[juliusmarminge]

Guest links showed only the opening window of a thread: the last 20 user turns or 600 rows. The guest page had no way to load anything older, so long shared threads started partway through.

Fix. Guests now get the same "Load earlier turns" control the owner's timeline has.

• Server: new GET /api/guest/history?share=&cursor= route, backed by GuestShareService.history. It checks the guest session, then serves getThreadHistoryPage for the shared thread. Pages are wire-projected like the opening snapshot, so file diffs stay out. Guests could already fetch any single item of the thread through /item, so this shows nothing new. Image replies in a page are recorded like streamed ones, so their images load.
• Web: the guest reducer keeps the snapshot's history cursor and merges each page in front with mergeOlderHistoryIntoProjection, the owner's merge helper. A page whose cursor a reconnect snapshot has already replaced is dropped.

Tests: a service test pages back past the snapshot. It checks the old image reply loads only after its page is fetched, and that an invite (not a session) is refused. A reducer test covers the merge and the stale-cursor guard.

Not verified in a live client. Creating a share needs a T3 Connect host, which my dev setup doesn't have. So there are no before/after captures yet.

check:changed passes except GuestPage.browser.test.tsx > follows the end as replies stream…, which fails the same way on main without this change.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 4a1ac0f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Guests can explicitly load earlier turns using the existing thread-history pagination. Live-share authorization and no-store responses preserve the existing sharing boundary, consistent with the disclosure that guests see the thread as its owner does.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+6 B (+0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.3 KiB	+6 B (+0.5%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.6 KiB	21.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.1 KiB	+35 B (+0.7%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.3 KiB	+35 B (+2.8%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: f48fb51 · PR result: 4a1ac0f · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

The guest server now provides cursor-based history pages for authorized sessions. The guest client can load earlier pages, merge them into the thread view, and display loading or error controls. The service records assistant replies from loaded pages for image handling.

Changes: Guest history pagination

Layer / File(s)	Summary
History API and access packages/contracts/src/guestShare.ts, apps/server/src/guest/GuestShareService.ts, apps/server/src/guest/http.ts, apps/server/src/guest/GuestShareService.test.ts	The guest contract and HTTP route provide cursor-based history retrieval. The service authorizes the session, retrieves a page, and records assistant replies from its items. The test covers pagination, invite credential rejection, and image availability after loading the page containing the reply.
Stream history state and merge apps/web/src/components/guest/guestStream.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/guest/guestStream.logic.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/package.json	The stream tracks the next history cursor and merges a page only when its request cursor matches the current cursor. The client runtime package exports the history merge helper. The test checks stale-page rejection and cursor advancement.
Guest timeline history controls apps/web/src/components/guest/GuestPage.tsx	The guest page fetches history pages and provides loading and error controls to the timeline. Successful pages are dispatched to the stream reducer.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Guest
  participant GuestPage
  participant historyRoute
  participant GuestShareService
  participant GuestStreamReducer
  Guest->>GuestPage: Request earlier history
  GuestPage->>historyRoute: Fetch page with session and cursor
  historyRoute->>GuestShareService: Retrieve authorized history page
  GuestShareService-->>historyRoute: Return history page
  historyRoute-->>GuestPage: Return JSON page
  GuestPage->>GuestStreamReducer: Dispatch page for requested cursor
  GuestStreamReducer-->>GuestPage: Update thread projection and cursor

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code issue 26490: This PR adds guest-specific history projection, but does not change the separate live-stream path described in the issue.
• pingdotgg/t3code issue 20427: This PR retrieves guest history pages, but does not address the reported full-thread-index rebuild for each page.
• pingdotgg/t3code issue 21821: This PR adds guest history paging, but does not address the reported case where older pages remain hidden inside a folded agent run.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Low · up to 4a1ac

Older guest messages may reappear in the footer after reconnect, and some later timeline updates may be missed. These bounded issues warrant follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description follows the template's Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem and Change sections are clear and specific. The Verification section lists service an…	Add a link to the triaged bug issue or the maintainer-approved discussion, including the approval comment. If no prior issue exists, explain why this small, focused fix of an obvious bug qualifies without one. Keep the existing verification…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix: guest links can load earlier turns" names the main change: guest share links gained the ability to page back past the opening window of a thread. It follows conventional commit form an…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/guest/guestStream.logic.ts:
- Line 108: Update the history-page handling around historyCursor so that when
event.page.hasMoreHistory is false, state.partial is cleared to null along with
the cursor; preserve partial-timeline state while more history remains.
- Line 107: When accepting a history page, update awaitingRowIds using
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• apps/web/src/components/guest/guestStream.logic.test.ts
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Remove awaiting IDs placed by a history page.

If a fetched page contains a guest message in awaitingRowIds, the merged row hides its footer entry, but this branch retains the ID. After a reconnect replaces that page with a bounded snapshot, the old message can reappear at the end as an unplaced message. Apply withoutPlaced to the accepted page items when updating awaitingRowIds. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/guest/guestStream.logic.ts at line
107:
When accepting a history page, update awaitingRowIds using withoutPlaced with
the accepted page items so IDs already placed by the page are removed. Apply
this in the history-page branch alongside the merge in
mergeOlderHistoryIntoProjection, preserving the existing handling of IDs not
placed by the page.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Clear partial-timeline mode after the final page.

When the final page sets historyCursor to null, this branch leaves state.partial set. A later turn-item.updated for a newly visible item at an older ordinal can then be discarded as missing history, even though the guest loaded the full timeline. Set partial to null when hasMoreHistory is false. The owner reducer enables partial-timeline handling only while history remains incomplete. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/guest/guestStream.logic.ts at line
108:
Update the history-page handling around historyCursor so that when
event.page.hasMoreHistory is false, state.partial is cleared to null along with
the cursor; preserve partial-timeline state while more history remains.

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