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fix(server): preserve native history in busy Codex forks#29239

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Problem

Fixes #29298.

Forking a completed Codex turn while a later turn runs in the parent silently replaces the native conversation with a bounded portable handoff. The busy-source guard introduced in #26901 applies to every provider, although Codex can natively fork through a completed turn while the source remains active. In the reported case the handoff selected five conversation items and omitted 41, and did not carry native reasoning or tool state.

Reproduction: finish a Codex turn, start another request in the parent, fork from the completed turn, and send a request in the fork before the parent finishes.

Change

Add an optional provider capability for native forks while the source runs, enable it for Codex, and consult it both when dispatch plans the fork and when startup rechecks the source. Busy native forks also require the selected turn's native reference, so synthetic replies such as /goal and missing cursors keep the portable fallback. Providers and older capability snapshots without explicit support keep their existing fallback; idle behavior stays unchanged.

If parent rollback invalidates the selected source before cloning, startup uses the existing portable fallback. A typed native-clone failure is logged and recovered through the same path, with source runs and attempts refreshed before deriving portable history. Portable initialization and turn-start failures remain visible. Successful native forks continue independently of later parent rollback.

Scope and approval

This is a focused restoration of the existing native-fork workflow lost in #26901, with no new user setting or workflow. Following Macroscope's approvability review, maintainer confirmation of the intended Codex behavior has been requested; that approval remains pending.

Verification

  • Portable-history correction bbd5562f6a: after a native clone failure, refresh source runs and attempts before deriving recovery history, its run metadata, and coverage. The existing four rollback cases now retain real user-message audit items and mutate the parent projection during cloning. Both during-fork cases reproduced the stale-item inclusion before the fix; afterward the cases retain earlier visible items and exclude the rolled-back item. All 16 focused policy/startup/recovery cases pass. The final changed-file check passes format, lint, both unused-code checks, GraphQL, and all 36 affected typechecks; 229 tests pass with only the same four independently confirmed upstream Windows failures. The small follow-up was reviewed directly without another delegated review.

  • Rollback follow-up 409eafbc3a: startup rechecks source eligibility and logs/retries a typed native-clone failure through the existing portable initialization path if parent rollback removed the boundary. Four new cases cover rollback before startup or native removal after the source snapshot, with the later run active or finished; another verifies that portable initialization failures remain visible. All five failed on the previous published head and pass after the fix, alongside the six existing startup fork cases. These tests prove recovery routing and delivery, not preservation of deleted native history. Independent Sol xhigh review is clean. The full changed-file check passes static checks and all 36 affected typechecks, with 229 tests passing and only the same four Windows recovery failures already reproduced on unchanged base 7f17f51538.

  • Conflict-maintenance rebase on 2026-11-03: head fff42d103b is based on main 7f17f51538 and preserves main's rollback-turn filtering alongside the busy-fork boundary guards. Independent Sol xhigh review found no issues. All 11 focused fork cases pass. Final vp run check:changed upstream/main passed format, lint, both unused-code checks, GraphQL, and all 36 affected package typechecks; its test step had 224 passes and four Windows recovery failures. All four were reproduced against unchanged new base 7f17f51538 with the same dependencies. The new head has no new real-client/runtime pass; Maria's verification below applies to the older named head.

  • Maria's real-client verification reports success on exact head c38a7d4d9f: Linux web/Chrome with real Codex 0.164.0 turns. Two busy native forks retained the marker and excluded the later turn while the parent kept running; the parent completed normally, and an idle fork also passed. The nine focused regressions passed. Desktop/mobile, relay/tunnel, other providers, and preservation of earlier tool/reasoning items were not separately exercised in that pass.

  • Before the fix, the policy and startup regression cases both failed: dispatch selected portable_context, and startup never called the native fork. The idle-source case passed.

  • Official Codex app-server documentation permits a completed lastTurnId while the source is mid-turn; only an in-progress explicit boundary is rejected.

  • Native runtime check on Windows with Codex 0.166.0, a disposable Codex home and workspace, and a local mock Responses server (no real model calls):

    text
    1Source status before fork: active
    2thread/fork(lastTurnId = completed first turn): succeeded
    3Fork history: first turn and its marker retained; running second turn excluded
    4Source status after fork: active

  • The review follow-up reproduced all three missing-boundary cases on 0ebd6b2: dispatch with no native boundary, startup with a synthetic turn, and startup with no provider turn. After correction, vp test run src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts -t 'forks a busy source|planned native side chat fork' from apps/server passed all nine selected cases. The native positive case also asserts that the selected provider turn ID is passed to the fork.

  • Restored every changed file to unchanged upstream 47f2c8d29e98 and ran vp test run src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts -t 'recovers the local or pushed thread tip|preserves recreation interrupts|coordinates provider startup' — the same four failures reproduced: recreated worktree ENOENT, an interruption reported as success, and the two startup/cleanup ordering assertions. Restored the committed fix afterward and verified a clean worktree. These failures are not introduced by this PR.

  • vp run check:changed upstream/main on c38a7d4d9f — formatting, lint, both unused-code checks, GraphQL, and all 35 affected package typechecks passed. The selected tests had 218 passing and only the same four confirmed baseline Windows failures, so the overall command exited 1. No checks or assertions were weakened.

Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol at high effort in the Codex harness; the initial patch was independently reviewed with GPT-6.1 Sol at xhigh effort through T3 Code. Codex and CodeRabbit's boundary findings were reproduced and corrected in the follow-up.

Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#29298 Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#29963

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Walkthrough

The change adds a provider capability for forking a thread while it is running. Fork selection and startup use provider support and source-turn data to choose between a native fork and portable context. Typed native-fork errors trigger portable-context recovery.

Changes: Running-thread fork behavior

Layer / File(s)Summary
Fork capability contract and Codex declaration
packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts		The thread capability schema adds optional canForkWhileRunning. Codex advertises this capability.
Fork selection and dispatch
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.test.ts		The policy allows a native fork from a busy source when the provider supports forking while running and the selected source turn has a native turn reference. The orchestrator supplies that boundary information. Tests cover capability and boundary combinations.
Native fork startup and portable recovery
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts		Startup applies native-fork eligibility. Typed fork errors trigger portable-context recovery after source runs and attempts are refreshed. Tests cover source boundaries, rollback during startup, and portable-session initialization failure.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1sequenceDiagram
2 participant Orchestrator
3 participant CommandPolicy
4 participant ProviderTurnStartService
5 participant ProviderSession
6 participant SourceProjection
7 Orchestrator->>CommandPolicy: Pass source native-turn-boundary status
8 CommandPolicy->>Orchestrator: Select native fork or portable context
9 Orchestrator->>ProviderTurnStartService: Start fork
10 ProviderTurnStartService->>ProviderSession: Fork eligible source thread
11 ProviderSession->>ProviderTurnStartService: Return fork result or typed fork error
12 ProviderTurnStartService->>SourceProjection: Refresh runs and attempts after typed fork error
13 ProviderTurnStartService->>ProviderSession: Initialize portable context

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#29963 — Reports busy Codex side chats using portable summaries instead of native forks; this change enables native forks for eligible busy sources.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#29059 — Reports an OpenCode fork failure during startup; this change routes typed native-fork failures to portable context.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#27709 — Reports repeated OpenCode fork failures when the source session is unavailable; this change provides portable recovery for typed native-fork failures.

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#26901 — Introduced side-chat forks and the busy-source portable-context rule that this change modifies for eligible Codex forks.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#27729 — Adds portable recovery when a native fork cannot use its source session; this change adds a typed-error recovery path in the same startup service.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#29902 — Filters rolled-back provider turns before a native fork; both changes affect the source history used for forks.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg, macroscopeapp

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The title "fix(server): preserve native history in busy Codex forks" matches the main change. The diff adds a provider capability (canForkWhileRunning) and gates native forks from busy Codex sources on it, plus a native turn boundary check. Startup also falls back to portable context on a typed clone failure. The title names the server scope, the Codex provider, and the outcome, so it is specific and conventional.

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Issue #29298 is the only active directly linked issue. Its coding requirement is that a Codex fork from a completed turn, made while a later parent turn runs, keeps native history through the selected turn, excludes later activity, and does not block the parent. The reviewed head implements this. CommandPolicy.ts decideForkExecution allows a busy source only when canForkWhileRunning === true and hasNativeTurnBoundary is true. Orchestrator.ts sets hasNativeTurnBoundary from the selected provider turn's nativeTurnRef. CodexAdapterV2.ts advertises canForkWhileRunning: true. ProviderTurnStartService.ts repeats the capability and boundary checks at startup, then calls forkThread with the selected provider turn ID. Synthetic replies and missing boundaries keep portable_context. Other providers and older snapshots without explicit support keep the fallback. The current head adds a rollback recovery path: a typed ProviderAdapterForkThreadError after the source snapshot falls back to portable history, with runs and attempts refreshed first. This path does not change the native-fork success path. Focused tests cover the policy matrix, startup eligibility, the selected turn ID, and rollback routing. Real-client verification (#29239 comment) ran on older head c38a7d4d9f. The current head changes only the recovery path, so that verification is not repeated here. Maintainer confirmation of the intended Codex behavior is still pending. This does not change the coding-requirement result.

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All changed production files relate to the busy Codex native-fork boundary. The contract field canForkWhileRunning and the Codex capability implement the provider opt-in. CommandPolicy.ts and Orchestrator.ts implement dispatch planning with the native boundary check. ProviderTurnStartService.ts implements the startup recheck and the rollback fallback. The fallback covers the case where the selected boundary becomes invalid before cloning, which the native-fork path can produce. The fallback also applies to any typed native-clone error, including idle forks, so idle failure handling differs from the prior code. This is a deliberate part of the same workflow and is not unrelated behavior. The startup check also requires a completed or waiting source run. This mirrors the existing dispatch rule in CommandPolicy.ts. Test changes in CommandPolicy.test.ts and ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts support the new behavior. No unrelated files or unrelated production behavior were found in the whole-PR diff.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.tsline 1153Outdated · 0ebd6b2Open thread
……@@ -1144,12 +1144,14 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<
1152- if (!sourceBusy) {
1151+ if (
1152+ !sourceBusy ||
1153+ session.providerSession.capabilities.threads.canForkWhileRunning === true
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Require a native turn boundary before forking a busy source at startup.

The startup recheck in ProviderTurnStartService.ts calls session.forkThread for a busy source when the session advertises canForkWhileRunning. It does not check whether the source turn has a native reference. If sourceProviderTurn is missing or has no nativeTurnRef, the call omits providerTurnId. CodexAdapterV2.resolveCodexForkBoundary then returns lastTurnId: undefined. Codex uses lastTurnId to exclude later turns, so the fork is not bounded at the source turn and can include the running turn.

The dispatch check in CommandPolicy.decideForkExecution does not require a turn reference either. Its hasStrongNativeSource input is set from the thread's nativeThreadRef. The startup branch is the place to fall back to the portable path.

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1--- "a/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts"
2+++ "b/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts"
3@@ -1148,10 +1148,12 @@
4 const sourceBusy = sourceProjection.runs.some(
5 (candidate) => candidate.ordinal > sourceRun.ordinal && isActiveRun(candidate),
6 );
7- if (
8- !sourceBusy ||
9- session.providerSession.capabilities.threads.canForkWhileRunning === true
10- ) {
11+ const hasNativeBoundary = sourceProviderTurn?.nativeTurnRef?.nativeId != null;
12+ if (
13+ !sourceBusy ||
14+ (session.providerSession.capabilities.threads.canForkWhileRunning === true &&
15+ hasNativeBoundary)
16+ ) {
17 return yield* loadFromProvider(
18 session.forkThread({
19 sourceProviderThread,
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Fixed in c38a7d4d9fc1efdf6a1e3f7a9957783aafa0be5a. Both dispatch planning and the startup recheck now require a native turn reference before forking a busy source; otherwise they use the existing portable fallback. Idle behavior is unchanged.

The regressions cover synthetic turns with nativeTurnRef: null and missing provider turns. The native positive fixture now has a real parent attempt/turn and asserts that the selected provider turn ID reaches forkThread. All three new cases failed on 0ebd6b2; all nine selected fork cases pass after the correction.

The changed-file checks passed format, lint, unused-code, GraphQL and all affected typechecks, with 218 tests passing and only the four Windows recovery failures already reproduced on unchanged upstream. Those baseline failures remain documented in the PR.

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@Alb11747 Thanks. The supplied startup code now requires both canForkWhileRunning === true and a non-null nativeTurnRef before forking a busy source. Otherwise, it uses the portable fallback. Idle behavior remains unchanged.

This addresses the reported finding. Your reported regressions cover the missing and synthetic turn cases, plus forwarding the selected provider turn ID to forkThread. I have not independently rerun the checks.

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2Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 15592
3File: apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts:851-858
4Timestamp: 2026-10-04T10:26:28.080Z
5Learning: In pingdotgg/t3code's TypeScript orchestration V2, provider adapters create provider turns; runtime recovery updates existing turns, and the V2 migration creates empty tables rather than importing pre-reference turns. In apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, real Codex turns have nativeTurnRef populated from the native turn ID. Synthetic turns created by completeGoalCommandTurn have nativeTurnRef: null because they never start a native Codex turn. Native rollback counts should exclude null-ref turns, without depending on the id allocator's derived goal-command ID format.

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Requesting maintainer confirmation on the intended Codex behavior. #26901 explicitly notes that Codex forks of a running source previously forked natively, before the generic busy-source fallback was added for providers that cannot fork a running session.

Codex's app-server supports copying history through a completed turn while a later turn remains active. The isolated runtime check in this PR verified that the selected history is retained, the later turn is excluded, and the parent continues running. This PR restores that native Codex path while preserving the portable fallback for other providers.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.tsline 379Outdated · 0ebd6b2Open thread
……@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ const decideForkExecution: CommandPolicyV2Shape["decideForkExecution"] = (input)
377377 input.sameProvider &&
378378 input.hasStrongNativeSource &&
379- !input.sourceBusy &&
379+ (!input.sourceBusy || input.capabilities.threads.canForkWhileRunning === true) &&
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P2 Badge Require a native boundary before allowing busy Codex forks

When the selected completed run is a synthetic /goal reply, completeGoalCommandTurn records nativeTurnRef: null. With a later parent turn running, this new exemption selects native forking, but resolveCodexForkBoundary returns no lastTurnId and zero rollback turns because it only counts later terminal turns. If the running turn finishes between reading the projection and issuing thread/fork, the unbounded fork includes that later conversation and never rolls it back, so it no longer represents the selected source point. Keep the portable fallback when no usable native boundary exists, or resolve a preceding native boundary, and apply the same restriction in the startup recheck.

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AAlb117478d ago

Fixed in c38a7d4d9fc1efdf6a1e3f7a9957783aafa0be5a. Both dispatch planning and the startup recheck now require a native turn reference before forking a busy source; otherwise they use the existing portable fallback. Idle behavior is unchanged.

The regressions cover synthetic turns with nativeTurnRef: null and missing provider turns. The native positive fixture now has a real parent attempt/turn and asserts that the selected provider turn ID reaches forkThread. All three new cases failed on 0ebd6b2; all nine selected fork cases pass after the correction.

The changed-file checks passed format, lint, unused-code, GraphQL and all affected typechecks, with 218 tests passing and only the four Windows recovery failures already reproduced on unchanged upstream. Those baseline failures remain documented in the PR.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

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verified as-is at c38a7d4d9fc1efdf6a1e3f7a9957783aafa0be5a on a linux boat vm, using repository playwright with google chrome and real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the configured local proxy (codex 0.164.0). project, threads, and turns were created through the web app against a real git repository. no mocks or fixtures.

  • reproduced on github/main (55e2538561): completed marker response, started a later sleep 180; printf LATER-29239 parent turn, forked the completed response, and sent a fork request while the parent ran. the persisted strategy was portable_context, with a visible context handoff.
  • repeated on the exact pr head: two busy forks used native_fork, returned ORCHID-29239, and showed no context handoff while the parent remained active. native codex rollout metadata references the original parent through exclusive ordinal 23. resolving that inherited history retains the marker and excludes the later prompt at ordinal 26.
  • nearby behavior: the parent completed normally with LATER-29239. an idle fork from the earlier response also used native_fork, recalled the marker, and excluded the later turn from native history.
  • blacksmith: the existing focused command-policy and startup fork regressions passed, 9 tests in 2 files. all 29 reported head ci contexts were successful. no source changes or pushes were needed.
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1main busy fork: portable_context; parent running; marker recalled
2pr busy forks: native_fork; parent running; marker recalled; later turn excluded
3pr parent: completed normally, LATER-29239
4pr idle fork: native_fork; marker recalled; later turn excluded
5focused regressions: 9 passed, 51 nonselected skipped

main busy fork uses a context handoff

pr busy fork preserves native history without a handoff

forking a completed response while the parent runs, then recalling its marker

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native desktop, ios/android, relay/tunnel, and other providers were not exercised on this linux web verification pass. synthetic goal replies and missing native boundaries were covered by focused regression tests, not real client scenarios. the selected first turn used no tools, so preservation of earlier tool/reasoning items was not separately exercised. uploaded video playback and seeking were checked in chrome; t3 browser-panel playback was not checked.

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External image Major · Prevent rollback from invalidating a pending fork. · CommandPolicy.ts:380-381

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandPolicy.ts:380-381 External image Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Prevent rollback from invalidating a pending fork.

When Codex rollback removes the selected turn before child startup, ProviderTurnStartService filters that turn but still passes its providerTurnId. Codex then raises ProviderAdapterForkThreadError because the boundary is absent. The failure occurs whether the later run is still active or has finished. Before this change, busy sources used the portable handoff path.

Make the pending fork transfer a rollback barrier. Serialize rollback with pending fork resolution, or defer rollback while it would remove the transfer’s selected source run. Do not use sourceBusy as the protection condition.

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Addressed the rollback finding in 409eafbc3a92c5c4e625111e8e7950af2a3537cf.

Startup now rechecks the selected source run's eligibility. If native cloning still fails because rollback removed the boundary after that snapshot, a typed ProviderAdapterForkThreadError is logged and startup uses the existing portable handoff path. Other adapter errors, interruptions, defects, and failures during portable initialization or turn startup retain their failure handling. This covers active and finished later-run snapshots without blocking parent rollback on an unused child fork.

The four rollback cases and the portable-initialization failure case failed before the fix and pass afterward; all 11 selected startup fork/recovery cases pass. These tests establish recovery routing and error propagation, not restoration of deleted native state. Portable history follows the existing visibility rules, including excluding runs already marked rolled back in the source snapshot. Independent Sol xhigh review is clean. The full changed-file check passed static checks and all 36 affected typechecks, with 229 tests passing and only the same four Windows recovery failures reproduced on unchanged upstream 7f17f51538.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.tsline 1188Outdated · 409eafbOpen thread
……@@ -1176,6 +1180,16 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<
1185+ return yield* loadFromProvider(Effect.fail(forked.failure));
1186+ }
1187+ // A parent rollback can remove the boundary after the source snapshot was read.
1188+ yield* Effect.logWarning("Recovering a failed native fork with portable context", {
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External image Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Refresh source state before preparing the portable fallback.

If the parent rolls back during session.forkThread, this branch uses the sourceProjection read before the rollback. readForkHistoryItems then filters retained turn items against the old run statuses. The portable handoff can include content from the rolled-back turn, even though that content is no longer visible in the parent. Reload the source runs and attempts before building the fallback history. Add a regression case that changes the parent projection during the fork and supplies turn items to the history reader. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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8Refresh the parent’s source runs and attempts after session.forkThread fails and
9before preparing the portable fallback, then use that fresh projection when
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✅ Addressed in commit bbd5562

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Fixed in bbd5562f6a105e6734d0c64c7fe09f0b2aef281f: after a typed native clone failure, startup now reloads the source runs and attempts before readForkHistoryItems. The handoff's run metadata and coverage also use that refreshed projection, so committed parent rollback is reflected in portable history visibility.

The existing four rollback cases now supply retained user-message items and change the parent projection during the native fork. They assert that earlier visible history remains in the handoff input while the rolled-back item is excluded. The two during-fork cases failed before this change; the before-start cases already passed. All 16 focused policy/startup/recovery cases pass after the fix. The broader check passes static checks and all 36 affected typechecks; its only test failures remain the four Windows recovery failures previously reproduced on unchanged upstream.

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@Alb11747 The supplied code confirms that startup reloads source runs and attempts after ProviderAdapterForkThreadError, before readForkHistoryItems. The handoff also uses the refreshed projection for run metadata and coverage. This addresses the stale-source finding.

The reported regression cases cover the rollback timing and history exclusion requested here. I have not independently rerun the tests.

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