fix(server): preserve Codex titles on import

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Imported Codex sessions could be titled <recommended_plugins> or another injected context marker because onboarding derived the label from the first user-role transcript record.

This reads Codex canonical names from a size-bounded session_index.jsonl. When no saved name is available, title derivation skips leading Codex-only injected context while preserving the full imported history. Re-running import repairs known legacy placeholder titles from the canonical index or persisted imported messages without overwriting custom or concurrent manual renames. Repair failures do not interrupt transcript bookkeeping.

The session index is read through one bounded file handle, rejects concurrent growth, caps retained entries and title length, and retains the newest index records.

Tests:

• complete importer suite: 15 passed
• focused scanner title/index/context regressions: 14 passed
• server typecheck, focused lint, formatting, and diff checks pass
• combined scanner/importer run: 106 passed; one unrelated existing macOS symlink/worktree test fails

Closes #10513

Model: GPT-5.6 Sol (high)
Harness: T3 Code / Codex

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Imported Codex threads now use canonical titles from session history when available.
  • Title selection ignores injected context and falls back to the first visible user prompt.
  • Recent imported-thread results now display available canonical titles.
• Bug Fixes
  • Existing threads with legacy context-based titles are automatically corrected.
  • Custom thread titles are preserved during title repair.
  • Failed title repairs no longer prevent imported threads and transcripts from being recorded.
  • Oversized or malformed session indexes are handled safely.

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Verdict: Would Approve

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped, self-contained fix to Codex import title selection and legacy placeholder repair, with focused tests and no schema, deployment, security, billing, or workflow changes. The unresolved Macroscope findings identify separate correctness risks in fallback handling and bounded index reads, but the change itself remains eligible under the stated approvability criteria.

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Codex imports now read canonical titles from session_index.jsonl, remove injected context from fallback title derivation, and repair legacy titles on already-imported threads while preserving import tracking when repair fails.

Changes

Codex title handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scanner title parsing and derivation apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts, apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.test.ts	The scanner parses bounded Codex index entries, removes injected context blocks, and selects canonical, derived, or fallback titles. Tests cover malformed input, context blocks, truncation, duplicate entries, and retention limits.
Session-index discovery and metadata propagation apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.ts, apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.test.ts	The scanner reads eligible session_index.jsonl files, assigns titles to matching Codex rollouts, and carries titles through recent-thread and import metadata.
Legacy imported title repair apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.ts, apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.test.ts	The importer repairs recognized legacy titles using canonical or recovered titles and dispatches with expected title-state values. Custom manual titles remain unchanged, and failed repairs do not prevent import recording.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentSessionScanner
  participant AgentSessionImporter
  participant TitleCommand
  participant ImportedThread
  AgentSessionScanner->>AgentSessionScanner: Read session_index.jsonl and derive fallback title
  AgentSessionScanner->>AgentSessionImporter: Provide canonicalTitle and transcript metadata
  AgentSessionImporter->>TitleCommand: Dispatch repair for recognized legacy title
  TitleCommand-->>AgentSessionImporter: Complete or raise OrchestrationCommandInvariantError
  AgentSessionImporter->>ImportedThread: Record imported transcript

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to dcfd3

This change lets Codex imports use the saved session title when available and otherwise derive a cleaner title by skipping injected setup context, while also quietly fixing previously-imported threads that still show placeholder titles like "<recommended_plugins>". The safeguards that prevent this repair from racing with a user's manual rename, and that keep imports recorded correctly even if a repair attempt fails, are in place and covered by tests, so this is ready to merge without additional risk.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #10513. AgentSessionScanner.ts reads session_index.jsonl and uses the saved thread_name when available. Fallback derivation skips leading Codex injected context and sel…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within issue #10513. Scanner changes implement saved-title lookup and injected-context exclusion. Importer changes repair titles caused by the reported import bug. The added tests v…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving Codex titles during server-side import.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains what changed, why it changed, the fallback and repair behavior, test coverage, validation results, and the linked issue. It does not reproduce the template headings or checkli…

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.ts`:
- Around line 159-164: Update repairImportedCodexTitle to avoid overwriting a
user rename between reading the current title and dispatching
thread.meta.update: make the repair atomic, or require the title to still match
a legacy Codex context title when applying it. Preserve custom titles and only
set canonicalTitle when that precondition holds.
- Around line 237-245: Update the existing-binding import branch around
repairImportedCodexTitle so failures from Codex title repair are caught and
logged without aborting the thread import. Ensure recordImportedTranscript still
runs and the branch returns true after the repair attempt, while preserving the
current behavior for non-Codex threads.

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