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Provider exit can leave tools and native subagents running after their root finishes, strand a delegated task, or let a delayed session release overwrite a replacement's state. This repairs the lifecycle failures reported in #17045 and the Windows reproduction. Codex app-server termination detection is already on the updated base.

The repair tracks release ownership per thread, hands ownership over inside EventSink's committed transaction boundary, and persists per-thread session snapshots so shared sessions retain each thread's state. Cleanup consults those snapshots before removing a worktree. Provider-stream failure also settles owned tools/native work and delegated results, while preserving completed root results, partial output and current-attempt fences.

Verification at 0fa225da362d0e4667c733b971ed0550a8ae82a8:

  • Deterministic regressions reproduced stale-release overwrites, cancellation after a committed replacement attachment, orphaned work, and the live-worktree cleanup omission. Tests use Deferred milestones and real EventSink/SQLite paths. Cleanup deletion was confined to disposable Git fixtures.
  • vp run check:changed cb9629e6891ef0745772b69f09c9acd0c6a74f7e passed: 372 tests in 10 server files, affected typechecks, formatting, lint, knip and generated GraphQL checks. Normal commit hooks passed.
  • A fresh independent review approved the cumulative implementation and ran 33 additional focused tests covering cancellation/release races, persistence/replay, delegated settlement, migrations and cleanup.
  • A non-mutating merge-tree check against upstream d2d1e4f50ef856f940d91858915368500657b0b7 found no conflicts. Checks above ran on the stated base/head, not a newly merged build.

No new live provider-exit or client run was performed for this revision. The earlier Windows run and isolated before/after images concern the older implementation and are historical evidence, not validation of this head. A provider that hangs without exiting remains outside this repair. Human review is still required for merging.

Original implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Code in T3 Code. Current repair and fresh independent review: Codex gpt-6.1-sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This change alters shared provider-session lifecycle and cross-thread run/delegated-task settlement across several production orchestration layers. The concurrency and durable event-state coordination make the runtime impact broader than a small isolated bug fix.

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  • apps/server/src/mcp/DelegatedTaskProviderExit.integration.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EventSink.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts
  • apps/server/src/persistence/Migrations.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/persistence/Migrations.ts
  • apps/server/src/persistence/Migrations/076_ProviderSessionBindingPayloads.ts
  • apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts

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Provider-stream failure handling now terminalizes eligible open run-owned work and updates delegated-task state. Provider-session release writes are serialized, and session bindings retain per-thread payloads used by projection reads and storage cleanup.

Changes: Provider Exit Recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track and cascade run-owned work
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts
The service tracks eligible nodes and turn items on root and linked child threads. Cascades and detach cleanup include owned turn items.
Recover open work after provider failure
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.test.ts
On ingestion failure, the service interrupts an unfinished root turn or terminalizes remaining open work if the run was already finalized. Tests cover tool work, completed roots, and superseded writes.
Finalize delegated tasks
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/DelegatedTaskProviderExit.integration.test.ts
The orchestrator passes owned turn items to cascade terminalization. The integration test checks child-run, subagent, tool, and delegated-task states for both root-turn outcomes.

Provider Session State and Release

Layer / File(s) Summary
Serialize session attachments and releases
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EventSink.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts
The event sink reports committed events before publication. The session manager serializes attachment, status, and release writes, tracks pending releases, and scopes release updates to threads still owned by the release. Tests cover retry and close races.
Persist and read per-thread session payloads
apps/server/src/persistence/Migrations*, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts
Migration 76 adds payloads to provider-session bindings. Projection writes and reads use each binding’s payload, status, and update time when available. Tests cover replay, recovery, and binding updates.
Use effective session state in cleanup
apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts, apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts
Storage cleanup selects the binding payload when present and filters on the effective session status. SQLite-backed tests cover live sessions found through bindings, legacy payloads, or an orphan session row.

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

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderEventStream
  participant RunExecutionService
  participant Orchestrator
  participant DelegatedTask
  ProviderEventStream->>RunExecutionService: report ingestion failure
  RunExecutionService->>Orchestrator: write cascade terminal events
  Orchestrator->>DelegatedTask: update task status and result availability
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Possibly related issues

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#23169 — It uses the same run-finalization and provider-turn recovery path.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#25863 — It terminalizes Codex background commands, which overlaps with this change’s handling of owned tool work.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#21327 — It settles orphaned native subagents after provider-session replacement.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0fa22

This change makes Codex runs and delegated tasks settle when the shared app-server exits, and it keeps per-thread session state correct across releases. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed changes. An app-server that hangs without exiting is not covered here, and the author tracks it separately.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts:
- Around line 1037-1040: Update the release-record logic around
`writeReleaseRecords` in `ProviderSessionManager` to suppress the old release
status only for threads attached to the replacement session. Write release
events for threads the old session served that are not attached to the
replacement, so their projections do not remain ready after the session closes.
- Around line 1037-1040: Update the release-status fencing in
ProviderSessionManager around writeReleaseRecords: checking only whether
sessions currently contains the session key allows an older release to overwrite
a completed replacement’s status. Compare the releasing session’s generation or
projected identity against the current session generation, and write the release
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  • apps/server/src/mcp/DelegatedTaskProviderExit.integration.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/OrchestratorReplayRecovery.integration.test.ts
  • packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/client.test.ts
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Comment on lines +1037 to +1040
const replaced = (yield* Ref.get(sessions)).has(
sessionKey(input.providerSessionId),
);
yield* writeReleaseRecords({ ...records, replaced });

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve release status for threads outside the replacement.

If the old session served threads A and B, and the replacement opens only for A, replaced suppresses the old release event for both threads. B has no replacement attachment event, so B’s projection remains ready after its session closes. Suppress the old status update only for threads attached to the replacement; write a release event for the others.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts
around lines 1037 - 1040:
Update the release-record logic around `writeReleaseRecords` in
`ProviderSessionManager` to suppress the old release status only for threads
attached to the replacement session. Write release events for threads the old
session served that are not attached to the replacement, so their projections do
not remain ready after the session closes.

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Prevent an older release from overwriting a completed replacement release.

If the old scope close stalls, a replacement can open and release before the old close times out. The map is then empty, so this check writes the old release status after the newer release status. For example, an old manual_shutdown can replace the newer session’s runtime_error with stopped. Fence status writes by session generation or the projected session’s identity, not only by whether a session is currently live.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts
around lines 1037 - 1040:
Update the release-status fencing in ProviderSessionManager around
writeReleaseRecords: checking only whether sessions currently contains the
session key allows an older release to overwrite a completed replacement’s
status. Compare the releasing session’s generation or projected identity against
the current session generation, and write the release status only when it
belongs to the current generation.

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Tested on Windows against a real Codex app-server: main reproduces both hangs, and this PR fixes both.

Setup: Windows 11, Node 24.19.0, Codex CLI 0.163.0 (npm global). Server run from source (node src/bin.ts serve with a scratch --base-dir), first at main 99c692b, then at main with this PR's head 3a2f884 merged (clean merge). I killed the shared codex app-server with Stop-Process -Force.

main (99c692b) main + this PR
Kill while idle, then send a turn Session still shows ready. Every later turn fails at once with CodexAppServerProcessExitedError: ... exited with code 4294967295, on the same thread and on a brand-new thread. No new app-server starts until the backend restarts. Session goes to error about 100 ms after the kill (Codex app-server exited; failing its provider session.). The next turn starts a fresh app-server and completes; later turns and a new thread work too.
Kill mid-turn, during a Start-Sleep -Seconds 120 tool call Run stays running for as long as I watched (2.5+ minutes), and the session still shows ready. Root turn is failed 190 ms after the kill. The next turn on the same thread starts a fresh app-server and completes.

The PR's tests also pass on Windows: the four server test files it touches (127 tests) and effect-codex-app-server's client.test.ts (3 tests).

One small leftover: in the mid-turn case, the failed run's in-flight tool_call node stays running with completedAt: null after the root turn fails. It doesn't block anything, but a client that renders node status could show that tool as still running.

This is the dead cached session I described in #17045 (comment).

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