243 Commits

• path-uri: clarify host-native path conversion (#29501)

  ## Why
  
  Downstream refactors are producing confusing code with this
  functionality having a very generic name. Encoding the specific
  conversion approach in the method name makes it clearer.
  
  ## What
  
  Rename `PathUri::from_path` to `PathUri::from_host_native_path` and
  update its Rust call sites.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-23 00:02:33 +00:00
  11fab432be
• feat(core): store turn_id on ResponseItem metadata (#28360)

  ## Description
  
  This PR is a followup to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28355 and
  starts assigning `internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough.turn_id` to
  durable Responses API items created during a turn.
  
  The goal is that those items keep the `turn_id` that introduced them
  when Codex resends stateless HTTP context, reconstructs history for
  resume/fork paths, or reuses websocket response state.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Set `internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough.turn_id` when missing
  as response items enter durable history, initial/replacement history,
  inter-agent communication history, and local compaction summaries.
  - Preserve existing item turn IDs instead of overwriting them during
  persistence, resume reconstruction, compaction, forked history, and
  websocket incremental reuse.
  - Keep `compaction_trigger` fieldless because it is a request control,
  not a durable response item.
  - Update focused history/request assertions and fixtures for stateless
  requests, websocket incrementals, compaction, thread injection, prompt
  debug, and related CI coverage.

  Owen Lin · 2026-06-22 16:45:14 -07:00
  4a82ecc3c9
• core: rename metadata -> internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough (#28968)

  ## Description
  This PR cuts Codex over from generic `ResponseItem.metadata` (introduced
  here: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28355) to
  `ResponseItem.internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough`, which is the
  blessed path and has strongly-typed keys.
  
  For now we have to drop this MAv2 usage of `metadata`:
  https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28561 until we figure out where
  that should live.

  Owen Lin · 2026-06-22 11:11:25 -07:00
  5b95745eae
• Expose thread-level multi-agent mode (#28792)

  ## Why
  
  Once multi-agent mode can be selected per turn, clients also need to
  choose the initial selection when creating a thread and observe that
  selection through lifecycle and settings APIs.
  
  The selected value is intentionally distinct from the effective
  model-visible value: no client selection is represented as `null`, even
  though an eligible multi-agent v2 turn derives `explicitRequestOnly` as
  its effective default.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Add the optional experimental `thread/start.multiAgentMode` parameter
  and pass it through thread creation.
  - Preserve an omitted initial value as an unset selection rather than
  eagerly storing `explicitRequestOnly`.
  - Apply an explicit `thread/start` selection to the first turn through
  the session configuration established at thread creation.
  - Restore the latest persisted effective mode as the selected baseline
  on cold resume when rollout history contains one.
  - Inherit the optional selected mode from a loaded parent when creating
  related runtime threads.
  - Return the current selected `multiAgentMode` from `thread/start`,
  `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and thread settings, using `null` when
  no mode is selected.
  - Keep lifecycle reporting independent from model capability and feature
  eligibility; core turn construction remains responsible for calculating
  and persisting the effective mode.
  
  ## Not covered
  
  - Clearing an existing loaded-session selection back to unset through
  `turn/start`; omitted or `null` currently retains the session's
  selection.
  - A TUI control, slash command, or `config.toml` preference.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-app-server multi_agent_mode`
  
  The focused app-server coverage verifies explicit `thread/start`
  initialization, first-turn prompting, nullable reporting for an omitted
  selection, and retention of selections that are not currently
  runtime-eligible.
  
  ## Stack
  
  Stacked on #28685. This PR contains only the thread initialization and
  lifecycle/settings API layer.

  Shijie Rao · 2026-06-19 10:50:44 +02:00
  7abfcf220b
• [plugins] Refresh plugin and tool caches after remote install (#28951)

  Summary
  - Refresh the installed remote-plugin snapshot and Codex Apps tools
  after completing a remote JIT install.
  - Gate `completed: true` on every expected `app_connector_id` appearing
  after the uncached `tools/list` refresh, while continuing to skip local
  bundle verification for server-side installs.
  - Keep the cached recommendations response and filter refreshed
  installed remote IDs locally, so this does not add another
  recommendations fetch.
  - Add regression coverage for tools appearing after the hard refresh and
  remaining absent after the refresh. The resumed model request sees the
  refreshed tool router when installation completes.
  
  Root Cause
  - Remote suggestions from `openai-curated-remote` returned `true` before
  taking the existing connector refresh path, leaving the resumed turn
  with the pre-install Apps tool catalog.
  
  Validation
  - `just test -p codex-core request_plugin_install`
  - `just test -p codex-core-plugins
  recommended_plugin_candidates_filter_installed_and_disabled_plugins`
  - `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
  - `just fix -p codex-core-plugins`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`
  - `just fmt`
  - `just test -p codex-core` was not fully clean locally: 2,729 passed,
  26 failed, and 16 skipped. The failures were dominated by local
  Seatbelt/network/timing issues, including plugin-install timeouts under
  full-suite contention; the focused plugin-install runs pass.

  Alex Daley · 2026-06-18 20:08:04 -04:00
  7e37354a58
• core: load AGENTS.md from foreign environments (#28958)

  ## Why
  
  Make it possible to load AGENTS.md from remote exec-servers whose OS is
  different than app-server.
  
  ## What
  
  - keep `AGENTS.md` discovery and provenance as `PathUri`, with
  root-aware parent and ancestor traversal
  - expose lifecycle instruction sources as legacy app-server path strings
  in events while retaining `PathUri` internally
  - preserve and test mixed POSIX and Windows paths in model context and
  TUI status output
  - cover remote Windows loading end to end by seeding the Wine prefix
  through host filesystem APIs
  - fix bug in `PathUri`'s parent() implementation that would erase
  Windows drive letters

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-18 15:06:23 -07:00
  dce673905a
• Emit Trusted MCP App Identity on Tool-Call Items (#27132)

  ## Summary
  
  - Add optional `appContext` to app-server MCP tool-call items with
  trusted `connectorId`, `linkId`, and `mcpAppResourceUri` metadata.
  - Preserve that context across tool-call events, persisted history,
  reconnects, and thread resume.
  - Keep the deprecated top-level `mcpAppResourceUri` temporarily for
  client migration.
  
  The consumer contract is `{ appContext: { connectorId, linkId,
  mcpAppResourceUri }, tool }`.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - Full GitHub Actions suite passes, including CLA, Bazel tests, clippy,
  release builds, and argument-comment lint.
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: martinauyeung-oai <280153141+martinauyeung-oai@users.noreply.github.com>

  martinauyeung-oai · 2026-06-18 14:02:54 -07:00
  765309d5a6
• current time reminders impl for system clock (varlatency 2/n) (#28824)

  Stacked on #28822.
  
  ## Summary
  
  - add a host-injectable current-time provider with a built-in system
  implementation
  - record UTC developer reminders in history immediately before due model
  requests
  - keep cadence state per session and force a refresh after compaction
  
  This does NOT include the app server client <-> server clock logic. This
  PR is only for the reminder message & system clock that will be used in
  prod.
  
  ## Testing
  
  - `just test -p codex-core varlatency_`
  - `just clippy -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-mcp-server -p
  codex-thread-manager-sample`
  - `just fmt`

  rka-oai · 2026-06-18 19:18:42 +00:00
  752ed90d78
• Support openai/form extended form elicitations (#27500)

  # Summary
  Allow App Server clients to opt into `openai/form` MCP elicitations.

  Gabriel Peal · 2026-06-18 11:54:49 -07:00
  21a599fa56
• app-server: keep the model cache warm (#28699)

  ## Why
  
  The app server is long-lived, but its shared model cache otherwise
  refreshes only when a caller needs it. Once the five-minute cache
  expires, starting a thread or calling `model/list` can wait for
  `/models` on the request path.
  
  Refresh the cache in the background before it expires so foreground
  callers normally use fresh local state.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Start an app-server worker that refreshes models immediately and then
  every three minutes using the existing models-manager API.
  - Hold only a weak reference to the models manager between refreshes, so
  the worker does not extend its lifetime.
  - Stop scheduling refreshes when the app-server lifecycle handle is shut
  down or dropped. A refresh already in progress is allowed to finish.
  - Adjust affected app-server test fixtures to distinguish the background
  `/models` probe from the connection they are testing.
  
  The existing models-manager cache, refresh strategies, auth handling,
  ETag behavior, and concurrency semantics are unchanged.
  
  ## Testing
  
  -
  `models_refresh_worker::tests::refreshes_immediately_periodically_and_stops_when_dropped`
  -
  `suite::v2::remote_control::listen_off_honors_persisted_remote_control_enable`
  -
  `suite::v2::attestation::attestation_generate_round_trip_adds_header_to_responses_websocket_handshake`

  jif · 2026-06-17 16:18:39 +02:00
  5935a90619
• Clarify model-generated and legacy app path types (#28577)

  ## Why
  
  `ApiPathString` kind of implies that it can be used anywhere we pull a
  path out of JSON, but it's not really appropriate for tool arguments
  when the model might generate relative paths.
  
  Prefer `String` for model-generated paths and we can handle the
  conversion per feature for now and define a shared abstraction later if
  it makes sense.
  
  # What
  
  Rename `ApiPathString` to `AppLegacyPathString` to clarify its role.
  
  Expand the `path-types` skill to tell the model to leave tool args as
  bare strings.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-16 20:47:43 +00:00
  322b83de5e
• [tests] Keep Apps out of generic core test harness (#28508)

  ## Summary
  
  - disable the stable Apps feature in the generic `test_codex()`
  integration-test harness
  - keep Apps-specific tests explicit: their builders re-enable Apps and
  point it at a local mock server
  
  ## Why
  
  Generic tests that use dummy ChatGPT auth were also enabling the
  host-owned `codex_apps` MCP server. That made unrelated tests contact
  `chatgpt.com` and wait for MCP startup, causing the Bazel timeouts
  observed on #28368.
  
  The generic harness should be hermetic and should not start an external
  service that the test did not request. This is test-only; production
  Apps behavior is unchanged. The broader optional-MCP startup behavior is
  being handled separately in #28407.
  
  ## Testing
  
  - `just test -p codex-core -E
  'test(pre_sampling_compact_runs_when_comp_hash_changes) |
  test(model_switch_to_smaller_model_updates_token_context_window) |
  test(codex_apps_file_params_upload_local_paths_before_mcp_tool_call)'`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`
  - `just fmt`

  jif · 2026-06-16 13:07:43 +02:00
  ef8eb8bdd9
• [codex] Use expect in integration tests (#28441)

  The workspace denies `clippy::expect_used` in production. Although
  `clippy.toml` allows `expect` in tests, Bazel Clippy compiles
  integration-test helper code in a way that does not receive that
  exemption, which encouraged verbose `unwrap_or_else(... panic!(...))`
  and equivalent `match`/`let else` forms.
  
  This allows `clippy::expect_used` once at each integration-test crate
  root (including aggregated suites and test-support libraries), then
  replaces manual panic-based Result and Option unwraps with
  `expect`/`expect_err`. Standalone `tests/*.rs` files remain their own
  crate roots. Intentional assertion and unexpected-variant panics remain
  unchanged, and the production `expect_used = "deny"` lint remains in
  place.
  
  The cleanup is mechanical and net-negative in line count.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-06-15 21:53:47 -07:00
  e752f7b4ae
• Run core integration tests against a Wine-backed Windows executor (#28401)

  ## Why
  
  We want to exercise a linux app-server against a windows exec-server
  without having to repeat every test case. This approach has slight
  precedent in the remote docker test setup.
  
  ## What
  
  Run the shared `codex-core` integration suite against Windows
  exec-server behavior from Linux. This makes cross-OS path and shell
  regressions visible while keeping unsupported cases owned by individual
  tests.
  
  - Add `local`, `docker`, and `wine-exec` test environment selection with
  legacy Docker compatibility.
  - Extend `codex_rust_crate` to generate a sharded Wine-exec variant
  using a cross-built Windows server and pinned Bazel Wine/PowerShell
  runtimes.
  - Teach remote-aware helpers about Windows paths and track temporary
  incompatibilities with source-local `skip_if_wine_exec!` calls and
  follow-up reasons.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-16 00:38:41 +00:00
  1fe89de576
• feat(core): add metadata field to ResponseItem (#28355)

  ## Description
  
  This PR adds an optional `metadata` field to `ResponseItem` for
  Responses API calls. Only mechanical plumbing, no actual values
  populated and sent yet. Turns out just adding a new field to
  `ResponseItem` has quite a large blast radius already.
  
  This change is backwards compatible because `metadata` is optional and
  omitted when absent, so existing response items and rollout history
  without it still deserialize and requests that do not set it keep the
  same wire shape. For provider compatibility, we strip out `metadata`
  before non-OpenAI Responses requests so Azure and AWS Bedrock never see
  this field.
  
  My followup PR here will actually make use of it to start storing and
  passing along `turn_id`: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28360
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Added `ResponseItemMetadata` with optional `turn_id`, plus optional
  `metadata` on Responses API item variants and inter-agent communication.
  - Preserved item metadata through response-item rewrites such as
  truncation, missing tool-output synthesis, compaction history
  rebuilding, visible-history conversion, rollout/resume, and generated
  app-server schemas/types.
  - Strip item metadata from non-OpenAI Responses requests while
  preserving it for OpenAI-shaped requests.
  - Updated the mechanical fixture/test construction churn required by the
  new optional field.

  Owen Lin · 2026-06-15 15:05:28 -07:00
  040dafa32d
• [codex] exec-server honors remote environment cwd and shell (#28122)

  ## Why
  
  Next slice needed to make progress on the `remote_env_windows` test is
  to support passing a Windows cwd for the remote environment and using
  that environment's native shell. This lets the test run a real Windows
  process instead of only recording an early path or shell mismatch.
  
  ## What
  
  - change `TurnEnvironmentSelection.cwd` from `AbsolutePathBuf` to
  `PathUri`
  - convert local cwd values to URIs when constructing selections
  - preserve a remote primary cwd instead of replacing it with the local
  legacy fallback
  - prefer the selected environment's discovered shell for unified exec,
  falling back to the session shell when unavailable
  - convert back to a host-native absolute path at current native-only
  consumer boundaries
  - reject or deny unsupported foreign cwd values at the existing
  request-permissions boundary, with TODOs for its future migration
  - extend the hermetic Wine test to execute Windows PowerShell in
  `C:\windows` and verify successful process completion
  - record the current app-server rejection against the same Wine-backed
  remote Windows fixture when its cwd is supplied as a native Windows path

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-14 06:07:46 +00:00
  efbd00f21f
• [codex] make PathUri::from_abs_path infallible (#27976)

  ## Why
  
  `PathUri::from_abs_path` can fail for absolute paths that do not have a
  normal `file:` URI representation, forcing filesystem call sites to
  handle a conversion error even though the original path can be preserved
  losslessly.
  
  ## What
  
  Make `from_abs_path` infallible and migrate its callers. Unrepresentable
  paths use `file:///%00/bad/path/<base64>`, encoding Unix bytes or
  Windows UTF-16LE; `to_abs_path` validates and decodes that fallback. The
  leading encoded null reserves a namespace that cannot collide with a
  real Unix or Windows path, and fallback URIs remain opaque to lexical
  path operations.
  
  ## Validation
  
  Added path-URI coverage for Unix null and non-UTF-8 paths, Windows
  device/verbatim and non-Unicode paths, serialization, malformed
  fallbacks, opaque lexical operations, invalid native payloads, and
  literal `/bad/path` collision resistance.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-12 16:58:42 -07:00
  968a3ac9c1
• [codex] Load AGENTS.md from all bound environments (#27696)

  ## Why
  
  We already have the machinery to support multiple environments on a
  single thread, but we only show the model the contents of `AGENTS.md`
  files in the primary environment.
  
  We should show the model all of the relevant project instructions when
  we know there's more than one environment.
  
  ## Known Gaps
  
  As discussed in the RFC, this implementation:
  
  1. doesn't handle environments being added/removed to/from the thread
  after its creation
  2. it doesn't enforce an aggregate context budget across environments,
  and instead applies the configured project maximum independently to each
  environment
  
  ## Implementation
  
  - Discover project instructions in environment order with an independent
  byte budget per environment and preserve source provenance/order.
  - Keep the legacy fragment byte-for-byte when exactly one environment
  contributes project instructions; use environment-labeled sections when
  two or more environments contribute.
  - Freeze the complete rendered fragment in `LoadedAgentsMd`, insert it
  directly into requests, and recognize both layouts in contextual and
  memory filtering.
  - Add exact rendering, independent-budget, source-order,
  creation-snapshot, and consumer coverage without changing app-server
  schemas.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-12 00:10:06 -07:00
  bf667c7003
• core: Consolidate Responses API Codex metadata (#27122)

  ## What
  Introduce a `CodexResponsesMetadata` struct that defines all the core
  metadata we send to Responses API. Example fields are `thread_id`,
  `turn_id`, `window_id`, etc.
  
  Going forward, `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]` will be the
  canonical way Codex sends metadata to Responses API across both HTTP and
  websocket transports.
  
  For now, we continue to emit the existing top-level HTTP headers and
  top-level `client_metadata` fields from the same
  `CodexResponsesMetadata` struct for compatibility reasons.
  
  Also, app-server clients who specify additional
  `responsesapi_client_metadata` via `turn/start` and `turn/steer` will
  have those fields merged into
  `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, but cannot override the
  reserved fields that core uses (i.e. the fields in
  `CodexResponsesMetadata`).
  
  ## Why
  
  Responses API request instrumentation is the source of truth for
  downstream Codex analytics that join requests by Codex IDs such as
  session, thread, turn, and context window. Before this change, those
  values were assembled through several request-specific paths: HTTP
  request bodies, websocket handshake headers, websocket `response.create`
  payloads, compaction requests, and the rich `x-codex-turn-metadata`
  envelope all had their own wiring.
  
  That made metadata propagation easy to drift across API-key/direct
  Responses API requests, ChatGPT-auth/proxied requests, websocket
  requests, and compaction requests. It also made additions like
  `window_id` error-prone because a field could be added to one transport
  projection but missed in another.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Added `CodexResponsesMetadata` as the core-owned snapshot for Codex
  metadata sent to ResponsesAPI.
  - Render `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, flat
  `client_metadata` projections, and direct compatibility headers from
  that same snapshot.
  - Include the known Codex-owned fields in the turn metadata blob,
  including installation/session/thread/turn/window IDs, request kind,
  lineage, sandbox/workspace metadata, timing, and compaction details.
  - Treat app-server `responsesapi_client_metadata` as enrichment for the
  Codex turn metadata blob while preventing those extras from overriding
  Codex-owned fields.
  - Use the same metadata path for normal turns, websocket prewarm, local
  compaction, remote v1 compaction, and remote v2 compaction.
  - Keep websocket connection-only preconnect metadata separate so
  handshakes carry compatibility identity headers without inventing a fake
  turn metadata blob.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo check -p codex-core`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`

  Owen Lin · 2026-06-11 13:42:09 -07:00
  14df0e8833
• [codex] Load user instructions through an injected provider (#27101)

  ## Why
  
  We want to remove implicit use of `$CODEX_HOME` from `codex-core` and
  make embedders responsible for supplying user-level instructions. This
  also ensures user instructions load when no primary environment is
  selected.
  
  ## What changed
  
  Stacked on #27415, which makes `codex exec` surface thread-scoped
  runtime warnings.
  
  - Added `UserInstructionsProvider` to `codex-extension-api`, with
  absolute source attribution and recoverable loading warnings.
  - Added `codex-home` with the filesystem-backed provider for
  `AGENTS.override.md` and `AGENTS.md`, preserving precedence, fallback,
  trimming, lossy UTF-8 handling, and the existing uncapped global
  instruction size.
  - Removed global instruction loading from `Config` and require
  `ThreadManager` callers to inject a provider.
  - Load provider instructions once for each fresh root runtime, including
  runtimes without a primary environment. Running sessions retain their
  snapshot, while child agents inherit the parent snapshot without
  invoking the provider.
  - Keep provider instructions separate while loading project `AGENTS.md`,
  then assemble the model-visible instructions with the existing ordering,
  source attribution, warning, and turn-context behavior.
  - Wired the Codex home provider through the CLI, app server, MCP server,
  core facade, and thread-manager sample.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `just test -p codex-home -p codex-extension-api`
  - `just test -p codex-core agents_md`
  - `just test -p codex-core guardian`
  - `just test -p codex-app-server
  thread_start_without_selected_environment_includes_only_global_instruction_source`
  - `just test -p codex-exec warning`
  - `just bazel-lock-check`

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-11 19:28:47 +00:00
  236b50125d
• [codex] migrate ExecutorFileSystem paths to PathUri (#27424)

  ## Why
  
  We're moving exec-server to use PathUri for its internal path
  representations.
  
  ## What
  
  Move `ExecutorFileSystem` APIs to use `PathUri` instead of
  `AbsolutePathBuf`. Future changes will convert higher-level parts of
  exec-server.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-11 18:44:18 +00:00
  b2a4e3be27
• Pair thread environment settings (#26687)

  ## 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.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-06-08 13:55:15 -07:00
  f3c1283411
• fix: preserve approval sandbox decisions in unified exec (#24981)

  ## Why
  
  This PR fixes approval sandbox semantics in the unified-exec path. The
  zsh-fork runtime exposed the bug because the shell can do meaningful
  work before any intercepted child `execv(2)` exists: redirections,
  builtins, globbing, and pipeline setup all happen in the launch process.
  If the model requested `sandbox_permissions=require_escalated`, or an
  exec-policy `allow` rule explicitly bypassed the sandbox, that approved
  sandbox decision needs to be preserved for the launch path and for
  intercepted execs that use the same approval machinery.
  
  The behavior is not only about zsh fork. The production changes are in
  shared approval/escalation code, so they also affect non-zsh-fork
  intercepted exec paths that go through the same sandbox decision logic.
  The narrow intent is to preserve the approval decision while still
  keeping denied-read profiles and bounded additional-permission requests
  sandboxed.
  
  ## Production Changes
  
  - `codex-rs/core/src/tools/runtimes/unified_exec.rs`: derives a
  `launch_sandbox_permissions` value from the requested sandbox
  permissions and the runtime filesystem policy, then uses that value for
  managed-network/env setup and launch sandbox selection. This keeps full
  approval or policy-bypass decisions visible to the first unified-exec
  attempt, while still preventing a full sandbox override from discarding
  denied-read restrictions. Direct unified exec keeps the same decision
  surface; the important difference is that zsh-fork launch setup no
  longer accidentally loses the approved parent sandbox decision.
  
  - `codex-rs/core/src/tools/runtimes/shell/unix_escalation.rs`: makes
  intercepted-exec escalation selection explicit for the three sandbox
  permission modes. `UseDefault` only escalates when an exec-policy
  decision allows sandbox bypass, `RequireEscalated` escalates when
  unsandboxed execution is allowed, and `WithAdditionalPermissions`
  escalates through the bounded additional-permissions path instead of
  being treated as a full unsandboxed override. Unsandboxed intercepted
  execs now also rebuild the environment as `RequireEscalated`, which
  strips managed-network proxy variables consistently with other
  unsandboxed execution.
  
  ## Test Coverage
  
  Most of the PR is tests. The new coverage verifies:
  
  - unified exec preserves parent approval and exec-policy sandbox
  decisions for zsh-fork launch selection;
  - bounded `with_additional_permissions` remains sandboxed and
  permission-profile based;
  - denied-read profiles are not weakened by parent approval;
  - explicit prompt rules still prompt for intercepted execs after the
  parent command is approved;
  - unsandboxed intercepted execs strip managed-network env vars.
  
  No documentation update is needed; this is an internal approval/sandbox
  correctness fix.
  
  
  
  
  
  ---
  [//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
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  with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/24981).
  * #24982
  * __->__ #24981

  Michael Bolin · 2026-06-07 11:33:16 -07:00
  e6c470957d
• [codex] Use standalone tools for Responses Lite (#26490)

  ## Summary
  
  Responses Lite does not execute hosted Responses tools, so models using
  it must route web search and image generation through Codex-owned
  executors & standalone Response's API endpoints.
  
  This PR is stacked on #26487.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-core responses_lite_ --lib`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core
  standalone_executors_remain_hidden_without_flags_or_responses_lite
  --lib`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core
  hosted_tools_follow_provider_auth_model_and_config_gates --lib`
  - `cargo test -p codex-web-search-extension -p
  codex-image-generation-extension`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all standalone_`
  - `cargo fmt --all -- --check`

  rka-oai · 2026-06-06 00:23:40 +00:00
  ffe90cb5c3
• Require absolute cwd in thread settings (#26532)

  ## Why
  
  Thread settings cwd overrides are expected to be resolved before they
  enter core. Keeping this boundary as a plain `PathBuf` made it easy for
  core/session code to keep fallback normalization and relative-path
  resolution logic in places that should only receive an already-resolved
  cwd.
  
  This is intentionally the absolute-cwd-only slice: it does not change
  environment selection stickiness or cwd-to-default-environment fallback
  behavior.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Changes `ThreadSettingsOverrides.cwd`,
  `CodexThreadSettingsOverrides.cwd`, and `SessionSettingsUpdate.cwd` to
  use `AbsolutePathBuf`.
  - Removes core-side cwd normalization/resolution from session settings
  updates.
  - Updates affected core/app-server test helpers and callsites to pass
  existing absolute cwd values or use `abs()` helpers.
  
  ## Validation
  
  Opening as draft so CI can start while local validation continues.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-06-05 09:29:15 -07:00
  40c8f1a007
• [codex] Preserve logical paths during AGENTS.md discovery (#26465)

  ## Intent
  
  Follow up on #26205 by avoiding unnecessary filesystem canonicalization
  during `AGENTS.md` discovery. The configured working directory is
  already absolute, and canonicalization incorrectly switches symlinked
  workspaces from their logical parent hierarchy to the target's
  hierarchy.
  
  ## User-facing behavior
  
  For a symlinked working directory such as:
  
  ```text
  test-root/
  |-- logical-repo/
  |   |-- AGENTS.md              ("logical parent doc")
  |   `-- workspace ------------> physical-repo/workspace/
  `-- physical-repo/
      |-- AGENTS.md              ("physical parent doc")
      `-- workspace/
          `-- AGENTS.md          ("workspace doc")
  ```
  
  Before this change, Codex canonicalized `logical-repo/workspace` to
  `physical-repo/workspace` before discovery. It therefore loaded
  `physical-repo/AGENTS.md` and `physical-repo/workspace/AGENTS.md`,
  ignoring the instructions from the repository through which the user
  entered the workspace.
  
  After this change, ancestor discovery walks the configured logical path,
  so Codex loads `logical-repo/AGENTS.md`. Opening
  `logical-repo/workspace/AGENTS.md` still follows the symlink through the
  host filesystem, so the workspace document is also loaded.
  `physical-repo/AGENTS.md` is not loaded.
  
  ## Implementation
  
  Use the logical absolute working directory when discovering project
  instructions and reporting instruction sources. Filesystem reads still
  follow the working-directory symlink, so an `AGENTS.md` in the target
  workspace continues to load while ancestor discovery uses the symlink's
  parents.
  
  ## Validation
  
  Added integration coverage proving that discovery loads the logical
  parent's instructions and the target workspace's instructions, but not
  the target parent's instructions.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-04 15:08:52 -07:00
  59ca34206b
• Switch runtime to cloud config bundle (#24622)

  ## Summary
  
  - Adapts the moved `codex-cloud-config` crate from the legacy cloud
  requirements endpoint to the new config bundle endpoint.
  - Switches runtime consumers from `CloudRequirementsLoader` to
  `CloudConfigBundleLoader` so one shared bundle supplies cloud-delivered
  config and requirements.
  - Removes the legacy cloud requirements domain loader path.
  
  ## Details
  
  This intentionally keeps `codex-cloud-config` monolithic for review
  lineage: the previous PR establishes the crate move, and this PR shows
  the behavior change against that moved implementation. A follow-up PR
  splits the module back into focused files.
  
  The new bundle path preserves the important cloud requirements loader
  semantics where intended: account-scoped signed cache, 30 minute TTL, 5
  minute refresh cadence, retry/backoff, auth recovery, and fail-closed
  startup loading. The cached payload changes from a single requirements
  TOML string to the backend-delivered bundle, and validation rejects
  malformed config or requirements fragments before cache write/use.

  joeflorencio-openai · 2026-06-02 13:18:59 -07:00
  d45cd26248
• [codex] Wait for MCP readiness in core integration tests (#24964)

  Ensures MCP-backed `codex-core` integration tests exercise initialized
  servers instead of racing server startup.
  
  I've been idly investigating a few flakes and the failure modes are much
  more confusing when a tool call fails because of a failed server start
  than when the failed server start causes the test to fail directly.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-05-29 10:22:27 -07:00
  3e666dd32a
• [codex] Support ui visibility meta for tools (#24700)

  ## Summary
  
  Adds support for the same ui.visibility metadata as resources
  
  [spec](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps/blob/main/specification/draft/apps.mdx#resource-discovery)

  Gabriel Peal · 2026-05-28 10:24:03 -07:00
  577ec03bf8
• Add experimental turn additional context (#24154)

  ## 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.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-26 13:02:34 -07:00
  768848ab6f
• Move MCP tool naming mode into manager (#21576)

  ## Why
  
  The `non_prefixed_mcp_tool_names` feature should be applied where MCP
  tools become model-visible, not by remapping names later in core.
  Keeping the decision in `McpConnectionManager` construction makes
  `ToolInfo` the single shaped view that spec building, deferred tool
  search, routing, and unavailable-tool placeholders can consume directly.
  
  This also preserves the existing external behavior while the feature is
  off, and keeps the feature-on behavior for code mode and hooks explicit
  at the manager boundary.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Add `McpToolNameMode` to `codex-mcp` and flow it through `McpConfig`
  into `McpConnectionManager::new`.
  - Normalize MCP `ToolInfo` names in the manager using either
  legacy-prefixed namespaces or non-prefixed namespaces; the legacy path
  adds `mcp__` without restoring the old trailing namespace suffix.
  - Remove the core-side MCP name remapping path so specs, tool search,
  session resolution, and unavailable-tool placeholder construction use
  the manager-provided `ToolName` values directly.
  - Keep code mode flattening on the `__` namespace separator.
  - Preserve hook compatibility by giving non-prefixed MCP hook names
  legacy `mcp__...` matcher aliases.
  - Add/adjust integration and unit coverage for non-prefixed code-mode
  behavior, hook matching with the feature on and off, and manager-level
  legacy prefixing.
  
  ## Testing
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-mcp --lib`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --lib tools::spec::tests -- --nocapture`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --lib mcp_tools -- --nocapture`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --lib mcp_tool_exposure -- --nocapture`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all mcp_tool -- --nocapture`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all search_tool -- --nocapture`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all hooks_mcp -- --nocapture`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
  code_mode_uses_non_prefixed_mcp_tool_names_when_feature_enabled --
  --nocapture`
  - `cargo test -p codex-tools`
  - `cargo test -p codex-features`

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-26 08:21:15 -07:00
  ff7513cd83
• Honor client-resolved service tier defaults (#23537)

  ## Why
  
  Model catalog responses can now advertise a nullable
  `default_service_tier` for each model. Codex needs to preserve three
  distinct states all the way from config/app-server inputs to inference:
  
  - no explicit service tier, so the client may apply the current model
  catalog default when FastMode is enabled
  - explicit `default`, meaning the user intentionally wants standard
  routing
  - explicit catalog tier ids such as `priority`, `flex`, or future tiers
  
  Keeping those states distinct prevents the UI from showing one tier
  while core sends another, especially after model switches or app-server
  `thread/start` / `turn/start` updates.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Plumbed `default_service_tier` through model catalog protocol types,
  app-server model responses, generated schemas, model cache fixtures, and
  provider/model-manager conversions.
  - Added the request-only `default` service tier sentinel and normalized
  legacy config spelling so `fast` in `config.toml` still materializes as
  the runtime/request id `priority`.
  - Moved catalog default resolution to the TUI/client side, including
  recomputing the effective service tier when model/FastMode-dependent
  surfaces change.
  - Updated app-server thread lifecycle config construction so
  `serviceTier: null` preserves explicit standard-routing intent by
  mapping to `default` instead of internal `None`.
  - Kept core responsible for validating explicit tiers against the
  current model and stripping `default` before `/v1/responses`, without
  applying catalog defaults itself.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo build -p codex-cli`
  - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test -p codex-app-server model_list`
  - `cargo test -p codex-tui service_tier`
  - `cargo test -p codex-protocol service_tier_for_request`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core get_service_tier`
  - `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test -p codex-core
  service_tier`

  Shijie Rao · 2026-05-20 15:57:50 -07:00
  370b13afc9
• Make local environment optional in EnvironmentManager (#23369)

  ## Summary
  - make `EnvironmentManager` local environment/runtime paths optional
  - simplify constructor surface around snapshot materialization
  - rename local env accessors to `require_local_environment` /
  `try_local_environment`
  
  ## Validation
  - devbox Bazel build for touched crate surfaces
  - `//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-unit-tests`
  - `//codex-rs/app-server-client:app-server-client-unit-tests`
  - filtered touched `//codex-rs/core:core-unit-tests` cases

  starr-openai · 2026-05-19 12:55:34 -07:00
  5c43a64e2b
• [5 of 7] Replace OverrideTurnContext with ThreadSettings (#22508)

  **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)

  Eric Traut · 2026-05-18 21:03:51 -07:00
  a668379abf
• [3 of 7] Remove UserTurn (#23075)

  **Stack position:** [3 of 7]
  
  ## Summary
  
  This PR finishes the input-op consolidation by moving the remaining
  `Op::UserTurn` callers onto `Op::UserInput` and deleting `Op::UserTurn`.
  This touches a lot of files, but it is a low-risk mechanical migration.
  
  ## 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) (this PR)
  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)

  Eric Traut · 2026-05-18 19:56:00 -07:00
  1a25d8b6e5
• [codex] Remove legacy shell output formatting paths (#22706)

  ## Why
  
  The client and tool pipeline still carried compatibility code for legacy
  structured shell output. Current shell and apply_patch responses are
  already plain text for model consumption, so keeping a
  JSON-serialization path plus shell-item rewrite logic makes the request
  formatter and tests preserve a format we do not need anymore.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Removed the client-side shell output rewrite from
  `core/src/client_common.rs`.
  - Removed the structured exec-output formatter and the shell `freeform`
  switch so tool emitters use one model-facing formatter.
  - Collapsed apply_patch/shell serialization tests around the remaining
  plain-text output expectations and removed duplicate one-variant
  parameterized cases.
  - Kept the `ApplyPatchModelOutput::ShellCommandViaHeredoc` compatibility
  input shape, but no longer treats it as a separate output-format mode.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-core client_common`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core shell_serialization`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core apply_patch_cli`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`
  
  ## Documentation
  
  No external Codex documentation update is needed.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-18 09:57:54 -07:00
  82061660ae
• Add user_input_requested_during_turn to MCP turn metadata (#22237)

  ## Why
  - Similar change as https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/21219
  - Without change: MCP tool calls receive
  `_meta["x-codex-turn-metadata"]` with various key values.
  - Issue: MCP servers currently do not know if user input was requested
  during the turn (Ex: Model decides to prompt the user for approval
  mid-turn before making a possibly risky tool call). MCP servers may want
  to know this when tracking latency metrics because these instances are
  inflated.
  
  ## What Changed
  - With change: MCP turn metadata now includes
  `user_input_requested_during_turn` when a model-visible
  `request_user_input` call happened earlier in the turn, propagated in
  `_meta["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`.
  - `mark_turn_user_input_requested()` is called when user input is
  requested through either MCP elicitation (`mcp.rs`) or the
  `request_user_input` tool (`mod.rs`).
  - MCP tool call `_meta` is now built immediately before execution
  (`mcp_tool_call.rs`) so user input requested earlier in the same turn,
  including within the same tool call via elicitation, is reflected in the
  metadata.
  - Normal `/responses` turn metadata headers are unchanged.
  
  ## Verification
  - `codex-rs/core/src/session/mcp_tests.rs`
  - `codex-rs/core/src/tools/handlers/request_user_input_tests.rs`
  - `codex-rs/core/src/turn_metadata_tests.rs`
  - `codex-rs/core/tests/suite/search_tool.rs`

  mchen-oai · 2026-05-15 01:26:50 +00:00
  10cf1f79dd
• Remove SSE fixture loaders (#22684)

  ## Why
  
  The Responses API test support already has structured SSE event
  builders. Keeping separate JSON fixture loaders made small mock streams
  harder to read and left an on-disk fixture for a single event.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Removed `load_sse_fixture` and `load_sse_fixture_with_id_from_str`
  from `core_test_support`.
  - Deleted the one `tests/fixtures/incomplete_sse.json` Responses API
  fixture.
  - Replaced the remaining call sites with `responses::sse(...)` and
  existing event helpers.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
  stream_no_completed::retries_on_early_close`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
  history_dedupes_streamed_and_final_messages_across_turns`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all review::`

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-15 00:40:32 +00:00
  4bff020a96
• chore(features) rm Feature::ApplyPatchFreeform (#22711)

  ## Summary
  Removes the feature since this is effectively on by default in all cases
  where we should use it, or can be configured via models.json.
  
  ## Testing
  - [x] unit tests pass

  Dylan Hurd · 2026-05-14 16:15:56 -07:00
  51b0e94105
• Fix remote environment test fixtures (#22572)

  ## Why
  The Docker remote-env coverage was failing before it reached the
  behavior those tests are meant to exercise. The remote-aware test
  fixture only registered the remote environment, so tests that
  intentionally select both `local` and `remote` could not start a turn.
  After that was fixed, two tests exposed stale fixtures: the approval
  test was auto-approving under workspace-write, and the remote
  `view_image` test was writing invalid PNG bytes.
  
  ## What Changed
  - Added `EnvironmentManager::create_for_tests_with_local(...)` so tests
  can keep the provider default while also selecting `local` explicitly.
  - Updated `build_remote_aware()` to use that test-only manager when a
  remote exec-server URL is present.
  - Changed the remote apply-patch approval helper to use
  `SandboxPolicy::new_read_only_policy()` so the test actually exercises
  approval caching per environment.
  - Replaced the hardcoded remote `view_image` PNG blob with the existing
  `png_bytes(...)` helper so the test uses a valid image fixture.
  
  ## Validation
  Ran these isolated Docker remote-env tests on the devbox with
  `$remote-tests` setup:
  -
  `suite::remote_env::apply_patch_freeform_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
  -
  `suite::remote_env::apply_patch_approvals_are_remembered_per_environment`
  -
  `suite::remote_env::apply_patch_intercepted_exec_command_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
  -
  `suite::remote_env::exec_command_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
  - `suite::view_image::view_image_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
  
  All five pass.

  starr-openai · 2026-05-14 12:40:01 -07:00
  255748638c
• feat: add layered --profile-v2 config files (#17141)

  ## Why
  
  `--profile-v2 <name>` gives launchers and runtime entry points a named
  profile config without making each profile duplicate the base user
  config. The base `$CODEX_HOME/config.toml` still loads first, then
  `$CODEX_HOME/<name>.config.toml` layers above it and becomes the active
  writable user config for that session.
  
  That keeps shared defaults, plugin/MCP setup, and managed/user
  constraints in one place while letting a named profile override only the
  pieces that need to differ.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Added the shared `--profile-v2 <name>` runtime option with validated
  plain names, now represented by `ProfileV2Name`.
  - Extended config layer state so the base user config and selected
  profile config are both `User` layers; APIs expose the active user layer
  and merged effective user config.
  - Threaded profile selection through runtime entry points: `codex`,
  `codex exec`, `codex review`, `codex resume`, `codex fork`, and `codex
  debug prompt-input`.
  - Made user-facing config writes go to the selected profile file when
  active, including TUI/settings persistence, app-server config writes,
  and MCP/app tool approval persistence.
  - Made plugin, marketplace, MCP, hooks, and config reload paths read
  from the merged user config so base and profile layers both participate.
  - Updated app-server config layer schemas to mark profile-backed user
  layers.
  
  ## Limits
  
  `--profile-v2` is still rejected for config-management subcommands such
  as feature, MCP, and marketplace edits. Those paths remain tied to the
  base `config.toml` until they have explicit profile-selection semantics.
  
  Some adjacent background writes may still update base or global state
  rather than the selected profile:
  
  - marketplace auto-upgrade metadata
  - automatic MCP dependency installs from skills
  - remote plugin sync or uninstall config edits
  - personality migration marker/default writes
  
  ## Verification
  
  Added targeted coverage for profile name validation, layer
  ordering/merging, selected-profile writes, app-server config writes,
  session hot reload, plugin config merging, hooks/config fixture updates,
  and MCP/app approval persistence.
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  jif-oai · 2026-05-14 15:16:15 +02:00
  deedf3b2c4
• [codex] Remove unused legacy shell tools (#22246)

  ## Why
  
  Recent session history showed no active use of the raw `shell`,
  `local_shell`, or `container.exec` execution surfaces. Keeping those
  handlers/specs wired into core leaves duplicate shell execution paths
  alongside the supported `shell_command` and unified exec tools.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Removed the raw `shell` handler/spec and its `ShellToolCallParams`
  protocol helper.
  - Removed the legacy `local_shell` and `container.exec` handler/spec
  plumbing while preserving persisted-history compatibility for old
  response items.
  - Normalized model/config `default` and `local` shell selections to
  `shell_command`.
  - Pruned tests that exercised removed raw-shell/local-shell/apply-patch
  variants and kept coverage on `shell_command`, unified exec, and
  freeform `apply_patch`.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `git diff --check`
  - `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
  - `cargo test -p codex-tools`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core tools::handlers::shell`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core tools::spec`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core tools::router`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core
  active_call_preserves_triggering_command_context`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core guardian_tests`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all shell_serialization`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all apply_patch_cli`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all shell_command_`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all local_shell`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all otel::`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all hooks::`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`
  - `just fix -p codex-tools`

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-13 16:43:25 +00:00
  83decfa300
• Remove CODEX_RS_SSE_FIXTURE test hook (#22413)

  ## Why
  
  `CODEX_RS_SSE_FIXTURE` let integration-style CLI, exec, and TUI tests
  bypass the normal Responses transport by reading SSE from local files.
  That kept test-only behavior wired through production client code. The
  affected tests can stay hermetic by using the existing
  `core_test_support::responses` mock server and passing `openai_base_url`
  instead.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Removed the `CODEX_RS_SSE_FIXTURE` flag,
  `codex_api::stream_from_fixture`, the `env-flags` dependency, and the
  checked-in SSE fixture files.
  - Repointed the affected core, exec, and TUI tests at `MockServer` with
  the existing SSE event constructors.
  - Removed the Bazel test data plumbing for the deleted fixtures and
  refreshed cargo/Bazel lock state.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo build -p codex-cli`
  - `cargo test -p codex-api`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all responses_api_stream_cli`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
  integration_creates_and_checks_session_file`
  - `cargo test -p codex-exec --test all ephemeral`
  - `cargo test -p codex-exec --test all resume`
  - `cargo test -p codex-tui --test all
  resume_startup_does_not_consume_model_availability_nux_count`
  - `just bazel-lock-update`
  - `just bazel-lock-check`
  - `just fix -p codex-api -p codex-core -p codex-exec -p codex-tui`
  - `git diff --check`

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-13 03:08:01 +00:00
  96833c5b15
• extension: wire extension registries into sessions (#21737)

  ## 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.

  jif-oai · 2026-05-11 11:38:18 +02:00
  436c0df658
• tests: cover sandbox link write behavior (#21819)

  ## Why
  
  [PR #1705](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1705) moved
  `apply_patch` execution under the configured sandbox and called out the
  need for integration coverage. We already covered textual `../` escapes,
  but did not have coverage for link aliases that live inside a writable
  workspace while pointing at, or aliasing, files visible outside it.
  
  This PR locks in the current sandbox boundary without changing
  production write semantics. Symlink escapes into a read-only outside
  root should fail and leave the outside file unchanged. Existing hard
  links are characterized separately: if a user-created hard link already
  exists inside the writable root, sandboxed writes preserve normal
  hard-link semantics rather than replacing the link and silently breaking
  that relationship.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Added
  `apply_patch_cli_does_not_write_through_symlink_escape_outside_workspace`
  to verify `apply_patch` cannot update a symlink that targets a file
  outside the writable workspace.
  - Added `apply_patch_cli_preserves_existing_hard_link_outside_workspace`
  to verify `apply_patch` intentionally writes through an existing hard
  link and does not unlink or replace it.
  - Added `file_system_sandboxed_write_preserves_existing_hard_link` to
  verify sandboxed `fs/writeFile` preserves an existing hard link and
  writes the shared inode.
  
  ## Testing
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-exec-server file_system_sandboxed_write`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core
  apply_patch_cli_does_not_write_through_symlink_escape_outside_workspace`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core
  apply_patch_cli_preserves_existing_hard_link_outside_workspace`
  - `just fix -p codex-exec-server -p codex-core`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`
  
  
  
  ---
  [//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
  Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
  with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/21819).
  * #21845
  * __->__ #21819

  Michael Bolin · 2026-05-09 08:28:15 -07:00
  0c70698e24
• [codex] Delete function-style apply_patch (#21651)

  ## Why
  
  `apply_patch` is now a freeform/custom tool. Keeping the old
  JSON/function-style registration and parsing path left another way for
  models and tests to invoke `apply_patch`, which made the tool surface
  harder to reason about.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Removed the `ApplyPatchToolType::Function` variant, JSON `apply_patch`
  spec, and handler support for function payloads.
  - Kept `apply_patch_tool_type = freeform` as the supported model
  metadata path, including Bedrock catalog metadata.
  - Migrated `apply_patch` tests and SSE fixtures to custom/freeform tool
  calls.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-tools -p codex-protocol -p codex-model-provider`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core tools::handlers::apply_patch --lib`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
  apply_patch_tool_executes_and_emits_patch_events`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
  apply_patch_reports_parse_diagnostics`
  - `cargo test -p codex-exec test_apply_patch_tool`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`
  - `just fix -p codex-tools -p codex-protocol -p codex-model-provider -p
  codex-exec`

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-08 13:00:57 -07:00
  e783341b70
• [codex] request desktop attestation from app (#20619)

  ## 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.
  
  ![DeviceCheck attestation
  interface](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/codex/dev/jm/devicecheck-diagram-assets/pr-assets/devicecheck-attestation-interface.png)
  
  ## 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>
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  Jiaming Zhang · 2026-05-08 12:36:02 -07:00
  5f4d0ec343
• Add CODEX_HOME environments TOML provider (#20666)

  ## Why
  
  After stdio transports and provider-owned defaults exist, Codex needs a
  config-backed provider that can describe more than the single legacy
  `CODEX_EXEC_SERVER_URL` remote. This PR adds that provider without
  activating it in product entrypoints yet, keeping parser/validation
  review separate from runtime wiring.
  
  **Stack position:** this is PR 4 of 5. It builds on PR 3's
  provider/default model and adds the `environments.toml` provider used by
  PR 5.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Add `environment_toml.rs` as the TOML-specific home for parsing,
  validation, and provider construction.
  - Keep the TOML schema/provider structs private; the public constructor
  added here is `EnvironmentManager::from_codex_home(...)`.
  - Add `TomlEnvironmentProvider`, including validation for:
    - reserved ids such as `local` and `none`
    - duplicate ids
    - unknown explicit defaults
    - empty programs or URLs
    - exactly one of `url` or `program` per configured environment
  - Support websocket environments with `url = "ws://..."` / `wss://...`.
  - Support stdio-command environments with `program = "..."`.
  - Add helpers to load `environments.toml` from `CODEX_HOME`, but do not
  wire entrypoints to call them yet.
  - Add the `toml` dependency for parsing.
  
  ## Stack
  
  - 1. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20663 - Add stdio exec-server
  listener
  - 2. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20664 - Add stdio exec-server
  client transport
  - 3. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20665 - Make environment
  providers own default selection
  - **4. This PR:** https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20666 - Add
  CODEX_HOME environments TOML provider
  - 5. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20667 - Load configured
  environments from CODEX_HOME
  
  Split from original draft: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20508
  
  ## Validation
  
  Not run locally; this was split out of the original draft stack.
  
  ## Documentation
  
  This introduces the config shape for `environments.toml`; user-facing
  documentation should be added before this stack is treated as a
  documented public workflow.
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  starr-openai · 2026-05-08 01:37:47 +00:00
  07b695190f
• Disable empty Cargo test targets (#21584)

  ## Summary
  
  `cargo test` has entails both running standard Rust tests and doctests.
  It turns out that the doctest discovery is fairly slow, and it's a cost
  you pay even for crates that don't include any doctests.
  
  This PR disables doctests with `doctest = false` for crates that lack
  any doctests.
  
  For the collection of crates below, this speeds up test execution by
  >4x.
  
  E.g., before this PR:
  
  ```
  Benchmark 1: cargo test     -p codex-utils-absolute-path     -p codex-utils-cache     -p codex-utils-cli     -p codex-utils-home-dir     -p codex-utils-output-truncation     -p codex-utils-path     -p codex-utils-string     -p codex-utils-template     -p codex-utils-elapsed     -p codex-utils-json-to-toml
    Time (mean ± σ):      1.849 s ±  4.455 s    [User: 0.752 s, System: 1.367 s]
    Range (min … max):    0.418 s … 14.529 s    10 runs
  ```
  
  And after:
  
  ```
  Benchmark 1: cargo test     -p codex-utils-absolute-path     -p codex-utils-cache     -p codex-utils-cli     -p codex-utils-home-dir     -p codex-utils-output-truncation     -p codex-utils-path     -p codex-utils-string     -p codex-utils-template     -p codex-utils-elapsed     -p codex-utils-json-to-toml
    Time (mean ± σ):     428.6 ms ±   6.9 ms    [User: 187.7 ms, System: 219.7 ms]
    Range (min … max):   418.0 ms … 436.8 ms    10 runs
  ```
  
  For a single crate, with >2x speedup, before:
  
  ```
  Benchmark 1: cargo test -p codex-utils-string
    Time (mean ± σ):     491.1 ms ±   9.0 ms    [User: 229.8 ms, System: 234.9 ms]
    Range (min … max):   480.9 ms … 512.0 ms    10 runs
  ```
  
  And after:
  
  ```
  Benchmark 1: cargo test -p codex-utils-string
    Time (mean ± σ):     213.9 ms ±   4.3 ms    [User: 112.8 ms, System: 84.0 ms]
    Range (min … max):   206.8 ms … 221.0 ms    13 runs
  ```
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  Charlie Marsh · 2026-05-07 15:44:17 -07:00
  54ef99a365
• Revert state DB injection and agent graph store (#21481)

  ## 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`.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-06 22:48:29 -07:00
  a8488fec5e