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Problem

With idle compaction set to "Compact before the cache expires", T3 Code sends /compact to an idle Claude thread shortly before its prompt cache expires. Idle compaction treats the run with the highest ordinal as the thread's latest run.

A follow-up queued while Claude is working gets the next ordinal. If the user removes that queued message, or promotes it to a steer, its run becomes cancelled without ever starting and keeps that higher ordinal. When the active run then completes, idle compaction picks the cancelled run as latest and skips the compaction without any notice. The next message after the cache expires pays a full uncached read of a large context, which is the cost the setting exists to avoid.

Change

When idle compaction picks the latest run, it now ignores cancelled runs that never started (startedAt === null). The same rule applies in all three places that pick the latest run:

• idleCompactionWindow (the pure eligibility check)
• the retarget check in IdleCompactionService, which takes over a timer after a late update for an earlier run (fix(server): idle compaction survives a late update for an earlier run #28102)
• the includeLatestRun subquery in ProjectionStore.getThreadRecords, which only this service uses

Without the subquery change, the service never loads the completed run.

Queued runs that are not cancelled still count as latest, so a held queue still blocks compaction. A cancelled run that did start still counts too: the Claude adapter can report a real turn as cancelled. The ProjectionStore shell window already uses the same startedAt rule ("Queued or cancelled turns must not hide the latest actual session").

Scope and approval

Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so no prior issue: idle compaction already promises to compact a completed idle Claude run, and a removed queued message is not a turn Claude ever saw. The change is about 17 non-test lines plus extensions of existing tests.

Overlap search: I checked the local PR index and REST search for idle compaction with cancel, queue and steer. The closest match is open #27926, which re-arms compaction after a server restart. It touches the same files but not latest-run selection. #28102 (merged) added the retarget path this PR also fixes. #24138 and #27310 cover steering and queued edits during a compaction, not idle compaction eligibility.

Verification

• Red on main, by extending existing tests:
  • ProjectionStore.test.ts › "idle compaction filters keep the latest run…" with a cancelled, never-started run 5 added: - "run:idle-compaction:4" / + "run:idle-compaction:5"
  • IdleCompaction.test.ts › idleCompactionWindow: AssertionError: expected undefined to be 'run-1'
  • IdleCompaction.test.ts › "keeps the latest run's compaction when an earlier run reports completed again" with a cancelled run 3 added, and the service change reverted: expected [] to deeply equal [ Array(1) ]
• An added assertion checks that a cancelled run that did start still blocks compaction.
• Green: vp test run src/orchestration-v2/IdleCompaction.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts → 64 passed, also rerun after rebasing on current main.
• vp run check:changed → format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests all pass.
• Not checked: a live Claude session waiting out a real cache TTL.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 2 rounds with GPT-6.1 Sol on high. Sol verdict: approved. In round 1 Sol found that real Claude turns can also be cancelled, so the skip now applies only to runs that never started.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at b6b0731

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Idle compaction can proceed after a queued message is removed or steered, rather than treating its unstarted cancelled run as the latest activity. Existing configuration, session, timing and pending-work safeguards remain unchanged.

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Keep older queued runs blocking compaction.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts:
- Line 3281: Update the compaction eligibility query and its service-side
run-status handling so queued runs are loaded and any queued run blocks
`/compact`, regardless of its ordinal or the later run selected by the query.
Add a test covering a lower-ordinal held queued run, a later completed run, and
a still-later cancelled run, verifying compaction is rejected.

Walkthrough

Idle-compaction window, service, and projection selection now exclude cancelled runs with no startedAt value when choosing the latest run. Tests cover these cases and confirm that started cancelled runs remain eligible.

Changes: Latest-run selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Idle-compaction window and service selection apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/IdleCompaction.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/IdleCompactionService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/IdleCompaction.test.ts	Both selection paths exclude cancelled runs with no startedAt value before choosing the highest ordinal. Tests cover later cancelled runs with and without a start time.
Projection latest-run exception apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts	The latest-run exception excludes cancelled runs with no startedAt value. The test adds a cancelled queued run to the projection.

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

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#28099 — The changes overlap with its idle-compaction run-selection concern, but do not address all late-update cases described.

Suggested labels: bugfix, size:XS

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to b6b07

Removing a queued message after its timer exits can leave idle compaction unscheduled, losing the warm-cache benefit on a later request. Resolve that lifecycle gap before merging.

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Follow-up Comments

Restart the timer when the blocking queued run is removed.

136-137: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restart the timer when the blocking queued run is removed.

If the timer reads a queued run, idleCompactionWindow returns null and the timer exits. A later queued-run.cancel emits a cancelled update, but this subscription ignores it. Compaction never runs for the previous completed run, even if its cache is still valid. Reevaluate the latest eligible run after cancellation, and add a test for cancellation after the timer has exited. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/IdleCompactionService.ts
around lines 136 - 137:
Update the event subscription that invokes compactWhenDue to also handle
queued-run cancellation updates, restarting the timer for the affected thread so
it reevaluates the latest eligible run after the prior timer exits; add a test
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep older queued runs blocking compaction.

A held queued run can have a lower ordinal than a later completed server run. If a still later queued run is cancelled, this query selects the completed run and omits the held run because the service's runStatuses excludes "queued". The service can then dispatch /compact while a user message remains queued. Load queued runs and make the window reject any queued run, regardless of ordinal. Add a test for this ordering. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts at line
3281:
Update the compaction eligibility query and its service-side run-status handling
so queued runs are loaded and any queued run blocks `/compact`, regardless of
its ordinal or the later run selected by the query. Add a test covering a
lower-ordinal held queued run, a later completed run, and a still-later
cancelled run, verifying compaction is rejected.

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