## This PR
The original [combined remote plugin analytics PR
#26281](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26281) mixed reusable
analytics test infrastructure, two manual smoke workflows, a metadata
refactor, and the final identity behavior. This PR isolates the generic
capture mechanism so it can be reviewed and landed before any
plugin-specific behavior.
- Add a debug-only analytics destination that writes final request
payloads as JSONL.
- Suppress HTTP delivery whenever capture mode is selected, including
after capture write failures.
- Keep release behavior unchanged even when the capture environment
variable is present.
- Keep the mechanism generic; this PR contains no plugin-specific
behavior.
Set `CODEX_ANALYTICS_EVENTS_CAPTURE_FILE=/path/events.jsonl` when
running a debug Codex binary to inspect the exact batched payload that
would otherwise be sent to the analytics endpoint.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-analytics` (76 passed)
- `just test --release -p codex-analytics` (73 passed)
- CI is green across the required platform matrix.
## Split Overview
```text
main
├── #27093 Debug analytics capture ← you are here
│ └── #27099 Non-mutating plugin smoke
│ └── #27100 Remote install/uninstall smoke
└── #27102 Plugin telemetry metadata refactor
After #27093, #27099, #27100, and #27102 merge:
└── Final PR: add remote_plugin_id to plugin analytics
```
Review order and dependencies:
1. [#27093 Add debug-only analytics event
capture](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27093) **(this PR, based
on `main`)**
2. [#27099 Add a plugin analytics smoke
workflow](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27099) (stacked on
#27093)
3. [#27100 Add a remote plugin analytics mutation smoke
workflow](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27100) (stacked on
#27099)
4. [#27102 Centralize plugin telemetry metadata
construction](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27102) (independent,
based on `main`)
5. Final remote-ID behavior PR (created after PRs 1-4 merge)
The original [#26281](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26281)
remains open as the green aggregate reference until the final PR is
published.
## Why
We need request-level evidence for Guardian cases where
`codex-auto-review` is missing from the client-side model catalog and
the review falls back to the parent model.
## What changed
- Add `guardian_catalog_contains_auto_review` to Guardian Responses API
client metadata.
- Add `guardian_model_provider_id` to Guardian Responses API client
metadata.
- Keep review-session metadata optional so callers without metadata
preserve the existing `None` path.
- Add tests for override, normal preferred-model, and
missing-auto-review-catalog behavior.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core
guardian_review_records_missing_auto_review_model_in_request_metadata`
- `just test -p codex-core
guardian_review_uses_model_catalog_override_when_preferred_review_model_exists`
- `just test -p codex-core
guardian_review_uses_preferred_review_model_without_model_catalog_override`
- `git diff --check origin/main`
## Summary
- replace raw compaction `error` analytics with `codex_error_kind` and
`codex_error_http_status_code`
- derive compaction error telemetry from `CodexErr` using the same
`CodexErrKind` mapping and HTTP status helper used by turn events
- remove the pre-compact hook stop reason from the internal compaction
outcome now that it is no longer emitted as raw analytics text
## Why
Compaction `error` was a raw `CodexErr::to_string()` value, which can
carry free-form provider or user-derived text. Structured Codex error
fields preserve useful low-cardinality telemetry without sending the raw
string.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-analytics`
- `just test -p codex-core
compact::tests::build_token_limited_compacted_history_appends_summary_message`
Attempted `just test -p codex-core`; the changed crate compiled, but the
full target failed in unrelated environment-dependent tests such as
missing helper binaries and shell snapshot timeouts.
## Why
- Currently, there is no analytics event for `/goal` behavior
- Existing events cannot identify goal execution or its resulting
outcome
- The original update in
[#26182](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26182) was implemented
before `/goal` moved into `codex-goal-extension`.
## What Changed
- Adds `codex_goal_event` serialization and enrichment to
`codex-analytics`
- Emits goal events from the canonical `codex-goal-extension` mutation
and accounting paths:
- `created` when a new logical goal is persisted
- `usage_accounted` when cumulative goal usage is persisted
- `status_changed` when the stored goal status changes
- `cleared` when the goal is deleted
- Preserves causal `turn_id` for turn driven events and uses null
attribution for external or idle lifecycle events
- Changes goal deletion to return the deleted row so `cleared` retains
the stable goal ID
## Event Details
Includes standard analytics metadata along with goal specific fields:
- `goal_id`: Stable ID stored in the local SQLite goal row and shared
across the goal's events
- `event_kind`: Observed operation (see the 4 lifecycle events cited in
the above bullet)
- `goal_status`: Resulting or last stored status: `active`, `paused`,
`blocked`, `usage_limited`, etc.
- `has_token_budget`: Indicates whether a token budget is configured
- `turn_id`: Causal turn ID, or null when no causal turn exists
- `cumulative_tokens_accounted`: Cumulative tokens on `usage_accounted`
events; null otherwise
- `cumulative_time_accounted_seconds`: Cumulative active time on
`usage_accounted` events; null otherwise
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-analytics -p codex-state -p codex-goal-extension`
- `just test -p codex-core -E 'test(/goal/)'`
- `just test -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo build -p codex-analytics -p codex-core -p codex-state -p
codex-app-server`
## Summary
Add flat profiling fields to `codex_turn_event` so analytics can explain
where turn wall-clock time is spent without changing tool execution
behavior.
The profile reports:
- time before the first sampling request
- sampling time across all attempts and follow-ups
- overhead between sampling requests
- time blocked in the post-sampling tool drain
- time after the final sampling request
- sampling request and retry counts
## Implementation
- Extend the existing turn timing state with constant-memory phase
accounting and one RAII phase guard.
- Observe sampling and the existing post-sampling drain only at turn
orchestration boundaries.
- Keep tool runtime, tool futures, response item handling, and turn
lifecycle values unchanged.
- Add the profiling fields directly to the existing analytics turn event
without changing app-server protocol or rollout persistence.
- Use the existing turn `status` to distinguish completed, failed, and
interrupted profiles.
Exact sampling/tool overlap is intentionally omitted because measuring
tool completion accurately would require hooks in the tool execution
path.
## Validation
- Add app-server end-to-end coverage for a single-sampling turn with no
blocking tool work.
- Add app-server end-to-end coverage for `request_user_input` blocking
followed by a second sampling request.
- CI is running on the PR; tests were not executed locally per
repository guidance.
## Summary
- add analytics-only `CodexErr` telemetry to `codex_turn_event` while
leaving existing `turn_error` unchanged
- record terminal `CodexErr` facts from core immediately before the
existing turn error event is sent
- emit source-truth `codex_error_*` fields for downstream analytics,
including the raw `CodexErr::InvalidRequest(String)` message as
`codex_error_subreason`
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-analytics`
- attempted `just test -p codex-core`, but the local run timed out
across unrelated integration suites in this environment and is not being
used as validation
## Why
Codex assisted-code attribution needs a client-side accepted-code source
that does not upload raw code. This adds a hash-only analytics event
derived from the turn diff so downstream attribution can compare
accepted Codex lines against commit or PR diffs.
## What Changed
- Parse accepted/effective added lines from the final turn diff and emit
`codex_accepted_line_fingerprints` analytics.
- Hash repo, path, and normalized line content before upload; raw code
and raw diffs are not included in the event.
- Chunk large fingerprint payloads and send accepted-line fingerprint
events in isolated requests while preserving normal batching for other
analytics events.
- Canonicalize Git remote URLs before repo hashing so SSH/HTTPS GitHub
remotes join to the same repo hash.
- Add parser coverage for unified diff hunk lines that look like `+++`
or `---` file headers.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
- `cargo test -p codex-git-utils canonicalize_git_remote_url`
- `just fix -p codex-analytics`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
After the tool-item schemas are in place, analytics needs to emit them
from the app-server item lifecycle rather than requiring bespoke
tracking at each callsite. The reducer should also reuse the shared
thread analytics context introduced below it in the stack so later event
families do not repeat the same reducer joins or missing-state ladder.
## What changed
- Tracks tool-item completion notifications and emits the matching tool
analytics event when a terminal item arrives.
- Derives event-specific payload details for command execution, file
changes, MCP calls, dynamic tools, collaboration tools, web search, and
image generation.
- Denormalizes thread, app-server client, runtime, and subagent
provenance metadata through the shared thread analytics context.
- Adds reducer coverage for item lifecycle emission and subagent
metadata inheritance.
## Duration semantics
`duration_ms` is computed from the app-server item lifecycle timestamps:
`completed_at_ms - started_at_ms`. That makes it the duration of the
lifecycle Codex observed locally, not necessarily the upstream
provider's full execution time.
- Web search usually has a meaningful observed lifecycle because
Responses can send `response.output_item.added` before
`response.output_item.done`; in that case `started_at_ms` comes from the
added event and `completed_at_ms` comes from the done event.
- Image generation can be much less precise. In the current observed
stream, image generation often arrives only as a completed
`response.output_item.done`; when there is no earlier added event, Codex
synthesizes the started item immediately before completion, so
`duration_ms` can be `0` even though upstream image generation took
longer.
- Standalone web search and standalone image generation work is expected
to land after this stack. Those paths may introduce more direct
lifecycle events or timing points, so the current
web-search/image-generation duration semantics should be treated as the
best available item-lifecycle approximation, not the final latency
contract for those tool families.
- `execution_duration_ms` is populated only where the completed item
already carries a native execution duration; otherwise it remains `null`
while `duration_ms` still reflects the local lifecycle interval.
## Currently placeholder / partial fields
Some fields are included in the schema for the intended steady-state
contract, but this PR does not yet populate them from real
approval/review state:
- `review_count`, `guardian_review_count`, and `user_review_count`
currently default to `0`.
- `final_approval_outcome` currently defaults to `unknown`.
- `requested_additional_permissions` and `requested_network_access`
currently default to `false`.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
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* #18748
* #18747
* __->__ #17090
* #17089
* #20514
## Why
Guardian approvals now run as review sessions, but Codex analytics did
not have a terminal event for those reviews. That made it hard to
measure approval outcomes, failure modes, Guardian session reuse, model
metadata, token usage, and timing separately from the parent turn.
## What changed
Adds `codex_guardian_review` analytics emission for Guardian approval
reviews. The event is emitted from the Guardian review path with review
identity, target item id, approval request source, a PII-minimized
reviewed-action shape, terminal decision/status, failure reason,
Guardian assessment fields, Guardian session metadata, token usage, and
timing metadata.
The reviewed-action payload intentionally omits high-risk fields such as
shell commands, working directories, argv, file paths, network
targets/hosts, rationale, retry reason, and permission justifications.
It also classifies prompt-build failures separately from Guardian
session/runtime failures so fail-closed cases are distinguishable in
analytics.
## Verification
- Guardian review analytics tests cover terminal success,
timeout/cancel/fail-closed paths, session metadata, and token usage
plumbing.
- `cargo clippy -p codex-core --lib --tests -- -D warnings`
---
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* #17696
* #17695
* __->__ #17693
## Why
Guardian review analytics needs a Rust event shape that matches the
backend schema while avoiding unnecessary PII exposure from reviewed
tool calls. This PR narrows the analytics payload to the fields we
intend to emit and keeps shared Guardian assessment enums in protocol
instead of duplicating equivalent analytics-only enums.
## What changed
- Uses protocol Guardian enums directly for `risk_level`,
`user_authorization`, `outcome`, and command source values.
- Removes high-risk reviewed-action fields from the analytics payload,
including raw commands, display strings, working directories, file
paths, network targets/hosts, justification text, retry reason, and
rationale text.
- Makes `target_item_id` and `tool_call_count` nullable so the Codex
event can represent cases where the app-server protocol or producer does
not have those values.
- Keeps lower-risk structured reviewed-action metadata such as sandbox
permissions, permission profile, `tty`, `execve` source/program, network
protocol/port, and MCP connector/tool labels.
- Adds an analytics reducer/client test covering `codex_guardian_review`
serialization with an optional `target_item_id` and absent removed
fields.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics
guardian_review_event_ingests_custom_fact_with_optional_target_item`
- `cargo fmt --check`
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* #17695
* #17693
* __->__ #17692
# Why
Add product analytics for hook handler executions so we can understand
which hooks are running, where they came from, and whether they
completed, failed, stopped, or blocked work.
# What
- add the new `codex_hook_run` analytics event and payload plumbing in
`codex-rs/analytics`
- emit hook-run analytics from the shared hook completion path in
`codex-rs/core`
- classify hook source from the loaded hook path as `system`, `user`,
`project`, or `unknown`
```
{
"event_type": "codex_hook_run",
"event_params": {
"thread_id": "string",
"turn_id": "string",
"model_slug": "string",
"hook_name": "string, // any HookEventName
"hook_source": "system | user | project | unknown",
"status": "completed | failed | stopped | blocked"
}
}
```
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## Summary
- move the analytics events client into codex-analytics
- update codex-core and app-server callsites to use the new crate
## Testing
- CI
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