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Problem

A workspace preparation completion can release a preparing V2 run after its thread was archived, transition it to starting, and enqueue provider-turn.start. The release path does not check the terminal thread state before preparing checkpoints and scheduling provider work.

Reproduced against b4d3d51ac9. Macroscope flagged this in the merged orchestrator V2 PR: preparation-release finding.

Change

Reject prepared-run.release when its thread is archived or deleted, before preparing checkpoints, changing run state, or scheduling provider work. If preparation finishes while archived, ThreadLaunchService records its rejected release as a failed run through the existing failure path. After unarchive, a new send starts a new run; this change does not add suspended-setup resumption.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious lifecycle invariant violation under CONTRIBUTING.md. It changes one existing command path, with no new capabilities, settings, product defaults, dependencies, wire changes, or diagnostic suppressions. The shared server path applies across clients and connection modes without provider-specific changes.

Duplicate search included open, merged, and closed PRs. #11635 already covers terminal-thread checks in message.dispatch; that overlapping fix is intentionally excluded here. Its diff does not cover prepared-run.release. #14240 addressed session teardown in the removed V1 reactor.

Verification

  • Red: vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism -t 'rejects prepared-run.release after thread.archive' reproduces successful admission after archiving on the original code.
  • Green: 46 passing focused tests in Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts and ThreadLaunchService.test.ts, with one worker and no file parallelism. Command-level regressions cover archive/delete rejection, unchanged projection and an empty release outbox. The launcher regression blocks setup with deferred signals, archives the thread, completes setup, and waits on persisted events: the run fails without provider turns or checkpoint scopes. After unarchive, a new send starts a distinct run and enqueues provider work. It fails without the release guard (starting instead of failed). Real orchestration, persistence, projection and outbox run; external setup and provider execution are isolated.
  • GOMAXPROCS=1 tsc --noEmit -p apps/server/tsconfig.json — passes. Effect emitted advisory suggestions; no compiler errors.
  • vp lint apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts --threads 1 --report-unused-disable-directives — passes with pre-existing warnings for unused layerUnavailable and optional chaining in an unchanged launcher test.
  • fallow audit --base bf7121d7a2 --threads 1 --format json --quiet --explain (Fallow 3.31.0) — pass, three changed files, zero introduced dead-code, complexity, duplication, or styling findings. Existing findings remain outside this fix; the tool notes incomplete import-graph evidence from skipped vendored .repos sources.
  • Scoped formatting and git diff --check pass.

No browsers, provider CLI sessions, or live user database were used. Repository-wide checks were not run.

Model: GPT-6.1-Sol. Harness: Codex in T3 Code.

Reject prepared-run.release before preparing checkpoints or scheduling provider work when the thread is archived or deleted. Regressions exercise terminal-thread refusal and successful release after unarchive.
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Verdict: Approved at 6cf266d

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The change is limited to an early lifecycle guard that prevents archived or deleted threads from creating checkpoints or scheduling provider work, with focused regression coverage for both terminal states and setup completion. No schema, deployment, default-setting, security-sensitive, or static-analysis configuration changes are included.

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Walkthrough

Prepared-run release now rejects archived or deleted threads. Tests verify that rejection leaves the thread projection and outbox unchanged. Another test covers archiving a thread during setup and sending a new message after unarchiving.

Changes

Inactive thread release

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release guard and validation
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts
Release rejects archived or deleted threads with an OrchestratorDispatchError. Tests verify that rejection leaves the projection and outbox unchanged. A setup test checks that archiving prevents release effects, and that a later send after unarchiving starts a distinct run and emits a provider-turn start request.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e770f

The check prevents new work from starting on inactive threads. However, setup completion on an archived thread can now mark its prepared run failed, so unarchiving cannot resume that same run through the release path.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Reversing archive does not restore the prepared run after production setup completion encounters the new rejection. ThreadLaunchService converts that rejection into nonretryable prepared-run.fail, while release requires the run to remain preparing. The test demonstrates recovery only by bypassing this failure handler and explicitly issuing a fresh release after unarchive. This changes the rollback semantics of a reversible lifecycle action across preparation and thread-state ownership.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The directly affected execution authority is provider work for the identified thread and run. The change narrows release eligibility on the shared server path rather than adding callers, privileges, or a new trust boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The persisted thread lifecycle state is checked before admitting preparation completion into checkpoint creation and provider-start scheduling. An archived or deleted thread therefore cannot obtain those release effects through this command path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Preparation scheduling releases its in-memory reservation on termination. Worktree removal in the inspected preparation error handler is conditional on interruption; an inactive-thread dispatch rejection is not that cleanup branch. Complete resource cleanup across archive and asynchronous setup remains unverified, rather than an established leak or security finding.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:
- Around line 7363-7369: Update the archived-thread handling in the dispatch
guard so `prepared-run.release` is not rejected solely because the thread is
archived; keep other commands’ existing archived/deleted-thread behavior.
Preserve the run in `preparing` until it can be released after unarchive, and
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Review (COMMENT — cannot self-approve)

This review was written with Grok Bot. GitHub rejects self-approvals, so this is submitted as COMMENT rather than APPROVE even though I found no blocking issues.

Updated for head 6cf266d (test(server): cover archived preparation through the launcher).

Against CONTRIBUTING / PR template

Check Result
One underlying problem Yes — archived/deleted threads must not start provider work after setup
Obvious focused bug exception (no prior issue required) Reasonable — lifecycle invariant
Scope stays on the fix Yes — dispatch guard plus focused tests; no unrelated cleanup
Verification evidence Orchestrator refusal tests remain. Launcher coverage added on 6cf266d. CI on this head: Lint, Typecheck, Test, Test Web, Release Smoke pass; Test Server 1–6 and Macroscope Approvability still pending at review time
Conventional title / Problem–Change–Scope–Verification body Matches .github/pull_request_template.md and AGENTS.md PR guidance
Reverse state covered Unarchive path now lives in ThreadLaunchService.test.ts: setup that finishes while archived fails the run with no provider turn, and a new send after unarchive starts

Correctness

  • Guard in dispatchPreparedRunRelease still sits after projection load and before checkpoint preparation, run-state transition, or provider-turn.start.
  • 6cf266d moves the unarchive assertion out of Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts and into the launcher: archive during setup, fail the prepared run, empty outbox, then unarchive and sendToThread → started / starting plus provider-turn.start. That matches the requested coverage (setup finishing while archived, then a new turn after unarchive) better than releasing the same prepared run.
  • Orchestrator tests still reject prepared-run.release on archive and delete, with projection and outbox unchanged.

Findings

No blocking issues in the correction. I am not inventing nits.

Maintainer note: a third-party APPROVE is still needed before merge; this COMMENT is not a merge approval.

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