## What changed
Introduce `TranscriptRecord` and `PreparedTranscript` to retain attributed transcript text through preparation and composition. Cache rendered content, byte counts, and token estimates, refreshing them when text or framing changes.
Keep JSON records structured during budget recovery so truncation replaces only `text`, preserving metadata, field order, and framing without reparsing serialized JSON. Preserve whole-entry truncation for line transcripts and update synchronous and asynchronous consumers to use the preparation API.
## Testing
Expand coverage for cached estimates and delivery with escaped text, Unicode, and large payloads; metadata and framing preservation during recovery; and stable asynchronous history prefixes in both line and JSON formats.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8b3b5231ca4a6ee47d17dcc788ea68c56dd1a9bc
## Why
Transcript content can contain forged role headers, transcript boundaries, or claims of user approval. Guardian needs to distinguish that content from host-assigned authorship metadata.
## What changed
- Add `features.guardianv2.transcript_mode` with `line` (the default) and `json` options for synchronous review and asynchronous scoring.
- Render JSON transcript entries with host-assigned metadata and escaped `text`, and prepend matching provenance instructions to reviewer and classifier prompts.
- Preserve JSON metadata when budget recovery shortens historical text, and keep provenance instructions outside the configured classifier prompt limit.
## Testing
Add coverage for forged roles and approvals remaining within their original entries, JSON metadata surviving budget recovery, and provenance instructions surviving prompt limits. Extend review and scoring integration tests to verify JSON evidence and matching instructions.
GitOrigin-RevId: 81a3580390d3c4d1a664e554976cda5f1adc9a2c
## Why
Retained Guardian classifier conversations already contain previously delivered synchronous reviews. Appending those reviews again repeats evidence and consumes input budget.
## What changed
Track each review completion with a stable identity in host-only history metadata. Filter already delivered reviews before composing and budgeting continuation input, while preserving distinct completions even when their text is identical.
Fresh conversations receive the review evidence again, and shortened messages no longer count as complete delivery. Delivery metadata stays out of model requests.
## Testing
Add coverage for delivering retained reviews once, appending newly completed reviews, restoring evidence after failed streams, and retaining reviews when history lacks complete delivery metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: b8d58ffdd7d9c484676af707c65fa50020aae73c
## Why
Guardian transcripts omitted encrypted agent messages, leaving reviews without evidence such as encrypted parent replies.
## What changed
- Carry encrypted `agent_message` items through synchronous reviews and asynchronous scoring, preserving their order, author, recipient, and ciphertext.
- Account for native messages in context budgets and omit them whole with an explicit notice when limits require it.
- Support mixed text and native messages during review admission while retaining user-content annotations.
## Testing
Add coverage for transcript ordering and budget eviction in both reviewer profiles, plus a mocked scenario verifying that an encrypted parent reply appears exactly once in each of two incremental Guardian reviews.
GitOrigin-RevId: abc2f1ce5accd83beb06f799ef9ed9d7fa2cd90a
## Why
A delegated task can omit restrictions from the sender's user messages. Guardian needs that context when reviewing actions in the receiving thread.
## What changed
- When thread-owned Guardian context is enabled, capture up to three recent local user messages when a `send_message_to_thread` delivery from `codex_app` or `codex_tui` is accepted.
- Provide a bounded snapshot to synchronous and asynchronous reviewers, with explicit notices for unavailable evidence and a reminder that historical context does not transfer permission. Keep the snapshot out of the worker prompt.
- Retain snapshots with their deliveries across replay, compaction, and rollback, and strip them from forked agent history.
## Testing
Add coverage for reviewer-only visibility, missing sender provenance, context-budget preservation, checkpoint replay and rollback, fork isolation, and input serialization that rejects harness metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3870ba762aa81689713b56d4cb3b98566bffed88
## Why
File images contributed zero to history and compaction token estimates and were dropped from Guardian context. This undercounted context usage and omitted image evidence from reviews.
## What changed
- Estimate file images using the fixed resized-image cost, or 10,000 patch tokens for `original` detail because file references do not expose dimensions.
- Charge file images against remote compaction and Guardian request budgets.
- Preserve file images from user messages and tool outputs through Guardian selection and delivery, and deduplicate review images by file ID.
- Apply transcript image count and byte limits to both reference types, counting file ID bytes rather than referenced file contents.
## Testing
Add coverage for file-image estimates, selection limits, delivery, and compaction retention. Extend Guardian tests to verify file-image evidence reaches reviews and uploaded original-detail images trigger reviewer-history compaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: ee024204dcbe16e277fea9347c6a4d7fc120e18d
## Why
Truncating action arguments can leave approval reviewers evaluating incomplete actions. Large actions need complete review input and explicit handling when they exceed the review budget.
## What changed
- Remove action truncation and the fixed synchronous action byte limit. Admit complete actions against the whole-request budget, splitting long text losslessly into bounded transport parts and accounting for their framing.
- Route actions exceeding the asynchronous action budget to synchronous review. Prevent cached scores from covering oversized calls, including expanded approval arguments, while allowing later small actions to recover score reuse.
- Request user approval when optional review exhausts its local input budget. Keep required review and compaction service failures closed to approval, and retire exhausted review sessions.
## Testing
Add coverage for complete large-action delivery, optional user fallback, required-review denial, subsequent review recovery, async overflow through MCP approval routing, and lossless text splitting with budget accounting.
GitOrigin-RevId: 08f06e68a94b2f779480dd6b6cf5bc30b241f6dd
## Why
Synchronous approval reviews and asynchronous scoring assemble Guardian evidence separately, duplicating transcript framing and section placement.
## What changed
- Move evidence ordering, framing, and delivery into `codex-guardian-context`, while keeping transcript retention, budgets, and delta cursors with their callers.
- Pass composed messages directly to the asynchronous sampler, preserving roles, annotations, trusted message boundaries, and image placement.
- Reject unsupported synchronous delivery with `SectionError::UnsupportedDelivery` instead of silently dropping content.
## Testing
Add composition coverage for preserving separate messages and rejecting them for synchronous delivery. Extend Guardian integration coverage to check trusted tool and skill messages, mixed text and image evidence ordering, and full and delta review framing.
GitOrigin-RevId: efc06695ee4e2b7400b123b77ef2a21c8bf40646
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