store and expose parent_thread_id on Threads (#25113)

## Why

This PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/24161#discussion_r3325692763
revealed a subagent data modeling issue, where we overloaded
`forked_from_id` to also mean `parent_thread_id`. That's incorrect since
guardian and review subagents can be a subagent and NOT fork the main
thread's history.

The solution here is to explicitly store a new `parent_thread_id` on
`SessionMeta`, alongside `forked_from_id` which already exists. While
we're at it, also expose it in the app-server protocol on the `Thread`
object.

A thread->subagent relationship and a fork of thread history are
orthogonal concepts.

## What Changed

- Added top-level `parent_thread_id` persistence on `SessionMeta` and
runtime/session plumbing through `SessionConfiguredEvent`,
`CodexSpawnArgs`, `SessionConfiguration`, `ThreadConfigSnapshot`,
`TurnContext`, and `ModelClient`.
- Made turn metadata, request headers, analytics, and subagent-start
events read the separate runtime/top-level parent field instead of
deriving general parent lineage from `SessionSource` or
`forked_from_thread_id`.
- Passed parent lineage separately at delegated subagent, review,
guardian, agent-job, and multi-agent spawn construction sites;
copied-history fork lineage remains derived only from `InitialHistory`.
- Persisted and exposed parent lineage through rollout/thread-store
projections and app-server v2 `Thread.parentThreadId`.
- Updated app-server README text and regenerated app-server schema
fixtures for the additive `parentThreadId` response field.
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Owen Lin
2026-05-31 21:33:20 -07:00
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@@ -4012,6 +4012,7 @@ pub(crate) fn thread_from_stored_thread(
id: thread_id.clone(),
session_id: thread_id,
forked_from_id: thread.forked_from_id.map(|id| id.to_string()),
parent_thread_id: thread.parent_thread_id.map(|id| id.to_string()),
preview: thread.preview,
ephemeral: false,
model_provider: if thread.model_provider.is_empty() {
@@ -4220,6 +4221,7 @@ fn build_thread_from_snapshot(
id: thread_id.to_string(),
session_id,
forked_from_id: None,
parent_thread_id: config_snapshot.parent_thread_id.map(|id| id.to_string()),
preview: String::new(),
ephemeral: config_snapshot.ephemeral,
model_provider: config_snapshot.model_provider_id.clone(),