## Why
[#23883](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23883) moved the
user-facing `--profile` flag onto profile v2 and
[#23886](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23886) removed CLI
forwarding for the legacy profile-v1 path. Core and TUI config
persistence still carried `active_profile` and
`ConfigEditsBuilder::with_profile`, which let later writes continue
targeting legacy `[profiles.<name>]` tables after profile selection
moved to profile-v2 config files.
## What
- Remove legacy profile routing from
[`ConfigEditsBuilder`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/4b38e9c22e762261d7f7eef49d8a21792e241a06/codex-rs/core/src/config/edit.rs#L1064-L1294),
so core config edits no longer carry `with_profile` or infer
`[profiles.*]` write targets from a `profile` key.
- Drop `active_profile` plumbing from runtime `Config`, TUI
startup/state, app-server config override forwarding, and Windows
sandbox setup persistence.
- Make app-server-backed TUI config edits use unscoped model,
service-tier, feature, Auto-review, plan-mode, and Windows sandbox paths
through
[`tui/src/config_update.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/4b38e9c22e762261d7f7eef49d8a21792e241a06/codex-rs/tui/src/config_update.rs#L43-L112).
- Update config edit coverage so legacy `profile` state stays untouched
by direct model writes, and remove tests whose only contract was the
deleted profile-scoped persistence path.
## Testing
- Not run locally.
# Why
This is a follow-up stacked on top of the `plugin_hooks` default-on
change. Once we are comfortable making plugin hooks part of the normal
plugin behavior, the separate feature flag stops buying us much and
leaves extra branching/cache state behind.
# What
- remove the `PluginHooks` feature and generated config-schema entries
- make plugin hook loading/listing follow plugin enablement directly
- drop plugin-manager cache/state that only existed to distinguish
hook-flag toggles
- remove tests and fixtures that modeled `plugin_hooks = true/false`
## Summary
- add experimental `thread/search` for local rollout-backed thread
search using `rg` over JSONL rollouts
- return search-specific result rows with optional previews instead of
storing preview data on `StoredThread` or ordinary `Thread` responses
- keep `thread/list` separate from full-content search and document the
new app-server surface
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
thread_search_returns_content_and_title_matches -- --nocapture`
## Summary
- route each configured MCP server through an explicit per-server
`environment_id` instead of a manager-wide remote toggle
- default omitted `environment_id` to `local`, resolve named ids through
`EnvironmentManager`, and fail only the affected MCP server when an
explicit id is unknown
- keep local stdio on the existing local launcher path for now, while
named-environment stdio uses the selected environment backend and
requires an absolute `cwd`
- allow local HTTP MCP servers to keep using the ambient HTTP client
when no local `Environment` is configured; named-environment HTTP MCPs
use that environment's HTTP client
## Validation
- devbox Bazel build: `bazel build --bes_backend= --bes_results_url=
//codex-rs/cli:codex //codex-rs/rmcp-client:test_stdio_server
//codex-rs/rmcp-client:test_streamable_http_server`
- devbox app-server config matrix with real `config.toml` /
`environments.toml` files covering omitted local, explicit local,
omitted local under remote default, explicit remote stdio, local HTTP
without local env, explicit remote HTTP, local stdio without local env,
unknown explicit env, and remote stdio without `cwd`
## Why
Cloud-managed `requirements.toml` should be able to define the managed
permission profiles a client may select and constrain that selectable
set without requiring local user config to recreate the profile catalog.
This keeps requirements focused on restrictions. The selected default
remains a config or session choice, while requirements contribute the
managed profile bodies and `allowed_permissions` allowlist that the
config-loading boundary validates before a resolved runtime
`PermissionProfile` is installed.
## What changed
- Add `requirements.toml` support for a managed permission-profile
catalog plus its allowlist:
```toml
allowed_permissions = ["review", "build"]
[permissions.review]
extends = ":read-only"
[permissions.build]
extends = ":workspace"
```
- Merge requirements-defined profile bodies into the effective
permission catalog and reject profile ids that collide with
config-defined profiles.
- Validate that every `allowed_permissions` entry resolves to a built-in
or catalog profile before selection uses it.
- Preserve allowed configured named-profile selections. When a
configured named profile is disallowed, fall back to the first allowed
requirements profile with a startup warning.
- Keep built-in selections and the stock trust-based `:read-only` /
`:workspace` fallback path intact when no permission profile is
explicitly selected.
- Centralize the managed catalog and allowlist selection path in
`EffectivePermissionSelection` so the requirements boundary is visible
in config loading.
- Surface `allowedPermissions` through `configRequirements/read`, and
update the generated app-server schema fixtures plus the app-server
README.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core system_requirements_`
- `cargo test -p codex-core system_allowed_permissions_`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
## Related work
- Uses merged permission-profile inheritance support from #22270 and
#23705.
- Kept separate from the in-flight permission profile listing API in
#23412.
Add owning plugin id to MCP tool call items so we can better filter them
at plugin level.
## Summary
- add optional `plugin_id` to MCP tool-call items and legacy begin/end
events
- propagate plugin metadata into emitted core items and app-server v2
`ThreadItem::McpToolCall`
- preserve plugin ids through app-server replay/redaction paths and
regenerate v2 schema fixtures
## Testing
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core mcp_tool_call_item_includes_plugin_id --lib`
- `cargo check -p codex-tui --tests`
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server --tests`
- `git diff --check`
## Notes
- `just fix -p codex-core` completed with two non-fatal
`too_many_arguments` warnings on the touched MCP notification helpers.
- A broader `cargo test -p codex-core` run passed core unit tests, then
hit shell/sandbox/snapshot failures in the integration target.
- A broader app-server downstream run hit the existing
`in_process::tests::in_process_start_clamps_zero_channel_capacity` stack
overflow; `cargo test -p codex-exec` also hit the existing sandbox
expectation mismatch in
`thread_lifecycle_params_include_legacy_sandbox_when_no_active_profile`.
# What
<img width="1792" height="1024" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8f81d232-5813-4994-a61d-e42a05a93a3e"
/>
`SubagentStop` runs when a thread-spawned subagent turn is about to
finish. Thread-spawned subagents use `SubagentStop` instead of the
normal root-agent `Stop` hook.
Configured handlers match on `agent_type`. Hook input includes the
normal stop fields plus:
- `agent_id`: the child thread id.
- `agent_type`: the resolved subagent type.
- `agent_transcript_path`: the child subagent transcript path.
- `transcript_path`: the parent thread transcript path.
- `last_assistant_message`: the final assistant message from the child
turn, when available.
- `stop_hook_active`: `true` when the child is already continuing
because an earlier stop-like hook blocked completion.
`SubagentStop` shares the same completion-control semantics as `Stop`,
scoped to the child turn:
- No decision allows the child turn to finish.
- `decision: "block"` with a non-empty `reason` records that reason as
hook feedback and continues the child with that prompt.
- `continue: false` stops the child turn. If `stopReason` is present,
Codex surfaces it as the stop reason.
# Lifecycle Scope
Only thread-spawned subagents run `SubagentStop`.
Internal/system subagents such as Review, Compact, MemoryConsolidation,
and Other do not run normal `Stop` hooks and do not run `SubagentStop`.
This avoids exposing synthetic matcher labels for internal
implementation paths.
# Stack
1. #22782: add `SubagentStart`.
2. This PR: add `SubagentStop`.
3. #22882: add subagent identity to normal hook inputs.
## Why
App-server clients need a way to update a thread's next-turn settings
without starting a turn, adding transcript content, or waiting for turn
lifecycle events. This gives settings UI a direct path for durable
thread settings while clients observe the eventual effective state
through a notification.
This is a simplified rework of PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22509. In particular, it changes
the `thread/settings/update` api to return immediately rather than
waiting and returning the effective (updated) thread settings. This
makes the new api consistent with `turn/start` and greatly reduces the
complexity of the implementation relative to the earlier attempt.
## What Changed
- Adds experimental `thread/settings/update` with partial-update request
fields and an empty acknowledgment response.
- Adds experimental `thread/settings/updated`, carrying full effective
`ThreadSettings` and scoped by `threadId` to subscribed clients for the
affected thread.
- Shares durable settings validation with `turn/start`, including
`sandboxPolicy` plus `permissions` rejection and `serviceTier: null`
clearing.
- Emits the same settings notification when `turn/start` overrides
change the stored effective thread settings.
- Regenerates app-server protocol schema fixtures and updates
`app-server/README.md`.
## Why
Pressing `Ctrl+C` or `Ctrl+D` in the TUI could make Codex pause during
shutdown when app-server background work still held outbound sender
clones.
Shutdown tracing against the current `~/.codex` path found three
relevant holders:
- `SkillsWatcher` kept its event-loop task alive until the shutdown
timeout path.
- `AppServerAttestationProvider` retained a strong
`Arc<OutgoingMessageSender>`, which could keep outbound teardown waiting
after the processor task had exited.
- A background `apps/list` task could still own an outbound sender when
shutdown began, causing the in-process app-server runtime to wait for
its outbound channel to close.
## What Changed
- Give `SkillsWatcher` an explicit shutdown `CancellationToken` and
cancel it from app-server teardown so its event loop drops the outbound
sender promptly.
- Change `AppServerAttestationProvider` to keep a
`Weak<OutgoingMessageSender>` and return immediately when it can no
longer be upgraded.
- Give `AppsRequestProcessor` a shutdown `CancellationToken` and cancel
in-flight background `apps/list` work during teardown.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex TUI from a real home configuration.
2. Press `Ctrl+C`.
3. Confirm Codex exits promptly instead of pausing during shutdown.
4. Repeat with `Ctrl+D` and confirm the same prompt exit path.
Focused manual trace validation from the investigation:
- Before the full fix, reproduced shutdown traces showed outbound
teardown waiting on lingering owners, including `attestation.provider=1`
and later `apps.list.task=1`.
- After the fix, fresh real-home `Ctrl+D` traces showed
`app_server.runtime.outbound_state_after_processor_join` with
`owners=none`, `app_server.runtime.wait_outbound_handle = 0ms`, and
total TUI app-server shutdown around `18ms`.
Targeted validation:
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-app-server`
- Adds an explicit vertical marketplace kind for plugin/list that
fail-open fetches collection=vertical only when full remote plugins are
disabled.
- Renames the global remote marketplace/cache identity to
openai-curated-remote and materializes remote installs with backend
release versions and app manifests.
## Why
Clients need a typed permission-profile catalog instead of
reconstructing that state from config internals.
## What changed
- Added `permissionProfile/list` to the app-server v2 protocol with
cursor pagination and optional `cwd`.
- The list response includes built-in permission profiles plus
config-defined `[permissions.<id>]` profiles from the effective config
for the request context.
- Permission profiles keep optional `description` metadata for display
purposes.
- App-server docs and schema fixtures are updated for the new RPC.
## Summary
- move local-only app-server gating out of `MessageProcessor`
- let `fs/*`, `command/exec`, and `process/spawn` resolve local
availability inside their owning processors
- keep `fs/*` mounted for the future environment-param path while
preserving current no-local error behavior
## Validation
- not run locally per Codex repo guidance
## Summary
- Coerce `path: ""` to `None` at the v2 protocol params deserialization
boundary for `thread/resume` and `thread/fork`.
- Restore the pre-ThreadStore running-thread resume behavior: if
`threadId` is already running, rejoin it by id and treat a non-empty
`path` only as a consistency check; otherwise cold resume keeps `history
> path > threadId` precedence.
- Add protocol, resume, and fork regression coverage for empty path
payloads; refresh app-server schema fixtures for the clarified params
docs.
## Tests
- `just fmt`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
thread_path_params_deserialize_empty_path_as_none`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol --test schema_fixtures`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server empty_path`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
thread_resume_rejects_mismatched_path_for_running_thread_id`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
thread_resume_uses_path_over_non_running_thread_id`
# What
`SubagentStart` runs once when Codex creates a thread-spawned subagent,
before that child sends its first model request. Thread-spawned
subagents use `SubagentStart` instead of the normal root-agent
`SessionStart` hook.
Configured handlers match on the subagent `agent_type`, using the same
value passed to `spawn_agent`. When no agent type is specified, Codex
uses the default agent type.
Hook input includes the normal session-start fields plus:
- `agent_id`: the child thread id.
- `agent_type`: the resolved subagent type.
`SubagentStart` may return `hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext`. That
context is added to the child conversation before the first model
request.
# Lifecycle Scope
Only thread-spawned subagents run `SubagentStart`.
Internal/system subagents such as Review, Compact, MemoryConsolidation,
and Other do not run normal `SessionStart` hooks and do not run
`SubagentStart`. This avoids exposing synthetic matcher labels for
internal implementation paths.
Also the `SessionStart` hook no longer fires for subagents, this matches
behavior with other coding agents' implementation
# Stack
1. This PR: add `SubagentStart`.
2. #22873: add `SubagentStop`.
3. #22882: add subagent identity to normal hook inputs.
## Why
Filesystem permission profiles used `none` for deny-read entries, which
is less direct than the action the entry actually represents. This
change makes `deny` the canonical filesystem permission spelling while
preserving compatibility for older configs that still send `none`.
## What changed
- rename `FileSystemAccessMode::None` to `Deny`
- serialize and generate schemas with `deny` as the canonical value
- retain `none` only as a legacy input alias for temporary config
compatibility
- update filesystem glob diagnostics and regression coverage to use the
canonical spelling
- refresh config and app-server schema fixtures to match the new wire
shape
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_toml_deserializes_permission_profiles
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
read_write_glob_patterns_still_reject_non_subpath_globs --lib`
Earlier in the session, a broad `cargo test -p codex-core` run reached
unrelated pre-existing failures in timing/snapshot/git-info tests under
this environment; the targeted surfaces touched by this PR passed
cleanly.
## Why
App and skill toggles are user config mutations too. When the TUI is
attached to a remote app server, writing those toggles into the local
`config.toml` makes the UI report success without updating the server
that actually owns the session.
This is **[2 of 4]** in a stacked series that moves TUI-owned config
mutations onto app-server APIs.
## What changed
- Routed app enable/disable persistence through app-server config batch
writes.
- Routed skill enable/disable persistence through `skills/config/write`.
- Avoided refreshing local config from disk after these writes when the
TUI is connected to a remote app server.
## Config keys affected
- `apps.<app_id>.enabled`
- `apps.<app_id>.disabled_reason`
- `[[skills.config]]` entries keyed by `path`, with `enabled = false`
used for persisted disables
## Suggested manual validation
- Connect the TUI to a remote app server, disable an app, reconnect, and
confirm the app remains disabled from remote config rather than local
disk state.
- Re-enable the same app and confirm both `apps.<app_id>.enabled` and
`apps.<app_id>.disabled_reason` are cleared remotely.
- Disable a skill in the manage-skills UI and confirm a remote
`[[skills.config]]` disable entry appears.
- Re-enable that skill and confirm the disable entry is removed and the
effective enabled state updates without relying on local config reloads.
## Stack
1. [#22913](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22913) `[1 of 4]`
primary settings writes
2. [#22914](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22914) `[2 of 4]` app
and skill enablement
3. [#22915](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22915) `[3 of 4]`
feature and memory toggles
4. [#22916](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22916) `[4 of 4]`
startup and onboarding bookkeeping
## Why
Thread goals are moving toward extension-owned runtime behavior, but
their persisted state was still stored in the shared state database.
This makes the goal store harder to isolate and keeps future storage
splits tied to ad hoc runtime plumbing.
This PR gives goals their own SQLite database while keeping the existing
`StateRuntime` entry point. The goal is to make this the pattern for
adding more dedicated runtime databases later.
This also reduce load on existing DB and reduce contention
## Limitation
Thread preview from goal is not supported anymore. I'm looking into this
[EDIT]: solved
## What changed
- Added a dedicated `goals_1.sqlite` database with its own
`goals_migrations` directory.
- Moved `thread_goals` creation into the goals DB migration set.
- Dropped the old `thread_goals` table from the main state DB with a
normal state migration. There is intentionally no backfill for existing
goal rows.
- Changed `GoalStore` to be backed only by the goals DB pool.
- Removed the old goal-write side effect that filled empty
`threads.preview` values from the goal objective.
- Added shared runtime DB path metadata so startup, telemetry, `codex
doctor`, and repair handling can include future DBs without bespoke path
lists.
- Updated Bazel compile data so the new goals migration directory is
available to `sqlx::migrate!`.
## Verification
- `cargo check --tests -p codex-state -p codex-cli -p codex-core -p
codex-app-server`
- `just fix -p codex-state`
- `just fix -p codex-cli`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
**Stack position:** [5 of 7]
## Summary
This PR adds `Op::ThreadSettings`, a queued settings-only update
mechanism for changing stored thread settings without starting a new
turn. It also removes the legacy `Op::OverrideTurnContext` in the same
layer, so reviewers can see the replacement and deletion together.
## Changes
- Add `Op::ThreadSettings` for settings-only queued updates.
- Emit `ThreadSettingsApplied` with the effective thread settings
snapshot after core applies an update.
- Route settings-only updates through the same submission queue as user
input.
- Migrate remaining `OverrideTurnContext` tests and callers to the
queued `Op::ThreadSettings` path.
- Delete `Op::OverrideTurnContext` from the core protocol and submission
loop.
This stack addresses #20656 and #22090.
## Stack
1. [1 of 7] [Add thread settings to
UserInput](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23080)
2. [2 of 7] [Remove
UserInputWithTurnContext](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23081)
3. [3 of 7] [Remove
UserTurn](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23075)
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) (this PR)
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)
**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)
## Summary
- mark `ToolSearch` as removed and ignore stale config writes for its
legacy key
- make search tool exposure depend only on model capability, not a
feature toggle
- remove app-server enablement support and prune now-obsolete test
coverage/setup
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-features`
- `cargo test -p codex-tools`
- `cargo test -p codex-core search_tool_requires_model_capability`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server experimental_feature_enablement_set_`
## Notes
- This keeps the legacy config key as a no-op for compatibility while
removing the ability to toggle the behavior off cleanly.
- No developer-facing docs update outside the touched app-server README
was needed.
## Why
The v2 app-server permission profile fields are experimental, but the
previous migration kept a legacy object payload for profile selection.
That made clients aware of server-owned `activePermissionProfile`
metadata such as `extends`, and it kept a
`legacy_additional_writable_roots` path even though
`runtimeWorkspaceRoots` now owns runtime workspace-root selection.
This PR makes the client contract match the intended model: clients
select a permission profile by id, and the server resolves and reports
active profile provenance in response payloads.
Follow-up to #22611.
## What Changed
- Changed `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and
`turn/start` permission profile selection to plain profile id strings.
- Changed `command/exec.permissionProfile` to a plain profile id string
for the same client/server ownership split.
- Removed `PermissionProfileSelectionParams` and the legacy `{ type:
"profile", modifications: [...] }` compatibility deserializer.
- Updated app-server, TUI, and `codex exec` call sites to send only ids,
while keeping `activePermissionProfile` as server response metadata.
- Updated app-server docs and schema fixtures for the revised
`command/exec.permissionProfile` shape.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-tui`
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* #23368
* __->__ #23360
## Why
`experimentalFeature/list` reports effective feature enablement, but
currently does not resolve it against a working directory where
project-local config.toml files can exist and toggle on/off features
when merged into the effective config after resolving the various config
layers. That means we effectively (and incorrectly) ignore features set
in project-local config.
To address that, this PR exposes an optional `thread_id` param which
allows us to load the thread's `cwd.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server experimental_feature_list`
Addresses #22833, #22245, #23067
## Why
`/goal` can keep synthesizing turns even when the next turn cannot make
meaningful progress. Hard usage exhaustion can replay failing turns, and
repeated permission or external-resource blockers can keep burning
tokens while waiting for user or system intervention.
## What changed
- Add resumable `blocked` and `usageLimited` goal states. As with
`paused`, goal continuation stops with these states.
- Move to `usageLimited` after usage-limit failures.
- Allow the built-in `update_goal` tool to set `blocked` only under
explicit repeated-impasse guidance. Updated goal continuation prompt to
specify that agent should use `blocked` only when it has made at least
three attempts to get past an impasse.
Most of the files touched by this PR are because of the small app server
protocol update.
## Validation
I manually reproduced a number of situations where an agent can run into
a true impasse and verified that it properly enters `blocked` state. I
then resumed and verified that it once again entered `blocked` state
several turns later if the impasse still exists.
I also manually reproduced the usage-limit condition by creating a
simulated responses API endpoint that returns 429 errors with the
appropriate error message. Verified that the goal runtime properly moves
the goal into `usageLimited` state and TUI UI updates appropriately.
Verified that `/goal resume` resumes (and immediately goes back into
`ussageLImited` state if appropriate).
## Follow-up PRs
Small changes will be needed to the GUI clients to properly handle the
two new states.
## Why
Thread goal persistence is being prepared for a dedicated storage
boundary. Before that split, goal-specific reads, writes, accounting,
and cleanup were exposed directly on `StateRuntime`, so core and
app-server callsites stayed coupled to the full runtime instead of a
goal-specific store.
This PR introduces that boundary without changing the goal wire API or
current persistence behavior. Callers now go through
`StateRuntime::thread_goals()` and the new `GoalStore`, while
`GoalStore` still uses the existing state DB pool underneath.
## What changed
- Added `GoalStore` in `state/src/runtime/goals.rs` and exposed it from
`StateRuntime` via `thread_goals()`.
- Moved thread-goal reads, writes, status updates, pause, delete, and
usage accounting onto `GoalStore`.
- Updated core session goal handling, app-server goal RPCs, resume
snapshots, and goal tests to use the store boundary.
- Kept thread deletion responsible for cascading goal cleanup by
deleting the goal through the store only after a thread row is removed.
## Testing
- Existing goal persistence, resume, and accounting tests were updated
to exercise the new `GoalStore` access path.
## Summary
- add app-server `plugin/installed` for mention-oriented plugin loading
- return installed plugins plus explicitly requested install-suggestion
rows
- keep remote handling on installed-state data instead of the broad
catalog listing path
## Why
The `@` mention surface only needs plugins that are usable now, plus a
small product-approved set of install suggestions. It does not need the
full catalog-shaped `plugin/list` payload that the Plugins page uses.
## Validation
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all plugin_installed_`
## Notes
- The package-wide `cargo test -p codex-app-server` run still hits an
existing unrelated stack overflow in
`in_process::tests::in_process_start_clamps_zero_channel_capacity`.
- Companion webview PR: https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/915672
## Why
The app server API should expose permission profile identity, not the
lower-level runtime permission model. `PermissionProfile` is the
compiled sandbox/network representation that the server uses internally;
exposing it through app-server-protocol forces clients to understand
details that should remain implementation-level.
The API boundary should prefer `ActivePermissionProfile`: a stable
profile id, plus future parent-profile metadata, that clients can pass
back when they want to select the same active permissions. This also
avoids schema generation collisions between the app-server v2 API type
space and the core protocol model.
Incidentally, while PR makes a number of changes to `command/exec`, note
that we are hoping to deprecate this API in favor of `process/spawn`, so
we don't need to be too finicky about these changes.
## What Changed
- Removed `PermissionProfile` from the app-server-protocol API surface,
including generated schema and TypeScript exports.
- Changed `CommandExecParams.permissionProfile` to
`ActivePermissionProfile`.
- Resolve command exec profile ids through `ConfigManager` for the
command cwd, matching turn override selection semantics.
- Updated downstream TUI tests/helpers to use core permission types
directly instead of app-server-protocol `PermissionProfile` shims.
## Summary
- Add optional image detail to user image inputs across core, app-server
v2, thread history/event mapping, and the generated app-server
schemas/types.
- Preserve requested detail when serializing Responses image inputs:
omitted detail stays on the existing `high` default, while explicit
`original` keeps local images on the original-resolution path.
- Support `high`/`original` consistently for tool image outputs,
including MCP `codex/imageDetail`, code-mode image helpers, and
`view_image`.
## Why
To help improve `codex remote-control` CLI UX which I plan to do in a
followup, this PR adds `server-name` to the various remote control APIs:
- `remoteControl/enable`
- `remoteControl/disable`
- `remoteControl/status/changed`
Also, add a `remoteControl/status/read` API. This will be helpful in the
Codex App.
## Why
The app-server thread lifecycle API should no longer expose the full
`PermissionProfile` value. After the permissions-profile migration,
clients should round-trip only the active profile identity through
`activePermissionProfile` and `permissions` when that identity is known.
The full profile is server-side config. Treating a response-derived
legacy sandbox projection as a new local profile can lose named-profile
restrictions and accidentally widen permissions on the next turn. The
legacy `sandbox` response field remains only as the
compatibility/display fallback.
## What Changed
- Removed `permissionProfile` from `ThreadStartResponse`,
`ThreadResumeResponse`, and `ThreadForkResponse`.
- Stopped populating that field in app-server thread start/resume/fork
responses.
- Updated embedded exec/TUI response mapping to derive display
permission state from local config or the legacy sandbox fallback
instead of a response profile value.
- Added a TUI turn override shape that distinguishes preserving server
permissions, selecting an active profile id, and sending a legacy
sandbox for an explicit local override.
- Preserved remote app-server permissions across turns by sending
`permissions` only when an `activePermissionProfile` id is known, and
otherwise sending no sandbox override unless the user selected a local
override.
- Kept embedded `thread/resume` hydration server-authored when
`activePermissionProfile` is absent, which matches the live-thread
attach path where the server ignores requested overrides.
- Updated the app-server README to remove the obsolete lifecycle
response `permissionProfile` reference. The remaining
`permissionProfile` README references are request-side permission
overrides.
- Regenerated app-server JSON schema and TypeScript fixtures.
- Kept the generated typed response enum exempt from
`large_enum_variant`, matching the existing payload enum exemption after
the lifecycle response variants shrank.
## How To Review
Start with `codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/thread.rs` to
confirm the response shape, then check the response construction in
`codex-rs/app-server/src/request_processors`. The generated schema and
TypeScript fixture changes are mechanical follow-through from the
protocol removal.
The TUI behavior is the delicate part: review
`codex-rs/tui/src/app_server_session.rs` for response hydration and
turn-start override projection, then
`codex-rs/tui/src/app/thread_routing.rs` for the decision about whether
the next turn should preserve the server snapshot, send an active
profile id, or send a legacy sandbox for an explicit local override.
## Verification
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
thread_lifecycle_responses_default_missing_optional_fields`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec
session_configured_from_thread_response_uses_permission_profile_from_config`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui --lib thread_response`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui turn_permissions_`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
resume_response_restores_turns_from_thread_items`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics
track_response_only_enqueues_analytics_relevant_responses`
- `just fix -p codex-analytics`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
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* #22795
* __->__ #22792
## Why
This PR builds on [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610)
and is the app-server side of the migration from mutable per-turn
`SandboxPolicy` replacement toward selecting immutable permission
profiles by id plus mutable runtime workspace roots.
Once permission profiles can carry their own immutable
`workspace_roots`, app-server no longer needs to mutate the selected
`PermissionProfile` just to represent thread-specific filesystem
context. The mutable part now lives on the thread as explicit
`runtimeWorkspaceRoots`, while `:workspace_roots` remains symbolic until
the sandbox is realized for a turn.
## What Changed
- Replaced the v2 permission-selection wrapper surface with plain
profile ids for `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and
`turn/start`.
- Removed the API surface for profile modifications
(`PermissionProfileSelectionParams`,
`PermissionProfileModificationParams`,
`ActivePermissionProfileModification`).
- Added experimental `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` fields to the thread
lifecycle and turn-start APIs.
- Threaded runtime workspace roots through core session/thread
snapshots, turn overrides, app-server request handling, and command
execution permission resolution.
- Kept session permission state symbolic so later runtime root updates
and cwd-only implicit-root retargeting rebind `:workspace_roots`
correctly.
- Updated the embedded clients just enough to send and restore the new
thread state.
- Refreshed the generated schema/TypeScript artifacts and the app-server
README to match the new contract.
## Verification
Targeted coverage for this layer lives in:
- `codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/tests.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_start.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_resume.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/turn_start.rs`
- `codex-rs/core/src/session/tests.rs`
The key regression checks exercise that:
- `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` resolve against the effective cwd on thread
start.
- Profile-declared workspace roots are excluded from the runtime
workspace roots returned by app-server.
- A turn-level runtime workspace-root update persists onto the thread
and is returned by `thread/resume`.
- A named permission profile selected on one turn remains symbolic so a
later runtime-root-only turn update changes the actual sandbox writes.
- A cwd-only turn update retargets the implicit runtime cwd root while
preserving additional runtime roots.
- The protocol fixtures and generated client artifacts stay in sync with
the string-based permission selection contract.
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* #22612
* __->__ #22611
## Why
This PR is the invariant-cleanup layer that follows the workspace-roots
base merged in [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610).
#22610 adds `[permissions.<id>.workspace_roots]` and keeps runtime
workspace roots separate from the raw permission profile, but its
in-memory representation is intentionally transitional: `Permissions`
still carries the selected profile identity next to a constrained
`PermissionProfile`. That makes APIs such as
`set_constrained_permission_profile_with_active_profile()` fragile
because the id and value only mean the right thing when every caller
keeps them in sync.
This PR introduces a single resolved profile state so profile identity,
`extends`, the profile value, and profile-declared workspace roots
travel together. The next PR,
[#22611](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22611), builds on this by
changing the app-server turn API to select permission profiles by id
plus runtime workspace roots.
## Stack Context
- #22610, now merged: adds profile-declared `workspace_roots`, runtime
workspace roots, and `:workspace_roots` materialization.
- This PR: replaces the parallel active-profile/profile-value fields
with `PermissionProfileState`.
- #22611: switches app-server turn updates toward profile ids plus
runtime workspace roots.
- #22612: updates TUI/exec summaries to show the effective workspace
roots.
Keeping this separate from #22611 is deliberate: reviewers can validate
the internal state invariant before reviewing the app-server protocol
migration.
## What Changed
- Added `ResolvedPermissionProfile::{Legacy, BuiltIn, Named}` and
`PermissionProfileState`.
- Typed built-in profile ids with `BuiltInPermissionProfileId`.
- Moved selected profile identity and profile-declared workspace roots
into the resolved state.
- Replaced `Permissions` parallel profile fields with one
`permission_profile_state`.
- Removed `set_constrained_permission_profile_with_active_profile()`
from session sync paths.
- Kept trusted session replay/`SessionConfigured` compatibility through
explicit session snapshot helpers.
- Updated session configuration, MCP initialization, app-server, exec,
TUI, and guardian call sites to consume `&PermissionProfile` directly.
## Review Guide
Start with `codex-rs/core/src/config/resolved_permission_profile.rs`; it
is the new invariant boundary. Then review
`codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs` to see how config loading records
active profile identity and profile workspace roots. The remaining
call-site changes are mostly mechanical fallout from
`Permissions::permission_profile()` returning `&PermissionProfile`
instead of `&Constrained<PermissionProfile>`.
## Verification
The existing config/session coverage now constructs and asserts through
`PermissionProfileState`. The workspace-root config test also asserts
that profile-declared roots are preserved in the resolved state, which
is the behavior #22611 relies on when runtime roots become mutable
through the app-server API.
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* #22612
* #22611
* __->__ #22683
## Why
This is the configuration/model half of the alternative permissions
migration we discussed as a comparison point for
[#22401](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22401) and
[#22402](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22402).
The old `workspace-write` model mixes three concerns that we want to
keep separate:
- reusable profile rules that should stay immutable once selected
- user/runtime workspace roots from `cwd`, `--add-dir`, and legacy
workspace-write config
- internal Codex writable roots such as memories, which should not be
shown as user workspace roots
This PR gives permission profiles first-class `workspace_roots` so users
can opt multiple repositories into the same `:workspace_roots` rules
without using broad absolute-path write grants. It also starts
separating the raw selected profile from the effective runtime profile
by making `Permissions` expose explicit accessors instead of public
mutable fields.
A representative `config.toml` looks like this:
```toml
default_permissions = "dev"
[permissions.dev.workspace_roots]
"~/code/openai" = true
"~/code/developers-website" = true
[permissions.dev.filesystem.":workspace_roots"]
"." = "write"
".codex" = "read"
".git" = "read"
".vscode" = "read"
```
If Codex starts in `~/code/codex` with that profile selected, the
effective workspace-root set becomes:
- `~/code/codex` from the runtime `cwd`
- `~/code/openai` from the profile
- `~/code/developers-website` from the profile
The `:workspace_roots` rules are materialized across each root, so
`.git`, `.codex`, and `.vscode` stay scoped the same way everywhere.
Runtime additions such as `--add-dir` can still layer on later stack
entries without mutating the selected profile.
## Stack Shape
This PR intentionally stops before the profile-identity cleanup in
[#22683](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22683) so the base review
stays focused on config loading, workspace-root materialization, and
compatibility with legacy `workspace-write`.
The representation in this PR is therefore transitional: `Permissions`
carries enough state to distinguish the raw constrained profile from the
effective runtime profile, and there are still call sites that must keep
the active profile identity and constrained profile value in sync. The
follow-up PR replaces that with a single resolved profile state
(`ResolvedPermissionProfile` / `PermissionProfileState`) that keeps the
profile id, immutable `PermissionProfile`, and profile-declared
workspace roots together. That follow-up removes APIs such as
`set_constrained_permission_profile_with_active_profile()` where
separate arguments could drift out of sync.
Downstream PRs then build on this base to switch app-server turn updates
to profile ids plus runtime workspace roots and to finish the
user-visible summary behavior. Reviewers should judge this PR as the
workspace-roots foundation, not as the final in-memory shape of selected
permission profiles.
## Review Guide
Suggested review order:
1. Start with `codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs`.
This is the main shape change in the base slice. `Permissions` now
stores a private raw `Constrained<PermissionProfile>` plus runtime
`workspace_roots`. Callers use `permission_profile()` when they need the
raw constrained value and `effective_permission_profile()` when they
need a materialized runtime profile. As noted above,
[#22683](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22683) replaces this
transitional shape with a resolved profile state that keeps identity and
profile data together.
2. Review `codex-rs/config/src/permissions_toml.rs` and
`codex-rs/core/src/config/permissions.rs`.
These add `[permissions.<id>.workspace_roots]`, resolve enabled entries
relative to the policy cwd, and keep `:workspace_roots` deny-read glob
patterns symbolic until the actual roots are known.
3. Review `codex-rs/protocol/src/permissions.rs` and
`codex-rs/protocol/src/models.rs`.
These add the policy/profile materialization helpers that expand exact
`:workspace_roots` entries and scoped deny-read globs over every
workspace root. This is also where `ActivePermissionProfileModification`
is removed from the core model.
4. Review the legacy bridge in
`Config::load_from_base_config_with_overrides` and
`Config::set_legacy_sandbox_policy`.
This is where legacy `workspace-write` roots become runtime workspace
roots, while Codex internal writable roots stay internal and do not
appear as user-facing workspace roots.
5. Then skim downstream call sites.
The interesting pattern is raw-vs-effective access: state/proxy/bwrap
paths keep the raw constrained profile, while execution, summaries, and
user-visible status use the effective profile and workspace-root list.
## What Changed
- added `[permissions.<id>.workspace_roots]` to the config model and
schema
- added runtime `workspace_roots` state to `Config`/`Permissions` and
`ConfigOverrides`
- made `Permissions` profile fields private and replaced direct mutation
with accessors/setters
- added `PermissionProfile` and `FileSystemSandboxPolicy` helpers for
materializing `:workspace_roots` exact paths and deny-read globs across
all roots
- moved legacy additional writable roots into runtime workspace-root
state instead of active profile modifications
- removed `ActivePermissionProfileModification` and its app-server
protocol/schema export
- updated sandbox/status summary paths so internal writable roots are
not reported as user workspace roots
## Verification Strategy
The targeted tests cover the behavior at the layers where regressions
are most likely:
- `codex-rs/core/src/config/config_tests.rs` verifies config loading,
legacy workspace-root seeding, effective profile materialization, and
memory-root handling.
- `codex-rs/core/src/config/permissions_tests.rs` verifies profile
`workspace_roots` parsing and `:workspace_roots` scoped/glob
compilation.
- `codex-rs/protocol/src/permissions.rs` unit tests verify exact and
glob materialization over multiple workspace roots.
- `codex-rs/tui/src/status/tests.rs` and
`codex-rs/utils/sandbox-summary/src/sandbox_summary.rs` verify the
user-facing summaries show effective workspace roots and hide internal
writes.
I also ran `cargo check --tests` locally after the latest stack refresh
to catch cross-crate API breakage from the private-field/accessor
changes.
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* #22612
* #22611
* #22683
* __->__ #22610
## Summary
This change lets `forced_chatgpt_workspace_id` accept multiple workspace
IDs instead of a single value.
It keeps the existing config key name, adds backward-compatible parsing
for a single string in `config.toml`, and normalizes the setting into an
allowed workspace list across login enforcement, app-server config
surfaces, and local ChatGPT auth helpers.
## Why
Workspace-restricted deployments may need to allow more than one ChatGPT
workspace without dropping the guardrail entirely.
## Server-side impact
Codex's local server and app-server protocol needed changes because they
previously assumed a single workspace ID. The local login flow now
matches the auth backend interface by sending the allowed workspace list
as a single comma-separated `allowed_workspace_id` query parameter.
## Validation
This was tested with:
- A single workspace config
- With multi-workspace configs
- With multiple workspaces in the config
- The user only being a part of a subset of them
All were successful.
Automated coverage:
- `cargo test -p codex-login`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui local_chatgpt_auth`
- `cargo test --locked -p codex-app-server
login_account_chatgpt_includes_forced_workspace_allowlist_query_param`
## Why
Some MCP OAuth providers require a pre-registered public client ID and
cannot rely on dynamic client registration. Codex already supports MCP
OAuth, but it had no way to supply that client ID from config into the
PKCE flow.
## What changed
- add `oauth.client_id` under `[mcp_servers.<server>]` config, including
config editing and schema generation
- thread the configured client ID through CLI, app-server, plugin login,
and MCP skill dependency OAuth entrypoints
- configure RMCP authorization with the explicit client when present,
while preserving the existing dynamic-registration path when it is
absent
- add focused coverage for config parsing/serialization and OAuth URL
generation
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-config -p codex-rmcp-client -p codex-mcp -p
codex-core-plugins`
- `cargo test -p codex-core blocking_replace_mcp_servers_round_trips
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
replace_mcp_servers_streamable_http_serializes_oauth_resource --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_schema_matches_fixture --lib`
## Notes
Broader local package runs still hit unrelated pre-existing stack
overflows in:
- `codex-app-server::in_process_start_clamps_zero_channel_capacity`
-
`codex-core::resume_agent_from_rollout_uses_edge_data_when_descendant_metadata_source_is_stale`
## Why
This is a small precursor to the larger permissions-migration work. Both
the comparison stack in
[#22401](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22401) /
[#22402](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22402) and the alternate
stack in [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610) /
[#22611](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22611) /
[#22612](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22612) are easier to
review if the terminology is already settled underneath them.
Because `:project_roots` and `:danger-no-sandbox` have not shipped as
stable user-facing surface area, carrying them forward as aliases would
just add more migration logic to the later stacks. This PR removes that
ambiguity now so the follow-on work can rely on one spelling for each
built-in concept.
## What Changed
- renamed the config-facing special filesystem key from `:project_roots`
to `:workspace_roots`
- dropped unpublished `:project_roots` parsing support in
`core/src/config/permissions.rs`, so new config only recognizes
`:workspace_roots`
- renamed the built-in full-access permission profile id from
`:danger-no-sandbox` to `:danger-full-access`
- dropped unpublished `:danger-no-sandbox` support entirely, including
the old active-profile canonicalization path, and added explicit
rejection coverage for the legacy id
- introduced shared built-in permission-profile id constants in
`codex-rs/protocol/src/models.rs`
- updated `core`, `app-server`, and `tui` call sites that special-case
built-in profiles to use the shared constants and canonical ids
- updated tests and the Linux sandbox README to use `:workspace_roots` /
`:danger-full-access`
## Verification
I focused verification on the three places this rename can regress:
config parsing, active-profile identity surfaced back out of `core`, and
user/server call sites that special-case built-in profiles.
Targeted checks:
-
`config::tests::default_permissions_can_select_builtin_profile_without_permissions_table`
-
`config::tests::default_permissions_read_only_applies_additional_writable_roots_as_modifications`
-
`config::tests::default_permissions_can_select_builtin_full_access_profile`
- `config::tests::legacy_danger_no_sandbox_is_rejected`
- `workspace_root` filtered `codex-core` tests
-
`request_processors::thread_processor::thread_processor_tests::thread_processor_behavior_tests::requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
-
`suite::v2::turn_start::turn_start_rejects_invalid_permission_selection_before_starting_turn`
- `status::tests::status_snapshot_shows_auto_review_permissions`
-
`status::tests::status_permissions_full_disk_managed_with_network_is_danger_full_access`
-
`app_server_session::tests::embedded_turn_permissions_use_active_profile_selection`
## Summary
- Allow remote installed-plugin cache refresh to start whenever plugins
are enabled.
- Allow remote installed-plugin bundle sync to start whenever plugins
are enabled.
- Remove the extra local `remote_plugin_enabled` guard from those
background sync paths.
## Context
Server-side installed plugin state and optional bundle URL behavior are
owned by plugin-service `/public/plugins/installed`, so these local sync
paths only need the overall plugin enablement gate.
## Test plan
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins`
## Why
reapplies https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22386 which was
previously reverted
Also, introduce `remoteControl/enable` and `remoteControl/disable`
app-server APIs to toggle on/off remote control at runtime for a given
running app-server instance.
## What Changed
- Adds experimental v2 RPCs:
- `remoteControl/enable`
- `remoteControl/disable`
- Adds `RemoteControlRequestProcessor` and routes the new RPCs through
it instead of `ConfigRequestProcessor`.
- Adds named `RemoteControlHandle::enable`, `disable`, and `status`
methods.
- Makes `remoteControl/enable` return an error when sqlite state DB is
unavailable, while keeping enrollment/websocket failures as async status
updates.
- Adds `AppServerRuntimeOptions.remote_control_enabled` and hidden
`--remote-control` flags for `codex app-server` and `codex-app-server`.
- Updates managed daemon startup to use `codex app-server
--remote-control --listen unix://`.
- Marks `Feature::RemoteControl` as removed and ignores
`[features].remote_control`.
- Updates app-server README entries for the new remote-control methods.
## Why
Users and support need a single command that captures the local Codex
runtime, configuration, auth, terminal, network, and state shape without
asking the user to know which diagnostic depth to choose first. `codex
doctor` now runs the useful checks by default and makes the detailed
human output the default because the command is usually run when someone
already needs context.
The command also targets concrete support failure modes we have seen
while iterating on the design:
- update-target mismatches like #21956, where the installed package
manager target can differ from the running executable
- terminal and multiplexer issues that depend on `TERM`, tmux/zellij
state, color handling, and TTY metadata
- provider-specific HTTP/WebSocket connectivity, including ChatGPT
WebSocket handshakes and API-key/provider endpoint reachability
- local state/log SQLite integrity problems and large rollout
directories
- feedback reports that need an attached, redacted diagnostic snapshot
without asking the user to run a second command
## What Changed
- Adds `codex doctor` as a grouped CLI diagnostic report with default
detailed output and `--summary` for the compact view.
- Adds stable report sections for Environment, Configuration, Updates,
Connectivity, and Background Server, plus a top Notes block that
promotes anomalies such as available updates, large rollout directories,
optional MCP issues, and mixed auth signals.
- Adds runtime provenance, install consistency, bundled/system search
readiness, terminal/multiplexer metadata, `config.toml` parse status,
auth mode details, sandbox details, feature flag summaries, update
cache/latest-version state, app-server daemon state, SQLite integrity
checks, rollout statistics, and provider-aware network diagnostics.
- Adds ChatGPT WebSocket diagnostics that report the negotiated HTTP
upgrade as `HTTP 101 Switching Protocols` and include timeout, DNS,
auth, and provider context in detailed output.
- Makes reachability provider-aware: API-key OpenAI setups check the API
endpoint, ChatGPT auth checks the ChatGPT path, and custom/AWS/local
providers check configured HTTP endpoints when available.
- Adds structured, redacted JSON output where `checks` is keyed by check
id and `details` is a key/value object for support tooling.
- Integrates doctor with feedback uploads by attaching a best-effort
`codex-doctor-report.json` report and adding derived Sentry tags for
overall status and failing/warning checks.
- Updates the TUI feedback consent copy so users can see that the doctor
report is included when logs/diagnostics are uploaded.
- Updates the CLI bug issue template to ask reporters for `codex doctor
--json` and render pasted reports as JSON.
## Example Output
The examples below are sanitized from local smoke runs with `--no-color`
so the structure is reviewable in plain text.
### `codex doctor`
```text
Codex Doctor v0.0.0 · macos-aarch64
Notes
↑ updates 0.130.0 available (current 0.0.0, dismissed 0.128.0)
⚠ rollouts 1,526 active files · 2.53 GB on disk
⚠ mcp MCP configuration has optional issues
⚠ auth mixed auth signals: ChatGPT login plus API key env var; HTTP reachability uses API-key mode
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Environment
✓ runtime local debug build
version 0.0.0
install method other
commit unknown
executable ~/code/codex.fcoury-doct…x-rs/target/debug/codex
✓ install consistent
context other
managed by npm: no · bun: no · package root —
PATH entries (2) ~/.local/share/mise/installs/node/24/bin/codex
~/.local/share/mise/shims/codex
✓ search ripgrep 15.1.0 (system, `rg`)
✓ terminal Ghostty 1.3.2-main-+b0f827665 · tmux 3.6a · TERM=xterm-256color
terminal Ghostty
TERM_PROGRAM ghostty
terminal version 1.3.2-main-+b0f827665
TERM xterm-256color
multiplexer tmux 3.6a
tmux extended-keys on
tmux allow-passthrough on
tmux set-clipboard on
✓ state databases healthy
CODEX_HOME ~/.codex (dir)
state DB ~/.codex/state_5.sqlite (file) · integrity ok
log DB ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite (file) · integrity ok
active rollouts 1,526 files · 2.53 GB (avg 1.70 MB)
archived rollouts 8 files · 3.84 MB (avg 491.11 KB)
Configuration
✓ config loaded
model gpt-5.5 · openai
cwd ~/code/codex.fcoury-doctor/codex-rs
config.toml ~/.codex/config.toml
config.toml parse ok
MCP servers 1
feature flags 36 enabled · 7 overridden (full list with --all)
overrides code_mode, code_mode_only, memories, chronicle, goals, remote_control, prevent_idle_sleep
✓ auth auth is configured
auth storage mode File
auth file ~/.codex/auth.json
auth env vars present OPENAI_API_KEY
stored auth mode chatgpt
stored API key false
stored ChatGPT tokens true
stored agent identity false
⚠ mcp MCP configuration has optional issues — Set the missing MCP env vars or disable the affected server.
configured servers 1
disabled servers 0
streamable_http servers 1
optional reachability openaiDeveloperDocs: https://developers.openai.com/mcp (HEAD connect failed; GET connect failed)
✓ sandbox restricted fs + restricted network · approval OnRequest
approval policy OnRequest
filesystem sandbox restricted
network sandbox restricted
Connectivity
✓ network network-related environment looks readable
✓ websocket connected (HTTP 101 Switching Protocols) · 15s timeout
model provider openai
provider name OpenAI
wire API responses
supports websockets true
connect timeout 15000 ms
auth mode chatgpt
endpoint wss://chatgpt.com/backend-api/<redacted>
DNS 2 IPv4, 2 IPv6, first IPv6
handshake result HTTP 101 Switching Protocols
✗ reachability one or more required provider endpoints are unreachable over HTTP — Check proxy, VPN, firewall, DNS, and custom CA configuration.
reachability mode API key auth
openai API https://api.openai.com/v1 connect failed (required)
Background Server
○ app-server not running (ephemeral mode)
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
11 ok · 1 idle · 4 notes · 1 warn · 1 fail failed
--summary compact output --all expand truncated lists
--json redacted report
```
### `codex doctor --summary`
```text
Codex Doctor v0.0.0 · macos-aarch64
Notes
↑ updates 0.130.0 available (current 0.0.0, dismissed 0.128.0)
⚠ rollouts 1,526 active files · 2.53 GB on disk
⚠ mcp MCP configuration has optional issues
⚠ auth mixed auth signals: ChatGPT login plus API key env var; HTTP reachability uses API-key mode
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Environment
✓ runtime local debug build
✓ install consistent
✓ search ripgrep 15.1.0 (system, `rg`)
✓ terminal Ghostty 1.3.2-main-+b0f827665 · tmux 3.6a · TERM=xterm-256color
✓ state databases healthy
Configuration
✓ config loaded
✓ auth auth is configured
⚠ mcp MCP configuration has optional issues — Set the missing MCP env vars or disable the affected server.
✓ sandbox restricted fs + restricted network · approval OnRequest
Updates
✓ updates update configuration is locally consistent
Connectivity
✓ network network-related environment looks readable
✓ websocket connected (HTTP 101 Switching Protocols) · 15s timeout
✗ reachability one or more required provider endpoints are unreachable over HTTP — Check proxy, VPN, firewall, DNS, and custom CA configuration.
Background Server
○ app-server not running (ephemeral mode)
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
11 ok · 1 idle · 4 notes · 1 warn · 1 fail failed
Run codex doctor without --summary for detailed diagnostics.
--all expand truncated lists --json redacted report
```
### `codex doctor --json` shape
```json
{
"schema_version": 1,
"overall_status": "fail",
"checks": {
"runtime.provenance": {
"id": "runtime.provenance",
"category": "Environment",
"status": "ok",
"summary": "local debug build",
"details": {
"version": "0.0.0",
"install method": "other",
"commit": "unknown"
}
},
"sandbox.helpers": {
"id": "sandbox.helpers",
"category": "Configuration",
"status": "ok",
"summary": "restricted fs + restricted network · approval OnRequest",
"details": {
"approval policy": "OnRequest",
"filesystem sandbox": "restricted",
"network sandbox": "restricted"
}
}
}
}
```
### `/feedback` new sentry attachment
<img width="938" height="798" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-13 at 15 36 14"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/715e62e0-d7b4-4fea-a35a-fd5d5d33c4c0"
/>
### New section in CLI issue template
<img width="1164" height="435" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-13 at 15 47 24"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9081dc25-a28c-4afa-8ba1-e299c2b4031d"
/>
## How to Test
1. Run `cargo run --bin codex -- doctor --no-color`.
2. Confirm the detailed report is the default and includes promoted
Notes, grouped sections, terminal details, state DB integrity, rollout
stats, provider reachability, WebSocket diagnostics, and app-server
status.
3. Run `cargo run --bin codex -- doctor --summary --no-color`.
4. Confirm the compact view keeps the same sections and summary counts
but omits detailed key/value rows.
5. Run `cargo run --bin codex -- doctor --json`.
6. Confirm the output is redacted JSON, `checks` is an object keyed by
check id, and each check's `details` is a key/value object.
7. Preview the CLI bug issue template and confirm the `Codex doctor
report` field appears after the terminal field, asks for `codex doctor
--json`, and renders pasted output as JSON.
8. Start a feedback flow that includes logs.
9. Confirm the upload consent copy lists `codex-doctor-report.json`
alongside the log attachments.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-cli doctor`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
doctor_report_tags_summarize_status_counts`
- `cargo test -p codex-feedback`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui feedback_view`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Remote control starts by letting `codex-backend` initialize against the
app-server as an infrastructure health/proxy client before the real
remote client connects. App-server initialization also sets the
process-wide `originator` from `client_info.name`, so `codex-backend`
could become the sticky originator for later model/API requests even
after the real client initialized.
## What changed
- Treat `codex-backend` as a non-originating initialize client,
alongside the existing `codex_app_server_daemon` probe client.
- Preserve normal per-connection initialize behavior, including session
metadata and initialize analytics.
- Add regression coverage that verifies `codex-backend` initialize does
not replace the default originator.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
initialize_codex_backend_does_not_override_originator`
## Why
Codex intentionally ignores unknown `config.toml` fields by default so
older and newer config files keep working across versions. That leniency
also makes typo detection hard because misspelled or misplaced keys
disappear silently.
This change adds an opt-in strict config mode so users and tooling can
fail fast on unrecognized config fields without changing the default
permissive behavior.
This feature is possible because `serde_ignored` exposes the exact
signal Codex needs: it lets Codex run ordinary Serde deserialization
while recording fields Serde would otherwise ignore. That avoids
requiring `#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]` across every config type and
keeps strict validation opt-in around the existing config model.
## What Changed
### Added strict config validation
- Added `serde_ignored`-based validation for `ConfigToml` in
`codex-rs/config/src/strict_config.rs`.
- Combined `serde_ignored` with `serde_path_to_error` so strict mode
preserves typed config error paths while also collecting fields Serde
would otherwise ignore.
- Added strict-mode validation for unknown `[features]` keys, including
keys that would otherwise be accepted by `FeaturesToml`'s flattened
boolean map.
- Kept typed config errors ahead of ignored-field reporting, so
malformed known fields are reported before unknown-field diagnostics.
- Added source-range diagnostics for top-level and nested unknown config
fields, including non-file managed preference source names.
### Kept parsing single-pass per source
- Reworked file and managed-config loading so strict validation reuses
the already parsed `TomlValue` for that source.
- For actual config files and managed config strings, the loader now
reads once, parses once, and validates that same parsed value instead of
deserializing multiple times.
- Validated `-c` / `--config` override layers with the same
base-directory context used for normal relative-path resolution, so
unknown override keys are still reported when another override contains
a relative path.
### Scoped `--strict-config` to config-heavy entry points
- Added support for `--strict-config` on the main config-loading entry
points where it is most useful:
- `codex`
- `codex resume`
- `codex fork`
- `codex exec`
- `codex review`
- `codex mcp-server`
- `codex app-server` when running the server itself
- the standalone `codex-app-server` binary
- the standalone `codex-exec` binary
- Commands outside that set now reject `--strict-config` early with
targeted errors instead of accepting it everywhere through shared CLI
plumbing.
- `codex app-server` subcommands such as `proxy`, `daemon`, and
`generate-*` are intentionally excluded from the first rollout.
- When app-server strict mode sees invalid config, app-server exits with
the config error instead of logging a warning and continuing with
defaults.
- Introduced a dedicated `ReviewCommand` wrapper in `codex-rs/cli`
instead of extending shared `ReviewArgs`, so `--strict-config` stays on
the outer config-loading command surface and does not become part of the
reusable review payload used by `codex exec review`.
### Coverage
- Added tests for top-level and nested unknown config fields, unknown
`[features]` keys, typed-error precedence, source-location reporting,
and non-file managed preference source names.
- Added CLI coverage showing invalid `--enable`, invalid `--disable`,
and unknown `-c` overrides still error when `--strict-config` is
present, including compound-looking feature names such as
`multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text`.
- Added integration coverage showing both `codex app-server
--strict-config` and standalone `codex-app-server --strict-config` exit
with an error for unknown config fields instead of starting with
fallback defaults.
- Added coverage showing unsupported command surfaces reject
`--strict-config` with explicit errors.
## Example Usage
Run Codex with strict config validation enabled:
```shell
codex --strict-config
```
Strict config mode is also available on the supported config-heavy
subcommands:
```shell
codex --strict-config exec "explain this repository"
codex review --strict-config --uncommitted
codex mcp-server --strict-config
codex app-server --strict-config --listen off
codex-app-server --strict-config --listen off
```
For example, if `~/.codex/config.toml` contains a typo in a key name:
```toml
model = "gpt-5"
approval_polic = "on-request"
```
then `codex --strict-config` reports the misspelled key instead of
silently ignoring it. The path is shortened to `~` here for readability:
```text
$ codex --strict-config
Error loading config.toml:
~/.codex/config.toml:2:1: unknown configuration field `approval_polic`
|
2 | approval_polic = "on-request"
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```
Without `--strict-config`, Codex keeps the existing permissive behavior
and ignores the unknown key.
Strict config mode also validates ad-hoc `-c` / `--config` overrides:
```text
$ codex --strict-config -c foo=bar
Error: unknown configuration field `foo` in -c/--config override
$ codex --strict-config -c features.foo=true
Error: unknown configuration field `features.foo` in -c/--config override
```
Invalid feature toggles are rejected too, including values that look
like nested config paths:
```text
$ codex --strict-config --enable does_not_exist
Error: Unknown feature flag: does_not_exist
$ codex --strict-config --disable does_not_exist
Error: Unknown feature flag: does_not_exist
$ codex --strict-config --enable multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text
Error: Unknown feature flag: multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text
```
Unsupported commands reject the flag explicitly:
```text
$ codex --strict-config cloud list
Error: `--strict-config` is not supported for `codex cloud`
```
## Verification
The `codex-cli` `strict_config` tests cover invalid `--enable`, invalid
`--disable`, the compound `multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text`
case, unknown `-c` overrides, app-server strict startup failure through
`codex app-server`, and rejection for unsupported commands such as
`codex cloud`, `codex mcp`, `codex remote-control`, and `codex
app-server proxy`.
The config and config-loader tests cover unknown top-level fields,
unknown nested fields, unknown `[features]` keys, source-location
reporting, non-file managed config sources, and `-c` validation for keys
such as `features.foo`.
The app-server test suite covers standalone `codex-app-server
--strict-config` startup failure for an unknown config field.
## Documentation
The Codex CLI docs on developers.openai.com/codex should mention
`--strict-config` as an opt-in validation mode for supported
config-heavy entry points once this ships.
Adds plugin/share/checkout to turn a shared remote plugin into a local
working copy under ~/plugins/<name>.
Registers the copy in the managed personal marketplace and records the
remote-to-local mapping for later share/save flows.
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
# Why
Hook trust happens through the TUI in `/hooks` so it can block
non-interactive use cases. This flag will allow users that are using
codex headlessly to bypass hooks when they want to.
# What
This adds one invocation-scoped escape hatch.
- the CLI flag sets a runtime-only `bypass_hook_trust` override; there
is no durable `config.toml` setting
- hook discovery still respects normal enablement, so explicitly
disabled hooks remain disabled
- we show a `--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust is enabled. Enabled hooks
may run without review for this invocation.` message on startup so
accidental use is visible in both interactive and exec flows
This keeps “enabled” and “trusted” as separate concepts in the normal
path, while giving CI/E2E callers a stable way to opt into the
exceptional path when they already control the hook set.
## Why
Enterprise-managed hook policy needs a narrow way to require Codex to
ignore user-controlled lifecycle hooks without adopting the broader
trust-precedence model from earlier hook work. This keeps the policy
anchored in `requirements.toml`, so admins can opt into managed hooks
only while normal `config.toml` files cannot enable the restriction
themselves.
## What changed
- Added `allow_managed_hooks_only` to the requirements data flow and
preserved explicit `false` values.
- Also adds it to /debug-config
- Marked MDM, system, and legacy managed config layers as managed for
hook discovery.
- Updated hook discovery so `allow_managed_hooks_only = true`:
- keeps managed requirements hooks and managed config-layer hooks,
- skips user/project/session `hooks.json` and `[hooks]` entries with
concise startup warnings,
- skips current unmanaged plugin hooks,
- ignores any `allow_managed_hooks_only` key placed in ordinary
`config.toml` layers.
- Adds localVersion to plugin summaries and remoteVersion to share
context, including generated API schemas.
- Hydrates local and remote plugin versions from manifests and remote
release metadata.
- Adds default-on plugin_sharing gate for shared-with-me listing and
plugin/share/save, with disabled-path errors
and focused coverage.
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