fix(server): limit restart loops within a five-minute window

[spencermorris04]

Problem

The three-restart continuation cap counts the entire ancestry. A thread can work normally between upgrades and eventually stop resuming solely because it has restarted three times over its lifetime.

Change

Count only restart continuations requested within five minutes of the interrupted source run. Rapid loops still stop at the existing three-link cap; old successful work no longer permanently exhausts recovery.

Scope and approval

This is a focused correction to the established restart-loop guard. It does not add recovery mechanisms or replace shared-session startup ordering handled by #15820.

Verification

Run vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.test.ts -t "stops rapid restart loops". The existing cap regression now also ages one ancestor beyond the window. The rapid chain stays blocked in both versions, while the aged chain fails to resume on upstream and resumes after this change.

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The existing rapid-loop regression now covers missing completion timestamps at and beyond the request-time cutoff, alongside normal-work spacing.

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📝 Walkthrough

Automatic restart continuation now counts only restarts within five minutes of the source run’s completion time, or its request time when completion is absent. Tests cover rapid restart limits and continuation after older ancestors fall outside the window.

Changes: Restart continuation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Count recent restarts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.test.ts	The chain counter stops at ancestors requested before the five-minute window. Tests check request-age cutoffs and continuation when runs have completion timestamps set to the current time.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b7600

The change preserves the rapid-restart cap while allowing continuation after older restarts age out. The request-time fallback is covered; no actionable merge risk is established.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b7600

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: apps/server

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.ts: The three-restart chain limit remains, and a five-minute loop window is added; the limit now applies to recent restarts rather than the chain’s lifetime.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.ts: The chain-counting loop now establishes a five-minute window from the source run’s completion time, or request time if completion is absent. It stops traversing when an ancestor was requested before that window, so restarts outside the window do not contribute to the chain limit.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.test.ts: The base run fixture now sets requestedAt to now and completedAt to null.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.test.ts: The cut-run fixture now sets completedAt to now.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.test.ts: 1

1017-1024: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the request-time fallback in the rapid-loop test.

cutMidTurn sets completedAt: now, so the current rapid-loop assertions never use source.requestedAt as the window anchor. A regression that falls back to now instead of source.requestedAt when completedAt is null would pass.

Add a null-completion case at the cutoff and move the continuation case beyond the cutoff.

Suggested fix

-    const afterNormalWork = {
+    const atRequestCutoff = {
       ...withThreeLinks,
       runs: withThreeLinks.runs.map((run, index) => ({
         ...run,
+        completedAt: null,
         requestedAt: DateTime.subtract(now, { minutes: [1, 2, 6][index] ?? 0 }),
       })),
     } as unknown as OrchestrationV2ThreadProjection;
-    assert.lengthOf(yield* continuationTexts(afterNormalWork), 1);
+    assert.lengthOf(yield* continuationTexts(atRequestCutoff), 0);
+    const afterNormalWork = {
+      ...atRequestCutoff,
+      runs: atRequestCutoff.runs.map((run, index) => ({
+        ...run,
+        requestedAt: DateTime.subtract(now, { minutes: [1, 2, 7][index] ?? 0 }),
+      })),
+    } as unknown as OrchestrationV2ThreadProjection;
+    assert.lengthOf(yield* continuationTexts(afterNormalWork), 1);

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.test.ts
around lines 1017 - 1024:
Update the rapid-loop test around `continuationTexts` to cover the request-time
cutoff when run completion times are null: assert that requests at the cutoff
produce no continuation, then move the continuation case beyond the cutoff and
assert that it produces one. Preserve the existing `afterNormalWork` behavior
for requests outside the cutoff.

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Review comments at
@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.test.ts:
- Around line 1017-1024: Update the rapid-loop test around `continuationTexts`
to cover the request-time cutoff when run completion times are null: assert that
requests at the cutoff produce no continuation, then move the continuation case
beyond the cutoff and assert that it produces one. Preserve the existing
`afterNormalWork` behavior for requests outside the cutoff.

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