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Problem

Unreliable connections can get stuck in a sync loop: reconnect, start downloading a large snapshot, fail partway through, then start the same download from scratch. Because an incomplete snapshot cannot be applied, the client's last update pointer never moves forward.

Change

Stream normal thread catch-up in small pages instead of replacing large replays with a single snapshot. The client applies received events and advances its last update pointer before synchronization finishes. If the connection drops, the next connection resumes from that progress.

Bound replay reads by event count and payload size, preserve event order, and skip unknown events without truncating catch-up. A lightweight existence query detects recreated threads without restoring the replay's payloads first. First-time loads and recreated threads retain the existing snapshot behavior. Individual oversized events remain intact.

Scope and approval

Submitted under CONTRIBUTING.md's exception for a very small, focused fix of an obvious bug. The defect is that reconnect retries can repeatedly discard transfer progress and never catch up. This change uses the existing event cursor and replay transport to preserve that progress; it adds no new user workflow, setting, or wire contract. No prior triaged issue or maintainer approval is claimed.

Verification

• vp test run apps/server/src/ws.test.ts apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.sequence.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStream.test.ts packages/client-runtime/src/state/threads-sync.test.ts — 79 tests pass.
• Covers interrupted large replays, byte-heavy payloads, unknown events, deferred page fetching, and bypassing payload statistics on ordinary reconnects.
• tsc --noEmit -p apps/server/tsconfig.json and tsc --noEmit -p packages/client-runtime/tsconfig.json pass.
• Targeted lint, formatting, and diff checks pass.
• Browser and native mobile verification were not run.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 112363c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Thread reconnects preserve incremental sync progress instead of restarting with large snapshots. Byte-bounded replay pages limit decoding memory, while invalid cursors and recreated threads retain snapshot safeguards.

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Walkthrough

The event store now supports byte-bounded replay pages and sequence-range event checks. Thread subscriptions use incremental pages to catch up through the high-water mark, then resume live delivery. Tests cover replay continuation and client synchronization across session replacement.

Changes: Thread replay and synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Byte-bounded aggregate replay apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.ts, apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.sequence.test.ts, apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts	readAgentEvents accepts an optional page-byte limit. The query retains the first event even if it exceeds the limit, and byte-limited pagination can continue after a short page. The store also exposes hasAgentEvent for a thread, event type, and sequence range. Tests cover the existence check, payload changes during page consumption, and reading an earlier page when a later payload is malformed.
Thread catch-up and synchronization apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/ws.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threads-sync.test.ts	For resume ranges without thread.created, thread replay reads incremental pages and advances through the captured high-water mark. It then emits a completion marker and resumes live delivery. Tests cover large event counts, padded payloads, unknown rows, and client resubscription after an update.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ThreadSubscription
  participant OrchestrationEventStore
  participant ThreadSyncState
  ThreadSubscription->>OrchestrationEventStore: Read incremental replay pages
  OrchestrationEventStore-->>ThreadSubscription: Return stored events
  ThreadSubscription-->>ThreadSyncState: Deliver replay events and completion marker
  ThreadSyncState->>ThreadSubscription: Resubscribe after the last applied sequence

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#22630: Changes replay-floor handling and snapshot fallback in the same thread-resume path.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25754: Changes persisted thread-update coalescing before replay sizing in ws.ts.
• pingdotgg/t3code#21082: Changes thread resume batching and completion-marker placement.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, yash-singh1, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 03eba

Replay sizing is bounded, and no merge-blocking issue remains identified.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(server): preserve reconnect sync progress on unreliable networks" matches the main change: reconnect catch-up now streams bounded pages and keeps the client's update pointer, so a dropp…
Description check		The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and each is substantively filled in. The Problem section explains the reconnect …
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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The title "fix(server): preserve reconnect sync progress on unreliable networks" matches the main change: reconnect catch-up now streams bounded pages and keeps the client's update pointer, so a dropped connection resumes from saved progress instead of restarting the snapshot download. It follows the conventional commit format the template requests and is specific enough for a teammate scanning history. The title names the server scope, while the changeset also touches the client-runtime package (threads-sync). That is a minor gap and does not make the title misleading.

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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and each is substantively filled in. The Problem section explains the reconnect loop and the expected behavior. The Change section explains the paged streaming, the existence query, and the preserved snapshot path for first-time loads and recreated threads. The Scope section cites the CONTRIBUTING.md exception for a very small, focused bug fix and states that no prior issue or approval is claimed. The Verification section lists the exact test command, the 79 passing tests, and the TypeScript and lint checks. It also states what was not run, which is browser and native mobile verification. The model and harness line is present at the end, as the template asks. Two points are weak. The scope justification is contestable, since the change touches server replay, persistence, and client sync, and a reviewer may not agree it is a very small fix. The description also does not mention the follow-up commit that the objectives reference. Neither gap leaves the template largely incomplete, so the check passes.

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Major · Bound the replay page before its payloads are read. · OrchestrationEventStore.ts:449-456

apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.ts:449-456
🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Bound the replay page before its payloads are read.

readApplicationRows applies LIMIT ${input.limit} inside the base query, and the byte window is a separate outer query over that result. The outer filter depends on window sums, so it cannot shrink the inner read. With the reader's 500-row page size, up to 500 payload_json values are read and materialized for one replay page. Each page returns only the events that fit the byte budget, which can be one large event. The same work repeats on each following page, so the cursor advances slowly on threads with large events.

Select the byte-bounded rows first, using the same size measure the outer filter uses, then apply restoredPayloadJson only to the selected rows. Check that the byte accounting still matches restored payload sizes for prompt-anchored events before changing the query.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.ts around
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Update readApplicationRows so it selects rows within the byte budget before
reading and materializing payload_json, using the same byte measure as
replay_bytes; apply restoredPayloadJson only to selected rows. Verify that the
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preserve the existing limit and replay ordering.

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[Qard]

@coderabbitai Addressed the outside-diff finding from review 5681979109 in 03ebabc. The byte-bounded path now materializes only candidate IDs, then walks restored byte sizes in sequence order until the page fills, with at most one overflow candidate. It no longer restores all 500 candidate payloads for every page. Sizing still uses the actual restored JSON, so prompt anchors, Unicode, quotes, and newlines are accounted for correctly.

The regression test fails with the previous query because it processes a malformed payload on a later page before delivering the first page. It passes with the bounded walk; full paged replay also preserves every prompt-backed event. All 79 focused tests, server typechecking, and targeted lint pass.

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@Qard Thanks for the fix. I inspected 03ebabcab. The query now materializes only candidate IDs and bounds payload restoration to the page plus at most one overflow candidate. It still sizes the restored JSON.

The regression test covers prompt-backed replay and first-page delivery before processing a later malformed payload. This addresses the outside-diff finding. I did not rerun the reported checks.

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Learnt from: juliusmarminge
Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 20856
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Learning: When reviewing capped transcript readers in the Claude workflow implementation, inspect the caller's drain loop before claiming that a single capped read loses data. Evaluate cursor identity comparisons at the actual comparison site rather than inferring object-reference comparisons from returned identity objects.

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