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Checkpoint revert fails after a server restart because it requires a live provider session before reaching the existing session recovery path.

Prepare the rollback by checking provider support and recovering the persisted session before reading its working directory or changing files. Unsupported providers are rejected before recovery; a recovery failure preserves files, checkpoint refs, and history. Failed recovery attempts stop their provider session and revoke and clear MCP credentials, including when binding persistence or provider validation fails. The service method and its test doubles are renamed to describe rollback preparation.

Fixes #10470.

Validation: 128 tests passed across the provider, checkpoint reactor, and orchestration integration suites, with one existing skip. Server typecheck, formatting, and focused lint passed. Two preparation regressions fail against the old service behavior and pass with the fix. Coverage includes inactive Codex/Claude sessions, turn-zero revert, recovery failure, failed-recovery cleanup including a stop error, and persisted routing across a service restart. Native provider CLIs and the reported Windows installation were not exercised.

Model: GPT-6. Harness: Codex in T3 Code.

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Recover persisted provider sessions before checkpoint revert in CheckpointReactor

  • Renames the ProviderService rollback-support assertion method to prepareConversationRollback and makes it resume inactive persisted sessions after capability validation but before any file or workspace changes.
  • The CheckpointReactor revert handler removes the initial active-session and Git-repository checks and now calls prepareConversationRollback before resolving the session runtime and restoring workspace state.
  • Failed persisted-session recovery now attempts to stop the partially recovered provider session and revoke its MCP credential, using the configured revocation callback instead of the module-global registry function.
  • Risk: ProviderService.cleanup now relies on ProviderServiceLiveOptions.mcpRevoke being set; if callers construct the layer without the revocation hook, MCP credential cleanup will be skipped during recovery failures.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved conversation rollback by recovering inactive provider sessions before reverting changes.
    • Prevented partially recovered sessions from leaving behind active processes or MCP credentials when recovery fails.
    • Improved rollback validation and error reporting when persisted provider session information is unavailable.
    • Ensured rollback behavior remains consistent across supported provider sessions and recovery scenarios.
    • Improved cleanup after failed recovery caused by persistence, provider mismatch, or session-termination issues.

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Verdict: Approved at 67fe48f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused server bug fix that recovers persisted provider sessions only during checkpoint reverts, preserves state on failure, and cleans up failed recovery attempts. The production changes are localized and accompanied by targeted regression coverage for restart, provider, turn-zero, and cleanup scenarios.

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The provider rollback API now prepares and recovers inactive sessions. Checkpoint revert invokes this preparation before validation. Failed recovery cleans up sessions and MCP credentials. Tests cover successful recovery, failed recovery, unchanged state, and updated failure details.

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Checkpoint rollback recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider rollback preparation
apps/server/src/provider/Services/ProviderService.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.test.ts
The rollback method is renamed to prepareConversationRollback. It recovers inactive persisted sessions and cleans up failed recovery state, including MCP credentials. Tests verify recovery and cleanup behavior.
Checkpoint revert orchestration
apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/CheckpointReactor.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/CheckpointReactor.test.ts, apps/server/integration/orchestrationEngine.integration.test.ts
Checkpoint revert resolves the target checkpoint, prepares the provider session, and then performs runtime and repository validation. Tests cover Codex and Claude recovery, preparation failure, unchanged state, turn count zero, and the updated failure detail.
Provider service contract migration
apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/*test.ts, apps/server/integration/orphanedProviderSessionStartup.integration.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderSessionReaper.test.ts, apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.reconcile.test.ts
Provider service mocks use prepareConversationRollback instead of the removed method.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Low

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CheckpointReactor
  participant ProviderService
  participant ProviderAdapter
  participant GitRepository
  CheckpointReactor->>GitRepository: resolve target checkpoint ref
  CheckpointReactor->>ProviderService: prepareConversationRollback(threadId)
  ProviderService->>ProviderAdapter: recover persisted session
  ProviderAdapter-->>ProviderService: recovered session
  ProviderService-->>CheckpointReactor: preparation complete
  CheckpointReactor->>GitRepository: validate repository state
  CheckpointReactor->>ProviderService: rollback conversation
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 67fe4

Checkpoint revert now recovers persisted provider sessions after restart and cleans up failed recovery attempts. A failed start can still generate a misleading cleanup warning, but it does not affect rollback state or credential cleanup.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 11 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: recovering provider sessions after restart so checkpoint revert can proceed.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains what changed, why it changed, validation performed, and scope limitations. It omits the template checklist, but the required change and rationale are otherwise complete.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #10470 by preparing rollback, recovering inactive persisted sessions before workspace access, and preserving rollback behavior when recovery fails.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation and test updates remain focused on checkpoint revert session recovery, cleanup, and the related service-method rename. No unrelated code changes are evident.
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts`:
- Around line 1911-1914: The recoverSessionForThread flow must clean up every
failure occurring after adapter.startSession succeeds, including
upsertSessionBinding errors and provider-mismatch recovery. Stop the newly
started session, revoke its MCP credentials, and clear its MCP state before
propagating the failure; preserve normal recovery behavior for successful
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1077-1087: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider gating the stop attempt on an existing session.

The cleanup now runs for every failure, including a failure of adapter.startSession itself. In that case no session exists, so adapter.stopSession can fail and emit "Failed to stop a session after recovery failed" for a thread that never started. Other call sites in this file check liveness first: stopStaleSessionsForThread checks adapter.hasSession (Line 1160) and stopSession checks routed.isActive (Line 1779). The MCP cleanup must stay unconditional.

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         Effect.onError(() =>
-          adapter.stopSession(input.binding.threadId).pipe(
-            Effect.catchCause((cause) =>
-              Effect.logWarning("Failed to stop a session after recovery failed", {
-                threadId: input.binding.threadId,
-                errorTag: causeErrorTag(cause),
-              }),
-            ),
-            Effect.ensuring(clearMcpSession(input.binding.threadId)),
-          ),
+          Effect.gen(function* () {
+            const hasSession = yield* adapter
+              .hasSession(input.binding.threadId)
+              .pipe(Effect.orElseSucceed(() => true));
+            if (hasSession) {
+              yield* adapter.stopSession(input.binding.threadId);
+            }
+          }).pipe(
+            Effect.catchCause((cause) =>
+              Effect.logWarning("Failed to stop a session after recovery failed", {
+                threadId: input.binding.threadId,
+                errorTag: causeErrorTag(cause),
+              }),
+            ),
+            Effect.ensuring(clearMcpSession(input.binding.threadId)),
+          ),
         ),
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts` around lines 1077 - 1087,
Gate the adapter.stopSession call in the Effect.onError recovery cleanup on
whether the thread currently has an active session, using the existing
adapter.hasSession check pattern. Preserve the unconditional clearMcpSession
cleanup in Effect.ensuring, and retain the existing warning behavior when
stopping an existing session fails.
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts`:
- Around line 1077-1087: Gate the adapter.stopSession call in the Effect.onError
recovery cleanup on whether the thread currently has an active session, using
the existing adapter.hasSession check pattern. Preserve the unconditional
clearMcpSession cleanup in Effect.ensuring, and retain the existing warning
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[gpt-6] RESPONDING ON BEHALF OF WOUT:

Reviewed the optional liveness-guard suggestion against the adapters. Codex stop is a no-op when the session is absent; Claude and some other adapters can report session-not-found. That error is caught, logged only as a normalized category, and cannot skip credential cleanup or replace the original recovery error.

Keeping the unconditional teardown attempt for failed startup in this fix. A preliminary liveness check would reduce that warning noise but would not change the recovery result. No additional code change for this low-value nit.

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Superseded by #11338, which recovers inactive sessions after restart as part of rewind. Closing this checkpoint-revert session-recovery approach for #10470 as wash leftover hygiene — reopen if anything unique still needs merging.

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[Bug]: Checkpoint revert fails with "No active provider session with workspace cwd is bound to this thread" even when session projection is ready

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