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• Persist agent messages as response items (#29829)

  ## Why
  
  Inter-agent messages are recorded in live history as
  `ResponseItem::AgentMessage`, but rollouts stored
  `InterAgentCommunication` and rebuilt the response item during resume.
  This made the rollout differ from the actual Responses history.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - store the prepared `agent_message` response item directly
  - keep `trigger_turn` in a small local metadata record for fork
  truncation
  - keep reading older `inter_agent_communication` rollout items

  jif · 2026-06-24 15:43:10 +01:00
  b4f0f3eff1
• core: persist initial context window metadata (#29519)

  ## Why
  
  PR #29494 made context-window IDs visible to the model by wrapping the
  token-budget window payload in `<context_window>`, but rollout JSONL
  consumers still could not see the initial window identity by tailing the
  session file. Compacted rollout items carry window IDs only after
  compaction has happened, so a session with no compaction had no durable
  JSONL record for window 0.
  
  This change gives tailing consumers a stable initial-window record at
  session creation time.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Added `session_meta.context_window.window_id` for the initial
  context-window identity.
  - `CreateThreadParams` now requires `initial_window_id: String`, so
  thread-store callers cannot accidentally create new threads without
  window-0 metadata.
  - Live thread creation derives the persisted initial window ID from the
  same `AutoCompactWindowIds` used to initialize `SessionState`, keeping
  runtime state and JSONL metadata aligned.
  - Rollout reconstruction uses `session_meta.context_window.window_id` as
  the initial-window fallback and derives `window_number = 0`,
  `first_window_id = window_id`, and `previous_window_id = None`
  internally.
  - Fork reconstruction intentionally uses the same rollout reconstruction
  path; consumers that need to distinguish copied initial-window metadata
  can use the rollout `thread_id`.
  - Legacy compactions without `window_number` still use compaction-count
  fallback accounting instead of being reset to window 0 by the
  initial-window fallback.
  - Compacted rollout metadata still takes precedence once compaction
  records exist, preserving the richer chain fields there.
  
  ## JSONL Shape
  
  Real rollout JSONL is one object per line. This example is expanded for
  readability, but shows the new initial `session_meta.context_window`
  record followed by the existing compacted rollout item shape that also
  carries window IDs:
  
  ```jsonl
  {
    "timestamp": "2026-06-22T12:00:00.000Z",
    "type": "session_meta",
    "payload": {
      "session_id": "<THREAD_ID>",
      "id": "<THREAD_ID>",
      "timestamp": "2026-06-22T12:00:00.000Z",
      "cwd": "/repo",
      "originator": "codex",
      "cli_version": "0.0.0",
      "source": "cli",
      "model_provider": "<MODEL_PROVIDER>",
      "context_window": {
        "window_id": "<INITIAL_WINDOW_ID>"
      }
    }
  }
  ...
  {
    "timestamp": "2026-06-22T12:34:56.000Z",
    "type": "compacted",
    "payload": {
      "message": "<COMPACTION_SUMMARY>",
      "replacement_history": [
        "..."
      ],
      "window_number": 1,
      "first_window_id": "<INITIAL_WINDOW_ID>",
      "previous_window_id": "<INITIAL_WINDOW_ID>",
      "window_id": "<NEXT_WINDOW_ID>"
    }
  }
  ```
  
  The nested `context_window` object is intentional: it gives rollout
  consumers a stable namespace for context-window metadata while only
  writing the non-derivable initial `window_id`. For the initial window,
  `window_number`, `first_window_id`, and `previous_window_id` are derived
  internally instead of being written to the rollout.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `just test -p codex-protocol`
  - `just test -p codex-rollout
  recorder_materializes_on_flush_with_pending_items`
  - `just test -p codex-core reconstruct_history`
  - `just test -p codex-core
  record_initial_history_reconstructs_forked_transcript`
  - `just test -p codex-thread-store`
  - `just test -p codex-state`
  - `just test -p codex-app-server
  thread_read_returns_summary_without_turns`
  - `just test -p codex-rollout persistence_metrics`

  Michael Bolin · 2026-06-23 21:50:50 +00:00
  01f89c8c59
• 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
• Persist session IDs across thread resume (#29327)

  ## Summary
  
  A cold-resumed subagent kept its durable thread ID but could receive a
  new session ID, splitting one agent tree across multiple sessions after
  a restart.
  
  Persist the root session ID in every rollout `SessionMeta`, carry it
  through thread creation, and restore it before initializing the resumed
  `Session` and `AgentControl`.
  
  ## Behavior
  
  For a nested agent tree:
  
  ```text
  root session R
    parent thread P
      child thread C
  ```
  
  The child rollout stores:
  
  ```text
  session_id:       R
  parent_thread_id: P
  id:               C
  ```
  
  After a cold resume, the child still belongs to root session `R` while
  its immediate parent remains `P`. The integration coverage uses distinct
  values for all three IDs so it catches restoring the session from
  `parent_thread_id`.
  
  ## Legacy rollouts
  
  Previous rollouts have `id` but no `session_id`. `SessionMetaLine`
  deserialization treats a missing `session_id` as `id`, keeping those
  files readable, listable, and resumable. When a legacy subagent is
  resumed through its root, that synthesized child ID no longer overrides
  the inherited root-scoped `AgentControl`. New rollouts always persist
  the explicit root session ID.

  jif · 2026-06-22 09:36:08 +02:00
  6d15bb3d17
• Add per-turn multi-agent mode (#28685)

  ## Why
  
  Multi-agent v2 currently carries an explicit-request-only delegation
  rule in its static usage hint. That provides a safe default, but it
  prevents clients from selecting proactive delegation per turn without
  changing static guidance or rewriting prior model context.
  
  This change makes delegation mode a session selection that can be
  updated through `turn/start`, while deriving the effective model-visible
  mode separately for each turn. Eligible multi-agent v2 turns remain
  explicit-request-only unless proactive mode is both selected and
  enabled.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Add the experimental `turn/start.multiAgentMode` parameter with
  `explicitRequestOnly` and `proactive` values. Omission retains the
  loaded session's current optional selection.
  - Add the default-off `features.multi_agent_mode` feature gate. Eligible
  multi-agent v2 turns use the selected mode when enabled; an unset
  selection or disabled gate resolves to `explicitRequestOnly`.
  - Treat mode prompting as inapplicable for multi-agent v1 and other
  unsupported session configurations, producing no multi-agent mode
  developer message rather than rejecting the turn.
  - Move the explicit-request-only rule out of the static v2 usage hint
  and into a bounded, tagged developer context fragment.
  - Emit the effective mode in initial context and only when that
  effective mode changes on later turns.
  - Persist the effective mode in `TurnContextItem` as the durable
  baseline for resume and context-update comparisons.
  
  Historical rollout items are not rewritten. Later mode developer
  messages establish the current rule incrementally.
  
  ## Not covered
  
  - Initial selection through `thread/start` and selected-mode reporting
  from thread lifecycle/settings APIs; those are isolated in the stacked
  #28792.
  - A TUI control or slash command for selecting the mode.
  - Persisting a preferred mode to `config.toml`; selection remains
  session/turn scoped.
  - Changes to multi-agent concurrency limits, tool availability, or model
  catalog capability declarations.
  - Rewriting historical rollout prompt items. Cold resume restores the
  latest persisted effective mode when available while leaving historical
  developer messages intact.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-core multi_agent_mode`
  - Focused app-server coverage verifies that `turn/start.multiAgentMode`
  produces proactive developer instructions for an eligible v2 turn.
  
  ## Stack
  
  Followed by #28792, which adds `thread/start` initialization and
  lifecycle/settings observability.

  Shijie Rao · 2026-06-18 22:47:51 -07:00
  fc8c6b7384
• [codex] Restore thread recency with compatible migration history (#28671)

  ## Summary
  
  - Revert #28655, restoring the thread `recencyAt` behavior introduced by
  #27910.
  - Move `threads_recency_at` to migration 0039 so it no longer collides
  with `external_agent_config_imports` at version 0038.
  - Repair databases that already applied the recency migration as version
  38 by moving the matching migration-history row to version 39 before
  SQLx validation. The current version-38 migration can then apply
  normally.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `just test -p codex-state
  migrations::tests::repairs_recency_migration_that_was_applied_as_version_38`
  - `just test -p codex-state -p codex-rollout -p codex-thread-store -p
  codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-tui`: 3,439 passed; six TUI tests
  could not open the machine's existing read-only incident database at
  `~/.codex/sqlite/state_5.sqlite`.
  - `just fix -p codex-state`
  - `just fmt`
  - Verified that state migration versions are unique.

  Jeremy Rose · 2026-06-17 18:52:18 +00:00
  7dc7096ae1
• Revert thread recencyAt for sidebar ordering (#28655)

  ## Why
  
  Revert #27910 to remove the newly introduced thread `recencyAt`
  persistence and API behavior from `main`.
  
  ## What changed
  
  This reverts commit `fac3158c2a783095768076489815f361fa9b0db4`,
  including the state migration, thread-store propagation, app-server API
  surface, generated schemas, and related tests.
  
  ## Validation
  
  Not run before opening; relying on CI for the initial fast signal.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-06-16 21:39:30 -07:00
  cb15c64760
• [codex] core: restore absolute turn context cwd (#28629)

  ## Why
  
  #28152 jumped the gun on moving the rollout format to store URIs, and
  would likely break compat with some features that don't go through the
  same types as the core logic.
  
  ## What
  
  Make `TurnContextItem.cwd` an `AbsolutePathBuf` again, remove test added
  for `PathUri` serialization in rollouts. Also drops a bunch of error
  paths that are no longer needed.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-16 19:05:26 -07:00
  3d02c443bc
• Add thread recencyAt for sidebar ordering (#27910)

  ## Summary
  
  Add a server-owned `recencyAt` timestamp and `recency_at` thread-list
  sort key for product recency ordering while preserving the existing
  meaning of `updatedAt` as the latest persisted thread mutation.
  
  This is the server-side alternative to #27697. Rather than narrowing
  `updatedAt`, clients can sort the sidebar by `recency_at` and continue
  treating `updatedAt` as mutation time.
  
  Paired Codex Apps PR:
  [openai/openai#1024599](https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1024599)
  
  ## Contract
  
  - `recencyAt` initializes when a thread is created.
  - A turn start advances `recencyAt` monotonically.
  - Commentary, agent output, tool results, token/accounting updates, turn
  completion, archive, unarchive, resume, and generic metadata writes do
  not advance it.
  - `updatedAt` retains its existing behavior and continues to advance for
  persisted thread mutations.
  - Current servers populate `recencyAt`; the response field is optional
  in generated TypeScript so clients connected to older servers can fall
  back to `updatedAt`.
  - Filesystem-only fallback uses existing updated/mtime ordering when
  SQLite is unavailable.
  
  ## Persistence and compatibility
  
  Migration 0038 adds second- and millisecond-precision recency columns,
  backfills them from the existing updated timestamp, creates list
  indexes, and includes an insert trigger so older binaries writing to a
  migrated database seed recency without causing later mutations to
  advance it.
  
  Generic metadata upserts preserve existing recency values. Turn-start
  updates use a dedicated monotonic touch, and process-local allocation
  keeps millisecond cursor values unique. State DB list, search, read,
  filtered-list repair, rollout fallback propagation, and app-server
  conversions all carry the new field.
  
  ## API
  
  `Thread` responses include:
  
  ```ts
  recencyAt?: number
  ```
  
  `thread/list` and `thread/search` accept:
  
  ```json
  { "sortKey": "recency_at" }
  ```
  
  Generated TypeScript and JSON schemas are included.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `just test -p codex-state` — 146 passed
  - `just test -p codex-rollout` — 69 passed
  - `just test -p codex-thread-store` — 81 passed
  - `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol` — 231 passed
  - Focused app-server list ordering, response mapping, archive/unarchive,
  and resume lifecycle tests passed
  - Scoped `just fix` for state, rollout, thread-store,
  app-server-protocol, and app-server
  - `just fmt`
  - `git diff --check`
  - Independent correctness, simplicity, elegance, security, and
  test-quality reviews; actionable ordering, lifecycle, query-projection,
  and timestamp-uniqueness findings were addressed

  Jeremy Rose · 2026-06-16 17:06:22 -07:00
  fac3158c2a
• core: render remote environment cwd natively (#28152)

  ## Why
  
  Model-visible `<environment_context>` should match the environment of
  the executor, not of the app server.
  
  Stacked on #28146.
  
  ## What
  
  - Keep selected environment cwd values as `PathUri` while building
  environment context.
  - Render cwd text using the path convention represented by the URI, with
  the canonical URI as a fallback.
  - Preserve compatibility with legacy `TurnContextItem.cwd` values when
  reconstructing and diffing context.
  - Extend the Wine-backed remote Windows test to assert that the model
  sees `powershell` and `C:\windows`.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-16 16:17:47 -07:00
  4c79527e31
• Use PathUri in filesystem permission paths for exec-server (#28165)

  ## Why
  
  Progress towards letting app-server and exec-server run on different
  platforms, specifically for sandbox configuration.
  
  ## What
  
  - Make the filesystem path containment hierarchy generic, defaulting to
  `AbsolutePathBuf` for now.
  - Have clients specify `AbsolutePathBuf` or `PathUri` directly where
  needed.
  - Use `PathUri` throughout exec-server filesystem protocol and trait
  boundaries.
  - Implement `From` for conversion to path URIs and `TryFrom` for
  fallible conversion to absolute paths through the generic type
  hierarchy.

  Adam Perry @ OpenAI · 2026-06-15 23:55:23 +00:00
  46f17930b6
• 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
• Support plaintext agent messages (#27830)

  ## Why
  
  Multi-agent v2 `send_message` deliveries already reach the receiving
  model as typed `agent_message` items with encrypted content.
  Child-completion notifications are generated by Codex itself, so their
  content is plaintext and previously fell back to a serialized JSON
  envelope inside an assistant message.
  
  With plaintext `input_text` supported for `agent_message`, both delivery
  paths can use the same model-visible type while preserving explicit
  author and recipient metadata.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - add plaintext `input_text` support to `AgentMessageInputContent` and
  regenerate the affected app-server schemas
  - preserve `InterAgentCommunication` as structured mailbox input instead
  of converting it to assistant text
  - record delivered communications as typed `agent_message` history items
  - persist a dedicated rollout item so local delivery metadata such as
  `trigger_turn` remains available without leaking into the Responses
  request
  - reconstruct typed agent messages on resume and preserve fork-turn
  truncation behavior
  - remove request-time assistant-content parsing
  - preserve plaintext and encrypted inter-agent deliveries in stage-one
  memory inputs
  - normalize and link plaintext and encrypted agent messages in rollout
  traces without treating inbound messages as child results
  - cover the real MultiAgent V2 child-completion path end to end with
  deterministic mailbox synchronization
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `just test -p codex-core
  plaintext_multi_agent_v2_completion_sends_agent_message`
  - `just test -p codex-core input_queue_drains_mailbox_in_delivery_order
  record_initial_history_reconstructs_typed_inter_agent_message
  fork_turn_positions_use_inter_agent_delivery_metadata`
  - `just test -p codex-memories-write
  serializes_inter_agent_communications_for_memory`
  - `just test -p codex-rollout-trace
  agent_messages_preserve_routing_and_content
  sub_agent_started_activity_creates_spawn_edge`
  - `just test -p codex-rollout-trace
  agent_result_edge_falls_back_to_child_thread_without_result_message`
  - `just test -p codex-protocol -p codex-rollout -p
  codex-app-server-protocol`

  jif · 2026-06-12 13:50:04 -07:00
  8f2d6416ce
• [codex] Compact when comp_hash changes (#27520)

  ## Summary
  - snapshot `comp_hash` into `TurnContext` when the turn is created and
  use that snapshot as the downstream source of truth
  - persist the turn hash in rollout context and recover it into
  previous-turn settings during resume and fork replay
  - compact existing history with the previous model only when both
  adjacent turns provide hashes and the values differ
  - record `comp_hash_changed` as the compaction reason
  - cover ordinary transitions, resume, and missing-hash compatibility
  with end-to-end tests
  
  ## Why
  History produced under one compaction-compatible model configuration may
  not be safe to carry directly into another. Compacting at the turn
  boundary converts that history before context updates and the new user
  message are added. Persisting the turn snapshot in `TurnContextItem`
  makes the same protection work after resuming a rollout.
  
  A missing hash is not treated as evidence of incompatibility. `None →
  Some`, `Some → None`, and `None → None` do not trigger compaction; only
  `Some(previous) → Some(current)` with unequal values does.
  
  ## Stack
  - depends on #27532
  - #27532 is based directly on `main`
  
  ## Testing
  - `just test -p codex-core pre_sampling_compact_` — 6 passed
  - `just test -p codex-core
  turn_context_item_uses_turn_context_comp_hash_snapshot` — passed
  - `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-protocol -p codex-analytics -p
  codex-models-manager`

  Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-06-11 04:11:26 +00:00
  ba4925b3c2
• [codex-analytics] add extensible feature thread sources (#27063)

  ## Why
  - `ThreadSource` currently defines a closed set of core-owned values
  - Product features also create threads for background or scheduled work
  - Adding every product-specific value to the core enum would require
  repeated `codex-rs` protocol changes
  - Feature-backed values let product callers provide precise attribution
  while preserving the existing core classifications
  
  ## What Changed
  - Adds `ThreadSource::Feature(String)` for app-owned thread source
  values
  - Represents all app-server v2 thread sources as scalar strings, so a
  feature source is supplied as `"automation"`
  - Persists and emits the feature's plain string label, so `"automation"`
  produces `thread_source="automation"` in analytics
  - Keeps `user`, `subagent`, and `memory_consolidation` as explicit
  core-owned values and regenerates the app-server schemas and TypeScript
  bindings
  
  ## Verification
  - `just write-app-server-schema`
  - `cargo check --workspace`
  - `just test -p codex-protocol
  feature_thread_source_serializes_as_its_app_owned_label`
  - `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol
  thread_sources_round_trip_as_scalar_labels`
  - `cargo test -p codex-analytics
  thread_initialized_event_serializes_expected_shape`
  - `just fmt`

  marksteinbrick-oai · 2026-06-09 12:27:10 -07:00
  a71e040df5
• [codex] Support model-defined reasoning efforts (#26444)

  ## Summary
  - accept non-empty model-defined reasoning effort values while
  preserving built-in effort behavior
  - propagate the non-Copy effort type through core, app-server, TUI,
  telemetry, and persistence call sites
  - preserve string wire encoding and expose an open-string schema for
  clients
  - update model selection and shortcut behavior for model-advertised
  effort values
  
  ## Root cause
  `ReasoningEffort` gained a string-backed custom variant, so it could no
  longer implement `Copy` or rely on derived closed-enum serialization.
  Existing consumers still moved effort values from shared references and
  assumed a fixed built-in value set.
  
  ## Validation
  - `just fmt`
  - Local tests and compilation were not run per request; relying on CI.

  Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-06-04 13:36:24 -07:00
  8ac304c299
• Add multi-agent runtime metadata types (#25720)

  Stack split from #25708. Original PR intentionally left open. This first
  PR adds the multi-agent runtime metadata types and catalog plumbing used
  by the rest of the stack.

  jif-oai · 2026-06-02 12:10:14 +02:00
  3f1fb7ed8b
• store and expose parent_thread_id on Threads (#25113)

  ## Why
  
  This PR
  https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/24161#discussion_r3325692763
  revealed a subagent data modeling issue, where we overloaded
  `forked_from_id` to also mean `parent_thread_id`. That's incorrect since
  guardian and review subagents can be a subagent and NOT fork the main
  thread's history.
  
  The solution here is to explicitly store a new `parent_thread_id` on
  `SessionMeta`, alongside `forked_from_id` which already exists. While
  we're at it, also expose it in the app-server protocol on the `Thread`
  object.
  
  A thread->subagent relationship and a fork of thread history are
  orthogonal concepts.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Added top-level `parent_thread_id` persistence on `SessionMeta` and
  runtime/session plumbing through `SessionConfiguredEvent`,
  `CodexSpawnArgs`, `SessionConfiguration`, `ThreadConfigSnapshot`,
  `TurnContext`, and `ModelClient`.
  - Made turn metadata, request headers, analytics, and subagent-start
  events read the separate runtime/top-level parent field instead of
  deriving general parent lineage from `SessionSource` or
  `forked_from_thread_id`.
  - Passed parent lineage separately at delegated subagent, review,
  guardian, agent-job, and multi-agent spawn construction sites;
  copied-history fork lineage remains derived only from `InitialHistory`.
  - Persisted and exposed parent lineage through rollout/thread-store
  projections and app-server v2 `Thread.parentThreadId`.
  - Updated app-server README text and regenerated app-server schema
  fixtures for the additive `parentThreadId` response field.

  Owen Lin · 2026-06-01 04:33:20 +00:00
  cf0911076f
• thread-store: store permission profiles (#23165)

  ## Why
  
  `SandboxPolicy` is the legacy compatibility shape, but
  `codex-thread-store` still exposed it through `StoredThread`,
  `ThreadMetadataPatch`, and live metadata sync. That kept thread-store
  consumers tied to the legacy representation and meant richer permission
  profile data could not round-trip through thread metadata or cold
  rollout reconciliation.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Replaced thread-store `sandbox_policy` API fields with canonical
  `PermissionProfile` fields.
  - Persist new permission-profile metadata as canonical JSON in the
  existing SQLite metadata slot while continuing to read older legacy
  sandbox policy values.
  - Updated local, in-memory, live metadata sync, and rollout extraction
  paths to propagate `TurnContextItem::permission_profile()`.
  - Re-materialize legacy permission metadata against the final rollout
  cwd when rollout-derived metadata replaces stale SQLite summaries.
  - Updated affected app-server and core test constructors to build
  `PermissionProfile` values directly.
  
  ## Test Plan
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-state`
  - `cargo test -p codex-thread-store`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server
  summary_from_stored_thread_preserves_millisecond_precision --lib`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core realtime_context --lib`

  Michael Bolin · 2026-05-29 11:55:31 -07:00
  a1ecf0cf1c
• Surface filesystem permission profiles in prompt context (#23924)

  ## Summary
  Some permission profiles can encode filesystem reads that should remain
  unavailable to the agent. Before this change, the model-visible context
  and automatic approval review prompt summarized the effective
  permissions as a legacy sandbox mode, which can omit permission-profile
  filesystem entries from escalation decisions.
  
  For example, a profile can grant workspace access while denying a
  private subtree across every workspace root:
  
  ```toml
  default_permissions = "restricted-workspace"
  
  [permissions.restricted-workspace.workspace_roots]
  "/Users/alice/project" = true
  "/Users/alice/other-project" = true
  
  [permissions.restricted-workspace.filesystem]
  ":minimal" = "read"
  
  [permissions.restricted-workspace.filesystem.":workspace_roots"]
  "." = "write"
  "private" = "deny"
  "private/**" = "deny"
  ```
  
  The context window now describes the workspace roots and effective
  filesystem side of the `PermissionProfile` directly, with deny entries
  marked as non-escalatable:
  
  ```xml
  <environment_context>
    <cwd>/Users/alice/project</cwd>
    <shell>zsh</shell>
    <filesystem><workspace_roots><root>/Users/alice/project</root><root>/Users/alice/other-project</root></workspace_roots><permission_profile type="managed"><file_system type="restricted"><entry access="read"><special>:minimal</special></entry><entry access="write"><path>/Users/alice/project</path></entry><entry access="write"><path>/Users/alice/other-project</path></entry><entry access="deny" escalatable="false"><path>/Users/alice/project/private</path></entry><entry access="deny" escalatable="false"><path>/Users/alice/other-project/private</path></entry><entry access="deny" escalatable="false"><glob>/Users/alice/project/private/**</glob></entry><entry access="deny" escalatable="false"><glob>/Users/alice/other-project/private/**</glob></entry></file_system></permission_profile></filesystem>
  </environment_context>
  ```
  
  Managed requirements can impose the same kind of deny-read restriction:
  
  ```toml
  [permissions.filesystem]
  deny_read = [
    "/Users/alice/project/private",
    "/Users/alice/project/private/**",
  ]
  ```
  
  The automatic approval review prompt also receives the parent turn's
  denied-read context, so review decisions can account for the active
  permission profile.
  
  ## What Changed
  - Render the effective filesystem profile in `<environment_context>`,
  including profile type, filesystem entries, workspace roots, and
  non-escalatable deny entries.
  - Persist effective `workspace_roots` in `TurnContextItem` so
  resumed/replayed context does not have to bind `:workspace_roots`
  through legacy `cwd` fallback.
  - Add explicit permission instructions that denied reads are policy
  restrictions, not escalation targets.
  - Pass the parent turn's denied-read context into automatic approval
  reviews.
  - Add targeted coverage for prompt rendering, workspace-root
  materialization, replay context, and review prompt context.
  - Keep the prompt-context test expectations platform-aware so the same
  filesystem rendering assertions pass on Unix and Windows paths.
  
  ## Testing
  - `just test -p codex-core
  context::environment_context::tests::serialize_environment_context_with_full_filesystem_profile`
  - `just test -p codex-core
  context::environment_context::tests::turn_context_item_filesystem_uses_workspace_roots_instead_of_cwd`
  - `just test -p codex-core
  context::permissions_instructions::permissions_instructions_tests::builds_permissions_from_profile_with_denied_reads`
  - `just fix -p codex-core`
  
  I also attempted `just test -p codex-core`; the changed prompt-context
  tests passed, but the full local run did not complete cleanly in this
  sandboxed macOS environment due unrelated user-shell `CODEX_SANDBOX*`
  expectations and integration-test timeouts.

  Michael Bolin · 2026-05-28 14:56:53 -07:00
  e7dda8070e
• [codex] Add user input client ids (#24653)

  ## Summary
  
  Adds an optional `clientId` field to app-server v2 `UserInput` and
  carries it through the core `UserInput` model so clients can correlate
  echoed user input items without relying on payload equality.
  
  ## Details
  
  - Adds `client_id: Option<String>` to core `UserInput` variants.
  - Exposes the v2 app-server field as `clientId` on the wire and in
  generated TypeScript.
  - Preserves the id when converting between app-server v2 and core
  protocol types.
  - Regenerates app-server schema fixtures.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `just fmt`
  - `just write-app-server-schema`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
  - `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
  - `just fix -p codex-protocol`
  - `git diff --check`

  Alexi Christakis · 2026-05-28 14:54:39 -07:00
  e92c952b2e
• [codex] Trim unused TurnContextItem fields (#22709)

  ## Why
  
  `TurnContextItem` is the durable baseline used to reconstruct context
  diffs across resume/fork. Most of the old persisted-only fields on it
  are no longer read, so keeping them in rollout snapshots adds schema
  surface and state that can drift without affecting reconstruction.
  
  `summary` is the exception: older Codex versions require it to
  deserialize `turn_context` records, so keep writing a default
  compatibility value until that schema surface can be removed safely.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Removed the unused persisted fields from `TurnContextItem`: trace ids,
  user/developer instructions, output schema, and truncation policy.
  - Kept `summary` with a compatibility comment and made
  `TurnContext::to_turn_context_item` write `ReasoningSummary::Auto`
  instead of live turn state.
  - Updated rollout/context reconstruction fixtures for the retained
  summary field.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-protocol --lib turn_context_item`
  - `cargo test -p codex-rollout
  resume_candidate_matches_cwd_reads_latest_turn_context`
  - `cargo test -p codex-state turn_context`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --lib
  new_default_turn_captures_current_span_trace_id`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --lib
  record_initial_history_resumed_turn_context_after_compaction_reestablishes_reference_context_item`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
  emits_warning_when_resumed_model_differs`
  - `git diff --check`

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-18 21:54:36 +00:00
  f2368b7de6
• Preserve image detail in app-server inputs (#20693)

  ## 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`.

  Curtis 'Fjord' Hawthorne · 2026-05-15 15:04:04 -07:00
  8543e39885
• Use goal preview metadata for goal-first threads (#21981)

  Fixes #20792
  
  ## Why
  
  `/goal`-first threads are valid resumable threads, but they can be
  missing from `codex resume` and app recents because discovery depends on
  metadata derived from a normal first user message.
  
  PR #21489 attempted to fix this by using the goal objective as
  `first_user_message`. Review feedback pointed out that
  `first_user_message` does more than provide visible text today: it gates
  listing, supplies preview text, and participates in deciding whether a
  later title should surface as a distinct thread name. Reusing it for the
  goal objective could leave a `/goal`-first thread with
  `first_user_message=<goal>` and `title=<later prompt>`, even though the
  goal should only provide the initial visible preview.
  
  This PR follows that feedback by and keeps the `first_user_message` as
  is but introduces a new `preview` field to separate concerns. The
  `preview` field is populated from the first user message or the goal
  objective. We can extend it in the future to include other sources.
  
  ## What Changed
  
  - Added internal thread `preview` metadata in `codex-state`, including a
  SQLite migration that backfills from `first_user_message` and from
  existing `thread_goals` objectives when needed.
  - Treated `ThreadGoalUpdated` as preview-bearing metadata so goal-first
  threads can be listed and searched without mutating
  `first_user_message`.
  - Updated rollout listing, state queries, thread-store conversion, and
  app-server mapping to use preview metadata while continuing to expose
  the existing public `preview` field.
  - Preserved title/name distinctness behavior around literal
  `first_user_message`, so a later normal prompt after `/goal` does not
  surface as a separate name just because the goal supplied the initial
  preview.
  - Preserved compatibility for older/internal metadata writes by deriving
  preview from `first_user_message` when explicit preview metadata is
  absent.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - Manually verified that a thread that starts with a `/goal <objective>`
  shows up in the resume picker.

  Eric Traut · 2026-05-11 10:12:46 -07:00
  f10ddc3f13
• [codex-analytics] rework thread_source for thread analytics (#20949)

  ## 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`

  rhan-oai · 2026-05-06 02:12:31 +00:00
  b3d4f1a9f0
• [codex] Move thread naming to app server (#21260)

  ## Why
  
  Thread names are app-server metadata now, backed by the thread store and
  sqlite state database. Keeping a core `SetThreadName` op plus a rollout
  `thread_name_updated` event made rename persistence live in the wrong
  layer and required historical replay support for an event that new
  app-server flows should not write.
  
  ## What changed
  
  - Removed `Op::SetThreadName` and `EventMsg::ThreadNameUpdated` from the
  core protocol and deleted the core handler path that appended rename
  events to rollouts.
  - Updated app-server `thread/name/set` so both loaded and unloaded
  threads write through thread-store metadata and app-server emits
  `thread/name/updated` notifications.
  - Updated local thread-store name metadata updates to write sqlite title
  metadata and the legacy thread-name index without appending rollout
  events.
  - Removed state extraction and rollout handling for the deleted
  thread-name event.
  
  ## Validation
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_name_updated_broadcasts`
  - `cargo test -p codex-app-server
  thread_name_set_is_reflected_in_read_list_and_resume`
  - `cargo test -p codex-thread-store
  update_thread_metadata_sets_name_on_active_rollout_and_indexes_name`
  - `cargo test -p codex-state`
  - `cargo check -p codex-mcp-server -p codex-rollout-trace`
  - `just fix -p codex-app-server -p codex-thread-store -p codex-state -p
  codex-mcp-server -p codex-rollout-trace`
  
  ## Docs
  
  No external documentation update is expected for this internal ownership
  change.

  pakrym-oai · 2026-05-05 17:16:06 -07:00
  2c1a361a2e
• Delete unused ResponseItem::Message.end_turn (#19605)

  This field is unused. Delete it.

  Andrey Mishchenko · 2026-04-26 17:18:09 -07:00
  35bc6e3d01
• rollout: persist turn permission profiles (#18281)

  ## Why
  
  Resume and reconstruction need to preserve the permissions that were
  active for each user turn. If rollouts only keep legacy sandbox fields,
  replay cannot faithfully represent profile-shaped overrides introduced
  earlier in the stack.
  
  ## What changed
  
  This records `permission_profile` on user-turn rollout events,
  reconstructs it through history/state extraction, and updates rollout
  reconstruction and related fixtures to keep the field explicit.
  
  ## Verification
  
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all permissions_messages --
  --nocapture`
  - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all request_permissions --
  --nocapture`
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ---
  [//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
  Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
  with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/18281).
  * #18288
  * #18287
  * #18286
  * #18285
  * #18284
  * #18283
  * #18282
  * __->__ #18281

  Michael Bolin · 2026-04-22 17:00:29 -07:00
  6ca038bbd1
• fix: fully revert agent identity runtime wiring (#18757)

  ## Summary
  
  This PR fully reverts the previously merged Agent Identity runtime
  integration from the old stack:
  https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17387/changes
  
  It removes the Codex-side task lifecycle wiring, rollout/session
  persistence, feature flag plumbing, lazy `auth.json` mutation,
  background task auth paths, and request callsite changes introduced by
  that stack.
  
  This leaves the repo in a clean pre-AgentIdentity integration state so
  the follow-up PRs can reintroduce the pieces in smaller reviewable
  layers.
  
  ## Stack
  
  1. This PR: full revert
  2. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18871: move Agent Identity
  business logic into a crate
  3. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18785: add explicit
  AgentIdentity auth mode and startup task allocation
  4. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18811: migrate auth callsites
  through AuthProvider
  
  ## Testing
  
  Tests: targeted Rust checks, cargo-shear, Bazel lock check, and CI.

  efrazer-oai · 2026-04-21 14:30:55 -07:00
  be75785504
• Persist and prewarm agent tasks per thread (#17978)

  ## Summary
  - persist registered agent tasks in the session state update stream so
  the thread can reuse them
  - prewarm task registration once identity registration succeeds, while
  keeping startup failures best-effort
  - isolate the session-side task lifecycle into a dedicated module so
  AgentIdentityManager and RegisteredAgentTask do not leak across as many
  core layers
  
  ## Testing
  - cargo test -p codex-core startup_agent_task_prewarm
  - cargo test -p codex-core
  cached_agent_task_for_current_identity_clears_stale_task
  - cargo test -p codex-core record_initial_history_

  Adrian · 2026-04-19 15:45:28 -07:00
  e5b52a3caa
• feat(permissions): add glob deny-read policy support (#15979)

  ## Summary
  - adds first-class filesystem policy entries for deny-read glob patterns
  - parses config such as :project_roots { "**/*.env" = "none" } into
  pattern entries
  - enforces deny-read patterns in direct read/list helpers
  - fails closed for sandbox execution until platform backends enforce
  glob patterns in #18096
  - preserves split filesystem policy in turn context only when it cannot
  be reconstructed from legacy sandbox policy
  
  ## Stack
  1. This PR - glob deny-read policy/config/direct-tool support
  2. #18096 - macOS and Linux sandbox enforcement
  3. #17740 - managed deny-read requirements
  
  ## Verification
  - just fmt
  - cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-sandboxing --tests
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  viyatb-oai · 2026-04-16 10:31:51 -07:00
  6862b9c745
• chore: merge name and title (#17116)

  Merge title and name concept to leverage the sqlite title column and
  have more efficient queries
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  jif-oai · 2026-04-09 18:44:26 +01:00
  12f0e0b0eb
• fix(app-server) revert null instructions changes (#17047)
  Dylan Hurd · 2026-04-07 15:18:34 -07:00
  6c36e7d688
• Preserve null developer instructions (#16976)

  Preserve explicit null developer-instruction overrides across app-server
  resume and fork flows.

  Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-07 09:32:14 -07:00
  cd591dc457
• Move git utilities into a dedicated crate (#15564)

  - create `codex-git-utils` and move the shared git helpers into it with
  file moves preserved for diff readability
  - move the `GitInfo` helpers out of `core` so stacked rollout work can
  depend on the shared crate without carrying its own git info module
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

  Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-24 13:26:23 -07:00
  0f957a93cd
• feat: change multi-agent to use path-like system instead of uuids (#15313)

  This PR add an URI-based system to reference agents within a tree. This
  comes from a sync between research and engineering.
  
  The main agent (the one manually spawned by a user) is always called
  `/root`. Any sub-agent spawned by it will be `/root/agent_1` for example
  where `agent_1` is chosen by the model.
  
  Any agent can contact any agents using the path.
  
  Paths can be used either in absolute or relative to the calling agents
  
  Resume is not supported for now on this new path

  jif-oai · 2026-03-20 18:23:48 +00:00
  79ad7b247b
• Feat: CXA-1831 Persist latest model and reasoning effort in sqlite (#14859)

  ### Summary
  The goal is for us to get the latest turn model and reasoning effort on
  thread/resume is no override is provided on the thread/resume func call.
  This is the part 1 which we write the model and reasoning effort for a
  thread to the sqlite db and there will be a followup PR to consume the
  two new fields on thread/resume.
  
  [part 2 PR is currently WIP](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/14888)
  and this one can be merged independently.

  Shijie Rao · 2026-03-17 10:14:34 -07:00
  8e258eb3f5
• chore: improve DB flushing (#13620)

  This branch:
  * Avoid flushing DB when not necessary
  * Filter events for which we perfom an `upsert` into the DB
  * Add a dedicated update function of the `thread:updated_at` that is
  lighter
  
  This should significantly reduce the DB lock contention. If it is not
  sufficient, we can de-sync the flush of the DB for `updated_at`

  jif-oai · 2026-03-06 19:58:14 +01:00
  0e41a5c4a8
• feat(core): persist trace_id for turns in RolloutItem::TurnContext (#13602)

  This PR adds a durable trace linkage for each turn by storing the active
  trace ID on the rollout TurnContext record stored in session rollout
  files.
  
  Before this change, we propagated trace context at runtime but didn’t
  persist a stable per-turn trace key in rollout history. That made
  after-the-fact debugging harder (for example, mapping a historical turn
  to the corresponding trace in datadog). This sets us up for much easier
  debugging in the future.
  
  ### What changed
  - Added an optional `trace_id` to TurnContextItem (rollout schema).
  - Added a small OTEL helper to read the current span trace ID.
  - Captured `trace_id` when creating `TurnContext` and included it in
  `to_turn_context_item()`.
  - Updated tests and fixtures that construct TurnContextItem so
  older/no-trace cases still work.
  
  ### Why this approach
  TurnContext is already the canonical durable per-turn metadata in
  rollout. This keeps ownership clean: trace linkage lives with other
  persisted turn metadata.

  Owen Lin · 2026-03-05 13:26:48 -08:00
  aa3fe8abf8
• feat: polluted memories (#13008)

  Add a feature flag to disable memory creation for "polluted"

  jif-oai · 2026-03-02 11:57:32 +00:00
  b649953845
• Record realtime close marker on replacement (#13058)

  ## Summary
  - record a realtime close developer message when a new realtime session
  replaces an active one
  - assert the replacement marker through the mocked responses request
  path
  
  ---------
  
  Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  Co-authored-by: Charles Cunningham <ccunningham@openai.com>

  Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-01 13:54:12 -08:00
  0aeb55bf08
• feat: add local date/timezone to turn environment context (#12947)

  ## Summary
  
  This PR includes the session's local date and timezone in the
  model-visible environment context and persists that data in
  `TurnContextItem`.
  
    ## What changed
  - captures the current local date and IANA timezone when building a turn
  context, with a UTC fallback if the timezone lookup fails
  - includes current_date and timezone in the serialized
  <environment_context> payload
  - stores those fields on TurnContextItem so they survive rollout/history
  handling, subagent review threads, and resume flows
  - treats date/timezone changes as environment updates, so prompt caching
  and context refresh logic do not silently reuse stale time context
  - updates tests to validate the new environment fields without depending
  on a single hardcoded environment-context string
  
  ## test
  
  built a local build and saw it in the rollout file:
  ```
  {"timestamp":"2026-02-26T21:39:50.737Z","type":"response_item","payload":{"type":"message","role":"user","content":[{"type":"input_text","text":"<environment_context>\n  <shell>zsh</shell>\n  <current_date>2026-02-26</current_date>\n  <timezone>America/Los_Angeles</timezone>\n</environment_context>"}]}}
  ```

  Celia Chen · 2026-02-26 23:17:35 +00:00
  90cc4e79a2
• fix: do not apply turn cwd to metadata (#12887)

  Details here:
  https://openai.slack.com/archives/C09NZ54M4KY/p1772056758227339

  jif-oai · 2026-02-26 17:05:58 +00:00
  739d4b52de
• feat: add nick name to sub-agents (#12320)

  Adding random nick name to sub-agents. Used for UX
  
  At the same time, also storing and wiring the role of the sub-agent

  jif-oai · 2026-02-20 14:39:49 +00:00
  0f9eed3a6f
• Leverage state DB metadata for thread summaries (#10621)

  Summary:
  - read conversation summaries and cwd info from the state DB when
  possible so we no longer rely on rollout files for metadata and avoid
  extra I/O
  - persist CLI version in thread metadata, surface it through summary
  builders, and add the necessary DB migration hooks
  - simplify thread listing by using enriched state DB data directly
  rather than reading rollout heads
  
  Testing:
  - Not run (not requested)

  jif-oai · 2026-02-05 16:39:11 +00:00
  9ee746afd6
• nit: cleaning (#10619)
  jif-oai · 2026-02-04 13:01:24 +00:00
  aab60a55f1
• chore: simplify user message detection (#10611)

  We don't check anymore the response item with `user` role as they may be
  instructions etc

  jif-oai · 2026-02-04 11:14:53 +00:00
  38f6c6b114
• Prefer state DB thread listings before filesystem (#10544)

  Summary
  - add Cursor/ThreadsPage conversions so state DB listings can be mapped
  back into the rollout list model
  - make recorder list helpers query the state DB first (archived flag
  included) and only fall back to file traversal if needed, along with
  populating head bytes lazily
  - add extensive tests to ensure the DB path is honored for active and
  archived threads and that the fallback works
  
  Testing
  - Not run (not requested)
  
  <img width="1196" height="693" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-03 at 20 42 33"
  src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/826b3c7a-ef11-4b27-802a-3c343695794a"
  />

  jif-oai · 2026-02-04 09:27:24 +00:00
  100eb6e6f0
• chore: add phase to message responseitem (#10455)

  ### What
  
  add wiring for `phase` field on `ResponseItem::Message` to lay
  groundwork for differentiating model preambles and final messages.
  currently optional.
  
  follows pattern in #9698.
  
  updated schemas with `just write-app-server-schema` so we can see type
  changes.
  
  ### Tests
  Updated existing tests for SSE parsing and hydrating from history

  sayan-oai · 2026-02-03 02:52:26 +00:00
  fc05374344
• nit: fix db with multiple metadata lines (#10237)
  jif-oai · 2026-01-30 17:32:10 +00:00
  0212f4010e