improvement(mothership): user_table speed parity — limit bounds, background import/delete/update jobs

apps/sim/background/table-update.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { task } from '@trigger.dev/sdk'
+import {
+  markTableUpdateFailed,
+  runTableUpdate,
+  type TableUpdatePayload,
+} from '@/lib/table/update-runner'
+
+/**
+ * `TableUpdatePayload` with the cutoff as an ISO string — task payloads cross a JSON boundary, so
+ * the Date is rehydrated in `run` rather than trusting payload serialization.
+ */
+export interface TableUpdateTaskPayload extends Omit<TableUpdatePayload, 'cutoff'> {
+  cutoff: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * Trigger.dev wrapper around `runTableUpdate`. Errors propagate out of `run` so the retry policy
+ * fires; the job is marked failed only in `onFailure`, after the final attempt. Retry-safe: the
+ * worker keysets by id with a `created_at <= cutoff` floor and the JSONB-merge patch is idempotent
+ * (re-applying the same patch to an already-patched row is a no-op), so a retried attempt re-walks
+ * and re-applies whatever remains. The `table_jobs` ownership gate stops a retried run that lost
+ * the job within one page.
+ */
+export const tableUpdateTask = task({
+  id: 'table-update',
+  machine: 'small-1x',
+  retry: { maxAttempts: 3 },
+  queue: {
+    name: 'table-update',
+    concurrencyLimit: 10,
+  },
+  run: async (payload: TableUpdateTaskPayload) => {
+    await runTableUpdate({ ...payload, cutoff: new Date(payload.cutoff) })
+  },
+  onFailure: async ({ payload, error }) => {
+    await markTableUpdateFailed(payload.tableId, payload.jobId, error)
+  },
+})

apps/sim/lib/copilot/generated/tool-catalog-v1.ts

@@ -3958,7 +3958,8 @@ export const UserTable: ToolCatalogEntry = {
           },
           limit: {
             type: 'number',
-            description: 'Maximum rows to return or affect (optional, default 100)',
+            description:
+              'Maximum rows to return or affect (optional, default 100). Omit on update_rows_by_filter / delete_rows_by_filter to act on every match.',
           },
           mapping: {
             type: 'object',

apps/sim/lib/copilot/generated/tool-schemas-v1.ts

@@ -3686,7 +3686,8 @@ export const TOOL_RUNTIME_SCHEMAS: Record<string, ToolRuntimeSchemaEntry> = {
             },
             limit: {
               type: 'number',
-              description: 'Maximum rows to return or affect (optional, default 100)',
+              description:
+                'Maximum rows to return or affect (optional, default 100). Omit on update_rows_by_filter / delete_rows_by_filter to act on every match.',
             },
             mapping: {
               type: 'object',