[Revens2]

Fixes #17187

Conversation-only rewind was blocked when the workspace had no Git repository and its checkpoints had no file snapshot. “Edit from here” now keeps those conversation anchors, and the dialog enables file restoration only for a ready snapshot, including the first-message baseline.

Rewind targets follow surviving runs, including background wakes and folded answers, so rewinding and resending does not select a discarded run or discard extra work. Capture preserves earlier run-linked checkpoints, and dispatch and execution independently enforce snapshot readiness and reject discarded targets.

Based on Revens2’s contribution in #18379, rebuilt against the current overlay and orchestration paths. Preserved the author’s commits and merged main.

Before: actual main UI, reading a snapshot of the same two-turn non-Git conversation. Neither message offers rewind.

After: rebuilt web UI with the same prompt/response content, viewport, panels and hover state. Messages were resent during live rollback verification, so timestamps differ.

The first-message dialog keeps file restoration disabled while conversation rewind remains available.

Recording: first-message conversation rewind on the rebuilt head. The prompt returns to the composer; files are left alone.

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/05c9add076cbe591/18379-rewind-final.mp4

Verification: 219 session/timeline tests, web typecheck, targeted lint and formatting passed on the final head. Before the last web-only correction, 357 focused tests covered server capture/rollback/runtime, client commands, session targets and timeline rows, and 2 interactive browser tests covered the dialog. Server and client-runtime typechecks passed; those paths were unchanged by the final correction.

Live Codex verification: two completed turns in a disposable non-Git folder, first-message rewind to baseline 0, prompt restoration, resend, browser reload and repeated rewind. Persisted runs became rolled_back and the provider returned to idle without a rollback failure. Hidden wake/folded-answer and fork cases use focused tests rather than live provider fixtures.

Known availability limit: after rewind and resend, a fresh bounded snapshot omits discarded-run metadata. The first message after that gap can lose Edit from here, in Git and non-Git workspaces; a warm cached session may retain the action. Confirmed with a fresh incognito client. The action stays unavailable instead of guessing a discarded or older target. Queued-run renumbering can leave an indistinguishable empty slot with the same result. Returning enough discarded-run metadata needs a separate server-payload change and measurement.

Retained tests: five new cases plus one extension across five files became three new cases plus one extension across four core files; existing neighboring timeline fixtures were updated. Regression rows cover repeated rewind/resend, background wake and fork predecessors, unavailable snapshots, discarded targets, and the first-message dialog without adding cases for each review finding.

Live verification uses an isolated development database and a disposable non-Git workspace. Browser proof covers the web client on Linux; provider rollback is exercised with Codex. macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Electron desktop, live Claude/OpenCode, and remote relay/tunnel sessions were not exercised.

Implemented and tested with GPT-6.1-Sol and GPT-6-Astra in Codex; adversarial reviews with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6-Sol.

[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 5ffb85e

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused, well-tested fix that enables an existing conversation-only rewind action for non-git workspaces while preserving the requirement for ready checkpoints when files must be restored. It does not alter defaults, schemas, deployment behavior, or static-analysis configuration.

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[juliusmarminge]

Note

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The manual steps describe the rewind, but the PR has no before/after screenshots or recording of the changed interaction. Please attach screenshots showing "Edit from here" before and after, plus a short recording of rewinding the first of two messages and resending. The verification rules require this UI evidence.

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Walkthrough

The change supports conversation-only rewind to missing checkpoints in non-Git workspaces. Capture preserves run-linked checkpoint ordinals. The web offers rewind targets for missing checkpoints and disables file restoration unless the target checkpoint is ready. Client and server validation allow missing checkpoints only when file restoration is disabled.

Changes: Missing-checkpoint rewind

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track run-linked ordinals during capture apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointCaptureService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointCaptureService.test.ts	The capture context includes ready checkpoints and missing checkpoints linked to runs. Capture skips baseline materialization at preserved ordinals. Tests check the preserved ordinals.
Resolve conversation-only rewind targets apps/web/src/session-logic.ts, apps/web/src/session-logic.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, packages/client-runtime/src/operations/commands.ts	Web rewind-target logic accepts ready and missing checkpoints. The confirmation UI disables file restoration when the target checkpoint is not ready. The client runtime accepts a missing checkpoint only when restoreFiles is false.
Allow conversation-only rollback on the server apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRollbackService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts	Server rollback accepts missing checkpoints when restoreFiles is false and excludes rolled-back runs as targets. The runtime test covers rejected missing-checkpoint requests and successful baseline rewinds.

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

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#28925 — The change handles missing checkpoints for conversation rewind, which is related to the issue’s checkpoint-availability behavior.
• pingdotgg/t3code#32429 — The change disables file restoration when the target checkpoint is not ready.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#30972 — Both changes update checkpoint capture and rollback handling for missing or stale checkpoint states.
• pingdotgg/t3code#31657 — Both changes modify checkpoint availability and rollback behavior in orchestration-v2.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24952 — Both changes support conversation rewind when no file snapshot exists.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to 85f9e

After a rewind and failed resend, reopening a non-Git conversation can hide “Edit from here” until a later checkpoint capture. This limited case needs follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e1e60

Missing checkpoints remain restricted to conversation-only rewind, with file restoration independently enforced on the server. A remaining lifecycle concern is that rewinding, resending and rewinding again can select a checkpoint belonging to discarded conversation history. The demonstrated scope is one thread; no new privilege escalation or cross-thread access was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: The newly enabled conversation-only lifecycle can select discarded history after rewind and resend. Later missing checkpoints are not marked stale, run ordinals continue increasing, and Edit from here targets the current run ordinal minus one. For example, after discarding runs 1 and 2, a completed run 3 targets checkpoint 2, which still belongs to a rolled-back run. Server target lookup does not exclude that run, although the provider-turn list excludes its discarded turns. This leaves the rollback target inconsistent with the active conversation and can undermine repeated-rewind correctness. Timeline filtering prevents discarded messages from being redisplayed, but does not fix this predecessor selection. The resulting provider failure or mutation behavior was not verified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated new reachability is conversation rollback within the command's thread and active provider session. Manipulating checkpoint or restoreFiles values still encounters server-side scope, status and provider checks. Broader tenant or environment authorization was not independently established by this focused inspection.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The UI disabled state is not the security boundary. An unresolved UI target leaves file restoration enabled at the presentation layer, but server dispatch and execution independently reject missing checkpoints for file restoration. The changed eligibility therefore does not establish a file-restore bypass.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Rolled-back local timeline items are hidden even though audit records remain. This limits direct redisplay of discarded conversation messages. Separately, final rollback failures are reported to waiting clients, and failures from superseded rollback requests are rejected.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the primary change: enabling conversation-only rewind in non-Git workspaces.
Description check		The description is detailed and covers the problem, implementation, scope, verification results, evidence, limitations, and untested platforms. It does not use the template headings verbatim, but the …
Linked Issues check		Issue #17187 requires conversation-only rewind in non-Git workspaces. The changes expose missing checkpoints as rewind targets when they retain run links, allow restoreFiles: false, and keep file …
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain connected to issue #17187. Checkpoint preservation, surviving-run selection, discarded-target rejection, UI gating, and regression tests support correct conversation-only rewind and…

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Explanation

The description is detailed and covers the problem, implementation, scope, verification results, evidence, limitations, and untested platforms. It does not use the template headings verbatim, but the required information is substantially present.

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Explanation

Issue #17187 requires conversation-only rewind in non-Git workspaces. The changes expose missing checkpoints as rewind targets when they retain run links, allow restoreFiles: false, and keep file restoration limited to ready checkpoints. The web timeline exposes the action for available non-Git and baseline checkpoints. Dispatch, rollback, and execution reject unavailable or discarded targets. Tests cover repeated non-Git rewind, baseline rewind, unavailable snapshots, discarded targets, and surviving run links.

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Explanation

The changes remain connected to issue #17187. Checkpoint preservation, surviving-run selection, discarded-target rejection, UI gating, and regression tests support correct conversation-only rewind and safe file restoration. No unrelated production change is demonstrated.

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apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx (1)

12139-12140: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Attach the required rewind UI evidence.

The PR describes the manual validation, but its body, comments, reviews, and timeline contain no before/after screenshots or rewind/resend recording. Attach or link both screenshots and the requested recording before merge.

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Follow-up: CodeRabbit fix applied + isolated verification (commit e1e60a9).

CodeRabbit thread — applied as suggested: resolvePendingRevertTarget / isRevertFilesDisabled in apps/web/src/session-logic.ts (+unit test), wired to the destructive "Revert files too" button of the pending-revert dialog in ChatView.tsx (disabled + title="No file snapshot for this checkpoint."). New commit: e1e60a9 fix(rewind): disable file-restore choice when checkpoint has no snapshot, pushed to this branch.

Targeted tests (all green, 172/172):

• apps/web/src/session-logic.test.ts — 52/52 (incl. new disables Revert files too unless the rollback target is ready)
• packages/client-runtime/src/operations/commands.test.ts — 29/29
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointRollbackService.test.ts — 13/13
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointCaptureService.test.ts — 5/5
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts — 73/73

Isolated manual test (separate server :13775 + web :5735, separate userdata — prod untouched): scratch "No project" thread (non-git, no git init), 2 messages, "Edit from here":

• msg2 dialog: "Revert files too" disabled with tooltip (checkpoint status missing) —
• "Revert and keep changes": prompt restored to composer, tail cut, resend OK — before / after
• "Revert files too" with no snapshot target: clean server error toast, thread intact —
• short clip (dialog + revert): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Revens2/t3code/proofs/18379-rewind/proofs-18379/rewind-resend.mp4

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[juliusmarminge]

Taking over this one as maintainer for batch worktree-git-16. I will merge current main, reduce the tests, rebuild the conversation-only rewind fix, and verify the cross-layer rollback and first-message file-restore gates. No merge is planned.

[aarock1234]

any chance this gets picked back up? opencode has /undo and claude code can rewind the chat from any earlier prompt, so people kind of expect this now; scratch threads just don't have it at all right now

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Minor · Retain missing thread-start checkpoints in bounded snapshots · session-logic.ts:1025-1028

apps/web/src/session-logic.ts:1025-1028
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Retain missing thread-start checkpoints in bounded snapshots

If a non-Git conversation is rewound and the resent run fails, a fresh bounded snapshot can omit the baseline linked to a discarded run. The settled message then has no “Edit from here” action or explanation. Include missing thread-start checkpoints in the bounded payload so the conversation-only target remains available.

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Update the bounded snapshot selection around input.threadStartCheckpointAvailable so a missing thread-start checkpoint is retained even when its baseline is linked to a discarded run. Preserve the conversation-only target for the settled message so its “Edit from here” action and explanation remain available.

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Evidence

Steps: In a non-Git project, send two prompts and let both finish. Hover the first prompt, open Edit from here, and choose Revert and keep changes. Verify the prompt returns to the composer and files remain intact. Resend, reload, reconnect in a fresh browser, restart the server, reconnect again, and perform a second rewind. Environment: real web app, Chromium 1280×800, light theme, fresh isolated databases, synthetic data, replay provider.

Before	After
a03d9bce02	85f9eeb93b
Before recording	After recording, including reload, fresh clients, server restart, and second rewind

The file-revert button remains visually subtle, so this capture shows keyboard focus moving directly between Cancel and Revert and keep changes, skipping Revert files too in both directions:

Current-main comparison was also rerun. 75b22bf56c still omits Edit from here (recording). A clean temporary merge of that main with the PR head passes the entire flow, including the second rewind after restart (recording).

Remaining visible issue: after reload, head briefly displays an empty conversation and Git controls in this non-Git workspace, around 19.4–19.7 seconds in the after recording. A plain current-main reload control without any rewind shows the same loading flash around 7.8–8.1 seconds. The previously reported reappearance of removed turns with a red stop button did not recur in these completed-turn runs.

Videos omit credential-pairing screens, join fresh-browser segments with stage captions, and mask the terminal prompt's private path. In-app reload transitions remain visible. The reconnect warning during the intentional server restart is expected.

Scenario driver · Reload-control driver · Actual server-restart transcript

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• The documented native-provider metadata-gap limitation remains unverified: these runs used deterministic replay metadata, not a native Codex session.
• Desktop, mobile, and Git-backed file restoration were outside this web/non-Git reproduction.