codex

feat(core): store turn_id on ResponseItem metadata (#28360 )

## Description

This PR is a followup to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28355 and
starts assigning `internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough.turn_id` to
durable Responses API items created during a turn.

The goal is that those items keep the `turn_id` that introduced them
when Codex resends stateless HTTP context, reconstructs history for
resume/fork paths, or reuses websocket response state.

## What changed

- Set `internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough.turn_id` when missing
as response items enter durable history, initial/replacement history,
inter-agent communication history, and local compaction summaries.
- Preserve existing item turn IDs instead of overwriting them during
persistence, resume reconstruction, compaction, forked history, and
websocket incremental reuse.
- Keep `compaction_trigger` fieldless because it is a request control,
not a durable response item.
- Update focused history/request assertions and fixtures for stateless
requests, websocket incrementals, compaction, thread injection, prompt
debug, and related CI coverage.

Owen Lin · 2026-06-22 16:45:14 -07:00

4a82ecc3c9

core: rename metadata -> internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough (#28968 )

## Description
This PR cuts Codex over from generic `ResponseItem.metadata` (introduced
here: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28355) to
`ResponseItem.internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough`, which is the
blessed path and has strongly-typed keys.

For now we have to drop this MAv2 usage of `metadata`:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28561 until we figure out where
that should live.

Owen Lin · 2026-06-22 11:11:25 -07:00

5b95745eae

remove flag for image preparation (#29429 )

## What

- make Fjord's centralized response-item image preparation unconditional
for new and resumed history
- have local user images and `view_image` outputs always defer decoding
and resizing to that path
- retain `resize_all_images` as an ignored, removed compatibility key
for released clients
- delete the flag-off producer paths and obsolete policy-specific tests

## Why

Centralized preparation is now the intended image path. Keeping the
runtime feature checks also kept two image-processing implementations
alive and allowed client config to select the legacy behavior.

This is a clean replacement for #28975, rebuilt from the latest `main`.

## How

`prepare_response_items` now runs whenever items enter history and
whenever persisted history is reconstructed. Producers emit deferred
image data, so malformed images become the existing model-visible
placeholder instead of failing the session at the producer.

## Test plan

- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-features`
- `just test -p codex-features` — 52 passed
- focused affected `codex-core` set — 20 passed
- `just test -p codex-core handle_accepts_explicit_high_detail` — 1
passed
- full `just test -p codex-core` attempt — 2,723 passed; 88 unrelated
environment failures from read-only `~/.codex` SQLite state and
unavailable integration helper binaries

rka-oai · 2026-06-22 10:05:11 -07:00

e79d72d75d

feat(core): add metadata field to ResponseItem (#28355 )

## Description

This PR adds an optional `metadata` field to `ResponseItem` for
Responses API calls. Only mechanical plumbing, no actual values
populated and sent yet. Turns out just adding a new field to
`ResponseItem` has quite a large blast radius already.

This change is backwards compatible because `metadata` is optional and
omitted when absent, so existing response items and rollout history
without it still deserialize and requests that do not set it keep the
same wire shape. For provider compatibility, we strip out `metadata`
before non-OpenAI Responses requests so Azure and AWS Bedrock never see
this field.

My followup PR here will actually make use of it to start storing and
passing along `turn_id`: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28360

## What changed

- Added `ResponseItemMetadata` with optional `turn_id`, plus optional
`metadata` on Responses API item variants and inter-agent communication.
- Preserved item metadata through response-item rewrites such as
truncation, missing tool-output synthesis, compaction history
rebuilding, visible-history conversion, rollout/resume, and generated
app-server schemas/types.
- Strip item metadata from non-OpenAI Responses requests while
preserving it for OpenAI-shaped requests.
- Updated the mechanical fixture/test construction churn required by the
new optional field.

Owen Lin · 2026-06-15 15:05:28 -07:00

040dafa32d

Pair thread environment settings (#26687 )

## Why

Thread cwd and environment selections are a single logical setting in
core: updating one without the other can silently desynchronize the
next-turn execution context. This change makes that relationship
explicit in the internal thread settings flow while preserving the
existing app-server public API shape.

## What changed

- Moved the cwd/environment pair through internal
`ThreadSettingsOverrides.environment_settings` instead of a top-level
internal `cwd` field.
- Kept `thread/settings/update` public params unchanged, with app-server
translating top-level `cwd` into the paired internal settings shape.
- Moved `Op::UserInput` environment overrides into thread settings so
user turns and settings updates use the same core path.
- Updated core, app-server, MCP, memories, sample, and test callsites to
construct the paired settings shape.

## Verification

- `git diff --check`
- Local test run starting after PR creation.

pakrym-oai · 2026-06-08 13:55:15 -07:00

f3c1283411

Require absolute cwd in thread settings (#26532 )

## Why

Thread settings cwd overrides are expected to be resolved before they
enter core. Keeping this boundary as a plain `PathBuf` made it easy for
core/session code to keep fallback normalization and relative-path
resolution logic in places that should only receive an already-resolved
cwd.

This is intentionally the absolute-cwd-only slice: it does not change
environment selection stickiness or cwd-to-default-environment fallback
behavior.

## What changed

- Changes `ThreadSettingsOverrides.cwd`,
`CodexThreadSettingsOverrides.cwd`, and `SessionSettingsUpdate.cwd` to
use `AbsolutePathBuf`.
- Removes core-side cwd normalization/resolution from session settings
updates.
- Updates affected core/app-server test helpers and callsites to pass
existing absolute cwd values or use `abs()` helpers.

## Validation

Opening as draft so CI can start while local validation continues.

pakrym-oai · 2026-06-05 09:29:15 -07:00

40c8f1a007

Expose local image paths to models (#25944 )

## Why

Local image attachments include image bytes, but the adjacent
model-visible label omits the source path. Exposing the path lets
model-selected workflows refer back to the intended local image
explicitly.

## What changed

- Include an escaped `path` attribute in model-visible local image
opening tags.
- Reuse the path-aware marker generator in rollout coverage.
- Update protocol, replay, and rollout coverage for the new request
shape.

## Validation

- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-core skips_local_image_label_text`
- `just test -p codex-core
copy_paste_local_image_persists_rollout_request_shape`
- `git diff --check`

Won Park · 2026-06-03 19:49:58 +00:00

57ab4c89e0

[codex] remove plain image wrapper spans (#24652 )

## Why

Remote image submissions currently wrap native `input_image` spans in
literal `<image>` and `</image>` text spans. Those extra prompt tokens
add structure without providing label or routing information.

## What Changed

- Serialize `UserInput::Image` directly as an `input_image` content
span.
- Preserve named local-image framing and legacy wrapper parsing for
labeled attachments and existing histories.
- Update existing request-shape expectations for drag-and-drop images,
model switching, and compaction.

## Validation

- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- Focused `codex-core` run covering
`drag_drop_image_persists_rollout_request_shape`,
`model_change_from_image_to_text_strips_prior_image_content`, and
`snapshot_request_shape_pre_turn_compaction_including_incoming_user_message`

## Notes

- A broader `just test -p codex-core` run was attempted; the affected
tests passed, while the overall run failed in unrelated CLI, MCP, and
tooling tests plus a `thread_manager` timeout.

pakrym-oai · 2026-05-26 15:49:37 -07:00

46391f7efa

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

[3 of 7] Remove UserTurn (#23075 )

**Stack position:** [3 of 7]

## Summary

This PR finishes the input-op consolidation by moving the remaining
`Op::UserTurn` callers onto `Op::UserInput` and deleting `Op::UserTurn`.
This touches a lot of files, but it is a low-risk mechanical migration.

## Stack

1. [1 of 7] [Add thread settings to
UserInput](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23080)
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) (this PR)
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 19:56:00 -07:00

1a25d8b6e5

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

core tests: build user turns from permission profiles (#20011 )

## Summary
- Add `turn_permission_fields()` so tests that construct `Op::UserTurn`
directly can provide a canonical `PermissionProfile` while still filling
the required legacy `sandbox_policy` compatibility field.
- Migrate direct user-turn construction in core integration tests from
`SandboxPolicy::DangerFullAccess` to `PermissionProfile::Disabled`.
- Continue reducing direct `SandboxPolicy` usage in
`codex-rs/core/tests`, from 41 files after #20010 to 32 files in this
PR.

## Testing
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p core_test_support`
- `just fix -p codex-core`

Michael Bolin · 2026-04-28 17:03:20 -07:00

7d15936e69

Delete unused ResponseItem::Message.end_turn (#19605 )

This field is unused. Delete it.

Andrey Mishchenko · 2026-04-26 17:18:09 -07:00

35bc6e3d01

tui: carry permission profiles on user turns (#18285 )

## Why

Per-turn permission overrides should use the same canonical profile
abstraction as session configuration. That lets TUI submissions preserve
exact configured permissions without round-tripping through legacy
sandbox fields.

## What changed

This adds `permission_profile` to user-turn operations, threads it
through TUI/app-server submission paths, fills the new field in existing
test fixtures, and adds coverage that composer submission includes the
configured profile.

## Verification

- `cargo test -p codex-tui permissions -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all permissions_messages --
--nocapture`























































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with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/18285).
* #18288
* #18287
* #18286
* __->__ #18285

Michael Bolin · 2026-04-23 11:54:17 -07:00

f90cc0ee64

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

Update image outputs to default to high detail (#18386 )

Do not assume the default `detail`.

pakrym-oai · 2026-04-18 11:01:12 -07:00

53b1570367

chore: clean up argument-comment lint and roll out all-target CI on macOS (#16054 )

## Why

`argument-comment-lint` was green in CI even though the repo still had
many uncommented literal arguments. The main gap was target coverage:
the repo wrapper did not force Cargo to inspect test-only call sites, so
examples like the `latest_session_lookup_params(true, ...)` tests in
`codex-rs/tui_app_server/src/lib.rs` never entered the blocking CI path.

This change cleans up the existing backlog, makes the default repo lint
path cover all Cargo targets, and starts rolling that stricter CI
enforcement out on the platform where it is currently validated.

## What changed

- mechanically fixed existing `argument-comment-lint` violations across
the `codex-rs` workspace, including tests, examples, and benches
- updated `tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh` and
`tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh` so non-`--fix` runs default to
`--all-targets` unless the caller explicitly narrows the target set
- fixed both wrappers so forwarded cargo arguments after `--` are
preserved with a single separator
- documented the new default behavior in
`tools/argument-comment-lint/README.md`
- updated `rust-ci` so the macOS lint lane keeps the plain wrapper
invocation and therefore enforces `--all-targets`, while Linux and
Windows temporarily pass `-- --lib --bins`

That temporary CI split keeps the stricter all-targets check where it is
already cleaned up, while leaving room to finish the remaining Linux-
and Windows-specific target-gated cleanup before enabling
`--all-targets` on those runners. The Linux and Windows failures on the
intermediate revision were caused by the wrapper forwarding bug, not by
additional lint findings in those lanes.

## Validation

- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh`
- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --lib --bins`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --tests`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test` in `tools/argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test -p codex-terminal-detection`

## Follow-up

- Clean up remaining Linux-only target-gated callsites, then switch the
Linux lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.
- Clean up remaining Windows-only target-gated callsites, then switch
the Windows lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.

Michael Bolin · 2026-03-27 19:00:44 -07:00

61dfe0b86c

chore(core) Add approvals reviewer to UserTurn (#15426 )

## Summary
Adds support for approvals_reviewer to `Op::UserTurn` so we can migrate
`[CodexMessageProcessor::turn_start]` to use Op::UserTurn

## Testing
- [x] Adds quick test for the new field

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Dylan Hurd · 2026-03-23 15:19:01 -07:00

67c1c7c054

add fast mode toggle (#13212 )

- add a local Fast mode setting in codex-core (similar to how model id
is currently stored on disk locally)
- send `service_tier=priority` on requests when Fast is enabled
- add `/fast` in the TUI and persist it locally
- feature flag

pash-openai · 2026-03-02 20:29:33 -08:00

2f5b01abd6

Allow clients not to send summary as an option (#12950 )

Summary is a required parameter on UserTurn. Ideally we'd like the core
to decide the appropriate summary level.

Make the summary optional and don't send it when not needed.

pakrym-oai · 2026-02-26 14:37:38 -08:00

951a389654

chore: remove codex-core public protocol/shell re-exports (#12432 )

## Why

`codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` re-exported a broad set of types and modules
from `codex-protocol` and `codex-shell-command`. That made it easy for
workspace crates to import those APIs through `codex-core`, which in
turn hides dependency edges and makes it harder to reduce compile-time
coupling over time.

This change removes those public re-exports so call sites must import
from the source crates directly. Even when a crate still depends on
`codex-core` today, this makes dependency boundaries explicit and
unblocks future work to drop `codex-core` dependencies where possible.

## What Changed

- Removed public re-exports from `codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` for:
- `codex_protocol::protocol` and related protocol/model types (including
`InitialHistory`)
  - `codex_protocol::config_types` (`protocol_config_types`)
- `codex_shell_command::{bash, is_dangerous_command, is_safe_command,
parse_command, powershell}`
- Migrated workspace Rust call sites to import directly from:
  - `codex_protocol::protocol`
  - `codex_protocol::config_types`
  - `codex_protocol::models`
  - `codex_shell_command`
- Added explicit `Cargo.toml` dependencies (`codex-protocol` /
`codex-shell-command`) in crates that now import those crates directly.
- Kept `codex-core` internal modules compiling by using `pub(crate)`
aliases in `core/src/lib.rs` (internal-only, not part of the public
API).
- Updated the two utility crates that can already drop a `codex-core`
dependency edge entirely:
  - `codex-utils-approval-presets`
  - `codex-utils-cli`

## Verification

- `cargo test -p codex-utils-approval-presets`
- `cargo test -p codex-utils-cli`
- `cargo check --workspace --all-targets`
- `just clippy`

Michael Bolin · 2026-02-20 23:45:35 -08:00

1af2a37ada

chore: add phase to message responseitem (#10455 )

### What

add wiring for `phase` field on `ResponseItem::Message` to lay
groundwork for differentiating model preambles and final messages.
currently optional.

follows pattern in #9698.

updated schemas with `just write-app-server-schema` so we can see type
changes.

### Tests
Updated existing tests for SSE parsing and hydrating from history

sayan-oai · 2026-02-03 02:52:26 +00:00

fc05374344

feat: ephemeral threads (#9765 )

Add ephemeral threads capabilities. Only exposed through the
`app-server` v2

The idea is to disable the rollout recorder for those threads.

jif-oai · 2026-01-24 14:57:40 +00:00

83775f4df1

feat(core) update Personality on turn (#9644 )

## Summary
Support updating Personality mid-Thread via UserTurn/OverwriteTurn. This
is explicitly unused by the clients so far, to simplify PRs - app-server
and tui implementations will be follow-ups.

## Testing
- [x] added integration tests

Dylan Hurd · 2026-01-22 12:04:23 -08:00

8b3521ee77

Support end_turn flag (#9698 )

Experimental flag that signals the end of the turn.

pakrym-oai · 2026-01-22 17:27:48 +00:00

b511c38ddb

Add collaboration_mode override to turns (#9408 )

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-01-16 21:51:25 -08:00

146d54cede

Add text element metadata to types (#9235 )

Initial type tweaking PR to make the diff of
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9116 smaller

This should not change any behavior, just adds some fields to types

charley-oai · 2026-01-14 16:41:50 -08:00

4a9c2bcc5a

Add some tests for image attachments (#9080 )

Some extra tests for https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8950

charley-oai · 2026-01-12 13:41:50 -08:00

d7cdcfc302

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