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Summary

  • separate persistent planning and tool-execution sessions while retaining tool-catalog fingerprint safety
  • use bounded control-plane request timeouts and a fresh app-server process when resume recovery is required
  • fail pending requests immediately when the child process exits or closes stdout
  • record redacted phase, timing, recovery, configuration-component, and stderr-digest telemetry

Root cause

Planning calls without tools and execution calls with the active tool catalog shared one persistent session identity, causing safe configuration checks to replace each other's threads. Resume recovery also reused the same unresponsive app-server process for the fallback thread start, turning one timeout into a second timeout.

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  • 19 focused provider/session tests
  • full test suite: 1460 passed, 1 expected platform-specific skip
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Reliability Improvements

    • Improved handling of stalled or interrupted sessions, including automatic recovery when a session cannot be resumed.
    • Requests and activity events now use separate timeout behavior for more responsive operation.
    • Pending operations are cleaned up when the underlying connection fails.
  • Diagnostics

    • Added clearer timing, status, and error diagnostics to make session failures easier to understand.
    • Configuration changes and session activity now provide more detailed operational feedback while protecting sensitive details.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved independent handling of planning and execution workflows.
    • Enhanced detection and reporting of connection closures and failed recovery attempts.

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  • src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py
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Walkthrough

The Codex provider now uses separate control and event timeouts, tracks structured session configuration, propagates app-server failures, recovers failed resumes with fresh processes, and keeps planner and executor sessions independent. Tests cover telemetry, timeout behavior, recovery, EOF handling, and routing.

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Codex session runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration state and diagnostics
src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py, tests/test_codex_provider_sessions.py
Sessions persist structured configuration components. Telemetry reports changed components, request timing, and hashed stderr diagnostics. Tests verify redaction and digest fields.
App-server transport lifecycle
src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py, tests/test_codex_provider_sessions.py
The client watches process failure, applies control-request timeouts, propagates transport errors, and cleans up pending tasks during shutdown. Tests cover EOF, closure, and timeout tracking.
Phase-specific session execution and recovery
src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py, tests/test_codex_provider_sessions.py
Planner and executor turns use separate session references. Resume failures close the old client and retry with a fresh process. Tests cover recovery, fallback cleanup, event timeouts, and independent persistent sessions.

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

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to f51ae

The PR separates persistent planning and execution sessions and adds recovery and telemetry, but the current implementation can retain obsolete session records and can lose completed notifications, causing some turns to hang until a long timeout. These bounded correctness and availability issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py (1)

192-209: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Reset transport state in start().

close() sets _closing = True and leaves _transport_error set. start() only guards on self._process is None, and close() sets _process = None. If any caller reuses a closed client, _watch_process and _read_stdout stay silent because _closing is True, and every request call raises the stale _transport_error at Line 225. Current callers create a fresh client after close(), so this is defensive hardening.

♻️ Proposed reset in `start()`
     async def start(self) -> None:
         if self._process is not None:
             return
+        self._closing = False
+        self._transport_error = None
+        self._transport_failed = asyncio.Event()
 
         if os.name == "nt" and self._command.lower().endswith((".cmd", ".bat")):
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In `@src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py` around lines 192 -
209, Reset reusable transport state at the beginning of start(): clear the
closing flag and stale transport error before creating the process and starting
_watch_process, while preserving the existing initialization and failure cleanup
flow.
tests/test_codex_provider_sessions.py (1)

212-243: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The redaction assertion does not exercise the real log path.

The test replaces _log_session_state, so it checks the arguments that _run_session_turn passes. Line 240 then asserts a 64-character digest, which is the unredacted value. The real _log_session_state truncates session_ref, thread_ref, and tool_digest to 12 characters. To assert redaction, capture the logger instead, as test_request_telemetry_redacts_stderr_content does at Lines 284-311.

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In `@tests/test_codex_provider_sessions.py` around lines 212 - 243, The test
test_configuration_reset_reports_only_changed_redacted_component bypasses the
real redaction path by monkeypatching _log_session_state and asserting an
unredacted 64-character tool_digest. Capture the logger output instead,
following test_request_telemetry_redacts_stderr_content, and assert the emitted
configuration_changed event contains the redacted 12-character values while
still verifying the changed component and excluding request content.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py`:
- Around line 1021-1029: Update _CodexSessionStore.put to prune expired or
legacy registry entries when writing a session, so entries created with the
previous _session_ref format cannot remain unreachable in codex_sessions.json.
Reuse the existing TTL/expiry rules and avoid introducing additional
session-lock entries beyond the current storage model.
- Around line 325-332: Update next_event to preserve every completed request or
notification task returned by asyncio.wait, including results completed
alongside transport_task or request_task, by requeueing each completed queue
result before returning or raising the transport error. Ensure no dequeued
notification is lost and retain the existing return behavior for the selected
event.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py`:
- Around line 192-209: Reset reusable transport state at the beginning of
start(): clear the closing flag and stale transport error before creating the
process and starting _watch_process, while preserving the existing
initialization and failure cleanup flow.

In `@tests/test_codex_provider_sessions.py`:
- Around line 212-243: The test
test_configuration_reset_reports_only_changed_redacted_component bypasses the
real redaction path by monkeypatching _log_session_state and asserting an
unredacted 64-character tool_digest. Capture the logger output instead,
following test_request_telemetry_redacts_stderr_content, and assert the emitted
configuration_changed event contains the redacted 12-character values while
still verifying the changed component and excluding request content.
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Comment on lines +325 to +332
if transport_task in done:
for task in done - {transport_task}:
task.cancel()
await asyncio.gather(*(done - {transport_task}), return_exceptions=True)
raise self._transport_error or CodexAppServerError("codex app-server transport closed")
if request_task in done:
return "request", request_task.result()
return "notification", notification_task.result()

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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asyncio.wait FIRST_COMPLETED multiple tasks in done set queue get item loss

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When using asyncio.wait with return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED, there is no inherent "item loss" in terms of tasks being discarded or deleted by the library [1][2][3]. However, users often encounter perceived loss because they misunderstand how asyncio.wait manages the returned sets or how it handles inputs [1][4][5]. Key points to understand: 1. Task Identification and Identity: If you pass raw coroutine objects to asyncio.wait instead of pre-created Task objects, asyncio.wait will implicitly wrap them in Tasks [6][2][5]. Because it returns the wrapped Task objects rather than the original coroutine objects, you may be unable to find your original references in the returned done or pending sets [4][5]. To avoid this, always wrap coroutines in asyncio.create_task before passing them to asyncio.wait, and use those Task references [4][5]. 2. The Done Set Contents: Using FIRST_COMPLETED does not guarantee that the done set will contain exactly one task [7]. It returns when at least one task finishes [1][2]. If multiple tasks complete simultaneously or between the internal check and the function returning, all of them will appear in the done set [7][6]. 3. Pending Tasks Remain Active: Unlike some other concurrency primitives, asyncio.wait does not automatically cancel the tasks that remain in the pending set [1][3][8]. If you only process the tasks in the done set and discard the pending set, those pending tasks will continue to run in the background (unless they are garbage collected, which is not guaranteed) [1][2][8]. If your intention is to stop other work once the first task completes, you must manually iterate over the pending set and call.cancel on them [1][9]. 4. Proper Pattern: To safely use FIRST_COMPLETED, you should typically use a loop that processes the done set and continues to wait on the remaining pending set until all work is finished or a specific condition is met [1][3]. Example of safe pattern: while tasks: done, pending = await asyncio.wait(tasks, return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED) for task in done: # Process result tasks = pending # Continue only with what is left [1]

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sed -n '300,340p' src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py
python3 - <<'PY'
import asyncio

async def main():
    notifications = asyncio.Queue()
    requests = asyncio.Queue()
    await notifications.put("notification")
    await requests.put("request")

    notification_task = asyncio.create_task(notifications.get())
    request_task = asyncio.create_task(requests.get())
    done, pending = await asyncio.wait(
        {notification_task, request_task},
        return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED,
    )

    print("done:", len(done), "pending:", len(pending))
    print("done results:", [task.result() for task in done])
    print("queue sizes after wait:", notifications.qsize(), requests.qsize())

asyncio.run(main())
PY

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Preserve all completed queue results in next_event.

asyncio.wait(..., return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED) can return multiple completed tasks. When request_task and notification_task both complete, the method returns the request and drops the dequeued notification. The transport branch also drops any completed queue result. If the dropped notification is turn/completed, _collect_turn waits until the 180-second idle timeout. Requeue every completed queue result before returning or raising the transport error.

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In `@src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py` around lines 325 -
332, Update next_event to preserve every completed request or notification task
returned by asyncio.wait, including results completed alongside transport_task
or request_task, by requeueing each completed queue result before returning or
raising the transport error. Ensure no dequeued notification is lost and retain
the existing return behavior for the selected event.

Comment on lines +1021 to 1029
def _session_ref(session_key: str, *, phase: str) -> str:
return _fingerprint(
json.dumps(
{"session_key": session_key, "phase": phase},
ensure_ascii=False,
sort_keys=True,
separators=(",", ":"),
)
)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The new session_ref scheme orphans existing registry entries.

_session_ref now hashes session_key plus phase, so every key written by the previous scheme becomes unreachable. _CodexSessionStore deletes entries only inside get, and get is never called with the old keys again. Those entries stay in codex_sessions.json forever, past the TTL. The phase split also doubles both registry entries and self._session_locks entries per session key.

Prune expired entries during put, or drop entries that do not match the current ref format.

♻️ Proposed pruning in `_CodexSessionStore.put`
     def put(self, session_ref: str, session: _CodexSession) -> None:
         payload = self._read()
         sessions = payload.setdefault("sessions", {})
         if not isinstance(sessions, dict):
             sessions = {}
             payload["sessions"] = sessions
+        cutoff = datetime.now(UTC) - timedelta(days=CODEX_SESSION_TTL_DAYS)
+        for stale_ref, raw in list(sessions.items()):
+            if stale_ref == session_ref or not isinstance(raw, dict):
+                continue
+            try:
+                stale_updated_at = datetime.fromisoformat(str(raw["updated_at"]))
+            except (KeyError, TypeError, ValueError):
+                sessions.pop(stale_ref, None)
+                continue
+            if stale_updated_at.tzinfo is None:
+                stale_updated_at = stale_updated_at.replace(tzinfo=UTC)
+            if stale_updated_at < cutoff:
+                sessions.pop(stale_ref, None)
         sessions[session_ref] = {
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[info] 1022-1027: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps(
{"session_key": session_key, "phase": phase},
ensure_ascii=False,
sort_keys=True,
separators=(",", ":"),
)
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.

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In `@src/octopal/infrastructure/providers/codex_provider.py` around lines 1021 -
1029, Update _CodexSessionStore.put to prune expired or legacy registry entries
when writing a session, so entries created with the previous _session_ref format
cannot remain unreachable in codex_sessions.json. Reuse the existing TTL/expiry
rules and avoid introducing additional session-lock entries beyond the current
storage model.

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pmbstyle merged commit 32b9c2c into main Aug 13, 2026
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pmbstyle deleted the feature/codex-session-recovery branch August 13, 2026 11:54
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