fix(server): a thread with an event type from a newer build can still resync after a downgrade

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After a downgrade, a thread's event log can hold a row whose event type the running server doesn't know, written by the newer build. Web and mobile resume a thread from their cached position when they reconnect. If that row comes after the cached position, the resync fails with SchemaError: Expected "thread.archived" | .... The thread then stays on "Syncing messages..." for good, because every retry replays from the same point and fails the same way.

Client replay in ws.ts now skips a row with an unknown event type, both for a thread (subscribeOrchestrationV2Thread) and for the sidebar's shell stream (subscribeOrchestrationV2Shell), which failed the same way when it resumed past that row. It logs one warning with the aggregate kind, the sequence and the type's length, not the type itself. Everything else that reads the event store stays strict: appends, the provider ingestor, projections and the default read. A known type with a broken payload still fails, even during replay. Both reads page by raw rows before skipping, so a page that ends on a skipped row doesn't end the replay early, and the replay limit still counts every row. The live tail resumes from highWater, which is computed separately, so a skipped row can't hide later events.

This is a very small, focused fix for an obvious bug (CONTRIBUTING.md). One strict decode on the replay path leaves a thread unable to sync. The fix is an opt-in skip on that one path, and older clients already skip unknown event types the same way (isKnownOrchestrationV2EventType reuses the contract's existing list of known types).

Replaces #14206, which targeted the deleted v2 branch.

Testing

Real server on an isolated home, with the real web app:

1. Send a message in a thread so it has real history and the client has a cached position.
2. Stop the server. Insert one row into orchestration_events with an unknown event_type (thread.turn-item.exotic-future-feature) after the real rows, as a downgrade would leave it. Restart the server.
3. Reload the page so the client resyncs from its cached position.

Before (main at 14fe0158ed): the thread sits on "Syncing messages..." and never recovers. It stays stuck for the whole recording. Every resync hits the same unknown row and fails the same way, so it never recovers on its own.

Video: https://files.catbox.moe/num27r.mp4

After: the thread loads and the composer works again. The server logs one line:

WARN: Skipping an application event row with an unknown event type
  { threadId: '39f02df6-1caf-48b2-a75c-35a4c7d9db47', sequence: 43, eventTypeLength: 38 }

This was recorded before a later cleanup; the warning now logs aggregateKind in place of threadId.

Video: https://files.catbox.moe/fe41vx.mp4

• vp test run apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts apps/server/src/ws.test.ts packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.test.ts: 57 passed. The tests cover both reads: an unknown row in the middle or at the end is skipped with sequences intact, a full 500-row page of unknown rows doesn't end the replay early, and a known type with a broken payload still fails. A ws.test.ts case resumes the shell subscription past an unknown row and gets synchronized plus the later known event; it fails if skipUnknownEventTypes is removed from that caller.
• vp run -F t3 typecheck and vp run -F @t3tools/contracts typecheck are clean. Lint on the touched files is clean apart from three unused imports in ws.ts that are already on main.

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Verdict: Approved at 08fdcc5

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused replay-resilience bug fix that opt-in skips only unknown persisted event types while preserving strict decoding everywhere else and maintaining later-event pagination. Targeted tests cover thread and shell resumption, page boundaries, and malformed known payloads.

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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	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−24 B (−0.5%)	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	−24 B (−2.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	−41 B (−0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	1	−1 (−50.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: df26ef9 · PR result: 08fdcc5 · 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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Persisted orchestration event replay can skip unknown event types when the caller opts in. Thread and shell subscriptions use this option, while known event types still undergo payload decoding.

Changes: Orchestration event replay

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define unknown-event handling packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts, apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.ts	A helper checks whether a V2 event type is known. Event read inputs add an optional flag to skip unknown event types.
Filter unknown events during reads apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.ts, apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts	Agent and application reads can warn and omit unknown rows when skipping is enabled. Application replay paginates raw rows. Tests cover unknown rows, replay limits, default strict behavior, and malformed payloads for known types.
Enable skipping for thread and shell replay apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/ws.test.ts	Thread and shell subscriptions enable skipping for persisted replay and continue the live tail from the recorded high-water sequence. Integration tests cover replay and live-tail behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 08fdc

Thread and shell replay now tolerate event types written by a newer build, and known events are still decoded strictly. A bounded agent read can return fewer known events when unknown rows consume its limit. This only affects callers that opt in with a limit, and the risk is small.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 08fdc

The compatibility exception is narrowly scoped and preserves access checks and validation of recognized events. No introduced security weakness was established. Confidence is limited to the replay paths examined, rather than every downgrade scenario.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The affected output scope is an existing authenticated environment's replay streams: one selected thread for thread replay, and project/thread application events for shell replay. This PR changes tolerated persisted row types, not the existing access scope or event-store ownership.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Client-selected thread identifiers and resume positions feed parameterized event reads. Unknown rows are omitted from replay rather than interpreted as commands or applied to server state. The exception does not grant write authority, and the inspected paths did not establish an introduced attack path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — WebSocket upgrades authenticate a session, and RPC authorization checks that session's scopes. Both replay subscription methods require orchestration-read scope. These existing controls remain in place; the new exception concerns decoding persisted unknown discriminants, not authentication or authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Skipped rows cannot bypass the existing raw-row replay bounds. On interruption, replay from the last delivered sequence can re-read and skip the same unknown rows deterministically. The existing subscribe-before-highWater buffer and sequence overlap handling preserve concurrent-append handoff; the PR does not introduce a new recovery mechanism.

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apps/server/src/persistence/Layers/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts (1)

499-577: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise unknown-row filtering across a full raw page.

The new fixture has one unknown row, so it does not test continuation after a 500-row page. The sequence test covers pagination across more than 500 rows, but every event type there is known. It therefore does not detect a regression where filtering unknown rows makes catchUpApplicationEvents stop before later known events.

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         const before = yield* store.appendProjectEvent(projectEvent("before"));
-        // Row a newer build wrote that this build has never learned -- what a
-        // downgrade leaves behind. Same shape as the thread-replay fixture
-        // above, on the aggregate shell replay also reads.
-        yield* sql`
-          INSERT INTO orchestration_events (
-            event_id, aggregate_kind, stream_id, stream_version, event_type,
-            occurred_at, actor_kind, payload_json, metadata_json, application_event_version
-          ) VALUES (
-            ${"event:shell-skip-unknown:future"}, 'thread', ${"thread:shell-skip-unknown"}, 0,
-            'thread.turn-item.exotic-future-feature', ${now}, 'server',
-            '{"anything":true}', '{}', 2
-          )
-        `;
+        const unknownRows = Array.from({ length: 500 }, (_, index) => ({
+          event_id: `event:shell-skip-unknown:future-${index}`,
+          aggregate_kind: "thread" as const,
+          stream_id: "thread:shell-skip-unknown",
+          stream_version: index,
+          event_type: "thread.turn-item.exotic-future-feature",
+          occurred_at: now,
+          actor_kind: "server" as const,
+          payload_json: '{"anything":true}',
+          metadata_json: "{}",
+          application_event_version: 2,
+        }));
+        yield* sql`INSERT INTO orchestration_events ${sql.insert(unknownRows)}`;
         const after = yield* store.appendProjectEvent(projectEvent("after"));

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Update the shell-resume filtering test around `readApplicationEvents` to insert
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apps/server/src/ws.ts (1)

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Exercise an unknown persisted event through the shell subscription.

The integration test subscribes to the shell stream and checks synchronization, but it does not include an unknown event in the replay range. The store test covers that event only through readApplicationEvents. Removing skipUnknownEventTypes from this caller would therefore go undetected. Add a shell-resume case that persists an unknown event between known events and asserts synchronization or delivery of the later known event.

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Add a shell-resume integration test that persists an unknown event between known
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🟡 Minor · Count emitted events, not skipped rows, against limit. · OrchestrationEventStore.ts:443-444

apps/server/src/persistence/Layers/OrchestrationEventStore.ts:443-444
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Count emitted events, not skipped rows, against limit.

If limit is 1 and the first raw row has an unknown type, remaining reaches zero before this filter runs. The stream returns no events even if a known event follows. When skipping is enabled, continue reading raw pages until the requested number of known events is emitted or the range ends.

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apps/server/src/ws.test.ts (1)

27-27: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use namespace imports for service modules. The new named imports conflict with the repository's service-module convention.

• apps/server/src/ws.test.ts#L27-L27: import ThreadManagementService as a namespace and qualify its tag.
• apps/server/src/ws.test.ts#L29-L29: import the event-store layer module as a namespace and qualify its layer.
• apps/server/src/ws.test.ts#L31-L31: import the event-store service module as a namespace and qualify its tag.
• apps/server/src/ws.test.ts#L33-L34: import both project service modules as namespaces and qualify their tags.
• apps/server/src/persistence/Layers/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts#L30-L30: use a namespace import for the event-store layer module and qualify READ_PAGE_SIZE.

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Replace named imports with namespace imports for the service and layer modules,
then qualify each referenced tag, layer, and constant through its module
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emitted known events rather than raw rows. When `skipUnknownEventTypes` is
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layer import and layer; lines 31–31, update the event-store service import and
tag; and lines 33–34, update both project service imports and tags. In
apps/server/src/persistence/Layers/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts lines 30–30,
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