fix(codex): isolate unowned provider thread events

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What Changed

Enforce one provider-thread ownership boundary before Codex notifications enter the active T3 conversation. The runtime now admits only the authoritative root thread and collaboration children proven through root-owned activity or ancestry; it suppresses unregistered foreign traffic, including warnings and startup events before the root is established. Parent-owned serverRequest/resolved remains on its existing correlation path.

Why

A shared Codex app-server connection can emit assistant items, collaboration activity, or warnings from another provider thread without lifecycle metadata. T3 could route that traffic into the active transcript. The runtime now takes the root ID only from the thread/start or resume response, rather than from an unsolicited notification, and uses that authority for all subsequent routing.

This complements the memory-consolidation isolation in #5468 (which fixed #4683) but covers a separate unowned-provider-thread path. It does not close #4683.

Validation

• Focused runtime and collaboration regressions: 63 tests passed, targeted lint passed, and server typecheck passed.
• Deterministic red/green regressions cover unregistered assistant output, foreign collaboration receiver/activity registration, nested owned children, foreign warnings, and foreign startup traffic before the authoritative root response.
• Isolated controlled-browser replay with a schema-validated, no-credential synthetic Codex provider: before showed expected Topic A plus foreign Topic B; after showed Topic A only, including after reload.

UI Changes

The source change is server-side. The browser replay is synthetic-provider evidence, not a live model or memory run. Screenshot attachment upload is blocked because this external-fork account lacks repository write access; no screenshots are committed to this repository.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• Controlled-browser before/after verification completed; attachment upload is blocked by repository permissions
• A video is not applicable: no animation or interaction changed

Built with GPT-6 Astra lead and GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra workers using the Codex harness in T3 Code.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Prevented messages, warnings, and activity from unrelated or unregistered conversation threads from appearing in the current conversation.
  • Preserved valid content from the active conversation and explicitly registered child conversations, including nested child activity.
  • Ensured parent-owned request completion events continue to be handled correctly.
  • Improved startup and conversation event filtering to exclude unexpected foreign-thread activity while retaining valid root-thread events.

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Approvability

Verdict: Would Approve

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused Codex runtime bug fix that isolates unowned provider-thread events while preserving root, registered-child, and request-resolution behavior, with unit and integration coverage. An unresolved high-severity ownership concern remains a blocking correctness risk for merge.

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• apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexCollabRuntime.integration.test.ts
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Walkthrough

The Codex runtime now enforces session ownership at the root boundary. It suppresses unowned notifications, restricts collaboration registration to owned sources, and preserves nested descendants of owned children. Tests cover startup ordering, warnings, foreign threads, and nested activity.

Changes

Codex notification filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Notification ownership and suppression apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts	Thread-scoped warnings and other notifications are suppressed when the thread is not owned. Unsolicited startup notifications cannot claim an uninitialized runtime.
Collaboration ownership registration apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts	Receiver turns and child registrations require an owned source. Owned children can register nested activity descendants.
Ownership behavior validation apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexCollabRuntime.integration.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/testFixtures/codexCollabMockPeer.mjs	Tests cover foreign startup traffic, warnings, foreign collaboration announcements, nested descendants, and startup notifications emitted before a delayed response.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CodexAppServer
  participant CodexSessionRuntime
  participant CollabRegistry
  participant ParentEventStream
  CodexAppServer->>CodexSessionRuntime: Emit notification
  CodexSessionRuntime->>CollabRegistry: Check source thread ownership
  CollabRegistry-->>CodexSessionRuntime: Return ownership state
  CodexSessionRuntime-->>ParentEventStream: Emit owned event or suppress foreign event

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Foreign provider-thread notifications are filtered before reaching the active conversation while owned root and collaboration activity remain handled.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	Issue #4683 requires background memory-maintenance messages, tool calls, filenames, and other-workspace content to remain isolated from the active conversation. The PR adds an unowned-provider-thread …	Implement and test the remaining memory-consolidation isolation path at the provider or runtime boundary. Cover background commentary, tool calls, filenames, and other-workspace content, including conversation reload behavior.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The runtime ownership guard, collaboration registration changes, mock-peer support, unit tests, and integration tests all support the isolation objective in issue #4683. The reviewed changes show no d…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: isolating events from unowned Codex provider threads.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers what changed, why the change is needed, validation results, UI applicability, and checklist status. It is focused and aligned with the pull request objectives.

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Explanation

Issue #4683 requires background memory-maintenance messages, tool calls, filenames, and other-workspace content to remain isolated from the active conversation. The PR adds an unowned-provider-thread boundary, suppresses foreign notifications, preserves root and registered-child handling, and adds focused unit and integration coverage. The PR summary states that this change addresses a separate path and does not close the memory-consolidation isolation work. Therefore, the full coding requirement in #4683 remains unmet.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts`:
- Line 832: Update readNotificationThreadId to extract params.threadId for
warning notifications, so foreign-thread checks suppress them before
handleRawNotification emits notifications. Add coverage for suppressing foreign
warnings and delivering warnings for the root or active thread.
- Around line 834-838: Update shouldSuppressUnownedCodexNotification so that
when rootProviderThreadId is undefined it returns true for every notification
except thread/started, allowing root discovery while suppressing foreign
notifications. Keep the existing providerThreadId and isRegisteredChild checks
for the discovered-root path.

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