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What Changed

Provider turn.diff.updated events are now handled by a dedicated ingestion worker for the slow part only: resolving the workspace path and running Git repository detection through the VCS subprocess layer. When the workspace is a repository, the diff is handed back to the lifecycle worker, which performs the running-turn check, the existing-checkpoint check, and the placeholder dispatch in order with the turn's terminal events.

A placeholder that resolves after the turn already settled is dropped. The checkpoint reactor owns the checkpoint from that point on.

Drain empties the diff worker before the lifecycle worker, since the diff worker feeds it.

One new test blocks repository detection with a deferred, completes the turn as failed and starts a newer turn while it is blocked, then releases detection. It asserts the session settled and the final reply persisted while blocked, that no checkpoint was created for the finished turn, that the newer turn stays the latest turn, and that the failed turn still reads as error.

Why

All provider events were ingested by a single serial worker. Handling a diff event calls isGitRepository, which spawns git subprocesses behind a bounded semaphore. When git was slow or hung, that one event stalled the worker, so item.completed and turn.completed sat in the queue and the turn never settled in the UI even though the agent had finished.

Moving detection off the lifecycle worker fixes the stall. Handing the confirmed diff back to the lifecycle worker, rather than dispatching from the diff worker, keeps the guard and dispatch atomic with respect to turn.completed: the projection unconditionally sets the thread's latest turn on a diff event and rewrites a non-running turn's state to completed, so a late placeholder would otherwise change a failed turn to completed or move the latest-turn pointer back to an older turn.

Not in scope: the checkpoint reactor's real checkpoint dispatch has no late check either, so a very slow capture can still move the latest-turn pointer. That is existing behavior on main and is left for a separate change.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of provider-generated turn diffs to prevent stale or late updates from overriding newer turn activity.
    • Diff updates are recorded only when the turn remains eligible and the workspace supports Git-based change tracking.
    • Added safeguards to preserve captured checkpoint data and avoid incorrect placeholder results.
    • Improved reliability when multiple turns are active concurrently.

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Verdict: Approved at ea9faac

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused server concurrency fix that isolates slow VCS repository checks while preserving ordered lifecycle and checkpoint handling. The added regression coverage exercises blocked detection, turn settlement, and late-result behavior without introducing schema, configuration, or new product capability changes.

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Provider diff events now use a dedicated detection and lifecycle path. The lifecycle records missing-checkpoint placeholders only for eligible running turns. The decider rejects placeholders that would overwrite captured checkpoints. Tests cover blocked detection and checkpoint races.

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Provider diff ingestion and checkpoint protection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dedicated provider diff pipeline
apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts
Diff events now pass through diffWorker, Git repository detection, and the lifecycle worker. recordProviderDiff validates turn state and checkpoint context before dispatching a placeholder. Worker error handling and drain ordering were updated.
Checkpoint placeholder race protection
apps/server/src/orchestration/decider.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/decider.turnDiffComplete.test.ts
The decider rejects a missing placeholder when the turn already has a captured checkpoint. Tests cover rejection, placeholder acceptance, and replacement by a captured checkpoint.
Blocked detection regression coverage
apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.test.ts
The test harness can override repository detection and read projected turns. The new test verifies turn settlement, persisted error state, and protection against a late diff result overriding a later turn.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderRuntimeIngestion
  participant diffWorker
  participant CheckpointStore
  participant worker
  participant Decider
  ProviderRuntimeIngestion->>diffWorker: enqueue turn.diff.updated
  diffWorker->>CheckpointStore: call isGitRepository
  diffWorker->>worker: enqueue validated diff input
  worker->>Decider: dispatch missing checkpoint completion
  Decider->>Decider: reject placeholder if captured checkpoint exists
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts`:
- Line 2254: Make checkpoint admission atomic with placeholder creation in
recordProviderDiff: move the same-turn checkpoint existence check into the
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On the docstring coverage warning: leaving as is. The repo's convention (AGENTS.md, "Taste") is comments that describe how a thing is used rather than docstrings on every function, and the two touched functions are private, single-purpose helpers whose names and call sites already say what they do. Adding JSDoc blocks solely to satisfy the threshold would be noise.

Vrtak-CZ and others added 4 commits September 16, 2026 00:32
Provider diff events detect the Git repository through VCS subprocesses.
When git was slow or hung, that single event stalled the serial ingestion
worker and turn.completed sat behind it, so the turn never settled.

Route turn.diff.updated to its own drainable worker so diff bookkeeping
cannot delay lifecycle and message events.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With diff bookkeeping on its own worker, repository detection can return
after the turn completed or a newer turn started. The placeholder
checkpoint then rewrote a failed turn as completed and moved the
latest-turn pointer back to the old turn.

Re-read the turn after detection and skip the placeholder unless it is
still running. The checkpoint reactor owns the checkpoint after that.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reading the turn state on the diff worker and then dispatching left a
window where the lifecycle worker could settle the turn in between, so
the placeholder still landed on a finished turn.

The diff worker now only performs repository detection and hands the
confirmed diff back to the lifecycle worker, which runs the running-turn
check and the dispatch in order with the turn's terminal events.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Provider diff ingestion checks for an existing checkpoint before dispatching a
placeholder, but CheckpointReactor can commit the real capture between that
read and the dispatch. Enforce the rule in the decider, which runs under the
engine's command lock, so a late placeholder can no longer clobber a captured
checkpoint in the SQL projection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Vrtak-CZ force-pushed the fix/vcs-waits-block-turn-completion branch from 3b7a2d1 to 8a51dd8 Compare September 15, 2026 22:32
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