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Problem

When the shared codex app-server process dies, T3 Code keeps its dead session. Every later Codex turn, new Codex thread, and delegated Codex task then fails at once with Codex App Server transport operation 'read-process-exit-status' failed. This continues until the T3 server restarts. "Restart agent session" does not help, because detaching a thread never releases a shared session.

This happened on a Linux host today. systemd-oomd killed the whole Codex agent scope (57 processes) during a short spike in memory pressure. Codex then stayed broken for more than an hour, while the host had plenty of free memory again.

Change

This takes over #22791 by @juliusmarminge and rebases it onto current main. His three commits are unchanged.

• The Codex client exposes awaitTermination. The protocol's existing onTermination hook feeds it. It fires for a numeric exit, and also for a signal death, which arrives as read-process-exit-status.
• When that happens, CodexAdapterV2 fails the session's event queue with ProviderAdapterEventStreamError. Events that are already in the queue are delivered first. The session manager's existing failure path then fails the running turns and releases the session. The next turn opens a new app-server.

This takeover adds two small test commits:

• A Schema.is guard moves to module scope, as the no-inline-schema-compile rule requires. That rule landed after fix(server): Codex recovers after its app-server process is killed #22791.
• The test now waits for the event reader fiber to end, instead of waiting one TestClock.adjust(0) step, as docs/internals/testing.md requires. Its comment now gives the correct reason for using a stream failure.

Scope and approval

Fixes #16502, a triaged bug. #22791 had green checks and two MERGE reviews, but it fell behind main.

Verification

Proof: on main's code, the new tests fail and a real Codex turn fails after an oomd-style scope kill. With this PR, the tests pass and Codex recovers on a new app-server.

• New tests. The 4 tests in CodexAdapterV2.test.ts under "CodexAdapterV2 process exit" fail with main's adapter and client: the event stream never ends, so the test times out. With the fix, all 4 pass, in 3 of 3 runs.
• Existing tests. All 7 server test files that use Codex replay transcripts pass (146/146). CodexAdapterV2, ProviderSessionManager and OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration pass (153/153). effect-codex-app-server passes (28/28). vp run check:changed passes.
• Runtime. Real Codex on a dev server on Linux, with agent scopes on. Both sides ran the same script. It runs one Codex turn, then runs systemctl --user kill --signal=SIGKILL on the dev server's Codex scope, which is what systemd-oomd does. It then sends a follow-up turn and starts a new Codex thread. This checks the systemd-oomd whole-scope kill, which fix(server): Codex recovers after its app-server process is killed #22791 did not check.

Step	Main's adapter and client	This PR
First turn	completed	completed
Follow-up turn after the scope kill	failed: "The provider could not start this turn"	completed
New Codex thread after the scope kill	failed: read-process-exit-status	completed
Codex scope afterward	none	new scope
Scope kill while a turn runs sleep 240	not run (the #22791 audit shows that main hangs)	the turn failed in less than 2 s, and the next turn completed

Runtime transcript

# main's CodexAdapterV2.ts and client.ts
turn 1: new Codex thread -> status "completed", reply "pong"
SIGKILL every process in t3code-codex-8d2c35e1.scope
  Killed unit cgroup '.../t3code-codex-8d2c35e1.scope' with SIGKILL on client request.
turn 2: follow-up on the same thread
  stopped with status failed: The provider could not start this turn. ...
turn 3: brand-new Codex thread
  stopped with status failed: Codex App Server transport operation 'read-process-exit-status' failed.
Codex scopes for this dev server now: (none)

# this PR
turn 1: new Codex thread -> status "completed", reply "pong"
SIGKILL every process in t3code-codex-0c94fc2c.scope
  Killed unit cgroup '.../t3code-codex-0c94fc2c.scope' with SIGKILL on client request.
turn 2: follow-up on the same thread -> ping, exit 0
turn 3: brand-new Codex thread -> pang, exit 0
Codex scopes for this dev server now: t3code-codex-a850fe0b.scope

# this PR, kill during a running turn
turn is running `sleep 240` in t3code-codex-a850fe0b.scope; SIGKILL the scope
thread status after kill: failed (1.71s)
next turn on the same thread -> back, exit 0

Not checked: macOS and Windows hosts.

Review. A read-only Claude Opus 5.5 reviewer checked the rebased diff and found no blocking issues: MERGE, 8/10. It confirmed that normal shutdown and idle release do not turn into a false error, and that one death leads to one release and one new process for every thread. I fixed its two test notes (listed above). Two notes are left as they are:

• No test covers that queued events are delivered before the failure.
• One death shows the error on every thread attached to the shared session until that thread's next turn. This is existing session-manager behavior.

Council review did not run, because its GPT-6.1 Sol reviewer runs through Codex, and Codex on the review host was broken by this same bug.

Created with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code on T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 66f96aa

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Codex process termination now reaches existing session cleanup instead of leaving the event stream waiting indefinitely. The change is confined to failed transports and preserves buffered events before reporting failure.

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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	21.6 KiB	21.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.1 KiB	5.0 KiB	−6 B (−0.1%)	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	1.3 KiB	1.3 KiB	−6 B (−0.5%)	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	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 4fc9e5f · PR result: 66f96aa · 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

The Codex app-server client now exposes transport termination. The Codex adapter forwards termination errors to its event stream. Tests cover numeric process exits, transport failures, and replay transcript filtering.

Changes: Codex app-server termination handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expose transport termination packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/client.ts	The client exposes awaitTermination. The effect fails with the error supplied when the transport terminates.
Forward termination to the event stream apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts	The adapter forwards client termination failures to its event queue as provider event-stream errors. Tests cover numeric exits and transport failures with and without an active turn. The MCP integration test helper filters runtime_exit entries from decoded transcripts.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Transport as Codex app-server transport
  participant Client as CodexAppServerClient
  participant Adapter as CodexAdapterV2
  participant Reader as Event reader
  Transport->>Client: onTermination supplies error
  Client->>Adapter: awaitTermination fails
  Adapter->>Reader: Fail queue with provider event-stream error

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Possibly related issues

• Issue 23720 describes a stale shared Codex app-server causing the SIGKILL failure addressed by this change.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#18764: Adds liveness detection and session cleanup for shared Codex app-server recovery.
• pingdotgg/t3code#21013: Adds termination observation and event-stream failure for Codex session recovery.
• pingdotgg/t3code#21322: Forwards transport termination into ProviderAdapterEventStreamError and releases the failed session.

Suggested labels: bugfix, size:M

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 66f96

App-server termination recovery appears mergeable, but the tests should also protect delivery of events queued before the stream fails.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: Codex recovers after its app-server process is killed.
Description check		The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, change, scope and approval, focused verification, observed results, platform limitations, and agent details.
Linked Issues check		Issue #16502 requires recovery after the shared Codex App Server dies by SIGKILL. The client now exposes awaitTermination and completes it from the protocol onTermination hook. CodexAdapterV2 fa…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #16502. The adapter and client changes implement process-death detection and session recovery. The new tests verify this behavior. The replay transcript adjustment remove…

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Explanation

Issue #16502 requires recovery after the shared Codex App Server dies by SIGKILL. The client now exposes awaitTermination and completes it from the protocol onTermination hook. CodexAdapterV2 fails the session event queue with ProviderAdapterEventStreamError, which lets the session manager retire the dead session. The new tests cover numeric and SIGKILL-like termination with active and inactive turns. The PR also reports that later turns and new threads start a new app-server.

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Explanation

The changes stay within issue #16502. The adapter and client changes implement process-death detection and session recovery. The new tests verify this behavior. The replay transcript adjustment removes a recorded process-exit event that would otherwise trigger the newly enforced failure path in an integration test. The schema-guard and event-reader changes support the test implementation and lint requirements.

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Nitpick comments: 1

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts: 1

715-862: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Preserve active-turn synchronization while testing buffered events.

runtime.events reads directly from the queue, and Queue.fail delivers buffered items before the failure. The inactive cases currently consume turn.terminal before termination, so they do not test that behavior. Keep the turnStarted wait, interrupt the reader after it consumes the running event, enqueue the terminal event, and start a new reader after termination.

Suggested fix

-      const turnCompleted = yield* Deferred.make<void>();
       const events: Array<ProviderAdapter.ProviderAdapterV2Event> = [];
@@
-                : event.type === "turn.terminal"
-                  ? Deferred.succeed(turnCompleted, undefined)
-                  : Effect.void,
+                : Effect.void,
@@
       yield* Deferred.await(turnStarted);
       if (!active) {
+        yield* Fiber.interrupt(eventReader);
         yield* emit({
           method: "turn/completed",
@@
           },
         });
-        yield* Deferred.await(turnCompleted);
-        assert.isTrue(
-          events.some((event) => event.type === "turn.terminal" && event.status === "completed"),
-        );
       }
@@
       const rpcError = yield* client.request("thread/list", {}).pipe(Effect.flip);
       assert.strictEqual(rpcError, terminationError);
+      let readerToAwait = eventReader;
+      if (!active) {
+        readerToAwait = yield* runtime.events.pipe(
+          Stream.runForEach((event) => Effect.sync(() => events.push(event))),
+          Effect.forkScoped,
+        );
+      }
       // Without the fix the stream never ends, so this waits until the project timeout.
-      const readerExit = yield* Fiber.await(eventReader);
+      const readerExit = yield* Fiber.await(readerToAwait);
+      if (!active) {
+        assert.isTrue(
+          events.some((event) => event.type === "turn.terminal" && event.status === "completed"),
+          "buffered terminal events must be delivered before the stream failure",
+        );
+      }

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