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Opening a thread on a long history was slow because the snapshot window cost grew with the whole thread, not with the window. On zbook, a thread with 73,568 items at the time (347 MB; 73,967 when counted later) took 7.6 s in this query. It also holds the single SQLite reader, so other reads wait behind it.

Cause

Every client subscribes with deferWork. That path groups completed work into "N more items" rows with work_segments (a window function, per-item joins, and a payload LIKE). It ran over every item since the user-turn boundary. With fewer than 12 user turns (long agent runs, steers, wakes) that boundary is 0, so it walked the full thread. With more turns the boundary can still sit far back.

Real fleet counts, measured read-only:

• zbook slow thread: 73,967 items, 7,883 never-foldable (about 10%), 14 turn starts. The old start covered effectively the whole thread. The newest 502 never-foldable rows span 3,679 items.
• leftbook thread: 25,536 items. The old start covered 7,754 items. The new start covers 4,391.

Fix

In retainedWindowRows, one small query now computes where work grouping starts:

1. Items whose type cannot fold (messages, notifications, todos, and so on) always get their own row. Seek from the tail for the newest tailRows = max(rowLimit, 502) of them. The window cannot reach below that point.
2. Move back to the latest segment start of each run that has items at or above that point, so folded groups stay whole and their counts and first rows do not change. A run with no segment start there (a wake run) uses its first item. A run that starts above the point is clamped to it, so runless rows below stay in the window.

work_segments and blocked_runs start there, never before the old boundary. This helps both shapes: boundary 0 and a boundary far back. No migration.

Known limits: a huge newest segment (one long run with no steers) gets no gain. When there are fewer than tailRows never-foldable rows since the boundary, the bound query is an extra pass and the old start is used. blocked_runs still checks every item of each run it keeps for an interrupt or failure, so one very long run that reaches the window is still read in full there; an index for that is a separate change.

Benchmark

getThreadSnapshotWindow with the subscribe options (rowLimit 77, userTurnLimit 10, deferWork), median of 7 warm runs. Fixtures are a real 35,166-item thread copied read-only into scratch DBs.

Thread	Before	After
Real thread	87 ms	83 ms
Same thread, 3 user turns	398 ms	79 ms
3 copies in a row, 105k items, 3 user turns	1,192 ms	82 ms

All fixtures give byte-identical projections before and after, for the deferred, non-deferred, row-only, and rowLimit: 1 windows.

Proof

The existing window and paging tests pass unchanged. The long-history test now also covers:

• A folded group that starts below the newest 502 visible rows, also when its run starts with work instead of a user message.
• Runless rows below a run that starts after the newest visible rows. They stay in the window, and older history stays reachable.
• Scaling: it replays the window queries on a copy and compares SQLite VM steps (StatementSync#stat("vmStep"), deterministic) before and after deleting 497 rows of old history. They must stay within 10%. The old query costs 65% more steps with that history.

Scope and approval

Maintainer work, requested by Theo after a fleet trace investigation into slow thread loads on mobile. One focused performance fix, no product behavior change.

Council review

Rounds: 3

Delegate	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Claude Opus 5.5	8.5/10	no score	9.3/10
Muse Wonder Full	7.5/10	9/10	9.5/10
Codex GPT-6.1 Sol	6/10	9/10	9.5/10

After round 3, one test-only commit adds the row-limit guard cases (502.5, -1) and moves the blocked-run error below a later segment start, and widens one SQL comment. The new cases fail without the guard; vp run check:changed passes.

Made by Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code harness in T3 Code).

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Verdict: Approved at 819ad28

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Thread history reads now restrict deferred-work grouping to recent complete segments instead of scanning the whole history. The change preserves existing pagination defaults and does not modify stored history or permissions.

No code changes detected at b0d78c7. Prior analysis still applies.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: fa2f4ff · PR result: b0d78c7 · Source CI: success

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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Deferred-work scans in bounded history windows now start from a calculated position that retains relevant run segments. Tests cover window contents, cursor behavior, and query work as older history is removed.

Changes: Deferred-work snapshot window

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Calculate and apply the deferred-work cutoff apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/threadHistoryPaging.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts	ProjectionStore uses a calculated scan start for blocked-run and deferred-work selection. DEFERRED_WORK_ITEM_TYPES is exported and reused. Tests check run-segment windows, runless rows, cursor behavior, and measured VM steps as older rows are removed.

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

Change: Refactor

Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: Mobile: opening a thread shows a blank view for 5+ s ("Loading messages..." then "Syncing messages...") even on fast Wi-Fi #24192: The PR reduces snapshot-window query work for long histories. The issue also cites client loading and auth contention, which this change does not address.
• [Bug]: Thread snapshot HTTP handlers have no server-side timeout; cold-open herd times out at 6s and floods relay logs with context-canceled warnings #17765: The PR reduces read work for the snapshot window. The issue's timeout, request-herd, and log-level requests remain outside this change.

Suggested reviewers: yash-singh1, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 819ad

The change narrows the thread snapshot query's scan start for long histories. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after review.

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Share one deferrable-type list between SQL and TS.

DEFERRABLE_WORK_TYPES duplicates DEFERRED_WORK_ITEM_TYPES in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/threadHistoryPaging.ts (Lines 186-193). The two lists agree today. They have no shared import, so a type added to one list can silently diverge from the other. The SQL window then folds different rows than deferWorkHistoryRows. Export one constant and import it in both places.

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