## Why
This is a follow-up to #22573. This problem was surfaced in a code
review comment that I missed before merging the previous PR.
Fresh-session startup could prepare a model-availability NUX before
`app_server.start_thread(&config)` completed. If thread startup then
failed, the TUI never rendered the tooltip, but
`prepare_startup_tooltip_override(...)` had already persisted one of the
limited impressions.
## What Changed
- Move startup tooltip preparation inside the fresh-thread startup
branch, after `start_thread(...)` succeeds.
- Keep resume/fork paths unchanged.
- Remove the now-redundant
`should_prepare_startup_tooltip_override(...)` helper and its gate test.
## Why
The TUI startup test surface had drifted into expensive, brittle
coverage:
- `tui/tests/suite/no_panic_on_startup.rs` was already ignored as flaky
while still spawning a PTY to exercise malformed exec-policy rules.
- `tui/tests/suite/model_availability_nux.rs` used a seeded session,
cursor-query spoofing, and repeated interrupts to verify a narrow
resume-path invariant.
- `app/tests.rs` had started accumulating unrelated startup and summary
coverage in one flat module even after the surrounding app code was
split into feature modules.
This keeps those behaviors covered while making the tests cheaper to
understand and less likely to rot. It also preserves the malformed-rules
regression from #8803 without requiring a terminal orchestration test.
## What changed
- Replaced the malformed `rules` startup PTY case with a direct
exec-policy loader regression:
[`rules_path_file_returns_read_dir_error`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/21b6b5622f18b8cac0ea41fd083b3106778d9ffc/codex-rs/core/src/exec_policy_tests.rs#L264-L284)
- Made the existing fresh-session-only startup tooltip behavior explicit
with
[`should_prepare_startup_tooltip_override`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/21b6b5622f18b8cac0ea41fd083b3106778d9ffc/codex-rs/tui/src/app/thread_routing.rs#L1272-L1279),
then added focused coverage for the resume/fork gate and the persisted
NUX counter.
- Split startup and session-summary coverage out of
`tui/src/app/tests.rs` into dedicated modules so the test layout better
mirrors the current app architecture.
- Converted one single-message goal validation snapshot into semantic
assertions where layout was not the behavior under test.
- Removed the two PTY-heavy suite files that the narrower tests now
supersede.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core rules_path_file_returns_read_dir_error`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui startup_`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui session_summary_`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
goal_slash_command_rejects_oversized_objective`
## Why
When the TUI upgrade flow moves a user to a newer model, the accepted
migration should also persist the target model's default reasoning
effort. That keeps the upgraded model and reasoning setting aligned
instead of carrying forward a stale previously saved effort from the old
model.
## What changed
- The accepted model migration path now updates in-memory config, TUI
state, and persisted model selection with the target preset's
`default_reasoning_effort`.
- The upgrade destructuring keeps `reasoning_effort_mapping` explicitly
unused because mappings are no longer consulted on accepted migrations.
- Added a catalog test that starts with a pre-existing saved reasoning
effort and verifies the accepted upgrade overwrites it with the target
model default and emits the expected persistence events.
- Rebasing onto current `main` also updates a TUI thread-session test
helper for the latest `permission_profile` field and
`ApprovalsReviewer::AutoReview` rename so CI compiles on the new base.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui model_catalog`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
permission_settings_sync_updates_active_snapshot_without_rewriting_side_thread`
Fixes stale test fixtures left after the active bundled model catalog
updates in #18586 and #18388. Those changes made `gpt-5.4` the current
default and removed several older hardcoded slugs, which left Windows
Bazel shards failing TUI and config tests.
What changed:
- Refresh TUI model migration, availability NUX, plan-mode, status, and
snapshot fixtures to use active bundled model slugs.
- Update the config edit test expectation for the TOML-quoted
`"gpt-5.2"` migration key.
- Move the model catalog tests into
`codex-rs/tui/src/app/tests/model_catalog.rs` so touching them does not
trip the blob-size policy for `app.rs`.
Verification:
- CI Bazel/lint checks are expected to cover the affected test shards.
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