fix(server): metrics count interrupted work on the monotonic clock

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Problem

Metrics. withMetrics timed work with Clock.currentTimeNanos, which is the wall clock. It recorded only after Effect.exit(effect) returned. When the fiber running the work was interrupted, the interrupt was re-raised at the next step, so the metric code never ran. On Effect 4.0.1 an interrupted withMetrics effect recorded no counter and no duration, which means interrupted RPCs and git commands never appeared with outcome "interrupt". The orchestrator-v2 merge (#2829) also left the provider metrics with no writers. t3_provider_sessions_total, t3_provider_turns_total, t3_provider_turn_duration, t3_provider_runtime_events_total and t3_orchestration_events_processed_total were still defined, but the v1 ProviderService and ProviderCommandReactor that updated them were deleted. The observability guide still tells people to watch two of them. The comments in packages/shared/src/shell.ts and externalLauncher.ts described currentTimeNanos as the monotonic clock.

Settings and keybindings. serverSettings.ts and keybindings.ts built their caches with Cache.make. In 4.0.1 its default time-to-live is Duration.infinity for every exit, failures included. A single failed read, such as a transient file error or a failed projection_thread_sessions query, was returned to every later caller. Only a file-watcher event or a write cleared it (revalidateAndEmit, start, Cache.set). Until the user touched the file, a startup failure stayed.

Fix

• withMetrics reads Clock.monotonicTimeNanos and records in an Effect.onExit finalizer. Success, failure and interruption are all counted with a duration. outcomeFromExit already maps an interrupt-only cause to "interrupt". RPC stream metrics use the monotonic clock as well. observeRpcStreamEffect uses Effect.onError in place of Effect.exit, so an interrupt during stream setup is counted too.
• Provider metrics are wired back into ProviderSessionManagerV2. Every provider's sessions and turns go through it. decorateRuntime wraps the turn operations and releaseEntry covers release. What gets counted:
  • t3_provider_sessions_total: open, and release with its reason.
  • t3_provider_turns_total: send (labelled with modelFamily), steer, interrupt and runtime-request-response.
  • t3_provider_turn_duration: for send only. In v2, startTurn returns once the provider accepts the turn, so this measures turn-start latency, not the whole turn.
• t3_provider_runtime_events_total and t3_orchestration_events_processed_total are deleted, along with the unused attribute helpers. The v2 code has no counterpart for the v1 runtime-event publish path or the reactor loop they counted.
• The shell command-resolution cache and the editor-discovery cache now use Clock.monotonicTimeNanos, which their comments already described.
• Both caches now use Cache.makeWith. Failed lookups get a time-to-live of Duration.zero and successful ones get Duration.infinity, so the next read after a failure goes back to disk. Successful reads keep the old behavior.

The branch has two commits: one for metrics, one for settings and keybindings.

Verification

Run from apps/server:

• vp test run src/observability/Metrics.test.ts src/observability/RpcInstrumentation.test.ts src/serverSettings.test.ts src/keybindings.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.test.ts src/process/externalLauncher.test.ts: 185 passed, 1 skipped, 1 failed. The failure is externalLauncher.test.ts > discovers and launches idea outside PATH on linux, and it also fails on main with this change stashed. This machine has /usr/local/bin/idea, which the test picks up instead of its fixture.
• From packages/shared: vp test run src/shell.test.ts: 34 passed.
• New tests, all confirmed to fail when run against the code on main:
  • Metrics.test.ts "counts interrupted work with an interrupt outcome and its duration": an interrupted effect records outcome interrupt and a 5 ms duration under TestClock.
  • Metrics.test.ts "measures durations on the monotonic clock, not the wall clock": a backward wall-clock jump does not shorten a 10 ms duration.
  • serverSettings.test.ts and keybindings.test.ts "retries a failed … read instead of keeping the failure": a read fails, the file is fixed, and the next read returns the fixed contents without a restart.
  • ProviderSessionManager.test.ts "records provider session and turn metrics": open, send (with its timer), interrupt and release are recorded. The test uses a private MetricRegistry.
• vp exec tsc --noEmit -p . in apps/server and in packages/shared: 0 errors.
• vp lint <changed files> from the repo root: exit 0, with 2 existing warnings on unchanged lines of serverSettings.test.ts.
• vp exec knip --workspace apps/server --exports --preprocessor ./scripts/knip-schemas.ts --no-config-hints: exit 0.

Merging with #15548 and #15571

Both open PRs touch the same files, so whichever lands second needs a rebase:

• refactor(server): instrument WS RPCs in group middleware #15548 (RpcInstrumentation.ts): the conflict is the deleted observeRpcStream* helpers; keep refactor(server): instrument WS RPCs in group middleware #15548's middleware. refactor(server): instrument WS RPCs in group middleware #15548 now times streams on the monotonic clock too, so either resolution reads the same clock at both ends.
• fix(server): provider sessions clean up when their start is interrupted #15571 (ProviderSessionManager.ts, startTurn): keep fix(server): provider sessions clean up when their start is interrupted #15571's acquireUseRelease and pipe turnMetrics("send", input.modelSelection.model) onto runtime.startTurn(input) inside its use callback. The "records provider session and turn metrics" test fails if the send metric is dropped.

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🟡 Medium orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts:1434

compactThread bypasses turnMetrics, so bare /compact requests execute without incrementing t3_provider_turns_total or recording t3_provider_turn_duration. Since adapters implement compaction through their raw startTurn, expose a wrapped compactThread here using the same "send" metrics path.

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`compactThread` bypasses `turnMetrics`, so bare `/compact` requests execute without incrementing `t3_provider_turns_total` or recording `t3_provider_turn_duration`. Since adapters implement compaction through their raw `startTurn`, expose a wrapped `compactThread` here using the same `"send"` metrics path.

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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	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	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	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 2a68a77 · PR result: d0379d1 · 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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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes production metrics and cache behavior across provider sessions, RPC streams, and configuration reads. The session-open metric can still report success before attachment persistence completes, so the instrumentation boundary needs human review.

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Keybindings and server settings caches now retry failed reads. Editor-discovery and shell caches use monotonic expiry. Effect and RPC metrics use monotonic durations. Provider session and turn operations now record metrics.

Changes

Configuration load retries

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retry failed configuration loads apps/server/src/keybindings.ts, apps/server/src/serverSettings.ts, apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts, apps/server/src/serverSettings.test.ts	Successful loads remain cached indefinitely, while failed loads expire immediately. Tests verify that a later read succeeds after the file path is corrected.

Monotonic cache expiry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Use monotonic time for cache expiry apps/server/src/process/externalLauncher.ts, packages/shared/src/shell.ts	Editor-discovery and shell command-resolution caches use monotonic time for expiry checks and timestamps. Editor-scan success and failure handling is unchanged.

Provider and effect metrics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record effect and RPC metrics apps/server/src/observability/Metrics.ts, apps/server/src/observability/Metrics.test.ts, apps/server/src/observability/RpcInstrumentation.ts, docs/operations/observability.md	Effect and RPC metrics use monotonic time. Effect metrics record on exit. Tests cover interruption outcomes and duration measurements. The metric description specifies adapter turn startup time.
Instrument provider session and turn operations apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.test.ts	Session opens and releases, and turn operations, record labeled counters. Send operations also record duration. Tests check the resulting metric snapshots.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderSessionManager
  participant withMetrics
  participant ProviderAdapter
  ProviderSessionManager->>withMetrics: Wrap a provider operation
  withMetrics->>ProviderAdapter: Run the operation
  ProviderAdapter-->>withMetrics: Return the operation exit
  withMetrics-->>ProviderSessionManager: Record configured metrics

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Record open success after attachment persistence.

For newly created sessions, withMetrics wraps only adapter.openSession. The public open can then fail while persisting the attachment: eventSink.write can return an EventSinkWriteError, which withActivityError propagates. The counter can therefore record "success" for a failed open. Move the metric boundary to cover the new-session flow through attachment persistence and the remaining startup steps.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts at
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Update the `withMetrics` boundary in the new-session flow so it covers
`adapter.openSession`, attachment persistence via `eventSink.write`, and the
remaining startup steps. Record success only after the complete open flow
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