## Why
Remote plugin detail responses include MCP server metadata under
`release.mcp_servers`, but Codex did not deserialize or propagate that
field. As a result, `plugin/read` always returned an empty `mcpServers`
list for remote plugins, so the plugin details pane omitted the MCP
Servers section even when the remote plugin declares one.
This affects uninstalled plugins as well: the remote detail API is the
source of truth and returns MCP server keys without requiring a local
plugin bundle.
## What changed
- Deserialize MCP server entries from remote plugin detail responses.
- Normalize their keys into a sorted, deduplicated list on
`RemotePluginDetail`.
- Return those keys from app-server `plugin/read` instead of hardcoding
an empty list.
- Add regression coverage proving an uninstalled remote plugin returns
its MCP server names.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-app-server plugin_read`
## Summary
- Read `default_prompts` from remote plugin release metadata.
- Prefer the plural prompt list over legacy `default_prompt`.
- Fall back to `default_prompt` as a single-item list for backward
compatibility.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-app-server`
This PR brought to you via VS Code rather than Codex...
- opened `codex-rs/app-server/tests/common/mcp_process.rs`
- put the cursor on `McpServer`
- hit `F2` and renamed the symbol to `TestAppServer`
- went to the file tree
- hit enter and renamed `mcp_process.rs` to `test_app_server.rs`
- ran **Save All Files** from the Command Palette
- ran `just fmt`
The End
(Admittedly, most of the local variables for `TestAppServer` are still
named `mcp`, though.)
WIll make it easier to uprev when the new draft spec is supported.
Also updates reqwest where needed for compatibility but doesn't update
it everywhere since this is already a large diff.
The new version of rmcp handles certain kinds of authentication failures
differently, this patch includes support for identifying the failing scope
in a WWW-Authenticate header.
# Why
This is a follow-up stacked on top of the `plugin_hooks` default-on
change. Once we are comfortable making plugin hooks part of the normal
plugin behavior, the separate feature flag stops buying us much and
leaves extra branching/cache state behind.
# What
- remove the `PluginHooks` feature and generated config-schema entries
- make plugin hook loading/listing follow plugin enablement directly
- drop plugin-manager cache/state that only existed to distinguish
hook-flag toggles
- remove tests and fixtures that modeled `plugin_hooks = true/false`
- Adds an explicit vertical marketplace kind for plugin/list that
fail-open fetches collection=vertical only when full remote plugins are
disabled.
- Renames the global remote marketplace/cache identity to
openai-curated-remote and materializes remote installs with backend
release versions and app manifests.
- Keep shared-with-me as the plugin/list request kind, but return
private plugins under workspace-shared-with-me-private.
- Add workspace-shared-with-me-unlisted for installed workspace plugins
with UNLISTED discoverability,
- Adds localVersion to plugin summaries and remoteVersion to share
context, including generated API schemas.
- Hydrates local and remote plugin versions from manifests and remote
release metadata.
- Adds default-on plugin_sharing gate for shared-with-me listing and
plugin/share/save, with disabled-path errors
and focused coverage.
Makes plugin summaries use config-style plugin@marketplace IDs while
exposing backend remote IDs separately as remotePluginId.
Also fix the consistency issue of REMOTE_SHARED_WITH_ME_MARKETPLACE_NAME
Expose discoverability and full share principals in share context, carry
roles through save/updateTargets, hydrate local shared plugin reads, and
keep share URLs only under plugin.shareContext.
Supersedes the abandoned #19859, rebuilt on latest `main`.
# Why
PR #19705 adds discovery for hooks bundled with plugins, but `/plugins`
still only shows skills, apps, and MCP servers. This follow-up makes
bundled hooks visible in the same plugin detail view so users can
inspect the full plugin surface in one place.
We also need `PluginHookSummary` to populate Plugin Hooks in the app;
`hooks/list` is not enough there because plugin detail needs to show
hooks for disabled plugins too.
# What
- extend `plugin/read` with `PluginHookSummary` entries for bundled
hooks
- summarize plugin hooks while loading plugin details
- render a `Hooks` row in the `/plugins` detail popup
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Adds marketplaceKinds to plugin/list for local, workspace-directory, and
shared-with-me; omitted params keep default local plus gated global
behavior, while explicit kinds are exact.
Exposes shareContext on plugin summaries from local share mappings and
remote workspace/shared responses, including remotePluginId and nullable
creator metadata.
Adds shared-with-me listing through /ps/plugins/workspace/shared,
renames the workspace remote namespace to workspace-directory, and keeps
direct remote read/share/install/update/delete paths gated by plugins
rather than remote_plugin.
## Summary
- Add plugin manifest keywords to core plugin marketplace/detail models
- Expose keywords on app-server v2 PluginSummary and generated
schema/types
- Populate keywords in plugin/list and plugin/read responses for local
plugins
Depends on https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/891087
## Validation
- just fmt
- just write-app-server-schema
- cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
- cargo test -p codex-core-plugins
- cargo test -p codex-app-server
plugin_list_keeps_valid_marketplaces_when_another_marketplace_fails_to_load
- cargo test -p codex-app-server
plugin_read_returns_plugin_details_with_bundle_contents
## Summary
Adds an app-server `plugin/skill/read` method for remote plugin skill
markdown. The new method calls the plugin-service skill detail endpoint
and returns `skill_md_contents`, so clients can preview skills for
remote plugins before the bundle is installed locally.
## Why
Uninstalled remote plugin skills do not have local `SKILL.md` files.
Without an on-demand remote read, the desktop plugin details UI cannot
render the skill details modal for those skills.
## Validation
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all --
suite::v2::plugin_read::plugin_skill_read_reads_remote_skill_contents_when_remote_plugin_enabled
--exact`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-core-plugins -p
codex-app-server`
1. Adds v2 plugin/share/save, plugin/share/list, and plugin/share/delete
RPCs.
2. Implements save by archiving a local plugin root, enforcing a size
limit, uploading through the workspace upload flow, and supporting
updates via remotePluginId.
3. Lists created workspace plugins
4. Deletes a previously uploaded/shared plugin.
Add a temporary internal remote_plugin feature flag that merges remote
marketplaces into plugin/list and routes plugin/read through the remote
APIs when needed, while keeping pure local marketplaces working as
before.
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
- Populate `PluginDetail.description` in core for uninstalled cross-repo
plugins when detailed fields are unavailable until install.
- Include the source Git URL plus optional path/ref/sha details in that
fallback description.
- Keep `details_unavailable_reason` as the structured signal while
app-server forwards the description normally.
- Add plugin-read coverage proving the response does not clone the
remote source just to show the message.
## Why
Uninstalled cross-repo plugins intentionally return sparse detail data
so listing/reading does not clone the plugin source. Without a
description, Desktop and TUI detail pages look like an ordinary empty
plugin. This gives users a concrete explanation and source pointer while
keeping the existing structured reason available for callers.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
read_plugin_for_config_uninstalled_git_source_requires_install_without_cloning`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server plugin_read --test all`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
Note: `cargo test -p codex-app-server` was also attempted before the
latest refactor and failed broadly in unrelated v2
thread/realtime/review/skills suites; the new plugin-read test passed in
that run as well.
## Summary
Update the plugin API for the new remote plugin model.
The mental model is no longer “keep local plugin state in sync with
remote.” Instead, local and remote plugins are becoming separate
sources. Remote catalog entries can be shown directly from the remote
API before installation; after installation they are still downloaded
into the local cache for execution, but remote installed state will come
from the API and be held in memory rather than being read from config.
• ## API changes
- Remove `forceRemoteSync` from `plugin/list`, `plugin/install`, and
`plugin/uninstall`.
- Remove `remoteSyncError` from `plugin/list`.
- Add remote-capable metadata to `plugin/list` / `plugin/read`:
- nullable `marketplaces[].path`
- `source: { type: "remote", downloadUrl }`
- URL asset fields alongside local path fields:
`composerIconUrl`, `logoUrl`, `screenshotUrls`
- Make `plugin/read` and `plugin/install` source-compatible:
- `marketplacePath?: AbsolutePathBuf | null`
- `remoteMarketplaceName?: string | null`
- exactly one source is required at runtime
Load plugin manifests through a shared discoverable-path helper so
manifest reads, installs, and skill names all see the same alternate
manifest location.
## Why
`codex-core` was re-exporting APIs owned by sibling `codex-*` crates,
which made downstream crates depend on `codex-core` as a proxy module
instead of the actual owner crate.
Removing those forwards makes crate boundaries explicit and lets leaf
crates drop unnecessary `codex-core` dependencies. In this PR, this
reduces the dependency on `codex-core` to `codex-login` in the following
files:
```
codex-rs/backend-client/Cargo.toml
codex-rs/mcp-server/tests/common/Cargo.toml
```
## What
- Remove `codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` re-exports for symbols owned by
`codex-login`, `codex-mcp`, `codex-rollout`, `codex-analytics`,
`codex-protocol`, `codex-shell-command`, `codex-sandboxing`,
`codex-tools`, and `codex-utils-path`.
- Delete the `default_client` forwarding shim in `codex-rs/core`.
- Update in-crate and downstream callsites to import directly from the
owning `codex-*` crate.
- Add direct Cargo dependencies where callsites now target the owner
crate, and remove `codex-core` from `codex-rs/backend-client`.
1. Added SessionSource::Custom(String) and --session-source.
2. Enforced plugin and skill products by session_source.
3. Applied the same filtering to curated background refresh.
Resubmit https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15020 with correct
content.
1. Use requirement-resolved config.features as the plugin gate.
2. Guard plugin/list, plugin/read, and related flows behind that gate.
3. Skip bad marketplace.json files instead of failing the whole list.
4. Simplify plugin state and caching.
- Add shared Product support to marketplace plugin policy and skill
policy (no enforced yet).
- Move marketplace installation/authentication under policy and model it
as MarketplacePluginPolicy.
- Rename plugin/marketplace local manifest types to separate raw serde
shapes from resolved in-memory models.
make plugins' `defaultPrompt` an array, but keep backcompat for strings.
the array is limited by app-server to 3 entries of up to 128 chars
(drops extra entries, `None`s-out ones that are too long) without
erroring if those invariants are violating.
added tests, tested locally.
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