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What Changed

Restart continuation treats open background tasks the same as an interrupted turn.

markRunningProviderSessionsForContinuation and reconcileProviderSessions now notice unterminated task.* rows (the persisted form of Claude liveTaskIds). When "Continue threads after restarts" is on, the thread is continued with a prompt that names the stopped tasks. When it is off, or continuation fails, those tasks are settled as stopped and the thread gets the existing restart notice.

This also covers the three restart-recovery cases that blocked the previous attempt:

  1. A retry from a persisted starting session restores recorded task names whenever the continuation marker is present, including after settleStoppedTasks has already written task.completed rows. Promptless providers still receive the named tasks instead of { continuation: true }.
  2. listUnterminatedTasks skips activity rows whose payload_json is not valid JSON, so one malformed payload cannot abort continuation for every thread.
  3. Plan and dream tasks stay excluded when any decisive row for that task has taskType plan or dream, even if a later status update omits taskType.

Why

A Claude thread whose turn has already finished can still be running subagents or background shells. The session is ready with no active turn, so a restart neither continued it nor told the user the work was lost.

Fixes #13400

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  • New Features
    • After a server restart, unfinished background tasks are detected and included in thread recovery.
    • When continuation is enabled, sessions can resume these tasks with a recovery prompt that names stopped tasks. For multiple tasks, the prompt lists up to 12 labels and indicates if more remain.
    • When continuation is disabled, stopped tasks are settled without starting a provider turn.

A thread can finish its turn while subagents or background shells are still running. Restart continuation only resumed sessions that were still running with an active turn, so those threads stayed ready and the work disappeared.

Startup now treats unterminated task rows like an interrupted turn. When continue-after-restart is on, the continuation prompt names the stopped tasks. Otherwise those tasks are settled as stopped and the thread gets the existing restart notice.

A retry after those tasks were already settled restores the recorded names from the continuation marker. Malformed activity payloads are skipped, and plan or dream tasks stay excluded when a later status row omits taskType.

Fixes pingdotgg#13400

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[SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_KEY]: activeTurnId,
[SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_KEY]: activeTurnId ?? BACKGROUND_RESTART_TURN_ID,
continueAfterServerUpdatePrepared: null,
...(openTasks.length > 0 ? { [SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_TASKS_KEY]: openTasks } : {}),

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🟡 Medium src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts:518

When runtimePayload already contains SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_TASKS_KEY and openTasks is empty, this upsert preserves the stale task list while replacing the continuation marker. reconcileProviderSessions then reuses those tasks, emitting duplicate task stopped activities and adding them to the next continuation prompt. Clear the key when no tasks are open instead of conditionally omitting the write.

-          ...(openTasks.length > 0 ? { [SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_TASKS_KEY]: openTasks } : {}),
+          [SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_TASKS_KEY]: openTasks.length > 0 ? openTasks : null,
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In file @apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts around line 518:

When `runtimePayload` already contains `SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_TASKS_KEY` and `openTasks` is empty, this upsert preserves the stale task list while replacing the continuation marker. `reconcileProviderSessions` then reuses those tasks, emitting duplicate `task stopped` activities and adding them to the next continuation prompt. Clear the key when no tasks are open instead of conditionally omitting the write.

...(capabilities.promptlessTurnContinuation === true && stoppedTasks.length === 0
? { continuation: true }
: { input: SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT }),
: { input: continuationPromptForTasks(stoppedTasks) }),

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🟠 High src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts:852

An oversized persisted task label makes continuationPromptForTasks(stoppedTasks) exceed PROVIDER_SEND_TURN_MAX_INPUT_CHARS, so ProviderService.sendTurn rejects the restart continuation and the thread is marked errored instead of resumed. Limit or truncate task labels (and the resulting prompt) before calling sendTurn.

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In file @apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts around line 852:

An oversized persisted task label makes `continuationPromptForTasks(stoppedTasks)` exceed `PROVIDER_SEND_TURN_MAX_INPUT_CHARS`, so `ProviderService.sendTurn` rejects the restart continuation and the thread is marked errored instead of resumed. Limit or truncate task labels (and the resulting prompt) before calling `sendTurn`.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR substantially changes production startup recovery by discovering persisted background tasks, mutating task/session state, and initiating provider continuation turns for previously ready threads. Unresolved risks include duplicate task settlement from stale markers and restart prompts exceeding the provider input limit.

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The snapshot query now lists unterminated provider tasks. Server startup records those tasks with continuation markers and uses them during reconciliation to prepare task-aware continuation or settle stopped tasks.

Changes

Restart continuation for unterminated tasks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Query and expose unterminated tasks
apps/server/src/orchestration/Services/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.test.ts, apps/server/src/checkpointing/CheckpointDiffQuery.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.test.ts, apps/server/src/project/*test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/*test.ts
The query returns eligible open tasks with labels. Tests cover task selection and malformed activity data. Existing query test doubles implement the new query method.
Discover tasks and mark continuation
apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts
Startup loads open tasks by thread and stores task records in continuation markers for sessions with active turns or open tasks.
Reconcile stopped tasks and prepare continuation
apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts, apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.reconcile.test.ts, apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.test.ts
Reconciliation recovers task records and appends stopped-task activity. When continuation is enabled, it prepares a task-aware continuation; tests also cover disabled continuation and persisted task labels.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Startup as serverRuntimeStartup
  participant Query as ProjectionSnapshotQuery
  participant Provider as Provider
  Startup->>Query: listUnterminatedTasks
  Query-->>Startup: task records grouped by thread
  Startup->>Startup: append stopped-task activity
  Startup->>Provider: send continuation prompt naming stopped tasks
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Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f6c39

Restart recovery has two bounded edge cases: a task’s stopped timestamp may change on retry, and unusually long task names can prevent continuation. These warrant fixes or explicit acceptance before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f6c39

Restart recovery now resumes background work that previously remained idle. If recording that stopped work fails, a later restart may trigger another continuation and repeat actions. The send remains tied to the existing thread and the continuation setting.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A failed stopped-task append does not prevent the new task-only provider continuation. If the task remains open in the projection, a later restart can initiate another continuation for it, potentially repeating provider actions.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new automatic send can exercise the resumed thread’s existing provider capabilities; the inspected route does not show task IDs or labels granting access to another thread or provider binding.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If a stopped-task append fails while its provider send succeeds, the still-open task row can select the ready thread on another restart. Whether that produces duplicate privileged effects depends on subsequent provider behavior and deduplication not established here.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Continuation is gated by project settings, thread state, an existing resumable binding, and provider routing. Stored task labels cross from activity data into provider input, but evidence does not establish an independently attacker-controlled source for those labels.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — A task-query error is logged and converted to an empty task list. Consequently, recovery cannot distinguish unavailable task evidence from no open tasks on that read.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make stopped-task settlement a prerequisite for task-only sends, or use a durable continuation receipt or idempotency key spanning settlement and provider admission.
  • proposed — Treat persisted task labels explicitly as data in the resumed provider input, particularly if their provenance can include lower-trust content.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: continuing threads whose background tasks remain active after the turn ends.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses both coding objectives in [#13400]. listUnterminatedTasks finds active task rows from the projection and excludes terminal, idle, malformed, plan, and dream records. Startup and sel…
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In `@apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts`:
- Around line 674-725: Update settleStoppedTasks to settle only openTasks and
guard it so settlement runs at most once. Keep stoppedTasks available for the
continuation decision, but do not settle recordedTasks when openTasks is empty
or dispatch the same task completion activity again.
- Around line 419-428: Bound the string returned by continuationPromptForTasks
to the 120,000-character ProviderSendTurnInput limit, including the fixed prompt
and task labels, so oversized persisted labels cannot cause sendTurn to reject
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  • apps/server/src/checkpointing/CheckpointDiffQuery.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/Services/ProjectionSnapshotQuery.ts
  • apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/project/ProjectSetupScriptRunner.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderSessionReaper.test.ts
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Comment on lines +419 to +428
function continuationPromptForTasks(tasks: ReadonlyArray<StoppedBackgroundTask>): string {
if (tasks.length === 0) {
return SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT;
}
const lines = tasks.slice(0, MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS).map((task) => `- ${task.label}`);
if (tasks.length > MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS) {
lines.push(`- and ${tasks.length - MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS} more`);
}
return `${SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT}\n\nThese background tasks were stopped by the server restart and did not finish:\n${lines.join("\n")}`;
}

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Bound the stopped-task continuation prompt.

listUnterminatedTasks accepts persisted task titles and details without a length limit. continuationPromptForTasks inserts up to 12 labels without truncation. A long label can exceed the 120,000-character ProviderSendTurnInput limit, so ProviderService.sendTurn rejects the restart continuation before it reaches the provider adapter.

Suggested fix
-  return `${SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT}\n\nThese background tasks were stopped by the server restart and did not finish:\n${lines.join("\n")}`;
+  return `${SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT}\n\nThese background tasks were stopped by the server restart and did not finish:\n${lines.join("\n")}`.slice(
+    0,
+    120_000,
+  );
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function continuationPromptForTasks(tasks: ReadonlyArray<StoppedBackgroundTask>): string {
if (tasks.length === 0) {
return SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT;
}
const lines = tasks.slice(0, MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS).map((task) => `- ${task.label}`);
if (tasks.length > MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS) {
lines.push(`- and ${tasks.length - MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS} more`);
}
return `${SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT}\n\nThese background tasks were stopped by the server restart and did not finish:\n${lines.join("\n")}`;
}
function continuationPromptForTasks(tasks: ReadonlyArray<StoppedBackgroundTask>): string {
if (tasks.length === 0) {
return SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT;
}
const lines = tasks.slice(0, MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS).map((task) => `- ${task.label}`);
if (tasks.length > MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS) {
lines.push(`- and ${tasks.length - MAX_NAMED_STOPPED_TASKS} more`);
}
return `${SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_PROMPT}\n\nThese background tasks were stopped by the server restart and did not finish:\n${lines.join("\n")}`.slice(
0,
120_000,
);
}
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In `@apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts` around lines 419 - 428, Bound the
string returned by continuationPromptForTasks to the 120,000-character
ProviderSendTurnInput limit, including the fixed prompt and task labels, so
oversized persisted labels cannot cause sendTurn to reject the restart
continuation.

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const stoppedTasks =
openTasks.length > 0 ? openTasks : continuationMarkerPresent ? recordedTasks : [];
const continueBackgroundTasks =
continueAfterRestartFor(thread.projectId) &&
stoppedTasks.length > 0 &&
session.activeTurnId === null;
const settleStoppedTasks = Effect.gen(function* () {
if (stoppedTasks.length === 0) {
return;
}
const settledAt = DateTime.formatIso(yield* DateTime.now);
yield* Effect.forEach(
stoppedTasks,
(task) =>
Effect.gen(function* () {
yield* orchestrationEngine
.dispatch({
type: "thread.activity.append",
commandId: CommandId.make(yield* crypto.randomUUIDv4),
threadId: thread.id,
activity: {
id: EventId.make(`task-restart:${thread.id}:${task.taskId}`),
tone: "info",
kind: "task.completed",
summary: "Task stopped",
payload: {
taskId: task.taskId,
status: "stopped",
title: task.label,
summary: "Stopped because the server restarted.",
detail: "Stopped because the server restarted.",
},
turnId: null,
createdAt: settledAt,
},
createdAt: settledAt,
})
.pipe(
Effect.catchCauseIf(
(cause) => !Cause.hasInterrupts(cause),
(cause) =>
Effect.logWarning("failed to settle interrupted background task", {
threadId: thread.id,
taskId: task.taskId,
cause,
}),
),
);
}),
{ discard: true },
);
});

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printf '%s\n' '--- thread.activity.append bindings ---'
rg -n -C8 'thread\.activity\.append|activity\.append' apps/server/src/orchestration apps/server/src/persistence --type=ts -g '!**/*.test.ts' | head -240
printf '%s\n' '--- task projection/query definitions ---'
rg -n -C6 'task\.completed|task\.started|tasksByThread|readStoppedBackgroundTasks|list.*Task|open task' apps/server/src --type=ts -g '!**/*.test.ts' | head -260

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#!/bin/bash
set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- continuation failure tail ---'
sed -n '842,890p' apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- orchestration dispatch definitions ---'
rg -n -C8 'dispatch\s*[:=]|dispatch\(' apps/server/src/orchestration --type=ts -g '!**/*.test.ts' | head -220

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Settle only open tasks, and run settlement once.

When openTasks is empty, stoppedTasks uses recordedTasks, which the code identifies as already settled. If sendTurn then fails, settleStoppedTasks runs again through settleAsError. Each call creates another thread.activity-appended event for the same activity ID. The activity row is upserted, but the upsert can overwrite its created_at.

Suggested fix
     const stoppedTasks =
       openTasks.length > 0 ? openTasks : continuationMarkerPresent ? recordedTasks : [];
+    const tasksToSettle = openTasks;
+    let tasksSettled = false;
     const continueBackgroundTasks =
       continueAfterRestartFor(thread.projectId) &&
       stoppedTasks.length > 0 &&
       session.activeTurnId === null;
     const settleStoppedTasks = Effect.gen(function* () {
-      if (stoppedTasks.length === 0) {
+      if (tasksSettled || tasksToSettle.length === 0) {
         return;
       }
+      tasksSettled = true;
       const settledAt = DateTime.formatIso(yield* DateTime.now);
       yield* Effect.forEach(
-        stoppedTasks,
+        tasksToSettle,
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const stoppedTasks =
openTasks.length > 0 ? openTasks : continuationMarkerPresent ? recordedTasks : [];
const continueBackgroundTasks =
continueAfterRestartFor(thread.projectId) &&
stoppedTasks.length > 0 &&
session.activeTurnId === null;
const settleStoppedTasks = Effect.gen(function* () {
if (stoppedTasks.length === 0) {
return;
}
const settledAt = DateTime.formatIso(yield* DateTime.now);
yield* Effect.forEach(
stoppedTasks,
(task) =>
Effect.gen(function* () {
yield* orchestrationEngine
.dispatch({
type: "thread.activity.append",
commandId: CommandId.make(yield* crypto.randomUUIDv4),
threadId: thread.id,
activity: {
id: EventId.make(`task-restart:${thread.id}:${task.taskId}`),
tone: "info",
kind: "task.completed",
summary: "Task stopped",
payload: {
taskId: task.taskId,
status: "stopped",
title: task.label,
summary: "Stopped because the server restarted.",
detail: "Stopped because the server restarted.",
},
turnId: null,
createdAt: settledAt,
},
createdAt: settledAt,
})
.pipe(
Effect.catchCauseIf(
(cause) => !Cause.hasInterrupts(cause),
(cause) =>
Effect.logWarning("failed to settle interrupted background task", {
threadId: thread.id,
taskId: task.taskId,
cause,
}),
),
);
}),
{ discard: true },
);
});
const stoppedTasks =
openTasks.length > 0 ? openTasks : continuationMarkerPresent ? recordedTasks : [];
const tasksToSettle = openTasks;
let tasksSettled = false;
const continueBackgroundTasks =
continueAfterRestartFor(thread.projectId) &&
stoppedTasks.length > 0 &&
session.activeTurnId === null;
const settleStoppedTasks = Effect.gen(function* () {
if (tasksSettled || tasksToSettle.length === 0) {
return;
}
tasksSettled = true;
const settledAt = DateTime.formatIso(yield* DateTime.now);
yield* Effect.forEach(
tasksToSettle,
(task) =>
Effect.gen(function* () {
yield* orchestrationEngine
.dispatch({
type: "thread.activity.append",
commandId: CommandId.make(yield* crypto.randomUUIDv4),
threadId: thread.id,
activity: {
id: EventId.make(`task-restart:${thread.id}:${task.taskId}`),
tone: "info",
kind: "task.completed",
summary: "Task stopped",
payload: {
taskId: task.taskId,
status: "stopped",
title: task.label,
summary: "Stopped because the server restarted.",
detail: "Stopped because the server restarted.",
},
turnId: null,
createdAt: settledAt,
},
createdAt: settledAt,
})
.pipe(
Effect.catchCauseIf(
(cause) => !Cause.hasInterrupts(cause),
(cause) =>
Effect.logWarning("failed to settle interrupted background task", {
threadId: thread.id,
taskId: task.taskId,
cause,
}),
),
);
}),
{ discard: true },
);
});
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In `@apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts` around lines 674 - 725, Update
settleStoppedTasks to settle only openTasks and guard it so settlement runs at
most once. Keep stoppedTasks available for the continuation decision, but do not
settle recordedTasks when openTasks is empty or dispatch the same task
completion activity again.

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Superseded — redoing from scratch addressing Macroscope feedback (High: bound continuation prompt to PROVIDER_SEND_TURN_MAX_INPUT_CHARS; Medium: clear SERVER_UPDATE_CONTINUATION_TASKS_KEY when openTasks empty) plus CodeRabbit settleStoppedTasks / docstring notes.

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