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What Changed

Handle failed Codex App Server exit-status effects in the runtime watcher. Mark the session as errored, clear its active turn, and emit the existing session/exited event with a diagnostic. Numeric exit statuses and intentional shutdown keep their existing behavior.

Why

Effect Node reports signal termination, including SIGKILL, through the failure channel of child.exitCode. The watcher only handled successful numeric results, so a killed process could leave its thread apparently active. The next turn then failed with ProviderAdapterSessionClosedError.

Emitting the missing event lets the existing stopped-session and native-thread resume path run on the next turn. This does not retry or replay the interrupted request.

Related: #10798 and #10799. The latter cleans up adapter sessions after receiving an exit event; this change ensures signal termination produces that event.

Testing

  • Real-process SIGKILL regression fails on the original watcher and passes with this fix, including resuming the same native thread and sending a new turn.
  • Numeric exit codes 0 and 7 and intentional shutdown are covered.
  • 105 focused tests pass: runtime integration (13), runtime unit (40), and adapter (52).
  • Server typecheck, targeted lint, formatting, and diff checks pass.
  • Tested on Linux. The new process-fixture tests skip Windows.

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  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes (not applicable)
  • I included a video for animation/interaction changes (not applicable)

Implemented with GPT-5.6 Luna; reviewed with GPT-6 Astra, using the Codex harness in T3 Code.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved session handling when the Codex process exits unexpectedly.
    • Sessions now report accurate closed or error states, preserve exit details, clear active turns, and emit the appropriate exit event.
    • Fixed cases where exit-processing failures left sessions without an updated status or exit notification.
    • Browser tool availability now accurately reflects configuration and runtime settings.
  • Tests

    • Added recovery coverage for interrupted sessions, including resume behavior, exit statuses, cleanup, intentional closes, unexpected exits, and terminal events.

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Verdict: Approved at f3551ac

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused Codex runtime bug fix that converts signal-termination failures into the existing session-exit handling path while preserving normal exits and intentional shutdown. The production change is small and self-contained, with process-level regression tests covering recovery behavior.

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Walkthrough

The runtime now maps app-server exit outcomes to session state and terminal events. It also supports explicit browser-tool availability. Integration tests cover SIGKILL recovery, resume requests, cleanup, exit statuses, and intentional close handling.

Changes

Codex runtime exit recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Exit state and browser-tool handling
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts
The runtime maps exit failures and exit codes to session status and messages, clears the active turn, updates the session, and emits session/exited unless the session was intentionally closed. sendTurn now supports an optional browser-tool availability override.
Recovery and exit integration coverage
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexCollabRuntime.integration.test.ts
The tests add decoders and a scripted peer, then validate SIGKILL recovery, resume-cursor retention, thread/resume with excludeTurns, cleanup, exit statuses, and terminal events.

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

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b986d

Browser guidance can be omitted for default Codex sessions even when browser tools are available, reducing access to expected browser functionality. This is a bounded behavior issue that should be corrected before relying on the new capability gating.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: recovering Codex sessions after signal-based process exits.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes clear What Changed and Why sections, explains the signal-exit failure mode, documents testing, and completes the checklist. The omitted UI Changes section is not applicable, a…
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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexCollabRuntime.integration.test.ts (1)

74-74: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Flush stdout before exiting.

recoveryPeerSource writes the turn/start response and notifications to piped process.stdout, then this branch calls process.exit. Pending writes can be discarded, leaving client.raw.request("turn/start") in sendTurn without a response and causing a timeout. End stdout and exit from its completion callback.

♻️ Proposed fix in the generated peer script
-    if (process.env.T3_CODEX_RECOVERY_EXIT_CODE !== undefined) process.exit(Number(process.env.T3_CODEX_RECOVERY_EXIT_CODE));
+    if (process.env.T3_CODEX_RECOVERY_EXIT_CODE !== undefined) {
+      const code = Number(process.env.T3_CODEX_RECOVERY_EXIT_CODE);
+      process.stdout.end(() => process.exit(code));
+    }
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexCollabRuntime.integration.test.ts` at
line 74, Update the recovery exit branch in recoveryPeerSource to end
process.stdout and call process.exit with the configured
T3_CODEX_RECOVERY_EXIT_CODE only from stdout’s completion callback, ensuring the
turn/start response and notifications flush before termination.
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexCollabRuntime.integration.test.ts`:
- Line 74: Update the recovery exit branch in recoveryPeerSource to end
process.stdout and call process.exit with the configured
T3_CODEX_RECOVERY_EXIT_CODE only from stdout’s completion callback, ensuring the
turn/start response and notifications flush before termination.

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Handle failed exit-status effects so signal termination emits the session exit event needed by the existing resume path. Cover killed-process recovery, numeric exit statuses, and intentional shutdown with process fixtures.
Wait for piped responses to flush before the fixture exits so numeric-exit coverage cannot hang on a truncated response.
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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts (1)

2369-2370: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not require caller-supplied MCP arguments for browser availability.

The option documentation states that t3-code is attached for every session. When options.appServerArgs is undefined, hasConfiguredMcpServer(...) is false. The runtime then suppresses browser guidance even when options.browserToolsAvailable is true.

Pass the credential capability directly, or test the final appServerArgs after the runtime adds the mandatory MCP server.

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             browserToolsAvailable:
-              hasConfiguredMcpServer(options.appServerArgs) &&
-              (options.browserToolsAvailable ?? true),
+              options.browserToolsAvailable ?? true,
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts` around lines 2369 -
2370, Update the browser-availability condition near hasConfiguredMcpServer so
caller-supplied options.appServerArgs are not required; use the final
appServerArgs after the mandatory MCP server is added, or otherwise rely
directly on options.browserToolsAvailable. Preserve the default-true behavior
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts`:
- Around line 2369-2370: Update the browser-availability condition near
hasConfiguredMcpServer so caller-supplied options.appServerArgs are not
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@coderabbitai I checked the browser-availability finding in the latest review against head b986d3752.

The runtime does not add a mandatory MCP server: codexSessionAppServerArgs only assembles the supplied arguments. The adapter supplies the MCP configuration and browserToolsAvailable: mcpSession.preview together. The normal application path therefore does not produce the proposed combination of browser capability enabled with no MCP arguments.

The flagged condition and capability option are also unchanged from the rebased upstream base 0f602b337; they are not additions from this PR. I’m leaving that behavior unchanged to keep this PR scoped to signal-exit recovery. Please reassess the finding and the walkthrough’s attribution of browser-tool handling to this PR.

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- PR diff for browserToolsAvailable and hasConfiguredMcpServer ---'
git diff 0f602b337 b986d3752 -- \
  apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts \
  apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts \
  apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexLaunchArgs.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- Launch argument helper outline and relevant lines ---'
ast-grep outline apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexLaunchArgs.ts --items all
sed -n '1,100p' apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexLaunchArgs.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- Runtime browser-tools declarations and use ---'
rg -n -C 8 'browserToolsAvailable|hasConfiguredMcpServer' \
  apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- Adapter call-site context ---'
sed -n '2240,2310p' apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- Baseline runtime browser-tools declarations and use ---'
git show 0f602b337:apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts \
  | rg -n -C 8 'browserToolsAvailable|hasConfiguredMcpServer'

Length of output: 20679


@khaneliman You are correct. I verified head b986d3752 against base 0f602b337.

hasConfiguredMcpServer, browserToolsAvailable, and the sendTurn condition are unchanged by this PR. The PR diff only changes the child.exitCode handling.

codexSessionAppServerArgs does not add MCP arguments. CodexAdapter.ts supplies both the MCP arguments and browserToolsAvailable: mcpSession.preview when mcpSession exists. The normal application path does not produce the combination from the finding.

I withdraw the finding. The walkthrough should not attribute the browser-tool handling to this PR.


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URL: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/pull/10874

Timestamp: 2026-09-10T04:16:34.204Z
Learning: In `apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts`, Codex session startup supplies `appServerArgs` containing the `t3-code` MCP configuration and `browserToolsAvailable: mcpSession.preview` together when an `mcpSession` exists. `codexSessionAppServerArgs` in `apps/server/src/provider/Layers/codexLaunchArgs.ts` only combines launch arguments with supplied `appServerArgs`; it does not add MCP configuration.

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