fix(server): worktree setup progress reaches clients during bootstrap - #48
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The fork owns bootstrap dispatch in ThreadBootstrapService, so upstream's new setup tracking arrived with its subscription and card but nothing feeding them: no stage ever ran, cancel had no fiber to interrupt, and a reload found no durable record of the setup. Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThread bootstrap lifecycle
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ThreadBootstrap
participant WorktreeSetupTracker
participant TerminalManager
participant Worktree
participant Agent
ThreadBootstrap->>Worktree: validate repository and base commit
ThreadBootstrap->>WorktreeSetupTracker: record setup progress
ThreadBootstrap->>TerminalManager: run setup script
TerminalManager-->>ThreadBootstrap: return output and completion state
ThreadBootstrap->>WorktreeSetupTracker: settle setup state
ThreadBootstrap->>Agent: hand off after setup becomes uncancellable
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A cancelled bootstrap can leave an orphan thread, and early setup progress may disappear. The rollback defect should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ThreadBootstrap.ts`:
- Around line 838-850: Update the interrupt handling in the
settledBootstrapProgram chain around cleanupAndFail so both tracked and
untracked branches invoke cleanupAndFail with the existing cause; retain the
“Worktree setup cancelled.” OrchestrationDispatchCommandError only for tracked
bootstraps, and pass dispatchError directly for untracked bootstraps.
- Around line 876-888: Update the bootstrap startup flow around
worktreeSetupTracker.begin and Effect.forkDetach so tracker registration is
atomic with detached-program startup: register the initial snapshot before
settledBootstrapProgram can execute, or use a tracker operation that registers
the snapshot and attaches the fiber atomically. Preserve the existing threadId,
worktree metadata, stages, and fiber association while preventing early
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| const fiber = yield* Effect.uninterruptible( | ||
| Effect.gen(function* () { | ||
| const fiber = yield* Effect.forkDetach(settledBootstrapProgram); | ||
| yield* worktreeSetupTracker.begin({ | ||
| threadId, | ||
| branch: bootstrap?.prepareWorktree?.branch ?? null, | ||
| baseRef: bootstrap?.prepareWorktree?.baseBranch ?? null, | ||
| stages: ["fetch", "checkout", "submodules", "setup-script", "agent"], | ||
| fiber, | ||
| }); | ||
| return fiber; | ||
| }), | ||
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In Effect v4, Effect.forkDetach (which replaces the v3 Effect.forkDaemon) supports an options object that includes the startImmediately property [1]. The startImmediately option is a boolean [1]: - When set to true, the forked fiber begins executing immediately instead of being deferred [1]. - When set to false or left as undefined, execution is deferred (the default behavior) [1]. This option is part of a common options object shared by various forking combinators in v4, such as Effect.forkChild, Effect.forkDetach, Effect.forkScoped, and Effect.forkIn [1]. Usage examples: Data-first: Effect.forkDetach(myEffect, { startImmediately: true }) [1] Data-last (pipe): myEffect.pipe(Effect.forkDetach({ startImmediately: true })) [1] While the option name startImmediately also appears in other parts of the Effect ecosystem (such as FiberHandle.run, FiberMap.run, and FiberSet.run) [2][3][4], it consistently refers to this behavior of initiating fiber execution immediately rather than deferring it.
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Make tracker registration atomic with detached bootstrap startup.
Effect.forkDetach schedules the child when startImmediately is omitted; it does not guarantee that the child waits for begin. Before storing the entry at WorktreeSetupTracker.ts:190-194, begin calls clearRetention. If that operation waits for a retention fiber, the child can reach the first stageStatus call. modify has no replay path: it returns null without an entry, or the new begin snapshot overwrites an update applied to an older entry.
Register the snapshot before scheduling settledBootstrapProgram, or add a tracker operation that atomically registers the snapshot and attaches the fiber.
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ThreadBootstrap.ts` around lines 876 -
888, Update the bootstrap startup flow around worktreeSetupTracker.begin and
Effect.forkDetach so tracker registration is atomic with detached-program
startup: register the initial snapshot before settledBootstrapProgram can
execute, or use a tracker operation that registers the snapshot and attaches the
fiber atomically. Preserve the existing threadId, worktree metadata, stages, and
fiber association while preventing early stageStatus updates from being dropped
or overwritten.
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The race is real, narrower than it reads, and I am leaving it to upstream.
clearRetention does yield when a retention fiber is present, since Fiber.interrupt waits for it to finish, and forkDetach only defers the child rather than pinning it behind begin. So the child can reach its first stageStatus before Ref.update stores the entry, modify returns null, and that one transition is dropped.
What it costs: a single early stage update, only when the same thread starts a second setup inside the retention window, and only until the next transition publishes. Nothing leaks and nothing is left wrong; begin republishes a consistent snapshot immediately after.
What a fix costs: begin takes the fiber as an argument, so ordering it before the fork means splitting registration and fiber attachment into two tracker operations. Storing the new entry before interrupting the old retention fiber is worse, because that fiber removes the thread's entry when it settles and would take the new one with it.
This code is byte-identical to pingdotgg/t3code and the tracker is upstream's, so a tracker API change belongs there rather than as a fork divergence that every sync has to re-resolve.
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@yordis, thanks for the detailed analysis.
The race is valid, but its impact is limited to one early progress transition during a retained-thread restart. The next tracker update and the begin publication restore a consistent snapshot.
I agree that changing WorktreeSetupTracker.begin in this fork would create unnecessary sync divergence. The correct fix requires an upstream tracker API that preserves retention cleanup safety and makes registration atomic with fiber startup. I will keep this finding open as an upstream follow-up.
Would you like to open an upstream issue for pingdotgg/t3code?
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Learning: In `apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ThreadBootstrap.ts`, `Effect.forkDetach(settledBootstrapProgram)` can start before `worktreeSetupTracker.begin(...)` completes when `WorktreeSetupTracker.clearRetention` waits for an existing retention fiber. During a second setup for the same thread inside the retention window, one early `stageStatus` transition can be dropped before `begin` republishes a consistent snapshot. A safe fix requires an upstream `WorktreeSetupTracker` API that atomically coordinates tracker registration, fiber attachment, and prior retention cleanup; do not introduce a fork-only tracker API change.
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An untracked bootstrap lives and dies with its request, so losing that request has to roll the created thread back too. Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
A bootstrap can fail before the create dispatch for reasons that have nothing to do with the worktree being required, and the client needs the draft back in the composer in those cases too. Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
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| snapshot ? recordWorktreeSetup(snapshot, options) : Effect.void, | ||
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Worktree leftover after failed setup
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onWorktreeClaimed records the registered path so cancel can removeWorktree, but the non-interrupt failure path never uses it. A checkout or later bootstrap error after git has claimed the directory deletes the thread and leaves the worktree registered on disk.
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Accurate reading, but this asymmetry is upstream's and deliberate, so I am not changing it here.
upstream/main:apps/server/src/ws.ts has the same two branches: removeCreatedWorktree runs only under Cause.hasInterruptsOnly, and the failure branch is a bare cleanupAndFail(cause, dispatchError) (lines 1677 and 1698). Cancel means the user never wanted the worktree. A failure means git already produced something, and blowing it away would take the evidence with it.
The worktree does not leak permanently either: thread.delete drops the thread, which leaves the worktree unreferenced, and storageCleanup.ts expires unreferenced worktrees on its retention schedule.
Changing it would also mean carrying a new fork divergence in the exact hunk that conflicts on every upstream sync, for a behavior question that belongs upstream.
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ThreadBootstrapService, so the last sync brought upstream 's worktree setup tracking as a consumer only: the subscription and the card shipped, but nothing wrote stages, cancel had no fiber to interrupt, and a reload found no durable activity for the setup.apps/server/src/server.test.tswere failing onmainfor this reason.Summary by CodeRabbit
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