TUI can permanently lose transcript scrollback when resize lands during replay/stream (cells become incomplete; later resizes can't restore) #37987

Summary

The codex TUI can permanently lose transcript scrollback when a terminal resize lands while a resumed session is still replaying (or while an agent response is streaming). Resize reflow clears terminal scrollback and re-emits from transcript_cells; when the cells are incomplete at that moment (replay still in progress, stream cells not yet consolidated), the re-emitted scrollback is shorter than the transcript — and unlike #30745, the missing rows are never restored by later resizes, because the rebuild source itself (transcript_cells) is missing them.

Environment

• codex 0.147.0 TUI (main screen; runs inside a headless terminal host that owns the PTY)
• Terminal host: herdr 0.8.0 (ghostty-vt based), which resizes the shared PTY whenever the attached client's viewport changes
• Client: mobile terminal app, 56 columns; toggling the on-screen keyboard changes the viewport between 17 and 45 rows, so resizes arrive repeatedly during a session

Reproduction

1. codex resume <session-id> for a long session (observed: 4605-line session JSONL).
2. Confirm the working directory prompt with Enter; the replay starts.
3. Immediately trigger a resize while the replay/stream is still settling (in my setup: split/close the pane, equivalent to the client viewport changing mid-session).
4. After the prompt returns, scrollback contains only part of the transcript:
   • observed scroll + viewport total of 76 rows → 51 rows after one resize round-trip, stable at 51 afterwards.
   • The 25 missing rows never come back; repeated resizes re-emit the same 51 rows.
5. pane read --source recent on the surviving scrollback shows the welcome header, an interrupted-conversation notice and the prompt — no conversation history at all.

Additional observation: resuming the same session ID from two TUI instances at once makes the replay entirely empty — the resumed view shows only the welcome header and prompt, with zero history, until all instances are closed and a single instance resumes the session again.

Expected

• A resize that lands mid-replay or mid-stream should not permanently shrink scrollback: either the clear+re-emit should wait until transcript_cells is complete, or it should be skipped entirely when cells are known to be incomplete.
• (Secondary) Resuming a session ID that is already open in another instance should not silently produce an empty replay.

Actual

In tui/src/app/resize_reflow.rs, reflow_transcript_now() returns early when transcript_cells.is_empty() (after clearing pending history lines); when cells are merely partial, the re-emit is exactly the partial set, and every later resize re-emits the same partial set. The initial replay path (begin_initial_history_replay_buffer / finish_initial_history_replay_buffer) buffers display lines separately from cells, so a resize that lands between replay inserts and the flush can commit only a prefix.

Notes

Related issues:

• Codex TUI scrollback rows can disappear after inline viewport height changes #30745 — rows disappear after inline viewport height changes; restored by a terminal resize. In our case the cells themselves are lost, so a terminal resize cannot restore them (same family, worse stage).
• Codex TUI scrollback corruption in Termius mobile SSH #24235 — scrollback corruption in Termius mobile SSH (mobile-client-specific rendering).
• TUI resume main view shows partial transcript when terminal_resize_reflow_max_rows is capped #21635 — resume main view shows partial transcript due to terminal_resize_reflow_max_rows cap.
• On resume, TUI repeatedly repaints terminal scrollback during paginated history refill #37635 — repeated repaints during paginated history refill on resume.