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Recovers posts and replies after ambiguous create errors (DAPI 504s, "tenderdash not available", timeouts) — without ever risking a duplicate document.

Design (reworked from the original approach per review)

  • Exact-ID recovery, no content matching. The document ID is pre-computed before broadcast (documentBuilderService.generateDocumentIdentitycreateWithOptions({documentId, entropy}), same pattern auth-vault already uses). On an ambiguous post-broadcast failure, BaseDocumentService.createWithAmbiguityRecovery polls for that exact ID (5×3s; 8 attempts ≈21s for encrypted content, whose ciphertext is unqueryable). The old matchesExpectedPost content-matching recovery is gone.
  • Ambiguity is non-retryable. state-transition-service tracks broadcastAttempted; once a broadcast was attempted, failures default to indeterminate unless a narrow isDefiniteRejectionError list proves Platform rejected the transition. Failed recovery throws PostCreationIndeterminateError, which the retry loop refuses to retry — the compose modal breaks the thread loop, keeps the draft editable, and tells the user to check their profile before posting again. Only definite pre-broadcast failures remain retryable.
  • Applies to posts and replies (shared base-class helper), covering compose, tip replies, and the legacy client path.
  • Kept from the original PR: the ambiguous-error classifier in retry-utils and the compose-modal duplicate pre-flight check with user override.

Known limitations

  • isDefiniteRejectionError is best-effort string matching; unknown rejection phrasings degrade safely to a "check your profile" prompt (never a duplicate).
  • Encrypted posts retain residual duplicate risk only if the user manually re-posts after an indeterminate outcome and the original commits beyond the ~21s poll window (documented in code).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added image uploads for posts, including private posts, with character-limit validation.
    • Added clearer handling for uncertain post or reply creation outcomes, prompting you to check your profile when confirmation is unavailable.
    • Added support for fetching posts or replies by identifier.
  • Improvements

    • Improved recovery for ambiguous post and reply creations with longer, encrypted-content-aware polling.
    • Enhanced duplicate detection to prevent accidental reposts and guide you to existing content.
    • Updated compose layout and scrolling for a smoother threaded-posting experience.

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The change centralizes post and reply creation recovery around deterministic document IDs. It adds broadcast-state error classification, duplicate detection in the compose modal, encrypted-post polling allowances, and helper-based PostService query and enrichment paths.

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Post creation safeguards

Layer / File(s) Summary
Creation state tracking and recovery contracts
lib/services/state-transition-service.ts, lib/services/document-service.ts
Creation results now include documentId and broadcastAttempted. DocumentCreateError carries this state.
Exact-document ambiguity recovery
lib/constants.ts, lib/retry-utils.ts, lib/services/document-service.ts, lib/services/post-service.ts, lib/services/reply-service.ts
Creation uses deterministic document identities and polls the exact document. Polling uses 5 attempts for standard posts and 8 for encrypted posts, with a 3-second delay. Indeterminate outcomes use PostCreationIndeterminateError.
Post service query and enrichment wiring
lib/services/post-service.ts
PostService delegates enrichment, statistics, interactions, feeds, quote queries, and author counts to helper functions. It adds fetchPostsOrReplies.
Duplicate detection and indeterminate compose handling
components/compose/compose-modal.tsx
ComposeModal checks recent duplicates within the two-minute lookback, supports time-limited overrides, and stops retrying when creation remains indeterminate.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 55c32

The PR adds exact-ID recovery for ambiguous post and reply creation without introducing duplicate retries. A localized ordering issue may affect mixed-result display order, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ComposeModal
  participant PostService
  participant BaseDocumentService
  participant Platform

  Client->>ComposeModal: submit post or reply
  ComposeModal->>ComposeModal: check recent duplicate
  ComposeModal->>PostService: create post or reply
  PostService->>BaseDocumentService: createWithAmbiguityRecovery
  BaseDocumentService->>Platform: broadcast and poll exact document ID
  Platform-->>BaseDocumentService: creation result
  BaseDocumentService-->>PostService: created document or indeterminate error
  PostService-->>ComposeModal: return result
  ComposeModal-->>Client: show success, duplicate warning, or confirmation warning
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Preliminary review — Codex only

The PR improves ambiguous-error classification and adds recovery polling, but recovery remains unsafe because unresolved writes are rebroadcast and successful recovery is inferred from non-unique document fields. These paths can create duplicate posts or return an older/different document as the result of the current submission, so changes are required before merge.

Validated blockers were found in the Codex precheck. Sonnet is deferred until a fresh Codex revalidation clears the blocker gate.

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  • Codex reviewers: gpt-5.6-sol — general (failed), gpt-5.6-sol — general (completed)
  • Verifier: gpt-5.6-sol — verifier
  • Sonnet: not run (deferred by blocker gate)

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In `components/compose/compose-modal.tsx`:
- [BLOCKING] components/compose/compose-modal.tsx:702-738: Do not rebroadcast a create after ambiguous recovery expires
  When `createPost` or `createReply` cannot find the submitted document during its three recovery polls, it rethrows the original ambiguous error. `retryPostCreation` classifies that error as retryable and invokes this callback again, building and broadcasting another document even though the first transition may still commit or become query-visible later. This can create duplicate posts or replies whenever indexing takes longer than the approximately four-second polling interval. Private submissions are especially unrecoverable across attempts because each callback invocation re-encrypts the content with a new nonce. Preserve the originally built document and its ID across recovery, or return a distinct non-retryable indeterminate result after an ambiguous broadcast instead of authorizing another create.

In `lib/services/post-service.ts`:
- [BLOCKING] lib/services/post-service.ts:418-468: Correlate recovery with the submitted document ID
  Recovery searches from two minutes before `attemptStartedAt` and treats any matching owner document as proof that this transition succeeded. For public posts, the match includes only content and quote IDs, omitting persisted fields such as `mediaUrl`, `language`, `sensitive`, `primaryHashtag`, and `firstMentionId`; reply matching likewise omits `mediaUrl` and `sensitive`. An older or concurrent document can therefore be returned for a failed submission, including a document with the same text but different media or metadata. The compose duplicate check does not make this safe because users can override it and other callers, including tip replies and `DashPlatformClient`, call the services directly. Build the document before broadcast, retain its generated ID when submission throws, and recover by querying that exact ID rather than matching recent content.

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const minCreatedAt = attemptStartedAt - POST_RECOVERY_LOOKBACK_MS;
const isPrivateExpected = !!expected.encryptedContent && !!expected.nonce && typeof expected.epoch === 'number';

for (let attempt = 1; attempt <= POST_RECOVERY_POLL_ATTEMPTS; attempt++) {
try {
const result = await this.query({
where: [
['$ownerId', '==', ownerId],
['$createdAt', '>', minCreatedAt]
],
orderBy: [['$ownerId', 'asc'], ['$createdAt', 'desc']],
limit: 20
});

const match = result.documents.find((post) =>
this.matchesExpectedPost(post, expected, isPrivateExpected)
);

if (match) {
return match;
}
} catch (error) {
console.warn(`Post recovery query failed (attempt ${attempt}/${POST_RECOVERY_POLL_ATTEMPTS}):`, error);
}

if (attempt < POST_RECOVERY_POLL_ATTEMPTS) {
await this.sleep(POST_RECOVERY_POLL_DELAY_MS);
}
}

return null;
}

private matchesExpectedPost(post: Post, expected: ExpectedPostMatch, isPrivateExpected: boolean): boolean {
if (isPrivateExpected) {
return !!post.encryptedContent &&
!!post.nonce &&
typeof post.epoch === 'number' &&
this.bytesEqual(expected.encryptedContent, post.encryptedContent) &&
this.bytesEqual(expected.nonce, post.nonce) &&
expected.epoch === post.epoch;
}

const expectedQuotedId = expected.quotedPostId ?? null;
const expectedQuotedOwnerId = expected.quotedPostOwnerId ?? null;
const actualQuotedId = post.quotedPostId ?? null;
const actualQuotedOwnerId = post.quotedPostOwnerId ?? null;

return post.content === expected.content &&
expectedQuotedId === actualQuotedId &&
expectedQuotedOwnerId === actualQuotedOwnerId;

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🔴 Blocking: Correlate recovery with the submitted document ID

Recovery searches from two minutes before attemptStartedAt and treats any matching owner document as proof that this transition succeeded. For public posts, the match includes only content and quote IDs, omitting persisted fields such as mediaUrl, language, sensitive, primaryHashtag, and firstMentionId; reply matching likewise omits mediaUrl and sensitive. An older or concurrent document can therefore be returned for a failed submission, including a document with the same text but different media or metadata. The compose duplicate check does not make this safe because users can override it and other callers, including tip replies and DashPlatformClient, call the services directly. Build the document before broadcast, retain its generated ID when submission throws, and recover by querying that exact ID rather than matching recent content.

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PastaPastaPasta and others added 4 commits August 25, 2026 12:31
Resolve conflicts from master's post-service/retry-utils refactor. Keep the PR's ambiguous-error classifier (isPostCreationAmbiguousError) and the compose-modal duplicate pre-check. Drop the content-matching recovery from post-service and reply-service (resolved to master): review found matching by content unsafe; it is replaced by exact-document-ID recovery in follow-up commits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…errors

Generate the document ID and entropy before broadcasting (IDs are deterministic over ownerId + contractId + documentType + entropy), so an ambiguous broadcast failure (timeout, gateway 5xx, tenderdash unavailable) can be resolved by polling Platform for that exact ID instead of matching recent documents by content.

state-transition-service now reports the pre-computed documentId and whether a broadcast was attempted on failed creates. createWithOptions surfaces these via DocumentCreateError so callers can distinguish definite pre-broadcast failures (safe to retry) from ambiguous post-broadcast ones. When recovery polling cannot confirm the document, createWithAmbiguityRecovery throws PostCreationIndeterminateError, which retryPostCreation treats as non-retryable - rebroadcasting would mint a new document with fresh entropy (and a fresh nonce for encrypted posts) and could duplicate the original if it later commits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When post/reply creation ends indeterminate (broadcast may have committed but exact-ID recovery could not confirm it), stop the thread, keep the post editable, and tell the user to check their profile before pressing Post again - never auto-rebroadcast. Also route the duplicate pre-check logging through the shared logger.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After a broadcast attempt, an unrecognized error message must not be classified as a definite failure - that would invite the user to press Post again and mint a duplicate document. Gate on a narrow isDefiniteRejectionError list (validation/consensus rejections that prove the transition was rejected) and treat everything else as ambiguous.

Widen the exact-ID recovery poll to 5x3s (about 12s), and 8 attempts (about 21s) for encrypted documents: ciphertext is not queryable, so the compose duplicate pre-check cannot protect encrypted posts and a manual retry re-encrypts with a fresh nonce, making exact-ID recovery their only duplicate safety net.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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lib/services/post-service.ts (1)

598-704: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Returned order does not follow the requested ids.

The method concatenates posts, then converted replies, then converted blog posts. A caller that passes a chronologically ordered ID list receives regrouped content, so mixed feeds render posts before replies regardless of creation time. Consider ordering the result by the input ids.

♻️ Proposed ordering fix
-    return [...posts, ...convertedReplies, ...convertedBlogPosts];
+    const byId = new Map<string, Post>();
+    for (const item of [...posts, ...convertedReplies, ...convertedBlogPosts]) {
+      byId.set(item.id, item);
+    }
+    return ids.map((id) => byId.get(id)).filter((item): item is Post => item !== undefined);
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In `@lib/services/post-service.ts` around lines 598 - 704, Update
fetchPostsOrReplies to return results in the caller-provided ids order rather
than concatenating posts, replies, and blog posts by type. Build a lookup of all
converted results by ID and assemble the final array by iterating ids,
preserving the existing conversion and omission behavior for unresolved IDs.
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In `@lib/services/post-service.ts`:
- Around line 598-704: Update fetchPostsOrReplies to return results in the
caller-provided ids order rather than concatenating posts, replies, and blog
posts by type. Build a lookup of all converted results by ID and assemble the
final array by iterating ids, preserving the existing conversion and omission
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Preliminary review — Codex only

The exact-ID recovery and non-retryable indeterminate outcome handling resolve both previously reported duplicate-creation blockers. One blocking compose-flow bug remains: resuming an interrupted thread publishes its next entry as an unrelated top-level post instead of replying to the confirmed prefix.
Source: reviewer backend gpt-5.6-sol; final verifier backend gpt-5.6-sol; orchestration-only (not reviewer evidence): openclaw-agent/cliproxy/gpt-5.6-sol.

Validated blockers were found in the Codex precheck. Opus is deferred until a fresh Codex revalidation clears the blocker gate.

Review provenance

  • Codex reviewers: gpt-5.6-sol — general (completed)
  • Verifier: gpt-5.6-sol — verifier
  • Sonnet: not run (deferred by blocker gate)

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In `components/compose/compose-modal.tsx`:
- [BLOCKING] components/compose/compose-modal.tsx:695-699: Preserve reply mode when resuming an interrupted thread
  After an indeterminate result for a later thread entry, the confirmed prefix is marked as posted while the unconfirmed entry remains editable. On the next press, filtering makes that entry `i === 0`, and `previousPostId` correctly contains `lastPostedId`; however, `isReply` is false because there is no original `replyingTo` and `i > 0` is false. The duplicate pre-check therefore searches top-level posts and creation calls `createPost` rather than `createReply`. This can miss the original reply if it becomes visible after recovery, and otherwise publishes the intended thread continuation as an unrelated top-level post. Determine reply mode from the computed parent rather than the filtered-array index.

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Preliminary review — Codex only

Exact-ID recovery and the reply-mode resume fix are sound, but attachment state can change a resumed draft after a successful thread prefix, moving the image and defeating the new duplicate pre-check. One in-scope blocker remains; raw IPFS handling of private-feed attachments is a serious pre-existing concern recorded separately.
Source: reviewer backend gpt-5.6-sol; final verifier backend gpt-5.6-sol; orchestration-only (not reviewer evidence): openclaw-agent/cliproxy/gpt-5.6-sol.

Validated blockers were found in the Codex precheck. Opus is deferred until a fresh Codex revalidation clears the blocker gate.

Review provenance

  • Codex reviewers: gpt-5.6-sol — general (completed)
  • Verifier: gpt-5.6-sol — verifier
  • Sonnet: not run (deferred by blocker gate)

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1 additional finding(s) omitted (not in diff).

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In `components/compose/compose-modal.tsx`:
- [BLOCKING] components/compose/compose-modal.tsx:628-630: Keep an attachment bound to its original thread entry
  The image URL is assigned by the filtered array index rather than by a stable thread-entry ID. If the image-bearing first entry succeeds and a later entry has an indeterminate outcome, the successful entry is marked posted while `attachedImage` remains set. On the next press, the pending entry is reindexed to zero and receives the URL that was already published with the first entry. This also changes the pending entry's duplicate signature: if its original ambiguous create committed without the URL, the pre-flight check now searches for content containing the URL and misses the exact visible reply, allowing another document to be broadcast. Bind the attachment to its original `threadPostId` and clear or mark it consumed once that entry succeeds.

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