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fix(server): a failed Claude wake dispatch no longer drops every later wake - #28173

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Problem

When the dispatch of a Claude background-task wake fails (for example, the database write fails on a full disk), the wake is dropped. Claude's requestedContinuations latch also stays set for that native thread, so every later wake on the same CLI process is dropped silently. The CLI keeps working, but its output never reaches the thread, and a user turn does not clear the latch.

Reproduced on main (79f1fad) with a Claude thread whose T3 home is on a small tmpfs:

  1. Start a background sleep job and end the turn.
  2. Fill the disk.
  3. The job finishes and its wake fails to dispatch with database or disk is full.
  4. Free the disk, then send a message that starts a second background job.
  5. When the second job finishes, the CLI answers, but no wake is detected and nothing appears in the thread.

Change

  • ProviderContinuationService: the dispatch-failed handler now calls request.clearIfCurrent for non-delegated requests. Delegated completions keep their existing retry path. This also covers Muse, which supplies clearIfCurrent but only had it called for archived threads and disabled instances. ACP and Pi already release their latch when dispatchIfCurrent fails, and calling clearIfCurrent again is a no-op for them.
  • ClaudeAdapterV2: the wake offer now supplies clearIfCurrent. requestedContinuations maps each native thread to a per-offer token, so a stale request (for example, one failing after a process reset re-latched the thread) cannot release a newer wake's latch.

Once the latch is released, the next frame of the failed wake, or the next wake, offers a continuation again. The wake buffer is still intact, so the next run drains the failed wake's output into the thread.

Scope and approval

Fixes #28163

Verification

Focused tests (the first two fail on main for this reason):

  • ProviderContinuationService.test.ts › "clears a sticky continuation offer when a non-delegated wake dispatch fails generically". On main it fails with: a failed non-delegated wake dispatch is dropped without calling clearIfCurrent, so the adapter's wake latch stays set and later wakes are silently dropped.
  • ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts › "offers a later wake after an earlier wake's continuation dispatch failed". On main it fails with: the Claude wake request offers no clearIfCurrent, so a failed dispatch can never release the wake latch and every later wake on this process is dropped.
  • ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts › "keeps a newer wake latched when a stale continuation request is cleared". This covers the per-offer token guard.
  • vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck, 295 tests in the changed files). I also ran the Muse, Pi, ACP and ACP-registry adapter tests: 239 passed.

Runtime transcript from the real dev server with a Claude (Sonnet 5.5) thread, on fresh synthetic databases on a 256 MB tmpfs T3 home. Before = main 79f1fad, after = b022f0d. The fix commit is unchanged by the later merge of main.

# #28163 runtime transcript (synthetic dev data, fresh databases on a 256 MB tmpfs T3 home)
# Driver: Claude Sonnet 5.5 thread; job A started in background; WAL checkpoint-truncated and tmpfs filled while idle;
# job A finishes -> wake dispatch fails (disk full); tmpfs freed; user sends a new message that starts job B.

## Before: main 79f1fadfc6
[15:22:15.759] INFO (#9526): orchestration-v2.claude-wake-turn-detected
[15:22:15.808] WARN (#7488): orchestration-v2.provider-continuation.dispatch-failed
      '          [cause]: Error: database or disk is full\n' +
# provider event log: the CLI emitted WAKE3_REPORT (job B's wake) at:
[2026-10-31T15:23:12.953Z]
[2026-10-31T15:23:12.970Z]
# Thread shows neither WAKE2_REPORT nor WAKE3_REPORT; no wake turn detected for job B (latch still set).

## After: fix/issue-28163 b022f0dbde
[15:19:01.531] INFO (#9947): orchestration-v2.claude-wake-turn-detected
[15:19:01.564] WARN (#7504): orchestration-v2.provider-continuation.dispatch-failed
[15:19:03.154] INFO (#9947): orchestration-v2.claude-wake-turn-detected
[15:19:03.182] WARN (#7504): orchestration-v2.provider-continuation.dispatch-failed
[15:20:06.590] INFO (#9947): orchestration-v2.claude-wake-turn-detected
[15:20:08.282] INFO (#9947): orchestration-v2.claude-wake-turn-detected
      '          [cause]: Error: database or disk is full\n' +
      '        [cause]: Error: database or disk is full\n' +
# Thread shows WAKE2_REPORT (the failed wake, drained by the next run) and WAKE3_REPORT.

The before thread ends at "The 30-second job is running in the background", with no WAKE2_REPORT or WAKE3_REPORT. The after thread shows both: the failed wake's output, drained by the next run, and the later wake's.

Not checked:

  • Windows desktop (the reporter's platform). The fix is platform-independent server code.
  • A retried wake loses its own notification label and is shown under the next run's label. This is pre-existing, cosmetic, and left out of scope.
Driver scripts (scratch, not committed)
# fill-disk.sh <mountpoint> fill|free
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Fill (or free) the tmpfs that holds a T3 dev home, standing in for the full disk in #28163.
# usage: fill-disk.sh <mountpoint> fill|free
set -u
mnt="$1"; action="$2"
case "$action" in
  fill) dd if=/dev/zero of="$mnt/filler" bs=1M status=none 2>/dev/null; dd if=/dev/zero of="$mnt/filler-tail" bs=4k status=none 2>/dev/null; date -u +"%FT%T filled" ;;
  free) rm -f "$mnt/filler" "$mnt/filler-tail"; date -u +"%FT%T freed" ;;
esac
df -B1 --output=avail "$mnt" | tail -1
# truncate-and-fill.sh <mountpoint>: run after the turn that starts the job ends
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Checkpoint-truncate the dev DB's WAL so the server's next write must allocate, then fill the tmpfs.
set -u
mnt="$1"
python3 -I -c 'import sqlite3,sys; c=sqlite3.connect(sys.argv[1]); print("checkpoint", c.execute("PRAGMA wal_checkpoint(TRUNCATE)").fetchone())' "$mnt/userdata/statev2.sqlite"
ls -la "$mnt/userdata/" | grep statev2
/tmp/issue-lead-28163-r1/fill-disk.sh "$mnt" fill

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, red test, implementation, review B) and GPT-6.1-Sol (review A) via Claude Code and Codex in T3 Code.

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juliusmarminge and others added 3 commits October 31, 2026 14:46
…ion dispatch

These tests reproduce #28163. A plain wake request whose dispatch fails is
dropped without calling clearIfCurrent, and Claude's wake request has no
clearIfCurrent at all, so the adapter's requestedContinuations latch stays
set and every later wake on that process is silently dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Claude wakes

When the continuation service failed to dispatch a plain (non-delegated)
wake, for example on a full disk, it logged and dropped the request
without calling clearIfCurrent. Claude's wake offer had no clearIfCurrent
anyway, so its per-thread latch stayed set and every later wake on that
CLI process was silently ignored. Muse had the same leak.

The dispatch-failed handler now calls clearIfCurrent for non-delegated
requests. Claude's offer supplies one that releases its latch only while
that request still owns it, so a stale failure after a process reset
cannot release a newer wake's latch and enqueue a duplicate run. ACP and
Pi already self-clear on dispatch failure, so the extra call does nothing
for them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at aed8f0b

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Failed Claude wake dispatches now release their own deduplication latch so later wakes can proceed, while stale cleanup cannot release a newer wake. The change is limited to existing failure recovery and preserves delegated-completion retries.

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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 ✅

Baseline: c90b678 · PR result: 4306574 · 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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The Claude adapter now tracks pending continuation requests with unique symbols and clears a latch only when its symbol is current. After a non-delegated dispatch fails, the continuation service calls the request’s cleanup callback when provided. Tests cover subsequent wakes and stale callbacks.

Changes: Claude wake latch cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Token-guarded continuation latch
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts
The adapter tracks pending continuation requests with unique symbols and clears a request only if its symbol is still current. Tests cover a later wake after failed dispatch and confirm that stale cleanup does not clear a newer wake.
Failed dispatch cleanup
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderContinuationService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderContinuationService.test.ts
The service calls clearIfCurrent after a failed non-delegated dispatch when the callback is provided. Delegated-completion failures retain their retry flow. A test covers a failed non-delegated dispatch.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#17099 — Describes the Claude continuation latch remaining set when a continuation is dropped. This change adds cleanup for non-delegated dispatch failures; the provider-switch path remains separate.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#30052 — Describes the same latch dropping later wakes. This change handles dispatch failures, but does not establish cleanup for cancellation or promotion.

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#30090 — Both changes use offer-specific tokens and clearIfCurrent; this PR handles dispatch failure, while that PR handles an accepted continuation that later ends.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#30114 — Both changes address Claude wake latches with per-offer tokens; this PR handles dispatch failure, while that PR handles a queued continuation that ends without starting.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review aed8f

The previously identified test race is addressed, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: failed Claude wake dispatches no longer leave later wakes blocked.
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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #28163 requires a failed Claude wake dispatch to retry or release its latch. The change clears non-delegated failed requests. ClaudeAdapterV2 uses a per-offer token so a stale failure cannot c…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The PR summary identifies changes to continuation failure handling, Claude wake latch state, and focused tests. These changes support issue #28163. The incremental head also includes a merge from `ori…
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Issue #28163 requires a failed Claude wake dispatch to retry or release its latch. The change clears non-delegated failed requests. ClaudeAdapterV2 uses a per-offer token so a stale failure cannot clear a newer latch. The added tests cover later wake offers and stale-request protection. The prior PASS remains supported.

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Wait for the cleanup callback, not scheduler yields.

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@juliusmarminge juliusmarminge added bugfix Fix PR opened by an issue lead; enters the PR loop pr:gate-failed A land gate failed labels Oct 31, 2026
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This repeats the wake attachment sequence in starts the wake run when Claude opens the wake turn. Could the stale-clear scenario be folded into that existing test, retaining the second wake and final assertion?

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Evidence

Real servers and Claude processes; fresh synthetic databases on separate 256 MiB tmpfs filesystems; Chromium web clients, 1280×800, light theme.

Start delayed background job A and end the turn. Fill the database filesystem and observe a disk-full continuation dispatch failure. Free space without restarting either process. Start delayed background job B and let it finish.

Before After
c90b67859a 4306574ef5
Before: neither report delivered After: both reports delivered
Full recording Full recording
Three runs including setup; neither report appears, although Claude emits report B. Five runs including setup; buffered report A and later report B both appear.
Runtime transcript, server/native excerpts Runtime transcript, server/native excerpts

Reproduction and seed driver. Each side retained its original Claude process. Private labels were masked; final screenshots passed the 500 ms stability check.

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  • Muse, ACP, Pi and delegated completion behavior were not exercised; this proof covers the reported non-delegated Claude wake failure.
  • The stale-offer token guard was not independently exercised; the recording demonstrates recovery after a real disk-full dispatch failure.
  • Windows desktop and mobile were not exercised; captures show the real Linux server and web client.

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[Bug]: A failed Claude wake dispatch leaves requestedContinuations set, so later wakes are dropped and their output never reaches the thread

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