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Benjamin Carlsson 09bced5ad9 Populate thread previews from delegated task inputs (#50462)
## Why

Delegated turns can begin without a user message, leaving threads without a task preview. Populate the preview from delegated input so these threads are discoverable before a user follow-up.

## What changed

- Extract previews from completed `create_thread` and `send_message_to_thread` outputs in the `codex_app` and `codex_tui` namespaces.
- Unwrap recognized `<codex_delegation>` inputs and decode their escaped task text for display, preserving model content. Keep plain or unrecognized wrappers as text and ignore blank inputs.
- Fill missing previews in state metadata extraction and live thread metadata updates without replacing existing previews or setting the title or `first_user_message`.

## Testing

Add tests for delegation decoding and tool filtering, preview-only metadata updates, preservation of later user-message metadata, and database listing before a user follow-up in both legacy and paginated history modes.

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Thread Store

codex-thread-store is the storage boundary for Codex threads. It defines the ThreadStore trait plus local and in-memory implementations. Other storage implementations may live outside this repository.

Responsibilities

  • ThreadStore::append_items is the raw canonical history append API. It does not infer metadata from item contents.
  • ThreadStore::update_thread_metadata is the only thread metadata write API. It accepts a single literal metadata patch shape, regardless of whether the caller is applying a user/API mutation or facts derived above the store from appended history.
  • LiveThread is the preferred API for active session persistence. It owns a per-thread metadata sync helper, applies the rollout persistence policy, appends canonical history, and then sends metadata patches through ThreadStore::update_thread_metadata.
  • ThreadManager routes metadata mutations for loaded and cold threads through one entrypoint. Loaded threads use their LiveThread; cold threads go directly to the store.
  • LocalThreadStore persists history through codex-rollout JSONL files and persists queryable metadata through the SQLite state database when available. Local explicit metadata mutations also maintain JSONL/name-index compatibility so reading old or SQLite-less local storage keeps working.
  • RolloutRecorder is the local JSONL writer. It writes already-canonical items for ThreadStore::append_items; it no longer decides metadata updates for live thread-store appends.
  • core/session creates or resumes LiveThread handles and does not need to know whether persistence is backed by local files or another store.

Direction

New metadata observation semantics should live above ThreadStore. Stores persist explicit metadata fields, but raw history appends remain history-only.