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Session import is currently part of onboarding, where it imports recent conversations in bulk. This adds individual Claude Code session import to the new-thread screen for an existing project.

  • Add or, import an existing session below the composer. The browser inherits the selected project's environment and directory and displays both.
  • Browse and search listed sessions, read paged user/assistant history with Markdown and code formatting, and attach one session. The preview opens at the latest exchange and preserves the reading position when loading earlier history. Unsent drafts survive the flow.
  • Open the existing T3 thread when a native session is already loaded, including provider aliases that share a Claude configuration directory. Serialize attachment with onboarding imports and recover interrupted imports without duplicating history.
  • Reuse the scanner, importer, and native resume binding. Attachment does not send a prompt. Newly attached threads use Supervised permissions; existing threads retain their settings. No new dependencies or migrations.

The server resolves transcript locations rather than accepting file paths from the client. Discovery and preview reads are bounded. Selected-session locators are cached and revalidated so each preview page does not rescan every project. Previews do not fetch remote media or rich-link content.

This keeps the existing bounded text-history import rather than creating a complete transcript archive. Search covers the listed summaries, with an action to load older sessions. The new entry point is for web and desktop; it does not redesign native mobile onboarding.

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  • 112 focused scanner, importer, contract, and authorization tests pass with TMPDIR=/private/tmp. This includes same-home aliases, separate account homes, oversized setup records, unreadable child directories, cached locator revalidation, preview paging, concurrent attachment, interrupted-import recovery, and the existing resume-on-next-send regression.
  • Two focused WebSocket tests pass in separate test processes. One combined run hit a local HTTP fixture transport failure before importer logic.
  • Server, web, and contracts package typechecks pass. Changed-file formatting and git diff --check pass. Targeted lint exits successfully, with two asynchronous-effect warnings in the new dialog and existing warnings in touched files.
  • Verified the real web client against disposable projects and synthetic Claude transcripts: directory isolation, search, Markdown preview, earlier-history paging, attachment, existing-thread reuse, draft retention, and the narrow layout. Inspected persisted native resume IDs and confirmed attachment created zero turns. No live Claude sessions were resumed.

The canonical TMPDIR avoids an existing upstream scanner test failure caused by macOS /var versus /private/var path normalization. That failure was reproduced against untouched upstream code.

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Before:

New thread before individual session import

New-thread entry:

Import entry below the composer

Conversation preview:

Project session list and conversation preview

Model: GPT-6 Astra. Independent review: GPT-5.6 Sol. Harness: Claude Code in T3 Code.

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Closes #10961

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Add list, preview, and attach for individual Claude sessions

  • Adds agentSessions.list, agentSessions.preview, and agentSessions.attach websocket RPCs with typed contracts and AgentSessionUnavailableError, letting the web UI browse and attach specific Claude sessions scoped to a project and workspace.
  • AgentSessionScanner gains workspace-scoped discovery, bounded prefix inspection, 40-item paginated session lists, and backward-paginated previews of up to 30 visible messages with byte-offset cursors.
  • attachAgentSession serializes with bulk imports via a shared one-permit semaphore, reuses existing Claude-backed threads by session-home identity, and repairs incomplete deterministic imports.
  • Web UI adds AgentSessionImportDialog with SessionBrowser (search, older-page loading) and SessionPreview (read-only markdown, anchor-preserving earlier-history pagination, attach navigation).
  • Risk: claudeVisibleMessage now excludes sidechain, meta, compact-summary, empty, and local-command marker records from parsed threads and previews; callers depending on those records in parseAgentSessionRecords or preview output will no longer see them.
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  • New Features
    • Browse existing Claude Code sessions with search, pagination, and conversation previews.
    • Attach a selected session to a thread without sending an automatic prompt.
    • Imported sessions use supervised permissions and preserve recent conversation history.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved project-level protection, session ownership validation, and recovery for interrupted or concurrent imports.
    • Improved handling of unavailable sessions, loading states, retries, and truncated previews.
  • Documentation
    • Documented session import limitations, including tools, attachments, and concurrent terminal use.

Reuse the onboarding scanner and importer for directory-scoped selection, bounded transcript previews, and duplicate-safe attachment. Preserve native continuation without sending a prompt on import.

Claude-Session: b7dd3e78-bcb3-4daa-8596-967d0f860f3d

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a substantial end-to-end Claude session import workflow spanning transcript scanning, WebSocket APIs, authorization, thread persistence, and a new web UI. It also changes existing transcript parsing and has unresolved cross-project and interrupted-import correctness risks.

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  • apps/server/src/checkpointing/CheckpointDiffQuery.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/project/ProjectSetupScriptRunner.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderSessionReaper.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.test.ts
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds APIs to list, preview, and attach existing Claude sessions. The server scans and validates transcripts, imports selected sessions, and reuses existing threads. The web app provides a paginated browser, transcript preview, safe markdown rendering, and attachment flow.

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Agent session import

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session contracts and RPC definitions
packages/contracts/src/agentSessions.ts, packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts, packages/contracts/src/agentSessions.test.ts
Defines validated selection, list, preview, attachment, result, and error schemas. Registers three WebSocket RPCs.
Session discovery and transcript browsing
apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts, apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.test.ts
Adds session listing, transcript previews, selected-thread resolution, bounded reads, pagination, filtering, locator reuse, and strict scan errors.
Import orchestration and RPC wiring
apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/..., apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/auth/..., apps/server/src/server.test.ts
Adds project resolution, ownership lookup, serialized attachment, selected-session import, runtime-mode handling, shared service wiring, authorization scopes, and integration coverage.
Session import dialog and safe preview rendering
apps/web/src/components/AgentSessionImportDialog.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/state/agentSessions.ts
Adds the session browser dialog, paginated preview, attach navigation, preview-safe markdown rendering, project integration, and RPC state.
Claude session import documentation
docs/user/providers-claude.md
Documents session selection, preview, attachment, permissions, concurrent use, and retained transcript content.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f5645

Attaching a session can remain blocked for the duration of a bulk home scan, so this responsiveness regression should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant AgentSessionImportDialog
  participant WebSocketRPC
  participant AgentSessionImporter
  participant AgentSessionScanner
  participant ProjectionSnapshotQuery
  User->>AgentSessionImportDialog: open session browser
  AgentSessionImportDialog->>WebSocketRPC: list sessions
  WebSocketRPC->>AgentSessionImporter: list agent sessions
  AgentSessionImporter->>AgentSessionScanner: scan transcripts
  AgentSessionScanner-->>AgentSessionImporter: session summaries
  AgentSessionImporter-->>AgentSessionImportDialog: session list
  User->>AgentSessionImportDialog: preview session
  AgentSessionImportDialog->>WebSocketRPC: preview session
  WebSocketRPC->>AgentSessionImporter: preview agent session
  AgentSessionImporter->>AgentSessionScanner: read transcript
  AgentSessionScanner-->>AgentSessionImporter: preview messages
  AgentSessionImporter-->>AgentSessionImportDialog: preview result
  User->>AgentSessionImportDialog: attach session
  AgentSessionImportDialog->>WebSocketRPC: attach session
  WebSocketRPC->>AgentSessionImporter: attach agent session
  AgentSessionImporter->>ProjectionSnapshotQuery: resolve thread ownership
  ProjectionSnapshotQuery-->>AgentSessionImporter: project mapping
  AgentSessionImporter-->>AgentSessionImportDialog: thread ID
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apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.ts (1)

105-105: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

One global permit serializes interactive attach behind bulk import.

importLock now guards both attachAgentSession (line 212) and importRecentAgentThreads (line 219). The permit is process-wide, so it is not scoped to a project or a session. A bulk import for an unrelated project holds the permit while it walks every configured home and reads up to MAX_IMPORT_BYTES of transcripts. A user who clicks "Attach & open" during that window waits for the whole bulk import to finish.

The lock is what makes concurrent attaches idempotent, so keep the mutual exclusion but narrow its key. A Map<string, Semaphore> keyed by ${input.projectId} for bulk import and by importedThreadId(input) for attach preserves the duplicate-safe invariant and stops unrelated work from blocking the interactive path.

Note that lock ordering is consistent today: importLock is always acquired before the scanner's importReadLock, so this change does not introduce a deadlock risk. Keep that order if you key the lock.

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In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.ts` at line 105, Replace the
process-wide importLock with keyed semaphores stored in a Map<string,
Semaphore>. In the importRecentAgentThreads path, acquire the semaphore keyed by
input.projectId; in attachAgentSession, use the semaphore keyed by
importedThreadId(input). Preserve mutual exclusion for duplicate attaches, keep
importLock acquisition before the scanner’s importReadLock, and remove the
single global permit that blocks unrelated projects or sessions.
apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts (2)

1610-1611: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Centralize the session-ID pattern.

Four production locations and one test use separate copies of the same expression. They currently match, so no current runtime or check failure exists. Export one pattern from packages/contracts/src/agentSessions.ts and reuse it in the server modules and Claude adapter to prevent future drift.

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In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts` around lines 1610 - 1611,
Export a shared session-ID pattern from the agent sessions contracts module,
then replace the duplicated local expressions in the server modules, Claude
adapter, and test with that exported symbol. Preserve the current UUID matching
behavior and update imports accordingly.

1786-1802: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cache scoped transcript discovery across cursor requests.

list runs scopedTranscripts before slicing 40 entries. Each call repeats Claude-home discovery and transcript metadata reads, with budgets of up to 5,000 transcripts and 20,000 filesystem operations per source. Paging through a large home can therefore repeat this I/O and add interactive latency. Cache the scoped list by workspace identity and resolved homes for a short TTL, then reuse it for cursor requests. Keep inspect for returned entries because it re-stats files and validates their identity; expire the list so new sessions become visible promptly.

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In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts` around lines 1786 - 1802,
Update the AgentSessionScanner.list flow around scopedTranscripts to cache the
discovered transcript list by workspace identity and resolved homes for a short
TTL, reusing it across cursor requests while preserving inspect calls for each
returned transcript. Ensure the cache expires promptly so newly created sessions
are discovered, and retain the existing cursor, truncation, and inspection
behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.ts`:
- Around line 141-148: Update existingSessionThreads in listAgentSessions to
avoid calling getThreadShellById separately for every qualifying binding.
Collect candidate thread IDs first, then reuse active IDs from
getShellSnapshot() or add a batched lookup for those IDs, while preserving the
existing provider, cursor, and thread filtering behavior.

In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.test.ts`:
- Line 448: Update the projects-directory failure test to stub
FileSystem.readDirectory so it fails specifically for ${home}/projects,
replacing the nondeterministic fs.chmod(blocked, 0) setup. Preserve the existing
Failure assertion and listed.truncated assertion, since the dangling session203
transcript must still mark discovery as truncated.

In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts`:
- Around line 1786-1802: Update AgentSessionScanner.list to use a stable
pagination boundary across requests instead of rescanning with a mutable numeric
offset. Preserve the original transcript ordering and continuation state via a
snapshot or stable continuation key so additions or mtime updates cannot
duplicate or omit sessions when SessionBrowser follows nextCursor.

In `@apps/web/src/components/AgentSessionImportDialog.tsx`:
- Around line 119-120: Update the row selection check in
AgentSessionImportDialog so it compares sessions using their provider
identifiers rather than object identity. Ensure the matching row retains
aria-pressed and bg-accent after cursorless load() replaces result.sessions
while the preview continues using selected.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.ts`:
- Line 105: Replace the process-wide importLock with keyed semaphores stored in
a Map<string, Semaphore>. In the importRecentAgentThreads path, acquire the
semaphore keyed by input.projectId; in attachAgentSession, use the semaphore
keyed by importedThreadId(input). Preserve mutual exclusion for duplicate
attaches, keep importLock acquisition before the scanner’s importReadLock, and
remove the single global permit that blocks unrelated projects or sessions.

In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts`:
- Around line 1610-1611: Export a shared session-ID pattern from the agent
sessions contracts module, then replace the duplicated local expressions in the
server modules, Claude adapter, and test with that exported symbol. Preserve the
current UUID matching behavior and update imports accordingly.
- Around line 1786-1802: Update the AgentSessionScanner.list flow around
scopedTranscripts to cache the discovered transcript list by workspace identity
and resolved homes for a short TTL, reusing it across cursor requests while
preserving inspect calls for each returned transcript. Ensure the cache expires
promptly so newly created sessions are discovered, and retain the existing
cursor, truncation, and inspection behavior.

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Preserve project ownership and provider aliases when opening or repairing an imported session. Batch candidate ownership reads and retain stable list snapshots across pagination and retries.

Make filesystem-error fixtures deterministic, preserve the selected session across refreshes, and share the native session ID validator. Keep the common import permit because separate project and thread-ID locks would not exclude same-home aliases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks for the PR. We're not taking changes to the orchestration and provider layers right now: that part of the server is being rewritten for V2, and merging into the current code would either conflict with or be thrown away by that work.

Closing for now. If this is still an issue once V2 lands, please reopen (or open a fresh PR against the new code) and we'll take a proper look.

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[Bug]: Session import is unreachable after onboarding, so externally started sessions can never be imported

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