[JustYannicc]

Problem

A cached thread can remain on “Syncing messages…” forever when its resume stream never sends the completion marker.

Change

Bound that catch-up to 15 seconds and make one cursor-free snapshot attempt. If that also fails, keep cached messages and show a synchronization error until a new session or a return to the app retries it.

The deadline does not reset on replay traffic. Local cancellation cancels it; a remote request interruption can still recover. Stream batches, applied cursors, producer-session filtering, authorization and socket handling remain intact. Web and mobile show the detail error with cached content, and the current sync failure takes precedence over a historical provider error. This replaces the original tracing/helper machinery with recovery inline in the existing client runtime.

Credit to @JustYannicc for the original #20932, building beyond #19570. Original commits are retained.

Scope and approval

Focused recovery for the stuck-resume report #19563, extending #19570. Julius took over the implementation to retain bounded recovery, rebuild it against main and verify it in the web client. That takeover does not establish final approval of the cutoff or failure policy.

The deadline covers marker-backed resumed catch-up and its fallback, not an initial HTTP snapshot that has not returned. Older servers without completion markers retain their compatibility path. A typed catch-up failure after the fallback becomes terminal until an external wakeup rather than continuing automatic backoff; this behavior and the 15-second cutoff need maintainer approval.

Verification

Latest follow-up at 5780d38db8: 60 focused thread-sync and web sync-phase tests passed, including legacy snapshot and marker-only recovery after expected failures. Targeted lint, formatting and client-runtime typecheck passed. The regression first failed with the retry clearing the existing error.

vp test run packages/client-runtime/src/state/threads-sync.test.ts apps/web/src/threadSync.test.ts --maxWorkers=2

Earlier maintainer verification:

• Reduced the original four-file recovery/instrumentation test selection from 77 to 70 cases, with PR-added cases 14 → 7, kept in the existing client sync suite. Removed tracing-only and overlapping tests. A primary regression fails on the pinned main base at virtual second 15 (one request instead of two) and passes with the fix.
• 87 focused client/RPC/server/memory cases passed; 149 presentation and existing ChatView logic cases passed. Scoped client-runtime, web, and mobile typechecks passed; changed-file lint and format checks passed (existing mobile warnings only).
• Independent Codex Sol and Claude Opus whole-PR review rounds: three rounds; the final round found zero actionable findings. The parent live pass found missing error presentation after round one, and round two found the historical-provider-error priority issue; both were fixed and verified.
• Real headless Linux app/browser with disposable projection fixtures and fault injection that drops only the synchronized markers from real RPC streams: one missing marker caused exactly one cursor-free request after 15,005.7 ms, then recovered with cached content. Dropping both produced a visible timeout with cached content, including a failed usage-limit run; a foreground event recovered and cleared the error. Timers/cancellation/authentication/session replacement also have deterministic runtime coverage.

Proof

Before: pinned main 30448e37e9, same data and 1280×800 viewport. At 39.2 seconds, only one resume request has run and the client is still syncing.

After: one missing marker recovers through the snapshot fallback.

Recovery attempt recording

After: both markers missing, cached messages and the current timeout remain visible despite the old usage-limit error.

Timeout transition recording

Verified web on headless Linux; macOS, Windows, Electron desktop, iOS, Android, live providers, and remote/relay/tunnel connections were not exercised. Mobile notice rendering was checked by source, focused presentation tests and typecheck, not a native client. Fixtures were written only to stopped disposable state; no real provider turn was started.

Implementation: GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex in T3 Code. Tests: GPT-6 Astra through Codex. Adversarial review: GPT-6 Sol through Codex and Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Code.

Follow-up review fix: GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR changes production thread synchronization behavior with new deadlines, snapshot retries, terminal recovery, stale-session handling, and shared tracing. It also enables RPC tracing by default, making the scope and runtime observability impact broad enough to require human review.

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Thread subscriptions now apply frames from the current RPC session and retry qualifying synchronization failures with a snapshot. Mobile and web views use thread-detail errors to control synchronization status and display errors.

Changes: Thread synchronization and recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Session-aware subscription recovery packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/client.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threads.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threads-sync.test.ts	The RPC client supports a subscription stream transform. Thread synchronization filters frames by session, applies a 15-second completion-marker deadline in qualifying streams, and retries qualifying failures with a snapshot. Tests cover retry behavior, timeout, interruption, authorization failure, session replacement, foreground recovery, and cancellation.
Mobile thread error presentation apps/mobile/src/features/threads/threadContentPresentation.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/threadContentPresentation.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx	Mobile content presentation accounts for pending creation and detail errors. The detail screen suppresses its syncing label when an error is present and displays a danger notice when content is ready.
Web thread error state and status apps/web/src/state/entities.ts, apps/web/src/threadSync.ts, apps/web/src/threadSync.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	Web state exposes thread-detail errors. ChatView uses them in synchronization-phase selection and server-thread error selection. Tests cover the syncing phase before an error, during an error, and after the error clears.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ThreadSupervisor
  participant RpcClient as subscribeDynamicMapped
  ThreadSupervisor->>RpcClient: Subscribe with resume or snapshot input
  RpcClient-->>ThreadSupervisor: Stream with session-tagged frames
  ThreadSupervisor->>ThreadSupervisor: Apply current-session frames and wait for synchronization
  alt Catch-up fails or times out
    ThreadSupervisor->>RpcClient: Retry with snapshot input
    RpcClient-->>ThreadSupervisor: Snapshot stream and synchronization marker
  else Terminal failure
    ThreadSupervisor->>ThreadSupervisor: Wait for a new session or foreground trigger
  end

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e1b70

The synchronization recovery and error displays have focused coverage, and the supplied current-head evidence shows no concrete remaining issue that should block merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e1b70

Recovery is bounded, preserves cached messages, and does not bypass authorization failures. The principal remaining risk is synchronization freshness: a failed recovery waits for reconnection or an app return, and some concurrent interruption and resubscription cases remain unproven.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A server or transport path that stalls an authorized thread stream can drive snapshot recovery and eventual stale-cache presentation. The recovery budget is per thread-state instance, not global: multiple active threads can each perform a fallback. The inspected change does not grant additional credentials or authorization scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The newly exposed mobile error remains string display data. Notice renders it through AppText and the existing accessibility announcement mechanisms; the new ThreadDetailScreen call supplies no action callback. This public-entrypoint change does not itself create an execution or navigation sink.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Local scope cancellation propagates without starting recovery, while a remote interruption before completion can wait for the watchdog and then fall back. Final cache persistence uses the last remembered state-and-cursor pair rather than reading a partially applied pair during finalization.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description clearly documents the problem, implementation, scope, verification results, limitations, and evidence. However, the required explicit maintainer approval for the 15-second cutoff and t…	Obtain and link explicit maintainer approval for the recovery cutoff and terminal-failure policy, or revise the scope section to document an approved direction and scope.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: recovering threads when a resume stream never completes.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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[juliusmarminge]

Taking over this one as maintainer for batch sidebar-threads-16. I will keep the bounded resume-to-snapshot recovery, rebuild it against current main with the smallest focused implementation and tests, and verify it in the web client. No merge is planned.

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