was found that is unrelated to #29128.

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The description follows the template's Problem, Change, Scope, Verification, and compatibility-related sections, and it is detailed. It explains the bug (idle nested subagent chains sent on every connect), the opt-in flag over WebSocket and HTTP, and the client-side missing-parent family read. It links issue #29128 and the prior PR context. Verification is extensive: named test files, budget results, web and mobile simulator comparisons, and an iPad matrix. It also lists what was not verified. Gaps: the Scope section does not state clearly why this is a bug fix rather than a feature, since the template says features are not accepted. The description also bundles several independent changes (mobile iPad reopen logic, mobile shell-cache origin key, cold-start URL encoding, web mount changes) into one PR. The template asks to split independent fixes, and the description does not explain why each belongs in this PR. The Problem section does not give a one- or two-sentence expected behavior. Those points are non-critical, so the check passes.

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

the reviewers still had findings after 3 rounds (the work is on main...takeover/29129-idle-subagent-chains):

1. [major] apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ShellStream.ts:156: Worse than main: trimming an idle nested parent also disconnects tasks delegated to another environment. The new recovery only examines lineage.parentThreadId within one environment; it never recovers a missing delegatedFrom parent. A comparison driver using origin/main's actual trim retained the parent, nested the remote task, and reported root pendingSubagentRequest='approval'. This head removed the parent, listed the remote task independently, and reported null.
   Fails with: Two enabled, linked environments. Local R has idle subagent A, which has idle subagent B. A previously delegated remote task T, whose delegatedFrom still names A. After that delegation completes and A becomes idle, resume T directly and let it request approval. Cold-connect the client without opening R's family. Main retains A because B names it; this head omits A. Users lose R's approval badge and see T promoted into navigation.

It stays open for a person to finish or close.

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 418c0d5

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Note

🤖 Claude Fable 5.2 responding on behalf of Theo

The remote-task finding (ShellStream.ts:156) was real, and it is fixed on 418c0d5c98d.

• #34870 is merged in. With omitIdleSubagentParents, a subagent that has a task on a linked environment now counts as live in liveSubagentChainIds, in the trim filter and in the id set the store reads. It stays, and so do the idle subagents above it. Without the flag, both filters are the ones on main.
• The failing case from the finding (root R, idle subagent A with a remote task, idle subagent B under A) keeps A either way: A is a remote task parent.
• Tests in b59f2c4 cover the harder shape, where the task parent sits under another idle subagent: ws.test.ts (WebSocket shell and the ids the store is asked for) and http.test.ts (HTTP shell over the real index SQL). Both fail when either filter loses its remote-task term.

Not verified: a real client on a second linked environment. The data I tested on has no subagent with a remote task.

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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx:
- Line 248: Track whether the family read started by useOpenThreadFamily has
completed, and make the connected route wait for that read before replacing an
omitted thread route with a draft. Preserve the existing hydration behavior;
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• apps/mobile/src/connection/environment-cache-store.ts
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• apps/mobile/src/state/thread-detail-shell.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/state/thread-detail-shell.ts
• apps/mobile/src/state/threads.ts
• apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-selection.ts
• apps/server/integration/TransferBudgetReport.integration.ts
• apps/server/integration/TransferBudgetV2Fixture.integration.ts
• apps/server/integration/transferBudgetV2.integration.test.ts
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• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/http.test.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/http.ts
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• apps/server/src/ws.ts
• apps/web/src/connection/storage.ts
• docs/internals/connection-runtime.md
• packages/client-runtime/src/platform/orchestrationCache.test.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/platform/orchestrationCache.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/shell-sync.test.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/shell.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/shellSnapshotHttp.ts
• packages/contracts/src/environmentHttp.ts
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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx:
- Around line 337-340: Update the `reopenedThreadIsGone` check in
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• apps/mobile/src/features/layout/AdaptiveWorkspaceLayout.tsx
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Only the focused route should close a reopened chat.

ReopenedThreadClose checks that its route is in the stack, but not that it is focused. If the chat was opened from inside another chat, its route can remain under the newer chat. Its goBack() then can remove the chat the user is working in.

The current check passes for a background route. The fix should require the route to be on top:

Suggested fix

--- "a/apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx"
+++ "b/apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx"
@@ -238,12 +238,12 @@
   const goBack = useWorkspaceBackNavigation("threads");
   const navigation = useNavigation();
   const routeKey = useRoute().key;
   const close = useEffectEvent(() => {
     forgetWorkspaceThread(props.environmentId, props.threadId);
-    // iOS keeps this screen mounted after a tab switch dropped its route; going back from there
-    // would act on the page in front.
-    if (navigation.getState()?.routes.some((route) => route.key === routeKey)) goBack();
+    // A background route must not go back: that would act on the page in front of it.
+    const state = navigation.getState();
+    if (state?.routes[state.index]?.key === routeKey) goBack();
   });
   // oxlint-disable-next-line t3code/no-unreasoned-state-sync -- leaves this route for the list on mount: the workspace reopened the chat by itself and it cannot open
   useEffect(() => {
     close();

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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx at line 245:
Update ReopenedThreadClose to call goBack only when routeKey matches the key of the route at the current navigation state’s index. Preserve the existing behavior for the focused route and avoid navigating back when the route is absent or in the background.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Do not close a reopened thread on archived detail before it is synced.

reopenedThreadIsGone treats any detail with archivedAt or deletedAt set as gone, whatever detailStatus is. While a reopening is unproven, this check runs before the hydration gate and does not wait for familyPending. Stale archived data in the detail cache can therefore close the route. This happens when another client has unarchived the thread. The route can then return ReopenedThreadClose before fresh detail arrives.

Gate the archived-data close on synced detail, for example a live status. Also decide how an offline route with cached archived data should behave, because that route would then remain in loading.

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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx around lines 337 - 340:
Update the `reopenedThreadIsGone` check in `ThreadRouteScreen` so cached archived detail cannot close a reopened thread until the detail is synced, such as when its status is `live`. Preserve the existing behavior for synced gone details, and establish an explicit outcome for offline routes with cached archived data so they do not remain stuck in loading.

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