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Problem

Since #3104 the recovery seam flushes on every maintenance tick. An account whose adapter is inactive (offline, or with no relays) never authorizes its replay generation, so every 15 s it repeated the whole runner replay synchronization with nothing new to record. That cost five writer transactions and a runner wake per idle tick on an offline phone.

Fix

The recovery owner remembers the generation it last synchronized while the adapter was inactive. A repeat pass on that generation returns early while the adapter is still inactive and no delivery loss blocks the cursor, the same guard the authorized early return uses. An inactive generation still never authorizes the cursor, and activation runs the full pass again.

Verification

• Local: cargo clippy -p marmot-app --all-targets --all-features --locked -- -D warnings
• Local: cargo nextest run -p marmot-app --lib on client::recovery, native_ingress, history_notices and the idle-tick test (181 passed); with test-policy-overrides, runtime:: plus the recovery filters (876/877; the one failure, successive_group_joins_lose_nothing_and_catch_up, is the 47 s load timeout recorded in Remaining timing-dependent test waits #2412 and passes alone and in its module)
• Local: end-to-end smoke (simulator app_runtime_journeys/process_orchestrator and the wn-cli daemon tests): 4/4 passed at 7ce868d
• Review: Codex GPT-6.1 Sol and Cursor Grok 4.7 recommend merge at 7ce868d

Fixes #3238

Notes

• idle_ticks_take_no_writer_and_spawn_no_housekeeping now asserts zero writers outright (it failed on master with 15 over 3 ticks); the test-only replay_flush_writes exclusion is removed. New an_inactive_generation_is_synchronized_once_until_activation covers the skip and the reconnect.
• Disabling the skip fails both tests. The !active check is defensive: reconnecting always bumps the generation, so no test reaches the window it covers.
• Move idle maintenance onto per-account wakes and deadlines (mdk#2923 step B) #3258 (step B) treats recovery as owed while the generation is unauthorized; it could treat "synchronized while inactive" as rested.
• The issue's online-account observation (live-tail coverage writes from the runner turn) is not addressed here.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Recovery synchronization now processes an inactive account generation once, skips it on repeat, and processes it again after the account reconnects.
  • Idle maintenance no longer produces additional storage-write activity across repeated idle ticks, including when replay synchronization occurs.

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Walkthrough

The recovery owner now records inactive generations after synchronization and skips repeated synchronization for the same generation. Activation causes synchronization to run again. The test-only replay-flush write attribution is removed, and the idle-tick test checks the full storage-write delta.

Changes

Native replay synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and synchronize inactive generations crates/marmot-app/src/client/recovery.rs	The recovery owner records inactive generations and skips a repeated pass for the same generation. After activation, synchronization runs again. A test covers the inactive and active cases.
Verify idle ticks without write attribution crates/marmot-app/src/client/recovery.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/client/recovery_coverage.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/lib.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/replay_flush_writes.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/tests.rs	The test-only replay-flush write counter and its hooks are removed. The idle-tick test now asserts that three ticks produce zero additional storage-write begins.

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

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related issues

• Issue 2923 describes repeated idle-tick work. This change addresses the replay-flush portion for inactive adapters; it does not change the other maintenance-tick passes.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 7ce86

The examined loss, reconnect, and idle-write paths show no merge-blocking issue. The change is ready for normal merge checks.

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Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing repeated replay flushes while the adapter is inactive.
Linked Issues check		Issue #3238 requires removal of repeated replay synchronization cost for inactive adapters. AccountRecoveryOwner now stores replay_inactive_generation. native_replay_synchronized skips a repeat …
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #3238. Recovery state changes implement the inactive-generation skip. The new recovery test and the idle-tick assertion verify the behavior. Removing the test-only replay…

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Explanation

Issue #3238 requires removal of repeated replay synchronization cost for inactive adapters. AccountRecoveryOwner now stores replay_inactive_generation. native_replay_synchronized skips a repeat for that generation only while the adapter remains inactive and delivery loss does not block the cursor. Inactive synchronization still does not authorize the generation. Activation runs synchronization again. The idle-tick test now asserts zero writer transactions without excluding replay-flush writes. an_inactive_generation_is_synchronized_once_until_activation covers one inactive pass, the repeat skip, and reconnect processing.

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Explanation

The changes stay within issue #3238. Recovery state changes implement the inactive-generation skip. The new recovery test and the idle-tick assertion verify the behavior. Removing the test-only replay-flush write marker and its storage hooks is required so the idle-tick test measures all writes. The PR does not claim to change the separate online-account live-tail observation.

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Review metadata	Value
Reviewed at (UTC)	2026-11-09T15:36:43Z
Commit reviewed	7ce868d9e115824c09ae9021b82316bb514c5763
Model	gpt-6.1-sol
Reasoning level	high
Recommended action	Merge

No actionable findings. The inactive-generation cache is set after successful synchronization, does not authorize cursor advancement, and is bypassed when the adapter activates or delivery loss blocks the cursor. The change stays scoped to #3238 and removes its temporary writer-attribution exclusion.

Reviewed the remote diff and surrounding replay, loss, cursor, and lifecycle code at this exact head, including the changed tests. No local execution. GitHub formatting, audit, and signature checks passed; clippy, WASM, and workspace test builds were still running at review time. The focused test and mutation results in the PR description were not independently rerun.

Posted as a comment review because the authenticated GitHub account is the PR author and GitHub disallows self-approval.

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Review metadata	Value
Reviewed at (UTC)	2026-11-09T15:40:25Z
Commit reviewed	7ce868d9e115824c09ae9021b82316bb514c5763
Model	Grok 4.7
Reasoning level	Not exposed by runtime
Recommended action	Merge

The inactive skip is the same guard the authorized early return already uses, applied to a generation that was fully synchronized while ReplayAdmissionStatus::active was false. Deactivation drops the account and its replay coverage together, so that generation stays 0 and a repeat pass has no sources, no goal widening, and no loss fence to import. The cursor seal stays unauthorized (replay_generation is still set only when the snapshot was active). A later activation installs a new coverage generation before the account is visible, so the next pass runs in full and can authorize. Fresh loss still forces a pass: delivery_loss_blocks_cursor is the same predicate as the authorized path, and it is true whenever an overflow generation is pending.

Removing replay_flush_writes is the right cleanup. The idle-tick test now fails if those writers come back, and an_inactive_generation_is_synchronized_once_until_activation checks the skip and the authorizing pass after reconnect.

CI's clippy and workspace-test jobs were still running at review time. The change is small enough that those are the remaining signal, not a reason to hold the diff.

GitHub rejects an approval from the pull request author, so this is posted as a comment. The recommendation is still to merge.

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• crates/marmot-app/src/client/recovery.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/client/recovery_coverage.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/lib.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/replay_flush_writes.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker.rs
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• crates/marmot-app/src/lib.rs
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