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• [codex] allow AGENTS.md and skills to authorize delegation (#30274)

  Prompt update of MAv2 to include agents.md and skills more explicitly
  
  should mimic: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27919

  Charles Du · 2026-06-26 12:17:26 -07:00
  79a8ffdbf7
• [codex] Attribute app-server analytics by thread originator (#29935)

  ## Why
  
  Desktop Work threads and regular Codex threads can share the same
  app-server connection. App-server analytics currently copy
  `product_client_id` from connection metadata for every thread-scoped
  event, so Work thread activity is attributed to the Desktop connection
  instead of the thread's resolved originator. This prevents analytics
  from distinguishing the two products on a shared connection.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Publish the resolved originator after a thread is materialized,
  covering new, resumed, forked, and subagent threads.
  - Store that originator in the analytics reducer's existing per-thread
  state.
  - Override only `app_server_client.product_client_id` for thread, turn,
  tool, review, goal, guardian, and compaction events while preserving the
  connection's client name, version, and transport metadata.
  - Fall back to the connection-wide product client ID when a thread has
  no originator override.
  - Preserve persisted originators in thread initialization analytics for
  resume and fork flows.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `just test -p codex-analytics
  thread_originator_overrides_shared_connection_across_thread_events
  subagent_events_keep_thread_originator_with_explicit_turn_connection`
  - `just test -p codex-app-server
  turn_start_tracks_thread_originator_in_analytics
  thread_start_tracks_thread_initialized_analytics
  thread_fork_tracks_thread_initialized_analytics
  thread_resume_tracks_thread_initialized_analytics`
  - `just test -p codex-core thread_manager`

  alexsong-oai · 2026-06-25 18:15:48 -07:00
  841f30598c
• [codex] Add Ultra reasoning effort (#29899)

  ## Why
  
  Ultra should be one user-facing reasoning selection for work that
  benefits from both maximum reasoning and proactive multi-agent
  delegation. Without it, clients must coordinate maximum reasoning with
  the experimental `multiAgentMode` setting, even though the inference
  backend still expects its existing `max` effort value.
  
  This change makes reasoning effort the source of truth: clients select
  `ultra`, core derives proactive multi-agent behavior when the turn is
  eligible for multi-agent V2, and inference requests continue to use the
  backend-compatible `max` value.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Add `ultra` as a first-class reasoning effort and preserve
  model-catalog ordering when exposing it to clients.
  - Convert `ultra` to `max` at the inference request boundary, including
  Responses HTTP/WebSocket requests, startup prewarm, compaction, and
  memory summarization.
  - Derive effective multi-agent mode per turn from effective reasoning
  effort:
    - eligible multi-agent V2 + `ultra` → `proactive`
    - eligible multi-agent V2 + any other effort → `explicitRequestOnly`
  - V1 or otherwise ineligible sessions → no multi-agent mode instruction
  - Keep the derived effective mode in turn context history so successive
  turns can emit a developer-message update only when the effective mode
  changes.
  - Remove selected multi-agent mode from core session configuration, turn
  construction, thread settings, resume/fork restoration, and subagent
  spawn plumbing. Subagents inherit reasoning effort and derive their own
  effective mode.
  - Retain the experimental app-server `multiAgentMode` fields for wire
  compatibility while marking them deprecated. Request values are accepted
  but ignored; compatibility response fields report `explicitRequestOnly`.
  - Display Ultra in the TUI using the order supplied by `model/list`.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `just test -p codex-core ultra_reasoning_uses_max_for_requests`
  - `just test -p codex-tui model_reasoning_selection_popup`

  Shijie Rao · 2026-06-24 20:13:52 -07:00
  df1199fddb
• test: use automatic environments in app-server integration tests (#29789)

  ## Why
  
  Topology-neutral app-server integration tests should exercise automatic
  environment selection so the same setup covers local and remote
  executors.
  
  ## What
  
  Migrate eligible tests to `TestAppServer::new_with_auto_env()` and
  `send_thread_start_request_with_auto_env()`. Leave explicit-topology
  tests unchanged, and skip the request-permissions case on Windows with a
  TODO for cross-platform tool routing.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `just test -p codex-app-server`
  - `bazel test //codex-rs/app-server:app-server-all-wine-exec-test
  --test_output=errors`
  
  Stacked on #29788.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-23 22:48:06 -07:00
  c2b3e3b4f5
• Namespace multi-agent v2 tools under collaboration (#29067)

  ## Summary
  
  Multi-agent v2 tools now use the fixed `collaboration` namespace when
  namespace tools are available. This keeps the model-visible hint and the
  actual tool surface aligned around `functions.collaboration.*`, without
  exposing an unshipped namespace knob to users.
  
  The PR also removes the old `features.multi_agent_v2.tool_namespace`
  config/schema surface, updates the MAv2 test fixtures for namespaced
  calls, and fixes stale `TurnContext.features` references that were
  breaking `codex-core` builds.
  
  ## Changes
  
  - Expose MAv2 tools under `collaboration` instead of relying on a
  configurable namespace.
  - Remove `tool_namespace` from MAv2 TOML config, resolved config,
  validation, schema, and tests.
  - Update tool-planning and integration fixtures to assert or emit
  namespaced MAv2 tool calls.
  - Read feature state through `TurnContext.config.features` in the
  multi-agent mode context paths.
  
  ## Testing
  
  - `just write-config-schema`
  - `just test -p codex-features`

  jif · 2026-06-23 14:15:20 +02:00
  49614a0391
• [codex] reject remote images at app-server ingress (#29419)

  ## Stack
  
  Stacked on #29417. Review and land that PR first.
  
  ## Summary
  
  - reject HTTP(S) image URLs in the handlers for `turn/start` and
  `turn/steer`
  - validate `thread/inject_items` after its existing
  JSON-to-`ResponseItem` conversion, so each item is deserialized once
  - turn invalid dynamic-tool image responses into the existing
  unsuccessful text fallback; the model receives the validation message as
  the function output
  - leave `thread/resume.history` compatible with legacy history; #29417
  replaces remote images before model input
  - continue accepting inline data URLs and `localImage` inputs
  - keep this policy in app-server; this PR does not add a shared protocol
  API or change core image preparation
  
  ## Test plan
  
  - `just test -p codex-app-server -E
  'test(/request_handlers_reject_remote_image_urls|dynamic_tool_remote_image_response_becomes_model_visible_error|dynamic_tool_call_round_trip_sends_content_items_to_model|turn_start_tracks_turn_event_analytics|standalone_image_edit_uses_recent_pathless_image/)'`
  (5 passed)
  - `just fix -p codex-app-server`
  - `just fmt`

  rka-oai · 2026-06-23 00:43:56 +00:00
  b294638bb5
• Simplify multi-agent mode controls (#29324)

  ## Why
  
  Multi-agent delegation policy was split across `multiAgentMode`,
  `features.multi_agent_mode`, and `usage_hint_enabled`. These controls
  could disagree: a requested mode could be downgraded by the feature
  flag, and disabling usage hints also disabled mode instructions.
  
  Some clients also need multi-agent tools without adding
  delegation-policy text to model context. The previous two-mode API could
  not express that directly.
  
  ## What changed
  
  `multiAgentMode` is now the only live delegation-policy control:
  
  | Mode | Behavior |
  | --- | --- |
  | `none` | Keep multi-agent tools available without adding mode
  instructions. |
  | `explicitRequestOnly` | Only delegate after an explicit user request.
  |
  | `proactive` | Delegate when parallel work materially improves speed or
  quality. |
  
  - new threads default to `explicitRequestOnly`; omitting the mode on
  later turns keeps the current value
  - thread start, resume, fork, and settings responses always report the
  concrete current mode instead of `null`
  - mode selection remains sticky across turns and resume
  - usage-hint text no longer controls whether mode instructions apply
  - `features.multi_agent_mode` and `usage_hint_enabled` remain accepted
  as ignored compatibility settings so existing configs continue to load
  - app-server documentation and generated schemas describe the three-mode
  API
  
  ## Tests
  
  - `just test -p codex-core multi_agent_mode`
  - `just test -p codex-core multi_agent_v2_config_from_feature_table`
  - `just test -p codex-core spawn_agent_description`
  - `just test -p codex-features`
  - `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `just test -p codex-app-server multi_agent_mode`

  jif · 2026-06-22 10:05:36 +02:00
  c03742ca0a
• Expose thread-level multi-agent mode (#28792)

  ## Why
  
  Once multi-agent mode can be selected per turn, clients also need to
  choose the initial selection when creating a thread and observe that
  selection through lifecycle and settings APIs.
  
  The selected value is intentionally distinct from the effective
  model-visible value: no client selection is represented as `null`, even
  though an eligible multi-agent v2 turn derives `explicitRequestOnly` as
  its effective default.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Add the optional experimental `thread/start.multiAgentMode` parameter
  and pass it through thread creation.
  - Preserve an omitted initial value as an unset selection rather than
  eagerly storing `explicitRequestOnly`.
  - Apply an explicit `thread/start` selection to the first turn through
  the session configuration established at thread creation.
  - Restore the latest persisted effective mode as the selected baseline
  on cold resume when rollout history contains one.
  - Inherit the optional selected mode from a loaded parent when creating
  related runtime threads.
  - Return the current selected `multiAgentMode` from `thread/start`,
  `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and thread settings, using `null` when
  no mode is selected.
  - Keep lifecycle reporting independent from model capability and feature
  eligibility; core turn construction remains responsible for calculating
  and persisting the effective mode.
  
  ## Not covered
  
  - Clearing an existing loaded-session selection back to unset through
  `turn/start`; omitted or `null` currently retains the session's
  selection.
  - A TUI control, slash command, or `config.toml` preference.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-app-server multi_agent_mode`
  
  The focused app-server coverage verifies explicit `thread/start`
  initialization, first-turn prompting, nullable reporting for an omitted
  selection, and retention of selections that are not currently
  runtime-eligible.
  
  ## Stack
  
  Stacked on #28685. This PR contains only the thread initialization and
  lifecycle/settings API layer.

  Shijie Rao · 2026-06-19 10:50:44 +02:00
  7abfcf220b
• Add per-turn multi-agent mode (#28685)

  ## Why
  
  Multi-agent v2 currently carries an explicit-request-only delegation
  rule in its static usage hint. That provides a safe default, but it
  prevents clients from selecting proactive delegation per turn without
  changing static guidance or rewriting prior model context.
  
  This change makes delegation mode a session selection that can be
  updated through `turn/start`, while deriving the effective model-visible
  mode separately for each turn. Eligible multi-agent v2 turns remain
  explicit-request-only unless proactive mode is both selected and
  enabled.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Add the experimental `turn/start.multiAgentMode` parameter with
  `explicitRequestOnly` and `proactive` values. Omission retains the
  loaded session's current optional selection.
  - Add the default-off `features.multi_agent_mode` feature gate. Eligible
  multi-agent v2 turns use the selected mode when enabled; an unset
  selection or disabled gate resolves to `explicitRequestOnly`.
  - Treat mode prompting as inapplicable for multi-agent v1 and other
  unsupported session configurations, producing no multi-agent mode
  developer message rather than rejecting the turn.
  - Move the explicit-request-only rule out of the static v2 usage hint
  and into a bounded, tagged developer context fragment.
  - Emit the effective mode in initial context and only when that
  effective mode changes on later turns.
  - Persist the effective mode in `TurnContextItem` as the durable
  baseline for resume and context-update comparisons.
  
  Historical rollout items are not rewritten. Later mode developer
  messages establish the current rule incrementally.
  
  ## Not covered
  
  - Initial selection through `thread/start` and selected-mode reporting
  from thread lifecycle/settings APIs; those are isolated in the stacked
  #28792.
  - A TUI control or slash command for selecting the mode.
  - Persisting a preferred mode to `config.toml`; selection remains
  session/turn scoped.
  - Changes to multi-agent concurrency limits, tool availability, or model
  catalog capability declarations.
  - Rewriting historical rollout prompt items. Cold resume restores the
  latest persisted effective mode when available while leaving historical
  developer messages intact.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-core multi_agent_mode`
  - Focused app-server coverage verifies that `turn/start.multiAgentMode`
  produces proactive developer instructions for an eligible v2 turn.
  
  ## Stack
  
  Followed by #28792, which adds `thread/start` initialization and
  lifecycle/settings observability.

  Shijie Rao · 2026-06-18 22:47:51 -07:00
  fc8c6b7384
• unified-exec: retain PathUri in command events (#28780)

  ## Why
  
  App-server must report command events containing foreign-platform paths
  without changing existing client or rollout path-string formats.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - retain `PathUri` through exec command begin/end events
  - convert cwd values to `LegacyAppPathString` at the app-server
  compatibility boundary
  - drop command actions with foreign paths and log them
  - serialize rollout-trace cwd values using their inferred native path
  representation
  - restore Wine coverage for retained Windows cwd values and successful
  completion

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-18 05:00:04 +00:00
  3931bc2bde
• Scope command approvals by execution environment (#28738)

  ## Why
  
  Command approval cache keys included the command and working directory,
  but not the execution environment. An approval for `/workspace` locally
  could therefore be reused for the same command and path on an executor.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Include the selected environment ID in shell and unified-exec approval
  cache keys.
  - Carry that ID through the normal command approval request so clients
  can show which environment is being approved.
  - Expose the environment through app-server as a required nullable
  `environmentId` and show it in the inline TUI approval prompt.
  - Keep older recorded approval events compatible when the environment is
  absent.
  
  For example, `echo ok` in local `/workspace` and `echo ok` in executor
  `/workspace` now produce different approval keys and separate prompts.
  
  ## Scope
  
  This PR does not change network approvals, Guardian review actions, MCP
  elicitation, full-screen TUI rendering, or environment-ID validation.
  Remote `shell_command` execution itself remains in #28722; this PR only
  makes its approval key environment-aware.

  jif · 2026-06-17 19:52:43 +02:00
  1391d786bc
• app-server: preserve target-native environment cwd (#28146)

  ## Why
  
  app-server may run on a different OS from the selected exec-server
  environment. Parsing that environment’s cwd with the Codex host’s path
  rules prevents thread startup.
  
  ## What
  
  Carry environment cwd values as `LegacyAppPathString` at the app-server
  boundary and `PathUri` internally. Existing tool-call schemas and
  relative-path behavior stay host-native; remaining local-only consumers
  convert explicitly and leave follow-up TODOs.
  
  The Wine integration test verifies app-server can start a thread and
  complete an ordinary turn with a Windows environment cwd from Linux.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `bazel test //codex-rs/core/tests/remote_env_windows:smoke-test
  --test_output=errors`
  - focused app-server environment-selection and protocol schema tests
  - scoped Clippy for `codex-core` and `codex-app-server-protocol`

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-16 21:42:28 +00:00
  f8850cab1d
• [codex] Use expect in integration tests (#28441)

  The workspace denies `clippy::expect_used` in production. Although
  `clippy.toml` allows `expect` in tests, Bazel Clippy compiles
  integration-test helper code in a way that does not receive that
  exemption, which encouraged verbose `unwrap_or_else(... panic!(...))`
  and equivalent `match`/`let else` forms.
  
  This allows `clippy::expect_used` once at each integration-test crate
  root (including aggregated suites and test-support libraries), then
  replaces manual panic-based Result and Option unwraps with
  `expect`/`expect_err`. Standalone `tests/*.rs` files remain their own
  crate roots. Intentional assertion and unexpected-variant panics remain
  unchanged, and the production `expect_used = "deny"` lint remains in
  place.
  
  The cleanup is mechanical and net-negative in line count.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-06-15 21:53:47 -07:00
  e752f7b4ae
• Add app-server thread/delete API (#25018)

  ## Why
  
  Clients can archive and unarchive threads today, but there is no
  app-server API for permanently removing a thread. Deletion also needs to
  cover the full session tree: deleting a main thread should remove
  spawned subagent threads and the related local metadata instead of
  leaving orphaned rollout files, goals, or subagent state behind.
  
  ## What
  
  - Adds the v2 `thread/delete` request and `thread/deleted` notification,
  with the response shape kept consistent with `thread/archive`.
  - Implements local hard delete for active and archived rollout files.
  - Deletes the requested thread's state DB row as the commit point, then
  best-effort cleans associated state including spawned descendants,
  goals, spawn edges, logs, dynamic tools, and agent job assignments.
  - Updates app-server API docs and generated protocol schema/TypeScript
  fixtures.

  Eric Traut · 2026-06-10 11:22:12 -07:00
  a19d43a40a
• [codex] Fix post-merge analytics integration failures (#27285)

  ## Why
  
  Recent merges left `main` with analytics integration build failures.
  Local Cargo runs also made the trimmed-skills test depend on
  developer-installed skills, while Bazel used an isolated home.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Clone `thread_metadata.thread_source` when constructing goal analytics
  event parameters.
  - Group app-server thread extension inputs into
  `ThreadExtensionDependencies`.
  - Isolate the trimmed-skills test home so its exact fixture count is
  stable across Cargo and Bazel.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `cargo check -p codex-analytics`
  - `just test -p codex-analytics` (71 tests)
  - `just test -p codex-app-server` (837 tests; one unrelated zsh-fork
  timeout passed on retry)

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-09 20:52:09 -07:00
  e0cb4ede4e
• app-server: reject direct input to multi-agent v2 sub-agents (#27173)

  ## Why
  
  Multi-agent v2 sub-agents are owned and coordinated by their parent
  agent. Allowing an app-server client to start or steer turns on a
  spawned child bypasses the multi-agent messaging path and creates a
  second, conflicting source of work for that sub-agent.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Reject direct `turn/start` and `turn/steer` requests targeting
  multi-agent v2 thread-spawn sub-agents.
  - Identify these targets using both the thread's resolved multi-agent
  version and its `SubAgentSource::ThreadSpawn` session source, leaving
  root threads, v1 agents, and other sub-agent types unchanged.
  - Return a consistent invalid-request error before validating or
  applying the submitted input.
  
  ## Testing
  
  - Added an app-server integration test that spawns a real multi-agent v2
  child and verifies that direct `turn/start` and `turn/steer` requests
  are rejected.

  jif · 2026-06-09 19:40:40 +02:00
  1026e9de1b
• Make runtime workspace roots absolute in app-server API (#26552)

  Stacked on #26532.
  
  ## Why
  
  #26532 moves cwd normalization to the app-server/core boundary.
  `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` still accepted raw paths in v2 requests and in
  `ConfigOverrides`, which left core responsible for interpreting those
  roots later. This makes runtime workspace roots follow the same
  absolute-path boundary as cwd.
  
  ## What
  
  - Change v2 `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` request fields for `thread/start`,
  `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and `turn/start` to `AbsolutePathBuf`.
  - Deduplicate already-absolute runtime roots in app-server handlers and
  pass them through `ConfigOverrides.workspace_roots` as
  `AbsolutePathBuf`.
  - Update TUI and exec client request builders to pass absolute runtime
  roots directly.
  - Update app-server docs, schema fixtures, and focused tests for
  absolute runtime roots.
  
  ## Testing
  
  - `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `just test -p codex-app-server runtime_workspace_roots`
  - `just test -p codex-core
  session_permission_profile_rebinds_runtime_workspace_roots`
  - `just test -p codex-tui app_server_session`
  - `just test -p codex-exec`

  pakrym-oai · 2026-06-05 11:36:53 -07:00
  76c0a5379c
• [codex] Add turn profiling analytics (#26484)

  ## Summary
  
  Add flat profiling fields to `codex_turn_event` so analytics can explain
  where turn wall-clock time is spent without changing tool execution
  behavior.
  
  The profile reports:
  - time before the first sampling request
  - sampling time across all attempts and follow-ups
  - overhead between sampling requests
  - time blocked in the post-sampling tool drain
  - time after the final sampling request
  - sampling request and retry counts
  
  ## Implementation
  
  - Extend the existing turn timing state with constant-memory phase
  accounting and one RAII phase guard.
  - Observe sampling and the existing post-sampling drain only at turn
  orchestration boundaries.
  - Keep tool runtime, tool futures, response item handling, and turn
  lifecycle values unchanged.
  - Add the profiling fields directly to the existing analytics turn event
  without changing app-server protocol or rollout persistence.
  - Use the existing turn `status` to distinguish completed, failed, and
  interrupted profiles.
  
  Exact sampling/tool overlap is intentionally omitted because measuring
  tool completion accurately would require hooks in the tool execution
  path.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - Add app-server end-to-end coverage for a single-sampling turn with no
  blocking tool work.
  - Add app-server end-to-end coverage for `request_user_input` blocking
  followed by a second sampling request.
  - CI is running on the PR; tests were not executed locally per
  repository guidance.

  Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-06-05 11:27:10 -07:00
  8d72fb6de9
• Populate workspace kind on Codex turn events (#25135)

  ## Summary
  - carry `workspace_kind` from Responses API client metadata into the
  turn resolved analytics fact
  - serialize the optional value on `codex_turn_event`
  - cover both the turn metadata source and turn event serialization
  
  The `workspace_kind` tells us whether a thread had a project attached vs
  projectless. this is an indicator for who is adopting Codex for
  knowledge work outside of coding
  
  ## Testing
  - `env UV_CACHE_DIR=/private/tmp/uv-cache
  /private/tmp/cargo-tools/bin/just fmt`
  - `env PATH=/private/tmp/cargo-tools/bin:$PATH
  CARGO_HOME=/private/tmp/cargo-home UV_CACHE_DIR=/private/tmp/uv-cache
  /private/tmp/cargo-tools/bin/just test -p codex-analytics`
  - `env PATH=/private/tmp/cargo-tools/bin:$PATH
  CARGO_HOME=/private/tmp/cargo-home UV_CACHE_DIR=/private/tmp/uv-cache
  /private/tmp/cargo-tools/bin/just test -p codex-core turn_metadata`
  
  Paired with openai/openai#970661, which keeps forwarding the same
  metadata key through Responses API headers.

  knittel-openai · 2026-06-02 12:46:14 -07:00
  b794182ea7
• 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.)

  Michael Bolin · 2026-06-01 21:49:38 +00:00
  6536841d89
• [codex] Add user input client ids (#24653)

  ## Summary
  
  Adds an optional `clientId` field to app-server v2 `UserInput` and
  carries it through the core `UserInput` model so clients can correlate
  echoed user input items without relying on payload equality.
  
  ## Details
  
  - Adds `client_id: Option<String>` to core `UserInput` variants.
  - Exposes the v2 app-server field as `clientId` on the wire and in
  generated TypeScript.
  - Preserves the id when converting between app-server v2 and core
  protocol types.
  - Regenerates app-server schema fixtures.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `just fmt`
  - `just write-app-server-schema`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
  - `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `just fix -p codex-protocol`
  - `git diff --check`

  Alexi Christakis · 2026-05-28 14:54:39 -07:00
  e92c952b2e
• [codex-analytics] add grouped session id to runtime events (#24655)

  ## Why
  - Runtime analytics events report `thread_id`, which identifies the
  individual thread emitting an event
  - They don't report `session_id`, which identifies the shared session
  for a root thread and its subagent threads
  - Emitting both identifiers allows analytics to group related activity
  
  ## What Changed
  - Adds `session_id` to relevant analytics events (thread_initalized,
  turn, turn_steer, compaction, guardian_review)
  - Tracks each thread's session ID in the analytics reducer so subsequent
  thread scoped events emit the same value
  - Carries the shared session ID through subagent initialization
  
  ## Verification
  - `just test -p codex-analytics` validates event payloads and subagent
  session grouping.
  - Focused `codex-app-server` tests validate session IDs for thread,
  turn, and steer events.
  - Focused `codex-core` tests validate root and subagent session ID
  propagation.

  marksteinbrick-oai · 2026-05-26 16:38:46 -07:00
  487521733b
• Add experimental turn additional context (#24154)

  ## Summary
  
  Adds experimental `additionalContext` support to `turn/start` and
  `turn/steer` so clients can provide ephemeral external context, such as
  browser or automation state, without turning that plumbing into a
  visible user prompt or triggering user-prompt lifecycle behavior.
  
  ## API Shape
  
  The parameter shape is:
  
  ```ts
  additionalContext?: Record<string, {
    value: string
    kind: "untrusted" | "application"
  }> | null
  ```
  
  Example:
  
  ```json
  {
    "additionalContext": {
      "browser_info": {
        "value": "Active tab is CI failures.",
        "kind": "untrusted"
      },
      "automation_info": {
        "value": "CI rerun is in progress.",
        "kind": "application"
      }
    }
  }
  ```
  
  The keys are opaque and caller-defined.
  
  ## Context Injection
  
  When provided, accepted entries are inserted into model context as
  hidden contextual message items, not as visible thread user-message
  items.
  
  `kind: "untrusted"` entries are inserted with role `user`:
  
  ```text
  <external_${key}>${value}</external_${key}>
  ```
  
  `kind: "application"` entries are inserted with role `developer`:
  
  ```text
  <${key}>${value}</${key}>
  ```
  
  Values are not escaped. Each value is truncated to 1k approximate tokens
  before wrapping.
  
  For `turn/start`, accepted additional context is inserted before normal
  user input. For `turn/steer`, additional context is merged only when the
  steer includes non-empty user input; context-only steers still reject as
  empty input.
  
  ## Dedupe Strategy
  
  `AdditionalContextStore` lives on session state and stores the latest
  complete additional-context map.
  
  Each `turn/start` or non-empty `turn/steer` treats its
  `additionalContext` as the current complete set of values. Entries are
  injected only when the key is new or the exact entry for that key
  changed, including `value` or `kind`. After merging, the store is
  replaced with the provided map, so omitted keys are removed from the
  retained set and can be injected again later if reintroduced.
  
  Omitting `additionalContext`, passing `null`, or passing an empty object
  resets the store to empty and injects nothing.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Threads experimental v2 `additionalContext` through app-server into
  core turn start and steer handling.
  - Adds separate contextual fragment types for untrusted user-role
  context and application developer-role context.
  - Uses pending response input items so additional context can be
  combined with normal user input without treating it as prompt text.
  - Adds integration coverage for start/steer flow, role routing,
  dedupe/reset behavior, deletion/re-add behavior, hook-blocked input
  behavior, empty context-only steer rejection, external-fragment marker
  matching, and truncation.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-26 13:02:34 -07:00
  768848ab6f
• [codex] Reject read-only fallback with approvals disabled (#23774)

  ## Why
  
  If a user configures `approval_policy = "never"` with `sandbox_mode =
  "danger-full-access"`, managed requirements can reject full access and
  force the existing permission fallback to read-only. That leaves Codex
  in a dead-end session: writes are blocked by the sandbox, while
  approvals are disabled so the session cannot ask to proceed.
  
  This PR rejects that constrained configuration during startup instead of
  letting the TUI enter a read-only session that cannot make progress. The
  rejection is attached to the requirement-constrained permission path in
  [`Config`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/39f0abc0a7c0ed0e348a6843e9f0c7b76e2400bc/codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs#L3301-L3318).
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Reject the `danger-full-access` to read-only managed-requirements
  fallback when the effective approval policy is `never`.
  - Explain in the startup config error why the fallback is invalid and
  how to fix it.
  - Add a regression test for the managed requirements path.

  viyatb-oai · 2026-05-20 17:17:59 -07:00
  a27d3847b5
• chore: namespace v1 sub-agent tools (#23475)

  ## Why
  
  The v1 sub-agent tools are a single tool family, but they were exposed
  as separate flat function tools. This makes the model-visible surface
  less clearly grouped and leaves the legacy names in the same flat
  namespace as newer agent tooling.
  
  ## What
  
  - Wraps the v1 `spawn_agent`, `send_input`, `resume_agent`,
  `wait_agent`, and `close_agent` specs in the `multi_agent_v1` namespace.
  - Registers the corresponding handlers with namespaced runtime tool
  names.
  - Updates tool-planning, deferred tool search, and sub-agent
  notification tests to assert the namespace shape and child `spawn_agent`
  lookup.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - Updated `codex-core` coverage for the v1 multi-agent tool plan,
  deferred tool search output, and sub-agent tool descriptions.

  jif-oai · 2026-05-19 19:46:17 +02:00
  05b8ce4354
• [codex] Allow empty turn/start requests (#23409)

  ## Why
  
  `turn/start` already accepts an input array on the wire, including an
  empty array, but core treated empty input as a no-op before the turn
  could reach the model. App-server clients need to be able to start a
  real turn even when there is no new user message, for example to let the
  model proceed from existing thread context.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Removed the `run_turn` early return that skipped empty-input turns
  when there was no pending input.
  - Kept empty active-turn steering rejected by moving the `steer_input`
  empty-input check until after core has determined whether there is an
  active regular turn.
  - Empty regular turns now refresh `previous_turn_settings` like other
  regular turns, so follow-up context injection state advances
  consistently.
  - Added an app-server v2 integration test proving `turn/start` with
  `input: []` emits started/completed notifications, sends one Responses
  request, and does not synthesize an empty user message.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
  turn_start_with_empty_input_runs_model_request`

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-19 08:39:45 -07:00
  ef24ef127f
• [1 of 7] Add thread settings to UserInput (#23080)

  **Stack position:** [1 of 7]
  
  ## Summary
  
  The first three PRs in this stack are a cleanup pass before the actual
  thread settings API work.
  
  Today, core has several overlapping "user input" ops: `UserInput`,
  `UserInputWithTurnContext`, and `UserTurn`. They differ mostly in how
  much next-turn state they carry, which makes the later queued thread
  settings update harder to reason about and review.
  
  This PR starts that cleanup by adding the shared
  `ThreadSettingsOverrides` payload and allowing `Op::UserInput` to carry
  it. Existing variants remain in place here, so this layer is mostly a
  behavior-preserving API shape change plus mechanical constructor
  updates.
  
  ## End State After PR3
  
  By the end of PR3, `Op::UserInput` is the only "user input" core op. It
  can carry optional thread settings overrides for callers that need to
  update stored defaults with a turn, while callers without updates use
  empty settings. `Op::UserInputWithTurnContext` and `Op::UserTurn` are
  deleted.
  
  ## End State After PR5
  
  By the end of PR5, core will have only two ops for this area:
  
  - `Op::UserInput` for user-input-bearing submissions.
  - `Op::ThreadSettings` for settings-only updates.
  
  ## Stack
  
  1. [1 of 7] [Add thread settings to
  UserInput](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23080) (this PR)
  2. [2 of 7] [Remove
  UserInputWithTurnContext](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23081)
  3. [3 of 7] [Remove
  UserTurn](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23075)
  4. [4 of 7] [Placeholder for OverrideTurnContext
  cleanup](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23087)
  5. [5 of 7] [Replace OverrideTurnContext with
  ThreadSettings](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22508)
  6. [6 of 7] [Add app-server thread settings
  API](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22509)
  7. [7 of 7] [Sync TUI thread
  settings](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22510)

  Eric Traut · 2026-05-18 18:48:35 -07:00
  84d941d07f
• app-server: use profile ids in v2 permission params (#23360)

  ## Why
  
  The v2 app-server permission profile fields are experimental, but the
  previous migration kept a legacy object payload for profile selection.
  That made clients aware of server-owned `activePermissionProfile`
  metadata such as `extends`, and it kept a
  `legacy_additional_writable_roots` path even though
  `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` now owns runtime workspace-root selection.
  
  This PR makes the client contract match the intended model: clients
  select a permission profile by id, and the server resolves and reports
  active profile provenance in response payloads.
  
  Follow-up to #22611.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Changed `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and
  `turn/start` permission profile selection to plain profile id strings.
  - Changed `command/exec.permissionProfile` to a plain profile id string
  for the same client/server ownership split.
  - Removed `PermissionProfileSelectionParams` and the legacy `{ type:
  "profile", modifications: [...] }` compatibility deserializer.
  - Updated app-server, TUI, and `codex exec` call sites to send only ids,
  while keeping `activePermissionProfile` as server response metadata.
  - Updated app-server docs and schema fixtures for the revised
  `command/exec.permissionProfile` shape.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-app-server`
  - `cargo test -p codex-exec`
  - `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-tui`
  
  ---
  [//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
  Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
  with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/23360).
  * #23368
  * __->__ #23360

  Michael Bolin · 2026-05-18 17:28:50 -07:00
  3fd79b7986
• Preserve image detail in app-server inputs (#20693)

  ## Summary
  
  - Add optional image detail to user image inputs across core, app-server
  v2, thread history/event mapping, and the generated app-server
  schemas/types.
  - Preserve requested detail when serializing Responses image inputs:
  omitted detail stays on the existing `high` default, while explicit
  `original` keeps local images on the original-resolution path.
  - Support `high`/`original` consistently for tool image outputs,
  including MCP `codex/imageDetail`, code-mode image helpers, and
  `view_image`.

  Curtis 'Fjord' Hawthorne · 2026-05-15 15:04:04 -07:00
  8543e39885
• app-server: use permission ids and runtime workspace roots (#22611)

  ## Why
  
  This PR builds on [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610)
  and is the app-server side of the migration from mutable per-turn
  `SandboxPolicy` replacement toward selecting immutable permission
  profiles by id plus mutable runtime workspace roots.
  
  Once permission profiles can carry their own immutable
  `workspace_roots`, app-server no longer needs to mutate the selected
  `PermissionProfile` just to represent thread-specific filesystem
  context. The mutable part now lives on the thread as explicit
  `runtimeWorkspaceRoots`, while `:workspace_roots` remains symbolic until
  the sandbox is realized for a turn.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Replaced the v2 permission-selection wrapper surface with plain
  profile ids for `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and
  `turn/start`.
  - Removed the API surface for profile modifications
  (`PermissionProfileSelectionParams`,
  `PermissionProfileModificationParams`,
  `ActivePermissionProfileModification`).
  - Added experimental `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` fields to the thread
  lifecycle and turn-start APIs.
  - Threaded runtime workspace roots through core session/thread
  snapshots, turn overrides, app-server request handling, and command
  execution permission resolution.
  - Kept session permission state symbolic so later runtime root updates
  and cwd-only implicit-root retargeting rebind `:workspace_roots`
  correctly.
  - Updated the embedded clients just enough to send and restore the new
  thread state.
  - Refreshed the generated schema/TypeScript artifacts and the app-server
  README to match the new contract.
  
  ## Verification
  
  Targeted coverage for this layer lives in:
  
  - `codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/tests.rs`
  - `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_start.rs`
  - `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_resume.rs`
  - `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/turn_start.rs`
  - `codex-rs/core/src/session/tests.rs`
  
  The key regression checks exercise that:
  
  - `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` resolve against the effective cwd on thread
  start.
  - Profile-declared workspace roots are excluded from the runtime
  workspace roots returned by app-server.
  - A turn-level runtime workspace-root update persists onto the thread
  and is returned by `thread/resume`.
  - A named permission profile selected on one turn remains symbolic so a
  later runtime-root-only turn update changes the actual sandbox writes.
  - A cwd-only turn update retargets the implicit runtime cwd root while
  preserving additional runtime roots.
  - The protocol fixtures and generated client artifacts stay in sync with
  the string-based permission selection contract.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ---
  [//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
  Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
  with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/22611).
  * #22612
  * __->__ #22611

  Michael Bolin · 2026-05-14 23:00:05 -07:00
  8a5306ff88
• chore(features) rm Feature::ApplyPatchFreeform (#22711)

  ## Summary
  Removes the feature since this is effectively on by default in all cases
  where we should use it, or can be configured via models.json.
  
  ## Testing
  - [x] unit tests pass

  Dylan Hurd · 2026-05-14 16:15:56 -07:00
  51b0e94105
• tests: avoid ambient temp sandbox roots (#22576)

  ## Why
  Some sandboxed integration tests enabled both ambient temp roots
  (`TMPDIR` and literal `/tmp`) even though they were not testing
  temp-root behavior. On Linux bwrap, making `/tmp` writable causes
  protected metadata mount targets such as `/tmp/.git`, `/tmp/.agents`,
  and `/tmp/.codex` to be synthesized. If a run is interrupted, those
  top-level markers can be left behind and contaminate later tests.
  
  ## What changed
  For the incidental integration tests that do not need ambient temp-root
  access, set `exclude_tmpdir_env_var` and `exclude_slash_tmp` to `true`.
  Dedicated protected-metadata coverage remains in the lower-level sandbox
  tests that use isolated temp roots.
  
  ## Verification
  Focused remote devbox repros passed with a watcher polling `/tmp/.git`,
  `/tmp/.agents`, and `/tmp/.codex`; no leaked markers were observed.

  starr-openai · 2026-05-14 10:04:24 -07:00
  8736e32657
• permissions: canonicalize workspace_roots and danger-full-access names (#22624)

  ## Why
  
  This is a small precursor to the larger permissions-migration work. Both
  the comparison stack in
  [#22401](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22401) /
  [#22402](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22402) and the alternate
  stack in [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610) /
  [#22611](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22611) /
  [#22612](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22612) are easier to
  review if the terminology is already settled underneath them.
  
  Because `:project_roots` and `:danger-no-sandbox` have not shipped as
  stable user-facing surface area, carrying them forward as aliases would
  just add more migration logic to the later stacks. This PR removes that
  ambiguity now so the follow-on work can rely on one spelling for each
  built-in concept.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - renamed the config-facing special filesystem key from `:project_roots`
  to `:workspace_roots`
  - dropped unpublished `:project_roots` parsing support in
  `core/src/config/permissions.rs`, so new config only recognizes
  `:workspace_roots`
  - renamed the built-in full-access permission profile id from
  `:danger-no-sandbox` to `:danger-full-access`
  - dropped unpublished `:danger-no-sandbox` support entirely, including
  the old active-profile canonicalization path, and added explicit
  rejection coverage for the legacy id
  - introduced shared built-in permission-profile id constants in
  `codex-rs/protocol/src/models.rs`
  - updated `core`, `app-server`, and `tui` call sites that special-case
  built-in profiles to use the shared constants and canonical ids
  - updated tests and the Linux sandbox README to use `:workspace_roots` /
  `:danger-full-access`
  
  ## Verification
  
  I focused verification on the three places this rename can regress:
  config parsing, active-profile identity surfaced back out of `core`, and
  user/server call sites that special-case built-in profiles.
  
  Targeted checks:
  
  -
  `config::tests::default_permissions_can_select_builtin_profile_without_permissions_table`
  -
  `config::tests::default_permissions_read_only_applies_additional_writable_roots_as_modifications`
  -
  `config::tests::default_permissions_can_select_builtin_full_access_profile`
  - `config::tests::legacy_danger_no_sandbox_is_rejected`
  - `workspace_root` filtered `codex-core` tests
  -
  `request_processors::thread_processor::thread_processor_tests::thread_processor_behavior_tests::requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
  -
  `suite::v2::turn_start::turn_start_rejects_invalid_permission_selection_before_starting_turn`
  - `status::tests::status_snapshot_shows_auto_review_permissions`
  -
  `status::tests::status_permissions_full_disk_managed_with_network_is_danger_full_access`
  -
  `app_server_session::tests::embedded_turn_permissions_use_active_profile_selection`

  Michael Bolin · 2026-05-14 08:45:54 -07:00
  01d93fd9fc
• Make environment provider snapshots path-free (#21794)

  ## Summary
  - make EnvironmentProvider::snapshot path-free and keep providers
  focused on provider-owned remote environments
  - let provider snapshots request local inclusion via include_local, with
  environments.toml including local and CODEX_EXEC_SERVER_URL excluding
  local
  - move reserved local environment construction into EnvironmentManager
  using ExecServerRuntimePaths
  
  Follow-up to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20667
  
  ## Testing
  - just fmt
  - git diff --check
  - devbox: bazel build --bes_backend= --bes_results_url=
  //codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server
  - devbox: bazel test --bes_backend= --bes_results_url=
  //codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-unit-tests
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  starr-openai · 2026-05-08 15:30:00 -07:00
  dac108f2f1
• [codex] Generalize service tier slash commands (#21745)

  ## Why
  
  `/fast` was wired as a one-off slash command even though model metadata
  now exposes service tiers as catalog data. That meant adding another
  tier, such as a slower/cheaper tier, would require more hardcoded TUI
  plumbing instead of letting the model catalog drive the available
  commands.
  
  This change makes service-tier commands data-driven: each advertised
  `service_tiers` entry becomes a `/name` command using the catalog
  description, while the request path sends the tier `id` only when the
  selected model supports it.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Removed the hardcoded `/fast` slash-command variant and introduced
  dynamic service-tier command items in the composer and command popup.
  - Added toggle behavior for service-tier commands: invoking `/name`
  selects that tier, and invoking it again clears the selection.
  - Preserved the existing Fast-mode keybinding/status affordances by
  resolving the current model tier whose name is `fast`, while still
  sending the tier request value such as `priority`.
  - Persisted service-tier selections as raw request strings so non-fast
  tiers can round-trip through config.
  - Updated the Bedrock catalog entry to advertise fast support through
  `service_tiers` with `id: "priority"` and `name: "fast"`.
  - Added defensive filtering in core so unsupported selected service
  tiers are omitted from `/responses` requests.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - Added/updated coverage for dynamic service-tier slash command lookup,
  popup descriptions, composer dispatch, TUI fast toggling, and
  unsupported-tier omission in core request construction.
  - Local tests were not run per request.
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-05-08 20:09:51 +03:00
  7c0e54bf59
• 2- Use string service tiers in session protocol (#20971)

  ## Summary
  - break service tier session/op/app-server protocol fields from the
  closed enum to string tier ids
  - send the service tier string directly through model requests, prewarm,
  compaction, memories, and TUI/app-server turn starts
  - regenerate app-server protocol JSON/TypeScript schemas, removing the
  standalone ServiceTier TS enum
  
  ## Verification
  - just fmt
  - cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-tui
  - just write-app-server-schema
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-05-06 18:00:21 +03:00
  be1d3cff93
• [codex-analytics] rework thread_source for thread analytics (#20949)

  ## Summary
  - make `thread_source` an explicit optional thread-level field on
  `thread/start`, `thread/fork`, and returned thread payloads
  - persist `thread_source` in rollout/session metadata so resumed live
  threads retain the original value
  - replace the old best-effort `session_source` -> `thread_source`
  mapping with an explicit caller-supplied analytics classification
  
  ## Why
  Before this change, analytics `thread_source` was populated by a
  best-effort mapping from `session_source`. `session_source` describes
  the runtime/client surface, not the actual thread-level origin, so that
  projection was not accurate enough to distinguish cases such as `user`,
  `subagent`, `memory_consolidation`, and future thread origins reliably.
  
  Making `thread_source` explicit keeps one thread-level analytics field
  while letting callers provide the real classification directly instead
  of recovering it indirectly from `session_source`.
  
  ## Impact
  For new analytics events, `thread_source` now reflects the explicit
  thread-level classification supplied by the caller rather than an
  inferred value derived from `session_source`. Existing protocol fields
  remain optional; callers that omit `threadSource` now produce `null`
  instead of a best-effort inferred value.
  
  ## Validation
  - `just write-app-server-schema`
  - `cargo test -p codex-analytics -p codex-core -p
  codex-app-server-protocol --no-run`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
  generated_ts_optional_nullable_fields_only_in_params`
  - `cargo test -p codex-analytics
  thread_initialized_event_serializes_expected_shape`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core
  resume_stopped_thread_from_rollout_preserves_thread_source`

  rhan-oai · 2026-05-06 02:12:31 +00:00
  b3d4f1a9f0
• add turn items view to app-server turns (#21063)

  ## Why
  
  `Turn.items` currently overloads an empty array to mean either that no
  items exist or that the server intentionally did not load them for this
  response. That ambiguity blocks future lazy-loading work where clients
  need to distinguish unloaded, summary, and fully hydrated turn payloads.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - add a new `TurnItemsView` enum with `notLoaded`, `summary`, and `full`
  variants
  - add required `itemsView` metadata to app-server `Turn` payloads
  - mark reconstructed persisted history as `full` and live shell-style
  turn payloads as `notLoaded`
  - keep current `thread/turns/list` behavior unchanged and document that
  it still returns `full` turns today
  - regenerate the JSON and TypeScript protocol fixtures
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `just write-app-server-schema`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_read_can_include_turns`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server
  thread_turns_list_can_page_backward_and_forward`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server
  thread_resume_rejects_history_when_thread_is_running`
  - `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `just fix -p codex-app-server`
  - `just fmt`

  rhan-oai · 2026-05-05 19:17:16 +00:00
  9e0c191c13
• Stop emitting item/fileChange/outputDelta output delta notifications (#20471)

  ## Why
  
  `item/fileChange/outputDelta` text output was only the tool's summary or
  error text and not used by client surfaces.
  
  We keep `item/fileChange/outputDelta` in the app-server protocol as a
  deprecated compatibility entry, but the server no longer emits it.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - stop the `apply_patch` runtime from emitting `ExecCommandOutputDelta`
  events
  - simplify `item_event_to_server_notification` so command output deltas
  always map to `item/commandExecution/outputDelta`
  - remove the app-server bookkeeping that tried to detect whether an
  output delta belonged to a file change
  - mark `item/fileChange/outputDelta` as a deprecated legacy protocol
  entry in the v2 types, schema, and README
  - simplify the file-change approval tests so they only wait for
  completion instead of expecting output-delta notifications
  
  ## Testing
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `cargo test -p codex-thread-manager-sample`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
  protocol::event_mapping::tests::exec_command_output_delta_maps_to_command_execution_output_delta
  -- --exact`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server
  turn_start_file_change_approval_accept_for_session_persists_v2 --
  --exact` *(failed before the test assertions because the wiremock
  `/responses` mock received 0 requests in setup)*

  pakrym-oai · 2026-04-30 11:42:07 -07:00
  b52083146c
• permissions: expose active profile metadata (#20095)
  Michael Bolin · 2026-04-29 20:54:59 -07:00
  ac4332c05b
• Reduce the surface of collaboration modes (#20149)

  Collaboration modes were slightly invasive both into ThreadManager
  construction and ModelProvider

  pakrym-oai · 2026-04-29 17:22:41 -07:00
  fedcefe9da
• Soften skill description budget warnings (#20112)

  Updates skill description budget messaging to be less alarming

  xl-openai · 2026-04-28 19:56:25 -07:00
  6f328d5e02
• [codex-analytics] remove ga flag (#19863)
  rhan-oai · 2026-04-27 19:29:19 +00:00
  215d5a8f7c
• permissions: make runtime config profile-backed (#19606)

  ## Why
  
  This supersedes #19391. During stack repair, GitHub marked #19391 as
  merged into a temporary stack branch rather than into `main`, so the
  runtime-config change needed a fresh PR.
  
  `PermissionProfile` is now the canonical permissions shape after #19231
  because it can distinguish `Managed`, `Disabled`, and `External`
  enforcement while also carrying filesystem rules that legacy
  `SandboxPolicy` cannot represent cleanly. Core config and session state
  still needed to accept profile-backed permissions without forcing every
  profile through the strict legacy bridge, which rejected valid runtime
  profiles such as direct write roots.
  
  The unrelated CI/test hardening that previously rode along with this PR
  has been split into #19683 so this PR stays focused on the permissions
  model migration.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Adds `Permissions.permission_profile` and
  `SessionConfiguration.permission_profile` as constrained runtime state,
  while keeping `sandbox_policy` as a legacy compatibility projection.
  - Introduces profile setters that keep `PermissionProfile`, split
  filesystem/network policies, and legacy `SandboxPolicy` projections
  synchronized.
  - Uses a compatibility projection for requirement checks and legacy
  consumers instead of rejecting profiles that cannot round-trip through
  `SandboxPolicy` exactly.
  - Updates config loading, config overrides, session updates, turn
  context plumbing, prompt permission text, sandbox tags, and exec request
  construction to carry profile-backed runtime permissions.
  - Preserves configured deny-read entries and `glob_scan_max_depth` when
  command/session profiles are narrowed.
  - Adds `PermissionProfile::read_only()` and
  `PermissionProfile::workspace_write()` presets that match legacy
  defaults.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-core direct_write_roots`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core runtime_roots_to_legacy_projection`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server
  requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
  
  
  
  
  ---
  [//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
  Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
  with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/19606).
  * #19395
  * #19394
  * #19393
  * #19392
  * __->__ #19606

  Michael Bolin · 2026-04-26 13:29:54 -07:00
  4d7ce3447d
• permissions: remove legacy read-only access modes (#19449)

  ## Why
  
  `ReadOnlyAccess` was a transitional legacy shape on `SandboxPolicy`:
  `FullAccess` meant the historical read-only/workspace-write modes could
  read the full filesystem, while `Restricted` tried to carry partial
  readable roots. The partial-read model now belongs in
  `FileSystemSandboxPolicy` and `PermissionProfile`, so keeping it on
  `SandboxPolicy` makes every legacy projection reintroduce lossy
  read-root bookkeeping and creates unnecessary noise in the rest of the
  permissions migration.
  
  This PR makes the legacy policy model narrower and explicit:
  `SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` and `SandboxPolicy::WorkspaceWrite` represent
  the old full-read sandbox modes only. Split readable roots, deny-read
  globs, and platform-default/minimal read behavior stay in the runtime
  permissions model.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Removes `ReadOnlyAccess` from
  `codex_protocol::protocol::SandboxPolicy`, including the generated
  `access` and `readOnlyAccess` API fields.
  - Updates legacy policy/profile conversions so restricted filesystem
  reads are represented only by `FileSystemSandboxPolicy` /
  `PermissionProfile` entries.
  - Keeps app-server v2 compatible with legacy `fullAccess` read-access
  payloads by accepting and ignoring that no-op shape, while rejecting
  legacy `restricted` read-access payloads instead of silently widening
  them to full-read legacy policies.
  - Carries Windows sandbox platform-default read behavior with an
  explicit override flag instead of depending on
  `ReadOnlyAccess::Restricted`.
  - Refreshes generated app-server schema/types and updates tests/docs for
  the simplified legacy policy shape.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo check -p codex-app-server-protocol --tests`
  - `cargo check -p codex-windows-sandbox --tests`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol sandbox_policy_`
  
  
  ---
  [//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
  Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
  with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/19449).
  * #19395
  * #19394
  * #19393
  * #19392
  * #19391
  * __->__ #19449

  Michael Bolin · 2026-04-24 17:16:58 -07:00
  789f387982
• permissions: make profiles represent enforcement (#19231)

  ## Why
  
  `PermissionProfile` is becoming the canonical permissions abstraction,
  but the old shape only carried optional filesystem and network fields.
  It could describe allowed access, but not who is responsible for
  enforcing it. That made `DangerFullAccess` and `ExternalSandbox` lossy
  when profiles were exported, cached, or round-tripped through app-server
  APIs.
  
  The important model change is that active permissions are now a disjoint
  union over the enforcement mode. Conceptually:
  
  ```rust
  pub enum PermissionProfile {
      Managed {
          file_system: FileSystemSandboxPolicy,
          network: NetworkSandboxPolicy,
      },
      Disabled,
      External {
          network: NetworkSandboxPolicy,
      },
  }
  ```
  
  This distinction matters because `Disabled` means Codex should apply no
  outer sandbox at all, while `External` means filesystem isolation is
  owned by an outside caller. Those are not equivalent to a broad managed
  sandbox. For example, macOS cannot nest Seatbelt inside Seatbelt, so an
  inner sandbox may require the outer Codex layer to use no sandbox rather
  than a permissive one.
  
  ## How Existing Modeling Maps
  
  Legacy `SandboxPolicy` remains a boundary projection, but it now maps
  into the higher-fidelity profile model:
  
  - `ReadOnly` and `WorkspaceWrite` map to `PermissionProfile::Managed`
  with restricted filesystem entries plus the corresponding network
  policy.
  - `DangerFullAccess` maps to `PermissionProfile::Disabled`, preserving
  the “no outer sandbox” intent instead of treating it as a lax managed
  sandbox.
  - `ExternalSandbox { network_access }` maps to
  `PermissionProfile::External { network }`, preserving external
  filesystem enforcement while still carrying the active network policy.
  - Split runtime policies that legacy `SandboxPolicy` cannot faithfully
  express, such as managed unrestricted filesystem plus restricted
  network, stay `Managed` instead of being collapsed into
  `ExternalSandbox`.
  - Per-command/session/turn grants remain partial overlays via
  `AdditionalPermissionProfile`; full `PermissionProfile` is reserved for
  complete active runtime permissions.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Change active `PermissionProfile` into a tagged union: `managed`,
  `disabled`, and `external`.
  - Keep partial permission grants separate with
  `AdditionalPermissionProfile` for command/session/turn overlays.
  - Represent managed filesystem permissions as either `restricted`
  entries or `unrestricted`; `glob_scan_max_depth` is non-zero when
  present.
  - Preserve old rollout compatibility by accepting the pre-tagged `{
  network, file_system }` profile shape during deserialization.
  - Preserve fidelity for important edge cases: `DangerFullAccess`
  round-trips as `disabled`, `ExternalSandbox` round-trips as `external`,
  and managed unrestricted filesystem + restricted network stays managed
  instead of being mistaken for external enforcement.
  - Preserve configured deny-read entries and bounded glob scan depth when
  full profiles are projected back into runtime policies, including
  unrestricted replacements that now become `:root = write` plus deny
  entries.
  - Regenerate the experimental app-server v2 JSON/TypeScript schema and
  update the `command/exec` README example for the tagged
  `permissionProfile` shape.
  
  ## Compatibility
  
  Legacy `SandboxPolicy` remains available at config/API boundaries as the
  compatibility projection. Existing rollout lines with the old
  `PermissionProfile` shape continue to load. The app-server
  `permissionProfile` field is experimental, so its v2 wire shape is
  intentionally updated to match the higher-fidelity model.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `just write-app-server-schema`
  - `cargo check --tests`
  - `cargo test -p codex-protocol permission_profile`
  - `cargo test -p codex-protocol
  preserving_deny_entries_keeps_unrestricted_policy_enforceable`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
  permission_profile_file_system_permissions`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol serialize_client_response`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core
  session_configured_reports_permission_profile_for_external_sandbox`
  - `just fix`
  - `just fix -p codex-protocol`
  - `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`
  - `just fix -p codex-app-server`

  Michael Bolin · 2026-04-23 23:02:18 -07:00
  4816b89204
• Add sticky environment API and thread state (#18897)

  ## Summary
  - add sticky environment selections to app-server v2 thread/start and
  turn/start request flow
  - carry thread-level selections through core session/thread state
  - add app-server coverage for sticky selections and turn overrides
  
  ## Stack
  1. This PR: API and thread persistence
  2. #18898: config.toml named environment loading
  3. #18899: downstream tool/runtime consumers
  
  ## Validation
  - Not run locally; split only.
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  starr-openai · 2026-04-23 18:57:13 -07:00
  49fb25997f
• app-server: accept permission profile overrides (#18279)

  ## Why
  
  `PermissionProfile` is becoming the canonical permissions shape shared
  by core and app-server. After app-server responses expose the active
  profile, clients need to be able to send that same shape back when
  starting, resuming, forking, or overriding a turn instead of translating
  through the legacy `sandbox`/`sandboxPolicy` shorthands.
  
  This still needs to preserve the existing requirements/platform
  enforcement model. A profile-shaped request can be downgraded or
  rejected by constraints, but the server should keep the user's
  elevated-access intent for project trust decisions. Turn-level profile
  overrides also need to retain existing read protections, including
  deny-read entries and bounded glob-scan metadata, so a permission
  override cannot accidentally drop configured protections such as
  `**/*.env = deny`.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Adds optional `permissionProfile` request fields to `thread/start`,
  `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and `turn/start`.
  - Rejects ambiguous requests that specify both `permissionProfile` and
  the legacy `sandbox`/`sandboxPolicy` fields, including running-thread
  resume requests.
  - Converts profile-shaped overrides into core runtime filesystem/network
  permissions while continuing to derive the constrained legacy sandbox
  projection used by existing execution paths.
  - Preserves project-trust intent for profile overrides that are
  equivalent to workspace-write or full-access sandbox requests.
  - Preserves existing deny-read entries and `globScanMaxDepth` when
  applying turn-level `permissionProfile` overrides.
  - Updates app-server docs plus generated JSON/TypeScript schema fixtures
  and regression coverage.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol schema_fixtures`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core
  session_configuration_apply_permission_profile_preserves_existing_deny_read_entries`
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ---
  [//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
  Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
  with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/18279).
  * #18288
  * #18287
  * #18286
  * #18285
  * #18284
  * #18283
  * #18282
  * #18281
  * #18280
  * __->__ #18279

  Michael Bolin · 2026-04-22 13:34:33 -07:00
  18a26d7bbc
• feat: Fairly trim skill descriptions within context budget (#18925)

  Preserve skill name/path entries whenever possible and trim descriptions
  first, using round-robin character allocation so short descriptions do
  not waste budget.

  xl-openai · 2026-04-22 12:33:29 -07:00
  b77791c228
• Add turn-scoped environment selections (#18416)

  ## Summary
  - add experimental turn/start.environments params for per-turn
  environment id + cwd selections
  - pass selections through core protocol ops and resolve them with
  EnvironmentManager before TurnContext creation
  - treat omitted selections as default behavior, empty selections as no
  environment, and non-empty selections as first environment/cwd as the
  turn primary
  
  ## Testing
  - ran `just fmt`
  - ran `just write-app-server-schema`
  - not run: unit tests for this stacked PR
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  starr-openai · 2026-04-21 17:48:33 -07:00
  1d4cc494c9