fix(server): thread-bound scheduled tasks run on the thread's current provider

[otavio]

Problem

A scheduled task bound to a thread (created with schedule_task and bindToCurrentThread: true) keeps running on the provider it was created under after the user switches the thread to another provider. Every run hands the thread back to the old provider. In #17932, a task created on Codex kept firing on Codex, which had hit its usage limit, for hours after the thread moved to Claude.

Change

For thread-bound runs, ScheduledTaskService passed the task's stored modelSelection to ThreadManagementService.sendToThread. The orchestrator uses the command's selection ahead of the thread's own (command.modelSelection ?? projection.thread.modelSelection), so the old selection won on every run. Thread-bound runs now leave modelSelection out, so they run on the thread's current provider and model. Tasks that launch a new thread on each run still use their stored selection. Because the stored selection names a provider instance, the old behavior also moved a thread back to another account of the same provider, not only to another provider. That case is fixed by the same change.

Out of scope, since other open PRs cover the rest of #17932:

• lastRunStatus reporting succeeded for failed runs: fix(server): scheduled runs record the turn's real outcome #18213
• parent_not_active after the provider switch: fix(server): T3 tools work again after a thread switches back to a reused provider session #17096

Behavior note: the Settings model picker (web and mobile) still appears when editing an existing thread-bound task, but thread-bound runs now ignore that selection. Settings cannot create thread-bound tasks; only agents create them through schedule_task. I left the picker as is to keep this PR to one problem.

Scope and approval

Fixes the provider-pinning part of #17932, which is a bug report. This qualifies as a very small, focused fix for an obvious bug: a thread-bound task should run on the thread the user is using, and the fix removes one argument so the thread's existing selection applies. It changes no contracts, schemas, or clients.

Verification

• Reproduced on main first. I added a focused test to apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts, using the real ScheduledTaskService, ThreadLaunchService, and ThreadManagementService on in-memory SQLite. The test launches a Codex thread, creates a task bound to it with the Codex selection, switches the thread to Claude with thread.model-selection.set, and runs the task with runNow. On main it failed: the scheduled message's run used { instanceId: "codex", model: "gpt-5.1-codex" } instead of Claude.
• After the fix, the run and the thread both use { instanceId: "claudeAgent", model: "claude-opus-5-5" }, and the test passes.
• A second case of the same test switches the thread to another Codex instance (codex_work), standing in for a second account of the same provider. It also fails with the old argument restored and passes with the fix.
• vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts apps/server/src/scheduledTasks: 8 files, 126 tests passed. After adding the same-provider case, ThreadLaunchService.test.ts alone: 64 tests passed.
• vp test run on the other suites that touch scheduled tasks (storageCleanup, OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration, ClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration, Scheduler.integration): 4 files, 63 tests passed.
• vpr typecheck in apps/server passes. vp lint and vp fmt --check on the touched files are clean apart from one warning at ThreadLaunchService.test.ts:2344, which was already there.
• A Codex (gpt-6.1-sol, high) review found no correctness issues. It checked that timer, runNow, and webhook runs all use this path, that the enabled-provider check falls back to the thread's selection when none is passed, and that replaying a command with the same id does not dispatch again.

Not checked: I did not run a live provider. The test disables provider execution, so it shows which provider and model the run is dispatched to, not a real provider turn. I also did not reproduce the usage-limit scenario end to end.

Made with Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in T3 Code, using the Claude Code harness.

[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 0d13876

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped server bug fix that makes thread-bound scheduled runs follow the thread’s current provider and model while preserving behavior for tasks that launch new threads. The accompanying tests cover provider and same-provider account switches, with no schema, deployment, security, or static-analysis changes.

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[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Scheduled tasks sent to an existing thread now use that thread’s current provider and model selection. Parameterized tests cover switching the thread to another provider or another account of the same provider before the task runs.

Changes

Scheduled task thread model

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Use the thread’s current model selection apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts	Existing-thread sends no longer pass the task’s saved model selection. Parameterized tests switch a thread’s model selection, run the task, and check the resulting run and thread projections. New-thread launches still pass the task’s model selection.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0d138

Users can save a model choice that does not control runs for a thread-bound task. The picker should be disabled and its scope explained; this is a limited settings issue, so merge is possible with owner awareness.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0d138

Scheduled runs now follow the thread’s current destination. A concurrent switch can, however, leave the destination different from the one checked for permission to run. The concern involves already-configured destinations and requires thread-selection authority; unauthenticated or cross-project exploitation has not been established.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: Bound scheduled runs now inherit a provider selection that can change between the project-enable check and locked dispatch planning. A concurrent selection update can therefore admit a run targeting a configured instance different from the one checked, potentially including a project-disabled instance. The underlying race predates this PR for implicit-selection sends, but this PR newly exposes bound scheduled sends to it. External exploitability and resulting live execution are not established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified race is bounded to a bound task’s existing thread and a configured destination selectable on that thread. Exercising it requires concurrent thread-selection mutation during task admission. The evidence does not establish unauthenticated access, cross-project access or arbitrary credential selection.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A possible sequence is: admission checks enabled instance A; a concurrent selection command changes the thread to configured instance B; locked message planning then resolves B without the earlier check being bound to B. Before this PR, the bound task’s explicit override prevented selection mutation alone from changing its checked target. This is a source-supported race inference, not a demonstrated external attack.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — For commands without an existing receipt, admission consults project-scoped provider enablement. Orchestrator serializes dispatch under a thread lock, but that lock is acquired after the admission check. These controls constrain normal execution without making the checked and consumed selections atomic.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The added harness disables provider execution. Its switch cases verify run and thread selection projections, not live account execution or the concurrent admission race.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Resolve the effective destination and enforce its project-enable policy within the same thread critical section, so concurrent selection changes cannot separate admission from target consumption.

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[otavio]

Re CodeRabbit's retained security note (check/use interleaving on a concurrent provider switch): I'm leaving this out of this PR. When a dispatch has no explicit selection, assertDispatchTargetEnabled (ThreadManagementService.ts:628) resolves the thread's current selection and then dispatches. That check-then-use sequence already applies to every sendToThread call without a modelSelection, including the t3_thread_send MCP tool (OrchestratorMcpService.ts:2554). Scheduled runs now take that same path, so this PR adds no new window. They also always dispatch in queue mode, which CodeRabbit notes is revalidated at startup. If the general dispatch check should be made atomic, that belongs in its own PR.

[AdEx-Partners-DE]

Thanks for this, @otavio. We run a fork with several recurring tasks bound to long threads on Windows, hit the same thing, and made the same one-argument change independently on 11 Oct (c7bc22bad, described in #18030). So here is a data point from a second implementation:

• I applied only your new test, "runs a thread-bound automation on the provider the thread uses now", on top of our branch, without your ScheduledTaskService.ts hunk. It passes against our version of the change unchanged: ThreadLaunchService.test.ts 58 passed on Windows 11, Node 24.13 (57 before adding it; one unrelated test in that file, "cancels tracked setup before provider work is released", fails here with and without it). tsc --noEmit in apps/server is clean.
• Both versions end up with the same behaviour: no modelSelection on sendToThread for a bound task, the stored selection only for tasks that launch a thread.

One thing we saw that your description does not mention: because the stored selection carries the provider instance, the old behaviour also moved a thread back to another account of the same provider, not only to another provider. Since no selection is sent at all any more, that case should go away with it; your test covers the provider switch, we did not write a test for the same-provider account case.

Not checked on our side: a scheduled run that steers a turn already in progress, webhook tasks, and mobile.

Posted by Claude (Opus 5.5, Claude Code via T3 Code) on behalf of @AdEx-Partners-DE.

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 0d13876

[otavio]

@AdEx-Partners-DE thanks for the feedback, and for checking the test against your own version of the change on Windows. It's good to know two separate fixes ended up with the same behavior.

You're right about the account case. The stored selection names a provider instance, so the old code also moved a thread back to another account of the same provider. I added a second case to the test in 0d13876: it switches the thread to another Codex instance (codex_work) before the run. With the old modelSelection argument restored, both cases fail. With the fix, both pass (ThreadLaunchService.test.ts: 64 passed). I also updated the PR description to mention the account case.

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🟡 Minor · Disable and explain the model picker for thread-bound tasks. · ScheduledTaskService.ts:825

apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.ts:825
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Disable and explain the model picker for thread-bound tasks.

When draft.threadId is set, the picker remains editable and submit saves the changed modelSelection. The thread-bound run then omits that selection and uses the thread’s current model. Disable the picker and explain this behavior. Keep it enabled for tasks that launch new threads.

Suggested fix

               <ProviderModelPicker
                 environmentId={environmentId}
-                disabled={saving || !connected}
+                disabled={saving || !connected || Boolean(draft.threadId)}
                 activeInstanceId={activeInstanceId}
                 model={activeModel}
                 lockedProvider={null}
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                 }
               />
+              {draft.threadId ? (
+                <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+                  Thread-bound tasks use the thread&apos;s current model.
+                </p>
+              ) : null}

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.ts at
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Update the model picker in the scheduled-task editor so it is disabled when
`draft.threadId` is set, while preserving the existing `saving` and connection
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[AdEx-Partners-DE]

Thanks, @otavio. I ran the updated test from 0d13876ce against our version as well: both cases pass, the provider switch and the switch to another Codex instance (2 passed for "thread-bound automation"; whole file 59 passed, with the same unrelated failure as before). So the account case is now covered on both sides. Nothing further from us on this one.

Posted by Claude (Opus 5.5, Claude Code via T3 Code) on behalf of @AdEx-Partners-DE.