fix(server): queue messages during context compaction

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Messages sent during manual compaction previously failed with "Wait for context compaction to finish before sending another message." They now remain visible above the compaction indicator and dispatch in order after the provider session is restored, preserving message ids and pending-turn correlation.

Stopping or interrupting the session cancels queued sends. Compaction failure reports which queued messages were not sent. This is an independent follow-up to #11103.

Verified with a real Codex session: sent two messages while /compact ran, saw both above the compaction indicator with no failure activity, and confirmed in the event log that each was replayed under a server:after-compaction command id reusing its original message id, with the second replay dispatched only after the first send settled. Codex answered "first" and then "second". All 64 reactor tests and the server typecheck pass; scoped lint has pre-existing warnings.

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Implemented with GPT-6 in Codex; trimmed and re-verified with Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Messages sent during context compaction are queued and resumed automatically after recovery.
  • Queued messages retain their original identifiers and interaction modes and are not processed multiple times.
  • Queued messages are marked as unsent when compaction fails, is interrupted, or the session stops.
  • Stopped sessions no longer restart unexpectedly because of queued messages.
  • Compaction failures display clearer activity status.
  • Queued requests no longer remain pending after recovery or session termination.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes production orchestration behavior by adding queued message replay, ordering, and cancellation across compaction and session lifecycle transitions. The new coordination state machine spans multiple asynchronous paths, so its runtime impact merits human review.

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The reactor now manages queued turn-start requests across compaction recovery, replay, interruption, and session stop. Replay preserves original request payloads and waits for send completion. Tests cover ordered recovery, cancellation, interaction modes, and failure activities.

Changes

Compaction queue recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Queue state and cancellation apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts	The reactor tracks queued and resumed turns, clears compaction state, and cancels queued turns during failure, interruption, or session stop.
Queued turn replay and send synchronization apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts	Replay removes entries before dispatch, restores them after failure, preserves original request payloads, validates resumed messages, and settles completion state.
Queue recovery test coverage apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.test.ts	Tests cover ordered recovery, stopped-session cancellation, preserved interaction modes, post-compaction dispatch hooks, and the dedicated "Context compaction failed" activity.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderCommandReactor
  participant ProviderSession
  participant Provider
  ProviderCommandReactor->>ProviderSession: Restore after compaction
  ProviderCommandReactor->>Provider: Dispatch queued turn with original request payload
  Provider-->>ProviderCommandReactor: Complete tracked send

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apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.test.ts (1)

445-450: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Run the post-dispatch hook on failure too, so a rejected dispatch fails instead of hanging.

Effect.tap runs the hook only when engine.dispatch succeeds. The stop test awaits resumeDispatched at Line 1103. If the engine ever rejects the replayed thread.turn.start for a stopped thread, resumeDispatched is never completed and the test times out instead of reporting the rejection.

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             ).pipe(
               Effect.andThen(engine.dispatch(command)),
-              Effect.tap(() =>
+              Effect.ensuring(
                 command.type === "thread.turn.start" &&
                 command.commandId.startsWith("server:after-compaction:")
                   ? (input?.afterTurnStartDispatch?.() ?? Effect.void)
                   : Effect.void,
               ),
             );

Effect.ensuring requires the hook to be non-failing, which both call sites satisfy.

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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.test.ts` around
lines 445 - 450, Replace the Effect.tap around engine.dispatch with
Effect.ensuring so the post-dispatch hook runs for both successful and rejected
dispatches. Preserve the existing thread.turn.start and server:after-compaction
condition and callback behavior, using the existing
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts`:
- Around line 1760-1763: The compaction-stop and interrupt cancellation flows
must not report the currently dispatched queue item as unsent. Update
resumeTurnsAfterCompaction and the corresponding interrupt handling around
orchestrationEngine.dispatch to remove or track the head item before dispatch,
restore it only when dispatch fails, and have cancelTurnsAfterCompaction exclude
accepted in-flight work while still reporting pending items.
- Around line 1275-1277: Update the stale-resumed-command guard in the
ProviderCommandReactor flow to remove the corresponding resumedTurnStarts entry
before returning. Ensure cancelled replay commands cannot leave entries behind,
while preserving the existing early-return behavior for valid resumed commands.

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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.test.ts`:
- Around line 445-450: Replace the Effect.tap around engine.dispatch with
Effect.ensuring so the post-dispatch hook runs for both successful and rejected
dispatches. Preserve the existing thread.turn.start and server:after-compaction
condition and callback behavior, using the existing
input?.afterTurnStartDispatch hook.

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Written by gpt-6-astra on behalf of Maria

The post-dispatch test hook deliberately signals a successful persisted replay. Keeping it success-only avoids treating a rejected dispatch as that milestone. The current engine accepts the stopped-thread replay, and the test verifies the generation guard clears its pending request without sending. All 64 focused reactor tests pass.

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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts`:
- Line 430: Update the queue-processing flow around getTurnStartMessage to
inspect queued[0] without removing it, verify the queue remains active after the
lookup, and only then remove the event for dispatch. When the lookup returns
Option.none, report the failure through appendProviderFailureActivity instead of
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