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Requested by Theo · project thread

What Changed

  • RepositoryIdentityResolver default TTLs go from 1 minute to 10 minutes (positive) and 5 minutes (negative).
  • Git root lookups now cache git's "not a git repository" verdict with the negative TTL, running under LC_ALL=C so the check works on non-English hosts. Before, a null root had a zero TTL, so non-git project roots ran git rev-parse on every resolve.
  • Failed lookups (timeouts, other rev-parse errors, a failed git remote -v) fail with a tagged RepositoryIdentityLookupError. They are not cached and retry immediately. Only a real "no remotes" answer is cached as no repository.
  • Paths where the remote can change now refresh the identity themselves:
    • PR discovery after a finished turn refreshes the project identity, so a remote the agent just added (git remote add, gh repo create --push) gets its PR link right away. If that refresh fails, it keeps the snapshot's identity.
    • The in-app Publish and Initialize actions refresh the identity and re-emit the project shell, as clone completion already did, so connected clients see the new repository.
  • Tests cover non-git roots being cached, failed remote lookups retrying, turn-end discovery picking up a newly added remote, and Initialize re-emitting the project.

Why

The settlement and pull request sweeps resolve every project's identity each minute through the projection snapshot. With a 1 minute TTL the cache had always expired by the next sweep, so each sweep respawned git rev-parse + git remote -v per project, and non-git roots were never cached at all. This showed up in a user perf report as roughly 295 git spawns a minute.

Staleness tradeoff: a remote edit made outside T3 Code and outside an agent turn (for example in a separate terminal) can take up to 10 minutes to show in the project identity. One edge case remains: the settlement guard for reused branches still reads the cached identity. If the primary remote changed in the last 10 minutes and a reused branch has a new open PR on the new remote, settlement can treat the old terminal PR as current, which was already possible within the old 1 minute window.

Verified with vp test run on the RepositoryIdentityResolver, ThreadPullRequestReactor, ProjectionSnapshotQuery and ThreadSettlementReactor tests and the new server.test.ts case, plus tsc --noEmit, lint and fmt for the server.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Repository details now refresh during Git initialization and publishing, helping newly available repository information appear in the project.
    • Pull request synchronization checks for updated repository information during refresh, so newly discoverable pull requests can be synced.
    • When a refresh cannot find repository details, existing project information remains available for pull request synchronization.
    • Temporary repository lookup failures no longer prevent later attempts from discovering repository details.

The settlement and pull request sweeps resolve every project each minute,
but repository identities expired after one minute and non-git roots were
never cached, so each sweep respawned git for every project.

Raise the positive TTL to 10 minutes and the negative TTL to 5 minutes, and
cache git's "not a git repository" verdict for root lookups. Timeouts and
other root lookup failures still retry immediately. Callers that know the
repository changed already pass `refresh: true`.

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 13.5 KiB 13.5 KiB +12 B (+0.1%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB +1 B (+0.0%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 6.4 KiB 6.5 KiB +11 B (+0.2%) 7.8 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 56.2 KiB 56.3 KiB +44 B (+0.1%) 66.4 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 9 10 +1 (+11.1%) 21 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 13.5 KiB 13.5 KiB +11 B (+0.1%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 6.4 KiB 6.4 KiB +11 B (+0.2%) 7.8 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 57.0 KiB 57.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 66.4 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 9 9 0 (0.0%) 21 ✅

Baseline: ed809f7 · PR result: 1c7fd42 · 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: 113.9 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.7 KiB

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes production cache defaults and repository-identity freshness semantics, with additional refreshes and project metadata emissions on initialization and publishing. These cross-cutting runtime changes warrant human review despite the focused scope and added tests.

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Repository identity lookup now distinguishes lookup failures from missing repository data. Refresh paths update identity before pull-request discovery or Git status updates. The refresh helper skips metadata updates when identity resolution returns null.

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Repository identity resolution and refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify and cache repository lookups
apps/server/src/project/RepositoryIdentityResolver.ts, apps/server/src/project/RepositoryIdentityResolver.test.ts
Root and remote lookup failures use RepositoryIdentityLookupError. resolve converts lookup failures to null, while caches leave failures uncached. Negative root results use the configured TTL, which defaults to five minutes. Tests cover retry after a remote lookup failure and refresh of a negative result.
Refresh identity before downstream discovery
apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadPullRequestReactor.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/server.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadPullRequestReactor.test.ts
Repository publish and VCS initialization refresh identity before Git status. The refresh helper skips metadata updates when identity resolution returns null. Refresh requests resolve identity before pull-request discovery and retain the snapshot identity if refresh returns null. Tests cover initialization, publishing, and pull-request discovery.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1c7fd

The reviewed changes preserve the existing project identity when a refresh fails, and the Initialize refresh can retry after invalidating the cached lookup. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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In `@apps/server/src/project/RepositoryIdentityResolver.ts`:
- Around line 114-121: Set a stable C locale in the Git root lookup command so
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Git translates its "not a git repository" diagnostic, so non-English
hosts would miss the negative cache and respawn git on every resolve.

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With longer identity TTLs, paths that add a remote must refresh it
themselves:

- PR discovery after a finished turn refreshes the project identity, so a
  remote the agent just added gets its PR link right away.
- Publish and Initialize refresh the identity for their directory.
- A failed `git remote -v` is no longer cached as "no repository".

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Publish and Initialize now re-emit the project shell after refreshing its
identity, as clone completion does, so connected clients see the new
repository without a reload. Turn-end PR discovery keeps the snapshot's
identity when the refresh fails, so a transient git error cannot drop a
thread from backfill.

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Replace the generic NoSuchElementError with a tagged
RepositoryIdentityLookupError that records the stage, directory, exit
code and underlying process failure.

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- Around line 1877-1878: Update the flow using
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7687-7688: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the identity on the refreshed project shell.

The init and publish cases return null, mock the project identity as null, and record only command types. No assertion detects a missing identity.

Do not assert repositoryIdentity on project.meta.update; that command has no such field. Return a representative non-null identity and assert its fields on the refreshed project shell or client update observed by the test. Keep the command-type assertion for the re-emission check.

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In `@apps/server/src/server.test.ts` around lines 7687 - 7688, Update the init and
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assert its fields on the refreshed project shell or observed client update,
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- Around line 7687-7688: Update the init and publish test cases to return a
representative non-null project identity and assert its fields on the refreshed
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Keep the command-type assertion that verifies re-emission.

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…nothing

A failed lookup resolves to null, and re-emitting the shell then could
replace a client's valid identity with null. Init without a remote also
resolves to null and has nothing new to send.

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With a 15-minute identity TTL, an agent that adds or changes a remote
during a turn could leave its PR unlinked for up to 15 minutes. Turn-end
PR discovery now resolves the project identity with refresh: true and
keeps the snapshot identity if the refresh finds nothing.

Ported from #13722.

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With a 15-minute identity TTL, an agent that adds or changes a remote
during a turn could leave its PR unlinked for up to 15 minutes. Turn-end
PR discovery now resolves the project identity with refresh: true and
keeps the snapshot identity if the refresh finds nothing.

Ported from #13722.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

Closing as superseded by #13689, which merged. Both raise the repository identity TTL past the 1-minute sweep interval. #13689 does it in about 40 lines and also ports this PR's turn-end identity refresh in ThreadPullRequestReactor (credited in its description). The rest here (typed lookup errors, publish/init re-emit) is not needed for the performance fix.

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