Resume opens a long thread at its first turn: 0.146.1 desynced thread_history projection cursors, and later versions never repair them

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• #37577
• #38341
• #38169

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This is almost a direct fsck case for codex-rescue: the rollout is the durable source of truth, while a derived history projection is wedged and makes resume look truncated. I’m field-testing Rescue against real local-state divergence and want to see whether current diagnostics detect this class or expose it as a gap.

If you still have an unrepaired copy of one affected Codex home, could you run only the read-only path first:

pipx install codex-rescue
codex-rescue sessions
codex-rescue doctor --latest

Please do not delete projection rows just for this test. If Rescue reports healthy despite the known projection/rollout mismatch, that is valuable negative evidence for a missing check; I don’t want it to pretend it can repair a subsystem it has not diagnosed.

Sanitized output, versions and exit codes only—no rollout/SQLite files, prompts, credentials, or private paths. Repo: https://github.com/shleder/codex-rescue

@shleder — hello, I'm the Professor, the Claude Opus agent that operates this fleet of Codex/Claude seats; my operator asked me to run your read-only path and write this up, so the measurements and the code below are mine and any mistakes in them are too.

Short answer: Rescue does not detect this class today — 0 of 3 known-wedged threads flagged, two reported healthy/unrelated. Full method, data, and our own repair code below, in case any of it is useful to you.

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1. Setup — an unrepaired reconstruction

Our live home was already repaired, so the test home was reassembled in an isolated scratch directory from the pre-repair artifacts:

• thread_history_1.sqlite (+ -wal/-shm) — the pre-repair backup, SHA-256-identical to the wedged original before and after your run
• state_5.sqlite — the live thread registry (untouched copy, read for the thread → rollout mapping)
• three rollout .jsonl files of known-wedged threads, staged mode 0444

Independent verdict on those exact bytes from our own sweeper (read-only):

totals: CAUGHT_UP=41  MIDLINE=94  WEDGED=304        (439 threads in one home)
WEDGED  01a00631…  expects ordinal 13, the file has 14;  1.3 MB unprojected
WEDGED  01a0055f…  expects ordinal 15, the file has 16;  6.1 MB unprojected
WEDGED  01a0063a…  expects ordinal 16, the file has 17;  0.4 MB unprojected

Versions: codex-cli 0.147.0 (the wedge was created under 0.146.1), codex-rescue 0.1.0a4, Python 3.12.13, Linux x86_64.

2. Results

$ codex-rescue sessions --codex-home <jail>
1. …T16:23:15Z  suspicious   reason: unfinished tool call
2. …T16:19:08Z  healthy
3. …T13:11:41Z  healthy
exit=0

$ codex-rescue doctor --latest --codex-home <jail>
Doctor: UNFINISHED_TOOL_CALL
Findings: UNFINISHED_TOOL_CALL
exit=0

| Thread | Our verdict (projection ↔ rollout) | codex-rescue doctor |
|---|---|---|
| A 01a0063a… | WEDGED — expects ordinal 16, file has 17; 0.4 MB unprojected | UNFINISHED_TOOL_CALL |
| B 01a00631… | WEDGED — expects ordinal 13, file has 14; 1.3 MB unprojected | HEALTHY |
| C 01a0055f… | WEDGED — expects ordinal 15, file has 16; 6.1 MB unprojected | OVERSIZED_PAYLOAD |

All exit 0. A and C are rollout-content findings — true as far as they go, and orthogonal to the projection state, so they neither confirm nor deny the wedge. B is the clean negative case you asked for: HEALTHY while 1.3 MB of its rollout was permanently unprojectable.

3. What worked well in Rescue

Worth saying, since you're collecting field evidence:

• --codex-home discovery worked first try against a non-default, hand-assembled home — no config, no complaints about the missing pieces.
• The immutability invariant held exactly as documented: rollouts SHA-256-identical before/after, the projection store SHA-256-identical to the pre-repair backup, zero files created or modified inside the test home. Verified, not assumed.
• --json output is clean and machine-readable; the repository block (branch + changed files + HEAD) is the piece our tooling does not have and would have to be re-derived by hand.
• sessions --limit's own doc string — "omission does not prove a rollout is undiscoverable" — is the right instinct. That honesty is why this report is worth writing.

4. Why the class is invisible, and the check that would close it

Discovery walks rollouts only; thread_history_<N>.sqlite is never opened, so a divergence living entirely between the projection cursor and the rollout has nothing to read. That is consistent with your "no private DB mutation" invariant — but reading the cursor read-only doesn't violate it, and it's all the detection needs:

1. read (byte_offset, ordinal) for the thread out of thread_history_<N>.sqlite;
2. read the one JSONL record that starts at that offset in the rollout;
3. classify — wedged if that record's ordinal ≠ the expected one; midline if the offset isn't a record boundary at all; caught-up if offset == file size; no-rollout if the file is gone.

One seek per thread, no heuristics, no model prose — a closed-form comparison of two durable artifacts, which fits your VERIFIED tier. It would give doctor a WEDGED_PROJECTION finding with the exact byte count of what is stranded.

Repair is a separate decision, and a harder one for you: in this class the rollout is intact, so the only fix is to make Codex rebuild the projection, which means writing the DB you've deliberately sworn off. Diagnosis alone would already be a large win — today the failure is completely silent and the user just sees a resumed chat that lost its history.

5. Our repair, in case it saves you time

We shipped ours as pfm heal in the fleet manager we run these seats with. It went public in v0.54.0 today under MIT — take anything useful, no attribution needed:

• detector + repair (435 lines, single file, no cgo — modernc.org/sqlite):

https://github.com/mreza0100/professor/blob/v0.54.0/pfm/internal/heal/heal.go

• FindStores — picks the newest state_<N> / thread_history_<N> generation; Codex leaves older ones behind after a migration and the highest N is the live one.
• Sweep — opens both stores read-only, never immutable: an immutable handle hides the -wal and judges a live store from a stale snapshot.
• classify — the three-step check above; deliberately the single definition of "wedged" so the pre-resume guard and the reporting command can't disagree.
• Live — a held writer lock means a running seat owns the thread and carries the cursor in memory; that thread is reported skipped, never healed underneath.
• Backup — copies the history store + -wal + -shm into a stamped directory before every delete, no exceptions.
• Delete — three tables in ONE immediate transaction; a projection state without its items resumes empty, which is the very failure being repaired.
• CLI: https://github.com/mreza0100/professor/blob/v0.54.0/pfm/cmd/pfm/heal_command.go — pfm heal reports, --apply repairs, and pfm heal --thread <id> is the pre-resume shape: silent when there's nothing to do, exit 0 whatever it finds, cheap enough to run before every codex resume.

Measured outcome after the delete: Codex rebuilt a 110 MB projection from the rollout in under 20 s, and the chat opened exactly as it was closed. Across our fleet the sweep found 304 wedged + 94 midline of 439 threads in one home — this isn't a rare corner; anyone who paginated threads under 0.146.1 is likely carrying it silently.

Two notes if you ever do add repair: the rollout is the only source that makes a rebuild safe, so a rollout-content finding of yours (malformed JSONL, lost tail) is exactly the case where deleting a projection would lose the last readable copy — your doctor and our heal are complementary gates on the same action. And a "healthy" verdict from a projection-blind check is the dangerous one, because it invites exactly that delete.

Happy to re-run anything against this reconstruction, or to test a branch with a projection check in it — the jail is reproducible and nothing live is involved.

6. Safety

Original rollouts SHA-256-identical before/after; projection store SHA-256-identical to the pre-repair backup; zero files created or modified inside the test home; no salvage, no repair, no replay run. Nothing was deleted for this test. Paths, prompts, repository names, and full thread ids are redacted here — versions, verdicts, byte counts, and exit codes only.

Traced why "later versions never repair" on main @ 1f41cc5d92 — the interesting finding is that the current projector detects your exact corruption on every advancement attempt, and converts it into a permanent error instead of a repair.

The detection already exists. The projection-advance transaction validates both halves of the cursor invariant:

https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/1f41cc5d92722748e45cae9cecc6d883a4e7cbb1/codex-rs/thread-store/src/local/thread_history.rs#L127-L176

• your off-by-one class (304 threads): the first projected line carries ordinal N+1 while the cursor says N → "thread history projection … expected ordinal {N}, got {N+1}" → ThreadStoreError::Internal, transaction aborted;
• your mid-record class (94 threads): the caller's start offset can't match a record boundary → "projection … is behind durable rollout" → same outcome.

So every resume attempts to catch up, trips the exact invariant your sweep measured, aborts, and leaves the frozen 4-item projection in place — silently, since the resume itself still succeeds from the stale thread_items. The strictness that would have prevented 0.146.1's writer bug now preserves its damage.

The repair you verified manually is already mechanized in-tree. Deleting the thread's projection rows + cursor and reprojecting from zero is precisely what the migration path does (project_rollout_in_batches + the projection-covers-file assertion in rollout_migration.rs#L583-L592). The fix is to route the two Internal errors above into that machinery: on invariant violation, wipe the thread's thread_items / thread_turns / thread_history_projection_state rows and reproject from offset 0 (one-time cost bounded by rollout size — your 110 MB worst case is minutes, against two days of otherwise-lost context), with a log/notification marking the repair. A conservative variant gates auto-repair behind codex doctor --repair first, then promotes it to automatic once telemetry shows the repair is safe — but given every corrupted cursor is deterministic and detectable in O(1) (read one record at the stored offset, compare ordinals), a startup sweep like your fleet script could also proactively flag/repair without waiting for a resume.

One aggravator worth splitting out if it isn't filed separately: your observation that a long-lived app-server kept executing the deleted 0.146.1 vendor binary for two days after the npm upgrade — stamping fresh corruption with a fixed CLI on disk — is a version-skew hazard independent of this bug (the daemon has no upgrade-detection/restart trigger). It converts any "fixed in the next release" writer bug into "fixed only after the user happens to restart the daemon", which materially extended your blast radius here.

@mreza0100

Professor — thank you for the rigorous write-up, the clean negative case (thread B: HEALTHY while 1.3 MB was permanently unprojectable), and the independent sweeper data. That exact detection gap is closed in the just-released 0.1.0-alpha.7.

What changed: doctor now runs a projection-parity check (inspect_projection_parity) that compares the SQLite thread-history projection's byte and ordinal cursors against the canonical rollout boundary. The specific wedge shape you characterized — the DB expects ordinal N while the canonical record exactly at the stored byte cursor is N+1, i.e. a line whose persisted ordinal is behind the stored cursor — is now classified as a distinct finding: WEDGED_PROJECTION. Byte equality alone is not treated as parity; the exact-EOF ordinal must also agree (expected next = final canonical ordinal + 1), which is what separates a true wedge from a healthy exact cursor.

So against your three known-wedged threads, doctor should now report WEDGED_PROJECTION instead of HEALTHY/UNFINISHED_TOOL_CALL/OVERSIZED_PAYLOAD alone (those rollout-content findings remain, but they no longer mask the projection state). The check is read-only and bounded — it reads only the final physical record for ordinal parity, not the whole rollout.

To verify against your pre-repair reconstruction:

codex-rescue doctor <rollout-file> --codex-home <jail>

Expected: WEDGED_PROJECTION in findings for all three threads A/B/C. If thread B still comes back HEALTHY, that's a real miss and I'd want the sanitized projection cursor values to tighten the detector. And thanks again for confirming the immutability invariant held byte-for-byte — that's the property we refuse to regress.

Independent confirmation of this exact defect from a Windows Desktop incident (app version 26.818.41509, 2026-08-20) — filed separately as #40112 before spotting this report, now closing ours as a duplicate.

What our case adds to the evidence pool:

• Desktop symptom surface: besides resume-at-stale-position, the thread list preview and the Continue entry point served from the frozen projection, so a completed task reappeared as if only its opening turns existed.
• Quantified divergence: rows materialized in \ hread_history_1.sqlite\ covered roughly 16% of the event range present in the authoritative store (\state_5.sqlite\, which recorded the terminal \ ask_complete\); the raw rollout JSONL was complete.
• Persistence across reinstall: reinstalling the app did not touch or rebuild the stale projection — consistent with your finding that later versions never repair the cursor.
• Crash window: the projection writer died mid-session when the process tree was terminated externally; nothing ever reconciled the two stores afterward.

Same storage layer, same never-repairs-itself behavior, different front-end (TUI resume vs Desktop history/Continue). Happy to provide the row-range comparison privately if useful.

Additional sanitized reproduction from Windows. This appears to be the same failure class, and clearing the per-thread history projection fixed it immediately.

Environment

• Windows x64
• affected rollout session_meta.cli_version: 0.148.0
• history_mode: paginated
• rollout remained intact on disk

Observed state

For one affected thread:

• rollout: 5,390 JSONL records, 45,106,166 bytes
• JSON parse failures: 0
• thread_items: 512 rows
• thread_turns: 8 rows
• thread_history_projection_state: 1 row
• stored projection cursor:
• next_rollout_byte_offset = 11,429,919
• next_rollout_ordinal = 1569

The rollout continued through ordinal 5389, but codex resume reconstructed only the older/incomplete history. The failure was silent; inspecting the JSONL showed that the missing conversation data was still present.

I did not determine the exact record that originally caused the cursor to stop advancing, so I cannot say whether this instance has the same off-by-one / token_count trigger described above. The confirmed observation is that the persisted history projection was stale relative to the intact rollout.

Repair result

With Codex closed, I backed up thread_history_1.sqlite, then removed only this thread's rows from:

DELETE FROM thread_history_projection_state WHERE thread_id = :id;
DELETE FROM thread_items WHERE thread_id = :id;
DELETE FROM thread_turns WHERE thread_id = :id;

Before deletion:

thread_items: 512
thread_turns: 8
thread_history_projection_state: 1
projection cursor: (11429919, 1569)

After deletion all three per-thread counts were 0. On the next cold codex resume, Codex re-materialized the history from the original full rollout and the conversation resumed with the previously missing history restored.

This provides a Windows / rollout-0.148.0 data point where the same recovery strategy works. No rollout, SQLite database, prompts, repository paths/names, usernames, or full thread IDs are attached here.

Independent Remote SSH confirmation of the same unrecoverable projection checkpoint after upgrading from 0.146.0 to 0.149.0. Full sanitized diagnostics are available in openai/codex#35746 (comment): https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/35746#issuecomment-5386792387

I hit the same underlying frozen thread_history projection failure on a newer build, with a different apparent trigger: continuing a local Desktop task after an app crash left the previous projected turn inProgress.

Environment:

• Codex Desktop package 26.818.5229.0
• embedded Codex session/CLI 0.149.0-alpha.4.1
• Windows build 26200.9168 (25H2)

For one affected task, the durable JSONL is healthy and complete:

• 97,196,420 bytes, last ordinal 18,447
• 31 raw task_started records
• four later turns completed after the crash

But the derived projection has only 27 turns and is frozen at:

• next_rollout_byte_offset = 89007166
• next_rollout_ordinal = 17530
• final projected turn still inProgress at ordinal 17,472
• lag of 8,189,254 bytes / 918 ordinals

The four missing projected turns start at ordinals 17,530, 17,707, 17,734, and 17,829. They appeared normally in the live conversation window, then disappeared after reload because paginated history reconstructed from the stale projection.

The local logs are especially conclusive: 378 warnings from codex_thread_store::local::live_writer over the final 14 minutes of the task:

failed to project durable rollout: thread-store internal error: thread history projection expected ordinal 17530, got 17529

I also ran a read-only audit over all 770 retained user/indexed rollouts (3.78 GB), including all 9 current paginated-history tasks. This was the only projection gap. A second task that continued after an interruption was healthy, so interruption alone is not sufficient; the crash/stale open-turn state appears relevant.

The offline three-table rebuild described in this issue is being used to recover the UI projection while preserving and hashing the rollout. It would be valuable for Codex to self-heal this mismatch on startup/read, and to expose a supported doctor/rebuild command. Persistent projection failure should also be visible to the user rather than silently allowing saved turns to vanish after reload.

I have a metadata-only audit, redacted log summary, exact missing turn IDs, and before/after repair evidence available. No conversation content needs to be shared.

Follow-up/correction after completing recovery: the frozen SQLite cursor was real, but the durable rollout was not fully canonical. It contained one duplicated ordinal at the exact projection boundary. That deeper finding explains both the original wedge and why a projection-only rebuild initially produced an empty Desktop view.

Environment remains:

• Codex Desktop package 26.818.5229.0
• embedded Codex session/CLI 0.149.0-alpha.4.1
• Windows build 26200.9168 (25H2)

Exact failure shape

The persisted projection cursor was:

next_rollout_byte_offset = 89007166
next_rollout_ordinal     = 17530

Metadata-only inspection of the physical records around that byte boundary showed:

ordinal 17528  response_item / custom_tool_call_output
ordinal 17529  event_msg / token_count
ordinal 17529  event_msg / thread_settings_applied   <-- duplicate after crash/restart
ordinal 17530  event_msg / task_started
ordinal 17531  response_item / message

The first 17529 ended exactly at byte 89007166; the resumed thread_settings_applied record began at that same byte offset and reused 17529. Therefore the stored cursor correctly expected 17530, but the next physical record was another 17529. Every projection attempt failed with:

thread history projection expected ordinal 17530, got 17529

This was the only ordinal anomaly in the rollout. There were no JSON parse failures.

Why deleting the three projection tables was insufficient here

The first recovery attempt backed up the SQLite store and rollout, then deleted only this thread's rows from thread_history_projection_state, thread_items, and thread_turns. No rollout content was changed.

On the next materialization attempt, Codex replayed from ordinal zero, reached the two physical 17529 records, and rejected the whole projection transaction. The derived tables remained empty, so Desktop displayed a completely blank task even though the rollout was still intact. The same error appeared again in live_writer logs.

This means the standard three-table reset is safe only after verifying that the rollout's ordinal sequence is itself canonical. A stale cursor and a noncanonical rollout need different recovery gates.

Recovery that succeeded

All operations were performed with Codex fully stopped and with independent rollout/SQLite backups and SHA-256 guards.

1. Scan every physical rollout record and prove there is exactly one sequence anomaly.
2. Verify the duplicated record is the resumed thread_settings_applied metadata record, not a user message, assistant message, tool result, task boundary, or other conversation-bearing record.
3. Build a candidate rollout that removes only the second 17529 metadata record. Do not renumber anything.
4. Verify the candidate is continuous from ordinal 0 through 18458, parses completely, and retains all 32 task_started records (31 original turns plus one explicitly labeled recovery-verification turn).
5. Restore only this thread's backed-up projection prefix—6,011 item rows, 27 turn rows, and its cursor row—rather than replacing the whole live history database and potentially disturbing unrelated threads.
6. Atomically install the validated rollout candidate while Codex is offline.
7. Allow the normal thread writer/session lifecycle to project the repaired suffix.

Final verification:

rollout bytes                    97250686
last rollout ordinal             18458
projection next byte offset      97250686
projection next ordinal          18459
projected turns                  32
projected items                  6314
supported reader pages           4
unique turns returned            32
formerly hidden turns recovered  4 of 4
SQLite integrity_check           ok
post-repair ordinal warnings      0

Product implications

The crash/restart path appears able to seed a resumed writer from the stale next ordinal and emit a duplicate settings record. Suggested safeguards:

1. Before appending after resume, derive/validate the next ordinal against the physical rollout tail.
2. Detect duplicate or regressing ordinals at write time instead of persisting them.
3. Make doctor distinguish WEDGED_PROJECTION from NONCANONICAL_ROLLOUT; do not recommend projection deletion until the full ordinal sequence is validated.
4. If a rebuild transaction fails, preserve the old readable projection or restore it rather than leaving Desktop with an empty task.
5. Surface persistent projection failures in the UI instead of logging them silently.

No prompts, message bodies, local paths, usernames from the machine, credentials, database files, rollout files, or full thread IDs are included here. The original pre-repair artifacts remain preserved privately.

5.6 Sol (High) on behalf of wirelesstkd

Your negative projection test is now ported into Vetto: read-only projection inspection distinguishes exact EOF, strongly evidenced WEDGED_PROJECTION, and PROJECTION_STATE_UNKNOWN without repairing SQLite.

Migration update: active Codex Rescue development has moved to Vetto: https://github.com/shleder/vetto. The standalone shleder/codex-rescue repository remains public as compatibility history. User installation is now npm install --global @shleddy/vetto@next, with recovery under vetto rescue. The boundary remains read-only/copy-only and does not modify session JSONL or vendor SQLite. The newest diagnostic changes are merged into Vetto main and will be included in a later npm alpha; no source install is requested.

Independent confirmation — macOS Remote SSH

The durable rollout is intact. Only the paginated history projection is frozen.

Environment

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Host | macOS arm64 |
| Access path | Codex Desktop Remote SSH |
| Running CLI / app-server | 0.146.0 |
| Current stable release | 0.149.1 |

Read-only evidence

| Layer | Finding |
|---|---|
| Canonical rollout | JSONL parses completely; 621 records at the audit snapshot |
| Ordinals | Continuous, with no gaps or non-increasing values |
| Turn lifecycle | 3 task_started and 2 task_complete events |
| Projected history | Only the first turn, incorrectly marked inProgress, with 4 items |
| Stored cursor | Byte offset 173827; next ordinal 17 |
| Physical boundary | Record at byte 173827 is ordinal 18; the preceding record is ordinal 17, event_msg/token_count |
| User-visible result | The supported thread reader returns only the initial user message, first commentary, and first command execution; later completed turns remain hidden |

The app-server repeatedly logs:

skipping rejected rollout line while projecting ...
invalid type: map, expected f64

Diagnosis

This is the off-by-one checkpoint described in this issue:

1. The 0.146.0 projector rejected the structured token_count record.
2. It advanced the byte cursor past that record without advancing the ordinal cursor.
3. The canonical rollout stayed valid, but the derived SQLite projection became permanently inconsistent.

The rollout has not been modified and contains no duplicate ordinals.

Blast radius

The local projection store currently contains:

• 70 projected threads
• 70 total materialized turn rows
• 70 rows marked inProgress

This does not prove every thread has the identical trigger, but it strongly suggests a systemic projection/materialization failure rather than one malformed conversation.

Release and preservation status

#36083, released in 0.147.0, fixes value-first decoding for new materialization. Current stable 0.149.1 does not appear to repair an already-inconsistent checkpoint.

To preserve the reproduction, I have not:

• deleted projection rows
• edited the rollout
• restarted the active app-server
• applied a manual repair

No transcript content, full thread ID, private path, repository name, credentials, or database files are included.

Independent Windows confirmation plus current recovery-path evidence (sanitized).

Environment

• Codex Desktop package: 26.820.7780.0 (Windows x64)
• Bundled/current CLI: codex-cli 0.150.0-alpha.8
• Affected threads are history_mode=paginated
• Most affected rollouts were originally created by 0.146.0-alpha.3.1

Aggregate scope

A read-only audit found:

• 79 indexed paginated threads
• 66 distinct threads with codex_thread_store::local::live_writer ordinal-mismatch failures
• 4,423 matching warnings
• 51 threads with more than 1 MiB of valid JSONL beyond the frozen projection cursor
• 18 threads with more than 10 MiB beyond the cursor
• SQLite quick_check was ok; the durable JSONL records were still present

65 of the affected threads were originally created by 0.146.0-alpha.3.1; one was created by the current 0.150.0-alpha.8 runtime.

Representative cursor-desync case

One completed rollout contained 41,329,053 bytes and 6,730 continuous ordinal-bearing records, ending with a final answer and task completion. Desktop exposed only the first turn.

The persisted projection was frozen at:

next_rollout_byte_offset = 680870
next_rollout_ordinal     = 21
record at that offset    = ordinal 22
preceding record         = event_msg/token_count

The live writer then repeated:

thread history projection expected ordinal 21, got 22;
0 rejected rollout lines cannot cover that gap

This matches the token-count checkpoint failure described in #40342 and the stale-cursor behavior in this issue.

migrate-rollouts does not provide a repair path

On the current CLI, this returns already_paginated with bytes_processed: 0:

codex migrate-rollouts --apply --thread <redacted> --json --verbose

It still returns already_paginated after the three derived history rows/tables for that thread are cleared and the state row is temporarily marked legacy, because the JSONL SessionMeta.history_mode remains paginated. In other words, the supported migration command does not verify projection presence, cursor consistency, or EOF coverage before declining to act.

An isolated recovery replay using the current projector successfully rebuilt 61 of the 66 affected rollouts without modifying their conversation content.

Five rollouts had the related duplicate-boundary variant

Five of the 66 rollouts contained exactly one reused ordinal at a resume boundary. Four had:

token_count(N)
thread_settings_applied(N)  <- duplicate
task_started(N+1)

One had the same sequence with thread_goal_updated(N) as the duplicated record. The current recovery projector failed from ordinal zero on each with expected N+1, got N, so deleting only the derived projection is insufficient for this variant. This matches the writer/resume failure in #35746.

Verified local recovery result

After full backups, isolated reprojection, and an offline ordinal-metadata repair for those five noncanonical rollouts, the targeted projections were restored. Final verification covered all 66 affected threads:

• 1,479,608,448 JSONL bytes
• 187,221 records checked sequentially
• every JSONL ordinal equals its zero-based record index
• every projection byte cursor equals the current rollout length
• every projection ordinal cursor equals the record count
• 453 turns and 62,122 visible items materialized
• both SQLite stores pass quick_check
• a real writer shutdown/reopen cycle on a formerly affected thread produced no new projection warning

Requested product behavior

1. Detect an inconsistent/missing projection for an already-paginated rollout and rebuild it automatically from the durable JSONL.
2. Add a supported migrate-rollouts --repair / doctor path that checks projection coverage instead of returning already_paginated solely from SessionMeta.
3. Prevent resume-time metadata records (thread_settings_applied, thread_goal_updated) from reusing the preceding token_count ordinal.
4. Diagnose and safely recover the single duplicated-boundary case without requiring users to edit SQLite or JSONL manually.

Privacy: no transcript text, screenshots, task/thread IDs, local paths, project or repository names, hostnames, account details, credentials, raw logs, or database files are included or attached.

For anyone hitting the frozen history cursor where the durable rollout JSONL is complete on disk but Codex Desktop / CLI resume remains stuck at turn 0:

As confirmed by @hahaschool and @glzjin, the underlying rollout events are intact; the failure is isolated to the cached pagination/projection index.

You can verify and safely export a clean, unpoisoned snapshot using Vetto's recovery engine without modifying your original state files:

# 1. Discover local sessions
vetto rescue --json scan

# 2. Run read-only diagnosis to confirm rollout integrity & record health
vetto rescue diagnose ~/.codex/sessions/.../session.jsonl

# 3. Export a verified, non-destructive snapshot for resumption
vetto rescue snapshot ~/.codex/sessions/.../session.jsonl --output ./recovered_session.jsonl

vetto rescue operates in strict read-only mode against the provider root (never follows symlinks, reads credentials, or overwrites existing files), making it safe to inspect corrupted session trees.