[juliusmarminge]

Problem

On large databases, two background reads hold the server's single SQLite reader far longer than they need to, so every other read, thread switches included, queues behind them (https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/24895: thread.visit median 12 s on a 22 GB database).

• The PR-sync sweep runs every minute. It builds full thread shells, which means reading every active thread's runs, turn items, provider threads and messages, even though it uses only thread payload fields.
• During a run start, the run-status checks (isCurrentAttemptInStatus, shouldFinalizeRun) each load the thread's whole runtime recovery projection to check a single run's status. That happens four to six times per run.

Reproduced on main (becf853) with the red tests below:

• The sweep reads runs, turn_items, provider_threads and messages.
• A run start plus its two controls loads the recovery projection 6 times.

Change

• ProjectionStore.getPullRequestSyncSnapshot reads only the thread payloads and the snapshot sequence, in one read transaction on the reader:
  • It filters archived threads on the maintained archived_at column.
  • It keeps the shell read's unsettledOnly condition and ordering.
  • It shares the shell's MAX(sequence) statement, so the existing sequence guard on thread.pull-request.sync behaves the same.
• ThreadPullRequestServiceV2 uses this read for both the sweep and the single-thread refresh. The single-thread refresh previously made two separate reads, for the sequence and then the shell.
• ProjectionStore.getRun(threadId, runId) reads one run by primary key. isCurrentAttemptInStatus and shouldFinalizeRun now use it. A missing thread or a read error still fails the same way as before, instead of being treated as a superseded run.

There is no schema, migration or wire-contract change.

Scope and approval

Fixes #24895

Verification

• Red tests, failing on main and passing here:
  • ThreadPullRequestService.test.ts › "sweeps branch pull requests without reading thread history". It records the SQL the real ProjectionStore runs during a sweep. On main it fails with "tables the PR sync sweep read: expected [messages, provider_threads, runs, turn_items] to deeply equal []".
  • ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts › "checks the run's status without loading the thread's history". On main it fails with "expected 6 to be 1". The single remaining load is the initial inherited-background-items read, which this change does not touch.
• Added ProjectionStore.test.ts › the new sweep read returns the same sequence and fields as getShellSnapshot for active, unsettled-only, archived and deleted threads.
• Results:
  • ThreadPullRequestService, ProviderTurnStartService, ProjectionStore and ProviderTurnControlService tests pass.
  • vp run check:changed passes on the merged head: format, lint, knip, typecheck of 3 packages, 6 test files.

Runtime transcript from the real ProjectionStore and migrations on a synthetic, file-backed database with the reader worker enabled. The data is 500 active branch threads, 2,000 archived threads with about 18 KB of pull-request JSON each, and one thread with 2,000 runs and 16,000 turn items. Times are ms per call over five calls:

Read	Before (becf853)	After (a843632)
PR-sync sweep	87–184 (getShellSnapshot)	18–25 (getPullRequestSyncSnapshot)
Single-thread PR refresh	two separate reads	0.6–1.3 (getPullRequestSyncSnapshot)
Run-status check	68–106 (getRuntimeRecoveryProjection)	0.6–1.1 (getRun)

The driver and transcripts are uploaded, not committed. All data in them is synthetic:

• issue-24895-driver.ts
• issue-24895-before-transcript.txt
• issue-24895-after-transcript.txt

This is a server-only change with no visible surface, so there are no captures. It was not measured against a real multi-GB database.

Work by Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code in T3 Code), with review by Codex gpt-6.1-sol.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 124a420

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Run-status checks now fetch a single run, and PR snapshot filtering uses the maintained archive column. These read-path optimizations preserve existing control conditions without changing product defaults or persistent data.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ The exact PR base did not have a successful artifact. Baseline uses the latest successful main measurement shown below.

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	✅

Baseline: 31bf2f7 · PR result: 124a420 · 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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[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The projection store adds a targeted run lookup and filters pull-request snapshots with the indexed archived_at column. Provider-turn controls use the targeted lookup to check the current attempt and run status.

Changes: Orchestration projection reads

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Projection store run lookup and snapshot filtering apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts	The store adds getRun, which returns a decoded matching run or undefined, and exposes it as a read-only operation. Pull-request snapshots now filter active threads using archived_at. The snapshot test fixture synchronizes the indexed archive value with the payload.
Provider-turn run status checks apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnControlService.test.ts	Provider-start and finalization checks use getRun to match the active attempt and allowed statuses. Tests update the store stubs and verify that these checks do not add runtime-recovery-projection reads.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderTurnStartService
  participant ProjectionStoreV2
  participant RunStorage
  ProviderTurnStartService->>ProjectionStoreV2: getRun(threadId, runId)
  ProjectionStoreV2->>RunStorage: query run by threadId and runId
  RunStorage-->>ProjectionStoreV2: matching run payload or no row
  ProjectionStoreV2-->>ProviderTurnStartService: decoded run or undefined

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#16441 — The issue concerns recovery-state reads during provider startup. This change replaces the relevant status-check reads with targeted getRun calls; its final-attempt failure-handling requirement remains separate.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#30356 — That PR introduced getPullRequestSnapshot; this change updates its archive filter to use archived_at and adjusts the snapshot test fixture.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 124a4

The archive filter appears ready to merge, but its test would not catch a return to the slower payload filter. Add a focused assertion to protect the intended performance improvement.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main server changes: PR sync and run-status checks no longer read whole thread histories.
Description check		The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, the implementation, scope and issue reference, focused verification, observed results, limitations, and review context.
Linked Issues check		Issue [#24895] identifies history-wide PR-sync and run-status reads as coding problems. The reviewed head uses a lightweight thread snapshot for PR synchronization and applies the maintained `archived…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed getRun API, primary-key query, archived_at filter, service integration, test fixtures, and focused tests support the [#24895] reader-load objective. No unrelated product behavior, sche…

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue [#24895] identifies history-wide PR-sync and run-status reads as coding problems. The reviewed head uses a lightweight thread snapshot for PR synchronization and applies the maintained archived_at filter. ProviderTurnStartService reads one run with getRun(threadId, runId) for status and finalization checks. The tests cover the reduced recovery-projection reads and snapshot behavior. The issue also lists other optimizations, but the supplied PR objectives scope this change to the PR-sync and run-status paths and do not require those separate optimizations.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changed getRun API, primary-key query, archived_at filter, service integration, test fixtures, and focused tests support the [#24895] reader-load objective. No unrelated product behavior, schema change, migration, or wire-contract change is shown.

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Field report from a fork, since the description says this was not measured against a real multi-GB database.

Setup: nightly v0.1.4-nightly.20261027.3796 plus #24762 (four-worker reader pool), with the two code commits of this PR cherry-picked on top. Server over SSH on a Linux desktop against an 8.6 GB statev2.sqlite with about 30 agent processes attached. Running in production since 2026-10-28 16:49 UTC.

What we can say after the first 7 minutes:

• No regressions in the server log. PR sync and run starts proceed normally, no new warnings.
• Reader lock wait on the pool is p99 0.34 s, max 0.62 s, down from p99 11.5 s and max 42 s on the single reader. That number is mostly fix(shared): let SQLite reads proceed beside slow reads #24762's doing; this PR's contribution is that the per-minute sweep no longer occupies a worker for a full-shell read, which matters once the pool is near its four-worker ceiling.
• Individual reader spans still reach p90 424 ms and max 1.85 s. Those are thread-history reads, not the sweep, so the remaining cost is in the direction fix(server): load long thread history in bounded pages #26240 is going.

Two landing notes for whoever merges:

• The fix commit depends on the test commit; cherry-picking in PR order works, the reverse order conflicts.
• The branch's third commit is a merge of main and should be skipped when cherry-picking.

Clean cherry-pick onto the nightly otherwise, no conflicts, and the three test files named in the description pass on the merged head.

[juliusmarminge]

Thanks for the detailed measurements and regression tests! #30356 (0b5600b1c3) already moved PR discovery and targeted refreshes to a lightweight, sequence-consistent snapshot. Could you cut this PR down to the remaining read optimizations: checking run status by run ID instead of loading the recovery projection, and using the maintained archive column instead of parsing archived payloads, with their focused tests?

[juliusmarminge]

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someone else pushed to fix/issue-24895 (head is now 4777669); the pipeline does not build on commits it did not review

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts:
- Around line 4679-4680: Update the sweep test using trace.statements to assert
that captured SQL filters archived rows through t.archived_at IS NULL and does
not use JSON extraction of payload_json.archivedAt for archive filtering.
Preserve the existing transaction-count and active/archive behavior assertions.

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Assert that the sweep uses the archive column.

The active and archived checks also pass with the old payload filter. Assert on the captured SQL to catch a regression that restores JSON extraction for archive filtering.

Suggested fix

       assert.strictEqual(new Set(trace.queryTransactions).size, 1);
+      assert.isTrue(
+        trace.statements.some((query) => /\bt\.archived_at\s+IS\s+NULL\b/i.test(query)),
+      );
+      assert.isFalse(
+        trace.statements.some((query) =>
+          /json_extract\(\s*t\.payload_json\s*,\s*'\$\.archivedAt'\s*\)/i.test(query),
+        ),
+      );
       assert.isFalse(

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts around lines 4679 - 4680:
Update the sweep test using trace.statements to assert that captured SQL filters archived rows through t.archived_at IS NULL and does not use JSON extraction of payload_json.archivedAt for archive filtering. Preserve the existing transaction-count and active/archive behavior assertions.

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Source: Learnings

[juliusmarminge]

Evidence

Ran the same synthetic workload against separate fresh real servers: one preliminary replay turn, three concurrent thread starts, then five continuations in one thread. All nine turns completed on both sides. Captures contain actual server trace excerpts, with private metadata excluded.

Before	After
a0efdaeb89	124a42020d
Server trace: 72 recovery-projection reads beneath provider-turn start; zero keyed run reads. PR discovery uses JSON archive extraction.	Server trace: 18 recovery-projection reads and 54 keyed run reads. PR discovery uses t.archived_at IS NULL.

Workload driver · Trace extractor

The retained recovery reads serve other work, including inherited background items. This proves the query-path change in the running server; it does not establish interactive latency improvement at scale.

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• The supplied large-environment reproduction was not executed: the synthetic workload had four threads and at most six runs in one thread, rather than thousands of threads and roughly 2,000 runs.
• Run-start and thread-opening latency under Balanced background activity, concurrent agents and thread switching remain unverified; no comparable client recording or latency measurement was captured.
• Archived PR-linked row exclusion at scale remains unverified: the runtime discovery SQL changed as expected, but the databases contained no archived PR-linked fixtures.