Branch creation seeds the new thread's run-event feed from its checkpoint
so inherited history survives the first run (#4380). Every seeded row
carried one shared run id, but run_id is a *turn* identity to the feed's
consumers, not a provenance tag: regenerating the inherited answer
resolves that row's run id as the superseded source, and
GET /messages/page then drops every row carrying it. One shared id for
the whole seed therefore deleted the complete inherited history on a
branch's first regenerate, leaving only the regenerated turn.
Group seeded rows into one synthetic run per inherited turn
(branch-seed-{thread_id}-{n}), a new turn opening at each persisted human
message — the same boundary a real run has, including the allowlisted
hidden ask_clarification reply, which resumes as its own run. Supersession
is then confined to the turn actually regenerated.
Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
* fix(gateway): seed branch run-events so inherited history survives (#4380)
The thread feed (GET /messages, /messages/page) reads the run-event store,
but branch creation only wrote checkpoint state - a fresh branch had no
message rows, so the parent history vanished from the UI as soon as the
branch's first run refreshed the feed. Seed the branch's run_events from
the same checkpoint snapshot the branch was created from, mirroring
RunJournal's message-event contract (event types, hidden-message rules,
original-user-text restoration). Best-effort: a seeding failure degrades
to the old behavior and is reported as history_seed_mode=failed.
* docs(gateway): correct branch-seed docstring on RunJournal divergences
The "consumers cannot tell a seeded row from a journaled one" claim was
overstated for AI rows: seeded rows omit run-scoped enrichment (usage /
latency_ms / llm_call_index) and stamp caller=lead_agent rather than the
message's original caller, neither recoverable from a checkpoint message.
Rewrite the docstring to state these divergences explicitly and note they
are display-invisible today (no consumer indexes those keys; per-message
caller drives no attribution). Also add a code comment marking the
hide_from_ui filter as intentionally stricter than the live paths.
* fix(gateway): seed dict-shaped checkpoint messages + persist hidden AI/tool rows
Two review-driven fixes to build_branch_history_seed_events:
1. Checkpoint messages can arrive as model_dump()-shaped dicts (the
branch-matching helpers in threads.py already handle both BaseMessage
and dict). The seed only handled BaseMessage, so a dict-backed
checkpoint seeded nothing and the branch reported skipped_empty while
history existed. Coerce dicts back to BaseMessage via messages_from_dict
(faithful: tool_calls / tool_call_id / additional_kwargs survive);
unparseable dicts are dropped best-effort.
2. RunJournal.on_llm_end and _persist_tool_result_message persist
hide_from_ui AI/tool rows unconditionally (the frontend hides them
client-side); the hide check only gates the reconciliation pass. The
seed dropped them, so a hidden turn vanished from a forked feed and
seeded rows diverged from journaled ones. Match RunJournal and write
them, restoring true row-level parity.
Adds tests for dict deserialization, the unparseable-dict drop, and the
hidden AI/tool persistence contract.
