fix(pi): recover fork targets from previous sessions#28538

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Pi forks fail when the selected turn's native entry lives in an earlier session and later background wakes carry uncaptured turn references. The adapter searches only the current session tree and reports that no captured entry was found.

Recover a unique previous native session containing the selected turn, using Pi's parent-session lineage to distinguish fork copies. Fork that session through Pi's native path and trim later wakes while preserving the selected turn's history. Missing or ambiguous matches retain the existing safe failure.

Fixes #28377.

Scope and approval

This is one adapter-boundary bug fix. The issue has not yet received maintainer triage, and this PR does not claim upstream approval or the small-fix exception. The author requested submission of the completed candidate for maintainer consideration despite that outstanding contribution-policy requirement.

Verification

Added focused cross-session regressions first; the original adapter failed with the reported uncaptured-entry protocol error.
vp run check:changed passed formatting, lint, both knip passes, 9 affected-package typechecks, and 99 tests in 2 files.
Exercised the actual adapter against native Pi 1.4.0 subprocesses with isolated temporary session files and no credentials or paid model turns. Baseline reproduced the protocol error. Four fixed consecutive-fork checks preserved the selected turn and its intervening messages, excluded later wakes, and left the source unchanged. Cases covered prior sessions both with and without later wakes, with two successive forks per case.

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1	Before: Pi turn 2 has no captured session-tree entry and none was found in the session tree
2	After: fork=1, previous has later wakes=false — PASS
3	fork=2, previous has later wakes=false — PASS
4	fork=1, previous has later wakes=true — PASS
5	fork=2, previous has later wakes=true — PASS
6	Retained ids: u1,a1,steer1,a1b; source unchanged

Limits: recovery covers completed, strongly referenced targets in V3 native session files beside the current session, with a unique matching lineage. Older native formats and ambiguous histories fail closed. Session discovery reads sibling files sequentially on this exceptional path. No UI, other-provider, rollback, or broad history-reconstruction changes.

Reviewed with review-loop: 2 rounds with Claude Opus 5.5 on xhigh. Reviewer verdict: approved. The lineage-selection blocker and an unnecessary-parse nit were fixed; optional performance, older-format compatibility, and rare safe-failure lineage improvements were deferred.

Created with GPT-6.1 Sol on xhigh in the Codex harness through T3 Code.

Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#28377

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Verdict: Approved at 99e07c5

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Pi forks can recover selected turns from a uniquely matching previous session, with lineage and history-boundary checks. Recovery remains limited to explicit forks and requires a separate destination session, preserving source history.

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The Pi adapter now searches sibling session files when an uncaptured strong fork target is absent from the current session. It selects a unique matching source, recovers the fork boundary, and validates the resulting session file. Tests cover successful and rejected prior-session forks.

Changes: Prior-session fork recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Find and recover prior-session targets `packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts`	The adapter reads sibling session files when an uncaptured strong target is absent from the current session. It selects a source only when one matching root remains and recovers a boundary from that session.
Fork from the recovered source `packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts`	The fork process uses the selected source file. The adapter uses the recovered boundary when needed and rejects a missing result or one that matches either source file.
Validate prior-session fork cases `packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.test.ts`	Parameterized tests cover successful forks, later wakes, inherited fork copies, duplicate matching sessions, and a matching entry outside the target window.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant PiAdapter
3	participant SessionFiles
4	participant PiForkProcess
5	PiAdapter->>SessionFiles: Search sibling files for the target
6	SessionFiles-->>PiAdapter: Return matching source and entries
7	PiAdapter->>PiAdapter: Select unique source and recover boundary
8	PiAdapter->>PiForkProcess: Start fork with source and boundary
9	PiForkProcess-->>PiAdapter: Return fork session file
10	PiAdapter->>PiAdapter: Validate returned session file

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: henrychu04, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: External image Low · up to d53b3

When a previous-session fork is recovered, a later turn that only compacts or summarizes the session can leak into the fork in place of the selected turn's history. This is a narrow edge case on an exceptional recovery path and can be fixed with a small change. It is worth fixing before merge but is not a broad risk.

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Title check	Passed	The title clearly describes recovery of fork targets from previous sessions.
Linked Issues check	Passed	For [`#28377`], the adapter finds a unique prior V3 session using `parentSession` lineage and forks it through Pi. It trims later wakes while retaining the selected turn. Automated tests cover prior ses…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The adapter changes and tests support prior-session recovery and safe fork boundaries for [`#28377`]. The `custom_message` parsing change supports history trimming. The whole-PR summary shows no unrelat…

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For [#28377], the adapter finds a unique prior V3 session using parentSession lineage and forks it through Pi. It trims later wakes while retaining the selected turn. Automated tests cover prior sessions with and without later wakes, fork copies, ambiguous matches, and timestamp mismatches. The author also reports native Pi fork checks. The incremental diff was unavailable, but the current whole-PR summary and test diff support this assessment.

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The adapter changes and tests support prior-session recovery and safe fork boundaries for [#28377]. The custom_message parsing change supports history trimming. The whole-PR summary shows no unrelated changes.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

partial verification only. the original previous-session recovery is not proved.

ran github/main (37d7615a91) in a separate worktree first, then exact pr head 99e07c59607476dc02134f5b993b28e1c2f8cee3, with one dev server at a time and isolated empty state. used repo Playwright and system Chrome. created the projects, threads and turns through the web app, with no fixtures or mocked provider responses.

real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns completed on both revisions.
on the pr, two ordinary native Pi forks completed real gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. both retained ORCHID-28538 and excluded the later USER-LATER-28538 user turn. the source retained that later turn.
the installed Pi file-trigger extension produced a real adopted background wake with a weak turn reference. forking from the preceding completed user turn then failed on both main and the pr when the fork's first provider turn started:

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1	pi provider protocol error: Pi turn 3 has no captured session-tree entry and none was found in the session tree.

read-only inspection confirmed the strong target still exists in the current native session. this is a neighboring custom-message-wake limitation, not the previous-session case or a demonstrated regression from this pr. no source changes made.

vp test run packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.test.ts passed all 98 tests through blacksmith-check.

ordinary Pi fork completes with retained marker and later turn absent

main fails to start a fork after a custom-message background wake

pr head has the same custom-message background-wake fork failure

Not verified

the changed previous-session discovery and lineage selection. the original session-rotating memory/background extension is unavailable here; the installed file-trigger extension leaves the target in the same session. manufacturing session files or editing projections would not establish the requested real user path. the original bug was therefore not reproduced, and this run cannot establish that the pr fixes it.

native desktop/mobile clients, macOS/Windows, and remote/relay modes were not exercised on this Linux web run.

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packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.tslines 3477–3478Open thread

…	…	@@ -3392,6 +3474,8 @@ function piSessionEntries(entries: unknown): ReadonlyMap<string, PiSessionEntry>
3393	3475		byId.set(id, {
3394	3476		parentId,
	3477	+	isMessage:
	3478	+	recordField(entry, "type") === "message" \|\| recordField(entry, "type") === "custom_message",

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Count compaction and branch-summary entries as context in the later-entry check.

piPreviousSessionForkBoundary returns { type: "nothing" } only when the loop at Lines 3630-3639 finds no message entry after the target's completedAt. The loop checks isMessage, and isMessage is true only for message and custom_message. Pi also rebuilds model context from compaction and branch_summary entries. The loop treats those entries like setting changes and skips them.

Example trigger:

A later T3 turn in the previous session runs /compact.
That turn records no user message, so captureTurnTreeRefs keeps its weak synthetic ref. That turn then becomes the uncaptured boundary.
piUncapturedForkEntry finds no user entry in the window and returns undefined.
The loop skips the compaction entry because isMessage is false, and returns nothing.

Result: no fork request is sent. The forked thread inherits the later turn's compaction summary in place of the selected turn's history. Branch summaries written after the target have the same effect. This breaks the PR goal of keeping the selected turn's history.

Fix: mark every entry type that contributes context in the later-entry check. Leave isUserMessage unchanged.

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1	- isMessage:
2	- recordField(entry, "type") === "message" \|\| recordField(entry, "type") === "custom_message",
3	+ isMessage: ["message", "custom_message", "compaction", "branch_summary"].includes(
4	+ String(recordField(entry, "type")),
5	+ ),

Optionally rename isMessage to isContext to match the wider meaning. A row in the new it.effect.each table with a later compaction entry would cover this case.

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1	isMessage: ["message", "custom_message", "compaction", "branch_summary"].includes(
2	String(recordField(entry, "type")),
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8	Update the `isMessage` classification used by `piPreviousSessionForkBoundary` so
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