enable/disable remote control at runtime, not via features (#22578)

## Why
reapplies https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22386 which was
previously reverted

Also, introduce `remoteControl/enable` and `remoteControl/disable`
app-server APIs to toggle on/off remote control at runtime for a given
running app-server instance.

## What Changed

- Adds experimental v2 RPCs:
  - `remoteControl/enable`
  - `remoteControl/disable`
- Adds `RemoteControlRequestProcessor` and routes the new RPCs through
it instead of `ConfigRequestProcessor`.
- Adds named `RemoteControlHandle::enable`, `disable`, and `status`
methods.
- Makes `remoteControl/enable` return an error when sqlite state DB is
unavailable, while keeping enrollment/websocket failures as async status
updates.
- Adds `AppServerRuntimeOptions.remote_control_enabled` and hidden
`--remote-control` flags for `codex app-server` and `codex-app-server`.
- Updates managed daemon startup to use `codex app-server
--remote-control --listen unix://`.
- Marks `Feature::RemoteControl` as removed and ignores
`[features].remote_control`.
- Updates app-server README entries for the new remote-control methods.
This commit is contained in:
Owen Lin
2026-05-13 18:07:46 -07:00
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parent 512f8f8012
commit 4e368aa2e9
22 changed files with 346 additions and 52 deletions
@@ -349,13 +349,7 @@ impl PidBackend {
match self.command_kind {
PidCommandKind::AppServer {
remote_control_enabled: true,
} => vec![
"--enable",
"remote_control",
"app-server",
"--listen",
"unix://",
],
} => vec!["app-server", "--remote-control", "--listen", "unix://"],
PidCommandKind::AppServer {
remote_control_enabled: false,
} => vec!["app-server", "--listen", "unix://"],
@@ -156,3 +156,17 @@ fn update_loop_uses_hidden_app_server_subcommand() {
vec!["app-server", "daemon", "pid-update-loop"]
);
}
#[test]
fn app_server_remote_control_uses_runtime_flag() {
let backend = PidBackend::new(
"codex".into(),
"app-server.pid".into(),
/*remote_control_enabled*/ true,
);
assert_eq!(
backend.command_args(),
vec!["app-server", "--remote-control", "--listen", "unix://"]
);
}