[juliusmarminge]

Restart recovery can retire accepted steering before it reaches a provider. This carries the original message identities, text, projected context, and attachments through recovery, including a completed source waiting on its checkpoint and a second crash before delivery. Completed, queued, live, and explicitly interrupted sibling runs retain ownership of their steering.

Recovery records the pending IDs and a replayable follow-up in the existing transaction. Continuations use the same ownership rule when building the prompt and starting the provider. Attachment path notices retain each original message's budget across joined prompts. Codex receives actual input for carried steering and retries an exact empty-input rejection only for an active goal. Cut assistant, reasoning, and plan items stop streaming.

Rebuilt from @maria-rcks's #17589. The launch-key concern is the next stack layer. Main already supplies the continuation default, chain cap, shared-session recovery, and waiting-user guards.

Verification:

• Codex integration suite: 169 baseline cases → 179, with ten new behavior cases; all 179 pass. Existing recovery cancellation coverage was strengthened. Another 97 recovery cases pass.
• Real SQLite crash snapshots, persisted event milestones, and actual outbound Codex input prove steering text/context/image bytes/file paths, repeated restart, completed/held/interrupted siblings, and active-goal retry. External Codex replies are controlled.
• Scoped server/contracts typechecks passed before the final type-neutral stop fix; targeted lint and formatting pass afterward. Prior combined stack run: 417/417; final affected suites were rerun separately.
• Sanitized before/after evidence and commands.

Delivery without a completed provider turn remains at least once: a cut run's own steering and a failed sibling can be carried again. This does not promise exactly-once external side effects. Multiple accepted steers can collectively exceed ordinary single-message attachment ingress limits; that extreme was not exercised. Identical captured-window notices now dedupe, including within ordinary messages.

No live external provider, physical OS restart, real HTTP MCP credential rotation, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, or Electron desktop verification. The synthetic continuation's visual presentation was not checked. The headless proof exercises server/adapters; there is no client UI implementation change. Those platform and account checks remain for a human.

Implementation: GPT-6.1-Sol; tests: GPT-6-Astra; independent full-diff reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6-Sol, through T3 Code's Codex and Claude harnesses.

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR substantially changes production restart recovery, durable outbox behavior, run ownership, continuation prompts, and provider-specific message delivery across several components. The added tests are broad, but the cross-cutting state-machine and replay semantics warrant human review.

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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: 1451e7c · PR result: 26da5b0 · 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

This change carries per-part attachment context through provider prompts and adds recovery for pending steering across server restarts. Recovery records pending message IDs, queues follow-up effects, and dispatches eligible steering continuations. Codex also retries a specific empty-input continuation failure when its goal remains active.

Changes: Steering recovery and attachment context

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Attachment prompt parts packages/provider-core/src/server/ProviderAdapter.ts, packages/provider-core/src/server/attachmentPrompt.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, packages/provider-*/src/server/adapter.ts	Provider messages now support per-part attachment prompt data. Prompt construction budgets attachment contexts per source text and skips unresolved, duplicate, or over-budget contexts. Provider adapters forward the data for new turns and steering.
Pending steering recovery packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartSteering.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts	Recovery retains pending steering message IDs, exposes pending steering records, and creates replayable follow-up effects for eligible runs. Cancelled streaming items also have their streaming flag cleared.
Steering continuation dispatch apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts, docs/internals/server-updates.md	Restart continuations include pending message context and attachments. The effect worker redispatches eligible steering, and the orchestrator permits recorded pending steers under the described run and provider-turn conditions.
Codex continuation retry and replay tests apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts	Codex retries an EmptyInput continuation with the converted message only when the goal is active and the message text is nonblank. Tests cover replay across simulated recoveries and retry behavior for active, paused, or absent goals.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Recovery as ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService
  participant Projection as ProjectionStore
  participant Outbox as EffectOutbox
  participant Worker as EffectWorker
  participant Orchestrator
  participant TurnStart as ProviderTurnStartService
  Recovery->>Projection: Read pending steering records
  Recovery->>Outbox: Enqueue steer-follow-up effect
  Worker->>Projection: Load settings, source run, and message
  Worker->>Orchestrator: Redispatch accepted steer
  Orchestrator->>TurnStart: Start continuation with message context

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Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 26da5

After a server restart, recovering queued steering can fail when a recovery pass has follow-up work but no state changes to record. The steering then is not resumed and startup recovery may fail. Make the commit path handle effects without events before merging. Carried steering reaches Codex correctly.

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• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.test.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryService.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartContinuation.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RestartSteering.ts
• docs/internals/server-updates.md
• packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts
• packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts
• packages/provider-core/src/server/ProviderAdapter.ts
• packages/provider-core/src/server/attachmentPrompt.ts
• packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts
• packages/provider-muse/src/server/adapter.ts
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[amanthanvi]

These are field observations supporting the active-goal EmptyInput retry. They come from Windows desktop nightlies up to 0.1.3-nightly.20261023.3579. They're from protocol logs, not a review of the diff.

On three restarts, the restart continuation failed only on threads whose goal was still active at resume. The same empty turn/start was accepted everywhere else:

Restart (UTC)	Codex app-server	Empty turn/start accepted	Rejected with EmptyInput
10-22 00:02	0.163.0	none sent (the other thread got prompted input)	1, active goal
10-23 01:02	0.163.0	1, goal paused	1, active goal
10-23 20:11	0.164.0	4, goal cleared or none	2, active goals

Every rejected case shows the same order. During thread/resume, Codex emits thread/goal/updated status=active and then turn/started within about 35 ms, before T3 sends anything. T3's empty turn/start follows 3-18 s later and is refused. One example, with selected fields only:

20:11:23.076 out thread/resume                       thread A
20:11:23.847 in  thread/goal/updated status=active   thread A
20:11:23.881 in  turn/started status=inProgress      thread A
20:11:29.108 out turn/start input=[]          id=9   thread A
20:11:29.114 in  error -32603 "failed to submit turn input: EmptyInput"  id=9

This matches Codex 0.164.0:

• An active goal is restored on resume and its continuation turn starts (ext/goal/src/runtime.rs#L412-L436).
• EmptyInput comes only from the steer path of turn/start (session/turn_input.rs#L860-L861).

So scoping the retry to "exact EmptyInput with an active goal" covers every failure in these logs and none of the successful empty starts.

The rejection is local to the app-server, coming 2-30 ms after the request in the 10-23 cases. No model request was involved, so provider configuration doesn't affect it. Main at 22dc1da still sends [] for restart continuations (CodexAdapterV2.ts L6854-6858). /goal resume hits the same race and is tracked in #20232 and #20247.

[juliusmarminge]

Thanks for the thorough recovery work. #28646 already stops cancelled items streaming on main (7a03a74189). Please cut the covered streaming change and focus this PR on the remaining queued-steering recovery and related continuation fixes.

[WhiteWarrior625]

Current field confirmation for this PR's existing active-goal retry scope: on Windows nightly 0.1.8-nightly.20261109.4433, with codex-cli 0.163.0, four unfinished threads retained goal.status=active after an OS crash. Their restart continuations again failed with CodexAppServerRequestError: failed to submit turn input: EmptyInput. Explicit nonempty messages to the original threads resumed the assignments and preserved their worktrees, goals and provider sessions. This repeated after another OS crash the same evening.

I verified the active goal and effective Standard service selection from each live projection before the explicit resumes. This supplies current Windows evidence for the branch already described here; it does not show a failure with an absent or paused goal, and I am not proposing broader retry scope. The OS crashes had a separate diagnosed cause.

The local workaround is the explicit resume message. Automatic empty restart recovery remains unfixed in the installed nightly. No private transcript, credentials or project data are attached.