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Checkpoint rollback changed the provider conversation before restoring files. A failed file restore left the conversation and workspace inconsistent. Successful restoration also left the workspace entry index stale.

Validate the target and workspace isolation, restore files, and refresh the shared workspace index before provider rollback. Keep restoreFiles: false on the provider-only path. If the provider rejects rollback after restoration, preserve checkpoint refs and conversation records and persist the existing warning immediately. An escaping workspace-index refresh defect gets a separate warning and prevents provider rollback. Both errors retain their immediate cause and rollback identifiers.

These known post-restore failures are terminal on the first attempt, so automatic retries cannot restore files again over subsequent edits. Provider-only and pre-restore failures retain the existing retry policy. A new explicit rollback request can restore again. Main's thread-command lock around successful rollback event construction and writes remains intact.

The filesystem and provider steps remain non-atomic. No compensation or durable restoration-stage marker is added. A crash after restoration but before outbox settlement can still replay restoration; interruption and failures outside these two boundaries retain existing behavior. The shared server service and worker cover web, desktop, mobile and agent callers. No wire contract or configuration change.

Verified at e237a3da8a59295ed92838e7e1586aed67fd48af, merged normally with main 580948708b66f2a971199670f76cb6b43119e9a4. This update required no additional runtime changes.

  • Five complete focused suites passed before and after integration: CheckpointRollbackService, CheckpointRestoreSafety, CheckpointService, EffectWorker and runtimeLayer. 120 passed, one Windows symlink case skipped.
  • Service and persisted runtime cases cover failed restoration before provider mutation, actual workspace search after restoration, retained refs/history, distinct immediate warnings, refresh interruption, one attempt after known post-restore failures, five attempts for provider-only/pre-restore controls, edits surviving worker drains, and a later explicit rollback.
  • The parent reviewer independently reran the four persisted retry/restore cases on the final commit.
  • Targeted type-aware lint, formatting, diff whitespace and server package typecheck passed. Lint retains the existing unused layerDaemon warning; the compiler reports nonblocking Effect suggestions.

No live-client/provider pass or reindexing benchmark was run. Git checkpoint eligibility is separate in #16864, and active-work rollback eligibility in #16843.

Implemented and reviewed with GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex.

Rollback changed the provider conversation before a fallible filesystem restore, and restored files left workspace search using the old entry index.

Restore the validated, isolated checkpoint first and refresh its workspace entries immediately. Then compute the provider turns to remove and roll back the provider. Provide WorkspaceEntries through the existing runtime layer composition and update the affected test layers. Regression tests cover a failed restore preserving the provider conversation and a successful restore updating the real search index.

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Checkpoint rollback restores files and refreshes workspace entries before provider conversation rollback. Provider failures after file restoration and workspace-index refresh failures produce distinct error types. The worker treats post-restore failures as terminal. Tests cover rollback ordering, failure states, persisted state, and retry behavior.

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Checkpoint rollback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Restore files before provider rollback
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRollbackService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderReplayHarness.ts
The service restores checkpoint files and refreshes workspace entries before provider rollback. It adds distinct errors for provider failures after file restoration and workspace-index refresh failures. Runtime wiring and the replay harness provide the workspace-entry dependency.
Handle post-restore rollback failures
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts
The worker treats post-restore rollback failures as terminal and uses the specific error message when available. Other rollback failures retain the existing retry behavior.
Validate rollback outcomes
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRestoreSafety.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRollbackService.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts
Tests cover rollback ordering, typed errors, filesystem and persisted state, and retry outcomes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CheckpointRollbackService
  participant WorkspaceEntries
  participant ProviderAdapter
  CheckpointRollbackService->>WorkspaceEntries: Refresh entries after restoring files
  CheckpointRollbackService->>ProviderAdapter: Roll back provider conversation
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3d5e8

An interrupted rollback can retry after files have been restored and overwrite edits made before that retry. Make post-restore interruptions terminal before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3d5e8

The change improves failure containment without expanding the inspected workspace or provider authority. Known post-restoration failures stop automatic retries, but interruption or restart during the newly extended post-restoration interval can still replay restoration and overwrite later edits.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Restoring files before index refresh and provider execution introduces an additional post-restoration interval in which interruption or process loss can replay the same restore and overwrite intervening edits. Refresh interruption escapes typed terminal classification, and process-loss recovery still requeues rollback effects. The general replay limitation existed before this PR; the changed ordering extends its exposure rather than introducing an entirely new recovery policy. Typed provider rejection, refresh defects, and durable cancellation have stronger containment.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected mutation scope remains the selected thread's checkpoint workspace and provider conversation. Index refresh inherits the same projection-owned cwd; no new caller-selected filesystem path or cross-workspace authority was established. External authentication and deployment-wide exposure remain outside the inspected evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Filesystem restoration requires an isolated workspace. The isolation predicate compares real paths against the thread worktree and other threads' worktrees, checkpoint scopes, project roots, and active provider-session directories. This existing control limits destructive restoration scope but is not an authentication guarantee.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Durable cancellation marks pending or running effects cancelled and signals the worker, which exits without retry settlement when cancellation wins. This is stronger counterevidence than treating every interruption as replay: the remaining concern applies to unclassified failed execution or process-loss recovery, not successful durable cancellation.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If stronger recovery guarantees are required, introduce restoration-stage tracking or file-version protection so recovery can distinguish an unstarted restore from a completed restore without blindly overwriting later edits. This is a future design option, not an existing guarantee.
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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes the production checkpoint rollback sequence, workspace index refresh, provider-history handling, and automatic retry policy, with intentional non-atomic filesystem/provider side effects. Despite strong focused tests and no schema or configuration-default changes, the cross-component runtime impact merits human review.

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🟠 Major · Do not restore the files again after a successful restore. · CheckpointRollbackService.ts:254-255

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRollbackService.ts:254-255
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not restore the files again after a successful restore.

If provider rollback fails, the worker retries this operation, and each attempt calls checkpoints.restore. If a user edits a worktree file after the first restore but before a retry, the next restore can overwrite that edit. Record successful file restoration for the rollback request and skip the restore on later attempts. The reported runtime scenario makes five attempts. (github.com)

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRollbackService.ts
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Track successful file restoration across retries for the same rollback request
in the CheckpointRollbackService flow. Update the restoreFiles handling around
checkpoints.restore so it skips restoration after the first successful restore,
while still retrying restoration if a prior attempt failed.

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- Around line 254-255: Track successful file restoration across retries for the
same rollback request in the CheckpointRollbackService flow. Update the
restoreFiles handling around checkpoints.restore so it skips restoration after
the first successful restore, while still retrying restoration if a prior
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  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRestoreSafety.test.ts
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Keep main's thread-command lock while preserving restore-before-provider ordering and terminal partial-restore failures.

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gpt-6.1-sol - responding

Addressed the repeated-restore finding from review 5448561821 in 75081c2, included in 4703da1 after merging current main.

The existing typed provider rejection after successful restoration now records the exact partial-outcome warning immediately and fails the outbox effect on attempt one. It no longer automatically replays the restore. Provider-only and pre-restore failures retain retries. This uses the typed error through the execution wrapper's immediate cause and adds no durable stage marker or compensation.

The runtime regression verifies one restore/provider attempt and a failed outbox row, retained checkpoint refs and history, the exact correlated warning, and user edits surviving subsequent TestClock advances and worker drains. Provider-only and failed-restore controls each make five attempts. A new explicit request restores again by user choice.

All five complete focused suites passed on the published head: 117 tests passed, one Windows symlink case skipped. Targeted lint, formatting, and diff checks passed. Server-only typechecking still reports 59 local dependency/cascaded errors in imported scripts files and no server-file diagnostics. Fresh CI and bot review are pending. Crash/interruption behavior remains outside this narrow typed-failure policy.

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- Around line 261-264: After `checkpoints.restore` succeeds, prevent
`workspaceEntries.refresh` failures from escaping as retryable unexpected
failures: treat them as `CheckpointRollbackPartialRestoreError` or make the
refresh best-effort. Preserve the existing restore and provider-rollback flow so
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  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRestoreSafety.test.ts
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🟠 Major · Make an interrupted post-restore rollback terminal. · EffectWorker.ts:731-745

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts:731-745
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make an interrupted post-restore rollback terminal.

CheckpointRollbackService.execute restores files before workspaceEntries.refresh(scope.cwd). If refresh is interrupted, the service returns an interrupt-only failure after the checkpoint has already been restored.

EffectWorker skips only the notification for interrupt-only causes. When the separate cancellation effect does not win the race, the failure reaches settlement, is not classified as postRestoreFailure, and enters outbox.retry(...). The retry can restore the same checkpoint over edits made after the first attempt.

Convert an interrupt after restoration into a typed post-restore error. Keep provider-only and pre-restore failures retryable.

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+import * as Cause from "effect/Cause";
 import * as Context from "effect/Context";
@@
         yield* workspaceEntries.refresh(scope.cwd).pipe(
           Effect.catchDefect((cause) =>
             Effect.fail(
               new CheckpointRollbackIndexRefreshError({
                 threadId: input.threadId,
                 providerThreadId: input.providerThreadId,
                 checkpointId: input.checkpointId,
                 cause,
               }),
             ),
           ),
+          Effect.catchCause((cause) =>
+            Cause.hasInterruptsOnly(cause)
+              ? Effect.fail(
+                  new CheckpointRollbackIndexRefreshError({
+                    threadId: input.threadId,
+                    providerThreadId: input.providerThreadId,
+                    checkpointId: input.checkpointId,
+                    cause: Cause.squash(cause),
+                  }),
+                )
+              : Effect.failCause(cause),
+          ),
         );
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Update CheckpointRollbackService.execute so an interrupt-only failure from
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- Around line 731-745: Update CheckpointRollbackService.execute so an
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gpt-6.1-sol - responding

Verified outside-diff finding 34bb31130dc2d406b4032d28 from review 5456684480 against 3d5e88b74b555a363b2a168dbb409389caf1457b, with an independent reviewer.

An independently interrupted execution child can reach retry while its worker parent remains healthy. The claimed ordinary cancellation race does not establish that sequence:

  • Durable cancellation changes the row to cancelled and clears its lease before signalling. Cancellation update, post-commit signal.
  • A cancellation winner returns before settlement. Even if an independent failure wins before signal delivery, retry requires a running row owned by that worker, so it cannot requeue the cancelled row. Worker, retry guard.
  • Production refresh wraps native scan/promise failures as typed errors, which WorkspaceEntries.refresh recovers. No ordinary self-interruption source was found. Refresh, recovery.

The independent proofs used the actual worker with Deferred barriers: synthetic interruption and separately interrupting its execution child each retried; durable cancellation and parent interruption made no settlement call. The suggested catch converted synthetic Effect.interrupt, but external interruption of a pending refresh remained interrupt-only and did not invoke the converter. The targeted existing interruption regression passed.

Process-loss replay after restoration remains a real limitation. The PR already explicitly excludes crash/interruption recovery and durable restoration tracking. Broadening that guarantee needs a separate recovery design; the suggested catch does not provide it. I am retaining the documented scope and current code. This outside-diff finding has no inline thread to resolve. The maintainer-review eligibility requirement also remains outstanding.

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