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What Changed

The Claude capabilities probe (which spawns a claude process for account, slash-command and usage data) was cached per instance. It is now cached in a server-wide ClaudeCapabilitiesProbeCache service. The cache key is the binary path, the CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR the CLI actually receives (or its absence), the cwd, and the instance's environment overrides. Only instances that would run an identical probe share a result.

  • An empty home and homePath: "~/.claude" point at the same directory but get different keys, because the CLI treats an explicit CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR as a separate login (a different keychain entry and .claude.json).
  • Successful probes are cached for 5 minutes, as before. Failed probes (undefined) are no longer cached, so one instance's failure is never served to its siblings.
  • Reset-credit redemption and invalidateCaches invalidate that key, so any other instance on the same key re-probes on its next check.
  • The probe closure travels inside the cache key, so the 256-entry LRU bounds everything the service retains.

Known limitation: an instance that reads a sibling's cached result shows usage up to 5 minutes old. The same was already true for one instance between its own refreshes.

Why

A user report showed 30 Claude instances spread over 9 config directories. Each instance ran its own probe, so most of those claude processes were duplicates. With this change that setup runs at most one successful probe per key every 5 minutes.

The service follows the ResetCreditCoordinator pattern (an account-keyed, server-wide service), so tests stay isolated.

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Tests: claudeCapabilitiesProbeCache.test.ts covers one probe per key, separate probes for separate keys, re-probing after invalidation, and failures not being cached. ClaudeHome.test.ts covers an unset versus an explicit default home. The ProviderRegistry and ProviderInstanceRegistryLive tests, server typecheck, lint and fmt also pass.

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  • Improvements
    • Claude provider status checks share capability results across instances with matching settings, while keeping results separate when environment settings differ.
    • Capability results refresh after credit resets or when provider caches are invalidated, so subsequent status checks can reflect updated capabilities.

The capabilities probe spawns a claude process and was cached per
instance, so instances sharing a binary and config directory each ran
their own probe. Move the TTL cache into a server-wide service keyed by
binary, config directory, cwd and instance environment so they share one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CeWArRh6FDJGzjGYecyi7A
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Thread transfer impact

✅ 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 +2 B (+0.0%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 6.4 KiB 6.4 KiB +2 B (+0.0%) 7.8 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 56.2 KiB 56.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 66.4 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 9 9 0 (0.0%) 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 −8 B (−0.1%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 6.4 KiB 6.4 KiB +3 B (+0.0%) 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: ed809f7 · PR result: 9b8a6af · 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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Carry the probe in the cache key instead of a side map that was never
pruned, so evicted entries release their probe and captured environment.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes an existing Claude status path from per-instance caching to a server-wide cache, altering freshness and invalidation behavior across instances. Because the cached probe includes account, authentication, and usage metadata, the cross-instance runtime and sensitive-data implications merit human review.

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Claude capability probes now use a shared server cache. Cache keys include the capabilities key and instance environment. The cache retains successful, defined results for five minutes and supports keyed invalidation.

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Claude capability probe caching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cache service and runtime provision
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeCapabilitiesProbeCache.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeCapabilitiesProbeCache.test.ts, apps/server/src/server.ts
Adds a cache service with a five-minute TTL and a 256-entry capacity. Undefined results and failures are not retained. The server runtime provides the cache, and tests cover cached results and repeated undefined probes.
Probe keys and ClaudeDriver integration
apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeHome.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeHome.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeProvider.ts
ClaudeDriver uses keys based on the capabilities key and instance environment for status checks and invalidation. The capabilities key uses the CLI's CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, binary path, and working directory. The probe result type is exported.
Runtime and registry test wiring
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderInstanceRegistryLive.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.test.ts
Registry and multi-instance test layers now provide the cache service.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ClaudeDriver
  participant ClaudeCapabilitiesProbeCache
  participant ClaudeProbe
  ClaudeDriver->>ClaudeCapabilitiesProbeCache: get(key, probe)
  ClaudeCapabilitiesProbeCache->>ClaudeProbe: run probe on cache miss
  ClaudeProbe-->>ClaudeCapabilitiesProbeCache: return probe result
  ClaudeCapabilitiesProbeCache-->>ClaudeDriver: return cached or new result
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A temporary usage-probe failure can leave matching instances showing unavailable usage information for up to five minutes. This is bounded and recovers when the entry expires, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness.

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190-190: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Canonicalize environment overrides before building the shared cache key.

mergeProviderInstanceEnvironment uses last-write-wins semantics, but the cache key preserves the raw array order. Equivalent Claude environments can therefore use different keys and run duplicate probes. Reduce duplicate names with the same last-write-wins rule, apply the same path expansion, and sort the resulting names. The environment schema has no order or uniqueness requirement.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeDriver.ts` at line 190, Canonicalize
the environment used to build the shared cache key in ClaudeDriver by applying
mergeProviderInstanceEnvironment’s last-write-wins behavior, expanding paths
consistently, and sorting the resulting names before serialization. Keep
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeCapabilitiesProbeCache.ts`:
- Around line 60-61: Update ClaudeCapabilitiesProbeCache’s Cache.makeWith
configuration to use a short retry TTL for undefined probe results and results
without usage, while retaining the five-minute TTL for complete results. Keep
the existing lookup behavior and bounded caching for both outcomes.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeDriver.ts`:
- Line 190: Canonicalize the environment used to build the shared cache key in
ClaudeDriver by applying mergeProviderInstanceEnvironment’s last-write-wins
behavior, expanding paths consistently, and sorting the resulting names before
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Comment thread apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeCapabilitiesProbeCache.ts Outdated
An empty home and "~/.claude" resolve to the same directory but the CLI
treats an explicit CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR as a separate login, so they must
not share probe results. Also stop caching failed probes so one
instance's failure is not served to its siblings for five minutes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CeWArRh6FDJGzjGYecyi7A

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeHome.test.ts`:
- Line 83: Update the unset call to makeClaudeCapabilitiesCacheKey in the test
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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

Closing in favor of #13696, which makes the same change more safely and is now smaller (+156/-60). Two gaps here: the driver wiring is untested (all tests still pass with main's per-instance ClaudeDriver.ts restored), and failed probes are no longer cached (timeToLive is zero for undefined), so a signed-out or timing-out Claude home would spawn an SDK probe on every status check. #13696 keys the cache on the typed probe input, so the lookup cannot read an input the key omits, keeps main's 5-minute failure caching, and has a registry test proving one probe per input.

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