fix(shared): DrainableWorker keeps running after a failed item

[juliusmarminge]

Problem

makeDrainableWorker ran every item inside its worker loop. If the processor failed or died on one item, the error escaped the loop and the worker fiber exited. Later items were never processed, and every later drain hung forever because the outstanding count for those items was never decremented.

A probe test against main shows it. It enqueued a dying item and then a normal item. The worker fiber exited with the boom defect, processed stayed [], and drain never resolved.

Fix

packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.ts now runs each item as Effect.suspend(() => process(a)), then applies Effect.catchCause to log the cause with Effect.logError("DrainableWorker item failed", cause). Effect.ensuring still decrements the outstanding count. A failed or defective item is logged and skipped, and the loop moves on to the next one. An item that only interrupted itself is skipped without a log, because every caller treats an interrupt-only cause as a cancellation. The suspend also catches a process that throws while building its effect.

Interrupts are not swallowed. In Effect 4.0.1, interrupting a fiber skips catchCause handlers on the way out (exitFailCause unwinds past them while the fiber is interruptible, in internal/core.ts). So when the worker's scope closes, the fiber still stops. A probe confirmed this: an interrupted fiber ran its ensuring but not its catchCause handler, and its exit had interrupts. A new test checks that closing the scope stops the worker, logs nothing, and never runs the queued item.

Closing the scope used to leave drain waiting forever too: the queue's shutdown dropped queued items without uncounting them, and enqueue counted items the shut-down queue refused. The shutdown finalizer now uncounts the dropped items in the same transaction as the shutdown (an item still running uncounts itself, so this also holds when a parallel scope runs the finalizers concurrently), and enqueue only counts items the queue accepted. drain also returns void now, instead of leaking the count through Effect.tap.

Callers checked

• apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.ts: processThreadPublish catches the causes of publishThreadUnsafe. The code around it (the retry timer interrupt and schedulePublishRetry) is not guarded, so a defect there used to stop the publish worker and hang publishThread, which awaits drain.
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadSettlementService.ts: runSweep catches non-interrupt causes itself and re-raises interrupt-only causes. On shutdown the worker still stops silently; an item that interrupted itself is now skipped instead of stopping the worker.
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadPullRequestService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.ts, apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts: these already log non-interrupt causes. Their own handling is unchanged, and the worker is now the backstop.

Verification

• vp test run src/DrainableWorker.test.ts in packages/shared: 3 passed (3). This includes two new tests:
  • logs a failed or defective item and keeps processing later items: a typed failure, a defect, a self-interrupting item, then a normal item. The normal item is processed, drain resolves, and only the failure and the defect are logged at Error level. The test races drain against the worker fiber's exit, so the old code fails it (expected [] to deeply equal [ 'ok' ]) instead of hanging.
  • stops quietly when its scope closes during an item: closing the scope while an item runs leaves the worker fiber with an interrupted exit, logs nothing, never runs the queued item, and a drain after an enqueue on the closed worker completes at once. It fails on main (drain never completes).
• vp test run src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.test.ts src/storageCleanup.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/ThreadPullRequestService.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/ThreadSettlementService.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts in apps/server: 5 files, 77 passed (77).
• vp exec tsc --noEmit -p . in packages/shared: exit 0. The only diagnostic is an existing TS377114 suggestion in src/symlink.ts, which this PR does not touch.
• vp lint packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.ts packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.test.ts: exit 0, no warnings.

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Verdict: Approved at 9e304cd

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused, well-tested fix to an existing shared worker’s failure and shutdown accounting, with no schema, deployment, security, billing, or default changes. Its production impact is limited to making existing background workers continue and drain correctly after failed items or scope closure.

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

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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	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅

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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
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The worker counts accepted items, logs non-interruption failures and defects, and continues processing. Scope closure drops queued items and updates the outstanding count. Tests cover failure handling, interruption, and draining.

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Drainable worker failure handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Work accounting and scope closure packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.ts	The worker increments the outstanding count only when the queue accepts an item. It decrements the count when an item finishes and removes pending items from the count when the scope closes. drain retries while work remains.
Item processing and validation packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.ts, packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.test.ts	The worker suspends item effect construction, logs non-interruption failures and defects, skips interruption-only causes, and continues processing. Tests cover failure logging, later items, interruption, and draining after scope closure.

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packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.test.ts (1)

27-28: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test both item-local failure paths.

Effect.suspend lets a synchronous throw from process reach the item failure handler, and Effect.catchCause handles an item’s returned interruption. The test exercises neither path. Add both cases before "ok". Also assert that drain wins the race: raceFirst can currently finish when the worker fiber exits, without proving that drain completed.

Suggested test changes

         const processed: string[] = [];
         const workerFiber = yield* Deferred.make<Fiber.Fiber<unknown, unknown>>();
-        const worker = yield* makeDrainableWorker((item: string) =>
-          Effect.gen(function* () {
+        const syncError = new Error("sync throw");
+        const worker = yield* makeDrainableWorker((item: string) => {
+          if (item === "throw") throw syncError;
+          return Effect.gen(function* () {
             yield* Deferred.succeed(workerFiber, yield* Effect.fiber);
             if (item === "fail") return yield* Effect.fail("typed failure");
             if (item === "die") return yield* Effect.die("defect");
+            if (item === "interrupt") return yield* Effect.interrupt;
             processed.push(item);
-          }),
-        );
+          });
+        });
 
         yield* worker.enqueue("fail");
         yield* worker.enqueue("die");
+        yield* worker.enqueue("throw");
+        yield* worker.enqueue("interrupt");
         yield* worker.enqueue("ok");
 
         // A stopped worker never drains; its exit settles the race instead of a hang.
-        yield* Effect.raceFirst(worker.drain, Fiber.await(yield* Deferred.await(workerFiber)));
+        const drainResult = yield* Effect.raceFirst(
+          worker.drain.pipe(Effect.as("drained")),
+          Fiber.await(yield* Deferred.await(workerFiber)).pipe(Effect.as("worker-exited")),
+        );
 
+        expect(drainResult).toBe("drained");
         expect(processed).toEqual(["ok"]);
-        expect(loggedErrors).toEqual(["typed failure", "defect"]);
+        expect(loggedErrors).toHaveLength(4);
+        expect(loggedErrors).toEqual(
+          expect.arrayContaining(["typed failure", "defect", syncError]),
+        );

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