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Importing a project could create duplicate threads for native T3 Codex/Claude sessions and import Codex subagents as separate conversations. Imported titles could use setup instructions instead of the user request, and repeat imports reported existing threads as newly imported.

Preserve the existing project-level flow while excluding native-owned sessions and Codex subagents, using saved names or actual user requests for titles, and counting only newly created threads. Original message bodies remain intact, and expected exclusions do not count as failures.

Incorporates the native-session ownership fix from #10950 and the title fix from #10521. Extends them with subagent filtering, structured user-text title selection, corrected import counts, legacy Claude cursor support, native-session exclusion before full-history scan limits, and ownership matching across instances sharing a transcript home. The changes are confined to the server and tests.

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  • 125 focused tests and scoped type-aware lint passed.
  • The same browser test ran against parent commit 9d4bb550a6 and patched commit c0ea2bc347, using identical seed data. Before: two native duplicates, four subagents, three incorrect titles, and 18 imports reported on repeat. After: six eligible conversations imported with correct titles, zero unwanted threads, and zero imports reported on repeat. All 20 checks passed on the patched commit; eight failed on the parent.
  • Additional regression tests reproduce legacy Claude duplicates and import-budget exhaustion by native sessions on the original PR commit, then pass with the follow-up fix.
  • A shared-home browser fixture creates two native duplicates on c0ea2bc347; c2500df9b6 excludes both and passes all 20 checks on the same fixture. Tests cover enabled/disabled aliases and keep distinct homes independent.
  • Project selection, original native threads, and full message bodies were preserved. Provider bindings were disposable fixtures; real provider execution was not tested.

Implemented with GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex.

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  • New Features

    • Improved session importing to preserve native sessions and prevent duplicate ownership.
    • Added native-session ownership detection across supported resume formats and shared provider homes.
    • Added safer reservation and retry handling for imported sessions.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected import counts when sessions are skipped, already imported, or fail.
    • Improved discovery across enabled and disabled provider instances sharing transcript directories.
    • Preserved support for Codex and Claude sessions across supported resume representations.

Build on the native-session ownership guard from pingdotgg#10950 and the imported-title fix from pingdotgg#10521. Add explicit preview and revision selection, exclude Codex subagents, and separate import outcomes.
Restore the existing project-level import flow and remove the conversation picker, preview RPC, revision selection, capability flags, and expanded result contract. Keep native-session ownership, child-session filtering, title fixes, and accurate counts.
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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This server-side change modifies the existing history-import pipeline with automatic native-session and subagent suppression, persistence-level reservation checks, and transcript parsing changes. Because these cross-layer gates determine whether threads and history are created, the scope is broader than a small self-contained fix and merits human review.

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The pull request adds native-session ownership checks, shared-home provider-instance tracking, conditional binding reservation, and explicit importer outcomes. Tests cover native cursor formats, shared homes, conflicts, retries, and result counts.

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Native session import protection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime ownership contract
apps/server/src/persistence/ProviderSessionRuntime.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Services/ProviderSessionDirectory.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderSessionDirectory.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/*.test.ts, apps/server/src/server*.test.ts
upsert now returns a boolean. Insert-ignore operations check native session ownership across provider instances and shared homes. Test doubles return boolean results.
Shared-home transcript discovery
apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts, apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.test.ts
Scanner candidates now carry shared provider-instance IDs. Disabled instances remain available for home discovery, enabled instances receive ownership, and native-session filtering checks all shared instances.
Importer reservation and outcome handling
apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.ts, apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.test.ts
The importer builds native-session identities, skips owned threads, uses guarded reservations, and distinguishes existing, imported, excluded, and failed outcomes. Tests cover cursor formats, conflicts, retries, shared homes, and counts.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentSessionScanner
  participant AgentSessionImporter
  participant ProviderSessionDirectory
  participant ProviderSessionRuntime
  AgentSessionScanner-->>AgentSessionImporter: scanned thread with shared instance IDs
  AgentSessionImporter->>ProviderSessionDirectory: reserve binding
  ProviderSessionDirectory->>ProviderSessionRuntime: upsert with native-session guard
  ProviderSessionRuntime-->>ProviderSessionDirectory: accepted or blocked
  ProviderSessionDirectory-->>AgentSessionImporter: reservation result
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In `@apps/server/src/persistence/ProviderSessionRuntime.ts`:
- Around line 271-281: Update ProviderSessionRuntimeRepository.upsert and its
upsertRuntimeRow native-write path to enforce the provider instance and native
session ID ownership check atomically, preventing insertion when another
non-import row already owns the same session ID even if thread_id differs.
Ensure both resumeCursor representations (claudeAgent.resume and codex.threadId)
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I am leaving the automated docstring-coverage warning unchanged. This repository asks for comments that explain non-obvious invariants and explicitly discourages narrating methods or control flow that the code already makes clear. Adding comments solely to reach the bot's 80% threshold would conflict with that guidance and expand this bug-fix PR. The relevant constraints are documented in the existing comments and focused tests.

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In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts`:
- Around line 1122-1141: The transcript grouping in AgentSessionScanner must
preserve the configured provider instance identity when its home shares the
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I validated the current PR head (c2500df9b6) against a real affected Codex Desktop dataset on Windows.

Environment:

  • Windows 11 Pro x64, version 10.0.26200 (build 26200)
  • T3 Code Desktop 0.0.42
  • Codex Desktop
  • Current Codex CLI: 0.158.0-alpha.2.1
  • Some affected rollouts were created by Codex CLI 0.155.0-alpha.16.4

Dataset:

  • 137 Codex sessions imported by T3
  • 22 actual top-level sessions
  • 115 subagent sessions belonging to 9 parent sessions
  • Six imported subagent threads titled:
    <in-app-browser-context source="ambient-ui-state">
  • 85 imported titles clearly derived from injected context, including <recommended_plugins>, <environment_context>, and # AGENTS.md instructions

Validation method:
I performed a read-only replay of the PR's current subagent classification and structured-title selection logic against the existing on-disk Codex rollout metadata and response items. This was not a packaged desktop build test.

Results:

  • Subagent classification: 115/115 child sessions excluded
  • False negatives: 0
  • Top-level sessions retained: 22/22
  • False positives against top-level sessions: 0
  • All six <in-app-browser-context ...> entries were correctly identified as subagents and would no longer be imported as top-level conversations
  • Structured content_item_kinds: ["user.text"] content was available for 22/22 retained top-level sessions
  • Resulting structured titles were non-empty for 22/22 sessions
  • 0 resulting titles still began with injected-context markers

For this dataset, the two-stage subagent check and the user.text title selection address the reported problem correctly.

One remaining user-facing concern: the PR prevents future bad imports, but it does not appear to remove subagent threads that were already imported into T3. After upgrading, affected users may still have the existing polluted sidebar unless they reset/re-import the project or use a separate cleanup path.

It may be worth documenting the required cleanup procedure or providing a migration/repair action for previously imported import:codex:* subagent threads.

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Closing under the one-problem rule. Excluding native-owned/subagent sessions and correcting titles of otherwise valid imports are separate defects: the exclusion checks use session identity, while title derivation independently changes retained conversations. The title problem is already established in #10513. Please split those fixes, retaining the relevant verification for each, and request reconsideration.

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