## Problem
Long URLs containing `/` and `-` characters are split across multiple
terminal lines by `textwrap`'s default hyphenation rules. This breaks
terminal link detection: emulators can no longer identify the URL as
clickable, and copy-paste yields a truncated fragment. The issue affects
every view that renders user or agent text — exec output, history cells,
markdown, the app-link setup screen, and the VT100 scrollback path.
A secondary bug compounds the first: `desired_height()` calculations
count logical lines rather than viewport rows. When a URL overflows its
line and wraps visually, the height budget is too small, causing content
to clip or leave gaps.
Here is how the complete URL is interpreted by the terminal before
(first line only) and after (complete URL):
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| <img width="777" height="1002" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-17 at 7 59 11
PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/193a89a0-7e56-49c5-8b76-53499a76e7e3"
/> | <img width="777" height="1002" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-17 at 7 58
40 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0b9b4c14-aafb-439f-9ffe-f6bba556f95e"
/> |
## Mental model
The TUI now treats URL-like tokens as atomic units that must never be
split by the wrapping engine. Every call site that previously used
`word_wrap_*` has been migrated to `adaptive_wrap_*`, which inspects
each line for URL-like tokens and switches wrapping strategy
accordingly:
- **Non-URL lines** follow the existing `textwrap` path unchanged (word
boundaries, optional indentation, hyphenation).
- **URL-only lines** (with at most decorative markers like `│`, `-`,
`1.`) are emitted unwrapped so terminal link detection works; ratatui's
`Wrap { trim: false }` handles the final character wrap at render time.
- **Mixed lines** (URL + substantive non-URL prose) flow through
`adaptive_wrap_line` so prose wraps naturally at word boundaries while
URL tokens remain unsplit.
Height measurement everywhere now delegates to
`Paragraph::line_count(width)`, which accounts for the visual row cost
of overflowed lines. This single source of truth replaces ad-hoc line
counting in individual cells.
For terminal scrollback (the VT100 path that prints history when the TUI
exits), URL-only lines are emitted unwrapped so the terminal's own link
detector can find them. Mixed URL+prose lines use adaptive wrapping so
surrounding text wraps naturally. Continuation rows are pre-cleared to
avoid stale content artifacts.
## Non-goals
- Full RFC 3986 URL parsing. The detector is a conservative heuristic
that covers `scheme://host`, bare domains (`example.com/path`),
`localhost:port`, and IPv4 hosts. IPv6 (`[::1]:8080`) and exotic schemes
are intentionally excluded from v1.
- Changing wrapping behavior for non-URL content.
- Reflowing or reformatting existing terminal scrollback on resize.
## Tradeoffs
| Decision | Upside | Downside |
|----------|--------|----------|
| Heuristic URL detection vs. full parser | Fast, zero-alloc on the hot
path; conservative enough to reject file paths like `src/main.rs` |
False negatives on obscure URL formats (they get split as before) |
| Adaptive (three-path) wrapping | Non-URL lines are untouched — no
behavior change, no perf cost; mixed lines wrap prose naturally while
preserving URLs | Three wrapping strategies to reason about when
debugging layout |
| Row-based truncation with line-unit ellipsis | Accurate viewport
budget; stable "N lines omitted" count across terminal widths |
`truncate_lines_middle` is more complex (must compute per-line row cost)
|
| Unwrapped URL-only lines in scrollback | Terminal emulators detect
clickable links; copy-paste gets the full URL | TUI and scrollback
formatting diverge for URL-only lines |
| Default `desired_height` via `Paragraph::line_count` | DRY — most
cells inherit correct measurement | Cells with custom layout must
remember to override |
## Architecture
```mermaid
flowchart TD
A["adaptive_wrap_*()"] --> B{"line_contains_url_like?"}
B -- No URL tokens --> C["word_wrap_line<br/>(textwrap default)"]
B -- Has URL tokens --> D{"mixed URL + prose?"}
D -- "URL-only<br/>(+ decorative markers)" --> E["emit unwrapped<br/>(terminal char-wraps)"]
D -- "Mixed<br/>(URL + substantive text)" --> F["adaptive_wrap_line<br/>(AsciiSpace + custom WordSplitter)"]
C --> G["Paragraph::line_count(w)<br/>(single height truth)"]
E --> G
F --> G
```
**Changed files:**
| File | Role |
|------|------|
| `wrapping.rs` | URL detection heuristics, mixed-line detection,
`adaptive_wrap_*` functions, custom `WordSplitter` |
| `exec_cell/render.rs` | Row-aware `truncate_lines_middle`, adaptive
wrapping for command/output display |
| `history_cell.rs` | Migrate all cell types to `adaptive_wrap_*`;
default `desired_height` via `Paragraph::line_count` |
| `insert_history.rs` | Three-path scrollback wrapping (unwrapped
URL-only, adaptive mixed, word-wrapped text); continuation row clearing
|
| `app_link_view.rs` | Adaptive wrapping for setup URL; `desired_height`
via `Paragraph::line_count` |
| `markdown_render.rs` | Adaptive wrapping in `finish_paragraph` |
| `model_migration.rs` | Viewport-aware wrapping for narrow-pane
markdown |
| `pager_overlay.rs` | `Wrap { trim: false }` for transcript and
streaming chunks |
| `queued_user_messages.rs` | Migrate to `adaptive_wrap_lines` |
| `status/card.rs` | Migrate to `adaptive_wrap_lines` |
## Observability
- **Ellipsis message** in truncated exec output reports omitted count in
logical lines (stable across resize) rather than viewport rows
(fluctuates).
- URL detection is deterministic and stateless — no hidden caching or
memoization to go stale.
- Height mismatch bugs surface immediately as visual clipping or gaps;
the `Paragraph::line_count` path is the same code ratatui uses at render
time, so measurement and rendering cannot diverge.
## Tests
26 new unit tests across 7 files, covering:
- **URL integrity**: assert a URL-like token appears on exactly one
rendered line (not split across two).
- **Height accuracy**: compare `desired_height()` against
`Paragraph::line_count()` for URL-containing content.
- **Row-aware truncation**: verify ellipsis counts logical lines and
output fits within the row budget.
- **Scrollback rendering**: VT100 backend tests confirm prefix and URL
land on the same row; continuation rows are cleared; mixed URL+prose
lines wrap prose while preserving URL tokens.
- **Mixed URL+prose detection**: `line_has_mixed_url_and_non_url_tokens`
correctly distinguishes lines with substantive non-URL text from lines
with only decorative markers alongside a URL.
- **Heuristic correctness**: positive matches (`https://...`,
`example.com/path`, `localhost:3000/api`, `192.168.1.1:8080/health`) and
negative matches (`src/main.rs`, `foo/bar`, `hello-world`).
## Risks and open items
1. **URL-like tokens in code output** (e.g. `example.com/api` inside a
JSON blob) will trigger URL-preserving wrap on that line. This is
acceptable — the worst case is a slightly wider line, not broken output.
2. **Very long non-URL tokens on a URL line** can only break at
character boundaries (the custom splitter emits all char indices for
non-URL words). On extremely narrow terminals this could overflow, but
narrow terminals already degrade gracefully.
3. **No IPv6 support** — `[::1]:8080/path` will be treated as a non-URL
and may get split. Can be added later without API changes.
Fixes#5457
1. Move Windows Sandbox NUX to right after trust directory screen
2. Don't offer read-only as an option in Sandbox NUX.
Elevated/Legacy/Quit
3. Don't allow new untrusted directories. It's trust or quit
4. move experimental sandbox features to `[windows]
sandbox="elevated|unelevatd"`
5. Copy tweaks = elevated -> default, non-elevated -> non-admin
So that the rest of the codebase (like TUI) don't need to be concerned
whether ChatGPT auth was handled by Codex itself or passed in via
app-server's external auth mode.
When using ChatGPT in names of types, we should be consistent, so this
renames some types with `ChatGpt` in the name to `Chatgpt`. From
https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/naming.html:
> In `UpperCamelCase`, acronyms and contractions of compound words count
as one word: use `Uuid` rather than `UUID`, `Usize` rather than `USize`
or `Stdin` rather than `StdIn`. In `snake_case`, acronyms and
contractions are lower-cased: `is_xid_start`.
This PR updates existing uses of `ChatGpt` and changes them to
`Chatgpt`. Though in all cases where it could affect the wire format, I
visually inspected that we don't change anything there. That said, this
_will_ change the codegen because it will affect the spelling of type
names.
For example, this renames `AuthMode::ChatGPT` to `AuthMode::Chatgpt` in
`app-server-protocol`, but the wire format is still `"chatgpt"`.
This PR also updates a number of types in `codex-rs/core/src/auth.rs`.
This enables a new use case where `codex app-server` is embedded into a
parent application that will directly own the user's ChatGPT auth
lifecycle, which means it owns the user’s auth tokens and refreshes it
when necessary. The parent application would just want a way to pass in
the auth tokens for codex to use directly.
The idea is that we are introducing a new "auth mode" currently only
exposed via app server: **`chatgptAuthTokens`** which consist of the
`id_token` (stores account metadata) and `access_token` (the bearer
token used directly for backend API calls). These auth tokens are only
stored in-memory. This new mode is in addition to the existing `apiKey`
and `chatgpt` auth modes.
This PR reuses the shape of our existing app-server account APIs as much
as possible:
- Update `account/login/start` with a new `chatgptAuthTokens` variant,
which will allow the client to pass in the tokens and have codex
app-server use them directly. Upon success, the server emits
`account/login/completed` and `account/updated` notifications.
- A new server->client request called
`account/chatgptAuthTokens/refresh` which the server can use whenever
the access token previously passed in has expired and it needs a new one
from the parent application.
I leveraged the core 401 retry loop which typically triggers auth token
refreshes automatically, but made it pluggable:
- **chatgpt** mode refreshes internally, as usual.
- **chatgptAuthTokens** mode calls the client via
`account/chatgptAuthTokens/refresh`, the client responds with updated
tokens, codex updates its in-memory auth, then retries. This RPC has a
10s timeout and handles JSON-RPC errors from the client.
Also some additional things:
- chatgpt logins are blocked while external auth is active (have to log
out first. typically clients will pick one OR the other, not support
both)
- `account/logout` clears external auth in memory
- Ensures that if `forced_chatgpt_workspace_id` is set via the user's
config, we respect it in both:
- `account/login/start` with `chatgptAuthTokens` (returns a JSON-RPC
error back to the client)
- `account/chatgptAuthTokens/refresh` (fails the turn, and on next
request app-server will send another `account/chatgptAuthTokens/refresh`
request to the client).
## Summary
- guard onboarding key handling to ignore KeyEventKind::Release
- handle key events at the onboarding screen boundary to avoid
double-triggering widgets
## Related
- https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/issues/347
## Testing
- cd codex-rs && just fmt
- cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-tui
### Motivation
- The large ASCII welcome animation can push onboarding content below
the fold on default-height terminals, making the CLI appear
unresponsive; raising the breakpoint prevents that.
- The existing test measured an arbitrary row count rather than
asserting the welcome line position relative to the animation frame,
which made the intent unclear.
### Description
- Increase `MIN_ANIMATION_HEIGHT` from `20` to `37` in
`codex-rs/tui/src/onboarding/welcome.rs` so the animation is skipped
unless there is enough vertical space.
- Replace the brittle measurement logic in the welcome render test with
a `row_containing` helper and assert the welcome row equals the frame
height plus the spacer line (`frame_lines + 1`).
- Add a regression test
`welcome_skips_animation_below_height_breakpoint` that verifies the
animation is not rendered when the viewport height is one row below the
breakpoint.
### Testing
- Ran formatting with `~/.cargo/bin/just fmt` which completed
successfully.
- Ran unit tests for the crate with `cargo test -p codex-tui --lib` and
they passed (unit test suite succeeded).
- Ran `cargo test -p codex-tui` which reported a failing integration
test in this environment because the test cannot locate the `codex`
binary, so full crate tests are blocked here (environment limitation).
------
[Codex
Task](https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_i_6973b0a710d4832c9ff36fac26eb1519)
We've seen reports that people who try to login on a remote/headless
machine will open the login link on their own machine and got errors.
Update the instructions to ask those users to use `codex login
--device-auth` instead.
<img width="1434" height="938" alt="CleanShot 2026-01-05 at 11 35 02@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2b209953-6a42-4eb0-8b55-bb0733f2e373"
/>
This pull request updates the ChatGPT login description in the
onboarding authentication widgets to clarify which plans include usage.
The description now lists "Business" rather than "Team" and adds
"Education" plans in addition to the previously mentioned plans.
I have read the CLA Document and I hereby sign the CLAs.
---------
Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
### What
Don't treat `q` as a special quit character on the API key paste page in
the onboarding flow.
This addresses #7413, where pasting API keys with `q` would cause codex
to quit on Windows.
### Test Plan
Tested on Windows and MacOS.
This PR adds support for a new feature flag `tui.animations`. By
default, the TUI uses animations in its welcome screen, "working"
spinners, and "shimmer" effects. This animations can interfere with
screen readers, so it's good to provide a way to disable them.
This change is inspired by [a
PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/4014) contributed by @Orinks.
That PR has faltered a bit, but I think the core idea is sound. This
version incorporates feedback from @aibrahim-oai. In particular:
1. It uses a feature flag (`tui.animations`) rather than the unqualified
CLI key `no-animations`. Feature flags are the preferred way to expose
boolean switches. They are also exposed via CLI command switches.
2. It includes more complete documentation.
3. It disables a few animations that the other PR omitted.
This PR fixes the `release_event_does_not_change_selection` test so it
doesn't cause an extra `config.toml` to be emitted in the sources when
running the tests locally. Prior to this fix, I needed to delete this
file every time I ran the tests to prevent it from showing up as an
uncommitted source file.
Fixes#4940Fixes#4892
When selecting "No, ask me to approve edits and commands" during
onboarding, the code wasn't applying the correct approval policy,
causing Codex to block all write operations instead of requesting
approval.
This PR fixes the issue by persisting the "DontTrust" decision in
config.toml as `trust_level = "untrusted"` and handling it in the
sandbox and approval policy logic, so Codex correctly asks for approval
before making changes.
## Before (bug)
<img width="709" height="500" alt="bef"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5aced26d-d810-4754-879a-89d9e4e0073b"
/>
## After (fixed)
<img width="713" height="359" alt="aft"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9887bbcb-a9a5-4e54-8e76-9125a782226b"
/>
---------
Co-authored-by: Eric Traut <etraut@openai.com>
I recently fixed a bug in [this
PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6285) that prevented Ctrl+C
from dismissing the login menu in the TUI and leaving the user unauthed.
A [user pointed out](https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/6418) that
this makes Ctrl+C can no longer be used to exit the app. This PR changes
the behavior so we exit the app rather than ignoring the Ctrl+C.
We currently allow the user to dismiss the login menu via Ctrl+C. This
leaves them in a bad state where they're not auth'ed but have an input
prompt. In the extension, this isn't a problem because we don't allow
the user to dismiss the login screen.
Testing: I confirmed that Ctrl+C no longer dismisses the login menu.
This is an alternative (simpler) fix for a [community
PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/3234).
The goal is to have a single place where we actually write files
In a follow-up PR, will move everything config related in a dedicated
module and move the helpers in a dedicated file
This PR is a follow-up to #5591. It allows users to choose which auth
storage mode they want by using the new
`cli_auth_credentials_store_mode` config.
Refactor trust_directory to use ColumnRenderable & friends, thus
correcting wrapping behavior at small widths. Also introduce
RowRenderable with fixed-width rows.
- fixed wrapping in trust_directory
- changed selector cursor to match other list item selections
- allow y/n to work as well as 1/2
- fixed key_hint to be standard
before:
<img width="661" height="550" alt="Screenshot 2025-10-09 at 9 50 36 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e01627aa-bee4-4e25-8eca-5575c43f05bf"
/>
after:
<img width="661" height="550" alt="Screenshot 2025-10-09 at 9 51 31 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cb816cbd-7609-4c83-b62f-b4dba392d79a"
/>
We continue the separation between `codex app-server` and `codex
mcp-server`.
In particular, we introduce a new crate, `codex-app-server-protocol`,
and migrate `codex-rs/protocol/src/mcp_protocol.rs` into it, renaming it
`codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol.rs`.
Because `ConversationId` was defined in `mcp_protocol.rs`, we move it
into its own file, `codex-rs/protocol/src/conversation_id.rs`, and
because it is referenced in a ton of places, we have to touch a lot of
files as part of this PR.
We also decide to get away from proper JSON-RPC 2.0 semantics, so we
also introduce `codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/jsonrpc_lite.rs`, which
is basically the same `JSONRPCMessage` type defined in `mcp-types`
except with all of the `"jsonrpc": "2.0"` removed.
Getting rid of `"jsonrpc": "2.0"` makes our serialization logic
considerably simpler, as we can lean heavier on serde to serialize
directly into the wire format that we use now.
Reported height was `20` instead of `21`, so `area.height >=
MIN_ANIMATION_HEIGHT` was `false` and therefore `show_animation` was
`false`, so the animation never displayed.
Changes:
- skip the welcome animation when the terminal area is below 60x21
- skip the model upgrade animation when the terminal area is below 60x24
to avoid clipping
---------
Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com>
Created this PR by:
- adding `redundant_clone` to `[workspace.lints.clippy]` in
`cargo-rs/Cargol.toml`
- running `cargo clippy --tests --fix`
- running `just fmt`
Though I had to clean up one instance of the following that resulted:
```rust
let codex = codex;
```
This PR does the following:
* Adds the ability to paste or type an API key.
* Removes the `preferred_auth_method` config option. The last login
method is always persisted in auth.json, so this isn't needed.
* If OPENAI_API_KEY env variable is defined, the value is used to
prepopulate the new UI. The env variable is otherwise ignored by the
CLI.
* Adds a new MCP server entry point "login_api_key" so we can implement
this same API key behavior for the VS Code extension.
<img width="473" height="140" alt="Screenshot 2025-09-04 at 3 51 04 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c11bbd5b-8a4d-4d71-90fd-34130460f9d9"
/>
<img width="726" height="254" alt="Screenshot 2025-09-04 at 3 51 32 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6cc76b34-309a-4387-acbc-15ee5c756db9"
/>
The previous config approach had a few issues:
1. It is part of the config but not designed to be used externally
2. It had to be wired through many places (look at the +/- on this PR
3. It wasn't guaranteed to be set consistently everywhere because we
don't have a super well defined way that configs stack. For example, the
extension would configure during newConversation but anything that
happened outside of that (like login) wouldn't get it.
This env var approach is cleaner and also creates one less thing we have
to deal with when coming up with a better holistic story around configs.
One downside is that I removed the unit test testing for the override
because I don't want to deal with setting the global env or spawning
child processes and figuring out how to introspect their originator
header. The new code is sufficiently simple and I tested it e2e that I
feel as if this is still worth it.
## Summary
When resolving our current directory as a project, we want to be a
little bit more clever:
1. If we're in a sub-directory of a git repo, resolve our project
against the root of the git repo
2. If we're in a git worktree, resolve the project against the root of
the git repo
## Testing
- [x] Added unit tests
- [x] Confirmed locally with a git worktree (the one i was using for
this feature)
This PR adds a central `AuthManager` struct that manages the auth
information used across conversations and the MCP server. Prior to this,
each conversation and the MCP server got their own private snapshots of
the auth information, and changes to one (such as a logout or token
refresh) were not seen by others.
This is especially problematic when multiple instances of the CLI are
run. For example, consider the case where you start CLI 1 and log in to
ChatGPT account X and then start CLI 2 and log out and then log in to
ChatGPT account Y. The conversation in CLI 1 is still using account X,
but if you create a new conversation, it will suddenly (and
unexpectedly) switch to account Y.
With the `AuthManager`, auth information is read from disk at the time
the `ConversationManager` is constructed, and it is cached in memory.
All new conversations use this same auth information, as do any token
refreshes.
The `AuthManager` is also used by the MCP server's GetAuthStatus
command, which now returns the auth method currently used by the MCP
server.
This PR also includes an enhancement to the GetAuthStatus command. It
now accepts two new (optional) input parameters: `include_token` and
`refresh_token`. Callers can use this to request the in-use auth token
and can optionally request to refresh the token.
The PR also adds tests for the login and auth APIs that I recently added
to the MCP server.
this is in preparation for adding more separate "modes" to the tui, in
particular, a "transcript mode" to view a full history once #2316 lands.
1. split apart "tui events" from "app events".
2. remove onboarding-related events from AppEvent.
3. move several general drawing tools out of App and into a new Tui
class
Codex created this PR from the following prompt:
> upgrade this entire repo to Rust 1.89. Note that this requires
updating codex-rs/rust-toolchain.toml as well as the workflows in
.github/. Make sure that things are "clippy clean" as this change will
likely uncover new Clippy errors. `just fmt` and `cargo clippy --tests`
are sufficient to check for correctness
Note this modifies a lot of lines because it folds nested `if`
statements using `&&`.
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