## Summary
Remove the dead experimental `persistExtendedHistory` app-server flag
and collapse rollout persistence to the single policy app-server already
used.
## What Changed
- Removed `persistExtendedHistory` from v2 thread start/resume/fork
params and deleted its deprecation notice path.
- Removed the persistence-mode enums and plumbing through core, rollout,
and thread-store.
- Made rollout filtering mode-free, keeping the existing limited
persisted-history behavior.
## Test Plan
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-app-server-protocol
schema_fixtures`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-app-server
thread_shell_command_history_responses_exclude_persisted_command_executions`
- `cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast -p codex-rollout -p
codex-thread-store`
- final `rg` for removed flag/type names
## Summary
Adds experimental `additionalContext` support to `turn/start` and
`turn/steer` so clients can provide ephemeral external context, such as
browser or automation state, without turning that plumbing into a
visible user prompt or triggering user-prompt lifecycle behavior.
## API Shape
The parameter shape is:
```ts
additionalContext?: Record<string, {
value: string
kind: "untrusted" | "application"
}> | null
```
Example:
```json
{
"additionalContext": {
"browser_info": {
"value": "Active tab is CI failures.",
"kind": "untrusted"
},
"automation_info": {
"value": "CI rerun is in progress.",
"kind": "application"
}
}
}
```
The keys are opaque and caller-defined.
## Context Injection
When provided, accepted entries are inserted into model context as
hidden contextual message items, not as visible thread user-message
items.
`kind: "untrusted"` entries are inserted with role `user`:
```text
<external_${key}>${value}</external_${key}>
```
`kind: "application"` entries are inserted with role `developer`:
```text
<${key}>${value}</${key}>
```
Values are not escaped. Each value is truncated to 1k approximate tokens
before wrapping.
For `turn/start`, accepted additional context is inserted before normal
user input. For `turn/steer`, additional context is merged only when the
steer includes non-empty user input; context-only steers still reject as
empty input.
## Dedupe Strategy
`AdditionalContextStore` lives on session state and stores the latest
complete additional-context map.
Each `turn/start` or non-empty `turn/steer` treats its
`additionalContext` as the current complete set of values. Entries are
injected only when the key is new or the exact entry for that key
changed, including `value` or `kind`. After merging, the store is
replaced with the provided map, so omitted keys are removed from the
retained set and can be injected again later if reintroduced.
Omitting `additionalContext`, passing `null`, or passing an empty object
resets the store to empty and injects nothing.
## What Changed
- Threads experimental v2 `additionalContext` through app-server into
core turn start and steer handling.
- Adds separate contextual fragment types for untrusted user-role
context and application developer-role context.
- Uses pending response input items so additional context can be
combined with normal user input without treating it as prompt text.
- Adds integration coverage for start/steer flow, role routing,
dedupe/reset behavior, deletion/re-add behavior, hook-blocked input
behavior, empty context-only steer rejection, external-fragment marker
matching, and truncation.
**Stack position:** [1 of 7]
## Summary
The first three PRs in this stack are a cleanup pass before the actual
thread settings API work.
Today, core has several overlapping "user input" ops: `UserInput`,
`UserInputWithTurnContext`, and `UserTurn`. They differ mostly in how
much next-turn state they carry, which makes the later queued thread
settings update harder to reason about and review.
This PR starts that cleanup by adding the shared
`ThreadSettingsOverrides` payload and allowing `Op::UserInput` to carry
it. Existing variants remain in place here, so this layer is mostly a
behavior-preserving API shape change plus mechanical constructor
updates.
## End State After PR3
By the end of PR3, `Op::UserInput` is the only "user input" core op. It
can carry optional thread settings overrides for callers that need to
update stored defaults with a turn, while callers without updates use
empty settings. `Op::UserInputWithTurnContext` and `Op::UserTurn` are
deleted.
## End State After PR5
By the end of PR5, core will have only two ops for this area:
- `Op::UserInput` for user-input-bearing submissions.
- `Op::ThreadSettings` for settings-only updates.
## Stack
1. [1 of 7] [Add thread settings to
UserInput](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23080) (this PR)
2. [2 of 7] [Remove
UserInputWithTurnContext](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23081)
3. [3 of 7] [Remove
UserTurn](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23075)
4. [4 of 7] [Placeholder for OverrideTurnContext
cleanup](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23087)
5. [5 of 7] [Replace OverrideTurnContext with
ThreadSettings](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22508)
6. [6 of 7] [Add app-server thread settings
API](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22509)
7. [7 of 7] [Sync TUI thread
settings](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22510)
## Summary
- make `thread_source` an explicit optional thread-level field on
`thread/start`, `thread/fork`, and returned thread payloads
- persist `thread_source` in rollout/session metadata so resumed live
threads retain the original value
- replace the old best-effort `session_source` -> `thread_source`
mapping with an explicit caller-supplied analytics classification
## Why
Before this change, analytics `thread_source` was populated by a
best-effort mapping from `session_source`. `session_source` describes
the runtime/client surface, not the actual thread-level origin, so that
projection was not accurate enough to distinguish cases such as `user`,
`subagent`, `memory_consolidation`, and future thread origins reliably.
Making `thread_source` explicit keeps one thread-level analytics field
while letting callers provide the real classification directly instead
of recovering it indirectly from `session_source`.
## Impact
For new analytics events, `thread_source` now reflects the explicit
thread-level classification supplied by the caller rather than an
inferred value derived from `session_source`. Existing protocol fields
remain optional; callers that omit `threadSource` now produce `null`
instead of a best-effort inferred value.
## Validation
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics -p codex-core -p
codex-app-server-protocol --no-run`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
generated_ts_optional_nullable_fields_only_in_params`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics
thread_initialized_event_serializes_expected_shape`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
resume_stopped_thread_from_rollout_preserves_thread_source`
- Build one app-server process ThreadStore from startup config and share
it with ThreadManager and CodexMessageProcessor.
- Remove per-thread/fork store reconstruction so effective thread config
cannot switch the persistence backend.
- Add params to ThreadStore create/resume for specifying thread
metadata, since otherwise the metadata from store creation would be used
(incorrectly).
Summary:
- Add codex-thread-manager-sample, a one-shot binary that starts a
ThreadManager thread, submits a prompt, and prints the final assistant
output.
- Pass ThreadStore into ThreadManager::new and expose
thread_store_from_config for existing callsites.
- Build the sample Config directly with only --model and prompt inputs.
Verification:
- just fmt
- cargo check -p codex-thread-manager-sample -p codex-app-server -p
codex-mcp-server
- git diff --check
Tests: Not run per request.
## Summary
- add experimental turn/start.environments params for per-turn
environment id + cwd selections
- pass selections through core protocol ops and resolve them with
EnvironmentManager before TurnContext creation
- treat omitted selections as default behavior, empty selections as no
environment, and non-empty selections as first environment/cwd as the
turn primary
## Testing
- ran `just fmt`
- ran `just write-app-server-schema`
- not run: unit tests for this stacked PR
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
App-server v2 already receives turn-scoped `clientMetadata`, but the
Rust app-server was dropping it before the outbound Responses request.
This change keeps the fix lightweight by threading that metadata through
the existing turn-metadata path rather than inventing a new transport.
## What we're trying to do and why
We want turn-scoped metadata from the app-server protocol layer,
especially fields like Hermes/GAAS run IDs, to survive all the way to
the actual Responses API request so it is visible in downstream
websocket request logging and analytics.
The specific bug was:
- app-server protocol uses camelCase `clientMetadata`
- Responses transport already has an existing turn metadata carrier:
`x-codex-turn-metadata`
- websocket transport already rewrites that header into
`request.request_body.client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`
- but the Rust app-server never parsed or stored `clientMetadata`, so
nothing from the app-server request was making it into that existing
path
This PR fixes that without adding a new header or a second metadata
channel.
## How we did it
### Protocol surface
- Add optional `clientMetadata` to v2 `TurnStartParams` and
`TurnSteerParams`
- Regenerate the JSON schema / TypeScript fixtures
- Update app-server docs to describe the field and its behavior
### Runtime plumbing
- Add a dedicated core op for app-server user input carrying turn-scoped
metadata: `Op::UserInputWithClientMetadata`
- Wire `turn/start` and `turn/steer` through that op / signature path
instead of dropping the metadata at the message-processor boundary
- Store the metadata in `TurnMetadataState`
### Transport behavior
- Reuse the existing serialized `x-codex-turn-metadata` payload
- Merge the new app-server `clientMetadata` into that JSON additively
- Do **not** replace built-in reserved fields already present in the
turn metadata payload
- Keep websocket behavior unchanged at the outer shape level: it still
sends only `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, but that JSON
string now contains the merged fields
- Keep HTTP fallback behavior unchanged except that the existing
`x-codex-turn-metadata` header now includes the merged fields too
### Request shape before / after
Before, a websocket `response.create` looked like:
```json
{
"type": "response.create",
"client_metadata": {
"x-codex-turn-metadata": "{\"session_id\":\"...\",\"turn_id\":\"...\"}"
}
}
```
Even if the app-server caller supplied `clientMetadata`, it was not
represented there.
After, the same request shape is preserved, but the serialized payload
now includes the new turn-scoped fields:
```json
{
"type": "response.create",
"client_metadata": {
"x-codex-turn-metadata": "{\"session_id\":\"...\",\"turn_id\":\"...\",\"fiber_run_id\":\"fiber-start-123\",\"origin\":\"gaas\"}"
}
}
```
## Validation
### Targeted tests added / updated
- protocol round-trip coverage for `clientMetadata` on `turn/start` and
`turn/steer`
- protocol round-trip coverage for `Op::UserInputWithClientMetadata`
- `TurnMetadataState` merge test proving client metadata is added
without overwriting reserved built-in fields
- websocket request-shape test proving outbound `response.create`
contains merged metadata inside
`client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`
- app-server integration tests proving:
- `turn/start` forwards `clientMetadata` into the outbound Responses
request path
- websocket warmup + real turn request both behave correctly
- `turn/steer` updates the follow-up request metadata
### Commands run
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
turn_metadata_state_merges_client_metadata_without_replacing_reserved_fields
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
responses_websocket_preserves_custom_turn_metadata_fields`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all client_metadata`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
turn_start_forwards_client_metadata_to_responses_websocket_request_body_v2
-- --nocapture`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol
-p codex-app-server`
- `just fix -p codex-exec -p codex-tui-app-server`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
### Full suite note
`cargo test` in `codex-rs` still fails in:
-
`suite::v2::turn_interrupt::turn_interrupt_resolves_pending_command_approval_request`
I verified that same failure on a clean detached `HEAD` worktree with an
isolated `CARGO_TARGET_DIR`, so it is not caused by this patch.
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