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fix(pi): fork and revert past turns whose session entry was never captured - #20521

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Pi turns interrupted before T3 captures their session entry keep a weak turn reference. Forking or reverting past one then fails even though Pi persisted the prompt.

Recover the discarded turn's user entry from the active session branch, bounded by the retained turn's completion and the discarded turn's completion. Reuse the existing branch walker and reject missing ancestry, timestamps, or an unresolved boundary. At thread start, use the earlier of provider thread creation and turn start so adopted wakes are included while inherited parent history stays intact.

Thanks @henrychu04 for the reproduction and original fix in #20521. Maintainer takeover preserves the author's commit and adds the current-main merge, a smaller branch walk, and inherited-history coverage. Adversarial review caught a wrong-cut case where a later steer could hide a wake predating T3's turn; the revised root test reproduces it and the creation-time bound fixes it.

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  • PR regression tests: 2 → 3 in packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.test.ts; the file now has 96 tests. All three recovery cases fail without the PR fix; the revised root case fails with the pre-review implementation (selects the later steer). The interrupted implementation failed all three; the rebuilt implementation passes them.
  • All 152 Pi package tests pass; all 8 Pi orchestration replay scenarios pass.
  • Scoped Pi typecheck, changed-file lint, formatting, and whitespace checks pass, with existing warnings only.
  • Real Pi 1.3.0, isolated state and a local mock OpenAI-compatible endpoint: complete prompt 1, kill Pi during prompt 2's model request, then recover through T3's Pi adapter. Fork and rollback retain prompt 1 and discard prompt 2. Root rollback also recovers a wake predating T3's first turn while retaining inherited prompt 1 (failed before the review fix, passes after it). No model credentials or live user state were used.

The change has no visual UI, so behavior tests and the native session files are the proof. macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Electron desktop were not verified. Authenticated model-provider behavior was not exercised; the live check used a local mock model.

Native before/after behavior proof.

Tests: Codex GPT-6 Astra (high). Implementation and integrated verification: Codex GPT-6.1 Sol (high). Adversarial review: Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6 Sol, through T3 Code.

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Verdict: Approved at adeccbe

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused Pi adapter bug fix that makes previously failing fork and rollback operations recoverable by locating existing session-tree entries, while preserving normal behavior and failing closed when no reliable match exists. The change is isolated to the provider adapter and its tests, with no product-default, schema, deployment, security, billing, or static-analysis suppression impact.

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Rollback and fork operations now resolve turns without captured start-entry references by searching timestamped session entries. Session-listing parsing is centralized, and tests cover successful boundary selection and cases where no qualifying entry exists.

Changes: Pi boundary resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session listing and timestamps
packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts
listSessionEntries now uses piSessionListing. Parsed entries retain timestamps in epoch milliseconds, or null when parsing fails.
Boundary selection
packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts
piForkBoundary distinguishes empty, captured, and uncaptured boundaries. For an uncaptured boundary, piUncapturedForkEntry searches session ancestry for a qualifying user entry within the timestamp bounds.
Rollback and fork resolution
packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.test.ts
Rollback and fork resolve uncaptured boundaries against session listings. Tests cover selecting u2 and failing without adding a fork request when no qualifying user entry exists.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

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Reverting to thread start can still fail after an uncaptured adopted wake. Resolve or explicitly accept that recovery limitation before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b8d2f

Recovery now relies on session ancestry and timestamps rather than only captured turn references. Existing ownership checks and rejection of unresolved boundaries limit the exposure. No introduced security vulnerability was established, but timestamp assumptions and concurrent session changes remain incompletely validated.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated scope is the history retained in the selected Pi session and its forked destination. The changed path introduces no new session-file selector or privilege grant; source selection and destination policy assignment use the existing adapter inputs.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Rollback checks that the session hosts the requested thread and rejects active turns or pending native work. Fork filters supplied turns by source thread ID and performs recovery through a source-derived fork process launched with tools and extensions disabled.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — An unresolved lookup fails before issuing native fork. After native mutation, rollback retains existing failure containment: unreadable or missing session state invalidates the local thread binding, interruption terminates the connection, and finalization clears the rollback barrier.
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- Line 3216: Update the uncaptured boundary used by `piUncapturedForkEntry` to
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A Pi turn gets its session-tree entry only when it finishes: finalizeTurn reads get_entries
and swaps the synthetic turn ref for the prompt's user entry. A turn that never finishes keeps
the synthetic ref for good: Pi or the server died mid-turn and recovery cancelled it, Stop's
2 s read timed out, or get_entries failed. Forking or reverting to any point before that turn
then fails every time with "Pi fork boundary has no captured session-tree entry", and the
retry button replays the identical fork.

Pi still has the prompt on disk. When the boundary turn's ref is weak, read the session tree
(the live session for a revert, the --fork process for a fork) and take the earliest user entry
on the active branch stamped after the target turn finished and before the boundary turn
ended, above the target turn's entry. Pi and the server share a clock, so the window is exact;
when nothing fits, the error stays.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Filed a triage issue for the bug this PR fixes: #20530. It has the no-key reproduction, the root cause with file references, and links back to this PR as the proposed repair.

@juliusmarminge juliusmarminge self-assigned this Oct 19, 2026
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Taking over this one. I'll trim the tests to the minimum, rebuild the implementation to the repo's conventions, and push to this branch.

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juliusmarminge merged commit 8c8e187 into pingdotgg:main Oct 20, 2026
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Pipyakas pushed a commit to Pipyakas/t3code that referenced this pull request Oct 21, 2026
…tured (pingdotgg#20521)

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Julius Marminge <julius0216@outlook.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8c8e187)
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