## Why
CCA is moving toward a split runtime where the orchestrator may not have
a filesystem, while executors can expose preinstalled plugins and
skills. A thread therefore needs to select capabilities without asking
app-server or core to interpret executor-owned paths through the
orchestrator's filesystem.
The longer-term model is broader than executor skills:
- A plugin is a bundle of skills, MCP servers, connectors/apps, and
hooks.
- A plugin root can be local, executor-owned, or hosted by a backend.
- Components inside one plugin can use different access and execution
mechanisms. A skill may be read from a filesystem or through backend
tools; an HTTP MCP server can run without an executor; a stdio MCP
server or hook needs an execution environment.
- Core should carry generic extension initialization data. The extension
that owns a component should discover it, expose it to the model, and
invoke it through the appropriate runtime.
This PR establishes that architecture through one complete vertical:
selecting a root on an executor, discovering the skills beneath it,
exposing those skills to the model, and reading an explicitly invoked
`SKILL.md` through the same executor.
## Contract
`thread/start` gains an experimental `selectedCapabilityRoots` field:
```json
{
"selectedCapabilityRoots": [
{
"id": "deploy-plugin@1",
"location": {
"type": "environment",
"environmentId": "workspace",
"path": "/opt/codex/plugins/deploy"
}
}
]
}
```
The root is intentionally not classified as a "plugin" or "skill" in the
API. It can point at a standalone skill, a directory containing several
skills, or a plugin containing skills and other components. This PR only
teaches the skills extension how to consume it; later extensions can
resolve MCP, connector, and hook components from the same selection.
The platform-supplied `id` is stable selection identity. The location
says which runtime owns the root and gives that runtime an opaque path.
App-server does not inspect or canonicalize the path.
## What changed
### Generic thread extension initialization
App-server converts selected roots into `ExtensionDataInit`. Core
carries that generic initialization value until the final thread ID is
known, then creates thread-scoped `ExtensionData` before lifecycle
contributors run.
This keeps `Session` and core independent of the capability-selection
contract. The initialization value is consumed during construction; it
is not retained as another long-lived `Session` field.
### Executor-backed skills
The skills extension now owns an `ExecutorSkillProvider` that:
- resolves the selected environment through `EnvironmentManager`
- discovers, canonicalizes, and reads skills through that environment's
`ExecutorFileSystem`
- contributes the bounded selected-skill catalog as stable developer
context
- reads an explicitly invoked skill body through the authority that
listed it
- warns when an environment or root is unavailable
- never falls back to the orchestrator filesystem for an executor-owned
root
Skill catalog and instruction fragments have hard byte bounds, which
also bound them below the 10K-token per-item context limit. If a
selected executor skill has the same name as a legacy local skill, the
executor selection owns that invocation and the local body is not
injected a second time.
Existing local and bundled skill loading remains in place. Omitting
`selectedCapabilityRoots` therefore preserves current local-only
behavior.
## Current semantics
- Only environment-owned locations are represented in this first
contract.
- Roots are resolved by the destination extension, not by app-server or
core.
- An unavailable executor or invalid root produces a warning and no
capabilities from that root; it does not trigger a local-filesystem
fallback.
- Selection applies to a newly started active thread.
- MCP servers, connectors, and hooks beneath a selected plugin root are
not activated yet.
- Selection is not yet persisted or inherited across resume, fork, or
subagent creation. Existing local capabilities continue to behave as
they do today in those flows.
## Planned vertical follow-ups
1. **Hosted HTTP MCP:** add an extension-backed HTTP MCP source that
works without an executor, then replace the special-purpose MCP plugins
loader with that implementation.
2. **Executor MCP:** register and execute stdio MCP servers through the
environment that owns the selected plugin root.
3. **Backend skills:** add a hosted skill source whose catalog and
bodies are accessed through extension tools rather than a filesystem.
4. **Connectors and hooks:** activate those components through their
owning extensions, using the same selected-root boundary and
component-specific runtime.
5. **Durable selection:** define the desired-selection lifecycle,
persist it, and make resume, fork, and subagent inheritance explicit
rather than accidental.
6. **Local convergence:** incrementally route existing local plugin,
skill, and MCP loading through the same extension model while preserving
current local behavior.
Each follow-up remains reviewable as an end-to-end capability. The
platform selects roots, generic thread extension data carries the
selection, and the owning extension resolves and operates its component.
## Verification
Coverage added for:
- app-server end-to-end discovery and explicit invocation of a skill
inside an executor-selected plugin root
- exclusive invocation when a selected executor skill collides with a
local skill name
- executor filesystem authority for discovery, canonicalization, and
reads
- thread extension initialization before lifecycle contributors run
- stable executor catalog context, explicit invocation, context
rebuilding, hidden skills, and preserved host/remote catalog behavior
Targeted protocol, core-skills, skills-extension, core lifecycle, and
app-server executor-skill tests were run during development.
## 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.
## Stack
1. #25850 - Key request-permission grants by environment: stores and
applies sticky permission grants per environment id.
2. #25858 - Add `environmentId` to `request_permissions`: lets the model
target a selected environment and resolves relative permission paths
against it.
3. This PR (#25862) - Propagate permission approval environment id:
carries the selected environment id through approval events, app-server
requests, TUI prompts, and delegate forwarding.
4. #25867 - Add remote request permissions integration coverage:
verifies the selected remote environment across request, approval, grant
reuse, and exec.
This PR is stacked on #25858, and #25867 is stacked on this PR.
## Why
PR2 lets the model bind a `request_permissions` call to a selected
environment, but the approval event and client-facing request still
needed to carry that binding. For CCA, the user-facing prompt and
delegated approval path should know which environment the grant applies
to instead of relying on cwd alone.
## What Changed
- Added optional `environmentId` to `RequestPermissionsEvent`.
- Emit the selected environment id from core permission approval events.
- Preserve the environment id through delegate forwarding, including
cwd-based delegated requests.
- Added `environmentId` to app-server permission approval params,
generated schema/TypeScript artifacts, and README examples.
- Preserve and display the environment id in TUI permission approval
prompts.
- Updated focused core, app-server protocol, and TUI conversion
coverage.
## Testing
Not run locally per instruction. Performed read-only `git diff --check`.
## Stack
1. #25850 - Key request-permission grants by environment: stores and
applies sticky permission grants per environment id.
2. This PR (#25858) - Add `environmentId` to `request_permissions`: lets
the model target a selected environment and resolves relative permission
paths against it.
3. #25862 - Propagate permission approval environment id: carries the
selected environment id through approval events, app-server requests,
TUI prompts, and delegate forwarding.
4. #25867 - Add remote request permissions integration coverage:
verifies the selected remote environment across request, approval, grant
reuse, and exec.
This PR is stacked on #25850; #25862 and #25867 are stacked on this PR.
## Why
PR1 made request-permission grants internally environment-keyed, but the
model-facing `request_permissions` tool could still only target the
primary environment. For CCA and multi-environment turns, the tool needs
an explicit way to bind a permission request to a selected attached
environment before resolving relative paths.
## What Changed
- Added optional `environmentId` to `RequestPermissionsArgs`, with
`environment_id` accepted as an alias.
- Exposed `environmentId` in the `request_permissions` tool schema and
description.
- Resolve the selected environment before parsing filesystem permission
paths, so relative paths bind to the selected environment cwd.
- Route validated tool calls through
`request_permissions_for_environment` directly instead of duplicating
environment lookup in `Session::request_permissions`.
- Reject unknown environment ids with a model-facing error.
- Updated focused request-permissions and Guardian call sites for the
new optional field.
## Testing
Not run locally per instruction.
Stack split from #25708. Original PR intentionally left open. This third
PR resolves the effective per-thread multi-agent runtime from persisted
metadata, inherited runtime, and current model selection.
## Summary
Remove the dead experimental `persistExtendedHistory` app-server flag
and collapse rollout persistence to the single policy app-server already
used.
## What Changed
- Removed `persistExtendedHistory` from v2 thread start/resume/fork
params and deleted its deprecation notice path.
- Removed the persistence-mode enums and plumbing through core, rollout,
and thread-store.
- Made rollout filtering mode-free, keeping the existing limited
persisted-history behavior.
## Test Plan
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-app-server-protocol
schema_fixtures`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-app-server
thread_shell_command_history_responses_exclude_persisted_command_executions`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-rollout -p
codex-thread-store`
- final `rg` for removed flag/type names
## Why
This PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/24161#discussion_r3325692763
revealed a subagent data modeling issue, where we overloaded
`forked_from_id` to also mean `parent_thread_id`. That's incorrect since
guardian and review subagents can be a subagent and NOT fork the main
thread's history.
The solution here is to explicitly store a new `parent_thread_id` on
`SessionMeta`, alongside `forked_from_id` which already exists. While
we're at it, also expose it in the app-server protocol on the `Thread`
object.
A thread->subagent relationship and a fork of thread history are
orthogonal concepts.
## What Changed
- Added top-level `parent_thread_id` persistence on `SessionMeta` and
runtime/session plumbing through `SessionConfiguredEvent`,
`CodexSpawnArgs`, `SessionConfiguration`, `ThreadConfigSnapshot`,
`TurnContext`, and `ModelClient`.
- Made turn metadata, request headers, analytics, and subagent-start
events read the separate runtime/top-level parent field instead of
deriving general parent lineage from `SessionSource` or
`forked_from_thread_id`.
- Passed parent lineage separately at delegated subagent, review,
guardian, agent-job, and multi-agent spawn construction sites;
copied-history fork lineage remains derived only from `InitialHistory`.
- Persisted and exposed parent lineage through rollout/thread-store
projections and app-server v2 `Thread.parentThreadId`.
- Updated app-server README text and regenerated app-server schema
fixtures for the additive `parentThreadId` response field.
## 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`
## 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.
## Why
When Codex calls responsesapi, we currently send `session_id`,
`thread_id`, and `turn_id` among other things as
`client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`. This PR adds
`forked_from_thread_id` which helps explain the "lineage" of a forked
thread.
## What's changed
- Track the immediate history source copied into a forked thread through
thread/session creation, including subagent and review turn metadata
paths.
- Include `forked_from_thread_id` in Codex turn metadata while
preventing turn-scoped Responses API client metadata from overwriting
Codex-owned lineage fields.
- Add coverage for fork lineage in turn metadata and the app-server
Responses API request path.
## 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.
**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)
## Why
`TurnContext::cwd` and `TurnContext::resolve_path` are being phased out
in favor of using the selected turn environment cwd directly.
Deprecating both APIs makes any new direct dependency visible while
preserving the existing migration path for current callers.
## What Changed
- Marked `TurnContext::cwd` and `TurnContext::resolve_path` as
deprecated with guidance to use the selected turn environment cwd
instead.
- Added exact `#[allow(deprecated)]` suppressions at each existing
direct usage site, including tests, rather than adding crate-wide
suppression.
- Kept the change behavior-preserving: current cwd reads, writes, and
path resolution continue to use the same values.
## Verification
- `just fmt`
- `cargo check -p codex-core`
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
[#21736](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/21736) introduces the
typed extension API, but the runtime does not yet carry a registry
through thread/session startup or give contributors host-owned stores to
read from. This PR wires that host-side path so later feature migrations
can move product-specific behavior behind typed contributions without
adding another bespoke seam directly to `codex-core`.
## What changed
- Thread `ExtensionRegistry<Config>` through `ThreadManager`,
`CodexSpawnArgs`, `Session`, and sub-agent spawn paths.
- Wire `ThreadStartContributor` and `ContextContributor`
- Expose the small supporting surface needed by non-core callers that
construct threads directly, including `empty_extension_registry()`
through `codex-core-api`.
This PR lands the host plumbing only: the app-server registry is still
empty, and concrete feature migrations are intended to follow
separately.
## Why
PR #21460 reverted the earlier move of skills change watching from
`codex-core` into app-server. This reapplies that boundary change so
app-server owns client-facing `skills/changed` notifications and core no
longer carries the watcher.
## What
- Restore the app-server `SkillsWatcher` and register it from thread
listener setup.
- Remove the core-owned skills watcher and its core live-reload
integration surface.
- Restore app-server coverage for `skills/changed` notifications after a
watched skill file changes.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
suite::v2::skills_list::skills_changed_notification_is_emitted_after_skill_change
-- --exact --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib --no-run`
## Summary
TL;DR: teaches `codex-rs` / app-server to request a desktop-provided
attestation token and attach it as `x-oai-attestation` on the scoped
ChatGPT Codex request paths.

## Details
This PR teaches the Codex app-server runtime how to request and attach
an attestation token. It does not generate DeviceCheck tokens directly;
instead, it relies on the connected desktop app to advertise that it can
generate attestation and then asks that app for a fresh header value
when needed.
The flow is:
1. The Codex desktop app connects to app-server.
2. During `initialize`, the app can advertise that it supports
`requestAttestation`.
3. Before app-server calls selected ChatGPT Codex endpoints, it sends
the internal server request `attestation/generate` to the app.
4. app-server receives a pre-encoded header value back.
5. app-server forwards that value as `x-oai-attestation` on the scoped
outbound requests.
The code in this repo is mostly protocol and runtime plumbing: it adds
the app-server request/response shape, introduces an attestation
provider in core, wires that provider into Responses / compaction /
realtime setup paths, and covers the intended scoping with tests. The
signed macOS DeviceCheck generation remains owned by the desktop app PR.
## Related PR
- Codex desktop app implementation:
https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/878649
## Validation
<details>
<summary>Tests run</summary>
```sh
cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
cargo test -p codex-core attestation --lib
cargo test -p codex-app-server --lib attestation
```
Also ran:
```sh
just fix -p codex-core
just fix -p codex-app-server
just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol
just fmt
just write-app-server-schema
```
</details>
<details>
<summary>E2E DeviceCheck validation</summary>
First validated the signed desktop app boundary directly: launched a
packaged signed `Codex.app`, sent `attestation/generate`, decoded the
returned `v1.` attestation header, and validated the extracted
DeviceCheck token with `personal/jm/verify_devicecheck_token.py` using
bundle ID `com.openai.codex`. Apple returned `status_code: 200` and
`is_ok: true`.
Then ran the fuller app + app-server flow. The packaged `Codex.app`
launched a current-branch app-server via `CODEX_CLI_PATH`, and a local
MITM proxy intercepted outbound `chatgpt.com` traffic. The app-server
requested `attestation/generate` from the real Electron app process, and
the intercepted `/backend-api/codex/responses` traffic included
`x-oai-attestation` on both routes:
```text
GET /backend-api/codex/responses Upgrade: websocket x-oai-attestation: present
POST /backend-api/codex/responses Upgrade: none x-oai-attestation: present
```
The captured header decoded to a DeviceCheck token that also validated
with Apple for `com.openai.codex` (`status_code: 200`, `is_ok: true`,
team `2DC432GLL2`).
</details>
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## Why
Reverts #20689 to restore the previous optional state DB plumbing. The
conflict resolution keeps the newer installation ID and session/thread
identity changes that landed after #20689, while removing the mandatory
state DB and agent graph store dependency from ThreadManager
construction.
## What changed
- Restored `Option<StateDbHandle>` through app-server, MCP server,
prompt debug, and test entry points.
- Removed the `codex-core` dependency on `codex-agent-graph-store` and
reverted descendant lookup back to the existing state DB path when
available.
- Kept newer `installation_id` forwarding by passing it beside the
optional DB handle.
- Kept local thread-name updates working when the optional state DB
handle is absent.
## Validation
- `git diff --check`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-store`
- `cargo test -p codex-state -p codex-rollout -p
codex-app-server-protocol`
- Attempted `env CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test -p codex-core -p
codex-app-server -p codex-app-server-client -p codex-mcp-server -p
codex-thread-manager-sample -p codex-tui`; blocked locally by a rustc
ICE while compiling `v8 v146.4.0` with `rustc 1.93.0 (254b59607
2026-01-19)` on `aarch64-apple-darwin`.
## Why
Skills update notifications are app-server API behavior, but the watcher
lived in `codex-core` and surfaced through
`EventMsg::SkillsUpdateAvailable`. Moving the watcher out keeps core
focused on thread execution and lets app-server own both cache
invalidation and the `skills/changed` notification.
## What changed
- Added an app-server-owned skills watcher that watches local skill
roots, clears the shared skills cache, and emits `skills/changed`
directly.
- Registers skill watches from the common app-server thread listener
attach path, including direct starts, resumes, and app-server-observed
child or forked threads.
- Stores the `WatchRegistration` on `ThreadState`, so listener
replacement, thread teardown, idle unload, and app-server shutdown
deregister by dropping the RAII guard.
- Removed `EventMsg::SkillsUpdateAvailable`, the core watcher, and the
old core live-reload test.
- Extended the app-server skills change test to verify a cached skills
list is refreshed after a filesystem change without forcing reload.
## Validation
- `cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-mcp-server -p
codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
skills_changed_notification_is_emitted_after_skill_change`
## Summary
- resolve or inject the installation ID before core startup and pass it
through `ThreadManager`, `CodexSpawnArgs`, and `Session` as a plain
`String`
- keep child sessions on the parent installation ID instead of
rediscovering it inside core
- propagate installation ID startup failures in `mcp-server` instead of
panicking
## Why
Core was still touching the filesystem on the session startup path to
discover `installation_id`. This moves that work to the outer host
boundary so core no longer depends on `codex_home` reads during session
construction.
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## 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`
## Why
Thread names are app-server metadata now, backed by the thread store and
sqlite state database. Keeping a core `SetThreadName` op plus a rollout
`thread_name_updated` event made rename persistence live in the wrong
layer and required historical replay support for an event that new
app-server flows should not write.
## What changed
- Removed `Op::SetThreadName` and `EventMsg::ThreadNameUpdated` from the
core protocol and deleted the core handler path that appended rename
events to rollouts.
- Updated app-server `thread/name/set` so both loaded and unloaded
threads write through thread-store metadata and app-server emits
`thread/name/updated` notifications.
- Updated local thread-store name metadata updates to write sqlite title
metadata and the legacy thread-name index without appending rollout
events.
- Removed state extraction and rollout handling for the deleted
thread-name event.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_name_updated_broadcasts`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
thread_name_set_is_reflected_in_read_list_and_resume`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-store
update_thread_metadata_sets_name_on_active_rollout_and_indexes_name`
- `cargo test -p codex-state`
- `cargo check -p codex-mcp-server -p codex-rollout-trace`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server -p codex-thread-store -p codex-state -p
codex-mcp-server -p codex-rollout-trace`
## Docs
No external documentation update is expected for this internal ownership
change.
## Why
We want the agent graph store to be passed down the stack as a real
dependency, the same way we already treat the thread store.
This will let us inject the agent graph store as a real dependency and
support implementations other than the local SQLite-backed one. Right
now most code instantiates a state DB and an agent graph store
just-in-time. Ideally, we would not depend on the state DB directly but
only read through the higher-level interfaces.
This change makes the dependency boundaries explicit and moves state DB
initialization to process bootstrap instead of hiding it inside local
store implementations.
## What changed
- `ThreadManager` now requires a `StateDbHandle` and an
`AgentGraphStore` at construction time instead of treating them as
optional internals.
- The local store constructors no longer lazily initialize SQLite.
Callers now initialize the state DB once per process and use that shared
handle to build:
- `LocalThreadStore`
- `LocalAgentGraphStore`
- App bootstraps (`app-server`, `mcp-server`, `prompt_debug`, and the
thread-manager sample) now initialize the state DB up front and inject
the resulting handle down the stack.
- `app-server` now consistently uses its process-scoped state DB handle
instead of reopening SQLite or trying to recover it from loaded threads.
- Device-key storage now reuses the shared state DB handle instead of
maintaining its own lazy opener.
- The thread archive / descendant traversal paths now use the injected
`AgentGraphStore` instead of reaching through local
thread-store-specific state.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-thread-store -p codex-app-server
-p codex-mcp-server -p codex-thread-manager-sample --tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-store`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
thread_manager_accepts_separate_agent_graph_store_and_thread_store --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
thread_archive_archives_spawned_descendants -- --nocapture`
## Why
This is a prep PR in the multi-environment process-tool stack. It
separates ownership/config cleanup from the behavior change that teaches
process tools to route by selected environment, so the follow-up PR can
focus on model-facing `environment_id` behavior.
## Stack
1. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20646 - `EnvironmentContext`
rendering for selected environments
2. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20669 - selected-environment
ownership and tool config prep (this PR)
3. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20647 - process-tool
`environment_id` routing
## What Changed
- keep the resolved turn environment list wrapped in
`ResolvedTurnEnvironments` through `TurnContext` instead of unwrapping
it back to a raw `Vec`
- add `TurnContext::resolve_path_against` so cwd-relative path
resolution has one shared helper
- replace the old tool config boolean with `ToolEnvironmentMode::{None,
Single, Multiple}`
## Testing
- Tests not run locally; this prep refactor is covered by GitHub CI for
the stack.
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
- make selected turn environments the source of truth for session
runtime cwd and MCP runtime environment selection
- keep local/no-selection fallback behavior intact
- add coverage for duplicate selected environments, cwd resolution, and
MCP runtime environment selection
## Validation
- git diff --check
- rustfmt was run on touched Rust files during the implementation
workflow
CI should provide the full Bazel/test signal.
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## Why
Several legacy `EventMsg` variants were still emitted or mapped even
though clients either ignored them or had moved to item/lifecycle
events. `Op::Undo` had also degraded to an unavailable shim, so this
removes that dead task path instead of preserving a command that cannot
do useful work.
`McpStartupComplete`, `WebSearchBegin`, and `ImageGenerationBegin` are
intentionally kept because useful consumers still depend on them: MCP
startup completion drives readiness behavior, and the begin events let
app-server/core consumers surface in-progress web-search and
image-generation items before the final payload arrives.
## What Changed
- Removed weak legacy event variants and payloads from `codex-protocol`,
including legacy agent deltas, background events, and undo lifecycle
events.
- Kept/restored `EventMsg::McpStartupComplete`,
`EventMsg::WebSearchBegin`, and `EventMsg::ImageGenerationBegin` with
serializer and emission coverage.
- Updated core, rollout, MCP server, app-server thread history,
review/delegate filtering, and tests to rely on the useful replacement
events that remain.
- Removed `Op::Undo`, `UndoTask`, the undo test module, and stale TUI
slash-command comments.
- Stopped agent job/background progress and compaction retry notices
from emitting `BackgroundEvent` payloads.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-core -p codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all suite::items`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-core
-p codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server`
- Earlier coverage on this PR also included `codex-mcp`, `codex-tui`,
core library tests, MCP/plugin/delegate/review/agent job tests, and MCP
startup TUI tests.
## Why
`codex-models-manager` had grown to own provider-specific concerns:
constructing OpenAI-compatible `/models` requests, resolving provider
auth, emitting request telemetry, and deciding how provider catalogs
should be sourced. That made the manager harder to reuse for providers
whose model catalog is not fetched from the OpenAI `/models` endpoint,
such as Amazon Bedrock.
This change moves provider-specific model discovery behind
provider-owned implementations, so the models manager can focus on
refresh policy, cache behavior, picker ordering, and model metadata
merging.
## What Changed
- Introduced a `ModelsManager` trait with separate `OpenAiModelsManager`
and `StaticModelsManager` implementations.
- Added `ModelsEndpointClient` so OpenAI-compatible HTTP fetching lives
outside `codex-models-manager`.
- Moved `/models` request construction, provider auth resolution,
timeout handling, and request telemetry into `codex-model-provider` via
`OpenAiModelsEndpoint`.
- Added provider-owned `models_manager(...)` construction so configured
OpenAI-compatible providers use `OpenAiModelsManager`, while
static/catalog-backed providers can return `StaticModelsManager`.
- Added an Amazon Bedrock static model catalog for the GPT OSS Bedrock
model IDs.
- Updated core/session/thread manager code and tests to depend on
`Arc<dyn ModelsManager>`.
- Moved offline model test helpers into
`codex_models_manager::test_support`.
## Metadata References
The Bedrock catalog metadata is based on the official Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI model documentation:
- [Amazon Bedrock OpenAI
models](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-parameters-openai.html)
lists the Bedrock model IDs, text input/output modalities, and `128,000`
token context window for `gpt-oss-20b` and `gpt-oss-120b`.
- [Amazon Bedrock `gpt-oss-120b` model
card](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-openai-gpt-oss-120b.html)
lists the `bedrock-runtime` model ID `openai.gpt-oss-120b-1:0`, the
`bedrock-mantle` model ID `openai.gpt-oss-120b`, text-only modalities,
and `128K` context window.
- [OpenAI `gpt-oss-120b` model
docs](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-oss-120b)
document configurable reasoning effort with `low`, `medium`, and `high`,
plus text input/output modality.
The display names, default reasoning effort, and priority ordering are
Codex-local catalog choices.
## Test Plan
- Manually verified app-server model listing with an AWS profile:
```shell
CODEX_HOME="$(mktemp -d)" cargo run -p codex-app-server-test-client -- \
--codex-bin ./target/debug/codex \
-c 'model_provider="amazon-bedrock"' \
-c 'model_providers.amazon-bedrock.aws.profile="codex-bedrock"' \
-c 'model_providers.amazon-bedrock.aws.region="us-west-2"' \
model-list
```
The response returned the Bedrock catalog with `openai.gpt-oss-120b-1:0`
as the default model and `openai.gpt-oss-20b-1:0` as the second listed
model, both text-only and supporting low/medium/high reasoning effort.
## Summary
Adds the debug CLI entry point for reducing recorded rollout traces.
This gives developers a direct way to inspect whether the emitted trace
stream reduces into the expected conversation/runtime model.
## Stack
This is PR 5/5 in the rollout trace stack.
- [#18876](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18876): Add rollout
trace crate
- [#18877](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18877): Record core
session rollout traces
- [#18878](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18878): Trace tool and
code-mode boundaries
- [#18879](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18879): Trace sessions
and multi-agent edges
- [#18880](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18880): Add debug trace
reduction command
## Review Notes
This PR is intentionally last: it depends on the trace crate, core
recorder, runtime/tool events, and session/agent edge data all existing.
The command should remain a debug/developer tool and avoid adding new
runtime behavior.
The useful review question is whether the CLI exposes the reducer in the
smallest practical way for local inspection without turning the debug
command into a supported user-facing workflow.
Addresses #11267
## Summary
`/review` can be interrupted while it is still spawning the review
sub-agent. That spawn path lives in `codex-core` and did not observe the
task cancellation token until after `Codex::spawn` returned, so an
interrupted review could keep building a child session and leave the TUI
in a wedged state.
The TUI exit path also waited indefinitely for app-server
`thread/unsubscribe`, which made Ctrl+C look broken if the app-server
was already stuck. This makes interactive delegate startup
cancellation-aware and bounds the TUI shutdown-first unsubscribe wait
with a short UI escape-hatch timeout.
## Testing
I reproed the hang using the steps in the bug report. Confirmed hang no
longer exists after fix.
Begin migrating the thread write codepaths to ThreadStore.
This starts using ThreadStore inside of core session code, not only in
the app server code.
Rework the interfaces around thread recording/persistence. We're left
with the following:
* `ThreadManager`: owns the process-level registry of loaded threads and
handles cross-thread orchestration: start, resume, fork, lookup, remove,
and route ops to running CodexThreads.
* `CodexThread`: represents one loaded/running thread from the outside.
It is the handle app-server and callers use to submit ops, inspect
session metadata, and shut the thread down.
* `LiveThread`: session-owned persistence lifecycle handle for one
active thread. Core session code uses it to append rollout items,
materialize lazy persistence, flush, shutdown, discard init-failed
writers, and load that thread’s persisted history.
* `ThreadStore`: storage backend abstraction. It answers “how are
threads persisted, read, listed, updated, archived?” Local and remote
implementations live behind this trait.
* `LocalThreadStore`: local ThreadStore implementation. It owns the
file/sqlite-specific details and keeps RolloutRecorder as a local
implementation detail.
This is a few too many Thread abstractions for my liking, but they do
all represent different concepts / needs / layers.
Migration note: in places where the core code explicitly requires a
path, rather than a thread ID, throw an error if we're running with a
remote store.
Cover the new local live-writer lifecycle with focused tests and
preserve app-server thread-start behavior, including ephemeral pathless
sessions.
## Summary
Allow the user to approve a request_permissions_tool request with the
condition that all commands in the rest of the turn are reviewed by
guardian, regardless of sandbox status.
## Testing
- [x] Added unit tests
- [x] Ran locally
## Summary
Wires rollout trace recording into `codex-core` session and turn
execution. This records the core model request/response, compaction, and
session lifecycle boundaries needed for replay without yet tracing every
nested runtime/tool boundary.
## Stack
This is PR 2/5 in the rollout trace stack.
- [#18876](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18876): Add rollout
trace crate
- [#18877](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18877): Record core
session rollout traces
- [#18878](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18878): Trace tool and
code-mode boundaries
- [#18879](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18879): Trace sessions
and multi-agent edges
- [#18880](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18880): Add debug trace
reduction command
## Review Notes
This layer is the first live integration point. The important review
question is whether trace recording is isolated from normal session
behavior: trace failures should not become user-visible execution
failures, and recording should preserve the existing turn/session
lifecycle semantics.
The PR depends on the reducer/data model from the first stack entry and
only introduces the core recorder surface that later PRs use for richer
runtime and relationship events.
## Why
Guardian approvals now run as review sessions, but Codex analytics did
not have a terminal event for those reviews. That made it hard to
measure approval outcomes, failure modes, Guardian session reuse, model
metadata, token usage, and timing separately from the parent turn.
## What changed
Adds `codex_guardian_review` analytics emission for Guardian approval
reviews. The event is emitted from the Guardian review path with review
identity, target item id, approval request source, a PII-minimized
reviewed-action shape, terminal decision/status, failure reason,
Guardian assessment fields, Guardian session metadata, token usage, and
timing metadata.
The reviewed-action payload intentionally omits high-risk fields such as
shell commands, working directories, argv, file paths, network
targets/hosts, rationale, retry reason, and permission justifications.
It also classifies prompt-build failures separately from Guardian
session/runtime failures so fail-closed cases are distinguishable in
analytics.
## Verification
- Guardian review analytics tests cover terminal success,
timeout/cancel/fail-closed paths, session metadata, and token usage
plumbing.
- `cargo clippy -p codex-core --lib --tests -- -D warnings`
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with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/17693).
* #17696
* #17695
* __->__ #17693
## 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
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## Why
Permission approval responses must not be able to grant more access than
the tool requested. Moving this flow to `PermissionProfile` means the
comparison must be profile-shaped instead of `SandboxPolicy`-shaped, and
cwd-relative special paths such as `:cwd` and `:project_roots` must stay
anchored to the turn that produced the request.
## What changed
This implements semantic `PermissionProfile` intersection in
`codex-sandboxing` for file-system and network permissions. The
intersection accepts narrower path grants, rejects broader grants,
preserves deny-read carve-outs and glob scan depth, and materializes
cwd-dependent special-path grants to absolute paths before they can be
recorded for reuse.
The request-permissions response paths now use that intersection
consistently. App-server captures the request turn cwd before waiting
for the client response, includes that cwd in the v2 approval params,
and core stores the requested profile plus cwd for direct TUI/client
responses and Guardian decisions before recording turn- or
session-scoped grants. The TUI app-server bridge now preserves the
app-server request cwd when converting permission approval params into
core events.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-sandboxing intersect_permission_profiles --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server request_permissions_response --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
request_permissions_response_materializes_session_cwd_grants_before_recording
-- --nocapture`
- `cargo check -p codex-tui --tests`
- `cargo check --tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
app_server_request_permissions_preserves_file_system_permissions`
## Summary
When auto-review is enabled, it should handle request_permissions tool.
We'll need to clean up the UX but I'm planning to do that in a separate
pass
## Testing
- [x] Ran locally
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### **Issue**
guardian_parallel_reviews_fork_from_last_committed_trunk_history was
failing on Windows/Bazel with a stack overflow:
`thread
'guardian::tests::guardian_parallel_reviews_fork_from_last_committed_trunk_history'
has overflowed its stack`
- This problem was a stack-headroom problem
### **Solution**
Reduced stack pressure in the guardian async path by boxing thin wrapper
futures, and run the affected test on a dedicated 2 MiB thread stack.
Concretely:
- added Box::pin(...) around thin async wrapper hops in the guardian
review/delegate path
- changed
guardian_parallel_reviews_fork_from_last_committed_trunk_history to run
inside an explicitly sized thread stack so it has enough headroom in
low-stack environments
## Summary
- Add `TimedOut` to Guardian/review carrier types:
- `ReviewDecision::TimedOut`
- `GuardianAssessmentStatus::TimedOut`
- app-server v2 `GuardianApprovalReviewStatus::TimedOut`
- Regenerate app-server JSON/TypeScript schemas for the new wire shape.
- Wire the new status through core/app-server/TUI mappings with
conservative fail-closed handling.
- Keep `TimedOut` non-user-selectable in the approval UI.
**Does not change runtime behavior yet; emitting `TimeOut` and
parent-model timeout messaging will come in followup PRs**
## Description
This PR introduces `review_id` as the stable identifier for guardian
reviews and exposes it in app-server `item/autoApprovalReview/started`
and `item/autoApprovalReview/completed` events.
Internally, guardian rejection state is now keyed by `review_id` instead
of the reviewed tool item ID. `target_item_id` is still included when a
review maps to a concrete thread item, but it is no longer overloaded as
the review lifecycle identifier.
## Motivation
We'd like to give users the ability to preempt a guardian review while
it's running (approve or decline).
However, we can't implement the API that allows the user to override a
running guardian review because we didn't have a unique `review_id` per
guardian review. Using `target_item_id` is not correct since:
- with execve reviews, there can be multiple execve calls (and therefore
guardian reviews) per shell command
- with network policy reviews, there is no target item ID
The PR that actually implements user overrides will use `review_id` as
the stable identifier.
## Summary
This PR adds the parent conversation/session id to the subagent-start
analytics event for Guardian subagents.
Previously, Guardian sessions were emitted as subagent
thread-initialized events, but their `parent_thread_id` was serialized
as `null`. After this change, the `codex_thread_initialized` analytics
event for a Guardian child session includes the parent user conversation
id.
## Summary
App-server v2 already receives turn-scoped `clientMetadata`, but the
Rust app-server was dropping it before the outbound Responses request.
This change keeps the fix lightweight by threading that metadata through
the existing turn-metadata path rather than inventing a new transport.
## What we're trying to do and why
We want turn-scoped metadata from the app-server protocol layer,
especially fields like Hermes/GAAS run IDs, to survive all the way to
the actual Responses API request so it is visible in downstream
websocket request logging and analytics.
The specific bug was:
- app-server protocol uses camelCase `clientMetadata`
- Responses transport already has an existing turn metadata carrier:
`x-codex-turn-metadata`
- websocket transport already rewrites that header into
`request.request_body.client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`
- but the Rust app-server never parsed or stored `clientMetadata`, so
nothing from the app-server request was making it into that existing
path
This PR fixes that without adding a new header or a second metadata
channel.
## How we did it
### Protocol surface
- Add optional `clientMetadata` to v2 `TurnStartParams` and
`TurnSteerParams`
- Regenerate the JSON schema / TypeScript fixtures
- Update app-server docs to describe the field and its behavior
### Runtime plumbing
- Add a dedicated core op for app-server user input carrying turn-scoped
metadata: `Op::UserInputWithClientMetadata`
- Wire `turn/start` and `turn/steer` through that op / signature path
instead of dropping the metadata at the message-processor boundary
- Store the metadata in `TurnMetadataState`
### Transport behavior
- Reuse the existing serialized `x-codex-turn-metadata` payload
- Merge the new app-server `clientMetadata` into that JSON additively
- Do **not** replace built-in reserved fields already present in the
turn metadata payload
- Keep websocket behavior unchanged at the outer shape level: it still
sends only `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, but that JSON
string now contains the merged fields
- Keep HTTP fallback behavior unchanged except that the existing
`x-codex-turn-metadata` header now includes the merged fields too
### Request shape before / after
Before, a websocket `response.create` looked like:
```json
{
"type": "response.create",
"client_metadata": {
"x-codex-turn-metadata": "{\"session_id\":\"...\",\"turn_id\":\"...\"}"
}
}
```
Even if the app-server caller supplied `clientMetadata`, it was not
represented there.
After, the same request shape is preserved, but the serialized payload
now includes the new turn-scoped fields:
```json
{
"type": "response.create",
"client_metadata": {
"x-codex-turn-metadata": "{\"session_id\":\"...\",\"turn_id\":\"...\",\"fiber_run_id\":\"fiber-start-123\",\"origin\":\"gaas\"}"
}
}
```
## Validation
### Targeted tests added / updated
- protocol round-trip coverage for `clientMetadata` on `turn/start` and
`turn/steer`
- protocol round-trip coverage for `Op::UserInputWithClientMetadata`
- `TurnMetadataState` merge test proving client metadata is added
without overwriting reserved built-in fields
- websocket request-shape test proving outbound `response.create`
contains merged metadata inside
`client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`
- app-server integration tests proving:
- `turn/start` forwards `clientMetadata` into the outbound Responses
request path
- websocket warmup + real turn request both behave correctly
- `turn/steer` updates the follow-up request metadata
### Commands run
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
turn_metadata_state_merges_client_metadata_without_replacing_reserved_fields
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
responses_websocket_preserves_custom_turn_metadata_fields`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all client_metadata`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
turn_start_forwards_client_metadata_to_responses_websocket_request_body_v2
-- --nocapture`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol
-p codex-app-server`
- `just fix -p codex-exec -p codex-tui-app-server`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
### Full suite note
`cargo test` in `codex-rs` still fails in:
-
`suite::v2::turn_interrupt::turn_interrupt_resolves_pending_command_approval_request`
I verified that same failure on a clean detached `HEAD` worktree with an
isolated `CARGO_TARGET_DIR`, so it is not caused by this patch.