fix(web): update everything no longer waits on slow servers, and shows progress in the sidebar

[t3dotgg]

"Update everything" got stuck when one box was slow to restart. This app waited for every remote server to come back, up to 32 minutes each, before it relaunched itself. While it waited, the button was disabled. The only progress was a hover tooltip, and there was no way to cancel or retry.

Now:

• This app does not wait for slow servers. It relaunches when each server has started restarting into its update. At that point the server finishes alone. A 5 second countdown comes first, and Later postpones it. After Later, the popover offers Restart to update.
• The update button grows into a capsule that shows progress, such as 3 of 6 updated. A machine slower than 3 minutes shows as alvin 6m, and a failure shows Retry. Click it to see each machine. Time labels change at most once every 30 seconds, and once a second during the countdown. Nothing repaints continuously.
• Servers still restarting at relaunch are saved and followed after it. Each one is done when it reports the target version, or fails after 32 minutes. The relaunch toast names them.
• client-runtime: a desktop app update stays "installing" until the client commits it. This makes "resuming" mean the server has its update, so this app cannot relaunch before it sends the commit.

Verified in a dev build by driving the run state: progress, slow, countdown, failed, and popover all render. Later resolves the restart wait as postponed. Logic tests cover the capsule text, run closing, status after a relaunch, and the relaunch toast.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR substantially changes the production update lifecycle, including server handoff timing, desktop relaunch behavior, persistence across relaunches, retries, and new sidebar state management. The scope and side effects extend beyond a small isolated fix and merit human review.

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Thread transfer impact

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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	+23 B (+1.9%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.8 KiB	20.9 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
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Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−7 B (−0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
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Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 339179f · PR result: 14c90d0 · Source CI: success

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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 update-all flow now tracks server updates through handoff and relaunch, and adds a postponable desktop-app restart countdown. The sidebar presents run progress, failures, and restart controls. Completed desktop-app updates with an update token remain in the installing state.

Changes: Update-all restart lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update stage and run-state model apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverything.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverything.logic.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.test.ts	Run state now records server targets, handoff, timing, and separate failures. Capsule descriptions identify countdowns, slow machines, active work, and available actions. Results and toasts can include restarting servers. Completed desktop-app updates with a token map to installing.
Update coordination and restart countdown apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverythingRun.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/useUpdateEverything.ts	The update hook records provider and server outcomes, waits for server handoff, and uses a postponable restart countdown before local installation. Run utilities support retries and dismissal.
Persist and track handed-off servers apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverythingRun.tsx	Saved results can include unfinished server targets. After relaunch, the app tracks those servers until they report the target version or reach the handoff timeout.
Sidebar capsule and update controls apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdateCapsule.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx, docs/user/updating.md	The sidebar shows update progress, local status, machine failures, and applicable restart, retry, and dismiss controls. The documentation describes the countdown and continued server restart tracking.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant useUpdateEverything
  participant updateEverythingRun
  participant DesktopApp
  participant ServerUpdateState
  useUpdateEverything->>updateEverythingRun: Save unfinished server targets
  useUpdateEverything->>DesktopApp: Start local installation
  DesktopApp->>updateEverythingRun: Relaunch and read saved result
  updateEverythingRun->>ServerUpdateState: Check reported server versions
  ServerUpdateState-->>updateEverythingRun: Report target version or current state

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 14c90

Update progress can incorrectly report a server as failed, either during a later update run or before its full restart window has elapsed. Correct the tracking boundaries before merging, or accept those bounded reporting risks.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description clearly documents the problem, implementation, verification, screenshots, and agent use. It does not provide the required scope approval or exemption, and it does not include a recordi…	Add a link to the triaged issue or maintainer approval comment. If this is an obvious-bug exemption, explain why. Add a short recording that demonstrates the countdown, Later action, and popover interactions.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the primary changes: slow servers no longer block relaunch, and sidebar progress is now visible.

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The description clearly documents the problem, implementation, verification, screenshots, and agent use. It does not provide the required scope approval or exemption, and it does not include a recording for the countdown and interaction behavior.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments: 1

apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdateCapsule.tsx: 1

134-140: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use Button for the inline action control.

The inline action is a raw <button>, and it is styled as a control. As per path instructions, "do not style raw button, input, select, or textarea elements as controls a primitive provides" and "controls use Button". Use Button with a suitable variant, such as a link or ghost variant. If no existing variant fits, add one.

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Replace the raw button in SidebarUpdateCapsule’s inline action with the shared
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverythingRun.tsx:
- Around line 284-299: Update followHandedOffServers and its settle closure so a
timer from a handed-off run cannot settle a machine in a newer run; capture and
verify the run identity before calling settleUpdateRunMachine, or clear the old
run’s timer trackers when a new run starts.
- Around line 190-230: Update followHandedOffServers so the recovery deadline
starts when the server enters the resuming handoff state, not when updateServer
begins. In the update-state subscription, record Date.now() in startedAt for the
matching unfinished machine when isServerUpdateHandedOff becomes true, then
finish following it.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdateCapsule.tsx:
- Around line 134-140: Replace the raw button in SidebarUpdateCapsule’s inline
action with the shared Button component, using an existing link or ghost variant
that preserves the current inline styling and behavior of runAction and
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📒 Files selected for processing: 9

• apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdateCapsule.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverything.logic.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverything.logic.ts
• apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverythingRun.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/sidebar/useUpdateEverything.ts
• docs/user/updating.md
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.test.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.ts

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Start the recovery deadline at server handoff.

serversStartedAt is captured before updateServer runs. If downloading or installing is slow, followHandedOffServers can report failure before the server has spent 32 minutes restarting. Record the timestamp when the update enters resuming.

🐛 Suggested fix

     const finish = () => {
       if (done) return;
       done = true;
       queueMicrotask(() => unsubscribe());
       resolve();
     };
+    const markHandoff = () => {
+      setUpdateEverythingRun(
+        (run) =>
+          run && {
+            ...run,
+            machines: run.machines.map((machine) =>
+              machine.environmentId === environmentId && machine.result === null
+                ? { ...machine, startedAt: Date.now() }
+                : machine,
+            ),
+          },
+      );
+      finish();
+    };
     const unsubscribe = appAtomRegistry.subscribe(
       serverEnvironment.updateStateAtom(environmentId),
       (state) => {
-        if (isServerUpdateHandedOff(state)) finish();
+        if (isServerUpdateHandedOff(state)) markHandoff();
       },
       { immediate: true },
     );

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverythingRun.tsx
around lines 190 - 230:
Update followHandedOffServers so the recovery deadline starts when the server
enters the resuming handoff state, not when updateServer begins. In the
update-state subscription, record Date.now() in startedAt for the matching
unfinished machine when isServerUpdateHandedOff becomes true, then finish
following it.

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Note

🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

Declining as an edge case. Counting from the start of the server update can only cut the follow-up short when a slow download plus a launcher trial that nearly hits its 30 minute limit together pass 32 minutes. If that happens, the row reports a timeout while the server keeps updating on its own. Nothing is lost: if the server is still behind when it reconnects, the normal update button offers it again. A separate handoff timestamp would add persisted state for that rare case.

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@t3dotgg Understood. Thanks for the guidance. The early timeout affects follow-up reporting, not the server update itself. I won’t push for a separate handoff timestamp.

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Learnt from: t3dotgg
Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 19837
File: apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverythingRun.tsx:190-230
Timestamp: 2026-10-15T09:46:53.449Z
Learning: In apps/web/src/components/sidebar/updateEverythingRun.tsx, the 32-minute followHandedOffServers deadline intentionally uses the server update's start time rather than a separate handoff timestamp. The maintainer accepts the rare early reporting timeout caused by a slow download combined with a long launcher trial. The server continues updating independently, and the normal update button offers another update if the server reconnects while still behind.

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