fix(server): preserve reasoning effort after restart

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Restart reconciliation resumed provider turns without the thread model selection. Codex therefore rebuilt collaboration settings with its medium-effort fallback, even when the interrupted turn used high or xhigh reasoning.

Forward the persisted thread model selection on automatic continuation. Extend the reconciliation and SQLite-backed startup tests to prove a high-effort selection survives restart, and cover the resulting Codex turn parameters and developer instructions.

Closes #10928.

Verification:

• vp test run apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.reconcile.test.ts apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.test.ts
• vp test run apps/server/integration/orphanedProviderSessionStartup.integration.test.ts
• vp test run apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.test.ts
• vp run --filter t3 typecheck
• targeted lint and formatting checks

Model: GPT-5.6 via Codex.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserved the interrupted turn’s provider, model, and reasoning settings when continuing sessions after a server restart.
  • Ensured recovered and promptless continuations use the model selection associated with the interrupted turn, even if thread settings later change.
  • Retained reasoning-effort settings in collaboration behavior and provider instructions.
  • Safely ignored invalid or unavailable persisted model selections during recovery.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for persisted model selection during session recovery and continuation.
  • Added validation for non-default reasoning effort propagation.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR is a focused restart-recovery fix, but it changes an existing automatic continuation path by applying persisted model and reasoning settings that were previously omitted. Because those settings alter downstream model processing behavior, human review is warranted despite the small, well-tested diff.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Restart continuations now validate modelSelection from persisted runtime payloads and pass it to the provider. Tests cover normal, recovered, interrupted, and orphaned continuations, including Codex reasoning effort preservation.

Changes

Restart continuation model selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Persist and reuse model selection apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts	The restart path decodes persisted modelSelection values and includes valid selections in continuation requests.
Verify reconciliation paths apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.reconcile.test.ts	Tests cover normal, recovered, promptless, and interrupted continuations. Interrupted continuations retain their original selection after thread metadata changes.
Validate provider selection flow apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.test.ts, apps/server/integration/orphanedProviderSessionStartup.integration.test.ts	Tests verify persisted selection during provider recovery and high reasoning effort in Codex and orphaned-session continuation flows.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7d795

Restarted Codex continuations retain the interrupted turn’s selected model and reasoning effort, including legacy persisted selections. No actionable merge risk remains.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 6 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving reasoning effort after a server restart.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the fix, affected behavior, test coverage, and verification steps. It does not use the template headings or checklist, but it is otherwise complete and focused.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy #10928. Restart reconciliation reads modelSelection from the persisted runtime payload and passes valid data to sendTurn. Tests cover high reasoning effort, promptless and prom…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within #10928. Source changes update persisted model-selection handling during provider-session recovery. The added tests verify reconciliation, Codex turn parameters, and persisted-s…

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts`:
- Line 388: The readRuntimeModelSelection return path must decode persisted
selections rather than only validate them, so legacy provider/model/options
payloads are transformed to the current instanceId shape and retain
reasoningEffort. Replace the isModelSelection check with synchronous
Schema.decodeUnknownOption(ModelSelection), converting None to undefined, and
add a regression test covering a legacy provider payload with reasoningEffort.

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