feat(server): t3_thread_launch takes clientRequestId

[juliusmarminge]

Part of cross-environment orchestration. A forwarded t3_thread_launch can lose its response, for example when the link drops after the peer accepted the launch. Retrying it must not start a second thread.

What changes

• t3_thread_launch takes an optional clientRequestId.
• With one, the command id becomes mcp:launch:<caller namespace>:<key>, and the thread and message ids derive from it. ThreadLaunchService already replays an accepted command receipt, so a retry returns the first thread.
• Keys are scoped to the caller's namespace, so two callers can't collide.
• Without a key, launches behave as before.

Verification

• New test in toolkits/project/handlers.test.ts, "a launch retried with the same clientRequestId replays the first one". Mutation-checked: with the derived id removed, the test fails.

Review fixes (bots plus two adversarial reviews)

• An agent's launch never starts work above the modes it asks for. The same key can come back from a narrower caller, as a retry or a concurrent launch, and land on a thread the first created with broader modes. ThreadLaunchService now dispatches the initial message under a DispatchModeLimit of the launch's own modes, so the orchestrator refuses it under the thread's lock. The user's own clients launch into their own drafts and are unaffected.
• New launch-service test (real orchestrator, no mock): "an agent's launch never starts work above the modes it asks for". Mutation-checked.
• Not changed: moving the key-to-id mapping into the service. The handler is the only entry point that takes a client key.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.9 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	21.2 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: 1681640 · Source CI: failure

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: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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[juliusmarminge]

End-to-end run, two real servers

Two t3 serve processes from the top of this stack, each with its own data directory, on one machine. A laptop (port 3971) and a box (port 3972). Their projects are clones of one bare origin, so they share a repository. An outside agent (OAuth with a pairing code) drives the laptop's /mcp, and real Claude Sonnet 5.5 turns run on both sides. The last part repeats the run over Tailscale HTTPS (a *.ts.net HTTPS address).

A forwarded t3_thread_launch was sent twice with the same clientRequestId. Both calls returned the same thread id (mcp:launch:client%3A<link session>:fwd%3A<hash of the key>), and the box has exactly one thread with that title.

Opus 5.5 via Claude Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds idempotent launch behavior and activates a dispatch-mode guard in the production orchestration path, so retries and some launches can now be replayed or refused differently. The supplied High-severity finding also identifies an invalid UTF-16 client request ID path that throws during key encoding.

Not approved because:

• 1 blocking correctness issue found at or above your repo's Minimum Blocking Severity

No code changes detected at 1681640. Prior analysis still applies.

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Walkthrough

t3_thread_launch accepts an optional clientRequestId and derives a command ID from the request namespace and key when supplied. The tool and provider instructions describe reuse of the key for retries. Agent-created initial-message dispatches receive the requested runtime and interaction mode limits.

Changes

Thread launch retries

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Request contract and retry guidance packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/tools.ts, apps/server/src/provider/T3OrchestrationInstructions.ts	The client request ID contract is exported and added as an optional launch parameter. Tool and provider guidance describes reusing the same key for retries.
Deterministic launch IDs and verification apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.test.ts	The handler derives a command ID from the request namespace and client request ID when provided. It generates a new ID when the key is omitted. Tests cover repeated, distinct, and omitted keys.
Agent launch dispatch limits apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts	Agent-created initial-message dispatches receive the requested runtime and interaction mode limit. A test checks a dispatch error and confirms the existing thread has no messages or runs.

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Change: Feature

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fc34e

Same-key retries return the first launch, while new agent dispatches are limited to their requested modes; no merge-blocking risk remains.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.test.ts:
- Line 407: Keep the clientRequestId derivation assertions, and add a test that
exercises receipt replay through the real ThreadLaunchService.launch path:
accept a launch, then retry its command ID and verify the stored receipt is
replayed. Avoid using clientLaunchHarness to mock ThreadLaunchService.launch in
this behavior test.

Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.ts:
- Around line 71-76: Move request-key-to-command-ID derivation out of the
handler and into the launch service so all entrypoints share the same retry
behavior. Keep the handler responsible for passing the decoded client request
key to the service and mapping its typed errors; locate the handler logic around
`newCommandId` and `CommandId.make`.

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🟠 High project/handlers.ts:74

A clientRequestId containing an unpaired surrogate (for example, "key-\ud800") throws URIError here, aborting the launch instead of returning an invalid_request failure. encodeURIComponent rejects lone surrogates; validate the ID before encoding or use an encoding that accepts arbitrary UTF-16.

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In file @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.ts around line 74:

A `clientRequestId` containing an unpaired surrogate (for example, `"key-\ud800"`) throws `URIError` here, aborting the launch instead of returning an `invalid_request` failure. `encodeURIComponent` rejects lone surrogates; validate the ID before encoding or use an encoding that accepts arbitrary UTF-16.