fix(claude): recover missing sessions before first prompt admission

[AbhiPanseriya]

Claude can retain an app-generated native session ID when startup stops before its first prompt. Resuming that ID can fail because no transcript was saved.

This narrows recovery to IDs that have not received a T3 prompt. Try the same ID first, then retry fresh once only for Claude's exact missing-ID result. Show the existing warning and never replay history or prompts. Legacy cursors and IDs with admitted prompts are never reset automatically.

Resume readiness uses the SDK's initialize control response, which precedes the first prompt. Missing-result handling drains the SDK reader before cleanup can discard the evidence. ProviderService durably revokes recovery before sending; failed writes queue nothing. A native-ID guard rejects stale admissions, and scoped per-thread locks prevent old same-ID snapshots from restoring eligibility.

Evidence

• Actual SDK plus an inert owned Node child verifies initialization before any prompt or system/init, a missing result with a different transient process ID, initialization rejection ahead of result logging, control errors, pending sends, cancellation and cleanup. No real provider/account is invoked.
• Production adapter/service with real SQLite verifies restart before/after admission, failed persistence, same-ID stale snapshots, replacement races and legacy histories with zero or 124 turns. The actual importer, SQLite directory and Claude adapter preserve an imported cursor with no eligibility marker when its transcript is missing; scanned input and orchestration/projection services are stubbed. Removing only the native-ID guard makes the replacement's actual prompt iterable receive an unadmitted stale prompt; restoring it rejects that request.
• A failed-close regression originally admitted a prompt after initialization failed. The repaired guard stays closed until cleanup succeeds, including after a late initialization response.
• 216 focused tests passed on 5c6ff1a2, based on main 09aac715, with server typechecking and targeted lint. The inert child uses the repository's existing discovered fixture directory. All executed CI checks passed on this head. Macroscope Approvability remains NEUTRAL and requires human review; Correctness skipped the byte-identical fixture move and caller-path change, reusing its earlier source review at 01fc90db. Screenshots do not apply to this nonvisual server change.

Human decision required

Related to #2336, not a fix for its original 124-message legacy conversation. That issue stays open. Automatic recovery is disabled after an admitted prompt even if Claude never saves a transcript. A send rejected during pending startup may persist false without consuming the still-unused live context; only a separate explicit retry can submit a prompt. If closing a rejected query fails, return the typed failure without a fresh retry so a second context cannot start while the old query may still be live. Confirm these conservative recovery boundaries before merging.

This does not change existing late binding-overwrite or shutdown-queue send-outcome behavior. It adds no public wire field, history reconstruction, native directory scan or recovery policy for other providers. Older arbitrary custom Claude executables were not tested.

Original implementation and cancellation handling by Abhi Panseriya. Scoped preparation and verification by GPT 6 Astra via Codex in T3 Code.

Note

Recover missing Claude sessions before first prompt admission

• Adds a resumeBeforeFirstPrompt marker to Claude resume cursors so the system can distinguish sessions still eligible for first-prompt recovery from sessions already admitted.
• Adds isMissingConversationResult to detect when the Claude SDK reports a requested native conversation as missing. App-generated, pre-prompt sessions get one automatic retry with a fresh session; imported transcripts and legacy or confirmed-admitted cursors fail without retry.
• Serializes Claude cursor binding writes per thread via upsertBinding in ProviderService.ts, converting stale pending markers to non-pending unless the active provider session is still pending. All provider-session binding paths (start, abort, shutdown) now route through this helper.
• sendTurn now validates that the persisted directory binding and active provider session match (provider instance ID and resume cursor) before dispatching. On match, it consumes the resumeBeforeFirstPrompt marker and passes expectedNativeSessionId to ClaudeAdapter.ts. Claude startup now waits for SDK initialization verification, resolving as accepted, rejected, or aborted.
• Risk: startSession in ClaudeAdapter now retries only when the cursor is an app-generated pre-prompt session with an exact missing-conversation result. Ambiguous errors, mismatched IDs, imported transcripts, and already-admitted cursors will fail the start instead of retrying. Sends during pending SDK resume initialization are now rejected before reaching the adapter query.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved Claude session resume reliability, including recovery from missing or temporarily unavailable sessions.
  • Prompts are now held until session verification completes, preventing messages from being sent to invalid or replaced sessions.
  • Added safeguards against stale responses and mismatched native session identities.
  • Improved handling of cancellation, startup failures, and storage errors without unnecessarily interrupting active event delivery.
  • Preserved imported session state and resume identifiers during recovery and session replacement.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This changes live Claude session startup, resume recovery, prompt admission, persistence, and concurrency behavior across the adapter and provider service. The new state transitions and gating affect existing customer request paths, so the change warrants human review.

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Claude resume startup now verifies native initialization, handles missing sessions, and controls recovery. ProviderService adds guarded Claude cursor writes and first-prompt admission. Tests cover lifecycle, replacement, cancellation, persistence, and SDK bootstrap behavior.

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Claude resume admission and recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resume verification and guarded startup apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Services/ProviderAdapter.ts	Claude sessions await initialization, classify resume outcomes, reject stale identities, and retry only eligible generated sessions.
Guarded cursor writes and prompt admission apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts	Claude binding writes use per-thread locking. First-prompt admission validates session identity and passes the expected native session ID.
SDK bootstrap test infrastructure apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/testFixtures/claudeBootstrapFixture.mjs	Tests add controllable query initialization, real SDK bootstrap harnesses, and protocol replay modes.
Resume and admission coverage apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.test.ts	Tests cover missing sessions, pending initialization, cancellation, replacement, stale sends, storage failures, and SQLite recovery.

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Claude session resume now verifies readiness with the CLI before accepting the first prompt and retries once with a fresh session only in a narrow, well-tested case. One known limitation remains: if the Claude CLI starts but never responds, session startup can wait indefinitely and prompts stay blocked for that thread until restart. This is bounded and behind existing behavior, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness and a follow-up for the startup timeout.

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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts (1)

4996-5000: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bound queryRuntime.initializationResult()

If the CLI stays alive but never responds to initialize, queryRuntime.initializationResult() can remain pending. startSession can then remain in the starting state until the stream or session stops. Add a timeout and route expiry through the existing failure branch to close the query, drain the stream, and settle resumeVerification as aborted.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts` around lines 4996 - 5000,
Update the Effect flow in the initialize function around
queryRuntime.initializationResult() to enforce a timeout for a nonresponsive
CLI. Route timeout errors through the existing initialization failure path so
the query closes, the stream drains, and resumeVerification settles as aborted.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts`:
- Around line 4996-5000: Update the Effect flow in the initialize function
around queryRuntime.initializationResult() to enforce a timeout for a
nonresponsive CLI. Route timeout errors through the existing initialization
failure path so the query closes, the stream drains, and resumeVerification
settles as aborted.

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Merged main into the branch (3d80b38). One conflict, in ProviderService.ts: our isClaudeResumeCursor against main's encodePromptJson and the accessibility-snapshot types, both added at the same spot. Kept both sides. Verified main lost nothing - its symbols are present at the same occurrence counts, and every line the branch removes vs main is one of ours by intent (directory.upsert -> upsertBinding, the sendTurn guard). tsgo clean, 249 tests passing across ClaudeAdapter.test.ts and ProviderService.test.ts. vp i was needed first - main added yauzl and moved vite-plus to 0.3.0.

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An unresponsive Claude CLI can leave resumed sessions stuck starting indefinitely, so initialization should be bounded before merge.

This reproduces, and I could not fix it safely. Reporting rather than pushing a patch, since it lives in the initialization choreography from f8b7f81.

Reproduction, on unmodified branch HEAD with no changes of mine: resume a session, leave initializationResult() pending, emit nothing. startSession never returns - not at 90s, not ever. The test dies on vitest's 120s limit. It matters because requireSession's send guard refuses sendTurn while resumeVerification is set, so the thread is not merely slow, it is unusable with no way out.

The structural reason every obvious bound fails:

Deferred.await(resumeVerification).pipe(Effect.raceFirst(initialize), ...)

initialize parks on Effect.tryPromise(() => queryRuntime.initializationResult()). For an unresponsive CLI that promise never settles, and a fiber parked on a promise cannot be interrupted - so raceFirst can never release the loser, and the composition cannot complete however it is bounded from outside. Four attempts, each failing differently:

1. Effect.raceFirst against a failing sleep - the wait resolves with Cause([Interrupt(undefined)]) instead of the failure, then hangs. An interrupt is not a Result, so callers get nothing to catch.
2. Effect.timeout + catchTag("TimeoutError") around the race - same hang; the timeout still has to cancel the parked fiber.
3. Effect.timeout on the tryPromise inside initialize - routes into the existing rejection branch, which does Fiber.await(streamFiber) while that same fiber is running stopSessionInternal, so it deadlocks on itself.
4. runFork(initialize) detached, with the timeout settling the deferred so nothing needs cancelling - still hangs, so at least one more wait is involved than the promise alone.

The direction I would explore, but did not want to land unverified in your design: give the SDK call an AbortSignal so the promise is genuinely cancellable, rather than bounding it from the outside. Failing that, initialize needs to be able to complete on its own for an unresponsive CLI, and its rejection branch needs to stop awaiting the stream fiber it may be running inside.

Happy to take a swing at whichever direction you prefer. Everything else on the branch is green: Bugbot passed on the last three revisions, Macroscope Correctness passed, and its "Not approved" is the auto-merge eligibility gate ("focused and well-tested... nontrivial runtime lifecycle behavior"), not a defect.

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