fix: filter transcript-only roles from chat-completions payload (#4715)

Add a provider-agnostic role allowlist guard to _sanitize_api_messages()
that drops messages with roles not accepted by the chat-completions API
(e.g. session_meta). This prevents CLI resume/session restore from
leaking transcript-only metadata into the outgoing messages payload.

Two layers of defense:

1. API-boundary guard: _sanitize_api_messages() now filters messages by
   role allowlist (system/user/assistant/tool/function/developer) before
   the existing orphaned tool-call repair logic. This protects all
   current and future call paths.

2. CLI restore defense-in-depth: Both session restore paths in cli.py
   now strip session_meta entries before loading history into
   conversation_history, matching the existing gateway behavior.

Closes #4715

tests/test_session_meta_filtering.py

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+"""Tests for session_meta filtering — issue #4715.
+
+Ensures that transcript-only session_meta messages never reach the
+chat-completions API, via both the API-boundary guard in
+_sanitize_api_messages() and the CLI session-restore paths.
+"""
+
+import logging
+import types
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
+
+from run_agent import AIAgent
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Layer 1 — _sanitize_api_messages role-allowlist guard
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestSanitizeApiMessagesRoleFilter:
+
+    def test_drops_session_meta_role(self):
+        msgs = [
+            {"role": "user", "content": "hello"},
+            {"role": "session_meta", "content": {"model": "gpt-4"}},
+            {"role": "assistant", "content": "hi"},
+        ]
+        out = AIAgent._sanitize_api_messages(msgs)
+        assert len(out) == 2
+        assert all(m["role"] != "session_meta" for m in out)
+
+    def test_preserves_valid_roles(self):
+        msgs = [
+            {"role": "system", "content": "you are helpful"},
+            {"role": "user", "content": "hello"},
+            {"role": "assistant", "content": "hi"},
+            {"role": "tool", "tool_call_id": "c1", "content": "ok"},
+        ]
+        # Need a matching assistant tool_call so the tool result isn't orphaned
+        msgs[2]["tool_calls"] = [{"id": "c1", "function": {"name": "t", "arguments": "{}"}}]
+        out = AIAgent._sanitize_api_messages(msgs)
+        roles = [m["role"] for m in out]
+        assert "system" in roles
+        assert "user" in roles
+        assert "assistant" in roles
+        assert "tool" in roles
+
+    def test_logs_warning_when_dropping(self, caplog):
+        msgs = [
+            {"role": "user", "content": "hello"},
+            {"role": "session_meta", "content": {"info": "test"}},
+        ]
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.DEBUG, logger="run_agent"):
+            AIAgent._sanitize_api_messages(msgs)
+        assert any("invalid role" in r.message and "session_meta" in r.message for r in caplog.records)
+
+    def test_drops_multiple_invalid_roles(self):
+        msgs = [
+            {"role": "user", "content": "hello"},
+            {"role": "session_meta", "content": {}},
+            {"role": "transcript_note", "content": "note"},
+            {"role": "assistant", "content": "hi"},
+        ]
+        out = AIAgent._sanitize_api_messages(msgs)
+        assert len(out) == 2
+        assert [m["role"] for m in out] == ["user", "assistant"]
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Layer 2 — CLI session-restore filters session_meta before loading
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestCLISessionRestoreFiltering:
+
+    def test_restore_filters_session_meta(self):
+        """Simulates the CLI restore path and verifies session_meta is removed."""
+        # Build a fake restored message list (as returned by get_messages_as_conversation)
+        fake_restored = [
+            {"role": "session_meta", "content": {"model": "gpt-4"}},
+            {"role": "user", "content": "hello"},
+            {"role": "assistant", "content": "hi there"},
+            {"role": "session_meta", "content": {"tools": []}},
+        ]
+
+        # Apply the same filtering that the patched CLI code now does
+        filtered = [m for m in fake_restored if m.get("role") != "session_meta"]
+
+        assert len(filtered) == 2
+        assert all(m["role"] != "session_meta" for m in filtered)
+        assert filtered[0]["role"] == "user"
+        assert filtered[1]["role"] == "assistant"