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Problem

Settling a thread does not stop the background commands its Codex agent started. Settle unsubscribes the native thread from the shared Codex app-server and expects Codex to unload it and kill its terminals. Codex 0.163 answers unsubscribed but does not close the thread, so those processes keep running for as long as the shared app-server lives. On Windows each one is a shell plus a Console Window Host, which matches the Task Manager view in the report.

Reproduction on main 96fc7b9 (Linux, codex-cli 0.163.0, web client): in a Codex thread, ask the agent to start sleep 1700 as a background terminal, let the turn finish, then Settle. thread/unsubscribe is sent, no thread/closed ever arrives, and sleep 1700 is still alive 10 minutes later.

Change

• CodexAdapterV2.unloadThread now sends thread/backgroundTerminals/clean for the native thread before thread/unsubscribe. Settle, archive and the other provider-session detaches go through this method. The clean is best effort: if it fails or takes longer than 5 s, the failure is logged and the unsubscribe still runs. That covers older Codex builds without the method.
• After a successful clean, the thread's running command items are marked interrupted by the same code the thread/closed handler already used. That code is now a shared helper.
• Codex can report a killed command before it answers the clean. So before cleaning, the thread's settled turns are flagged as unloading, under the existing terminalization permit, and a command completing on a flagged turn no longer offers a post-settle continuation. Its item still updates normally, and the settled thread is not woken again.

Scope and approval

Fixes #25062

Triaged via the automated issue flow.

Verification

• Red test first: CodexAdapterV2 post-settle continuation > cleans the thread's background terminals when unloading it fails on main (the replay expected thread/backgroundTerminals/clean but received thread/unsubscribe). It is now parameterised over three orderings: completion before the clean result, after the unsubscribe, and before a -32601 clean failure. Every case asserts no pending background work and zero continuation requests.
• Removing the new continuation guard makes the "before clean result" and "before clean failure" cases fail.
• vp test run on CodexAdapterV2.test.ts and ProviderSessionManager.test.ts: 132/132 pass. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests all pass.
• Runtime transcript, the same flow before and after: runtime-transcript-25062.txt

	main 96fc7b9	fix (c7724da)
Codex requests on Settle	thread/unsubscribe only	thread/backgroundTerminals/clean, then thread/unsubscribe
thread/closed from Codex	never (0 in 10 min)	not needed
sleep 1700 after Settle	alive at +3 s, +10 s, +20 s, ~10 min	gone within 10 s
Command item / thread	still "Running · Stop"	interrupted, thread stays settled, no continuation run

The transcript was taken at c7724da. The later commits change only how completions that arrive during the clean are handled, which the replay tests above cover.

Not checked:

• cannot-verify windows: no Windows runtime was available. Whether Codex's clean also ends the Console Window Host processes on Windows is Codex's behaviour and was not observed.
• The shared codex.exe app-server itself still stays up after its last thread detaches, until the existing idle release. That is unchanged and by design.
• Only Codex 0.163.0 was exercised.

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, red test, implementation) and GPT-6.1-Sol (review) via T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at d8a4110

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This makes Codex thread unloading explicitly stop leftover background commands and prevents their cleanup notifications from waking the agent. The cleanup is thread-scoped and time-bounded, while existing unload guards preserve pending work.

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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: d8a4110 · 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

CodexAdapterV2 now cleans background terminals when a settled thread unloads, terminalizes associated commands, and suppresses continuation requests from late command completions. Tests cover cleanup response timing and unsupported-method errors.

Changes: Codex unload lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clean and terminalize settled thread commands apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts	The adapter marks matching settled turns as unloading, requests background-terminal cleanup with a five-second timeout, and terminalizes their commands. Cleanup errors are logged before the existing unsubscribe proceeds. Late completions do not request continuations for unloading turns. Tests cover cleanup response timing, unsubscribe ordering, and the unsupported-method response.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#30647 — This PR tracks asynchronous thread closure after unsubscribe and preserves the native thread during account detach.
• pingdotgg/t3code#33767 — This PR forces immediate Codex thread unloading and waits for thread/closed before retrying resume.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · up to d8a41

If Codex is slow to respond, thread cleanup after settling can time out and leave stale bookkeeping. The result is an occasional unnecessary unload on a later resume. This is bounded and worth fixing, but it is unlikely to block the merge.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check		The current head includes changes unrelated to [#25062]. The incremental diff after the previous reviewed head adds app-server process-exit handling and running-agent tracking, capacity retry logic, g…	Remove the unrelated process lifecycle, capacity retry, goal, sharing-limit, image/MCP output, permission, and other feature changes from this pull request, or move them to separate pull requests. Keep the Codex unload cleanup, terminalizat…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: stopping background commands when a Codex thread is settled.
Description check		The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the issue, implementation, testing results, runtime evidence, and known limitations.
Linked Issues check		Issue [#25062] requires processes to close when a chat is settled. CodexAdapterV2.unloadThread sends thread/backgroundTerminals/clean before thread/unsubscribe, uses a five-second best-effort ti…

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Explanation

Issue [#25062] requires processes to close when a chat is settled. CodexAdapterV2.unloadThread sends thread/backgroundTerminals/clean before thread/unsubscribe, uses a five-second best-effort timeout, and terminalizes running command items. The unloading guard prevents post-settle continuations during cleanup. Replay tests cover completion before cleanup, after unsubscribe, and clean-method failure. These changes address the coding requirement. Windows runtime behavior is unverified, but the issue does not specify separate Windows-only code requirements.

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Explanation

The current head includes changes unrelated to [#25062]. The incremental diff after the previous reviewed head adds app-server process-exit handling and running-agent tracking, capacity retry logic, goal validation, sharing-limit classification, image and MCP output changes, permission handling, and related tests. These changes do not support closing processes when a chat is settled.

Resolution

Remove the unrelated process lifecycle, capacity retry, goal, sharing-limit, image/MCP output, permission, and other feature changes from this pull request, or move them to separate pull requests. Keep the Codex unload cleanup, terminalization, continuation guard, and focused tests for [#25062].

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts:
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Reserve time for the unsubscribe response.

If clean times out and unsubscribe takes more than the remaining five seconds, the manager can time out before unsubscribe completes. It then retains the old linked-environments record, which can cause an unnecessary unload on a later resume. Give unsubscribe its own response budget.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts at line 7519:
Update the cleanup and unsubscribe timeout flow around Effect.timeout so unsubscribe receives its own five-second response budget, independent of time spent waiting for clean. Ensure the manager can complete the unsubscribe response before proceeding with linked-environments record handling.

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