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fix(server): settling a Codex thread stops the background commands its agent left running - #25863
Settling a thread does not stop the background commands its Codex agent started. Settle unsubscribes the native thread from the shared Codex app-server and expects Codex to unload it and kill its terminals. Codex 0.163 answers unsubscribed but does not close the thread, so those processes keep running for as long as the shared app-server lives. On Windows each one is a shell plus a Console Window Host, which matches the Task Manager view in the report.
Reproduction on main 96fc7b9 (Linux, codex-cli 0.163.0, web client): in a Codex thread, ask the agent to start sleep 1700 as a background terminal, let the turn finish, then Settle. thread/unsubscribe is sent, no thread/closed ever arrives, and sleep 1700 is still alive 10 minutes later.
Change
CodexAdapterV2.unloadThread now sends thread/backgroundTerminals/clean for the native thread before thread/unsubscribe. Settle, archive and the other provider-session detaches go through this method. The clean is best effort: if it fails or takes longer than 5 s, the failure is logged and the unsubscribe still runs. That covers older Codex builds without the method.
After a successful clean, the thread's running command items are marked interrupted by the same code the thread/closed handler already used. That code is now a shared helper.
Codex can report a killed command before it answers the clean. So before cleaning, the thread's settled turns are flagged as unloading, under the existing terminalization permit, and a command completing on a flagged turn no longer offers a post-settle continuation. Its item still updates normally, and the settled thread is not woken again.
Red test first: CodexAdapterV2 post-settle continuation > cleans the thread's background terminals when unloading it fails on main (the replay expected thread/backgroundTerminals/clean but received thread/unsubscribe). It is now parameterised over three orderings: completion before the clean result, after the unsubscribe, and before a -32601 clean failure. Every case asserts no pending background work and zero continuation requests.
Removing the new continuation guard makes the "before clean result" and "before clean failure" cases fail.
vp test run on CodexAdapterV2.test.ts and ProviderSessionManager.test.ts: 132/132 pass. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests all pass.
thread/backgroundTerminals/clean, then thread/unsubscribe
thread/closed from Codex
never (0 in 10 min)
not needed
sleep 1700 after Settle
alive at +3 s, +10 s, +20 s, ~10 min
gone within 10 s
Command item / thread
still "Running · Stop"
interrupted, thread stays settled, no continuation run
The transcript was taken at c7724da. The later commits change only how completions that arrive during the clean are handled, which the replay tests above cover.
Not checked:
cannot-verify windows: no Windows runtime was available. Whether Codex's clean also ends the Console Window Host processes on Windows is Codex's behaviour and was not observed.
The shared codex.exe app-server itself still stays up after its last thread detaches, until the existing idle release. That is unchanged and by design.
Only Codex 0.163.0 was exercised.
Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, red test, implementation) and GPT-6.1-Sol (review) via T3 Code.
…nload (#25062)
These tests reproduce #25062: unloading (settling) a Codex thread only sends
thread/unsubscribe, so a background command the turn left running is never
cleaned. The replay expects thread/backgroundTerminals/clean for the native
thread before the unsubscribe, and fails on main.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Unloading a thread from the shared Codex app-server only sent
thread/unsubscribe, and Codex keeps an unsubscribed thread loaded
indefinitely, so background commands the agent started outlived the
settle (and piled up as shells on Windows).
unloadThread now sends thread/backgroundTerminals/clean before
unsubscribing. A failed clean (older Codex, exited process, missing
thread) is logged and the unsubscribe still runs. After a successful
clean the thread's running command items are terminalized the same way
thread/closed does, since Codex's late item/completed can race the
unsubscribe.
Fixes#25062
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex can report the commands it killed before answering
thread/backgroundTerminals/clean. Mark the thread's running commands closed
before sending the clean so those completions cannot offer a post-settle
continuation, and reopen them if the clean fails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…pping completions
Marking running commands closed before the clean and reopening them on
failure lost completions that arrived in between, and could undo a
thread/closed that landed mid-clean. Flag the thread's settled turns as
unloading instead: completions still update their items, but they no
longer offer a post-settle continuation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A turn publishes its terminal event before it enters settledTurns, so an
unload scanning without the permit could miss it and let a cleaned
command wake the agent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Codex thread unloading now explicitly stops leftover background commands and prevents their cleanup from restarting the agent. The change is scoped to existing thread cleanup; the reported timeout edge case has limited operational impact.
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CodexAdapterV2 now cleans background terminals when a settled thread unloads, terminalizes associated commands, and suppresses continuation requests from late command completions. Tests cover cleanup response timing and unsupported-method errors.
Changes: Codex unload lifecycle
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Clean and terminalize settled thread commands apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts
The adapter marks matching settled turns as unloading, requests background-terminal cleanup with a five-second timeout, and terminalizes their commands. Cleanup errors are logged before unsubscribe proceeds. Late completions do not request continuations for unloading turns. Tests cover cleanup timing, unsubscribe ordering, and an unsupported-method response.
If cleanup fails or is unsupported when a thread is archived, its command cards can stay running and the thread can keep reporting background work. Terminalize the remaining commands after a successful archive before merging.
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Issue [#25062] requires background processes to close when a chat is settled. The whole-PR diff (merge base 95cb068 to head 503d797) changes CodexAdapterV2.unloadThread to send thread/backgroundTerminals/clean before thread/unsubscribe, with a 5-second timeout and a logged best-effort failure path. After a successful clean, running command items are terminalized as interrupted through the shared terminalizeClosedThreadCommands helper. A unloading flag on settled turns suppresses post-settle continuations during cleanup. Replay tests in CodexAdapterV2.test.ts cover completion before the clean result, completion after unsubscribe, and a -32601 clean failure. Each case asserts no pending background work and zero continuation requests. The issue has no separate Windows-only coding requirement. Windows runtime behavior of Codex's clean is unverified, as the PR states; this does not fail the coding requirement.
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- Line 7519: Update the cleanup and unsubscribe timeout flow around
Effect.timeout so unsubscribe receives its own five-second response budget,
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If clean times out and unsubscribe takes more than the remaining five seconds, the manager can time out before unsubscribe completes. It then retains the old linked-environments record, which can cause an unnecessary unload on a later resume. Give unsubscribe its own response budget.
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Update the cleanup and unsubscribe timeout flow around Effect.timeout so unsubscribe receives its own five-second response budget, independent of time spent waiting for clean. Ensure the manager can complete the unsubscribe response before proceeding with linked-environments record handling.
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Terminalize settled commands after an archive whose cleanup failed.
When thread/backgroundTerminals/clean fails or times out, the Effect.andThen(terminalizeClosedThreadCommands(...)) step is skipped. The archive branch then calls thread/archive and returns. That branch does not rely on thread/closed and does not terminalize the settled turns. Their running command items can stay tracked, and hasPendingBackgroundWork stays true while they remain.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts at line 7840:
Update the archive branch in the Codex adapter so it calls terminalizeClosedThreadCommands after thread/archive succeeds, even when background-terminal cleanup failed or timed out. Preserve the existing archive request and return behavior.
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Permanent blocker: valid real Codex provider authentication is required. The configured credential returned 401 Unauthorized, and first-party ChatGPT OAuth is unavailable on this VM. Background-process termination, command-item updates, and suppression of continuations remain unverified on both commits.
Permanent blocker: a Windows host with working Codex access is required to verify Windows shell and Console Window Host cleanup; this VM is Linux.
Whether current main still exhibits the background-process leak remains unverified.
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Problem
Settling a thread does not stop the background commands its Codex agent started. Settle unsubscribes the native thread from the shared Codex app-server and expects Codex to unload it and kill its terminals. Codex 0.163 answers
unsubscribedbut does not close the thread, so those processes keep running for as long as the shared app-server lives. On Windows each one is a shell plus a Console Window Host, which matches the Task Manager view in the report.Reproduction on main 96fc7b9 (Linux, codex-cli 0.163.0, web client): in a Codex thread, ask the agent to start
sleep 1700as a background terminal, let the turn finish, then Settle.thread/unsubscribeis sent, nothread/closedever arrives, andsleep 1700is still alive 10 minutes later.Change
CodexAdapterV2.unloadThreadnow sendsthread/backgroundTerminals/cleanfor the native thread beforethread/unsubscribe. Settle, archive and the other provider-session detaches go through this method. The clean is best effort: if it fails or takes longer than 5 s, the failure is logged and the unsubscribe still runs. That covers older Codex builds without the method.interruptedby the same code thethread/closedhandler already used. That code is now a shared helper.Scope and approval
Fixes #25062
Triaged via the automated issue flow.
Verification
CodexAdapterV2 post-settle continuation > cleans the thread's background terminals when unloading itfails on main (the replay expectedthread/backgroundTerminals/cleanbut receivedthread/unsubscribe). It is now parameterised over three orderings: completion before the clean result, after the unsubscribe, and before a-32601clean failure. Every case asserts no pending background work and zero continuation requests.vp test runonCodexAdapterV2.test.tsandProviderSessionManager.test.ts: 132/132 pass.vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests all pass.thread/unsubscribeonlythread/backgroundTerminals/clean, thenthread/unsubscribethread/closedfrom Codexsleep 1700after Settleinterrupted, thread stays settled, no continuation runThe transcript was taken at c7724da. The later commits change only how completions that arrive during the clean are handled, which the replay tests above cover.
Not checked:
cannot-verify windows: no Windows runtime was available. Whether Codex's clean also ends the Console Window Host processes on Windows is Codex's behaviour and was not observed.codex.exeapp-server itself still stays up after its last thread detaches, until the existing idle release. That is unchanged and by design.Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, red test, implementation) and GPT-6.1-Sol (review) via T3 Code.
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