fix(server): runs no longer get stuck

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Problem

Four V2 lifecycle paths could leave a run stuck or drop live events:

• A rollback retry could restore files under a new turn. The outbox only held a thread's later effects behind a running effect. If a rollback failed once, a turn started during its retry backoff ran first, then the retry restored checkpoint files while that turn worked.
• A failed state read looked like "the run moved on". The turn start guards turned any projection read error into false. One SQL error made the start skip the provider turn or the terminal write, the run stayed active, and the worker marked the effect done.
• A failed release left a ready session and live approvals. Release removes the live session first, then writes the stopped status and resolves pending requests under Effect.ignore. If a write failed, nothing logged it, and a later release found nothing to clean up.
• Live events could reach clients out of order. Writers publish after their transaction with no ordering. If writer A was descheduled between commit and publish, writer B's later event went out first, and clients drop anything at or below their cursor. A new test reproduced this: subscribers got sequences [2, 1].

Fix

• Outbox: a thread's effects run one at a time in enqueue (rowid) order. An earlier effect that waits out a backoff still blocks later ones. Title generation keeps its own lane.
• Guards: read failures propagate. A read failure right before the provider call goes through the existing start-failure path. That path now records the failed terminal with the transactional writeIfRunCurrent guard instead of a second read that can fail the same way.
• Release: the status write and the request cleanup each run even if the other fails, and failures are logged. Failed cleanup retries in the background (capped backoff, defects included) until it lands. Each retry holds the session's open lock. If a replacement session with the same id is live, the retry skips the status write and settles only the requests created before the release. Each released session keeps its own retry.
• Event sink: each writer takes a one-permit publish lane as the last step inside its transaction and releases it after publishing. The lane is taken inside the transaction because LegacyV1ThreadImporter writes inside an outer transaction, so taking it outside could deadlock.

Each fix has a focused test that fails without it.

Report items (tech debt hunt, 2026-10-02)

• S3: a failed state read leaves a run active
• S4: a rollback retry can restore files under a new turn
• S5: a failed provider release leaves a ready session and live approvals
• S15: live events can reach clients out of order (reproduced by a test first)
• S2: dropped. Open #14424 already fails the run on the last start or restart attempt, including interrupt and detach failures. Its failStartingRun guard checks the run's current attempt, not the attempt the restart effect was created for.

Notes

• #14424 also edits isCurrentAttemptInStatus. This PR makes that guard propagate errors at the source, so its separate read helper is no longer needed. Whichever merges second rebases.
• Not covered: if the guarded terminal write itself fails, the run still stays active, because start is a no-op once a run is running. That is the same class #14856 handles for the event consumer.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

⚠️ The thread fixture changed, so impact percentages are not directly comparable to the main baseline.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	4.9 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.7 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.4 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	4.9 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.7 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.7 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	1	—	8	✅

Baseline: 408ff8a · PR result: de80de5 · 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: 106.1 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 106.4 KiB

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes several core orchestration paths, including effect ordering, transaction-scoped event publication, session-release retries, and run-failure handling. The added tests are focused, but the production concurrency and lifecycle changes have a broad enough runtime impact to merit human review.

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Walkthrough

The orchestration changes enforce same-thread effect ordering, serialize post-commit event publication, retry provider-session release records, and propagate projection-store read errors through provider-turn checks and run finalization.

Changes

Orchestration consistency

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Per-thread effect ordering apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts	Earlier pending effects and running effects block later candidates in the same lane. Tests cover delayed retries, title-generation effects, and cancellation.
Commit-ordered event publication apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EventSink.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts	Event writes use a shared publication lane and publish stored events after commit. Tests check the order of events delivered to the live stream.
Provider-session release recording and retries apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.test.ts	Release recording settles eligible requests using a release-time cutoff. Failed writes trigger retries, and retries skip session-status updates when a replacement session is live.
Projection-read errors during provider startup and finalization apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.test.ts	Projection-store read failures propagate through provider-turn checks. Run execution handles start-check failures through its failure path and uses guarded writes during failure finalization.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to de80d

Most of the stuck-run fixes look sound. However, a Stop issued just before a provider stream failure may never receive its result. Also, a failed session release that can never succeed keeps retrying in the background until the server shuts down. Resolve the interrupt-settlement path before merging.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts:
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• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts
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Bound the release-record retry, or stop it once the records are no longer needed.

Effect.retry uses Schedule.exponential with a 30-second delay cap. The schedule has no attempt limit or time limit. A deterministic failure keeps this fiber alive in releaseRecordRetries until layer shutdown. Examples are a removed thread or an invariant defect in writeReleasedRuntimeRequestEvents. The fiber logs a warning every 30 seconds. It also takes the sessionOpen lock for each attempt, so it competes with open calls for the same providerSessionId. The comment at Lines 767-768 retries every non-interrupt cause. That policy also retries defects that are not transient.

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Preserve interrupt-request settlement when the run is no longer current.

If a hard Stop moves the run out of running and the provider event stream then fails, writeIfRunCurrent rejects this fallback write. The fallback no longer calls hasUnpairedRunInterruptRequest, so it does not emit the interrupt result that writeFinalRunEvents emits for a superseded interrupted attempt. Keep that settlement path when the ownership check returns false. Use the transactional guard when the ownership read itself fails.

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