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perf(server): bound retained VCS status snapshots - #18842
2026-10-23 verification at 5f82b5b454. Main was integrated without changing the bounded status-cache, eviction reload, turn-end refresh or subscriber retry behavior. Focused broadcaster tests and scoped lint/format pass. Older heap/performance measurements and hosted verdicts below describe their linked commits; they were not measured again.
Earlier validation counts, review verdicts, CI status and captures below refer to their original revisions; older “current head” wording refers to those revisions. These focused local checks do not certify the whole suite.
Problem
VcsStatusBroadcaster caches local and remote VCS status per cwd and never removes an entry. A long-running environment that visits many thread worktrees keeps every snapshot, including its changed-file list, for the life of the server, and every status update copies the whole map. Stream cleanup releases remote pollers but never the cache.
Change
The cache keeps the 256 most recently used cwds. Reads and updates mark an entry as recent; the oldest is evicted. All three cache-update paths share one helper.
After a turn, a cwd with an active remote poller still gets its PR refresh even if its snapshot was evicted (background policy still applies).
Scope and approval
A small, focused memory fix, so it uses the no-prior-issue exception. One service.
Earlier revision verification
The local test, lint, typecheck, heap-probe, and independent-review results below were recorded before the latest merge from main; they were not rerun locally for e087cd7.
New VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts cases on the real service: eviction and reload, hot and recent hits, turn-end PR updates after eviction (fetching disabled, background gating), and local, remote and full events for foreground and passive subscribers. On main 4 fail (log); with the fix, 28 pass (log), rerun after an earlier rebase onto main.
Heap probe (node --expose-gc, 100 changed files per snapshot, one sample per revision):
Independent review by Claude Opus 5.5 (high) through T3 delegated tasks: round 1 found that the turn-end PR refresh was skipped after eviction for watched cwds (fixed, with a regression test); round 2 found no defects.
Subscriptions requesting remote status reload missing remote snapshots after eviction, including when a zero-interval poller already exists. Subscriptions with includeRemote: false retain their existing behavior.
Found by a GPT-6.1 Sol (high) audit and implemented by GPT-6.1 Sol (high) in T3 Code. Reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5. Coordinated by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code via T3 Code. Agent-authored, sponsored by Alex Southwell.
Earlier follow-up: subscribers after eviction (cb65ed2, 2e04b3e)
Once a snapshot is evicted, a new subscriber could receive remote: null and never get the remote status, because a poller running with a zero interval only refreshes once. A new subscriber now triggers one scoped initial refresh (onlyIfMissing, under the remote-write lock), which is skipped when a remote status is already cached. Transient failures retry with the existing capped backoff, and the retry ends with the subscriber's scope. A new test with TestClock fails on the previous head and passes now. VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts: 30 passed. Reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 (high), two rounds. The first round's retry gap is fixed, and the second found no actionable findings.
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The current head e087cd7 merges main into the reviewed subscriber fix. The CI workflow and all individual non-skipped checks have completed successfully, including Test Server 3. Macroscope approved this exact head. CodeRabbit's latest review covers changes through this head and reports no actionable comments; its formal approval remains attached to the earlier subscriber-fix revision.
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Keep up to 256 recently read or updated cwd snapshots across all cache write paths. Eviction leaves status publication and remote pollers intact, and watched worktrees still receive turn-end PR refreshes when automatic fetching is disabled.
Co-Authored-By: GPT-6.1 Sol <noreply@openai.com>
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Walkthrough
The VCS status broadcaster now limits its cache to 256 entries and updates entry recency on reads and writes. It handles remote and pull-request status refreshes after eviction. Pi transcript candidates now use the sessions directory as their home path.
Changes: VCS status cache and refresh
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Summary
Bound cwd status cache apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts
The broadcaster caps cached snapshots at 256, updates recency on reads and writes, and evicts the oldest entry. Tests cover cache access and status publication after eviction.
Reload missing remote status apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts
Remote refreshes can return cached data without Git access. Existing pollers schedule scoped background refreshes with bounded retries for missing remote data. Tests cover transient failures and later status updates.
Refresh watched pull requests after eviction apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts
Pull-request refreshes proceed after eviction when a poller remains active. Tests cover background-work policy, local refresh choices, and update events.
Pi transcript home path
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Summary
Set transcript candidate home path apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts
Pi transcript candidates now set homePath to `sessionsDir.
The reported formatting blocker is corrected in the current source. No actionable merge blocker remains on the available evidence; run the normal CI checks before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 841ac
The memory bound is narrowly scoped, but recovery retries can retain an earlier automatic-fetch setting after fetching is disabled. Existing authorization, cancellation, and project-level pull controls limit the exposure.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: The new recovery path reads the automatic-fetch interval once before starting retries and captures refreshUpstream from that value. If an attempt fails and automatic fetching is subsequently disabled while the subscription remains open, later retries still issue fetch-enabled refresh requests. The existing shared loop instead rereads the setting each iteration. Those stale-enabled retries can also reach automatic-pull logic when its separate project and working-tree checks allow it.
Low · reliability · inferred: When remote status is missing, each additional subscriber to an existing directory poller can create its own retrying recovery fiber. Persistent failures therefore allow subscriber-scaled retry work rather than one recovery schedule per directory. The directory lock serializes operations but does not coalesce failures. Successful cache population and subscription cancellation contain this behavior; its production availability impact is unmeasured.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The identified incremental exposure is authenticated subscription-driven work against directories handled by one server and their existing Git dependencies. The evidence does not establish unauthenticated access, new privileges, or a new cross-service authority boundary.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — An authorized subscriber encountering missing remote status and repeated upstream failures can activate the new retry path. While that stream remains open, retries can continue with a previously enabled fetch setting and can multiply across subscribers. This supports conditional control-drift and availability concerns, not a verified privilege-escalation or data-exposure finding.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The existing VCS subscription route requires orchestration-read scope and exposes only cwd and optional includeRemote. Immediate recovery is internally selected, not a new client-controlled authority flag. Passive subscriptions do not retain remote pollers.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Recovery uses exponential retry delays, with the configured interval as a minimum and the exponential component capped at fifteen minutes; it has no finite retry-count limit. Per-directory locking prevents simultaneous remote writes, and successful cache recovery short-circuits later recovery calls. These controls reduce duplicate work without providing shared retry ownership during persistent failure.
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Integrated main d36b7da2485bc889b320a285deea181f637d760a in 841ac3b34f84b943013c3337f6628cecfa529edb with a normal descendant push. Bounded VCS snapshots retain recency and subscribed updates after eviction. Migrated cache-miss recovery to main’s VcsAutomaticFetchInterval service and updated disabled/periodic-refresh fixtures to that service, removing obsolete stream options. All 38 focused eviction/recovery/VCS tests and targeted lint pass; imported ACP type diagnostics remain.
Focused tests: 38 passed (38); exit 0. Targeted lint exit 0. Focused typecheck exit 1. Diagnostics: packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts(1334,29): error TS2339: Property 'signal' does not exist on type 'AcpProcessExitedError'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts(1334,68): error TS2339: Property 'signal' does not exist on type 'AcpProcessExitedError'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(3302,49): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4449,32): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4450,40): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4451,30): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'. No browser/device verification was run.
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Reuse remoteRefreshFailureDelay and log retry failures.
The inline schedule repeats the backoff formula from remoteRefreshFailureDelay: base 30 seconds, doubling, capped at VCS_STATUS_REFRESH_FAILURE_MAX_DELAY, and never shorter than the configured interval. If one copy changes, the two backoff policies will no longer match.
Effect.ignore also hides every failed attempt. makeRemoteRefreshLoop logs "VCS remote status refresh failed" with remoteRefreshFailureDiagnostics. This retry path logs nothing, so a cwd that keeps failing retries every 15 minutes with no warning.
Build the delay from the shared helper, using the retry attempt count. Then log each failed attempt the same way the main loop does.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts around lines 686
- 698:
Update the retry flow around makeRemoteRefreshLoop to derive each delay from
remoteRefreshFailureDelay using the retry attempt count and configured interval,
replacing the duplicated inline exponential schedule. Replace Effect.ignore with
per-attempt warning logging via Effect.tapCause, including the existing "VCS
remote status refresh failed" message, cwd length, and
remoteRefreshFailureDiagnostics(cause).
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- Around line 686-698: Update the retry flow around makeRemoteRefreshLoop to
derive each delay from remoteRefreshFailureDelay using the retry attempt count
and configured interval, replacing the duplicated inline exponential schedule.
Replace Effect.ignore with per-attempt warning logging via Effect.tapCause,
including the existing "VCS remote status refresh failed" message, cwd length,
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Fixed the verified follow-up review findings in 9a16e7846d62c3352b4f7eaec59e580820428635 with a guarded normal descendant push. Read the actual failed CI Lint job 39414972595/118601671157; it reported formatting only in apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts. Applied the repository formatter to that file and verified focused format/lint checks. This follow-up changes formatting only, so the previously recorded behavior tests remain applicable; no repo-wide checks or installs were run. Existing draft/product/evidence gates remain.
Focused tests: 38 passed (38); exit 0. Targeted lint exit 0. Scoped typecheck exit 1. Diagnostics: packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts(1334,29): error TS2339: Property 'signal' does not exist on type 'AcpProcessExitedError'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts(1334,68): error TS2339: Property 'signal' does not exist on type 'AcpProcessExitedError'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(3302,49): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4449,32): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4450,40): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4451,30): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.
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🟠 Highvcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts:293
After cache eviction, refreshLocalStatus publishes only localUpdated on a branch switch, so stream consumers keep branch A’s PR and ahead/behind data attached to branch B. updateCachedLocalStatus compares the new entry’s null remote with the default null remote, leaving remoteCleared false; treat a missing cache entry as remote invalidation and publish remoteUpdated with remote: null.
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In file @apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts around line 293:
After cache eviction, `refreshLocalStatus` publishes only `localUpdated` on a branch switch, so stream consumers keep branch A’s PR and ahead/behind data attached to branch B. `updateCachedLocalStatus` compares the new entry’s null remote with the default null remote, leaving `remoteCleared` false; treat a missing cache entry as remote invalidation and publish `remoteUpdated` with `remote: null`.
Verified head 2607cc6b3d08ee95fc077dfbab4f55f471503e69 on this Linux VM, using repository Playwright with Google Chrome and real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the web client. No source changes were needed for the exercised flows.
Reproduced on github/main (575579d68a) in a separate worktree first. Created the project and repository data through the app and Codex, then visited 269 distinct real repository directories through authenticated VCS WebSocket subscriptions. Read-only debugger inspection of the running broadcaster showed 272 retained snapshots on main versus 256 on this head. Revisiting the oldest directory returned its retained clean snapshot on main; this head reloaded the real uncommitted file change. This is a retention-count observation, not a heap-byte or timing benchmark.
Kept a remote subscriber open across eviction with automatic fetching disabled. A new subscriber received snapshot remote=null, followed by remoteUpdated; the existing subscriber received the update too, without reconnecting or manually refreshing.
Used a real bare local Git upstream to verify ahead/behind status. Codex switched from main (one ahead) to a new branch without upstream; the web client displayed the new branch and the server cleared the old upstream/ahead state. Another real turn changed a tracked file; the client completed the turn and Open diff displayed the exact new line.
Blacksmith ran vp i && vp test run apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts: 30 tests passed. Reported non-skipped GitHub CI checks were also green at this head.
Native desktop/iOS/Android clients, relay/tunnel connections, external forge PR metadata, real transient remote failures/retries, and Pi transcript discovery were not exercised. The branch-switch flow cleared old remote state, but the discussion's narrower raw-finalization stale-remote case was not isolated from client revalidation; this verification does not dismiss that finding. No heap-byte or performance timing claim is made.
For matching app-created data, the PR server reused main's isolated dev home. It warned about main's newer migration 76 being unknown to this build and continued; the exercised flows remained usable. The two dev servers ran sequentially.
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2026-10-23 verification at 5f82b5b454. Main was integrated without changing the bounded status-cache, eviction reload, turn-end refresh or subscriber retry behavior. Focused broadcaster tests and scoped lint/format pass. Older heap/performance measurements and hosted verdicts below describe their linked commits; they were not measured again.
Earlier validation counts, review verdicts, CI status and captures below refer to their original revisions; older “current head” wording refers to those revisions. These focused local checks do not certify the whole suite.
Problem
VcsStatusBroadcastercaches local and remote VCS status per cwd and never removes an entry. A long-running environment that visits many thread worktrees keeps every snapshot, including its changed-file list, for the life of the server, and every status update copies the whole map. Stream cleanup releases remote pollers but never the cache.Change
Scope and approval
A small, focused memory fix, so it uses the no-prior-issue exception. One service.
Earlier revision verification
The local test, lint, typecheck, heap-probe, and independent-review results below were recorded before the latest merge from main; they were not rerun locally for
e087cd7.New
VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.tscases on the real service: eviction and reload, hot and recent hits, turn-end PR updates after eviction (fetching disabled, background gating), and local, remote and full events for foreground and passive subscribers. Onmain4 fail (log); with the fix, 28 pass (log), rerun after an earlier rebase ontomain.Heap probe (
node --expose-gc, 100 changed files per snapshot, one sample per revision):main→ PRmain→ PR(main 3,000, PR 3,000)
vp lintandapps/servertypecheck: clean.Independent review by Claude Opus 5.5 (high) through T3 delegated tasks: round 1 found that the turn-end PR refresh was skipped after eviction for watched cwds (fixed, with a regression test); round 2 found no defects.
Subscriptions requesting remote status reload missing remote snapshots after eviction, including when a zero-interval poller already exists. Subscriptions with
includeRemote: falseretain their existing behavior.Found by a GPT-6.1 Sol (high) audit and implemented by GPT-6.1 Sol (high) in T3 Code. Reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5. Coordinated by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code via T3 Code. Agent-authored, sponsored by Alex Southwell.
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Earlier follow-up: subscribers after eviction (cb65ed2, 2e04b3e)
Once a snapshot is evicted, a new subscriber could receive
remote: nulland never get the remote status, because a poller running with a zero interval only refreshes once. A new subscriber now triggers one scoped initial refresh (onlyIfMissing, under the remote-write lock), which is skipped when a remote status is already cached. Transient failures retry with the existing capped backoff, and the retry ends with the subscriber's scope. A new test withTestClockfails on the previous head and passes now.VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts: 30 passed. Reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 (high), two rounds. The first round's retry gap is fixed, and the second found no actionable findings.Earlier-head verification
The current head e087cd7 merges main into the reviewed subscriber fix. The CI workflow and all individual non-skipped checks have completed successfully, including Test Server 3. Macroscope approved this exact head. CodeRabbit's latest review covers changes through this head and reports no actionable comments; its formal approval remains attached to the earlier subscriber-fix revision.
No source changes or new local test/heap runs were made for this approval follow-up. The earlier verification and measurements above retain their stated revision limits.