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Benjamin Carlsson d659419fe7 Preserve the current Cloud task until navigation is ready (#61490)
## Why

Opening another Cloud task can fail while loading its history. Keep the current chat, draft, and reply stream intact until the replacement is ready.

## What changed

- Prepare Cloud resumes with a scoped history handle and commit the attachment only after initial history hydration succeeds.
- Discard abandoned or failed preparations, reuse healthy existing attachments, and preserve buffered events through the handoff.
- Route Command Center task selections through the owning backend, including tasks found only in history search.

## Testing

Add regression coverage for failed history loading preserving the chat and draft, prepared stream handoffs and cancellation, backend routing, and history requests completing while a large reply stream remains unread.

GitOrigin-RevId: 67aab50bad4e9ce9216716da459fd5447f133ae1
2026-11-14 08:47:48 +00:00
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codex-app-server-client

Shared in-process app-server client used by conversational CLI surfaces:

  • codex-exec
  • codex-tui

Purpose

This crate centralizes startup and lifecycle management for an in-process codex-app-server runtime, so CLI clients do not need to duplicate:

  • app-server bootstrap and initialize handshake
  • in-memory request/event transport wiring
  • lifecycle orchestration around caller-provided startup identity
  • graceful shutdown behavior

Startup identity

Callers pass both the app-server SessionSource and the initialize client_info.name explicitly when starting the facade.

That keeps thread metadata (for example in thread/list and thread/read) aligned with the originating runtime without baking TUI/exec-specific policy into the shared client layer.

Transport model

The in-process path uses typed channels:

  • client -> server: ClientRequest / ClientNotification
  • server -> client: InProcessServerEvent
    • ServerRequest
    • ServerNotification
    • LegacyNotification

JSON serialization is still used at external transport boundaries (stdio/websocket), but the in-process hot path is typed.

Typed requests still receive app-server responses through the JSON-RPC result envelope internally. That is intentional: the in-process path is meant to preserve app-server semantics while removing the process boundary, not to introduce a second response contract.

Bootstrap behavior

The client facade starts an already-initialized in-process runtime, but thread bootstrap still follows normal app-server flow:

  • caller sends thread/start or thread/resume
  • app-server returns the immediate typed response
  • richer session metadata may arrive later as a SessionConfigured legacy event

Surfaces such as TUI and exec may therefore need a short bootstrap phase where they reconcile startup response data with later events.

Backpressure and shutdown

  • Command queues and the embedded runtime remain bounded, using DEFAULT_IN_PROCESS_CHANNEL_CAPACITY by default.
  • The facade's local consumer event queue is unbounded and preserves notification order. This keeps the worker draining the bounded runtime while a caller waits for a request, preventing unread notifications from blocking its response.
  • shutdown() performs a bounded graceful shutdown and then aborts if timeout is exceeded.