## Summary
- use generated image data URLs in the Python SDK examples and notebook
- document HTTP and HTTPS image URLs as deprecated and recommend
`LocalImageInput`
- replace the remote-URL integration test with data-URL coverage
`ImageInput` remains available for data URLs. The SDK does not duplicate
app-server URL validation.
## Testing
- `uv run --frozen --no-sync ruff check --output-format=full .`
- `uv run --frozen --no-sync ruff format --check .`
- full Python SDK test suite with an isolated writable
`CODEX_SQLITE_HOME` (119 passed, 38 skipped)
## Summary
`just fmt` previously used `uv run --with ruff` to make Ruff available.
Because `--with` creates an ephemeral overlay outside the project
lockfile, uv periodically re-resolved Ruff (by default every 10 minutes)
instead of using the version recorded in `uv.lock`.
Move the Python SDK tooling dependencies from the published `dev` extra
into `format`, `test`, and composed `dev` dependency groups. The
formatter now selects only the locked `format` group, contributor and CI
setup explicitly sync the `dev` group, and CI and release commands reuse
that environment with `--frozen --no-sync`. The scripts formatter also
uses its project's locked Ruff dependency instead of an ephemeral
overlay.
Validated the Python 3.12 SDK suite (119 passed, 38 skipped) and the
repository formatter.
## Why
The initial public `openai-codex` beta should read and install like a
normal published Python package before a release tag is created. This
follows merged PR #24828, which establishes the independent SDK beta
release plumbing and exact runtime dependency.
## What changed
- Rewrote `sdk/python/README.md` as a compact PyPI-facing beta package
page: published installation, one quickstart, short login examples,
built-in help, and links to deeper guides.
- Updated the getting-started guide, API reference, FAQ, and examples
index to present the published beta consistently without repeating
onboarding in the package landing page or reference page.
- Made `pip install openai-codex` the primary install path while beta
releases are the only published SDK releases, with `--pre` documented
for opting into prereleases after a stable release exists.
- Added curated `help()` / `pydoc` docstrings across the public API and
generated public convenience methods through
`scripts/update_sdk_artifacts.py`.
- Declared the repository `Apache-2.0` license expression and
Documentation URL in package metadata, without introducing a duplicated
SDK-local license file.
- Kept the source distribution focused on installable package material
(`src/openai_codex`, `README.md`, and `pyproject.toml`); the repository
docs and runnable examples remain linked from the PyPI README.
- Built release artifacts in an Alpine container on the Ubuntu runner,
matching Python SDK CI and allowing type generation to install the
published `musllinux` runtime wheel.
- Added `twine check --strict` to the release workflow so malformed PyPI
metadata or rendered README content fails before publishing.
- Added focused SDK assertions for beta metadata, the exact runtime pin,
source distribution contents, and the built-in Python documentation
surface.
## Validation
- Ran `uv run --frozen --extra dev ruff check
scripts/update_sdk_artifacts.py src/openai_codex
tests/test_public_api_signatures.py
tests/test_artifact_workflow_and_binaries.py` before the final
README-only reductions and review-fix follow-ups.
- Built `openai_codex-0.1.0b1-py3-none-any.whl` and
`openai_codex-0.1.0b1.tar.gz` before the final README-only reductions
and review-fix follow-ups.
- Ran `python -m twine check --strict` on both built artifacts before
the final README-only reductions and review-fix follow-ups.
- Verified artifact metadata reports `Apache-2.0` without a duplicated
SDK-local license file.
- Verified `inspect.getdoc(...)` resolves documentation for the package,
`Codex`, `CodexConfig`, and key generated thread methods.
- Rebased the documentation/readiness change onto merged PR #24828
without changing the intended SDK or workflow file contents.
- Final verification is delegated to online CI for this PR.
## Why
`TurnHandle.run()` returned the raw app-server `Turn`, whose live
start/completed payloads do not include loaded `items`, so users saw
empty `items` after starting a turn. That made the handle-based path
behave differently from `Thread.run(...)`, and pushed examples toward
persisted-thread reads plus helper extraction.
This PR makes the run APIs standalone: starting a turn and running it
returns collected turn data directly, or fails visibly when required
stream events are missing.
## What Changed
- Replaces the public `RunResult` export with `TurnResult`.
- Adds turn metadata to `TurnResult`: `id`, `status`, `error`,
`started_at`, `completed_at`, and `duration_ms`, alongside
`final_response`, `items`, and `usage`.
- Changes `TurnHandle.run()` and `AsyncTurnHandle.run()` to consume
stream events with the same collector used by `Thread.run(...)`.
- Exports `TurnError` from `openai_codex.types` for the new result
shape.
- Updates tests, examples, docs, and the walkthrough notebook to use
`result.final_response` and `result.items` directly.
- Removes persisted-thread helper paths and placeholder/skipped control
flows from the public examples and notebook.
## Verification
- `python3 -m py_compile ...` over changed SDK, example, and test Python
files.
- `python3 -c "import json;
json.load(open('sdk/python/notebooks/sdk_walkthrough.ipynb'))"`
- `git diff --check`
- `PYTHONPATH=sdk/python/src python3 -c ...` import/signature smoke for
`TurnResult`, `TurnHandle.run`, and `AsyncTurnHandle.run`.
## Why
The Python SDK can already create threads and run turns, but
authentication still has to be arranged outside the SDK. App-server
already exposes account login, account inspection, logout, and
`account/login/completed` notifications, so SDK users currently have to
work around a missing public client layer for a core setup step.
This change makes authentication a normal SDK workflow while preserving
the backend flow shape: API-key login completes immediately, and
interactive ChatGPT flows return live handles that complete later
through app-server notifications.
## What changed
- Added public sync and async auth methods on `Codex` / `AsyncCodex`:
- `login_api_key(...)`
- `login_chatgpt()`
- `login_chatgpt_device_code()`
- `account(...)`
- `logout()`
- Added public browser-login and device-code handle types with
attempt-local `wait()` and `cancel()` helpers. Cancellation stays on the
handle instead of a root-level SDK method.
- Extended the Python app-server client and notification router so login
completion events are routed by `login_id` without consuming unrelated
global notifications.
- Kept login request/handle logic in a focused internal `_login.py`
module so `api.py` remains the public facade instead of absorbing more
auth plumbing.
- Exported the new handle types plus curated account/login response
types from the SDK surfaces.
- Updated SDK docs, added sync/async login walkthrough examples, and
added a notebook login walkthrough cell.
## Verification
Added SDK coverage for:
- API-key login, account readback, and logout through the app-server
harness in both sync and async clients.
- Browser login cancellation plus `handle.wait()` completion through the
real app-server boundary used by the Python SDK harness.
- Waiter routing that stays scoped across replaced interactive login
attempts, plus async handle cancellation coverage.
- Login notification demuxing, replay of early completion events, and
async client delegation.
- Public export/signature assertions.
- Real integration-suite smoke coverage for the new examples and
notebook login cell.
## Why
The SDK should publish under the reserved public distribution name
`openai-codex`, and its import module should match that name in the
Python style. Since package names can contain hyphens but import modules
cannot, the public import path becomes `openai_codex`.
Keeping the rename separate from the public API surface change makes the
naming change easy to review and avoids mixing it with API curation.
## What
- Rename the SDK distribution from `openai-codex-app-server-sdk` to
`openai-codex`.
- Rename the import package from `codex_app_server` to `openai_codex`.
- Keep the runtime wheel as the separate `openai-codex-cli-bin`
dependency.
- Update docs, examples, notebooks, artifact scripts, lockfile metadata,
and tests for the new distribution/module names.
## Stack
1. #21891 `[1/8]` Pin Python SDK runtime dependency
2. #21893 `[2/8]` Generate Python SDK types from pinned runtime
3. #21895 `[3/8]` Run Python SDK tests in CI
4. #21896 `[4/8]` Define Python SDK public API surface
5. This PR `[5/8]` Rename Python SDK package to `openai-codex`
6. #21910 `[6/8]` Add high-level Python SDK approval mode
7. #22014 `[7/8]` Add Python SDK app-server integration harness
8. #22021 `[8/8]` Add Python SDK Ruff formatting
## Verification
- Updated package metadata and public API tests to assert the
distribution and import names.
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## Why
The SDK package root should be the ergonomic public client API, not a
dump of every generated app-server schema type. Generated models still
need a supported import path, but callers should be able to tell which
names are high-level SDK entrypoints and which names are protocol value
models.
## What
- Define a curated root `__all__` for clients, handles, input helpers,
retry helpers, config, and public errors.
- Add a `types` module as the supported home for generated app-server
response, event, enum, and helper models.
- Update docs and examples to import protocol/value models from the type
module.
- Add tests that lock root exports, type-module exports, star-import
behavior, and example import hygiene.
## Stack
1. #21891 `[1/8]` Pin Python SDK runtime dependency
2. #21893 `[2/8]` Generate Python SDK types from pinned runtime
3. #21895 `[3/8]` Run Python SDK tests in CI
4. This PR `[4/8]` Define Python SDK public API surface
5. #21905 `[5/8]` Rename Python SDK package to `openai-codex`
6. #21910 `[6/8]` Add high-level Python SDK approval mode
7. #22014 `[7/8]` Add Python SDK app-server integration harness
8. #22021 `[8/8]` Add Python SDK Ruff formatting
## Verification
- Added public API signature tests for root exports, `types` exports,
and example imports.
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## Why
The Python SDK depends on the app-server runtime package for the bundled
`codex` binary and schema source of truth. That relationship should be
explicit in package metadata instead of inferred from matching version
numbers, so installers, lockfiles, and reviewers can see exactly which
runtime the SDK expects.
## What
- Declare `openai-codex-cli-bin==0.131.0a4` as a Python SDK dependency.
- Update runtime setup helpers to resolve the runtime version from the
declared dependency pin.
- Refresh the SDK lockfile for the pinned runtime wheel.
- Update package/runtime tests and docs that describe where the runtime
version comes from.
## Stack
1. This PR `[1/8]` Pin Python SDK runtime dependency
2. #21893 `[2/8]` Generate Python SDK types from pinned runtime
3. #21895 `[3/8]` Run Python SDK tests in CI
4. #21896 `[4/8]` Define Python SDK public API surface
5. #21905 `[5/8]` Rename Python SDK package to `openai-codex`
6. #21910 `[6/8]` Add high-level Python SDK approval mode
7. #22014 `[7/8]` Add Python SDK app-server integration harness
8. #22021 `[8/8]` Add Python SDK Ruff formatting
## Verification
- Added coverage for the SDK runtime dependency pin and runtime
distribution naming.
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**note**: a large chunk of this diff comes from regenerating Python
types after app-server schema changes on `main`.
This is PR 3 of 3 for the Python SDK PyPI publishing split. PR #18862
refreshed the generated SDK surface, and PR #18865 made the runtime
package publishable as `openai-codex-cli-bin`; this final PR makes the
SDK package publishable as `openai-codex-app-server-sdk` and pins both
packages to the same Codex runtime version.
The key idea is that the published SDK version is the Codex runtime
version. That one version now drives the SDK package version, the exact
runtime dependency, the client version reported by the SDK, and the
bootstrap runtime pin. This keeps release-time versioning in one lane
instead of scattering checked-in literals through the package.
## What changed
- Rename the SDK distribution from `codex-app-server-sdk` to
`openai-codex-app-server-sdk` for conflict-free PyPI publishing.
- Use `stage-sdk --codex-version ...` with one Codex version for both
the SDK package version and exact `openai-codex-cli-bin` dependency.
- Preserve hidden legacy `--runtime-version` / `--sdk-version` args only
to reject mismatched versions during staging.
- Map PEP 440 package versions back to Codex release tags for runtime
setup downloads, e.g. `0.116.0a1` -> `rust-v0.116.0-alpha.1`.
- Derive `codex_app_server.__version__`, the default
`AppServerConfig.client_version`, and
`_runtime_setup.pinned_runtime_version()` from the SDK package/project
version instead of hardcoding duplicate version strings.
- Carry the current generated SDK refresh from `main` so
`generate-types` stays clean after recent app-server schema changes.
- Update `sdk/python/uv.lock` for the renamed editable package.
## Validation
- `uv run --extra dev pytest` in `sdk/python` -> 59 passed, 37 skipped.
- Targeted `uv run ruff check` for the touched SDK files.
- `git diff --check`.
- Staged runtime with `--codex-version rust-v0.116.0-alpha.1
--platform-tag macosx_11_0_arm64`.
- Staged SDK with `--codex-version rust-v0.116.0-alpha.1`.
- Built runtime wheel, SDK wheel, and SDK sdist.
- `twine check /tmp/codex-python-pr3-build/dist/*` -> passed.
- Clean venv smoke installed `openai-codex-app-server-sdk==0.116.0a1`
from local dist and pulled `openai-codex-cli-bin==0.116.0a1`.
- Smoke imports passed for `Codex` and `bundled_codex_path()`.
## Summary
This PR hardens package-manager usage across the repo to reduce
dependency supply-chain risk. It also removes the stale `codex-cli`
Docker path, which was already broken on `main`, instead of keeping a
bitrotted container workflow alive.
## What changed
- Updated pnpm package manager pins and workspace install settings.
- Removed stale `codex-cli` Docker assets instead of trying to keep a
broken local container path alive.
- Added uv settings and lockfiles for the Python SDK packages.
- Updated Python SDK setup docs to use `uv sync`.
## Why
This is primarily a security hardening change. It reduces
package-install and supply-chain risk by ensuring dependency installs go
through pinned package managers, committed lockfiles, release-age
settings, and reviewed build-script controls.
For `codex-cli`, the right follow-up was to remove the local Docker path
rather than keep patching it:
- `codex-cli/Dockerfile` installed `codex.tgz` with `npm install -g`,
which bypassed the repo lockfile and age-gated pnpm settings.
- The local `codex-cli/scripts/build_container.sh` helper was already
broken on `main`: it called `pnpm run build`, but
`codex-cli/package.json` does not define a `build` script.
- The container path itself had bitrotted enough that keeping it would
require extra packaging-specific behavior that was not otherwise needed
by the repo.
## Gaps addressed
- Global npm installs bypassed the repo lockfile in Docker and CLI
reinstall paths, including `codex-cli/Dockerfile` and
`codex-cli/bin/codex.js`.
- CI and Docker pnpm installs used `--frozen-lockfile`, but the repo was
missing stricter pnpm workspace settings for dependency build scripts.
- Python SDK projects had `pyproject.toml` metadata but no committed
`uv.lock` coverage or uv age/index settings in `sdk/python` and
`sdk/python-runtime`.
- The secure devcontainer install path used npm/global install behavior
without a local locked package-manager boundary.
- The local `codex-cli` Docker helper was already broken on `main`, so
this PR removes that stale Docker path instead of preserving a broken
surface.
- pnpm was already pinned, but not to the current repo-wide pnpm version
target.
## Verification
- `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile`
- `.devcontainer/codex-install`: `pnpm install --prod --frozen-lockfile`
- `.devcontainer/codex-install`: `./node_modules/.bin/codex --version`
- `sdk/python`: `uv lock --check`, `uv sync --locked --all-extras
--dry-run`, `uv build`
- `sdk/python-runtime`: `uv lock --check`, `uv sync --locked --dry-run`,
`uv build --wheel`
- `pnpm -r --filter ./sdk/typescript run build`
- `pnpm -r --filter ./sdk/typescript run lint`
- `pnpm -r --filter ./sdk/typescript run test`
- `node --check codex-cli/bin/codex.js`
- `docker build -f .devcontainer/Dockerfile.secure -t codex-secure-test
.`
- `cargo build -p codex-cli`
- repo-wide package-manager audit
This is PR 2 of the Python SDK PyPI publishing split. [PR
1](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18862) refreshed the generated
SDK bindings; this PR makes the runtime package itself publishable, and
PR 3 will wire the SDK package/version pinning to this runtime package.
## Summary
- Rename the runtime distribution to `openai-codex-cli-bin` while
keeping the import package as `codex_cli_bin`.
- Make the runtime package wheel-only and build `py3-none-<platform>`
wheels instead of interpreter-specific wheels.
- Add `stage-runtime --codex-version` and `--platform-tag` so release
staging can produce the platform wheel matrix from Codex release tags.
- Add focused artifact workflow tests for version normalization,
platform tag injection, and runtime wheel metadata.
## Why Rename
There is already an unofficial PyPI package,
[`codex-bin`](https://pypi.org/project/codex-bin/), distributing OpenAI
Codex binaries. Publishing the official SDK runtime dependency as
`openai-codex-cli-bin` makes the ownership clear, avoids confusing the
SDK-pinned runtime wheel with that unowned wrapper, and keeps the import
package unchanged as `codex_cli_bin`.
## Tests
- `uv run --extra dev pytest
tests/test_artifact_workflow_and_binaries.py` -> 21 passed
- `uv run --extra dev python scripts/update_sdk_artifacts.py
stage-runtime /tmp/codex-python-pr2-rebased/runtime-stage
/tmp/codex-python-pr2-rebased/codex --codex-version
rust-v0.116.0-alpha.1 --platform-tag macosx_11_0_arm64`
- `uv run --with build --extra dev python -m build --wheel
/tmp/codex-python-pr2-rebased/runtime-stage`
- `uv run --with twine --extra dev twine check
/tmp/codex-python-pr2-rebased/runtime-stage/dist/openai_codex_cli_bin-0.116.0a1-py3-none-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl`
## Note
- Full `uv run --extra dev pytest` currently fails because regenerating
from schemas already on `main` adds new DeviceKey Python types. I left
that generated catch-up out of this runtime-only PR.
## TL;DR
WIP esp the examples
Thin the Python SDK public surface so the wrapper layer returns
canonical app-server generated models directly.
- keeps `Codex` / `AsyncCodex` / `Thread` / `Turn` and input helpers,
but removes alias-only type layers and custom result models
- `metadata` now returns `InitializeResponse` and `run()` returns the
generated app-server `Turn`
- updates docs, examples, notebook, and tests to use canonical generated
types and regenerates `v2_all.py` against current schema
- keeps the pinned runtime-package integration flow and real integration
coverage
## Validation
- `PYTHONPATH=sdk/python/src python3 -m pytest sdk/python/tests`
- `GH_TOKEN="$(gh auth token)" RUN_REAL_CODEX_TESTS=1
PYTHONPATH=sdk/python/src python3 -m pytest sdk/python/tests -rs`
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