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Summary

  • Order messages by persisted creation time while keeping IDs as opaque identity values.
  • Navigate fork, revert, redo, queued-message, and compaction boundaries by chronological array position.
  • Make revert cleanup crash-resumable and serialize revert mutations with new message persistence.
  • Age truncated tool-output files by filesystem modification time.
  • Add rollover regression coverage from reducers and service workflows through the visible send-and-reload path.

Why

Message IDs encode a truncated timestamp. That timestamp wrapped in August 2026, so newer IDs became lexically smaller than older IDs. The database and API remained chronological, but renderer insertion and several session workflows treated ID comparison as time comparison. New messages were therefore inserted at the front and became invisible at the latest scroll position; the same invalid assumption also affected fork, revert cleanup, queued prompts, compaction progress, and temporary-output retention.

This safety patch removes relational message-ID comparisons without changing the ID format or migrating stored data. It also closes the observed cleanup/unrevert race without holding the session mutation lock across plugin hooks.

Related Issue

Follow-up architecture work: #1561

Human Review Status\n\nApproved by @Astro-Han

Review Focus

  • Confirm every changed comparison separates identity from chronology: equality uses ID, ordering uses time.created, and boundaries use array position.
  • Confirm revert cleanup removes tail records before the boundary, resumes safely after interruption, and serializes with prompt/shell persistence without plugin reentrancy.
  • Confirm no ID-format or persistence migration slipped into this safety patch.

Risk Notes

  • Messages without a finite creation timestamp sort before timestamped messages and use ID only as a deterministic tie-breaker. Persisted message records normally carry time.created.
  • Tool-output retention now uses file mtime. Entries with unavailable stat or mtime are preserved rather than deleted.
  • A shell command fails fast with HTTP 409 / BusyError instead of waiting when a revert mutation is already in progress; this avoids an uncancellable pre-ready wait and partial shell messages.
  • Revert boundaries outside the loaded page remain fail-closed; redo can remain unavailable until that boundary is loaded. Full boundary-loading UX and broader session-state authority remain follow-up architecture work in [Task] Make identifiers opaque and remove encoded-time ordering contracts #1561.
  • Manual macOS Electron verification passed on the PR branch: an older msg_fd… turn remained above a newly sent, lexically smaller msg_00… turn, and both retained that order after a full renderer reload and session reopen.
  • The model configured in the dev profile had an expired login, so both assistant attempts rendered the expected authentication error. This did not affect user-message persistence, ID rollover ordering, or reload verification.
  • The visible-UI checklist item remains unticked because this changes behavior, not layout or copy; no visual baseline changed.
  • The platform checklist item is left unticked because no platform, packaging, path, permission, or installer surface changed.

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App unit suite: 2025 passed, 0 failed
OpenCode prompt/revert/pagination regression suite: 149 passed, 0 failed
Visible send + assistant reply + reload E2E: 1 passed, 0 failed
App typecheck: passed
OpenCode typecheck: passed
Root lint: passed
Git diff check: passed
macOS Electron manual rollover path: passed; msg_fd… stayed above newly sent msg_00… before and after reload
Fresh-eye adversarial reviews: no P0/P1 findings after final fixes
Claude Opus adversarial review: PASS; no P0/P1 findings

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No visual presentation changed. The macOS Electron route was manually exercised on the PR branch through project open, persisted rollover fixture load, visible message send, chronological placement, full renderer reload, and session reopen.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Session messages now remain in chronological order when message identifiers roll over.
    • Improved reliability for loading, syncing, navigation, undo, redo, reverting, and forking sessions.
    • Revert and prompt operations now handle concurrent changes more safely.
    • Auto-compaction and reminders follow conversation position accurately.
    • Tool-file cleanup now uses file modification dates for dependable retention handling.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for ordering, navigation, forking, reverting, concurrency, and cleanup across identifier rollovers.

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The change replaces lexicographic message-ID ordering with creation-time ordering or array-position lookup. It updates synchronization, optimistic state, session navigation, backend session operations, prefetch merging, and cleanup age detection. Regression coverage covers rollover scenarios.

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Message ordering and synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ordered message synchronization
packages/app/src/context/global-sync/message-order.ts, packages/app/src/context/global-sync/event-reducer.ts, packages/app/src/context/global-sync/bootstrap.ts, packages/app/src/context/sync.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/layout/pawwork-session-prefetch.ts, packages/app/src/context/*test.ts
Messages now merge by ID and sort by creation time. Synchronization, optimistic updates, prefetching, and rollover tests use the shared ordering helpers.
Position-based session navigation
packages/app/src/pages/session/session-messages.ts, packages/app/src/pages/session/use-session-commands.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/session/use-session-timeline-data.ts, packages/app/src/components/session/*, packages/app/src/pages/session/message-timeline.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/session.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/session/session-messages.test.ts
Session boundaries, undo, redo, timeline lookup, metrics, and fork selection now use message positions and ID lookups.
End-to-end rollover validation
packages/app/e2e/session/session-message-rollover.spec.ts
The end-to-end test verifies chronological rendering and persistence after reload.

Backend session operations

Layer / File(s) Summary
History-index session boundaries
packages/opencode/src/session/compaction.ts, packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts, packages/opencode/src/session/revert.ts, packages/opencode/src/session/session.ts, packages/opencode/test/session/*
Compaction, prompt persistence, revert cleanup, and forking now resolve boundaries by history position. Per-session locks serialize cleanup and report busy operations. Tests cover wrapped IDs, cleanup events, and prompt concurrency.

Tool cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Filesystem-based cleanup age
packages/opencode/src/tool/truncate.ts, packages/opencode/test/tool/truncation.test.ts
Cleanup now uses file modification times instead of timestamps parsed from generated IDs. Tests use fixed timestamps and restore mocked time.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c309f

This change fixes message ordering across ID rollover, but a concurrent revert can still attach model metadata from discarded history to a newly saved message, and some regression coverage may be flaky or fail to verify the exact cloned message. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and test-readiness issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Prompt
  participant Revert
  participant SessionStore
  Prompt->>Revert: cleanupBeforeOrBusy
  Revert->>SessionStore: remove reverted messages and parts
  Revert-->>Prompt: cleanup result or BusyError
  Prompt->>SessionStore: persist prepared user message
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Possibly related PRs

  • Astro-Han/pawwork#308: Shares prompt and prompt-effect changes for shell execution, cancellation, and prompt/revert lifecycle handling.
  • Astro-Han/pawwork#836: Shares compaction boundary handling in packages/opencode/src/session/compaction.ts.
  • Astro-Han/pawwork#1058: Shares prefetch message merging changes in packages/app/src/pages/layout/pawwork-session-prefetch.ts.
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Suggested priority: P2 (includes user-path files (packages/app/src/components/session/session-context-tab.tsx, packages/app/src/context/global-sync/bootstrap.ts, packages/app/src/context/global-sync/event-reducer.test.ts, packages/app/src/context/global-sync/event-reducer.ts, packages/app/src/context/global-sync/message-order.ts, packages/app/src/context/sync-message-resolution.test.ts, packages/app/src/context/sync-optimistic.test.ts, packages/app/src/context/sync.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/layout/pawwork-session-prefetch.ts, packages/app/src/pages/session.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/session/message-timeline.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/session/session-messages.test.ts, packages/app/src/pages/session/session-messages.ts, packages/app/src/pages/session/use-session-commands.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/session/use-session-timeline-data.ts)).

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57-57: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use the Effect Clock service for the retention cutoff.

Date.now() bypasses TestClock, so the rollover test mutates the process-global clock while cleanup() performs I/O. Read yield* Clock.currentTimeMillis and run the test with a fixed TestClock value instead.

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In `@packages/opencode/src/tool/truncate.ts` at line 57, Update the retention
cutoff calculation in cleanup() to obtain the current time through the Effect
Clock service using Clock.currentTimeMillis instead of Date.now(), preserving
the existing RETENTION duration subtraction. Ensure the rollover test supplies a
fixed TestClock value so cleanup() uses deterministic time during I/O.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/opencode/test/session/messages-pagination.test.ts`:
- Line 946: Update the assertion around MessageV2.stream for forked.id to verify
the returned message ID list equals [older], rather than checking only that one
message is returned; preserve the existing stream behavior and use the existing
older identifier.
- Around line 921-950: Convert the test around the fork boundary scenario to use
the existing live Effect fixture: wrap it with it.live and
provideTmpdirInstance, implement the body with Effect.gen, and obtain
SessionNs.Service via yield*. Remove the manual Instance.provide and
Effect.runPromise-style setup while preserving the message creation, fork,
length assertion, and cleanup behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/opencode/src/tool/truncate.ts`:
- Line 57: Update the retention cutoff calculation in cleanup() to obtain the
current time through the Effect Clock service using Clock.currentTimeMillis
instead of Date.now(), preserving the existing RETENTION duration subtraction.
Ensure the rollover test supplies a fixed TestClock value so cleanup() uses
deterministic time during I/O.
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  • packages/app/e2e/session/session-message-rollover.spec.ts
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  • packages/app/src/context/global-sync/event-reducer.test.ts
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  • packages/app/src/context/sync-message-resolution.test.ts
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  • packages/app/src/pages/layout/pawwork-session-prefetch.ts
  • packages/app/src/pages/session.tsx
  • packages/app/src/pages/session/message-timeline.tsx
  • packages/app/src/pages/session/session-messages.test.ts
  • packages/app/src/pages/session/session-messages.ts
  • packages/app/src/pages/session/use-session-commands.tsx
  • packages/app/src/pages/session/use-session-timeline-data.ts
  • packages/opencode/src/session/compaction.ts
  • packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts
  • packages/opencode/src/session/revert.ts
  • packages/opencode/src/session/session.ts
  • packages/opencode/src/tool/truncate.ts
  • packages/opencode/test/session/messages-pagination.test.ts
  • packages/opencode/test/session/revert-compact.test.ts
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In `@packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts`:
- Around line 1978-1988: Move lastModel resolution out of prepareUserMessage
before cleanup and into the revert.cleanupBefore transaction, resolving it after
the session is fetched from current history. Pass that resolved model into
prepareUserMessage within the transaction, then persist the resulting message
while retaining the existing sessions.touch and cleanup behavior; follow
shellImpl’s model-resolution pattern.

In `@packages/opencode/test/session/prompt-effect.test.ts`:
- Around line 3542-3556: Replace the fixed Effect.sleep in the unrevert/shell
concurrency test with a deterministic synchronization signal. Reuse the existing
updateMessage or Snapshot interception pattern to resolve a deferred when the
shell path reaches the session mutation lock, then await that signal before
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  • packages/app/e2e/session/session-message-rollover.spec.ts
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  • packages/app/src/pages/session/session-messages.test.ts
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  • packages/app/src/pages/session/use-session-active-message.test.ts
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Astro-Han added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
Prepare the urgent PawWork 2026.8.3 stable release from the current dev baseline after #1560, #1563, and the P0 message-order rollover fix #1562.

Change boundary:
- bump the desktop package version from 2026.8.2 to 2026.8.3
- update only the matching Bun lockfile workspace entry

Verification:
- version contract failed on 2026.8.2 and passed on 2026.8.3
- release metadata and workflow contracts: 21 passed, 0 failed
- release TypeScript check passed
- frozen install passed in the dedicated release worktree without additional lockfile changes
- all required PR checks passed, including macOS smoke, E2E, CodeQL, dependency review, and the full Windows matrix

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- no unresolved review threads
- no separate issue; this is version-only release preparation for already-merged fixes

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