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Brent Traut 766f5473f2 Keep parent history out of attached thread views (#57256)
## Why

Attached threads need inherited context for model requests while exposing only their own turns to clients. Parent turns and token usage should not appear as activity in an empty attached thread.

## What changed

- Stop attached-thread history traversal at the parent boundary, including after reverts, and hide inherited interruption markers.
- Apply visible-history boundaries to search, realtime timelines, and turn-specific fork and revert requests.
- Suppress inherited token-usage replay on paginated fork resumes, require fork replay to reference a returned turn, and skip empty turn IDs.
- Require a paginated source for `thread/fork` with `attachToSource` and update the protocol documentation.

## Testing

Extend regression coverage for attached-thread restart and database recovery, retained parent context in model requests, child-only history, mid-turn fork boundaries, legacy-source rejection, and suppression of parent token-usage notifications.

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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.