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Problem

Retrieving a linked task's final result scans its entire timeline, transferring and decoding text that the follower discards. Success scans every message page; failures scan activity to prefer the last error from the task's own run.

Change

For completed successful tasks, read the first page normally, then try the final page at its existing canonical page boundary. A terminal page containing the last applicable assistant reply is authoritative, so middle pages can be skipped. An inconclusive, growing or empty tail falls back to the normal scan. Failed, cancelled and interrupted runs retain the established scan. No-run recovery can also use the shortcut.

For failed scans, shorten text only on known middle activity pages. Keep the first and expected final page's default limit. Existing item-ID/offset reads reconstruct the full selected reply/error when truncated. No cache, lock, schema, concurrency or client change.

Costs: a successful result followed by another run's history can add one speculative RPC and duplicate its small tail response. A selected middle-page failure can add a refill RPC. Either extra request adds latency and exposure to transient failures. The follower's existing retry/disappearance protocol is unchanged. This is an accepted tradeoff, not a zero-cost claim.

Scope and approval

Proposed under the focused obvious-bug exception: the remote result follower repeatedly materializes/transfers history that it immediately discards to select one result. This addresses that single existing retrieval workflow with existing paging/refill contracts. No prior maintainer approval or triage exemption is claimed.

Verification

Rebased onto main bf469bb19669671d0df2efda74ed73867a7137c0; current head 867ac81e69cbf50d854253a8f2dadb9faf650a90. Main's runLimit50/recent-run metadata and executed-model result note are preserved. Extended existing terminal/long tail-probe cases assert the exact reported-model note plus complete selected text while retaining canonical page/refill assertions.

50 focused RemoteDelegation/PeerForwarding/orchestrator-tool cases passed; server typecheck, scoped formatting/lint and diff checks passed. Final production SHA256 db45a366137dcdc5f245944dfc7dce582d8b7b644f2328adacd9c4ca8dbfe792. Newer main ad9e87111fd9b2f10ec320b4de0a6ad3a092278a adds only web changes outside this measured dependency boundary. Completed scoped checks were used for the commit; repo-wide local hooks were not run in the filtered worktree. CI owns the full suite.

Refreshed matched measurements

These replace the earlier benchmark table. Production source matches all final candidate samples. No historical measurements pooled.

Authenticated modeled follower completion to persisted parent result, 25ms/read. Main/PR/PR/main; six latency samples per workload per version in two processes. Separate decoded-byte passes; exact result/status/read count checked throughout. All measured read responses gzip. No app/tunnel latency or compressed wire-byte claim.

Workload	Main median [range], ms	PR median [range], ms	Change, ms	Change	Read RPCs
one-short	96.86 [78.51, 104.21]	92.17 [89.81, 100.25]	-4.69	-4.84%	1 → 1
one-medium	89.35 [72.37, 93.35]	95.62 [78.61, 105.62]	+6.27	+7.02%	1 → 1
one-long	155.28 [152.56, 165.67]	156.94 [153.46, 159.84]	+1.66	+1.07%	2 → 2
success-history	596.79 [533.43, 619.68]	200.64 [167.35, 206.41]	-396.15	-66.38%	6 → 2
failed-history	605.96 [537.60, 624.35]	423.37 [419.68, 444.66]	-182.59	-30.13%	6 → 6
failed-long-error	646.02 [593.19, 694.54]	482.88 [464.49, 494.37]	-163.14	-25.25%	7 → 7
middle-error-later-run	595.46 [578.49, 620.87]	493.34 [481.95, 500.19]	-102.12	-17.15%	6 → 7
no-error-fallback	573.47 [534.46, 586.05]	423.59 [404.28, 439.55]	-149.88	-26.14%	6 → 6
success-middle-later-run	575.47 [545.38, 591.27]	650.30 [603.56, 663.08]	+74.83	+13.00%	6 → 7
sparse-success	316.08 [302.50, 352.37]	178.77 [156.04, 201.79]	-137.31	-43.44%	3 → 2

Resource diagnostics

CPU covers follower, destination HTTP/MCP server, and parent persistence in the same process. GC excluded from timing/CPU. RSS and heap are snapshots, not peaks, isolated product allocations, or leak proof.

Workload	Process CPU median, ms main → PR	Thread CPU median, ms main → PR	RSS median, MiB main → PR	Decoded response bytes main → PR
one-short	15.00 → 54.50	15.50 → 23.50	465.31 → 466.25	4,809 → 4,809
one-medium	39.00 → 39.50	23.50 → 30.50	470.11 → 468.03	20,409 → 20,409
one-long	63.00 → 70.00	23.50 → 23.50	472.25 → 475.76	97,940 → 97,940
success-history	687.00 → 102.00	249.50 → 70.50	506.99 → 478.38	20,455,908 → 4,106,360
failed-history	758.00 → 288.50	266.00 → 132.50	486.05 → 476.84	20,456,528 → 4,454,128
failed-long-error	703.00 → 312.50	258.00 → 94.50	477.80 → 477.29	20,584,071 → 4,581,671
middle-error-later-run	656.50 → 274.00	242.50 → 86.00	509.76 → 480.23	20,458,888 → 4,539,993
no-error-fallback	647.50 → 266.00	273.00 → 141.00	498.19 → 482.70	20,455,704 → 4,453,304
success-middle-later-run	672.00 → 789.00	243.00 → 258.00	491.02 → 502.92	20,458,268 → 20,501,911
sparse-success	359.50 → 296.00	140.50 → 93.00	495.59 → 484.13	10,236,379 → 4,106,692

CPU is quantized on Windows (roughly 15–16ms); small and zero counters are inconclusive. Heap/RSS snapshots are not peaks or leak evidence. No CPU/memory neutrality claim. Current-main helper/test spines are identical across all legs. Success parity includes the exact reported-model note. See checks.json and source-proof.json for final checks and source hashes.

Accepted tradeoffs

Later-run success adds one speculative read,74.83ms (+13.00%) elapsed,117ms (+17.4%) process CPU median and11.90MiB (+2.4%) RSS snapshot median. Selected-middle failure also adds a refill read but remains faster in this fixture. One-page reads/decoded bodies match main and timing controls remain within the predeclared limits. Small-case CPU is variable and inconclusive. This is a benefit with disclosed costs, not a blanket no-cost claim. No evidence that current main supersedes the optimization.

Model: gpt-6.1-sol through Codex in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 867ac81

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Remote task results are retrieved with less discarded history while retaining fallback scans and full selected-result reads. The change is confined to retrieval strategy, with limited exposure to extra read latency and no changes to product defaults or access.

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Walkthrough

RemoteDelegation limits text in long failed-task timeline reads and probes the final messages page for completed runs. Tests cover paginated timelines, result selection, item refills, and interruption.

Changes: Remote task result retrieval

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Page through task timelines apps/server/src/peer/RemoteDelegation.ts	lastReply tracks remaining items, limits text on long failed-task scans, and probes the final messages page for completed runs. followOnce enables the probe for completed runs.
Model and verify paginated reads apps/server/src/peer/RemoteDelegation.test.ts	The test thread supports configured timelines, page sizes, and held reads. Tests cover failed and successful task results, page requests, refills, and interruption.

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

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant followOnce
  participant lastReply
  participant t3_thread_read
  followOnce->>lastReply: pass completed-run probe flag
  lastReply->>t3_thread_read: request timeline page
  lastReply->>t3_thread_read: probe final messages page
  t3_thread_read->>lastReply: return page items

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#29268: Both PRs change RemoteDelegation.lastReply timeline reads and text limits.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26776: Both PRs address run-specific replies on remote threads.
• pingdotgg/t3code#33079: Both PRs use thread history to reach recent items without scanning earlier pages.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 867ac

The change reduces history reads when retrieving remote task results and keeps the existing fallback behavior for uncertain cases. No actionable merge-blocking risk was found.

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Extract the duplicated t3_thread_read capture into one helper.

Both new tests contain the same fetch wrapper. The wrapper decodes the request body, filters tools/call for t3_thread_read, and pushes the arguments into reads. The two copies can drift when the RPC envelope changes.

Add one helper, for example recordThreadReads. It returns { reads, fetch } and takes the nativeFetch value. Both tests then call it.

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const recordThreadReads = (nativeFetch: typeof globalThis.fetch) => {
  const reads: Array<OrchestratorMcpThreadReadInput> = [];
  const fetch: typeof globalThis.fetch = (input, init) => {
    const body = init?.body instanceof Uint8Array ? new TextDecoder().decode(init.body) : null;
    if (body?.startsWith("{")) {
      const rpc: {
        method?: string;
        params?: { name?: string; arguments?: OrchestratorMcpThreadReadInput };
      } = JSON.parse(body);
      if (
        rpc.method === "tools/call" &&
        rpc.params?.name === "t3_thread_read" &&
        rpc.params.arguments !== undefined
      ) {
        reads.push(rpc.params.arguments);
      }
    }
    return nativeFetch(input, init);
  };
  return { reads, fetch };
};

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apps/server/src/peer/RemoteDelegation.test.ts: 1

1453-1470: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Extract the duplicated t3_thread_read capture into one helper.

Both new tests carry the same code. It wraps FetchHttpClient.Fetch, decodes the JSON-RPC body, filters tools/call for t3_thread_read, and pushes the arguments into reads. The Effect.scoped and Effect.provide(NodeHttpServer.layerTest) wiring is also identical. A change to the capture logic, such as handling batched or SSE bodies, must now be made twice.

Move the capture into a small helper. For example, captureThreadReads could return { reads, fetch }. Both tests would then call it and pass fetch to Effect.provideService(FetchHttpClient.Fetch, fetch).

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