## What changed
- Make `local_thread_store_compression` compress cold rollout files across shared and forked histories without a separate compression mode.
- Retire `local_thread_store_shared_compression` while continuing to accept it in strict configuration without changing compression behavior.
- Read rollout files through the compressed-rollout reader when `codex exec resume` determines the latest turn's working directory.
## Testing
- Cover compression and restoration of an archived fork chain.
- Cover cwd-based resume selection when only the compressed rollout remains.
- Cover the removed compatibility key in strict configuration.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8edebf61eccc1f79cabb8e641f8982c76f337bf1
## Why
Rollout compression skips files that participate in paginated fork lineages because lineage readers rely on byte offsets into the original JSONL. This prevents shared rollout history from being compressed.
## What changed
- Add a seekable rollout reader that preserves logical JSONL offsets for plain and zstd-compressed files without materializing compressed data beside the rollout.
- Use the reader for lineage validation, model-context replay, and SQLite history projection, including when compression races with a read.
- Add the opt-in `local_thread_store_shared_compression` feature. The default mode continues to leave shared lineages uncompressed for compatibility, while the new mode includes referenced sources and fork pointers.
- Record the uncompressed size in new zstd frames so common prefix-bound checks can avoid decoding the full file.
## Testing
Add coverage for seekable compressed reads, prefix validation across zstd frame shapes, compressed lineage replay and projection, concurrent forks, and compression-mode behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: 83e519f7eabf7448977eff37c55899858cc17a07
## Why
`thread/revert` preserves a thread ID while creating a new immutable rollout. Rollout persistence and filesystem fallback therefore need to distinguish the logical thread from each physical history file.
## What changed
- Add a `RolloutId` alias and canonical filename parsing for both ordinary rollouts and reverted rollouts with a distinct rollout ID.
- Allow the recorder to create a replacement rollout without changing the thread ID, and add lookup by either the stable thread ID or an exact rollout ID.
- Index history references and compression safety checks by rollout ID so multiple rollouts for one thread remain distinct.
- Preserve the rollout path selected in SQLite when filesystem repair encounters another rollout for the same thread.
## Testing
Add coverage for filename round trips, replacement rollout metadata, thread and rollout lookup, reference indexing, compression, and database path preservation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 14b1d0b4a9432b341a1307afc0abadd507e7ae7d
## 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
## What changed
- Reuse directory-entry file types in local memory listing while continuing to
exclude symlinks, and reuse rollout metadata when reading modification times.
- Avoid following non-symlinks twice in direct filesystem metadata and directory
listing operations while preserving target classification for valid symlinks.
## Testing
- Cover symlink handling in local memory listing and search.
- Extend Unix filesystem tests for followed file and directory symlinks and
dangling metadata links.
GitOrigin-RevId: e4e24576e2e9db704f9da54727928e121f81dc86
## 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.
GitOrigin-RevId: 66052d69517d7fb97a3b7817ab77a39c5ad995fd
## 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
## Why
The local rollout compression worker currently scans only
`archived_sessions`, so cold unarchived thread history remains expanded
indefinitely.
## What changed
- Scan `sessions` after `archived_sessions` within the existing worker
runtime budget.
- Update rollout compression coverage to require both cold active and
archived rollouts to be compressed while fresh active rollouts remain
plain.
The worker remains behind the disabled-by-default
`local_thread_store_compression` feature, and the existing seven-day
cold-file threshold is unchanged.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-rollout` (69 passed)
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Fixesopenai/codex#20944.
Desktop side chats are intentionally ephemeral and pathless. They can
still accept live turns while loaded, but after a reload there is no
persisted rollout to resume. In the reported failure mode, Desktop could
send `$CODEX_HOME` as the resume/fork path for one of these pathless
side chats.
`thread/resume` and `thread/fork` prefer an explicit `path` over
`threadId`, and rollout path lookup only checked that a candidate
existed. That let `$CODEX_HOME` pass as a rollout path, so the later
rollout reader tried to open a directory and surfaced the low-level `Is
a directory` error.
## What Changed
- Reject explicit rollout paths that resolve to a directory or other
non-file before attempting to read rollout history.
- Make `codex_rollout::existing_rollout_path` return only plain or
compressed rollout candidates that are actual files.
- Add an app-server regression test that creates an ephemeral fork, runs
a turn while the side thread is loaded, simulates reload, then verifies
both `thread/resume` and `thread/fork` reject `$CODEX_HOME` with `path
is a directory` instead of the OS-level directory-read error.
- Rebase over the `TestAppServer` rename and update the remaining stale
test harness call sites to use `TestAppServer` with `app_server` local
variables.
Relevant code:
- `thread-store/src/local/read_thread.rs` validates explicit rollout
paths before rollout reading:
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/25b47c8f425d351aaba4baa955a8092064a1707b/codex-rs/thread-store/src/local/read_thread.rs#L146-L165
- `rollout/src/compression.rs` now requires file metadata for plain and
compressed rollout candidates:
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/25b47c8f425d351aaba4baa955a8092064a1707b/codex-rs/rollout/src/compression.rs#L940-L950
- The repro test covers the pathless ephemeral side-chat reload case:
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/25b47c8f425d351aaba4baa955a8092064a1707b/codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_fork.rs#L774-L886
## Verification
- `just test -p codex-app-server
pathless_ephemeral_thread_rejects_codex_home_path_after_reload`
## Summary
Add counter telemetry for the local rollout compression worker so we can
see when it runs, why it skips, and how individual file/materialization
paths resolve.
## Changes
- Emit `codex.rollout_compression.run` with statuses for start,
completion, failure, duplicate-run skip, and missing runtime skip.
- Emit `codex.rollout_compression.file` outcomes for scanned,
compressed, skipped, and failed compression candidates.
- Emit `codex.rollout_compression.temp_cleanup` and
`codex.rollout_compression.materialize` counters for cleanup and
decompression paths.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-rollout`
- `just fix -p codex-rollout`
## Why
[#25089](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25089) introduced the
background worker that compresses cold archived rollouts, and
[#25654](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25654) made that pass
faster once it starts. But the worker still deleted
`rollout-compression.lock` on successful exit, so the existing six-hour
staleness window only helped with overlapping or crashed workers. Each
new local thread-store initialization could immediately rescan archived
rollouts even if a full pass had just finished.
This change keeps the existing marker around long enough to throttle
redundant reruns. The worker is still best-effort, but it no longer does
repeated startup scans when nothing new is eligible for compression.
## What Changed
- Replace the drop-scoped `CompressionLock` with a
`CompressionRunMarker` that claims the existing
`.tmp/rollout-compression.lock` path and leaves it in place after
success.
- Reuse the existing six-hour staleness window to block both overlapping
starts and immediate reruns, while still letting a stale marker be
reclaimed.
- Update the worker docs and debug logging to describe the new "already
running or recently ran" behavior.
- Extend the rollout compression tests to assert that a successful run
leaves the marker behind and that a fresh marker suppresses a new run.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-rollout`
## Why
[#25089](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25089) added the
background worker for compressing cold archived rollouts, but the worker
still processed files effectively one at a time: each compression job
was sent to `spawn_blocking` and then awaited before the next file
started. On machines with a backlog of archived rollouts, that makes
catch-up slower than it needs to be even though the actual compression
work already runs off the async runtime.
## What Changed
- Queue rollout compression work in a `JoinSet` while directory
traversal continues.
- Cap the worker at two in-flight compression jobs so it can overlap
compression without turning the background task into unbounded blocking
work.
- Drain pending jobs before returning, including the
`read_dir.next_entry()` error path, so every launched job still
contributes to the final `compressed`, `skipped`, and `failed` stats.
- Treat task join failures the same way as compression failures in the
worker's warning and failure accounting.
## Rollout compression stack
This stack splits #24941 into reviewable steps for local rollout
compression. The design is intentionally staged:
1. Teach readers, listing, search, and lookup to understand compressed
rollouts.
2. Make append and resume paths materialize compressed rollouts back to
plain JSONL before writing.
3. Add a disabled-by-default worker that can compress cold archived
rollouts behind `local_thread_store_compression`.
The key invariant is that writers append to plain `.jsonl`. A
`.jsonl.zst` file is a cold/read representation; if a write is needed,
the compressed file is materialized back to plain JSONL first. Readers
prefer plain `.jsonl` when both forms exist and can fall back to the
compressed sibling during transitions.
The worker is deliberately the last PR and remains behind an
under-development feature flag. It currently scans only
`archived_sessions`, not active `sessions`, because active sessions have
the highest resume/append race risk. That means this stack does not yet
compress most unarchived local history.
## Known race / follow-up
The remaining unresolved design question is writer/compressor
coordination. Even for archived rollouts, a resume or metadata update
can append while the worker is replacing the plain file with
`.jsonl.zst`; the current double-stat checks narrow but do not fully
eliminate the window where a writer has opened the plain file before
unlink. Do not treat the worker PR as production-ready until we either:
- prevent append/resume paths from racing archived compression, or
- introduce a shared representation/append lock or equivalent
coordination.
The first two PRs are useful independently: they make compressed
rollouts readable and make append paths safely recover back to plain
JSONL. The third PR isolates the worker behavior so that coordination
issue is reviewable separately.
## Validation
Focused local validation for the stack includes:
- `just test -p codex-rollout`
- `just test -p codex-thread-store` where thread-store paths were
touched
- `just test -p codex-features` for the feature flag slice
- `just bazel-lock-check` after dependency graph changes
- scoped `just fix -p ...` passes for changed crates
CI is still the source of truth for the full platform matrix.
## This PR in the stack
This is PR 3/3, based on #25088. It adds the under-development feature
flag and starts the best-effort background worker when enabled. The
worker currently compresses only cold archived rollouts, skips active
sessions, verifies compressed output, preserves mtime and permissions,
keeps a store-level lock heartbeat, and cleans stale temp files.
Stack order:
1. #25087: read compressed local rollouts.
2. #25088: materialize compressed rollouts before append.
3. This PR: add the disabled local compression worker.
## Why
Local rollout compression needs a cold `.jsonl.zst` representation
without letting compressed physical paths leak into append-mode writers.
The unsafe case is resume or metadata update code successfully reading a
compressed rollout and then appending raw JSONL bytes to the zstd file.
This PR folds the former #25088 materialization slice into the
read-support PR so the reader changes and append-safety invariant land
together.
## What Changed
- Teach rollout readers, discovery, listing, search, and ID lookup to
understand compressed `.jsonl.zst` rollouts.
- Keep `.jsonl` as the logical/stored rollout path while allowing read
paths to open either plain or compressed storage.
- Materialize compressed rollouts back to plain `.jsonl` before
append-mode writes, including resume and direct metadata append paths.
- Preserve compressed-file permissions when materializing back to plain
JSONL.
- Refresh thread-store resolved rollout paths after compatibility
metadata writes so reconciliation follows the materialized file.
- Avoid treating transient compression temp files as real rollout lookup
results.
## Remaining Stack
#25089 remains the separate worker PR. It is based directly on this PR
and stays behind the disabled `local_thread_store_compression` feature
flag.
The worker still has a broader coordination question: a resume or
metadata update can race with background compression while a plain file
is being replaced by `.jsonl.zst`. This PR handles the read and
materialize-before-append primitives; it does not make the worker
production-ready.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-rollout`
- `just test -p codex-thread-store`
- `just fix -p codex-rollout`
- `just fix -p codex-thread-store`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
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