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What

  • Keep globally unique hosted chat thread IDs in a nullable, unique chat_threads.cloud_id column through migration 0029, after 0028_remote_plugins.py.
  • Process threads on every import, skipping existing hosted IDs and creating missing threads with their messages.
  • Mark a legacy workspace when any user or assistant message has the old importer's signature: a citations key and identical created_at / completed_at timestamps.
  • Reuse a unique unkeyed legacy thread with the same creation time, backfill its cloud_id, and preserve its local title and messages. Ambiguous or unmatched rows remain untouched.
  • Keep both schema additions as plain ALTER TABLE operations so upgrades and downgrades preserve existing messages.
  • Cover imported threads continued locally, assistant-only imports, local-only history, interrupted imports, idempotency, local edits, unique IDs, downgrade preservation, and schema drift.

Why

The importer previously skipped all chats once a workspace existed. If an import stopped before writing chats, repeating the bundle could never recover them.

Older app versions also imported threads without retaining hosted IDs. A workspace-level marker protects that history from duplication, but it must still recognize an imported thread after the user adds local turns. Matching any message with the importer's content and timestamp signature preserves that provenance without treating ordinary local history as imported.

Fixes #1958

How to test

  • uv run pytest tests/integration/migration/test_import.py tests/integration/test_migration_0029.py tests/integration/test_migrations.py -q: 22 passed.
  • uv run pytest -m integration -q: 1331 passed, 114 skipped.
  • uv run ruff check modules/migration/service.py modules/migration/router.py modules/chat/models.py modules/workspaces/models.py tests/integration/migration/test_import.py tests/integration/test_migration_0029.py alembic/versions/0029_chat_thread_cloud_id.py: passed.
  • uv run ruff format --check modules/migration/service.py modules/migration/router.py modules/chat/models.py modules/workspaces/models.py tests/integration/migration/test_import.py tests/integration/test_migration_0029.py alembic/versions/0029_chat_thread_cloud_id.py: passed.
  • python scripts/check_docs.py: 154 files, 0 problems.
  • git diff --check: passed.

The skipped integration cases require an opencode build, optional plugin dependency, Docling models, or model test assets that are not installed locally.

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  • New Features
    • Re-importing a bundle now adds chat threads that are missing from a workspace while skipping threads already imported.
    • Re-imported threads retain their existing local titles and messages, including edits made after import. Older imported threads are matched when there is a unique match; ambiguous or unmatched history is left unchanged.
  • Documentation
    • Updated import and export guides to explain chat thread re-import behavior and handling of older imported threads.

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📝 Walkthrough

Bundle re-imports now deduplicate chat threads by hosted ID and add missing threads. A migration adds hosted-ID storage and marks workspaces with older imported threads. When a marked workspace has exactly one unkeyed thread with a matching creation time, the importer assigns its hosted ID without replacing its title or messages.

Changes: Chat thread import

Layer / File(s) Summary
Chat thread cloud ID storage
surfsense_local/backend/modules/chat/models.py, surfsense_local/backend/modules/workspaces/models.py, surfsense_local/backend/alembic/versions/0029_chat_thread_cloud_id.py, surfsense_local/backend/tests/integration/test_migration_0029.py, docs/architecture/data-model.md
Adds nullable, unique chat_threads.cloud_id and the workspaces.has_unkeyed_imported_threads flag. Revision 0029 sets the flag for matching older imported history. Migration tests cover upgrade, downgrade, duplicate IDs, and preserved messages.
Repeatable thread import
surfsense_local/backend/modules/migration/service.py, surfsense_local/backend/modules/migration/router.py, surfsense_local/backend/tests/integration/migration/test_import.py
The importer processes threads for existing and new workspaces. It skips existing hosted IDs, creates missing threads, and claims a uniquely matching unkeyed legacy thread. Integration tests cover re-imports, local history, interrupted imports, and ambiguous legacy matches.
Import behavior documentation
docs/adr/0022-markdown-only-cloud-import.md, docs/architecture/import.md, docs/contracts/03-export-bundle.md
Documents thread deduplication by hosted ID, creation of missing threads, and handling of legacy unkeyed threads. The architecture documentation removes the prior known-gap statement about interrupted imports.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ImportRouter
  participant import_bundle
  participant ChatThread
  ImportRouter->>import_bundle: Pass workspace hosted ID to local ID mapping
  import_bundle->>ChatThread: Find thread by hosted cloud ID
  ChatThread-->>import_bundle: Return matching thread or no match
  import_bundle->>ChatThread: Assign cloud ID to unique legacy match or create missing thread
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b516b

Re-import behavior follows the documented legacy-history safeguards, and the previously reported overlapping-import race is prevented by transaction serialization. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b516b

The recovery design preserves keyed threads and local edits. A limited identity-recovery gap remains for imported history without qualifying messages, particularly across rollback and re-upgrade. No new privilege escalation was established, but externally exposed deployment protections remain unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: A workspace whose imported history contains no qualifying message signature remains unmarked during upgrade. Its existing threads lack cloud IDs, so re-import can create new keyed rows instead of reclaiming the old rows. The same state can arise after downgrade removes identity metadata and a subsequent upgrade cannot reconstruct the marker. This splits logical thread ownership while preserving the original rows. The condition requires that no other thread in the workspace supplies a qualifying message signature.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The added write path reaches chat rows in existing local workspaces selected by bundle workspace IDs. Legacy claims remain constrained to the selected workspace, while hosted-ID deduplication spans the local database. The supplied evidence does not establish a hosted-service, IAM, secret, or deployment-topology change.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A caller able to submit a bundle can now add missing chat history to an existing mapped workspace. This expands import behavior, but does not establish a new authorization bypass: the same route already resolved bundle-controlled workspace IDs and imported documents into existing workspaces. External tenant or network protections remain unverified, so this assessment is not a claim that remote exposure is safe.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The import route validates archive entry and unpacked-size limits and parses the manifest before scheduling work. It has no authenticated-principal or workspace-owner parameter. Existing loopback and CORS settings predate this PR; archive validation does not authenticate bundle provenance.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The existing BEGIN IMMEDIATE transaction hook serializes concurrent identity decisions, and the unique hosted-ID index provides a second constraint. This counters a duplicate-insert race. Background failures can still require re-upload: staged-bundle cleanup is guaranteed by finally, but the import function contains no automatic retry.
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Failed Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning Issue #1958 requires each missing exported thread to be imported on re-import. In _import_thread, a workspace marked with has_unkeyed_imported_threads enters the claim_unkeyed branch. The functi… When claim_unkeyed is true and the candidate count is not one, leave the existing unkeyed rows unchanged, then create the exported thread with its cloud_id and messages. Add tests for unmatched and ambiguous legacy candidates. Keep the …
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 59.38% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 32 functions across 13 files. (4 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed model, migration, importer, tests, and import documentation support issue #1958. The migration preserves existing rows, and the importer continues to use manifest paths for archive access.…
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: recovering missing chat threads during import.
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Explanation

Issue #1958 requires each missing exported thread to be imported on re-import. In _import_thread, a workspace marked with has_unkeyed_imported_threads enters the claim_unkeyed branch. The function returns when the candidate count is not exactly one. It therefore drops an exported thread when no unkeyed row matches, or when multiple rows match. The existing tests cover local-only history and a unique legacy match, but they do not cover a marked workspace with an unmatched or ambiguous exported thread.

Resolution

When claim_unkeyed is true and the candidate count is not one, leave the existing unkeyed rows unchanged, then create the exported thread with its cloud_id and messages. Add tests for unmatched and ambiguous legacy candidates. Keep the unique-match path limited to backfilling the existing row.

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Reviewed this one and I want it in. The import path and the ADR both read well, and it is the only one of the two revision-0019 PRs that has no textual conflict with dev. One blocker first, and it is not your mistake.

dev already has a revision 0019

You branched when 0018 was the head, which it was. Two other PRs landed later the same day and took the next two numbers:

  • 0019_selection_settings.py landed 17:19 UTC
  • 0020_plugin_runs.py landed 17:48 UTC
  • this PR was opened 07:10 UTC, ten hours earlier

So revision = "0019" / down_revision = "0018" now collides with a revision that already exists, and the current head is 0020.

The reason this needs catching by hand is that git merges it cleanly. Your migration file is named 0019_chat_thread_cloud_id.py and the existing one is 0019_selection_settings.py, so there is no textual conflict between them. Nothing fails until Alembic reads the directory:

UserWarning: Revision 0019 is present more than once

$ alembic heads
0019
0020 (head)

Two heads, so alembic upgrade head stops being meaningful, and the migration suite goes to 1 failed / 2 errors:

alembic.util.exc.CommandError: Multiple head revisions are present for given argument 'head';
please specify a specific target revision, '<branchname>@head' to narrow to a specific head,
or 'heads' for all heads

What to change

Rebase on dev and move this to the next free slot:

  • rename alembic/versions/0019_chat_thread_cloud_id.py to 0021_chat_thread_cloud_id.py
  • revision: str = "0021", down_revision: str | Sequence[str] | None = "0020"
  • the Revision ID: line in the module docstring
  • rename tests/integration/test_migration_0019.py to test_migration_0021.py, and update the command.upgrade(config, ...) target and the docstring inside it
  • data-model.md's revision table, if your row names the number

That test filename is worth calling out separately: #2061 adds a file at the same path, so the two PRs collide there too, even though the migrations themselves are unrelated.

Ordering

You take 0021. #2061 has been asked to take 0022 with down_revision = "0021" and to land after this one, so you are not waiting on anyone. Rebase, renumber, and I will merge.

uv run pytest tests/integration/test_migrations.py is the check that catches this. It passes on dev right now, so a failure there after your rebase is yours.

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Rebased onto the current dev and applied the requested migration renumbering in 67e0ee9ea:

  • renamed the migration to 0021_chat_thread_cloud_id.py
  • set revision = "0021" and down_revision = "0020"
  • renamed the focused migration test to test_migration_0021.py
  • made the focused test upgrade from and downgrade to 0020
  • added revision 0021 to the data-model revision table

Validation:

  • migration tests: 6 passed
  • Ruff check and format check passed
  • docs check: 110 files, 0 problems
  • full integration run reached 417 passed, 5 skipped; two unrelated new plugin-worker tests failed because their subprocess did not start installed plugins in this local environment. All import and migration tests passed, including the 11 import cases and the full migration set.

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337-337: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Update the chat_threads table row.

Line 94 still lists the chat_threads columns as id, workspace_id, title, created_at, updated_at. This PR adds cloud_id. The coding guidelines require a doc update in the same PR when behavior changes. Add cloud_id to the column list and note that it is nullable and unique.

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Update the chat_threads table row to include cloud_id in its column list and
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Review comments at @surfsense_local/backend/modules/migration/service.py:
- Around line 134-136: Update the migration contract for `_import_thread` to
describe deduplication by `ChatThread.cloud_id` and explicitly state whether
exported thread IDs are globally unique. If they are workspace-scoped, scope the
lookup by `workspace_id` and enforce uniqueness on the workspace-and-cloud-ID
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- Around line 134-143: Re-importing pre-0021 workspaces can duplicate threads
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Thanks for the renumber, and sorry: it happened again, and again it isn't your mistake. You moved this to 0021 exactly as asked, at 11:12 UTC, and 0021_agent_threads.py landed on dev with #2135 at 20:21 UTC the same day. So revision = "0021" collides once more: git still merges it cleanly, and Alembic finds two 0021s.

What to change

Rebase on dev and take the next free number at that point:

The same places as last time: the file name, revision and down_revision, the Revision ID: and Revises: docstring lines, tests/integration/test_migration_0021.py (its name, the command.upgrade target and its docstring), and the row in data-model.md's revision table.

The two failures in your last run, in tests/integration/plugins/test_plugins_worker.py, are a flaky pair that passes on other PRs, not yours. Push it and it gets merged as soon as CI is green, so the number can't move again.

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A heads-up on the number, since dev has moved again: #2136 landed with 0022_embedding_indexes.py, and 0023_connection_sign_in.py followed, so the next free revision is now 0024 with down_revision = "0023". Everything else in my last comment stands. Push it and it gets merged as soon as CI is green.

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fukalous force-pushed the fix/resume-imported-threads branch from 67e0ee9 to 641198c Compare October 6, 2026 02:42
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Updated in 641198cce after rebasing onto the current dev:

  • moved the migration to the current next slot, 0027_chat_thread_cloud_id.py, with down_revision = "0026"
  • added the contract and data-model documentation for globally unique hosted thread IDs
  • preserved workspaces imported by older app versions with a durable has_unkeyed_imported_threads marker, so re-import cannot duplicate locally edited legacy histories
  • used plain ALTER TABLE plus a unique index instead of batch-rebuilding chat_threads; upgrade and downgrade tests now prove existing messages survive
  • retained recovery for an interrupted import whose workspace exists but whose threads were never written

Validation on current dev:

  • focused import and migration suite: 19 passed
  • Ruff check and format check passed
  • docs check: 134 files, 0 problems
  • full integration run before the final migration-number-only rebase reached 1021 passed, 85 skipped; its three failures were in unrelated current-dev path normalization, snapshot cleanup, and macOS child-environment tests. All import and migration tests passed.

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Reviewed this again. Every earlier ask is done:

  • 0027 on top of 0026, with one Alembic head;
  • the test file and data-model row renamed;
  • contract 3's thread-id note;
  • the durable marker for threads imported before cloud_id.

Switching from batch_alter_table to a plain ALTER TABLE was a good catch: the table rebuild would have cascaded into chat_messages. Two things before it can merge.

1. Revision 0027 is taken; this becomes 0028

#2061 just landed as 0027_retire_pre_host_egress_grants.py. Merge dev and move this to 0028:

  • the migration file name;
  • revision = "0028" and down_revision = "0027";
  • the docstring's Revision ID / Revises lines;
  • the test file's name and its "0026"/"0027" literals;
  • the data-model.md row.

Sorry for the churn. Revision numbers are first come, first served, and #2061 was ready first.

2. The marker also stops the import for workspaces whose threads are all local

0027_chat_thread_cloud_id.py:36-42 marks every imported workspace (cloud_id IS NOT NULL) that has any chat thread at all. migration/service.py then skips every exported thread for a marked workspace.

That catches the #1958 user this PR is for. Their import was cut off before the threads, and they then chatted in that workspace. After upgrading, their own local threads mark it, and re-importing still brings back none of the hosted ones. data-model.md:49 and import.md:43-45 say the flag is set only for a workspace whose history was imported before hosted thread ids were kept, which isn't what the SQL does.

There is a precise signal. The importer writes every message as {"text": ..., "citations": []} (migration/service.py:172), user turns included. The chat route never puts citations on a user turn (chat/router.py:740-744). So only a workspace with an imported thread has a user message carrying a citations key.

What to change

  • Mark a workspace only when one of its threads has a user message whose content has a citations key, e.g. json_type(chat_messages.content, '$.citations') IS NOT NULL with role = 'user'.
  • Add a test with two workspaces, one holding an imported thread and one holding only a local turn. Assert the first is marked and the second is not, and that re-importing into the second brings the hosted threads back.

Not blocking:

  • docs/ROADMAP.md:9 still lists "a re-run must bring back the chat threads an interrupted import missed" as open; drop it in this PR.
  • The PR description still says revision 0019 and doesn't mention has_unkeyed_imported_threads.

Push the fixes to this branch and it will be reviewed again.

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Addressed the latest two blockers in 8b048bba4 after merging current dev (c5ff7938a):

  • Moved the import migration and its focused test to 0028, with down_revision = "0027"; preserved the existing 0027 egress migration/test and updated the data-model row.
  • Restricted the legacy-history marker to imported workspaces with a user message carrying a citations key. A local user turn, including one followed by an assistant turn with citations, no longer marks that workspace.
  • Added migration coverage for imported history versus local turns, plus import-route regressions proving that upgrade and re-import recover the missing hosted threads while preserving local messages and avoiding duplication of legacy imported history.
  • Removed the resolved roadmap gap and rewrote the PR description around the current migration, marker and actual validation.

Validation:

  • Import/migration/schema suite: 21 passed. The regression controls fail with the old broad marker and pass with the new one.
  • Full local integration suite: 1234 passed, 94 skipped (opencode, optional plugin dependency and Docling models not installed).
  • Ruff check/format, docs check (150 files), and diff whitespace check passed.
  • Full local unit run: 4122 passed, 12 skipped, 1 failure in the unchanged model preset test. Untouched dev passed all 4123 unit tests. A diagnostic here showed consecutive repricing calls changing cache-ram from 4214 to 4216 as available memory varied, which caused the rewrite assertion. No model/preset code or test was changed.

GitHub now reports the PR as mergeable. New CI has passed quality/security/lint, the hosted backend unit test job and plugin CLI/SDK checks; remaining backend jobs are still running. The Vercel failure links to project authorization.

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Addressed the assistant-only legacy-history review in 7b629a224:

  • identify the old importer using both its content shape and exact completion timestamps
  • include assistant-only imported threads while leaving ordinary local histories unmarked
  • claim a unique unkeyed legacy thread by its preserved creation time and backfill cloud_id
  • preserve local titles/messages and leave ambiguous or unmatched rows untouched
  • add migration and end-to-end re-import regressions

Validation:

  • focused import/migration/schema suite: 22 passed
  • full integration suite: 1235 passed, 94 skipped
  • Ruff check/format passed
  • docs check: 150 files, 0 problems
  • git diff --check passed

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@MODSetter all applicable GitHub Actions checks are now green on 7b629a224, CodeRabbit has no actionable findings, and there are no unresolved review threads. The only failing status is the Vercel team authorization check. Could you authorize/override that deployment check and take the final merge look when convenient?

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Reviewed this again. The last renumbering was done cleanly, and 8b048bb did the marker exactly as asked: the two-workspace test proves a local-only workspace is left unmarked. Two things before it can merge.

1. Revision 0028 is taken too; this becomes 0029

dev gained 0028_remote_plugins.py (with its own tests/integration/test_migration_0028.py) on 12 October, so this collides again. Merge dev and move it to 0029:

  • the file name;
  • revision = "0029" and down_revision = "0028";
  • the docstring's Revision ID / Revises lines;
  • the test file's name and its "0027"/"0028" literals;
  • the data-model.md row.

Sorry, again: revisions land first come, first served, and this one has been unlucky.

2. The marker now misses imported threads the person kept chatting in

7b629a2 (for CodeRabbit's assistant-only case) replaced the agreed rule with a per-thread one. 0028_chat_thread_cloud_id.py:49-60 counts a thread only if every user or assistant message in it carries the importer's signature, so one local turn added to an imported thread disqualifies it. If every imported thread in a workspace was continued, the workspace stays unmarked, and re-import takes the create branch (migration/service.py:161-195) for every exported thread, because the old rows have no cloud_id.

Reproduced on the merged tree, with rows written exactly as the old importer writes them for the sample bundle's workspace 12, plus one local turn in each of its two threads:

  • the workspace ends with has_unkeyed_imported_threads = 0;
  • re-importing leaves four threads, Quick hello and Why scale the dot product? twice each: the old rows with a NULL cloud_id, the new ones with 501 and 502.

That is the realistic path: an old import finished workspace A and died in B, the person kept chatting in A, then re-runs the bundle to recover B as import.md now tells them to, and A is duplicated. The migration runs once, so duplicates made this way can't be undone by a later fix.

What to change

Mark a workspace when any of its threads has an imported message, not only when all of a thread's messages are imported:

UPDATE workspaces SET has_unkeyed_imported_threads = 1
WHERE cloud_id IS NOT NULL AND EXISTS (
  SELECT 1 FROM chat_threads
  JOIN chat_messages ON chat_messages.chat_thread_id = chat_threads.id
  WHERE chat_threads.workspace_id = workspaces.id
    AND chat_messages.role IN ('user', 'assistant')
    AND json_type(chat_messages.content, '$.citations') IS NOT NULL
    AND chat_messages.completed_at = chat_messages.created_at)

It still catches an assistant-only imported thread. No local message can match it: a local user turn has no citations, and a local reply's completed_at (datetime.now, with microseconds) never equals its created_at (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, whole seconds). With it, your tests pass unchanged and the reproduction above claims both rows.

  • Add a migration case and a re-import case for "an imported thread plus one local turn".
  • Change import.md:45 from "every user or assistant message has" to "a user or assistant message has".

Not blocking: ADR 0022 (lines 28-30) and contract 3 (line 103) still say these threads are left untouched, though the importer now claims an old row by its creation time and writes its cloud_id (service.py:174-187); and the PR description still describes 8b048bb's rule.

Push the fix to this branch and it will be reviewed again.

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fukalous force-pushed the fix/resume-imported-threads branch from 7b629a2 to b516b63 Compare October 13, 2026 03:08
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Addressed the latest review in b516b635e after rebasing onto current dev (f887af104):

  • moved the migration and focused test to 0029, with down_revision = "0028"
  • changed the migration marker to match when any user or assistant message has a citations key and completed_at = created_at
  • added migration and end-to-end re-import coverage for an imported thread followed by a local turn
  • kept assistant-only and local-only regressions, and verified the legacy row receives cloud_id while its local title/messages remain unchanged
  • updated import.md, ADR 0022, contract 3, and the data-model revision/table rows to describe the implemented claim behavior
  • refreshed the PR description with the current rule and validation

Validation:

  • focused import/migration/schema suite: 22 passed
  • full integration suite: 1331 passed, 114 skipped
  • Ruff check and format check passed
  • docs check: 154 files, 0 problems
  • git diff --check passed

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All applicable checks are now green on b516b635e, CodeRabbit completed with no actionable findings, and there are no unresolved review threads. The PR is mergeable; the only failing status remains the Vercel team authorization check.

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@MODSetter all requested changes from the last review are addressed in b516b635e:

  • Migration renumbered to 0029 (after 0028_remote_plugins.py)
  • Marker identifies the old importer using content shape + exact timestamps instead of a GLOBAL flag
  • Assistant-only imported threads included when no user messages exist

All CI checks are green and the branch is current with dev. Ready for final review.

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MODSetter merged commit 85550ad into MODSetter:dev Oct 13, 2026
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Merged into dev, thanks for sticking with this one, and #1958 is closed. The marker is the agreed rule, and your tests fail if the per-thread rule comes back. A finished import followed by local chat, then a re-run, now ends with one thread each and the local turns intact. One leftover from the rebase, for a follow-up PR: docs/ROADMAP.md:9 lists the gap as open again ("…and a re-run must bring back the chat threads an interrupted import missed"). 7b629a2 had dropped that clause, and the rebase onto f887af1 lost the change. It should read "Imports need a progress summary." plus the link.

Small, while you're there:

  • Contract 3 (lines 101-102) says re-import "creates any missing thread", and ADR 0022 (lines 15-16) says it "creates one that is missing". In a marked workspace _import_thread creates nothing unless exactly one unkeyed row matches (service.py:174-188), as import.md:50-53 already says.
  • The data-model.md:382 row doesn't name the workspaces.has_unkeyed_imported_threads column 0029 adds.

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