fix(server): settle and snooze see open questions after a restart

[ValeraZSD]

Problem

After a server restart, settling or snoozing a thread no longer sees its open questions. getCommandReadModel builds every thread with activities: [], and the decider's openRequests(thread) reads those activities for thread.settle / thread.auto-settle (dismiss open questions, stop the session) and thread.snooze (refuse while something waits on the user). With an unanswered Codex question (user-input.requested, responseMode: "message"), settle after a restart writes no user-input.resolved, so the thread shows as settled with the question still pending. In a live session the same settle dismisses it. The decider comment says that state should never happen.

Repro: leave a Codex question unanswered, restart the server, then settle the thread.

Change

The live projector already keeps pending questions when it caps activities. The startup snapshot now loads the same pinned rows: open approvals and unresolved questions, via the existing pinnedThreadActivityIdsCte, which now accepts an optional thread id (its partitions also include the thread id). Other activities are still left out, so startup cost stays bounded by open requests.

Scope and approval

A focused fix of an obvious bug: the decider sees different state after a restart than before it, contradicting its own invariant. It reuses the existing pinned-row query rather than adding a new loading path, and loads only open requests.

Verification

The new test builds the command read model from a database holding an open approval and an unanswered question, as at startup, and checks that both reach the decider.

vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.test.ts, with this PR merged onto current main (5cc99e1c23): 36 of 36 pass. The same file against main without the source change: that test fails, so the startup snapshot still drops open requests on main.

Not checked: a full server restart with a live Codex session; the test covers the read model the decider starts from.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Command views now show pending approval and user-input request activity in the thread it belongs to, keeping unresolved questions visible.
  • Resolved requests and unrelated trailing activity are excluded from the retained pending-request view.

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Walkthrough

The command read model now returns pinned activities grouped by thread. It includes pending approval and unresolved user-input activities. A test verifies that an answered thread has no activities.

Changes

Command Read Model Pinned Activities

Layer / File(s)	Summary
All-thread pinned activity query apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.ts	The shared CTE accepts an optional thread ID and scopes request ordering by thread. A new query returns pinned activity rows across all threads.
Command read model integration apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.test.ts	The read model loads and groups pinned activities by thread, then assigns them to each thread. The test covers a pending approval and unresolved user-input activity, and confirms that an answered thread has no activities.

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Change: Bug fix

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The startup read model now retains pending approvals and unresolved questions per thread, with integration coverage for both. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains evident.

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Verdict: Approved at ed6e5d0

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized server bug fix that restores unresolved approval and question activities when rebuilding the command read model after restart. The added query remains bounded to open requests, preserves existing activity filtering, and includes regression coverage for retained and resolved requests.

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1351-1423: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The existing approval fixture covers the pinned-activity query, but it does not call getCommandReadModel(). The new integration test covers only open questions. Therefore, an integration regression that drops approvals can pass these tests.

Adding one open approval.requested activity and asserting it in the getCommandReadModel() result is a material, localized test-coverage correction. It protects the restart path that the change targets.

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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.test.ts` around
lines 1351 - 1423, Extend the “keeps open questions in the command read model it
starts from” test to insert an open approval.requested activity and assert that
it appears in the relevant thread’s activities returned by
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.test.ts`:
- Around line 1351-1423: Extend the “keeps open questions in the command read
model it starts from” test to insert an open approval.requested activity and
assert that it appears in the relevant thread’s activities returned by
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Added an open approval.requested (with its pending row) to the startup test, so it now checks that both open questions and approvals reach getCommandReadModel().

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Thanks for working on this. We merged the orchestrator V2 rewrite in #2829, and we are closing this PR as part of that transition.

This change touches ProjectionSnapshotQuery.ts, which the V2 merge removed. V2 persists and reads its own projections instead of the V1 read model.

Sorry for the extra work this creates. If the change is still needed on V2, please rebuild it on current main, verify it there, and open a new PR linking back here. We're closing the current implementation without assuming the underlying request is resolved.