fix(server): first pull request open no longer fails as interrupted

[whoisaldo]

Replaces #14122, which was closed because its description did not name the model and harness. That is now at the end. The branch is merged with current main.

Closes #14113.

The first time the PR panel opened after a turn, it often showed "Could not load pull requests — All fibers interrupted without error", and Retry fixed it. The client cancels its first detail read and immediately sends the same read again. When a cached read's last caller leaves, effect/Cache interrupts the lookup but keeps the entry until the lookup has stopped. The resent read lands in that window, joins the dying lookup, and gets its interrupt back as the answer.

As the triage suggests, the fix is in the cache read. getCached wraps Cache.get and asks once more when a read comes back with only an interrupt. By then the dying entry is gone, so the retry starts a fresh lookup. catchCauseIf does not run for a caller that was itself interrupted, so a real cancel still stops without spawning gh again. Every Cache.get in PullRequestService now goes through it. Detail, activity, preview, list, diff, stats, files-viewed, and viewer reads all share this shape, and the macOS reproduction on the issue saw activity fail too.

main already retries this way for the list and list-stats reads since #15851. This puts that retry in one helper and routes every cache read in the service through it, including detail, the read #14113 reports.

Evidence

• getCached.test.ts reproduces the race from the issue. With plain Cache.get, the second read fails with a bare interrupt; with getCached it gets a fresh value. A second test checks that an interrupted read does not start another lookup.
• The getCached, PullRequestService, and PullRequestReadCache tests pass on the merged branch (206 tests). Server tsc --noEmit, lint, and format are clean.
• In-app: the reporter verified #14122's branch with the reproduction from [Bug] PR panel shows "Could not load pull requests" on the first open after a turn #14113, on Windows 11 with WSL2. Before, the first open failed 4/4; on this branch it loaded 4/4. The WebSocket trace shows the client still interrupting and resending detail, but the resent read no longer fails. Removing the retry made the race test fail again. Since that check the helper is unchanged. The branch has only merged main and routed two caches main added (checks and watch fingerprint) through the helper.
• Not rerun on this branch: the reporter's unmodified macOS reproduction (16/16 failures before).

Model: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code, in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 36603e0

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The PR fixes a narrowly scoped cache-interruption race by centralizing a one-time retry and applies it consistently across pull-request reads, with focused tests covering both recovery and cancellation behavior. It introduces no schema, deployment, security-sensitive, default, or static-analysis configuration changes.

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📝 Walkthrough

A new getCached helper retries a cache read once when it fails only with interruption. PullRequestService now uses the helper across its cache reads. The service’s local retry logic for list and stats reads is removed.

Changes: Cache read recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add interrupt-only cache retry apps/server/src/utils/getCached.ts, apps/server/src/utils/getCached.test.ts	getCached retries a cache read once when its cause contains only interrupts. Tests cover a second read joining an interrupted lookup and confirm that interrupting a read does not start another lookup.
Use helper for pull request cache reads apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts	Viewer, list, detail, preview, activity, diff, viewed-file, stats, checks, and watch-fingerprint reads use getCached. The local retry logic for list and stats reads is removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 73be6

The detail path currently retries the interrupted cache read, but the tests would not catch that protection being removed; a future regression could bring back the first-open PR-panel failure. The change is otherwise mergeable with this focused test follow-up.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 73be6

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: apps/server

Architecture concerns
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Review details

Systems and components

• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/utils/getCached.test.ts: Added imports for the assertion, Effect, Cache, Deferred, Exit, and Fiber APIs used by the tests.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/utils/getCached.test.ts: Added a test where the first lookup remains in interruption cleanup while a second read joins it; after cleanup is released, the test expects the second read to complete with "fresh" and the lookup count to be two.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/utils/getCached.test.ts: Added a test that interrupts a read after its lookup starts, then expects the read’s exit to contain interrupts and the lookup count to remain one.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/utils/getCached.ts: Added the exported getCached helper, which calls Cache.get and retries once only when the resulting cause contains interrupts and no other failures.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description explains the problem, the cache retry change, and verification results. It does not provide the required explicit maintainer approval of the fix’s direction and scope, or explain why t…	Add a link to the triaged issue or discussion with the maintainer’s explicit approval comment for this fix’s direction and scope. If relying on the exemption for a small, focused fix of an obvious bug, explain why it qualifies.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		The active directly linked issue is #14113. The PR adds getCached to retry a cache read once when it returns only an interrupt. Its tests cover a read joining a dying lookup and confirm that an inte…
Out of Scope Changes check		The helper and its tests address the cache interruption race in #14113. Routing the other PullRequestService cache reads through the helper applies the same fix to the cache reads identified by the …
Title check		The title clearly describes the fix for the first pull-request open failing with an interruption.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description explains the problem, the cache retry change, and verification results. It does not provide the required explicit maintainer approval of the fix’s direction and scope, or explain why the change qualifies for an approval exemption.

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apps/server/src/utils/getCached.test.ts: 1

10-39: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the interruption race through PullRequestService.detail.

The new race test calls getCached directly, so it would not detect a reversion of the detail caller to Cache.get. The service-level cancellation test covers only list and listStats. Add a gated test that cancels a service.detail read while its lookup is stopping, starts a replacement read, and asserts that it returns fresh detail. Otherwise, the first-open interruption can return without failing this suite.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/utils/getCached.test.ts around lines 10 - 39:
Add a gated interruption-race test through PullRequestService.detail, using a
delayed/stopping lookup to cancel the first read, start a replacement read, and
assert it returns fresh detail. Keep the existing direct getCached test and
ensure the service-level test exercises the detail path rather than Cache.get.

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- Around line 10-39: Add a gated interruption-race test through
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read, start a replacement read, and assert it returns fresh detail. Keep the
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Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Thanks for this. I'm closing it as part of PR triage. This is already fixed on main.

From the review: Main already removes abandoned Effect cache entries before interrupting their lookups, so a new pull request read cannot join the cancelling lookup.

If you think this was a mistake, message me on Twitter at @maria_rcks and I'll take another look.