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Each Claude instance had its own private capabilities cache, so instances on the same Claude home never shared a probe. The slowdown report had 30 Claude instances on 9 homes: a full refresh started 30 SDK probes where 9 would do, and the report saw 21 probe processes at once (about 2.9 GB).

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  • One server-wide ClaudeProbeCache service: a single Effect Cache (5 min TTL, 256 entries), provided next to ResetCreditCoordinator.
  • The key is the full probe input: binary path, home path, cwd, and instance env vars. The lookup gets only the key, so two accounts can never share a result.
  • Concurrent reads of one input join one probe. For the reported setup, a full refresh runs 9 SDK probes instead of 30.
  • Refresh (invalidateCaches) and the reset-credit re-probe drop the entry for that input, so siblings on it re-probe too.
  • A new or rebuilt instance drops a finished entry for its input, so a config edit probes fresh. An in-flight probe is joined, so instances that start together at boot still run one probe.

Tradeoff

A failed probe is cached for sibling instances for 5 min, the same TTL main already uses per instance. Siblings run the same binary, home, and env vars, so in practice their probes fail together anyway. Refresh re-probes at once.

Verification

  • New ProviderInstanceRegistryLive.test.ts case runs the real registry with three Claude instances: two with the same input run one SDK probe (also when the second starts mid-probe), one with other env vars runs its own, and invalidateCaches and a rebuild each re-probe once. It fails if invalidateCaches does nothing.
  • A second case redeems a reset on one instance and checks that a sibling reads the new usage.
  • vp test run on the provider registry, Claude home, capabilities probe, managed provider, and usage limit tests (86 pass). vp lint, vp fmt, and vp run --filter t3 typecheck pass.

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 13.5 KiB 13.5 KiB +18 B (+0.1%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB −4 B (−0.1%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 6.4 KiB 6.5 KiB +22 B (+0.3%) 7.8 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 56.2 KiB 56.3 KiB +44 B (+0.1%) 66.4 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 9 10 +1 (+11.1%) 21 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 13.5 KiB 13.5 KiB −5 B (−0.0%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB +6 B (+0.1%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 6.4 KiB 6.4 KiB −11 B (−0.2%) 7.8 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 57.0 KiB 57.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 66.4 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 9 9 0 (0.0%) 21 ✅

Baseline: 81e0491 · PR result: 10c54c9 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 114.0 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.7 KiB

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Claude capability probes now use a server-wide cache keyed by binary path, home path, working directory, and instance environment. The Claude driver uses this cache for status checks and invalidates matching inputs during reset-credit handling and explicit cache invalidation. The server runtime provides the cache service.

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Claude Probe Cache

Layer / File(s) Summary
Probe input and cache behavior
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeProbeCache.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeProbeCache.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeHome.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeHome.test.ts
The probe function accepts only binary and home settings. The shared cache uses the full probe input, applies separate expiration periods to successful and unsuccessful results, limits concurrent probes, and supports per-input invalidation. Tests cover reuse, distinct inputs, expiration, invalidation, and concurrency. The previous capability cache-key function and related tests were removed.
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apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ProviderDriver.ts, apps/server/src/server.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderInstanceRegistryLive.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.test.ts
The Claude driver uses the shared cache for status checks and invalidates the matching input during reset-credit handling and explicit cache invalidation. The server runtime and provider test layers provide the cache. The provider-driver contract distinguishes per-instance mutable state from server-wide state.

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  participant ClaudeDriver
  participant ClaudeProbeCache
  participant probeClaudeCapabilities
  ClaudeDriver->>ClaudeProbeCache: Request capabilities for probe input
  ClaudeProbeCache->>probeClaudeCapabilities: Probe with binary path, home path, cwd, and environment
  probeClaudeCapabilities-->>ClaudeProbeCache: Return probe result
  ClaudeProbeCache-->>ClaudeDriver: Return capabilities
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…es probe

Each Claude instance had its own private capabilities cache, so 30
instances on 9 homes ran 30 SDK probes, and they all started at once.

Add a server-wide ClaudeProbeCache service. It owns one cache keyed by
the full probe input (binary path, home path, cwd, and the instance env
vars). The lookup gets only that input, so the probe cannot read
anything the key leaves out. A 3-permit gate limits SDK probes that run
at once across all instances; the probe's own timeout stays inside the
gate. Successful results keep 5 min. Failed probes keep only 30 s,
because a failure now marks every sibling on that home as unverified.
invalidateCaches and the reset-credit re-probe drop the entry for that
input only.

Behavior change: sibling instances on one home now see one shared probe
result, so their usage values can be up to 5 min old for a sibling.
Codex, the version check, and refreshAll concurrency are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a test that the shared probe cache runs at most 3 SDK probes at
once. It fails when the gate is widened. Reword the ClaudeDriver header:
instances share one probe only when the whole probe input matches, not
just the home.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cache capacity was 64. Effect's Cache evicts the least recently used
key, and each refresh reads the keys in the same order. So with 65 or more
probe inputs, every read evicted a key the next refresh needed, and every
refresh re-probed every instance. Raise the cap to 1024 and add a test that
100 inputs stay cached across two refreshes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Knip flags the exported make as unused. The layer is the only consumer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mark make @public, as resetCreditCoordinator and other service modules
do, so knip and the service conventions agree. Say the probe key holds
every instance input, not everything the probe reads, and group the
test import with the other driver imports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…seconds

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
t3dotgg and others added 9 commits September 26, 2026 01:42
…rate probes

Both resolve to ~/.claude, but an explicit CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is a separate
login to the CLI. Pin this so a later key normalization cannot merge them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…hout a gate

Usage limits now carry the time the probe read them, not the time of the
status check that reused a cached probe. A cached read that is older than
the published limits (for example a turn's update) no longer replaces them.

Remove the 3-probe gate. Sharing already runs one probe per distinct input,
and with about 8 s per probe the gate made status for 9 homes take about
24 s instead of about 8 s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…at probe failure backs off

A check that reads a cached Claude probe kept the published limits whole,
so it also kept the old reset credit list instead of the credits it just
read. It now keeps the published windows and takes the fresh credits.

A failed probe or usage read retried after 30 s every time, so a signed-out
input probed on every 1 min check. Only the first failure in a row retries
after 30 s now. A repeat failure waits 5 min, like a success.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The set of inputs whose last probe failed only shrank on a later success,
so failed inputs from old instance configs stayed forever. It now clears
when it reaches the cache's cap. A clear costs each input one early retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…annot start a failure streak

A new or edited Claude instance drops a sibling's finished probe for its
input, so it starts from its own probe as it did before the cache was
shared. It still joins a probe in flight, so instances created together
at boot share one.

Each probe now writes only its own failure record, so a probe that
invalidate replaced cannot mark its input as failing after a newer
probe succeeded.

Adds a registry test for the driver wiring: two instances with the same
home and env run one SDK probe, one with different env runs its own,
and an edited instance probes again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Cache

The shared cache had grown a failure-streak map, split failure TTLs, a
dropFinished step for new instances, and a cached-read rule in
resolveUsageLimitsAfterProbe that every provider went through. None of that
is needed to stop instances on one home from each running their own probe.

ClaudeProbeCache is now one server-wide Effect Cache keyed by the narrowed
probe input. Each entry keeps 5 minutes, a failed probe included, like the
old per-instance cache. Explicit refresh and the reset-credit re-probe still
invalidate the key. Usage limits keep the check time, as on main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Before the shared cache, a config edit rebuilt the instance with an empty
cache, so it probed at once. Now create drops the shared entry for its
input when that entry already finished. An in-flight probe is joined, so
instances that start together at boot still run one probe per input.

Tests: a rebuild after the probe finished runs a fresh probe, an instance
added while a probe is in flight joins it, and a reset re-probe reaches
siblings on the same input.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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