## What changed
- Add `PersistContext` to the thread-store persistence contract so stores can
identify persistence requested immediately before model sampling. A
`TurnStart` request may be enqueued in the background when later flush and
shutdown operations fence it and report any failure; all other persistence
remains synchronous.
- Use the turn-start context only for the initial input of a regular turn, while
admission acknowledgments, steered input, and other persistence paths keep
the standard durability behavior.
- Flush pending metadata before turn-start persistence and ensure shutdown is
still attempted if that metadata update fails.
## Testing
- Verify that developer instructions and user input are persisted before the
model request completes for a default paginated-history thread.
GitOrigin-RevId: 162f0ec796a61aebe66ca0b909fbcccec3047b85
## What changed
- Add `codex-history` for model-history and persisted-rollout domain types, including `RolloutItem`, `RolloutLine`, `CompactedItem`, and initial/resumed history state.
- Re-export the persisted types from `codex-rollout` and update consumers to use the new crate boundary instead of `codex-protocol`.
- Preserve existing rollout serialization, including legacy numeric compacted-window IDs.
## Testing
- Add `codex-history` tests for rollout JSON round trips, compacted-history compatibility, persisted history modes, and multi-agent version selection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 944daa9297ddd231d3aebbdcb05fff4adf8b4e1b
## What changed
- Add `codex migrate-rollouts` with dry-run inspection by default, explicit `--apply`, thread filtering, optional I/O throttling, progress output, and JSON or verbose reports.
- Add the disabled-by-default `background_paginated_rollout_migration` feature to migrate legacy local sessions at startup before rollout compression begins.
- Persist a migration cursor and skipped-file fingerprints so later startups avoid full rescans while retrying changed files and recovering pending migrations.
- Coordinate migration with live writers and emit metrics for manual and startup runs.
## Testing
- Cover startup cursor advancement and lookback, pending migration recovery, live-writer coordination, changed empty rollouts, and progress reporting.
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## What changed
- Add `LocalThreadStore::migrate_rollouts` with dry-run and apply modes,
optional thread selection, throughput limiting, and per-rollout outcomes.
- Canonicalize legacy JSONL records into paginated history while preserving
model-visible conversation context, including compressed rollouts and copied
fork history.
- Publish replacements atomically and journal migrations so interrupted SQLite
projections can be recovered. Coordinate migration with rollout compression
and skip rollouts with active writers.
- Make paginated history a one-way SQLite promotion so stale metadata cannot
downgrade a migrated thread.
## Testing
- Cover legacy record normalization, dry runs, idempotency, malformed input,
compressed rollouts, active writers, interrupted migration recovery, and a
cold app-server resume after migration.
GitOrigin-RevId: b9991b659f28ebb52da39ce62e8b4e0bae2ba2bb
## Why
Legacy thread histories did not use the cross-process writer ownership guard already applied to paginated histories.
## What changed
- Acquire and retain a writer lock whenever a legacy or paginated thread is created or resumed.
- Apply the same ownership checks when archiving or deleting either history mode.
- Release ownership when initialization fails or the active thread shuts down, allowing another process to resume it.
## Testing
- Cover competing create and resume operations for both history modes.
- Cover archive and deletion conflicts for legacy and paginated descendants.
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## What changed
- Add `threadSection/create`, `threadSection/update`, and `threadSection/delete` app-server methods, with generated protocol schemas and TypeScript bindings.
- Persist custom sections in SQLite with stable UUIDv7 identities, trim and validate display names, and prevent renaming or deleting the built-in pinned section.
- Delete sections transactionally and return their active and archived threads to the unsectioned list.
- Serialize section mutations with section listing so concurrent requests observe ordered updates.
## Testing
- Cover section persistence across restarts, ordered renames, member cleanup on deletion, invalid requests, unsupported stores, and thread-store/state-runtime behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: dc9a4be283c21dbc93ab1829eafc4825d8df6575
## What changed
- Add `thread/section/move` to atomically move a thread into, within, or out of a section. Threads can be inserted before an existing member or appended, and moves within a section preserve `sectionEnteredAt`.
- Add `section_position` sorting to `thread/list`, with ascending order as its default, and expose `sectionEnteredAt` in thread responses.
- Persist section positions and entry times in SQLite, including migration of existing section members into recency order. Section membership is no longer updated through `thread/metadata/update`.
## Testing
- Cover section moves, reordering, pagination, persistence across restarts and rollout reconciliation, concurrent updates, and rank renumbering.
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## Why
Local thread stores without an initialized state database should not implicitly
create SQLite files or partially delete threads that have materialized history.
## What changed
- Report paginated history listing as unsupported when no state database is
available, and skip history projection and materialization in that mode.
- Reject paginated forks without a state database.
- Validate access to materialized history before deleting rollout files, so a
failed deletion preserves both the rollout and its history rows.
## Testing
Added coverage that a store without a state database creates no SQLite files
and preserves materialized history when deletion is unsupported. Existing
projection tests now initialize the state runtime explicitly.
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## Why
Paginated rollout history may contain only a bounded suffix. Deriving display
metadata from that suffix can replace the thread's original preview, title, and
first user message when the thread is read or resumed.
## What changed
- Use SQLite as the canonical source of display metadata for paginated thread
reads, including reads by an explicit rollout path.
- Seed resume metadata tracking from the persisted values so appended history
fills only missing fields instead of overwriting existing ones.
- Prefer an explicitly requested rollout path over a stale path stored in
SQLite while retaining the canonical metadata.
## Testing
Added coverage for reads by ID and path, bounded-history resumes across app
server restarts, preservation of existing metadata, initialization of missing
fields, and stale persisted rollout paths.
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## What changed
- Add an optional `started_at_ms` field to `ItemCompletedEvent`, retaining
compatibility with older persisted events that lack it.
- Track the first start timestamp for each in-flight item and attach it when
emitting and persisting the completion event. If no start was recorded, use
the completion timestamp as a fallback.
- Emit a complete start/completion lifecycle for subagent activity items.
## Testing
- Cover concurrent item timing, repeated starts, turn-boundary cleanup, the
missing-start fallback, subagent activity, and persisted web-search events.
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## Why
`thread/fork` rejected threads using paginated history, so they could not use the same fork workflow as legacy threads.
## What changed
- Create paginated forks by referencing a frozen source-history prefix while persisting only child-owned records in the new rollout.
- Support latest, `lastTurnId`, and `beforeTurnId` boundaries, including inherited lineage, model-context reconstruction, interruption markers, and approval-reviewer inheritance.
- Make paginated reads and occurrence search traverse referenced history while excluding source records added after the fork.
- Coordinate fork preparation with archive and delete operations, and materialize compressed rollouts before they become fork references.
## Testing
Added app-server and thread-store coverage for boundary selection, active turns, inherited reads and search, compressed lineage, and concurrent source lifecycle operations.
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## Why
Paginated threads allow only one app-server process to write at a time. Archive and delete operations must not mutate a thread or its spawned descendants while another process owns any of them.
## What changed
- Acquire paginated writer locks for the full archive or deletion set before changing rollout files, including descendants whose rollout has not materialized yet.
- Add a batch archive store operation so ownership conflicts are detected before any thread in the subtree is archived.
- Return ownership conflicts as JSON-RPC invalid-request errors and document the behavior.
## Testing
- Cover archive and deletion conflicts for owned threads and descendants, including unmaterialized rollouts.
- Verify deletion still removes rollouts with unreadable metadata.
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## Why
Codex and SQLite data can use separate home directories, but state consumers
could reconstruct database paths from the Codex home instead of consistently
using the resolved SQLite configuration.
## What changed
- Pass `SqliteConfig` through the core, rollout, state runtime, and thread store
instead of passing a directory and rebuilding the configuration downstream.
- Use that shared configuration for state, logs, memories, goals, and paginated
thread-history database access, including integrity checks and cleanup.
- Reject state database handles whose SQLite configuration does not match the
requesting store.
## Testing
Add coverage with separate Codex and SQLite homes that verifies startup
backfill, thread listing, and paginated history all use the configured SQLite
directory.
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## Why
Only one app-server process should keep a paginated thread open for writing at
a time, while other processes must still be able to read it.
## What changed
- Acquire a per-thread filesystem lock when creating or resuming a paginated
thread, and retain it for the lifetime of the live recorder.
- Reject a competing `thread/resume` request with JSON-RPC error `-32600` and
release ownership when the writer is discarded, deleted, or shut down.
- Remove stale lock files without disturbing active writers.
## Testing
Added coverage for competing processes, ownership transfer after shutdown,
stale-lock cleanup, and lock release during discard and deletion.
GitOrigin-RevId: 81d49a2fffc73ba8135752b4944f27feafa4c0d6
## What changed
- Add `SqliteConfig` to own the resolved SQLite home, runtime database paths,
and shared read/write and read-only pool settings.
- Pass the configuration through state and local thread-store consumers,
replacing standalone path helpers and duplicated connection setup.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7351b08da94b5c8b6c0bbe492f86aeeca0699d3c
## Why
Paginated forks can retain a `history_base` pointer to another rollout. Deleting or compressing either side of that relationship can leave the fork without the rollout history it references.
## What changed
- Add a rollout reference index that scans active, archived, and compressed rollout metadata.
- Reject deletion when a rollout is still referenced by a fork outside the requested deletion set.
- Delete spawned thread subtrees as one store operation so internal references do not block deleting the complete subtree, while external references preflight the request before any files are removed.
- Skip referenced rollouts, fork-pointer rollouts, and rollouts with unreadable metadata during background compression.
## Testing
- Cover reference indexing across active, archived, compressed, duplicate, and self-referencing rollouts.
- Verify deletion rejects external references without partially deleting a subtree and permits batch deletion of internally referenced threads.
- Verify compression preserves fork pointer chains and continues past unreadable metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: a8672727f8706e743d7fb3ca895a1d9ceac98a3c
## What changed
- Add a shared local thread-store resolver that follows `history_base` links into ordered, bounded rollout segments, including archived ancestors.
- Support resolving a lineage at an explicit `HistoryPosition`.
- Reject malformed lineages with cycles, missing or mismatched source rollouts, non-paginated sources, or invalid cutoff bounds.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for nested and archived lineages, explicit history positions, cycles, missing sources, and out-of-bounds offsets.
GitOrigin-RevId: a9063ad87e81d9865bd17fc588ea5d8e9ac74c0a
## What changed
- Add the experimental `thread/searchOccurrences` app-server method for case-insensitive literal search across visible user messages and final assistant messages without replaying the thread.
- Return paginated snippets with UTF-16 match ranges and `thread/turns/list` cursors for navigating to each matching turn.
- Index persisted item types to efficiently select searchable messages from paginated thread history.
## Testing
- Add an app-server integration test covering pagination, steering messages, final-answer selection, Markdown normalization, and UTF-16 offsets.
GitOrigin-RevId: e80160e0f83eb4e5db8de862307085093bee362b
## What changed
- Inherit paginated history mode when spawning or forking a subagent from a paginated parent.
- Load the parent's model context when forking and persist it as an inherited rollout prefix, while excluding that prefix from the child's projected turns, items, and metadata.
- Record the boundary between inherited context and child history, and reject partially initialized paginated subagent rollouts on resume.
- Resume paginated subagents from their stored model context instead of legacy rollout history.
## Testing
Added coverage for fresh and forked paginated subagents, compacted-history forks, model-context resume, inherited-prefix projection, metadata isolation, and incomplete-prefix detection.
GitOrigin-RevId: e57dc37c29aa4aaaf57b052b991be591d730e5ba
## What changed
- Allow `thread/start` to select experimental `historyMode: "paginated"` when the thread store supports turn and item pagination.
- Resume paginated threads with bounded model context and require `excludeTurns: true` instead of loading full history.
- Return `turnsBackwardsCursor` and `itemsBackwardsCursor` from `thread/resume` so clients can hydrate durable history through `thread/turns/list` and `thread/items/list` while newer records arrive through live notifications.
- Reject operations that still require full history, including `initialTurnsPage`, `thread/read` with `includeTurns: true`, `thread/rollback`, and detached review.
- Make item cursors independent of the optional `turnId` filter.
## Testing
- Cover paginated thread start, cold and live resume, backwards cursor hydration, metadata reads, unsupported operations, and stores without pagination support.
GitOrigin-RevId: c42f9b268e29d049843330f474fa3ecde12f5b8a
## Why
Clients could discover threads with paginated history, but could not page their
turns through `thread/turns/list`.
## What changed
- Route `thread/turns/list` for paginated threads through the thread store,
preserving cursors, sort direction, turn status, timing, errors, and the
requested `summary` or `notLoaded` item view.
- Reject the `full` turn item view for paginated threads and direct clients to
`thread/items/list` for complete item pagination.
- Return each item page entry with both its containing `turnId` and `item`, so
clients can regroup thread-wide pages into turns.
- Expose local thread-store turn and item pagination through the `ThreadStore`
implementation.
## Testing
Added app-server coverage for paging projected turns and items, item views,
cursors, turn metadata, and rejection of the unsupported `full` view.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9c4a127a9b4fa91313f0e87494c62fe2e3a06f19
## What changed
- Project durable paginated rollout records into rebuildable SQLite tables for turns, items, and projection progress while keeping JSONL as the source of truth.
- Add cursor-based local reads for turn summaries and thread or per-turn items, including archived-thread and history-mode validation.
- Serialize writes, shutdown, and deletion per thread so projection updates cannot race cleanup, and remove projected rows when a thread is deleted.
- Preserve stable item ordering while updating repeated snapshots and expose structured turn error details.
## Testing
- Cover projection, snapshot updates, summary recovery, pagination, failure handling, shutdown flushing, legacy-mode rejection, and deletion races.
GitOrigin-RevId: 34533185ece7f1f5690004c7f12b0f1f34dc2640
## Why
Reconstructing the latest model-visible context does not require replaying an
entire paginated rollout when a usable compaction checkpoint and the associated
completed-turn metadata are available.
## What changed
- Add `ThreadStore::load_latest_model_context` and `StoredModelContext` for
loading replay-ready model context independently of full thread history.
- Reverse-scan plain paginated JSONL rollouts until the newest safe bounded
suffix is found, while preserving canonical session metadata and chronological
replay order.
- Fall back to complete history for legacy or compressed rollouts and whenever
compaction or rollback records make a bounded cutoff unsafe.
## Testing
- Cover checkpoint selection, turn-metadata boundaries, agent messages,
contextual user fragments, and full-history fallbacks.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3572f4ecc7aa4099a6d9f0d3e72d0ef432cd9497
## What changed
- Allow the local thread store to create paginated threads while keeping them unsupported through the app-server API.
- Filter live append items using the history mode recorded with the thread's live recorder, so paginated threads persist canonical `ItemCompleted` events instead of legacy history events.
## Testing
- Add a local-store test that creates a paginated thread and verifies that a paginated item is persisted while a legacy user-message event is omitted.
GitOrigin-RevId: 83d93660afd5f0217213d4f21b5bf2a97745ff19
## What changed
- Add an optional `error` payload to `TurnCompleteEvent` and omit it when a turn completes without an error.
- Preserve the full terminal `ErrorEvent` through the turn lifecycle so the completion event includes the same error details emitted separately by `EventMsg::Error`.
## Testing
- Extend the stream-error integration test to verify that `TurnCompleteEvent` contains the emitted error and that the next turn can still proceed.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8d32942a44132763076130102d8b89ab356d59d0
## What changed
- Add an optional `started_at` Unix timestamp to `TurnCompleteEvent` and
`TurnAbortedEvent`.
- Populate the timestamp from turn timing state when a turn completes or is
aborted.
- Preserve the timestamp when synthesizing interrupted fork history and when
importing external sessions.
## Testing
- Verify that interrupting a turn emits a `TurnAbortedEvent` with a start
timestamp.
GitOrigin-RevId: 75b3911b95c060e5fc1843a5e293d8fe47377186
## Description
This PR makes new threads with `history_mode = "paginated"` persist
`ItemCompleted(item: <turn_item>)` in their rollout JSONL file.
Legacy threads keep persisting the existing legacy events. Because the
format is selected per thread, a rollout is either legacy or paginated;
we do not need to support mixed rollouts containing both
representations.
This PR depends on [#31473](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/31473).
## Why
Paginated thread history needs stable turn/item IDs and completed item
snapshots so the later SQLite projector can materialize appended rollout
JSONL without rebuilding the whole thread.
Keeping the legacy persistence policy unchanged avoids changing
historical rollouts or the readers that still consume them.
## What changed
- Made rollout filtering history-mode aware. Paginated threads keep
completed canonical `ItemCompleted` events and drop their redundant
legacy projections; legacy threads keep the existing event set.
- Made forks inherit the source thread history mode, so copied legacy
history is never filtered as paginated.
- Made paginated threads assign IDs to locally-created response items
even when `Feature::ItemIds` is off, and reject streamed output items
that arrive without server IDs.
- Updated legacy turn replay, rollout list/search, and SQLite metadata
extraction to understand completed canonical user-message items.
## Description
This PR makes `thread.history_mode` immutable after the thread's
canonical first `SessionMeta` has been written. Later same-thread
`SessionMeta` lines are compatibility metadata writes, not a new thread
definition.
Without this, an older binary could append a `SessionMeta` that omits
`history_mode`; when a newer binary replays it, serde defaults that
missing field to `legacy` and SQLite could downgrade a paginated thread.
## Why
`history_mode` is the persisted thread storage contract.
Paginated-thread fail-closed behavior and SQLite memory filtering depend
on it staying aligned with canonical rollout metadata, especially when
multiple Codex binary versions can touch the same local rollout.
## What changed
- Stop generic rollout metadata replay from overwriting `history_mode`
from later `SessionMeta` items.
- Remove `history_mode` from `ThreadMetadataPatch`, so mutable metadata
sync and app-server metadata updates cannot rewrite it.
- When local metadata sync has to recreate a missing SQLite row, recover
`history_mode` from the rollout's canonical first `SessionMeta` instead
of from a mutable patch.
- Keep the in-memory thread store using the created thread's canonical
`history_mode` instead of metadata patches.
- Fill the one remaining core test `CreateThreadParams` initializer with
the new `history_mode` field; Bazel CI caught this after the parent
history-mode PR landed.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-thread-store`
- `just test -p codex-state
session_meta_does_not_set_model_or_reasoning_effort`
## Description
This PR adds a new `historyMode = "legacy" | "paginated"` to `Thread`.
This will be stored in `SessionMeta` in the JSONL rollout file and as a
new column in the SQLite thread_metadata table, and exposed on
`thread/start` and on the `Thread` object in app-server.
## What changed
- Added canonical `ThreadHistoryMode` with `legacy` and `paginated`,
defaulting old and new SessionMeta to `legacy`.
- Carried `history_mode` through core session config, ThreadStore stored
metadata, local/in-memory stores, rollout metadata extraction, and the
existing SQLite `threads` table.
- Added experimental `historyMode` to app-server v2 `Thread` and
`thread/start`.
- Made paginated stored threads metadata-discoverable but unsupported
for legacy full-history reads, `load_history`, live resume, and create
paths.
- Regenerated app-server schema fixtures and added
protocol/state/thread-store/app-server coverage for persistence and
fail-closed behavior.
## Compatibility floor
Because users may be running various versions of Codex binaries on the
same machine (TUI, Codex App, etc.), we will need to establish a
compatibility floor for upcoming paginated threads, which will change
how thread storage reads and writes work.
The overall plan here:
```
Release N:
- Add historyMode to SessionMeta / Thread / SQLite metadata.
- Teach binaries to understand paginated threads.
- If a binary sees `historyMode="paginated"` but does not support the paginated contract, it refuses to resume/mutate the thread.
- Default remains `"legacy"`.
Release N+1:
- First-party clients start opting into paginated threads where appropriate.
- Internal dogfood / staged rollout.
- Measure old-client usage and paginated-thread unsupported errors.
Release N+2:
- Only after Release N+ is overwhelmingly deployed, make paginated the default.
- Accept that a small tail of N-1-or-older binaries may not understand paginated threads.
```
The important behavior change is fail-closed handling for a binary that
encounters a persisted `paginated` thread before it knows how to fully
support paginated history. In app-server, if a thread is `paginated`, we
will:
- allow metadata-only discovery paths like `thread/list` and
`thread/read(includeTurns=false)`, so clients can still see the thread
and inspect its `historyMode`
- reject legacy full-history/live-thread paths like
`thread/read(includeTurns=true)` and `thread/resume` with an unsupported
JSON-RPC error
- avoid silently treating an unknown or future `historyMode` as `legacy`
Under the hood, the ThreadStore layer also rejects legacy operations
that would need to load or replay the full thread history for a
paginated thread. That gives us the behavior we want for Release N:
future paginated threads are visible, but this binary fails closed
instead of trying to operate on them as if they were legacy threads.
## Why
`selectedCapabilityRoots` is durable thread intent: “use this capability
root from environment `worker`.”
The important product assumption is:
> One environment ID always names the same logical executor and stable
contents.
`worker` does not silently change from executor A to an unrelated
executor B. The process-local connection handle for `worker` can still
be replaced while Codex is running, though, for example when
`environment/add` registers a fresh handle for the same logical
environment.
The thread should persist only the stable selection. Each model step
should pair that selection with the exact ready handle captured for that
step.
## The boundary
```text
persisted thread intent
plugin@1 -> environment "worker"
|
| capture the current step
v
model-step view
unavailable, or
plugin@1 + worker's exact captured ready handle
```
The environment ID is the stable identity and cache key. The
`Arc<Environment>` is only a process-local handle retained so consumers
of one model step use the same captured environment. It is never
persisted and it does not imply different environment contents.
## What changes
### Persist the stable selection
Selected roots are written into `SessionMeta` and restored with the
thread. Forked subagents inherit the same selections, including
bounded-history forks.
Only stable data is persisted: root ID, environment ID, and root path.
### Capture readiness together with the exact handle
The environment snapshot records:
```rust
environment_id -> Some(Arc<Environment>) // ready in this step
environment_id -> None // still starting in this step
```
This prevents readiness and execution from coming from different
registry snapshots.
For example:
```text
step snapshot: worker -> handle A, ready
environment/add: worker -> fresh handle B for the same logical environment
current step: plugin@1 still uses captured handle A
```
Without carrying handle A in the snapshot, the resolver could combine “A
was ready” with handle B and treat B as ready before it had finished
starting.
This does not change cache invalidation. Stable capability metadata
remains identified by environment ID and capability root. Replacing a
process-local handle under the same stable environment ID does not
invalidate or rediscover that metadata.
### Resolve availability per model step
- A ready captured environment produces resolved roots using its
captured handle.
- A starting, missing, or failed environment is omitted from that step.
- A selected lazy environment that is outside the turn's captured
environment set is asked to start, and a later step can observe it as
ready.
- No capability files are scanned here.
Transient transport disconnects remain the remote client's reconnect
concern. This PR models initial attachment/readiness; it does not add
live socket-connectivity state.
## Example
```text
thread selection: plugin@1 -> environment "worker"
step 1: worker is starting -> plugin@1 unavailable
step 2: worker is ready -> plugin@1 resolves through worker's captured handle
step 3: fresh local handle -> current step remains pinned; a later step captures its own view
```
Temporary unavailability does not discard the durable selection. Later
PRs can retain stable metadata caches while projecting only currently
available capabilities into model-visible World State.
## Compatibility
The app-server request shape does not change. Older rollouts without
`selected_capability_roots` deserialize to an empty list.
## Stack
1. **This PR:** persist stable selected roots and resolve them through
an exact model-step handle.
2. #29960: cache stable skill metadata and project available skills into
World State.
3. #29946: cache stable plugin declarations and manage the separate live
MCP runtime.
## Why
Work(TPP) threads can be launched from the Desktop app, but if they all
keep the Desktop app's default originator then downstream attribution
cannot distinguish local Work launches from cloud-backed Work launches.
`thread/start.serviceName` already carries that launch signal, while
`SessionMeta.originator` is the durable thread-level value that survives
resume and fork.
This change converts the Desktop Work service names into an effective
originator at thread creation time, persists that originator with the
thread, and keeps using it for later model requests and memory writes.
## What changed
- Map `CODEX_WORK_LOCAL` and `CODEX_WORK_CLOUD` service names to
per-thread originators, while preserving
`CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` as the highest-precedence override.
- Persist the effective originator in `SessionMeta.originator`, read it
back on resume/fork, and inherit the parent originator for subagent
spawns when there is no persisted session metadata.
- Handle truncated `SpawnAgentForkMode::LastNTurns` forks by falling
back to the live parent originator when the forked history no longer
includes `SessionMeta`.
- Thread the per-thread originator through Responses headers,
websocket/compaction request paths, thread-store creation, rollout
metadata, and memory stage-one telemetry.
## Verification
- `just test -p codex-core
agent::control::tests::spawn_thread_subagent_inherits_parent_originator_without_fork
agent::control::tests::spawn_thread_subagent_fork_last_n_turns_inherits_parent_originator_without_session_meta
thread_manager::tests::originator_override_precedes_service_name_remapping`
- `just test -p codex-core
agent::control::tests::resume_thread_subagent_restores_stored_metadata_and_effective_multi_agent_mode`
- `just test -p codex-memories-write`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-memories-write`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
PR #29494 made context-window IDs visible to the model by wrapping the
token-budget window payload in `<context_window>`, but rollout JSONL
consumers still could not see the initial window identity by tailing the
session file. Compacted rollout items carry window IDs only after
compaction has happened, so a session with no compaction had no durable
JSONL record for window 0.
This change gives tailing consumers a stable initial-window record at
session creation time.
## What Changed
- Added `session_meta.context_window.window_id` for the initial
context-window identity.
- `CreateThreadParams` now requires `initial_window_id: String`, so
thread-store callers cannot accidentally create new threads without
window-0 metadata.
- Live thread creation derives the persisted initial window ID from the
same `AutoCompactWindowIds` used to initialize `SessionState`, keeping
runtime state and JSONL metadata aligned.
- Rollout reconstruction uses `session_meta.context_window.window_id` as
the initial-window fallback and derives `window_number = 0`,
`first_window_id = window_id`, and `previous_window_id = None`
internally.
- Fork reconstruction intentionally uses the same rollout reconstruction
path; consumers that need to distinguish copied initial-window metadata
can use the rollout `thread_id`.
- Legacy compactions without `window_number` still use compaction-count
fallback accounting instead of being reset to window 0 by the
initial-window fallback.
- Compacted rollout metadata still takes precedence once compaction
records exist, preserving the richer chain fields there.
## JSONL Shape
Real rollout JSONL is one object per line. This example is expanded for
readability, but shows the new initial `session_meta.context_window`
record followed by the existing compacted rollout item shape that also
carries window IDs:
```jsonl
{
"timestamp": "2026-06-22T12:00:00.000Z",
"type": "session_meta",
"payload": {
"session_id": "<THREAD_ID>",
"id": "<THREAD_ID>",
"timestamp": "2026-06-22T12:00:00.000Z",
"cwd": "/repo",
"originator": "codex",
"cli_version": "0.0.0",
"source": "cli",
"model_provider": "<MODEL_PROVIDER>",
"context_window": {
"window_id": "<INITIAL_WINDOW_ID>"
}
}
}
...
{
"timestamp": "2026-06-22T12:34:56.000Z",
"type": "compacted",
"payload": {
"message": "<COMPACTION_SUMMARY>",
"replacement_history": [
"..."
],
"window_number": 1,
"first_window_id": "<INITIAL_WINDOW_ID>",
"previous_window_id": "<INITIAL_WINDOW_ID>",
"window_id": "<NEXT_WINDOW_ID>"
}
}
```
The nested `context_window` object is intentional: it gives rollout
consumers a stable namespace for context-window metadata while only
writing the non-derivable initial `window_id`. For the initial window,
`window_number`, `first_window_id`, and `previous_window_id` are derived
internally instead of being written to the rollout.
## Verification
- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-rollout
recorder_materializes_on_flush_with_pending_items`
- `just test -p codex-core reconstruct_history`
- `just test -p codex-core
record_initial_history_reconstructs_forked_transcript`
- `just test -p codex-thread-store`
- `just test -p codex-state`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
thread_read_returns_summary_without_turns`
- `just test -p codex-rollout persistence_metrics`
## Description
This PR cuts Codex over from generic `ResponseItem.metadata` (introduced
here: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28355) to
`ResponseItem.internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough`, which is the
blessed path and has strongly-typed keys.
For now we have to drop this MAv2 usage of `metadata`:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28561 until we figure out where
that should live.
## Summary
A cold-resumed subagent kept its durable thread ID but could receive a
new session ID, splitting one agent tree across multiple sessions after
a restart.
Persist the root session ID in every rollout `SessionMeta`, carry it
through thread creation, and restore it before initializing the resumed
`Session` and `AgentControl`.
## Behavior
For a nested agent tree:
```text
root session R
parent thread P
child thread C
```
The child rollout stores:
```text
session_id: R
parent_thread_id: P
id: C
```
After a cold resume, the child still belongs to root session `R` while
its immediate parent remains `P`. The integration coverage uses distinct
values for all three IDs so it catches restoring the session from
`parent_thread_id`.
## Legacy rollouts
Previous rollouts have `id` but no `session_id`. `SessionMetaLine`
deserialization treats a missing `session_id` as `id`, keeping those
files readable, listable, and resumable. When a legacy subagent is
resumed through its root, that synthesized child ID no longer overrides
the inherited root-scoped `AgentControl`. New rollouts always persist
the explicit root session ID.
## Why
`ResponseItem` variants do not have a consistent internal ID shape: some
variants carry required IDs, some carry optional IDs, and some cannot
represent an ID at all. The existing fields also use inconsistent serde,
TypeScript, and JSON-schema annotations. A single enum-level access path
is needed before history recording can assign and retain IDs.
This PR establishes that internal model only. It intentionally does not
generate or serialize IDs; allocation and wire persistence are isolated
in the stacked follow-up.
## What changed
- Give every concrete `ResponseItem` variant an `Option<String>` ID
field.
- Apply the same internal-only annotations to every ID field:
`#[serde(default, skip_serializing)]`, `#[ts(skip)]`, and
`#[schemars(skip)]`.
- Add `ResponseItem::id()` and `ResponseItem::set_id()` as the shared
accessors.
- Preserve IDs when history items are rewritten for truncation.
- Adapt consumers that previously assumed reasoning and image-generation
IDs were required.
- Regenerate app-server schemas so the hidden fields are represented
consistently.
The serde catch-all `ResponseItem::Other` remains ID-less because it
must remain a unit variant.
## Test plan
- `cargo check --tests -p codex-core -p codex-api -p codex-rollout-trace
-p codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-api -p codex-rollout-trace -p
codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just test -p codex-core event_mapping`
## Summary
- Revert #28655, restoring the thread `recencyAt` behavior introduced by
#27910.
- Move `threads_recency_at` to migration 0039 so it no longer collides
with `external_agent_config_imports` at version 0038.
- Repair databases that already applied the recency migration as version
38 by moving the matching migration-history row to version 39 before
SQLx validation. The current version-38 migration can then apply
normally.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-state
migrations::tests::repairs_recency_migration_that_was_applied_as_version_38`
- `just test -p codex-state -p codex-rollout -p codex-thread-store -p
codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-tui`: 3,439 passed; six TUI tests
could not open the machine's existing read-only incident database at
`~/.codex/sqlite/state_5.sqlite`.
- `just fix -p codex-state`
- `just fmt`
- Verified that state migration versions are unique.
## Why
Revert #27910 to remove the newly introduced thread `recencyAt`
persistence and API behavior from `main`.
## What changed
This reverts commit `fac3158c2a783095768076489815f361fa9b0db4`,
including the state migration, thread-store propagation, app-server API
surface, generated schemas, and related tests.
## Validation
Not run before opening; relying on CI for the initial fast signal.
## Why
A `codex-thread-store` test fixture still constructs
`ResponseItem::FunctionCallOutput` without its required `metadata`
field, preventing the crate's test targets from compiling on `main`.
## What changed
- Set the fixture's response-item metadata to `None`.
## Testing
- `cargo check -p codex-thread-store --tests`
## Summary
Add a server-owned `recencyAt` timestamp and `recency_at` thread-list
sort key for product recency ordering while preserving the existing
meaning of `updatedAt` as the latest persisted thread mutation.
This is the server-side alternative to #27697. Rather than narrowing
`updatedAt`, clients can sort the sidebar by `recency_at` and continue
treating `updatedAt` as mutation time.
Paired Codex Apps PR:
[openai/openai#1024599](https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1024599)
## Contract
- `recencyAt` initializes when a thread is created.
- A turn start advances `recencyAt` monotonically.
- Commentary, agent output, tool results, token/accounting updates, turn
completion, archive, unarchive, resume, and generic metadata writes do
not advance it.
- `updatedAt` retains its existing behavior and continues to advance for
persisted thread mutations.
- Current servers populate `recencyAt`; the response field is optional
in generated TypeScript so clients connected to older servers can fall
back to `updatedAt`.
- Filesystem-only fallback uses existing updated/mtime ordering when
SQLite is unavailable.
## Persistence and compatibility
Migration 0038 adds second- and millisecond-precision recency columns,
backfills them from the existing updated timestamp, creates list
indexes, and includes an insert trigger so older binaries writing to a
migrated database seed recency without causing later mutations to
advance it.
Generic metadata upserts preserve existing recency values. Turn-start
updates use a dedicated monotonic touch, and process-local allocation
keeps millisecond cursor values unique. State DB list, search, read,
filtered-list repair, rollout fallback propagation, and app-server
conversions all carry the new field.
## API
`Thread` responses include:
```ts
recencyAt?: number
```
`thread/list` and `thread/search` accept:
```json
{ "sortKey": "recency_at" }
```
Generated TypeScript and JSON schemas are included.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-state` — 146 passed
- `just test -p codex-rollout` — 69 passed
- `just test -p codex-thread-store` — 81 passed
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol` — 231 passed
- Focused app-server list ordering, response mapping, archive/unarchive,
and resume lifecycle tests passed
- Scoped `just fix` for state, rollout, thread-store,
app-server-protocol, and app-server
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
- Independent correctness, simplicity, elegance, security, and
test-quality reviews; actionable ordering, lifecycle, query-projection,
and timestamp-uniqueness findings were addressed
## Why
First-party async traits should expose their `Send` contracts explicitly
without requiring `async_trait`. This completes the migration pattern
established in #27303 and #27304.
## What changed
- Replaced the remaining first-party `async_trait` traits with native
return-position `impl Future + Send` where statically dispatched and
explicit boxed `Send` futures where object safety is required.
- Kept implementations behavior-preserving, outlining existing async
bodies into inherent methods where that keeps the diff reviewable.
- Removed all direct first-party `async-trait` dependencies and the
workspace dependency declaration.
- Added a cargo-deny policy that permits `async-trait` only through the
remaining transitive wrapper crates.
- Updated `rand` from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 to resolve RUSTSEC-2026-0097 and
keep the full cargo-deny check passing.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-exec-server`: 216 passed, 2 skipped.
- `just test -p codex-model-provider`: 39 passed.
- `just test -p codex-core` and `just test`: changed tests passed;
remaining failures are environment-sensitive suites unrelated to this
migration.
- `cargo deny check`
- `just fix`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo shear`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Why
Clients can archive and unarchive threads today, but there is no
app-server API for permanently removing a thread. Deletion also needs to
cover the full session tree: deleting a main thread should remove
spawned subagent threads and the related local metadata instead of
leaving orphaned rollout files, goals, or subagent state behind.
## What
- Adds the v2 `thread/delete` request and `thread/deleted` notification,
with the response shape kept consistent with `thread/archive`.
- Implements local hard delete for active and archived rollout files.
- Deletes the requested thread's state DB row as the commit point, then
best-effort cleans associated state including spawned descendants,
goals, spawn edges, logs, dynamic tools, and agent job assignments.
- Updates app-server API docs and generated protocol schema/TypeScript
fixtures.
Stack split from #25708. Original PR intentionally left open. This
second PR persists multi-agent runtime metadata through thread creation,
rollout recording, and thread storage.
## Summary
Remove the dead experimental `persistExtendedHistory` app-server flag
and collapse rollout persistence to the single policy app-server already
used.
## What Changed
- Removed `persistExtendedHistory` from v2 thread start/resume/fork
params and deleted its deprecation notice path.
- Removed the persistence-mode enums and plumbing through core, rollout,
and thread-store.
- Made rollout filtering mode-free, keeping the existing limited
persisted-history behavior.
## Test Plan
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-app-server-protocol
schema_fixtures`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-app-server
thread_shell_command_history_responses_exclude_persisted_command_executions`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-rollout -p
codex-thread-store`
- final `rg` for removed flag/type names
## Why
This PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/24161#discussion_r3325692763
revealed a subagent data modeling issue, where we overloaded
`forked_from_id` to also mean `parent_thread_id`. That's incorrect since
guardian and review subagents can be a subagent and NOT fork the main
thread's history.
The solution here is to explicitly store a new `parent_thread_id` on
`SessionMeta`, alongside `forked_from_id` which already exists. While
we're at it, also expose it in the app-server protocol on the `Thread`
object.
A thread->subagent relationship and a fork of thread history are
orthogonal concepts.
## What Changed
- Added top-level `parent_thread_id` persistence on `SessionMeta` and
runtime/session plumbing through `SessionConfiguredEvent`,
`CodexSpawnArgs`, `SessionConfiguration`, `ThreadConfigSnapshot`,
`TurnContext`, and `ModelClient`.
- Made turn metadata, request headers, analytics, and subagent-start
events read the separate runtime/top-level parent field instead of
deriving general parent lineage from `SessionSource` or
`forked_from_thread_id`.
- Passed parent lineage separately at delegated subagent, review,
guardian, agent-job, and multi-agent spawn construction sites;
copied-history fork lineage remains derived only from `InitialHistory`.
- Persisted and exposed parent lineage through rollout/thread-store
projections and app-server v2 `Thread.parentThreadId`.
- Updated app-server README text and regenerated app-server schema
fixtures for the additive `parentThreadId` response field.
## Summary
Adds an optional `clientId` field to app-server v2 `UserInput` and
carries it through the core `UserInput` model so clients can correlate
echoed user input items without relying on payload equality.
## Details
- Adds `client_id: Option<String>` to core `UserInput` variants.
- Exposes the v2 app-server field as `clientId` on the wire and in
generated TypeScript.
- Preserves the id when converting between app-server v2 and core
protocol types.
- Regenerates app-server schema fixtures.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
- add experimental `thread/search` for local rollout-backed thread
search using `rg` over JSONL rollouts
- return search-specific result rows with optional previews instead of
storing preview data on `StoredThread` or ordinary `Thread` responses
- keep `thread/list` separate from full-content search and document the
new app-server surface
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
thread_search_returns_content_and_title_matches -- --nocapture`
## Summary
- Add optional image detail to user image inputs across core, app-server
v2, thread history/event mapping, and the generated app-server
schemas/types.
- Preserve requested detail when serializing Responses image inputs:
omitted detail stays on the existing `high` default, while explicit
`original` keeps local images on the original-resolution path.
- Support `high`/`original` consistently for tool image outputs,
including MCP `codex/imageDetail`, code-mode image helpers, and
`view_image`.
- make ThreadStore::update_thread_metadata accept a broad range of
metadata patches
- keep ThreadStore::append_items as raw canonical history append (no
metadata side effects)
- in the local store, write these metadata updates to a combination of
sqlite and rollout jsonl files for backwards-compat. It special cases
which fields need to go into jsonl vs sqlite vs whatever, confining the
awkwardness to just this implementation
- in remote stores we can simply persist the metadata directly to a
database, no special casing required.
- move the "implicit metadata updates triggered by appending rollout
items" from the RolloutRecorder (which is local-threadstore-specific) to
the LiveThread layer above the ThreadStore, inside of a private helper
utility called ThreadMetadataSync. LiveThread calls ThreadStore
append_items and update_metadata separately.
- Add a generic update metadata method to ThreadManager that works on
both live threads and "cold" threads
- Call that ThreadManager method from app server code, so app server
doesn't need to worry about whether the thread is live or not
## Why
Reverts #20689 to restore the previous optional state DB plumbing. The
conflict resolution keeps the newer installation ID and session/thread
identity changes that landed after #20689, while removing the mandatory
state DB and agent graph store dependency from ThreadManager
construction.
## What changed
- Restored `Option<StateDbHandle>` through app-server, MCP server,
prompt debug, and test entry points.
- Removed the `codex-core` dependency on `codex-agent-graph-store` and
reverted descendant lookup back to the existing state DB path when
available.
- Kept newer `installation_id` forwarding by passing it beside the
optional DB handle.
- Kept local thread-name updates working when the optional state DB
handle is absent.
## Validation
- `git diff --check`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-store`
- `cargo test -p codex-state -p codex-rollout -p
codex-app-server-protocol`
- Attempted `env CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test -p codex-core -p
codex-app-server -p codex-app-server-client -p codex-mcp-server -p
codex-thread-manager-sample -p codex-tui`; blocked locally by a rustc
ICE while compiling `v8 v146.4.0` with `rustc 1.93.0 (254b59607
2026-01-19)` on `aarch64-apple-darwin`.
Bryan Ashley