[juliusmarminge]

Problem

A stopped Codex app-server leaves new threads waiting indefinitely on thread/start. When the transport exits, the shared session can remain ready and later sends reuse its dead transport.

Change

Expose transport termination to the adapter and retire the shared session through the existing event-stream failure path. Bound thread setup, resume and turn acceptance to two minutes; a timed-out setup fails the run instead of retrying or falling back to a new native thread. Escalate app-server shutdown after two seconds so a stopped process cannot hold release open.

Scope and approval

Fixes #24300

GitCafe: #24300

Julius explicitly requested triage and authorized a focused bug-fix PR. Server-only Codex liveness behavior; no client or wire-schema changes.

Verification

• vp run check:changed at 4a840995da: passed format, lint, both knip checks, GraphQL, affected-package typechecks and 140 tests in four files. Exact-head output.
• Six focused regressions cover unanswered thread/turn starts, transport death, deadline retirement, terminal setup failure and skipping resume fallback after an unknown outcome. The original three fail on main at their bug assertions; the resume guard removal fails directly on fallback invocation. Original red assertions, resume red assertion.
• Independent Codex and Claude review round 3: no confirmed code blockers. Review summary.

Evidence: server-only change; visual fixture matrix is empty. Evidence index and six-test accounting.

Before	After at 4a840995da
Stopped startup hung; dead shared session remained ready	Timeout at 120 seconds; stopped PID exits; run fails without automatic retry; manual replacement succeeds; killed replacement retires and an existing thread resumes on another PID

Sanitized protocol milestones, reproduction wrapper. Runtime: real web dev server on Ubuntu Linux, Codex CLI 0.163.0, isolated state, 1280×800 browser. No visible rendering changed.

Unusually slow setup or resuming a very large rollout can exceed the fixed cutoff. The two-minute deadline applies to request acceptance and setup, not subsequent model/tool execution. Retiring the shared app-server interrupts sibling turns using that process. Linux process cleanup was exercised; Windows and macOS process cleanup were not run. The original hours-long natural notification-backlog trigger was not established.

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

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 4a84099

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized Codex resilience bug fix that bounds setup/turn requests, surfaces transport death, and retires wedged shared app-servers. Added tests cover timeout, retirement, transport failure, and prevention of unsafe retries, while normal successful paths remain unchanged.

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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	+7 B (+0.1%)	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	+7 B (+0.6%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	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	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: b76a110 · PR result: 4a84099 · Source CI: failure

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 app-server client exposes transport termination. The adapter applies deadlines to selected requests and fails its event stream on timeout or transport exit. Provider turn startup treats unresponsive thread operations as unknown outcomes and settles affected runs as failed.

Changes: Codex app-server failure handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expose transport termination packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/protocol.ts, packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/client.ts	The protocol and client expose a termination effect that fails with the app-server transport’s terminal error.
Bound requests and propagate adapter failures apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts	The adapter applies two-minute deadlines to turn/start, thread/start, and thread/resume. Timeouts and transport termination fail the event stream. Process termination escalates to SIGKILL after two seconds. Tests cover unanswered requests and transport exit.
Settle runs with unknown provider outcomes apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts	Unresponsive errors, including nested causes, use the run failure path instead of retry or fresh-thread fallback. Tests cover unknown outcomes from thread/start and thread/resume.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderTurnStartService
  participant CodexAdapterV2
  participant CodexAppServerClient
  participant CodexAppServerPatchedProtocol
  ProviderTurnStartService->>CodexAdapterV2: Start thread or turn
  CodexAdapterV2->>CodexAppServerClient: Send request with deadline
  CodexAppServerClient->>CodexAppServerPatchedProtocol: Send app-server request
  CodexAppServerPatchedProtocol-->>CodexAppServerClient: Response or transport termination
  CodexAppServerClient-->>CodexAdapterV2: Response or termination failure
  CodexAdapterV2-->>ProviderTurnStartService: Request or event-stream failure

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Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: Switching Codex accounts with codex login is not picked up by the running shared app-server; every turn fails with 'access token could not be refreshed' #23720: The adapter now propagates app-server termination, which is relevant to retiring a stale shared session after process termination.
• [Bug]: Terminal "timed out negotiating with the code-mode host" on every call while the VM's Codex app-server is backlogged #24322: The adapter adds bounded failure for selected app-server requests, but does not directly change terminal negotiation.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#21322: Both changes propagate shared app-server process failure into session lifecycle handling.

Suggested reviewers: only21mil

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 4a840

Rollback can still hang when Codex does not answer a resume request. Bound that request before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(server): retire unresponsive shared Codex app-servers" follows conventional commit format and names the main change. The diff adds transport termination exposure, retires shared session…
Description check		The description follows the template's sections (Problem, Change, Scope and approval, Verification). It states the problem, explains the fix, links issue #24300, cites explicit maintainer authorizatio…
Linked Issues check		The changes address the coding requirements in [#24300]. CodexAppServerClient exposes transport termination. CodexAdapterV2 fails the event stream on transport termination and on unanswered `threa…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within the linked issue scope. They modify Codex app-server transport termination, request deadlines, process shutdown escalation, session retirement, and unknown-outcome handling. Th…

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Explanation

The title "fix(server): retire unresponsive shared Codex app-servers" follows conventional commit format and names the main change. The diff adds transport termination exposure, retires shared sessions when the transport ends or setup stalls, and bounds thread/turn requests with deadlines, so the title matches the changeset's primary purpose.

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Explanation

The description follows the template's sections (Problem, Change, Scope and approval, Verification). It states the problem, explains the fix, links issue #24300, cites explicit maintainer authorization, and gives concrete verification with commit-level results, a before/after runtime table, and a note that no visual change occurred. It also lists limitations, including the two-minute deadline scope, the sibling-turn interruption, and untested Windows and macOS process cleanup. The Verification section is thorough. The template's Problem and Change headings are present with content.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The changes address the coding requirements in [#24300]. CodexAppServerClient exposes transport termination. CodexAdapterV2 fails the event stream on transport termination and on unanswered thread/start, thread/resume, and turn/start requests. This retires the shared session through the existing release path and bounds setup and turn acceptance. ProviderTurnStartService treats timeout outcomes as unknown, so it does not retry or create a fallback native thread. The focused tests cover these failure paths. The optional isolation goal is not implemented, and the PR documents that sibling turns can be interrupted.

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Explanation

The changes stay within the linked issue scope. They modify Codex app-server transport termination, request deadlines, process shutdown escalation, session retirement, and unknown-outcome handling. The added tests cover these server-side behaviors. No client, wire-schema, or unrelated product changes are shown.

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Major · Apply the deadline to rollback’s thread/resume request. · CodexAdapterV2.ts:7415-7423

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts:7415-7423
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the deadline to rollback’s thread/resume request.

When rollbackThread finds an unloaded paginated thread, it sends thread/resume here without withAppServerDeadline. If the transport stays connected but Codex does not answer, rollback waits indefinitely and this request does not retire the shared app-server. Apply the deadline to this request as well. (effect.website)

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts
around lines 7415 - 7423:
Wrap the rollback `thread/resume` request in `rollbackThread` with the existing
`withAppServerDeadline` mechanism so it times out if Codex does not respond and
retires the shared app-server as intended. Preserve the request arguments and
surrounding flow.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts:
- Around line 7415-7423: Wrap the rollback `thread/resume` request in
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• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts
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• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts
• packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/client.ts
• packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/protocol.ts

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