23 Commits

  • [codex] Use model metadata for skills usage instructions (#29740)
    ## Summary
    
    - add a false-by-default `include_skills_usage_instructions` model
    metadata field
    - enable the field for the bundled `gpt-5.5` model metadata
    - consume the metadata in both core and extension skill rendering
    - remove hardcoded legacy-model matching and its marker plumbing
  • Add config toggles for orchestrator skills and MCP (#28942)
    ## Why
    
    Orchestrator-provided skills and Codex Apps MCP tools add model-visible
    instructions, resources, and tools beyond the local workspace. Hosts
    need config-level switches to disable those orchestrator-owned surfaces
    independently, without disabling regular skills or regular MCP servers.
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Adds `[orchestrator.skills].enabled` and `[orchestrator.mcp].enabled`
    config entries, both defaulting to `true`.
    - Includes the new settings in `config.schema.json` and in the config
    lock so resolved thread configuration preserves the same orchestrator
    exposure decisions.
    - Threads `orchestrator.skills.enabled` through the app-server skills
    extension so disabled orchestrator skills do not expose the `skills`
    namespace or inject orchestrator skill context.
    - Gates Codex Apps MCP exposure, app instructions, and app auth
    eligibility on `orchestrator.mcp.enabled` while leaving non-Codex-Apps
    MCP tools available.
    - Updates the thread-manager sample config to disable both
    orchestrator-owned surfaces.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - Added config parsing, loading, defaulting, and schema coverage for the
    new settings.
    - Added MCP exposure coverage that `orchestrator.mcp.enabled = false`
    removes Codex Apps tools while preserving regular MCP tools.
    - Added app-server coverage that `orchestrator.skills.enabled = false`
    prevents orchestrator skill tools, prompts, and resource reads from
    reaching the model turn.
  • skills: cache orchestrator resources per thread (#28336)
    ## Why
    
    Hosted orchestrator skills are read through the remote MCP resource
    server. Within one thread, the same catalog or skill resource can be
    requested multiple times by prompt injection and the `skills.list` /
    `skills.read` tools. Re-fetching adds latency and can make those
    surfaces observe different remote contents during the same thread.
    
    This is a follow-up to #28333: orchestrator skills remain limited to
    threads without a local executor, and those threads now get a stable
    per-thread view of the remote skill data they use.
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Reuse the existing per-thread orchestrator catalog snapshot for
    `skills.list` and `skills.read` availability checks.
    - Cache successful orchestrator resource reads by authority, package,
    and resource so prompt injection and tool calls share the same contents.
    - Keep the cache memory-only and bounded to 100 resources and 8 MiB per
    thread.
    - Leave host and executor skill reads unchanged, and do not cache failed
    remote reads.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - Extended the app-server MCP resource integration test to read the same
    hosted skill resource twice and verify that the remote server receives
    one read.
    - The same test verifies that catalog discovery and the selected skill's
    main prompt are each fetched only once per thread.
  • skills: hide orchestrator skills with a local executor (#28333)
    ## Why
    
    App-server threads without a local executor need orchestrator-owned
    skills from the hosted `codex_apps` MCP server. Threads with the local
    executor already discover installed skills from the local filesystem.
    
    After the orchestrator skill provider was enabled for every app-server
    thread, local-executor threads also received the hosted skill catalog
    and the `skills.list` and `skills.read` tools. This changed the existing
    local behavior and could expose a second hosted copy of a skill that was
    already installed locally.
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Expose the thread's selected execution environments to extensions at
    thread startup.
    - Enable orchestrator skills only when the reserved local environment is
    not selected.
    - Apply that decision consistently to hosted skill catalog discovery,
    explicit skill injection, and the `skills.list` and `skills.read` tools.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - The existing no-executor app-server test continues to verify hosted
    skill discovery, invocation, and child-resource reads.
    - A new app-server test verifies that local-executor threads do not
    receive hosted skill context or `skills.*` tools.
  • Activate selected executor plugin MCPs in app-server (#27893)
    ## Why
    
    #27870 teaches the MCP extension how to discover stdio MCP servers
    declared by a selected executor plugin, but app-server does not yet
    install that contributor or initialize its per-thread state. As a
    result, `thread/start.selectedCapabilityRoots` can select the plugin
    while its MCP servers remain inactive.
    
    This PR closes that app-server wiring gap:
    
    ```text
    thread/start(selectedCapabilityRoots)
        -> initialize the thread's selected-plugin MCP snapshot
        -> read the selected plugin's .mcp.json through its environment
        -> start declared stdio servers in that environment
        -> expose their tools only on the selected thread
    ```
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Install the selected-executor-plugin MCP contributor in app-server
    using the existing shared `EnvironmentManager`.
    - Initialize its frozen thread snapshot when `thread/start` includes
    selected capability roots.
    - Document that selected plugin stdio MCPs are activated in their owning
    environment.
    - Add an app-server E2E covering the complete selection-to-tool-call
    path.
    
    The E2E verifies that:
    
    - the selected MCP process receives an executor-only environment value,
    proving the tool runs through the selected environment;
    - the MCP tool is advertised to the model and can be called;
    - a normal MCP config reload does not discard the thread's frozen
    selected-plugin registration;
    - another thread without the selected root does not see the MCP server.
    
    ## Scope
    
    - Existing sessions without `selectedCapabilityRoots` are unchanged.
    - Only stdio MCP declarations are activated. HTTP declarations remain
    inactive.
    - This does not change selected-root persistence across resume/fork or
    add hosted-plugin behavior.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - Focused app-server E2E:
    `selected_executor_plugin_exposes_its_stdio_mcp_only_to_that_thread`
    
    ## Stack
    
    Stacked on #27870.
  • feat: disable orchestrator skills for now (#27646)
    Temp disable orchestrator-only skills while waiting for the endpoint to
    be fixed
  • skills: render catalog locators by authority (#27591)
    ## Why
    
    Hosted skills introduced by #27388 use opaque `skill://` resource
    identifiers, but the skills catalog rendered every locator as a `file`
    and told the model that every skill body lived on disk. That can send
    the model toward filesystem tools for a resource that must instead be
    read through its owning authority.
    
    The catalog should describe how each source is accessed without changing
    the underlying discovery or invocation behavior.
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Render host skills as `file`, executor-owned skills as `environment
    resource`, orchestrator-owned skills as `orchestrator resource`, and
    custom-provider skills as `custom resource`.
    - Update the shared no-alias guidance to describe source locators rather
    than assuming every skill is stored on the host filesystem.
    - Direct orchestrator resources through `skills.list` and `skills.read`,
    and explicitly tell the model not to treat `skill://` identifiers as
    filesystem paths.
    - Preserve the existing filesystem and alias behavior for local skills.
    
    ## Scope
    
    This PR changes only model-visible catalog rendering and guidance. It
    does not change skill discovery, selection, prompt injection, provider
    routing, catalog caching or refresh behavior, resource validation, or
    the `skills.*` tool contract.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - Extended skills-extension coverage for host-file and executor-resource
    labels.
    - Extended the no-executor app-server flow to assert
    orchestrator-resource wording and non-filesystem guidance.
  • test: cover referenced backend skill reads without an executor (#27404)
    ## Why
    
    PR #27388 lets models read child resources referenced by backend plugin
    skills without an executor. The integration fixture should prove that
    real flow: the injected `SKILL.md` advertises a child `skill://`
    resource, and `skills.read` resolves that exact resource through the
    backend provider.
    
    This is stacked on #27388.
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Adds a child-resource link to the backend skill fixture and asserts
    that it reaches model context.
    - Tightens the end-to-end skills test around `skills.list` followed by
    `skills.read` for the referenced resource.
    - Splits the existing app-server `mcpResource/read` coverage into a
    focused test so the generic RPC path remains covered independently.
    
    ## Validation
    
    - Adds app-server integration coverage for both the referenced backend
    skill resource and the generic MCP resource read path.
  • skills: expose remote skill resource tools (#27388)
    ## Why
    
    PR #27387 makes backend plugin skills discoverable and invocable without
    an executor, but resources referenced by those skills still sit behind
    the generic MCP resource surface. The model needs a skills-owned API
    that preserves the provider authority and package boundary instead of
    treating remote resources like local files.
    
    This is stacked on #27387.
    
    ## What
    
    - Adds one `skills` namespace with bounded `list` and `read` tools for
    remote skill providers.
    - Revalidates `authority + package` against the live remote catalog on
    every read, then routes the opaque resource ID back through that
    provider.
    - Allows the backend provider to read canonical child `skill://`
    resources while rejecting cross-package, non-canonical, query, fragment,
    and traversal-shaped URIs.
    - Caps each serialized tool result at 8 KB. Lists are paginated; reads
    return an opaque continuation cursor.
    - Marks the JSON output as external context so memory generation can
    apply its normal suppression policy.
    - Deliberately does not add `skills.search`; that waits for a bounded
    plugin-service search contract.
    
    ## Tool contract
    
    Pseudo-Python matching the wire shape:
    
    ```python
    from typing import Literal, NotRequired, TypedDict
    
    
    class RemoteSkillAuthority(TypedDict):
        kind: Literal["remote"]
        id: str  # e.g. "codex_apps"
    
    
    class RemoteSkill(TypedDict):
        authority: RemoteSkillAuthority
        package: str  # opaque provider-owned package ID
        name: str
        description: str
        main_resource: str  # opaque provider-owned SKILL.md ID
    
    
    class SkillsListParams(TypedDict):
        cursor: NotRequired[str]
    
    
    class SkillsListResult(TypedDict):
        skills: list[RemoteSkill]
        next_cursor: str | None
        warnings: list[str]
        truncated: bool
    
    
    class SkillsReadParams(TypedDict):
        authority: RemoteSkillAuthority  # copied from skills.list
        package: str  # copied from skills.list
        resource: str  # provider-owned child resource ID
        cursor: NotRequired[str]  # copy next_cursor to continue
    
    
    class SkillsReadResult(TypedDict):
        resource: str
        contents: str
        next_cursor: str | None
        truncated: bool
    
    
    class Skills:
        def list(self, params: SkillsListParams) -> SkillsListResult: ...
        def read(self, params: SkillsReadParams) -> SkillsReadResult: ...
    ```
    
    There is one namespace for all remote skills, not one tool or MCP server
    per skill. No resource ID is converted into a filesystem path.
    
    ## Backend dependency
    
    `/ps/mcp` must support direct reads of child resources such as
    `skill://plugin_demo/deploy/references/deploy.md`. This PR implements
    and tests the Codex side of that contract; production child reads remain
    dependent on the corresponding plugin-service support. Search remains
    out of scope until that service exposes a bounded search/resource API.
    
    ## Validation
    
    - Added an app-server integration test covering `skills.list` followed
    by `skills.read` with no executor.
    - Ran `just fmt`.
    - Ran `just bazel-lock-update` and `just bazel-lock-check`.
    - Did not run Rust tests or Clippy locally, per request; CI will run
    them.
  • skills: make backend plugin skills invocable without an executor (#27387)
    ## Why
    
    #27198 made the extension-owned `codex_apps` MCP connection the hosted
    plugin runtime, but its `mcp/skill` resources still bypassed the skills
    extension. App-server could list and read those resources through
    generic MCP APIs, but a thread with no selected environment did not
    expose them in the model's skills catalog or load their `SKILL.md`
    through `$skill`.
    
    Hosted skills should stay remote while using the same typed catalog,
    source authority, deduplication, bounded contextual catalog, and
    selected-skill prompt injection as host and executor skills. They should
    not be downloaded or exposed as ambient filesystem paths.
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Add a session-scoped `McpResourceClient` over the replaceable MCP
    connection manager so resource list/read calls follow startup and
    refresh replacements.
    - Add a `BackendSkillProvider` that pages `codex_apps` resources,
    accepts bounded and validated `mcp/skill` entries, and reads a selected
    skill's `SKILL.md` through the same MCP connection.
    - Register the remote provider in app-server and include it in the
    skills catalog even when a thread has no selected capability roots or
    executor.
    - Contribute hosted skill metadata through the bounded
    `AvailableSkillsInstructions` developer-context path, exclude remote
    entries from per-turn catalog injection, and classify `<skills>`
    messages as contextual developer content so rollback can trim and
    rebuild them correctly.
    
    ## Testing
    
    - Extend the app-server MCP resource integration test with
    `environments: []` to exercise two-page discovery, filter a
    non-`mcp/skill` resource, verify the escaped developer catalog entry and
    user-role `<skill>` fragment containing the fetched `SKILL.md`, and
    preserve generic MCP resource reads.
    - Add core event-mapping coverage that classifies `<skills>` developer
    messages as contextual history.
  • Use plugin-service MCP as the hosted plugin runtime (#27198)
    ## Stack
    
    - Base: #27191
    - This PR is the third vertical and should be reviewed against
    `jif/external-plugins-2`, not `main`.
    
    ## Why
    
    #27191 moves the host-owned Apps MCP registration behind an extension
    contributor, but deliberately preserves the existing endpoint-selection
    feature while that contribution contract lands. App-server can therefore
    resolve the server through extensions, yet the hosted plugin endpoint is
    still selected through temporary `apps_mcp_path_override` plumbing.
    
    That is not the long-term plugin model. A plugin can bundle skills,
    connectors, MCP servers, and hooks, and those components do not all need
    the same source or execution environment. In particular, an
    authenticated HTTP MCP server can expose plugin capabilities directly
    from a backend without an executor or an orchestrator filesystem.
    
    This PR completes that hosted vertical. App-server's MCP extension now
    owns the aggregate hosted plugin runtime at `/ps/mcp`. Connector actions
    continue to arrive as MCP tools, while backend-provided skills arrive as
    MCP resources and use Codex's existing resource list/read paths. No
    second backend client, skill filesystem, or generic plugin activation
    framework is introduced.
    
    The backend route remains the hosted implementation. This change
    replaces Codex's temporary endpoint-selection mechanism, not the service
    behind the endpoint.
    
    ## What changed
    
    ### Hosted plugin runtime
    
    The MCP extension now contributes `codex_apps` as the hosted plugin
    runtime rather than as a configurable Apps endpoint:
    
    - `https://chatgpt.com` resolves to
    `https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/ps/mcp`;
    - a bare custom ChatGPT base resolves to `/api/codex/ps/mcp`;
    - the existing product-SKU header and ChatGPT authentication behavior
    are preserved;
    - executor availability is never consulted for this streamable HTTP
    transport.
    
    The same MCP connection carries both component shapes supported by the
    hosted endpoint:
    
    - connector actions are discovered and invoked as MCP tools;
    - hosted skills are enumerated and read as MCP resources through the
    existing `list_mcp_resources` and `read_mcp_resource` paths.
    
    This keeps component access in the subsystem that already owns the
    protocol instead of downloading backend skills into an orchestrator
    filesystem or inventing a parallel hosted-skill client.
    
    ### Explicit runtime ordering
    
    `McpManager` now resolves the reserved `codex_apps` entry in three
    ordered phases:
    
    1. install the legacy Apps fallback for compatibility;
    2. apply ordered extension `Set` or `Remove` overlays;
    3. apply the final ChatGPT-auth gate without synthesizing the server
    again.
    
    This ordering is important:
    
    - an ordinary configured or plugin MCP server cannot claim the
    auth-bearing `codex_apps` name;
    - an extension-contributed hosted runtime wins over the fallback;
    - an extension `Remove` remains authoritative;
    - a host without the MCP extension retains the legacy Apps endpoint and
    current local-only behavior.
    
    The temporary `legacy_apps_mcp_loader_enabled` coordination flag is no
    longer needed.
    
    ### Remove the path override
    
    The `apps_mcp_path_override` feature and its runtime plumbing are
    removed, including:
    
    - the feature registry entry and structured feature config;
    - `Config` and `McpConfig` fields;
    - config schema output;
    - config-lock materialization;
    - URL override handling in `codex-mcp`.
    
    Existing boolean and structured forms still deserialize as ignored
    compatibility input. They are omitted from new serialized config, and
    config-lock comparison normalizes the removed input so older locks
    remain replayable.
    
    ### App-server coverage
    
    App-server MCP fixtures now serve the hosted route at
    `/api/codex/ps/mcp`. Existing resource-read and tool/elicitation flows
    therefore exercise the extension-owned endpoint rather than succeeding
    through the legacy fallback.
    
    The stack also adds the missing `codex_chatgpt::connectors` re-export
    for the manager-backed connector helper introduced in #27191.
    
    ## Compatibility
    
    - App-server installs the extension and uses `/ps/mcp` for the hosted
    runtime.
    - CLI and other hosts that do not install the extension retain the
    legacy Apps endpoint.
    - Apps disabled or non-ChatGPT authentication removes `codex_apps` from
    the effective runtime view.
    - Existing local plugins, local skills, executor-selected skills,
    configured MCP servers, and MCP OAuth behavior are otherwise unchanged.
    - Backend plugin enablement remains account/workspace state owned by the
    hosted endpoint; this PR does not add thread-local backend plugin
    selection.
    
    ## Architectural fit
    
    The stack now proves two independent runtime shapes:
    
    1. #27184 resolves filesystem-backed skills through the executor that
    owns a selected root.
    2. #27191 and this PR resolve a backend-hosted HTTP MCP through an
    extension with no executor.
    
    Together they preserve the intended separation:
    
    - selection identifies a plugin/root when explicit selection is needed;
    - each component's owning extension resolves its concrete access
    mechanism;
    - execution stays with the runtime required by that component;
    - existing skills, MCP, connector, and hook subsystems remain the
    downstream consumers.
    
    ## Planned follow-ups
    
    1. **Executor stdio MCP:** selecting an executor plugin registers a
    manifest-declared stdio MCP server and executes it in the environment
    that owns the plugin.
    2. **Optional backend selection:** only if CCA needs thread-local
    selection distinct from backend account/workspace enablement, add a
    concrete backend-owned capability location and surface those selected
    skills through the skills catalog.
    3. **Connector metadata and hooks:** activate those plugin components
    through their existing owning subsystems, with executor hooks remaining
    environment-bound.
    4. **Propagation and persistence:** define explicit resume, fork,
    subagent, refresh, and environment-removal semantics once selected roots
    have multiple real consumers.
    5. **Local convergence:** migrate legacy local skill, MCP, connector,
    and hook paths behind their owning extensions one vertical at a time,
    then remove duplicate core managers and compatibility plumbing after
    parity.
    
    ## Verification
    
    Coverage in this change exercises:
    
    - extension-owned `/backend-api/ps/mcp` registration without an
    executor;
    - preservation of the legacy endpoint in hosts without the extension;
    - extension `Set` and `Remove` precedence over the legacy fallback;
    - ChatGPT-auth gating for the reserved server;
    - hosted MCP resource reads with and without an active thread;
    - connector tool invocation and MCP elicitation through the hosted
    route;
    - ignored boolean and structured forms of the removed path override;
    - config-lock replay compatibility for the removed feature.
    
    `cargo check -p codex-features -p codex-mcp-extension -p
    codex-app-server` passes. Tests and Clippy were not run locally under
    the current development instruction; CI provides the full validation
    pass.
  • Switch runtime to cloud config bundle (#24622)
    ## Summary
    
    - Adapts the moved `codex-cloud-config` crate from the legacy cloud
    requirements endpoint to the new config bundle endpoint.
    - Switches runtime consumers from `CloudRequirementsLoader` to
    `CloudConfigBundleLoader` so one shared bundle supplies cloud-delivered
    config and requirements.
    - Removes the legacy cloud requirements domain loader path.
    
    ## Details
    
    This intentionally keeps `codex-cloud-config` monolithic for review
    lineage: the previous PR establishes the crate move, and this PR shows
    the behavior change against that moved implementation. A follow-up PR
    splits the module back into focused files.
    
    The new bundle path preserves the important cloud requirements loader
    semantics where intended: account-scoped signed cache, 30 minute TTL, 5
    minute refresh cadence, retry/backoff, auth recovery, and fail-closed
    startup loading. The cached payload changes from a single requirements
    TOML string to the backend-delivered bundle, and validation rejects
    malformed config or requirements fragments before cache write/use.
  • fix: rename McpServer to TestAppServer (#25701)
    This PR brought to you via VS Code rather than Codex...
    
    - opened `codex-rs/app-server/tests/common/mcp_process.rs`
    - put the cursor on `McpServer`
    - hit `F2` and renamed the symbol to `TestAppServer`
    - went to the file tree
    - hit enter and renamed `mcp_process.rs` to `test_app_server.rs`
    - ran **Save All Files** from the Command Palette
    - ran `just fmt`
    
    The End
    
    (Admittedly, most of the local variables for `TestAppServer` are still
    named `mcp`, though.)
  • Update rmcp to 1.7.0 (#24763)
    WIll make it easier to uprev when the new draft spec is supported.
    
    Also updates reqwest where needed for compatibility but doesn't update
    it everywhere since this is already a large diff.
    
    The new version of rmcp handles certain kinds of authentication failures
    differently, this patch includes support for identifying the failing scope
    in a WWW-Authenticate header.
  • config: add strict config parsing (#20559)
    ## Why
    
    Codex intentionally ignores unknown `config.toml` fields by default so
    older and newer config files keep working across versions. That leniency
    also makes typo detection hard because misspelled or misplaced keys
    disappear silently.
    
    This change adds an opt-in strict config mode so users and tooling can
    fail fast on unrecognized config fields without changing the default
    permissive behavior.
    
    This feature is possible because `serde_ignored` exposes the exact
    signal Codex needs: it lets Codex run ordinary Serde deserialization
    while recording fields Serde would otherwise ignore. That avoids
    requiring `#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]` across every config type and
    keeps strict validation opt-in around the existing config model.
    
    ## What Changed
    
    ### Added strict config validation
    
    - Added `serde_ignored`-based validation for `ConfigToml` in
    `codex-rs/config/src/strict_config.rs`.
    - Combined `serde_ignored` with `serde_path_to_error` so strict mode
    preserves typed config error paths while also collecting fields Serde
    would otherwise ignore.
    - Added strict-mode validation for unknown `[features]` keys, including
    keys that would otherwise be accepted by `FeaturesToml`'s flattened
    boolean map.
    - Kept typed config errors ahead of ignored-field reporting, so
    malformed known fields are reported before unknown-field diagnostics.
    - Added source-range diagnostics for top-level and nested unknown config
    fields, including non-file managed preference source names.
    
    ### Kept parsing single-pass per source
    
    - Reworked file and managed-config loading so strict validation reuses
    the already parsed `TomlValue` for that source.
    - For actual config files and managed config strings, the loader now
    reads once, parses once, and validates that same parsed value instead of
    deserializing multiple times.
    - Validated `-c` / `--config` override layers with the same
    base-directory context used for normal relative-path resolution, so
    unknown override keys are still reported when another override contains
    a relative path.
    
    ### Scoped `--strict-config` to config-heavy entry points
    
    - Added support for `--strict-config` on the main config-loading entry
    points where it is most useful:
      - `codex`
      - `codex resume`
      - `codex fork`
      - `codex exec`
      - `codex review`
      - `codex mcp-server`
      - `codex app-server` when running the server itself
      - the standalone `codex-app-server` binary
      - the standalone `codex-exec` binary
    - Commands outside that set now reject `--strict-config` early with
    targeted errors instead of accepting it everywhere through shared CLI
    plumbing.
    - `codex app-server` subcommands such as `proxy`, `daemon`, and
    `generate-*` are intentionally excluded from the first rollout.
    - When app-server strict mode sees invalid config, app-server exits with
    the config error instead of logging a warning and continuing with
    defaults.
    - Introduced a dedicated `ReviewCommand` wrapper in `codex-rs/cli`
    instead of extending shared `ReviewArgs`, so `--strict-config` stays on
    the outer config-loading command surface and does not become part of the
    reusable review payload used by `codex exec review`.
    
    ### Coverage
    
    - Added tests for top-level and nested unknown config fields, unknown
    `[features]` keys, typed-error precedence, source-location reporting,
    and non-file managed preference source names.
    - Added CLI coverage showing invalid `--enable`, invalid `--disable`,
    and unknown `-c` overrides still error when `--strict-config` is
    present, including compound-looking feature names such as
    `multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text`.
    - Added integration coverage showing both `codex app-server
    --strict-config` and standalone `codex-app-server --strict-config` exit
    with an error for unknown config fields instead of starting with
    fallback defaults.
    - Added coverage showing unsupported command surfaces reject
    `--strict-config` with explicit errors.
    
    ## Example Usage
    
    Run Codex with strict config validation enabled:
    
    ```shell
    codex --strict-config
    ```
    
    Strict config mode is also available on the supported config-heavy
    subcommands:
    
    ```shell
    codex --strict-config exec "explain this repository"
    codex review --strict-config --uncommitted
    codex mcp-server --strict-config
    codex app-server --strict-config --listen off
    codex-app-server --strict-config --listen off
    ```
    
    For example, if `~/.codex/config.toml` contains a typo in a key name:
    
    ```toml
    model = "gpt-5"
    approval_polic = "on-request"
    ```
    
    then `codex --strict-config` reports the misspelled key instead of
    silently ignoring it. The path is shortened to `~` here for readability:
    
    ```text
    $ codex --strict-config
    Error loading config.toml:
    ~/.codex/config.toml:2:1: unknown configuration field `approval_polic`
      |
    2 | approval_polic = "on-request"
      | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ```
    
    Without `--strict-config`, Codex keeps the existing permissive behavior
    and ignores the unknown key.
    
    Strict config mode also validates ad-hoc `-c` / `--config` overrides:
    
    ```text
    $ codex --strict-config -c foo=bar
    Error: unknown configuration field `foo` in -c/--config override
    
    $ codex --strict-config -c features.foo=true
    Error: unknown configuration field `features.foo` in -c/--config override
    ```
    
    Invalid feature toggles are rejected too, including values that look
    like nested config paths:
    
    ```text
    $ codex --strict-config --enable does_not_exist
    Error: Unknown feature flag: does_not_exist
    
    $ codex --strict-config --disable does_not_exist
    Error: Unknown feature flag: does_not_exist
    
    $ codex --strict-config --enable multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text
    Error: Unknown feature flag: multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text
    ```
    
    Unsupported commands reject the flag explicitly:
    
    ```text
    $ codex --strict-config cloud list
    Error: `--strict-config` is not supported for `codex cloud`
    ```
    
    ## Verification
    
    The `codex-cli` `strict_config` tests cover invalid `--enable`, invalid
    `--disable`, the compound `multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text`
    case, unknown `-c` overrides, app-server strict startup failure through
    `codex app-server`, and rejection for unsupported commands such as
    `codex cloud`, `codex mcp`, `codex remote-control`, and `codex
    app-server proxy`.
    
    The config and config-loader tests cover unknown top-level fields,
    unknown nested fields, unknown `[features]` keys, source-location
    reporting, non-file managed config sources, and `-c` validation for keys
    such as `features.foo`.
    
    The app-server test suite covers standalone `codex-app-server
    --strict-config` startup failure for an unknown config field.
    
    ## Documentation
    
    The Codex CLI docs on developers.openai.com/codex should mention
    `--strict-config` as an opt-in validation mode for supported
    config-heavy entry points once this ships.
  • state: pass state db handles through consumers (#20561)
    ## Why
    
    SQLite state was still being opened from consumer paths, including lazy
    `OnceCell`-backed thread-store call sites. That let one process
    construct multiple state DB connections for the same Codex home, which
    makes SQLite lock contention and `database is locked` failures much
    easier to hit.
    
    State DB lifetime should be chosen by main-like entrypoints and tests,
    then passed through explicitly. Consumers should use the supplied
    `Option<StateDbHandle>` or `StateDbHandle` and keep their existing
    filesystem fallback or error behavior when no handle is available.
    
    The startup path also needs to keep the rollout crate in charge of
    SQLite state initialization. Opening `codex_state::StateRuntime`
    directly bypasses rollout metadata backfill, so entrypoints should
    initialize through `codex_rollout::state_db` and receive a handle only
    after required rollout backfills have completed.
    
    ## What Changed
    
    - Initialize the state DB in main-like entrypoints for CLI, TUI,
    app-server, exec, MCP server, and the thread-manager sample.
    - Pass `Option<StateDbHandle>` through `ThreadManager`,
    `LocalThreadStore`, app-server processors, TUI app wiring, rollout
    listing/recording, personality migration, shell snapshot cleanup,
    session-name lookup, and memory/device-key consumers.
    - Remove the lazy local state DB wrapper from the thread store so
    non-test consumers use only the supplied handle or their existing
    fallback path.
    - Make `codex_rollout::state_db::init` the local state startup path: it
    opens/migrates SQLite, runs rollout metadata backfill when needed, waits
    for concurrent backfill workers up to a bounded timeout, verifies
    completion, and then returns the initialized handle.
    - Keep optional/non-owning SQLite helpers, such as remote TUI local
    reads, as open-only paths that do not run startup backfill.
    - Switch app-server startup from direct
    `codex_state::StateRuntime::init` to the rollout state initializer so
    app-server cannot skip rollout backfill.
    - Collapse split rollout lookup/list APIs so callers use the normal
    methods with an optional state handle instead of `_with_state_db`
    variants.
    - Restore `getConversationSummary(ThreadId)` to delegate through
    `ThreadStore::read_thread` instead of a LocalThreadStore-specific
    rollout path special case.
    - Keep DB-backed rollout path lookup keyed on the DB row and file
    existence, without imposing the filesystem filename convention on
    existing DB rows.
    - Verify readable DB-backed rollout paths against `session_meta.id`
    before returning them, so a stale SQLite row that points at another
    thread's JSONL falls back to filesystem search and read-repairs the DB
    row.
    - Keep `debug prompt-input` filesystem-only so a one-off debug command
    does not initialize or backfill SQLite state just to print prompt input.
    - Keep goal-session test Codex homes alive only in the goal-specific
    helper, rather than leaking tempdirs from the shared session test
    helper.
    - Update tests and call sites to pass explicit state handles where DB
    behavior is expected and explicit `None` where filesystem-only behavior
    is intended.
    
    ## Validation
    
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo check -p
    codex-rollout -p codex-thread-store -p codex-app-server -p codex-core -p
    codex-tui -p codex-exec -p codex-cli --tests`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-rollout state_db_`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-rollout find_thread_path`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-rollout find_thread_path -- --nocapture`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-rollout try_init_ -- --nocapture`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-rollout`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo clippy -p
    codex-rollout --lib -- -D warnings`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-thread-store
    read_thread_falls_back_when_sqlite_path_points_to_another_thread --
    --nocapture`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-thread-store`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
    shell_snapshot`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
    --test all personality_migration`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
    --test all rollout_list_find`
    - `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
    CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
    --test all rollout_list_find::find_prefers_sqlite_path_by_id --
    --nocapture`
    - `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
    CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
    --test all rollout_list_find -- --nocapture`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
    interrupt_accounts_active_goal_before_pausing`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-app-server get_auth_status -- --test-threads=1`
    - `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
    CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
    codex-app-server --lib`
    - `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
    CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo check -p codex-rollout
    -p codex-app-server --tests`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-rollout
    -p codex-thread-store -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-tui -p
    codex-exec -p codex-cli`
    - `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
    CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-rollout -p
    codex-app-server`
    - `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p
    codex-rollout`
    - `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
    CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-core`
    - `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-core`
    - `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-rollout`
    
    Focused coverage added in `codex-rollout`:
    
    - `recorder::tests::state_db_init_backfills_before_returning` verifies
    the rollout metadata row exists before startup init returns.
    - `state_db::tests::try_init_waits_for_concurrent_startup_backfill`
    verifies startup waits for another worker to finish backfill instead of
    disabling the handle for the process.
    -
    `state_db::tests::try_init_times_out_waiting_for_stuck_startup_backfill`
    verifies startup does not hang indefinitely on a stuck backfill lease.
    -
    `tests::find_thread_path_accepts_existing_state_db_path_without_canonical_filename`
    verifies DB-backed lookup accepts valid existing rollout paths even when
    the filename does not include the thread UUID.
    -
    `tests::find_thread_path_falls_back_when_db_path_points_to_another_thread`
    verifies DB-backed lookup ignores a stale row whose existing path
    belongs to another thread and read-repairs the row after filesystem
    fallback.
    
    Focused coverage updated in `codex-core`:
    
    - `rollout_list_find::find_prefers_sqlite_path_by_id` now uses a
    DB-preferred rollout file with matching `session_meta.id`, so it still
    verifies that valid SQLite paths win without depending on stale/empty
    rollout contents.
    
    `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_list_respects_search_term_filter
    -- --test-threads=1 --nocapture` was attempted locally but timed out
    waiting for the app-server test harness `initialize` response before
    reaching the changed thread-list code path.
    
    `bazel test //codex-rs/thread-store:thread-store-unit-tests
    --test_output=errors` was attempted locally after the thread-store fix,
    but this container failed before target analysis while fetching `v8+`
    through BuildBuddy/direct GitHub. The equivalent local crate coverage,
    including `cargo test -p codex-thread-store`, passes.
    
    A plain local `cargo check -p codex-rollout -p codex-app-server --tests`
    also requires system `libcap.pc` for `codex-linux-sandbox`; the
    follow-up app-server check above used `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1` in
    this container.
  • [codex] Move config loading into codex-config (#19487)
    ## Why
    
    Config loading had become split across crates: `codex-config` owned the
    config types and merge logic, while `codex-core` still owned the loader
    that assembled the layer stack. This change consolidates that
    responsibility in `codex-config`, so the crate that defines config
    behavior also owns how configs are discovered and loaded.
    
    To make that move possible without reintroducing the old dependency
    cycle, the shell-environment policy types and helpers that
    `codex-exec-server` needs now live in `codex-protocol` instead of
    flowing through `codex-config`.
    
    This also makes the migrated loader tests more deterministic on machines
    that already have managed or system Codex config installed by letting
    tests override the system config and requirements paths instead of
    reading the host's `/etc/codex`.
    
    ## What Changed
    
    - moved the config loader implementation from `codex-core` into
    `codex-config::loader` and deleted the old `core::config_loader` module
    instead of leaving a compatibility shim
    - moved shell-environment policy types and helpers into
    `codex-protocol`, then updated `codex-exec-server` and other downstream
    crates to import them from their new home
    - updated downstream callers to use loader/config APIs from
    `codex-config`
    - added test-only loader overrides for system config and requirements
    paths so loader-focused tests do not depend on host-managed config state
    - cleaned up now-unused dependency entries and platform-specific cfgs
    that were surfaced by post-push CI
    
    ## Testing
    
    - `cargo test -p codex-config`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core config_loader_tests::`
    - `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-exec-server -p
    codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-rmcp-client --lib`
    - `cargo test --lib -p codex-app-server-client -p codex-exec`
    - `cargo test --no-run --lib -p codex-app-server`
    - `cargo test -p codex-linux-sandbox --lib`
    - `cargo shear`
    - `just bazel-lock-check`
    
    ## Notes
    
    - I did not chase unrelated full-suite failures outside the migrated
    loader surface.
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --lib` still hits unrelated proxy-sensitive
    failures on this machine, and Windows CI still shows unrelated
    long-running/timeouting test noise outside the loader migration itself.
  • Support multiple managed environments (#18401)
    ## Summary
    - refactor EnvironmentManager to own keyed environments with
    default/local lookup helpers
    - keep remote exec-server client creation lazy until exec/fs use
    - preserve disabled agent environment access separately from internal
    local environment access
    
    ## Validation
    - not run (per Codex worktree instruction to avoid tests/builds unless
    requested)
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • Make MCP resource read threadless (#18292)
    ## Summary
    
    Making thread id optional so that we can better cache resources for MCPs
    for connectors since their resource templates is universal and not
    particular to projects.
    
    - Make `mcpServer/resource/read` accept an optional `threadId`
    - Read resources from the current MCP config when no thread is supplied
    - Keep the existing thread-scoped path when `threadId` is present
    - Update the generated schemas, README, and integration coverage
    
    ## Testing
    - `just write-app-server-schema`
    - `just fmt`
    - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
    - `cargo test -p codex-mcp`
    - `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all mcp_resource`
    - `just fix -p codex-mcp`
    - `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
    - `just fix -p codex-app-server`
  • Add session config loader interface (#18208)
    ## Why
    
    Cloud-hosted sessions need a way for the service that starts or manages
    a thread to provide session-owned config without treating all config as
    if it came from the same user/project/workspace TOML stack.
    
    The important boundary is ownership: some values should be controlled by
    the session/orchestrator, some by the authenticated user, and later some
    may come from the executor. The earlier broad config-store shape made
    that boundary too fuzzy and overlapped heavily with the existing
    filesystem-backed config loader. This PR starts with the smaller piece
    we need now: a typed session config loader that can feed the existing
    config layer stack while preserving the normal precedence and merge
    behavior.
    
    ## What Changed
    
    - Added `ThreadConfigLoader` and related typed payloads in
    `codex-config`.
    - `SessionThreadConfig` currently supports `model_provider`,
    `model_providers`, and feature flags.
    - `UserThreadConfig` is present as an ownership boundary, but does not
    yet add TOML-backed fields.
    - `NoopThreadConfigLoader` preserves existing behavior when no external
    loader is configured.
      - `StaticThreadConfigLoader` supports tests and simple callers.
    
    - Taught thread config sources to produce ordinary `ConfigLayerEntry`
    values so the existing `ConfigLayerStack` remains the place where
    precedence and merging happen.
    
    - Wired the loader through `ConfigBuilder`, the config loader, and
    app-server startup paths so app-server can provide session-owned config
    before deriving a thread config.
    
    - Added coverage for:
      - translating typed thread config into config layers,
    - inserting thread config layers into the stack at the right precedence,
    - applying session-provided model provider and feature settings when
    app-server derives config from thread params.
    
    ## Follow-Ups
    
    This intentionally stops short of adding the remote/service transport.
    The next pieces are expected to be:
    
    1. Define the proto/API shape for this interface.
    2. Add a client implementation that can source session config from the
    service side.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - Added unit coverage in `codex-config` for the loader and layer
    conversion.
    - Added `codex-core` config loader coverage for thread config layer
    precedence.
    - Added app-server coverage that verifies session thread config wins
    over request-provided config for model provider and feature settings.
  • Use in-process app-server for unknown-thread MCP read test (#18196)
    ## Summary
    - Switch the unknown-thread MCP resource read test from the stdio
    subprocess to the in-process app-server path.
    - Keep the assertion focused on the returned error message while
    avoiding child-process teardown timing issues in nextest.
    
    ## Testing
    - Not run (not requested)
  • [mcp] Support MCP Apps part 1. (#16082)
    - [x] Add `mcpResource/read` method to read mcp resource.