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ci / build and test (push) Failing after 2s
"The server returned 400: The sync cursor is not valid for this vault. Resync from the beginning." told the user exactly what to do and gave them no way to do it. The cursor is the only thing a pull sends, so the refusal was permanent: the next pass read the same stored cursor and was told the same thing, once a minute, for ever. And because the pull runs first, the exception ended the pass before it reached the outbox — so the vault stopped receiving other machines' changes and stopped sending its own. A machine that met this went quietly read-only until somebody deleted its cache. The engine now does what the message asks. A pull refused with the invalid-cursor problem code — the code, never the prose, which is free to change — drops this vault's position, writes that down, and reads the log again from the beginning. The restarted request carries no cursor, which is the one position a server cannot reject, so the retry cannot loop; a refusal of that is rethrown rather than retried, and a restart is allowed once per pull. The position is saved before the replay starts, so a process that dies halfway through begins the next one from the beginning too rather than meeting the same refusal again. The mirror is deliberately kept. Replaying rewrites every row the server still has and applying a change is a blind overwrite, so the re-pull repairs the mirror on its way past; clearing it first would claim more than the evidence supports — the position was refused, not the contents — and would leave a machine that lost its connection mid-replay with less than it started with. That leaves one gap, named in the remarks rather than left to be discovered: once tombstone collection exists, a replay stops carrying deletions older than the retention window. None of the causes are the user's doing — a rotated cursor signing key, a vault served from a restored database, a cache copied between machines — so nothing asks them to decide anything. The report carries ResyncedFromStart and the status line says the position was not recognised and the vault was read again. It is kept out of NeedsAttention, because nothing is outstanding, but the background pass breaks its usual silence for it: a sync that pulled the whole vault on a day nobody changed anything otherwise reads as a fault. The fake server grew a switch that refuses cursors the way a rotated signing key does, including ones it minted itself. Three cases: the vault is re-read and the change on the far side of the refused position arrives; the edits waiting in the outbox are still pushed in that same pass, which is the half that made this worth recovering from rather than merely reporting; and a server that refuses the beginning itself is surfaced instead of replayed against. dotnet build is clean at zero warnings, dotnet format is clean, and the sync and app suites pass — 109 and 101.