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Summary

  • discover durable Codex conversations and keep externally written history synchronized when a thread is reopened
  • organize imported sessions into deterministic projects derived from Git roots, with cwd fallback
  • add a server-owned Synchronize Codex sessions maintenance action with replayable progress
  • turn Codex active-writer failures into an explicit Retry / Continue in a copy flow without duplicating the pending prompt
  • render cached thread history immediately while exact Codex reconciliation continues in the background
  • animate chat synchronization feedback while respecting reduced-motion preferences

This selectively ports the useful discovery direction from upstream PR #8054, while preserving the T3 → Codex → T3 round trip and making writer conflicts an explicit product choice rather than a silent fork.

Changes

Continuity and organization

  • metadata-only full-history discovery avoids re-reading unchanged transcripts
  • Git-root-aware routing creates or reuses the matching T3 project; non-repository sessions fall back to their working directory
  • unchanged legacy imports can be rehomed out of Unassigned Codex threads
  • lazy reconciliation on thread open remains in place without blocking the cached projection

Responsive thread reads and historical repair

  • HTTP and WebSocket thread reads request a scope-bound exact reconciliation and serve cached history immediately
  • duplicate reads for the same in-flight thread are coalesced; later imports arrive through the already-attached live event buffer
  • thread.turn.start keeps its synchronous reconciliation preflight so a local prompt cannot overtake external work
  • a successful exact read heals an obsolete generic Failed session when provider history is newer, while preserving the historical activity
  • typed active-writer conflicts remain actionable because read-only transcript access does not prove writer ownership ended

Manual synchronization

  • Settings → Providers exposes Codex session history → Synchronize
  • synchronization is a single-flight server operation exposed through typed request/subscription contracts
  • progress survives navigation and reconnects and reports organized, updated, unchanged, and failed outcomes

Active-writer recovery

  • raw provider paths and thread identifiers are replaced with a sanitized user-facing conflict
  • I've closed it — retry resumes the original Codex thread after the other writer exits
  • Continue in a copy explicitly invokes Codex thread/fork
  • the durable thread.turn.recover command reuses the existing pending user message exactly once
  • recovery preserves the original model, title seed, runtime/interaction mode, and source-plan context
  • recovery clears real snoozed/settled overrides, leaves legacy awake projections unchanged, and repeated writer conflicts re-enable both actions

Provider readiness

  • Codex app-server status checks use a Codex-specific 30-second cold-start budget instead of reporting a false timeout at 10 seconds
  • genuinely hung probes still close their scoped app-server process after the timeout

Surfaces and docs

  • web and desktop receive the actionable banner and Settings action
  • remote clients share typed contracts and replayable server progress
  • mobile receives the sanitized projected error and shared recovery command; the native action surface is documented as intentionally deferred
  • user behavior is documented in docs/user/providers-codex.md; architecture is documented in docs/internals/providers.md and docs/internals/overview.md

UI evidence

Idle

Codex sync action idle

Running

Codex sync action running

Completed

Codex sync action completed

No pairing tokens, provider thread IDs, local paths, or conversation contents are present in these screenshots.

Verification

  • strict red → green TDD for discovery metadata, project routing, coordinator progress, RPC streaming, Settings UI, chat animation, active-writer sanitization, Retry, and explicit fork
  • contracts/client/web: 5 focused files, 28 tests passed
  • core Codex runtime/discovery/reactor: 3 focused files, 99 tests passed
  • review regressions: snoozed recovery, omitted legacy snooze state, and repeated-conflict state; focused suites passed
  • provider cold-start regression: red at the former 10-second limit, then 44 provider-registry tests passed; a real app-server probe completed without a timeout
  • combined focused server selection: 268 tests passed; one unrelated transfer-budget test hit its existing 120s timeout under the combined load, while the changed sync RPC test passed again in isolation
  • targeted typechecks: contracts, client-runtime, web, and server
  • targeted lint on all changed TypeScript files
  • formatter and git diff --check
  • isolated real-client QA: 83 sessions organized, 0 updated, 77 unchanged; sidebar project assignments refreshed immediately
  • cached-first/history-repair regressions: 155 focused reconciler + HTTP/WebSocket tests passed
  • affected real 48-message thread opened with its cached transcript, then lost the stale sidebar Failed state and raw error banner after background reconciliation

The repository has no scoped coverage command for this package, and no repo-wide suite was run per contributor guidance.


Model: GPT-5.6-Sol · Harness: Codex

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Walkthrough

The PR adds Codex persisted-thread discovery, reconciliation, historical message imports, synchronization status, active-writer recovery, and fork continuation. It wires these features through server APIs, orchestration, client state, settings, chat recovery UI, documentation, and shared web binding.

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Codex continuity and history import

Layer / File(s) Summary
Continuity and recovery contracts
packages/contracts/src/*.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Services/*
Defines persisted-thread models, historical imports, recovery commands, sync statuses, RPC methods, and capability flags.
Codex persisted-thread discovery
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.test.ts
Lists and reads Codex threads, maps completed turns to messages, filters threads, and supports incremental and full-history scans.
Provider thread reconciliation
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderThreadReconciler.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderThreadReconciler.test.ts
Groups provider instances, imports missing messages, assigns workspace projects, preserves ownership and tombstones, updates cursors, and persists continuation keys.
Synchronization coordination and server wiring
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderThreadSyncCoordinator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/http.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/server.ts
Publishes synchronization progress, reconciles before selected snapshots and turn starts, exposes synchronization RPCs, and activates the reconciler.
Historical orchestration and projection
apps/server/src/orchestration/decider.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionPipeline.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/projector.ts
Emits historical message events and projects completed turns, latest-turn links, summaries, and project ownership.
Active-writer recovery
apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadErrorBanner.tsx
Detects Codex active-writer conflicts, records sanitized recovery metadata, and supports retry or fork continuation without duplicate messages.
Client synchronization and supporting behavior
packages/client-runtime/src/state/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderSettingsPanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadSyncStatusPill.tsx, scripts/*, apps/web/vite.config.ts, docs/*
Adds synchronization state and controls, updates warm-cache replay behavior, improves status accessibility, documents the feature, and configures shared web binding.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c18f4

This change adds Codex history discovery, synchronization, project organization, and recovery flows, but the current implementation can still miss older sessions after a timeout, organize sessions inconsistently, fail long synchronizations without resumable progress, and display inaccurate historical timing; recovery can also mutate threads that are not snoozed. These bounded correctness and reliability issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Server
  participant ProviderThreadContinuity
  participant CodexAdapter
  participant ProviderThreadReconciler
  participant OrchestrationEngine
  Client->>Server: request snapshot or start turn
  Server->>ProviderThreadContinuity: reconcileThread(threadId)
  ProviderThreadContinuity->>ProviderThreadReconciler: reconcile persisted thread
  ProviderThreadReconciler->>CodexAdapter: read persisted thread
  CodexAdapter-->>ProviderThreadReconciler: provider transcript
  ProviderThreadReconciler->>OrchestrationEngine: import missing history
  OrchestrationEngine-->>ProviderThreadReconciler: projected historical events
  ProviderThreadReconciler-->>ProviderThreadContinuity: reconciliation result
  ProviderThreadContinuity-->>Server: continuity result
  Server-->>Client: snapshot or turn response
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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts (1)

332-343: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

getInstanceInfo adds a new failure path to every session binding write.

upsertSessionBinding now fails if the registry no longer knows providerInstanceId. Two callers become more fragile. recoverSessionForThread fails after the session was already started. runStopAll uses Effect.forEach over active sessions, so one unknown instance stops the remaining bindings from recording their final state during shutdown.

Fall back to writing the binding without continuationKey when the lookup fails.

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-      const instanceInfo = yield* registry.getInstanceInfo(providerInstanceId);
+      const continuationKey = yield* registry
+        .getInstanceInfo(providerInstanceId)
+        .pipe(
+          Effect.map((instanceInfo) => instanceInfo.continuationIdentity.continuationKey),
+          Effect.catch(() => Effect.succeed(undefined)),
+        );
       yield* directory.upsert({
         threadId,
         provider: session.provider,
         providerInstanceId,
         runtimeMode: session.runtimeMode,
         status: toRuntimeStatus(session),
         ...(session.resumeCursor !== undefined ? { resumeCursor: session.resumeCursor } : {}),
         runtimePayload: toRuntimePayloadFromSession(session, {
           ...extra,
-          continuationKey: instanceInfo.continuationIdentity.continuationKey,
+          ...(continuationKey !== undefined ? { continuationKey } : {}),
         }),
       });
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts` around lines 332 - 343,
Update upsertSessionBinding to handle getInstanceInfo failure by still calling
directory.upsert without continuationKey. Preserve continuationKey when the
registry lookup succeeds, and ensure recoverSessionForThread and runStopAll
continue recording bindings even when providerInstanceId is unknown.
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.ts (1)

155-206: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Consider reusing one discovery client instead of spawning a Codex process per call.

makeCodexDiscoveryClient spawns codex app-server, drains stderr, builds the client layer, and runs initialize on every call. discoverCodexThreads and readCodexPersistedThread each pay that cost. readCodexPersistedThread runs on the targeted reconciliation path that precedes snapshot reads and turn starts, so each of those requests adds one process spawn and one handshake.

Hold a scoped, shared client for discovery and reads, or cache it for a short window, so repeated reconciliation does not churn processes.

Also applies to: 242-260

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.ts` around lines 155 -
206, Reuse a scoped or short-lived shared Codex app-server client across
discoverCodexThreads and readCodexPersistedThread instead of invoking
makeCodexDiscoveryClient for every request. Ensure process spawning, stderr
draining, layer construction, and initialize/initialized handshake occur once
per cache scope while preserving cleanup and existing client behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.ts`:
- Around line 230-238: Update selectCodexThreadsForRead to return both the
selected threads and whether every page entry was skipped solely because its
cursor was unchanged, while preserving structural exclusions as a distinct
outcome. In listCodexThreadsForRead, replace the changed.length === 0 stop
condition with the returned fully-known-page indicator so pagination stops only
for cursor-matched entries and continues through pages containing excluded or
ephemeral threads.

In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderThreadReconciler.ts`:
- Around line 389-405: Update the tombstone branch in ProviderThreadReconciler
so creating the binding for an absent existingThread does not advance
providerDiscoveryCursor; preserve the current cursor state for archived-thread
restoration while retaining the binding and other runtime metadata.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.ts`:
- Around line 155-206: Reuse a scoped or short-lived shared Codex app-server
client across discoverCodexThreads and readCodexPersistedThread instead of
invoking makeCodexDiscoveryClient for every request. Ensure process spawning,
stderr draining, layer construction, and initialize/initialized handshake occur
once per cache scope while preserving cleanup and existing client behavior.

In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts`:
- Around line 332-343: Update upsertSessionBinding to handle getInstanceInfo
failure by still calling directory.upsert without continuationKey. Preserve
continuationKey when the registry lookup succeeds, and ensure
recoverSessionForThread and runStopAll continue recording bindings even when
providerInstanceId is unknown.
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  • apps/server/src/orchestration/decider.import.test.ts
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Manual QA

Validated on 2026-08-26 with vp run dev --home-dir <isolated-home> against a realistic Codex home.

Real-client scenarios

  • Created a fresh Codex CLI thread in a disposable repository. Bellbird discovered it, created an imported thread, and projected both the user and assistant messages.
  • Resumed that same Codex thread outside Bellbird and appended a second turn. The same Bellbird thread later reconciled and rendered both new messages without creating a duplicate thread.
  • During the first realistic run, initial discovery timed out while reading a large Codex history. Commit a4fd6d06f carries the list cursor across background passes and reads one five-thread page per pass.
  • A later observation found that one very large thread could still exhaust a page's outer timeout. Commit 8260dd227 bounds every persisted thread/read to 30 seconds, so unreadable siblings are skipped independently and discovery can advance. The isolated database progressed to 91 imported threads; after the last timeout at 17:22, eight consecutive reconciliation passes completed successfully over the next 20 minutes.
  • Tailnet handoff initially returned 502 on macOS: Vite had bound only to ::1, while Tailscale Serve proxies to 127.0.0.1. Commit 2269fe8d7 gives shared runs an explicit IPv4 web bind without pinning HMR. The exact repro changed from IPv4 000 / IPv6 200 / tailnet 502 to local IPv4 200 and tailnet 200.

Focused verification

  • vp fmt --check on the 3 changed files
  • vp lint on the 3 changed files
  • vp run --filter t3 typecheck
  • 7 import/continuity test files: 149 passed
  • Codex discovery/reconciler/adapter tests: 55 passed
  • Final cursor-resume test: 7 passed
  • Final timeout refinement: format/lint passed, Codex discovery/reconciler/adapter tests 46 passed, server typecheck passed
  • Tailscale IPv4 bind fix: format/lint passed, dev-runner tests 72 passed, web typecheck passed
  • git diff --check

Two privacy-safe browser screenshots were captured for the CLI adoption and external follow-up flows. The automated GitHub attachment step was blocked by the local Chrome extension's file-upload permission, so the images are not embedded in this comment.

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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.ts (1)

146-153: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve retry state for timed-out persisted-thread reads.

When thread/read times out, readCodexThreadSnapshots drops the thread. discoverPersistedThreads still advances initialPersistedDiscoveryCursor. After initial discovery completes, stopAfterKnownPage can stop on the first known page, so the failed thread is never retried.

Track failed provider thread IDs separately from successful snapshots. Retry them after initial pagination completes without blocking later pages. Add a two-page test that fails the second-page read once and confirms that a later scan imports the thread.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.ts` around lines 146 -
153, Update readCodexThreadSnapshots and discoverPersistedThreads to preserve
timed-out or otherwise failed providerThreadIds separately from successful
snapshots, continue pagination without blocking later pages, and retry those IDs
after initial pagination completes before allowing stopAfterKnownPage to
terminate discovery. In CodexAdapter, add a two-page test where the second-page
read fails once and verify a later scan imports that thread.
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexThreadDiscovery.ts`:
- Around line 146-153: Update readCodexThreadSnapshots and
discoverPersistedThreads to preserve timed-out or otherwise failed
providerThreadIds separately from successful snapshots, continue pagination
without blocking later pages, and retry those IDs after initial pagination
completes before allowing stopAfterKnownPage to terminate discovery. In
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Follow-up QA: warm-cache reconciliation and automatic workspace projects

Commit b3e558ead addresses the two issues found during tailnet testing:

  • A thread restored from client cache now asks the server to reconcile its persisted provider session before the replay head is captured. This makes turns written in Codex CLI/App appear after reopening or refreshing T3 without duplicating the HTTP snapshot read.
  • Imported Codex sessions now use a deterministic T3 project derived from their cwd. Missing projects are created with the workspace basename, and legacy imported threads are moved out of Unassigned Codex threads through an event-sourced thread.meta.update project assignment.
  • Native T3 threads continued externally in Codex keep their original T3 project; only deterministic imported threads are auto-routed.

Focused verification

  • Client state, reducer, and provider reconciler suites: 58 tests passed.
  • Server warm-cache reconciliation/replay coverage: 2 tests passed.
  • Focused typechecks passed for contracts, client runtime, and server.
  • Changed-file lint passed.

Real-session proof

Using the isolated tailnet QA copy:

  • The terminal-authored message that was missing before the fix is now present in the T3 projection after reconnecting.
  • Its imported thread moved from the legacy unassigned project into an automatically created project for its workspace.
  • The shared origin continues to return HTTP 200 over Tailscale.

No real conversation contents, session identifiers, pairing tokens, or local workspace paths are included in this evidence.

Tested by GPT-5.6 Codex / Codex harness.

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Follow-up finding: Codex active-writer conflict when continuing from T3

Shared QA reproduced a separate handoff failure after read-only synchronization succeeded:

  1. The imported Codex thread was still open in another Codex surface (CLI/terminal).
  2. T3 successfully read and reconciled its persisted transcript.
  3. Sending a new turn from T3 reached thread/resume, where Codex rejected the second writer with already has an active writer.
  4. T3 surfaced a raw ProviderAdapterProcessError, marked the thread failed, and retained the locally projected user message even though the provider never received it.

This is a writer-ownership/lifecycle conflict rather than corrupt session data. It matches:

Product decision still to make

Automatic fork restores progress, but changes the provider thread ID and creates a divergence: later messages sent to the original CLI thread will not appear in the T3 fork. For this continuity-focused PR, silently forking may violate the user's expectation that both surfaces are still the same conversation.

Candidate behavior to discuss before implementation:

  • Keep the transcript readable and show an actionable, sanitized state: “This Codex session is open in another client.”
  • Offer Retry after the other writer releases the session.
  • Offer Fork and continue here as an explicit choice, with a visible note that future histories diverge.
  • Never suggest deleting a live lock file.
  • Replace the raw adapter/path error with a typed user-facing conflict.
  • Decide how to handle the T3 user message that was persisted before provider acquisition failed.

No code changes were made for this finding. The supplied screenshot is intentionally not uploaded because it contains a real thread identifier and local filesystem path.

Investigated by GPT-5.6 Codex / Codex harness.

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apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionPipeline.ts (1)

1341-1373: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the assistant timestamp as the imported turn completion time.

Lines 1353-1370 create the historical turn with completedAt equal to the user-message timestamp. The later historical assistant event preserves that value at Lines 1406-1408. The imported turn therefore completes before its assistant response.

Set completedAt to event.payload.updatedAt when the settling assistant message is historical.

Proposed fix
 completedAt: settlesTurn
-  ? (existingTurn.value.completedAt ?? event.payload.updatedAt)
+  ? event.payload.historical === true
+    ? event.payload.updatedAt
+    : (existingTurn.value.completedAt ?? event.payload.updatedAt)
   : existingTurn.value.completedAt,

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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionPipeline.ts` around lines 1341
- 1373, Update the historical turn handling in the event projection flow so
completedAt uses the historical assistant event’s event.payload.updatedAt when
settling the turn, rather than preserving the imported user-message timestamp;
apply this consistently in both historical assistant completion paths around the
existing projectionTurnRepository update logic.
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderThreadReconciler.ts (1)

708-718: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pass the resolved workspace root into targeted reconciliation.

reconcilePersistedProviderThreadById omits workspaceRoot, so line 418 falls back to input.thread.cwd. The full pass supplies resolveWorkspaceRoot (lines 776-788), which resolves the repository root through RepositoryIdentityResolver.

For an imported thread whose Codex session ran in a repository subdirectory, the two paths then compute different projectId values at lines 452-456:

  • the full pass uses workspaceProjectId(<repository root>),
  • the targeted pass uses workspaceProjectId(<subdirectory cwd>).

The targeted pass finds no project shell for the subdirectory id, dispatches an extra project.create for the subdirectory, and moves the thread there through thread.meta.update. The next full pass moves the thread back. The result is a duplicate project and repeated project churn for the same thread.

Resolve the workspace root in this function and pass it through.

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 export const reconcilePersistedProviderThreadById = Effect.fn(
   "reconcilePersistedProviderThreadById",
-)(function* (threadId: ThreadId) {
+)(function* (
+  threadId: ThreadId,
+  options: { readonly resolveWorkspaceRoot?: (cwd: string) => Effect.Effect<string> } = {},
+) {
   yield* reconcilePersistedThread({
     instance,
     thread: persistedThread,
+    workspaceRoot: options.resolveWorkspaceRoot
+      ? yield* options.resolveWorkspaceRoot(persistedThread.cwd)
+      : persistedThread.cwd,
     model,

Then pass resolveWorkspaceRoot from the layer at line 758.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderThreadReconciler.ts` around lines 708
- 718, Update reconcilePersistedProviderThreadById to resolve the repository
workspace root and include it in the reconcilePersistedThread input, then pass
the layer’s existing resolveWorkspaceRoot dependency from the caller so targeted
reconciliation computes the same project identity as the full pass.
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Bound the full-history metadata scan, or raise its timeout.

When includeUnchangedMetadata is true, CodexAdapter omits pagination limits and sets stopAfterKnownPage: false. listCodexThreadsForRead then reads every thread/list page. The outer Effect.timeout("2 minutes") also covers materializing the threads. A large CODEX_HOME can exceed this limit. The adapter updates its cursor only after successful completion, so a timed-out scan restarts from the beginning. The reconciler converts the discovery error to zero work, so the coordinator can report a completed sync without processing the threads.

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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/decider.ts`:
- Around line 1081-1106: The recovery path producing thread.turn-start-requested
must clear any existing snooze state before emitting the request. Update the
surrounding decider flow to emit the same lifecycle reset events used by the
normal thread.turn.start path, while preserving the session-start behavior and
existing event payload.

In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Around line 1626-1659: The activeWriterRecoveryPending state is not cleared
when recoverThreadTurn returns another conflict for the same message ID, leaving
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProjectionPipeline.ts`:
- Around line 1341-1373: Update the historical turn handling in the event
projection flow so completedAt uses the historical assistant event’s
event.payload.updatedAt when settling the turn, rather than preserving the
imported user-message timestamp; apply this consistently in both historical
assistant completion paths around the existing projectionTurnRepository update
logic.

In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts`:
- Around line 1901-1927: Bound the full-history metadata scan in the
CodexAdapter flow when includeUnchangedMetadata is true, or otherwise increase
the surrounding Effect.timeout sufficiently to cover large CODEX_HOME
directories. Preserve cursor progress across bounded pages and ensure timeout
failures are not converted into a successful zero-work reconciliation.

In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderThreadReconciler.ts`:
- Around line 708-718: Update reconcilePersistedProviderThreadById to resolve
the repository workspace root and include it in the reconcilePersistedThread
input, then pass the layer’s existing resolveWorkspaceRoot dependency from the
caller so targeted reconciliation computes the same project identity as the full
pass.
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Final same-machine QA follow-up

The remaining Computer Use acceptance case was rerun against the retained isolated QA state.

  • The original shared/Tailscale browser entered did not respond during connection setup, but the server and Vite processes stayed healthy.
  • The server trace shows reconcilePersistedProviderThreads completed successfully in 18.15 s; the persisted result later appeared as 0 organized, 1 updated, 160 unchanged.
  • Chrome was paired directly through the local Vite origin as the same-machine workaround.
  • A fresh complete synchronization showed the disabled animated discovery state and finished with 0 organized, 0 updated, 161 unchanged.
  • The affected Codex thread reopened with its transcript, no active error banner/sidebar Failed state, and survived a full browser reload.

The connection-supervisor failure is separate from this PR and is tracked in #2, including reproduction evidence, the localhost workaround, and multi-surface acceptance criteria. No source changes were added to this PR for that larger concern.

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