fix(server): preserve native Codex continuity across account switches#21985

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Immediate and queued account selection can leave the previous writer loaded or lose native continuity. Plan against the actual owner and full executed selection, defer detach during active work, and preserve native references on transfer or ownership failures. Recover uncertain portable-history delivery through the established fresh-thread path; retain narrowly typed missing-rollout fallback. Exclude unstarted refused prompts from replay and preserve child turn ordinals across accounts.

Rebuilt from @WISSAM492’s #19557, which identified native writer ownership and continuity requirements. The complete original diff was compared with this replacement. Stack: #21983 → #21984 → #21985, each targeting the preceding branch.

Combined-stack validation: 381/381 cases pass across six existing suites, zero skips. The final test-only union guard additionally passed all 182 adapter cases and server typecheck. Scoped lint/format and diff checks pass. Provider-core typecheck passed before the final adapter changes; that package is unchanged. Original 133 net-added cases became 33 retained behavior/control cases with four baseline rewrites: 29 net additions over the 352-case baseline. Focused regressions failed before their fixes. No repo-wide checks.

Fresh production-source proof used actual pinned Codex 0.156.1 with the managed runtime, native app servers, adapter, manager, orchestrator, outbox, starter and ingestor. Two synthetic accounts and loopback inference exercised A→B→A with the same parent/child and preserved history, child ordinals [1,2], an actual tool effect executed once, and a busy peer completing two turns in its original pooled process. Busy-child transfer first exhausted retries with zero target resume RPCs; a new message on the same selected account recovered after child completion. Matching child/parent closure preceded each resume. The final test guard changes no production source. A separate active-writer-denial probe passed in R3; it was not rerun in R4.

Four fresh full-stack parallel Opus/Sol review rounds completed. The final round found no confirmed code blockers. Earlier findings were fixed: busy-child retry recovery, uncertain history delivery, legacy lock-directory upgrades, typed refusal reattachment, and known/interrupted root classification.

Limits: injected auth/discovery/installer seams; no real OAuth/public inference, Windows/macOS, Electron SEA, browser/mobile, remote relay/tunnel or installer verification. Queued selection and uncertain history delivery have service coverage, not native UI/crash proof. Interrupted-root cancellation is proved by adapter protocol replay, not UI Stop or live native Stop. Stop old native writers using private lock directories before upgrade: legacy directory replacement is verified only for inactive homes, with no global exclusion or hot migration proof. Strict ordinary-detach failures retain pending cleanup for later retry/reattach; they can produce bounded outbox warnings while work remains.

Landing, human/platform approval and the final CI sweep belong to the coordinator. No merge or watcher is requested.

Implementation: Codex gpt-6.1-sol; independent tests: Codex gpt-6-astra; reviews: Claude claude-opus-5-5 and Codex gpt-6-sol. Harness: T3 Code.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.9 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	21.2 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: 98a8b34 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Added 5 commits23d ago

fix(server): recover uncertain Codex delivery without losing native transfers54e9dac
fix(server): retain native child turn ordering across account processes5841fae
test(server): expose Codex account and delivery recovery failures5d10163
test(server): preserve native continuity through selection changesa675eb0
fix(server): preserve Codex continuity across deferred selection changese22ba2f

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR makes a substantial production orchestration change across account switching, native-session teardown, resume recovery, and provider-turn projection, rather than a narrowly isolated fix. Its cross-component state handling and changed failure behavior warrant human review.

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Provider selection planning now uses the active binding’s latest executed selection. Detachment can wait for active blocking runs and carries the expected target instance. Codex resume failures preserve native-thread state, and restored provider-turn events normalize child-turn ordinals.

Changes: Provider selection and recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Active selection and session detachment `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SelectionRestart.integration.test.ts`	Queued and immediate dispatches plan switches using the active binding’s latest executed selection. Eligible detachments are deferred while blocking runs remain active, and detach effects can specify an expected target instance. Integration tests cover saved selections across restart, next-turn, native-account, and incompatible-provider transitions.
Native resume failure handling `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts`	Codex resume failures after account transfers or when native state must be preserved settle as failures rather than creating replacement threads. Tests cover preserved native references, uncertain history delivery, handoffs, and merge-back behavior.
Child-turn restoration and switch recovery `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderEventIngestor.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderSwitch.integration.test.ts`	Provider-turn updates preserve existing ordinals or assign an ordinal above the latest turn for that provider thread. Integration tests cover child-turn restoration and recovery when a native child keeps the source session busy.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant Client
3	participant Orchestrator
4	participant EffectWorker
5	participant ProviderSessionManager
6	Client->>Orchestrator: Dispatch message or selection change
7	Orchestrator->>Orchestrator: Plan switch from active binding selection
8	Orchestrator->>EffectWorker: Enqueue detach with expected target instance
9	EffectWorker->>ProviderSessionManager: Detach provider session

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#19557: Both changes address native Codex continuity during account switches, including native-thread ownership and resume-failure behavior.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 54e9d

After switching Codex accounts, a conversation whose native history no longer exists now fails instead of starting a fresh thread. The user cannot continue that conversation. Narrow the fail-closed rule so the typed missing-history case still recovers before merging.

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11	admitted only when preserveNativeThread is true, while other failure types
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderEventIngestor.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SelectionRestart.integration.test.ts
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.tslines 691–697Open thread

…	…	@@ -677,6 +688,26 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<
	694	+	(isNativeAccountTransfer(run) \|\|
	695	+	(resumed.failure._tag === "ProviderAdapterResumeThreadError" &&
	696	+	resumed.failure.preserveNativeThread === true))
	697	+	) {

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5	printf '%s\n' '--- transfer predicate and related helpers ---'
6	rg -n -F -- 'isNativeAccountTransfer' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2
7	printf '%s\n' '--- Codex resume construction ---'
8	nl -ba apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts \| sed -n '6780,6860p'
9	printf '%s\n' '--- relevant service tests ---'
10	rg -n -C8 -F -- 'isNativeAccountTransfer' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/*.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
11	rg -n -C10 -i -- 'no rollout found\|thread not found\|missing rollout\|preserveNativeThread' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit \|\| test "$?" -eq 1

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5	rg -n -C12 -i -- 'account transfer\|providerInstanceId\|nativeResumeFailure\|fresh native\|resume.*fallback\|missing rollout' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit
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Allow confirmed missing-rollout failures to use the fresh-thread fallback.

When a Codex run is an account transfer, isNativeAccountTransfer(run) makes this branch settle every resume failure as non-retryable. The Codex adapter sets preserveNativeThread to false for confirmed missing-rollout errors, but those errors never reach the ensureThread fallback with nativeThreadRef: null. This leaves the user unable to recover after switching accounts when the rollout no longer exists.

Keep transfer failures fail-closed for other error types, but allow the typed missing-rollout case through the existing fallback. Add a regression test for this transfer path.

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1	--- "a/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts"
2	+++ "b/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts"
3	@@ -688,13 +688,13 @@
4	return resumed.success;
5	}
6
7	if (
8	session.driver === "codex" &&
9	!uncertainDelivery &&
10	- (isNativeAccountTransfer(run) \|\|
11	- (resumed.failure._tag === "ProviderAdapterResumeThreadError" &&
12	- resumed.failure.preserveNativeThread === true))
13	+ (resumed.failure._tag === "ProviderAdapterResumeThreadError"
14	+ ? resumed.failure.preserveNativeThread === true
15	+ : isNativeAccountTransfer(run))
16	) {
17	// A portable handoff cannot repair native account ownership or an
18	// unresolved writer. Ambiguous injection instead needs a fresh thread.
19	if (input.willRetry === true) return yield* resumed.failure;

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1	if (
2	session.driver === "codex" &&
3	!uncertainDelivery &&
4	(resumed.failure._tag === "ProviderAdapterResumeThreadError"
5	? resumed.failure.preserveNativeThread === true
6	: isNativeAccountTransfer(run))
7	) {

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10	preserveNativeThread is true, while other failure types retain the
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