[juliusmarminge]

Problem

Forking a Codex conversation requested its complete historical turns even though T3 only consumes the returned thread metadata. Large histories can exceed the app-server transport limit. A real web fork on main sent no excludeTurns flag and returned the source turn.

Change

Send excludeTurns: true on the existing typed thread/fork request. Keep the inclusive selected-turn boundary and fork-local revert fallback. Add a regression for the outgoing request and update exact replay expectations used by existing tests.

Scope and approval

Fixes #24460

GitCafe: #24460

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. This is a focused fix to avoid transferring unused provider history; it adds no settings or persisted state.

Verification

• Regression failed before the fix because excludeTurns: true was missing from the actual outbound frame; it passes with the fix.
• All 87 tests across CodexAdapterV2.test.ts, ThreadFork.integration.test.ts, and ThreadMergeBack.integration.test.ts pass. The old integration fixtures reproduced two failures before their request expectations were updated. Server typecheck passes. Targeted lint has no errors and two preexisting unused-variable warnings.
• Final scoped run at df41a3727c: 87 passing tests.
• Real dev web app on Linux with Codex CLI 0.163.0: a fresh source has a completed marker turn; the fork request sends excludeTurns: true and the selected lastTurnId; its response has turns: []; continuation on the returned native thread recalls the marker without the follow-up supplying it.
• No client contracts or render paths change. The visual fixture matrix is empty.

Evidence	Before	After
Native protocol	main request and response	fixed request, empty history, retained context
Regression	missing flag failure	focused passing output

Evidence index and reproduction steps, extraction script, empty fixture matrix.

The reporter's private 590 MB history and old global hang were not reproduced. The runtime proof establishes response-history suppression and retained fork context on small valid history. The attempted synthetic rollout-only enlargement was discarded because it did not produce a valid large-history fixture. Other Codex versions and native client shells were not exercised.

Models: Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude harness; GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at aad68ea

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Codex forks now request metadata without full turn-history hydration, including on archived-session retries. Fork boundaries and stored history remain unchanged, making this a narrowly scoped transfer optimization.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 3a8c250 · PR result: aad68ea · 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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Walkthrough

The Codex adapter now sends excludeTurns: true with thread/fork. Tests and replay fixtures update expected fork parameters, including forks that retain an existing lastTurnId boundary.

Changes: Codex fork request

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fork request and replay coverage apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/fixtures/*	The adapter adds excludeTurns: true to thread/fork. Tests and fixtures expect the parameter while retaining existing thread IDs, configuration, and lastTurnId boundaries.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24487: Both PRs add excludeTurns: true to Codex thread/fork requests and update fork coverage.
• pingdotgg/t3code#29618: Both PRs change the Codex fork path and cover archived-source fork behavior.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to aad68

Codex forks stop requesting full turn history, so large histories no longer inflate the fork response. The selected-turn boundary is retained and the tests and replay fixtures are updated to match. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Issue #24460 requires the fork request to use metadata-only behavior, preserve the selected-turn boundary and provider context, and add focused coverage. The implementation adds excludeTurns: true a…	Add a focused test for pending-request completion when the transport reader fails, and make the test pass without regressing the fork request, selected-turn boundary, or provider context.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description includes all required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It explains the behavior change, links the triaged issue, documents focused tests and runtime che…
Title check		The title is concise, conventional, and accurately identifies the main change: Codex forks no longer request complete turn history.
Out of Scope Changes check		The source change, request-expectation tests, and native replay fixture updates all support issue #24460. The reviewed changes introduce no unrelated settings, persisted state, client contract, or ren…

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The description includes all required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It explains the behavior change, links the triaged issue, documents focused tests and runtime checks, and states test limitations.

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Explanation

The source change, request-expectation tests, and native replay fixture updates all support issue #24460. The reviewed changes introduce no unrelated settings, persisted state, client contract, or render-path changes.

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Explanation

Issue #24460 requires the fork request to use metadata-only behavior, preserve the selected-turn boundary and provider context, and add focused coverage. The implementation adds excludeTurns: true and retains lastTurnId; the regression and replay fixtures cover the outgoing request. However, the pull request adds no automated coverage for pending-request completion when the transport reader fails, which the issue lists in its suggested coding direction.

Resolution

Add a focused test for pending-request completion when the transport reader fails, and make the test pass without regressing the fork request, selected-turn boundary, or provider context.

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Evidence

Run the real web app on fresh databases with identical prompts, Chromium viewport (1280×800), and light theme. Seed a distinctive fact and synthetic file/tool history, fork from the completed History prepared response, then ask for the earlier fact without tools. Inspect the matching native thread/fork request and response.

Before	After
3a8c250cb0	aad68ea1f1
Before recording	After recording
Before protocol fields	After protocol fields

Base returned two historical turns with six items. Head sent excludeTurns: true alongside the selected lastTurnId and returned turns: []. Both recalled violet-otter-731 with zero tools. Protocol images show selected fields from actual logs; private runtime metadata is omitted. Conversation crops were pixel-stable across captures at least 500 ms apart. Videos redact private runtime labels.

Reproduction and seed commands · Protocol extractor

Transport-size overflow was not reproduced; this proves the unnecessary historical payload and its removal. AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• Transport-size overflow was not observed: the synthetic history returned two historical turns on base and remained below the transport limit.
• The older installed-build global hang was not exercised; it is separate from this request-payload fix.
• Archived-session retry behavior was not exercised.
• Both sides used identical seed prompts, but live provider tool output was not byte-identical.