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Agent cards can identify provider child agents, but retained parent-thread activities do not contain their complete saved history. That leaves the client with no reliable way to inspect a Codex or Claude child after activity has been summarized or dropped.

This adds an authenticated, read-only orchestration.getAgentHistory RPC routed through the thread's persisted provider binding without recovering or resuming the parent session. Codex reads the native child thread with thread/read after verifying its ancestry. Claude reads the SDK's saved subagent transcript through a bounded, read-only session store. Both normalize messages, reasoning, tools, and file edits into one paginated contract.

History reads reuse bounded short-lived transports, cap entries and payload sizes, reject unrelated Codex descendants, and constrain Claude transcript traversal to regular files under the configured store. Providers without an implementation return unsupported through the same contract.

This is the Codex/Claude server foundation extracted from #10881. The roster redesign is isolated in #11135; client presentation and additional provider adapters can build on this endpoint separately.

Validation: 235 focused tests passed across shared history paging, transport reuse, provider parsing, adapter routing, and provider service behavior. Contracts and server typechecks pass; changed files pass formatting and lint with no errors.

Model: GPT-6 Astra
Harness: Codex

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  • New Features
    • Added agent history retrieval for supported Claude and Codex sessions.
    • View recent tools, latest entries, or paginated history with bounded details and truncation indicators.
    • History can be read without restarting sessions or sending new turns.
    • Added authorization and error handling for orchestration requests.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of missing, invalid, incomplete, or unsupported history data.
    • Added validation to prevent unrelated or unsafe nested histories from being accessed.
    • Improved history pagination and formatting for file edits and tool activity.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a substantial authenticated RPC and new Codex/Claude transcript-reading infrastructure across the server, provider adapters, contracts, and filesystem/subprocess boundaries. It also adds static-analysis suppressions and has unresolved resource-handling and path-resolution concerns in the new readers.

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Adds the getAgentHistory orchestration RPC. It defines bounded history contracts, reads persisted Claude and Codex child-agent data without restarting sessions, adds pagination and transport reuse, and updates provider test harnesses.

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Agent history retrieval

Layer / File(s) Summary
RPC contract and authorization
packages/contracts/src/orchestration.ts, packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/auth/RpcAuthorization.ts
Defines the input, output, entry, and error contracts. Registers the RPC handler and requires orchestration read scope.
History normalization and transport reuse
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/agentHistory.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/agentHistoryClient.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/agentHistory.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/agentHistoryClient.test.ts
Adds bounded entries, latest/recent-tools views, pagination, and cached read-only clients with timeout and invalidation behavior.
Claude transcript reader
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeAgentHistory.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeAgentHistory.test.ts
Reads validated Claude JSONL transcripts, maps message blocks to history entries, handles partial records, and prevents unsafe filesystem traversal.
Codex thread reader
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.test.ts
Maps Codex thread items, validates child ancestry, rejects unrelated histories, and reads turns without resuming sessions.
Provider service and adapter wiring
apps/server/src/provider/Services/*, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.history.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.test.ts
Extends provider contracts and routes persisted history requests to Claude and Codex adapters. Unsupported providers return an unsupported result.
Provider mock conformance
apps/server/integration/orphanedProviderSessionStartup.integration.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/*test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderSessionReaper.test.ts, apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.reconcile.test.ts
Adds getAgentHistory stubs to existing provider-service test harnesses.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant WebSocketRPC
  participant ProviderService
  participant ProviderAdapter
  participant HistoryStore
  Client->>WebSocketRPC: getAgentHistory(input)
  WebSocketRPC->>ProviderService: getAgentHistory(input)
  ProviderService->>ProviderAdapter: read saved history with resume cursor and cwd
  ProviderAdapter->>HistoryStore: load Claude transcript or Codex thread
  HistoryStore-->>ProviderAdapter: bounded history result
  ProviderAdapter-->>ProviderService: ready, unavailable, or unsupported result
  ProviderService-->>WebSocketRPC: orchestration response
  WebSocketRPC-->>Client: getAgentHistory result
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cd7a6

This change adds a read-only agent-history RPC and includes a fix for handling missing Codex command output, which was verified to be safe and does not introduce new runtime risk. One pre-existing, lower-severity concern remains: the history pagination logic keeps its own list of supported Codex item types instead of sharing the classification used elsewhere, so a future addition of a new item type could silently shift pagination for existing users if the two lists are not kept in sync. This is a reasonable follow-up but does not block merging today.

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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.test.ts (1)

124-142: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover a genuinely unrelated ancestor chain.

The "unrelated" scenario passes null as the parent, so every thread reports source: "appServer" and the walk stops at the first item. That is the same code path as the top-level-thread case. The rejection that matters — a sub-agent whose parent_thread_id chain resolves to a different parent thread — is not covered.

Add a scenario where the child's source names another thread id and that ancestor is itself a sub-agent of an unrelated parent.

💚 Proposed additional scenario
+  it.effect("rejects a descendant of an unrelated parent thread", () =>
+    Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const parents: Record<string, string | null> = {
+        child: "other-coordinator",
+        "other-coordinator": "other-parent",
+        "other-parent": null,
+      };
+      const result = yield* readCodexAgentHistory({
+        parentThreadId: "parent",
+        agentId: "child",
+        offset: 0,
+        readThread: (id, includeTurns) => {
+          expect(includeTurns).toBe(false);
+          return Effect.succeed(thread(id, parents[id] ?? null));
+        },
+      });
+      expect(result.status).toBe("unavailable");
+      expect(result.entries).toEqual([]);
+    }),
+  );
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.test.ts` around lines 124 -
142, Expand the “unrelated” scenario in the test loop to model a genuinely
unrelated ancestor chain: have the child reference another thread ID, and have
that ancestor reference a different parent thread. Keep the assertions that the
result is unavailable, entries are empty, and conversation content is never
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeAgentHistory.ts`:
- Around line 205-223: Update the transcript reader around the file-size check
and the entries parsing loop to enforce a lower maximum file size and a maximum
decoded record count, returning unavailable when either cap is exceeded. Apply
the record limit while iterating before unbounded entries accumulation, while
preserving existing malformed-final-record handling and pagination behavior.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.test.ts`:
- Around line 124-142: Expand the “unrelated” scenario in the test loop to model
a genuinely unrelated ancestor chain: have the child reference another thread
ID, and have that ancestor reference a different parent thread. Keep the
assertions that the result is unavailable, entries are empty, and conversation
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  • apps/server/integration/orphanedProviderSessionStartup.integration.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/CheckpointReactor.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderSessionReaper.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/agentHistory.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/agentHistory.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/agentHistoryClient.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/agentHistoryClient.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeAgentHistory.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/claudeAgentHistory.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.ts
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  • apps/server/src/provider/Services/ProviderService.ts
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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.ts (1)

15-37: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Derive the paginated item types from one shared list.

hasCodexHistoryEntry restates the type names handled by codexHistoryEntry. The two functions must stay in exact agreement. If a new item type is added to codexHistoryEntry and not to this predicate, the pre-skip loop at Line 181 undercounts, and every page after the first returns shifted entries with no error.

The current lists do agree. Extract the type names into one constant so they cannot drift. Keep the value-dependent reasoning check separate, so payloads are still not serialized during the skip.

♻️ Proposed shared list
+const PAGINATED_ITEM_TYPES = new Set([
+  "userMessage",
+  "agentMessage",
+  "plan",
+  "commandExecution",
+  "fileChange",
+  "mcpToolCall",
+  "dynamicToolCall",
+  "webSearch",
+  "collabAgentToolCall",
+  "imageView",
+  "imageGeneration",
+  "enteredReviewMode",
+  "exitedReviewMode",
+]);
+
 /** Identify entries that count toward pagination without serializing their payloads. */
 function hasCodexHistoryEntry(item: V2ThreadReadResponse__ThreadItem): boolean {
   if (item.type === "reasoning")
     return (
       (item.summary ?? []).some((part) => part.trim()) ||
       (item.content ?? []).some((part) => part.trim())
     );
-  return (
-    item.type === "userMessage" ||
-    item.type === "agentMessage" ||
-    ...
-  );
+  return PAGINATED_ITEM_TYPES.has(item.type);
 }
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.ts` around lines 15 - 37,
Extract the non-reasoning item type names into a shared constant and reuse it in
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.ts`:
- Around line 79-86: Update the history text assembly in codexHistoryEntry to
exclude both null and undefined aggregatedOutput values before passing the parts
to boundedHistoryText. Preserve the existing exit-code inclusion and ensure
boundedHistoryText receives only strings so readCodexAgentHistory still returns
the page when aggregatedOutput is omitted.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexAgentHistory.ts`:
- Around line 15-37: Extract the non-reasoning item type names into a shared
constant and reuse it in both hasCodexHistoryEntry and codexHistoryEntry so
pagination and serialization cannot drift. Keep reasoning handled separately
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sheehanmunim added a commit to munimtechnologies/mtcode that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2026
Adds the read-only orchestration.getAgentHistory RPC routed through the
thread's provider binding. Codex reads the child thread via thread/read;
Claude reads the SDK's saved subagent transcript. Registered with the
orchestration read scope in RpcAuthorization.

(cherry picked from commits 67d63c0, d590fb4, e7f3bc2, a917479, cd7a622)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <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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