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Every thread-scoped MCP call (delegate_task, task_status, t3_thread_*, request_secret, create_threads, orchestrator_capabilities, ...) loaded the caller thread's runs, user messages, provider threads and turns, runtime requests and context transfers. On zbook, one call from a thread with 73,568 turn items spent 8.6 s in loadThreadCaller, inside one reader transaction. The server has one SQLite reader, so the sidebar's getThreadShell waited 6.6 s behind it and a thread open took 7.8 s. The first acknowledgement of a delegated result also read every parent run, node, attempt and subagent (5 s on the fleet trace).

Fix

• Callers read only the caller's thread row, plus its active runs where the active run is used (cross-thread writes, scheduled tasks, delegate_task, request_secret, create_threads). t3_thread_list, t3_thread_read, t3_thread_wait and orchestrator_capabilities read only the thread row. The parent type is Pick<..., "thread" | "runs">, so a caller that needs another field fails to typecheck.
• A status-only run filter now emits ORDER BY +ordinal. Before, SQLite walked every run in the (thread_id, ordinal) index to skip a sort. Now a status index reads only matching runs.
• A read by id (runIds, nodeIds, subagentIds, messageIds) now uses the primary key. Before, SQLite walked every row of the thread in its thread index to find the ids. On a real thread with 34,195 nodes, one node read took 307,792 SQLite VM steps. It now takes 42. This applies to every caller of these filters, not only MCP.
• task_status, task waits and the t3_thread_read acknowledgement read result transfers and runs from the child thread, which already holds them.
• The acknowledgement (delegated_task.completion-delivery.acknowledge|dispose) reads the task and its spawning run by id, and the wake's run by id. It reads nodes, attempts and the remaining tasks only on the branches that use them. The rare unobserved late-wait branch still reads the parent's runs, tasks and user messages, as before.
• t3_thread_send, t3_thread_wait and t3_thread_interrupt read only the target's thread row.

Benchmark

Real ProjectionStore with all migrations, in a scratch DB. The data is a copy of the longest local thread, cloned once to reach zbook scale. Warm cache, median of 9 runs, getThreadRecords with the old vs new fields:

Thread	Before	After
35,166 turn items (real)	57.7 ms	1.2 ms
70,332 turn items	99.2 ms	1.4 ms

Proof

• The OrchestratorMcpToolkit real-store case asserts that the first acknowledgement does not read all parent runs, nodes, attempts or subagents (fails on the old code with 4 such reads), that orchestrator_capabilities reads only threads, and that task_status reads one runs query and one transfers query, both for the child thread.
• ProjectionStore.test.ts checks with EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN that a status-only run read uses a status index and not the ordinal index (fails without +ordinal).
• The same case checks that run, node, task and message reads by id use the primary key index (fails without the +thread_id change).
• A DelegatedCompletionDelivery case covers acknowledging a queued wake's results: the wake text is rewritten for the remaining task, then the wake is cancelled. No test reached these branches before.
• vp run check:changed passes.

Real data check

A separate run on another machine compared the final head with main:

• Store results: 4,505 getThreadRecords calls on 85 real threads (each id filter, the filter combinations the call sites use, and the status-only run filters). 0 differences in rows or order. An id from another thread returns no rows.
• Real MCP calls: an agent turn on a dev server of each branch called orchestrator_capabilities, t3_thread_list, t3_thread_read, t3_thread_send, t3_thread_wait, delegate_task, task_status, task_cancel, the scheduled task tools and create_threads. Same results, and 0 server errors.
• Delegated completion flows: a result read while the parent is live, a wake after the parent turn ended, and two results where the parent acknowledges one and then the other. Same task states, wake text and wake cancellation on both branches.
• Speed on a 75,829-item thread built from real rows: the delegate_task caller read went from 116 ms to 1.3 ms warm and from 1,090 ms to 22 ms cold. The first acknowledgement went from 403 ms to 0.9 ms warm.

Known limit: an acknowledgement that arrives after the spawning run ended still reads all runs, tasks, user messages and provider turns (127 ms warm on that thread).

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	9/10	8.5/10	9/10
Muse Wonder Full	9/10	9/10	9/10
Codex GPT-6.1 Sol	9.5/10	9.4/10	9.5/10

After round 3, one small commit skips the attempts read when a queued wake never started (it has no attempt to cancel). The existing cancel case covers it; the focused tests and vp run check:changed pass.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 6cb3e96

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This reduces MCP and task-completion database reads to the records each operation needs while preserving existing scope checks. The assessed changes introduce no product-default changes or new data exposure.

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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: d313b2a · PR result: 6cb3e96 · 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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Walkthrough

The PR narrows projection reads in orchestration and MCP paths. It changes task-result lookup to use child-projection transfers and adjusts query selection for status and ID filters. Tests cover query plans, read scopes, and queued delegated-completion acknowledgements.

Changes: Orchestrator Read Paths

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Run query selection apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts	Run queries select paths based on status and ID filters. Active run statuses use a shared constant. Tests check the status-filter and ID-filter query plans.
Delegated-completion resolution apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/DelegatedCompletionDelivery.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts	Acknowledgement and delivery updates load targeted records. Tests cover query scopes and queued-wake updates as sibling tasks are acknowledged.
Scoped MCP reads and task-result lookup apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts	MCP operations request narrower caller and target-thread records. Task-result lookup searches child-projection transfers by parent thread ID. Tests verify read scopes and child-projection transfer fixtures.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, shivamhwp, adamulek123

Merge Risk: Low · up to 6cb3e

Cancelling a queued wake may be slow on a large thread. The issue is limited to that path and is suitable for a bounded follow-up.

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Nitpick comments: 1

apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts: 1

710-712: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Assert that the caller read filters runs.

The table-name assertion can pass for an unfiltered runs read, which can load all historical runs. Capture the runs query and check its status predicate.

Suggested test change

           const transferReads: Array<string> = [];
           const messageReads: Array<string> = [];
           const projectionTableReads: Array<string> = [];
+          const runReads: Array<string> = [];
           const tracer = Tracer.make({
@@
                 if (typeof query !== "string") return;
+                if (/SELECT\s+payload_json\s+FROM orchestration_v2_projection_runs/i.test(query)) {
+                  runReads.push(query);
+                }
                 for (const [, table] of query.matchAll(
@@
           const messageReadsBeforeCapabilities = messageReads.length;
           const tableReadsBeforeCapabilities = projectionTableReads.length;
+          const runReadsBeforeCapabilities = runReads.length;
           const capabilities = yield* invoke("orchestrator_capabilities", {}).pipe(
@@
           expect(new Set(projectionTableReads.slice(tableReadsBeforeCapabilities))).toEqual(
             new Set(["threads", "runs"]),
           );
+          const capabilityRunReads = runReads.slice(runReadsBeforeCapabilities);
+          expect(capabilityRunReads).toHaveLength(1);
+          expect(capabilityRunReads[0]).toMatch(/status\s+IN\s*\(\s*SELECT\s+value\s+FROM\s+json_each\s*\(/i);

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Strengthen the `orchestrator_capabilities` integration test: capture queries
reading `orchestration_v2_projection_runs` and assert that the capability call
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FROM json_each(...))`. Keep the existing table-name assertion and scope the new
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- Around line 710-712: Strengthen the `orchestrator_capabilities` integration
test: capture queries reading `orchestration_v2_projection_runs` and assert that
the capability call issues exactly one such query with a status predicate using
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apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts: 1

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The SQL regex assertion is tightly coupled to query whitespace.

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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

The CodeRabbit nitpick about asserting a status filter on the orchestrator_capabilities runs read no longer applies. Since the second commit, capabilities reads only the caller's thread row, and the test asserts the table set is ["threads"]. The status-only run read is now covered at the store layer instead: the "idle compaction filters" case in ProjectionStore.test.ts checks with EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN that it uses a status index and not runs_thread_ordinal_idx.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts: 1

2959-2959: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Heavy lift

Read only the queued wake’s active attempt.

A newly queued wake has an activeAttemptId before it starts. When it loses its final task, this read loads and decodes every attempt in the parent thread to cancel one attempt. Add an attempt-ID filter or a targeted attempt read to keep the cancellation read bounded on large threads.

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Update the cancellation read around loadProjectionForCommand to load only the
queued wake’s active attempt, using its activeAttemptId in an attempt-ID filter
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- Line 2959: Update the cancellation read around loadProjectionForCommand to
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🤖 Claude Fable 5.2 responding on behalf of Theo

Not fixing the CodeRabbit nitpick on Orchestrator.ts:2959 (read only the queued wake's active attempt) in this PR. The finding is correct: when the last task of a queued wake is acknowledged, the cancel branch reads every attempt of the parent thread. But attempts grow with the run count, not the item count. The slow thread on the fleet has 114 runs and 114 attempts against 74,517 turn items, so this read is small. An attempt-id filter is a separate change to ProjectionRecordFilter, and I am leaving it as a follow-up.