feat(app-server): thread/rollback API (#8454)

Add `thread/rollback` to app-server to support IDEs undo-ing the last N
turns of a thread.

For context, an IDE partner will be supporting an "undo" capability
where the IDE (the app-server client) will be responsible for reverting
the local changes made during the last turn. To support this well, we
also need a way to drop the last turn (or more generally, the last N
turns) from the agent's context. This is what `thread/rollback` does.

**Core idea**: A Thread rollback is represented as a persisted event
message (EventMsg::ThreadRollback) in the rollout JSONL file, not by
rewriting history. On resume, both the model's context (core replay) and
the UI turn list (app-server v2's thread history builder) apply these
markers so the pruned history is consistent across live conversations
and `thread/resume`.

Implementation notes:
- Rollback only affects agent context and appends to the rollout file;
clients are responsible for reverting files on disk.
- If a thread rollback is currently in progress, subsequent
`thread/rollback` calls are rejected.
- Because we use `CodexConversation::submit` and codex core tracks
active turns, returning an error on concurrent rollbacks is communicated
via an `EventMsg::Error` with a new variant
`CodexErrorInfo::ThreadRollbackFailed`. app-server watches for that and
sends the BAD_REQUEST RPC response.

Tests cover thread rollbacks in both core and app-server, including when
`num_turns` > existing turns (which clears all turns).

**Note**: this explicitly does **not** behave like `/undo` which we just
removed from the CLI, which does the opposite of what `thread/rollback`
does. `/undo` reverts local changes via ghost commits/snapshots and does
not modify the agent's context / conversation history.
This commit is contained in:
Owen Lin
2026-01-06 13:23:48 -08:00
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parent 188f79afee
commit 8b7ec31ba7
21 changed files with 1187 additions and 30 deletions

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@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ use codex_app_server_protocol::SetDefaultModelParams;
use codex_app_server_protocol::ThreadArchiveParams;
use codex_app_server_protocol::ThreadListParams;
use codex_app_server_protocol::ThreadResumeParams;
use codex_app_server_protocol::ThreadRollbackParams;
use codex_app_server_protocol::ThreadStartParams;
use codex_app_server_protocol::TurnInterruptParams;
use codex_app_server_protocol::TurnStartParams;
@@ -316,6 +317,15 @@ impl McpProcess {
self.send_request("thread/archive", params).await
}
/// Send a `thread/rollback` JSON-RPC request.
pub async fn send_thread_rollback_request(
&mut self,
params: ThreadRollbackParams,
) -> anyhow::Result<i64> {
let params = Some(serde_json::to_value(params)?);
self.send_request("thread/rollback", params).await
}
/// Send a `thread/list` JSON-RPC request.
pub async fn send_thread_list_request(
&mut self,