fix(server): queued messages land after a resume that ran before them

[voltcrash]

Problem

When a thread stops with messages still queued (usage limit, or the user pressing Stop) and is then resumed, the "Continue where you left off." turn runs first. The held messages run after it, but in the transcript they show above the continuation and its replies, while their live output and "Thinking" stream at the bottom. Web and mobile both show it because they render the same server order.

Repro: queue two messages behind a running turn, press Stop, then resume. Both queued messages render above "Continue where you left off." once they run. Messages sent after the resume appear in the right place.

Change

Run ordinals define the thread's order. Turn item positions are bucketed by run ordinal, and checkpoint baselines and "latest run" lookups compare ordinals. A queued run gets its ordinal when it is enqueued. A continuation that starts while the queue is held gets a newer ordinal but runs first, so the queued runs keep sorting before it. The same thing happens when a queued message is reordered ahead of another, or when an automatic delivery jumps the queue.

When startNextQueuedRun starts a queued run and a newer run has already started (its prompt is in the transcript: a user message, or a notification for background and delegated-task wakes), the queued run takes the next free ordinal. Runs that are still queued, and messages cancelled from the queue, don't count. nextRunOrdinal now uses max(ordinal) + 1 instead of runs.length + 1, because ordinals can now skip values. Run IDs stay unique because that value only ever grows. FIFO queues are unchanged.

Existing threads that already rendered out of order keep their recorded positions. The fix applies to runs that start after it ships.

Scope and approval

A small, focused fix for an obvious bug: queued messages render in the wrong place in the transcript after a resume. It's a server-only change in the orchestrator's dequeue path. No contract or client changes are needed.

Verification

• New test places held queued messages after a continuation that started first in runtimeLayer.test.ts reproduces the Stop → resume → drain sequence. Without the fix the run ordinals come out [1, 4, 2, 3] (active, continuation, first queued, second queued). With the fix they come out [1, 2, 3, 4], and the transcript's user messages follow the order the runs actually ran in.
• Updated two existing tests that encoded the old order. The usage-limit queued-resume test now asserts the held run sorts after the continuation. The ThreadStop restart-tie tests have the same three runs and the continuation is still blocked; only the order changed, because the held run resumed after the cancelled source.
• vp test run src/orchestration-v2: 1742 passed. The only failures are 2 AntigravityAdapterV2 client file system tests, which fail the same way on main in this environment.
• vp run --filter t3 typecheck passes. vp lint and vp fmt are clean on the changed files.
• Ran the web client against a dev server with a copy of real data and a scratch git repo. Flow: send a long turn (sleep 120), queue messages A and B behind it, press Stop, press Resume, and let the queue drain. I ran it once on the code before this change and once with it.

Before

queue-order-before.mp4

After

queue-order-after.mp4

Before, A and B (sent at 2:33) render above "Continue where you left off." (2:31) even though they ran after it. Run ordinals in the projection were 3, 4 for A, B and 5 for the continuation. After, the continuation and its reply come first, then A and B; ordinals are 4 for the continuation and 5, 6 for A, B.

• Mobile renders the same server order, so it is covered by the same change. I did not run it on a device.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 1ff0353

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused server-side bug fix that preserves FIFO behavior while correcting transcript and checkpoint ordering when queued runs start after continuations or wake runs. The production change is small and covered by targeted regression tests; the remaining changes are test-only.

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The orchestrator allocates run ordinals from existing ordinals. When newer work has started, a queued run receives a new ordinal as it starts. Tests cover run and turn-item ordering across queue resumption and continuation.

Changes

Queued run ordinal ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Select and apply the start ordinal apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts	The orchestrator calculates the next ordinal from the maximum existing ordinal. When a newer nonqueued run has a user-message or notification turn item, the queued run receives a fresh ordinal. The selected ordinal updates the run, provider-thread bounds, and related turn items.
Verify resumed queue ordering apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts	Tests check ordinal order across wake-work, continuation, and queue-resumption scenarios. The Stop test expects the resumed run to sort after the cancelled source run.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1ff03

A legacy queued message may remain at its old transcript position after its run moves. This is a bounded ordering risk; the added test also does not reject duplicate ordinals.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1ff03

The change is confined to message ordering within affected threads. One compatibility path can leave an existing message in its old position while its run moves forward. No security vulnerability was established, but incomplete coverage prevents a minimal-risk assessment.

Retained concerns

• Low · architecture · observed: When a queued run with an existing user-message turn item receives a fresh ordinal, the run and newly generated items move forward but the existing prompt retains its old ordinal. Persistence therefore records conflicting ordering for the same execution: the initiating prompt can remain before the continuation while its run and checkpoint sort after it. This is a conditional ordering-contract defect, not an established authorization or data-isolation vulnerability.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected change affects ordering and execution ownership metadata within the selected thread. Promotion retains existing run, node, provider-thread, and message identities rather than introducing a new principal or credential. Broader tenant, environment, or external-provider exposure was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Queue promotion retains checks for archived or deleted threads, blocking runs, held queues, usage limits, and missing execution identity. The new ordering decision occurs after the queue and failure-hold checks; it does not replace them.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Checkpoint capture already treats a checkpointed terminal run as a completed retry and refuses to capture a rolled-back run. These checks protect recovery from overwriting discarded state and are counterevidence against an unrestricted lifecycle transition.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:
- Around line 1335-1336: Update the started-run identification in the
projection.turnItems flatMap to include notification items with non-null runIds,
while preserving the exclusion of runs cancelled from the queue.
- Line 1649: Update the queued user-message item construction where
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts (1)

3997-4000: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reject duplicate run ordinals.

The sorted-order assertion accepts duplicate ordinals. Add a uniqueness assertion to cover the missing condition required by next-free allocation.

Suggested test assertion

       assert.deepEqual(
         ordinals,
         ordinals.toSorted((left, right) => left - right),
       );
+      assert.equal(new Set(ordinals).size, ordinals.length);

The nearby continuation and queue-resumption tests check execution or run-ID order, but not ordinal uniqueness.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts around
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Add an assertion in the test around the ordinals sorted-order check to verify
that every run ordinal is unique. Use the ordinal collection already available
there and assert its distinct-value count equals its length, while preserving
the existing sorted-order assertion.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts:
- Around line 3997-4000: Add an assertion in the test around the ordinals
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@coderabbitai Re the nitpick on runtimeLayer.test.ts (reject duplicate run ordinals): not adding it. orchestration_v2_projection_runs has a UNIQUE (thread_id, ordinal) index, so a duplicate ordinal would make the projection write fail, and the test would break before it reached this assertion. A uniqueness check here would only repeat the database constraint.

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@voltcrash Thanks for the clarification. I confirmed the unique index on (thread_id, ordinal) and the projection write’s ON CONFLICT(run_id) clause. A duplicate ordinal for another run would fail the database write. The extra uniqueness assertion in runtimeLayer.test.ts is redundant. I withdraw the nitpick.

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Timestamp: 2026-10-10T09:38:13.458Z
Learning: In pingdotgg/t3code, apps/server/src/persistence/Migrations/055_OrchestrationV2.ts creates the unique index orchestration_v2_projection_runs_thread_ordinal_idx on orchestration_v2_projection_runs(thread_id, ordinal). Run projection writes in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts use ON CONFLICT(run_id), so duplicate ordinals for distinct runs within one thread fail the database write. The SQLite-backed tests in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts do not need a separate assertion to reject duplicate persisted run ordinals.

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