## Why
Remote-control runtime enablement and persisted enrollment preference
were represented by separate flags. That made startup rehydration, RPC
persistence, and new-enrollment seeding race with one another, and it
did not cleanly distinguish runtime-only CLI or daemon starts from
durable app-server RPC changes.
## What Changed
- Replace the parallel enablement, seed, and rehydration flags with one
transport-owned `RemoteControlDesiredState`.
- Add nullable enrollment-scoped persistence and preserve existing
preferences during enrollment upserts.
- Rehydrate plain startup only after auth and client scope resolve,
without overwriting a concurrent RPC transition.
- Make ordinary `remoteControl/enable` and `remoteControl/disable`
durable while retaining `ephemeral: true` for runtime-only callers.
- Have the daemon explicitly request ephemeral enablement and regenerate
the app-server schemas.
## Verification
- Covered migration and `NULL`/`0`/`1` persistence round trips.
- Covered plain-start rehydration and runtime-only versus durable
enrollment seeding.
- Covered durable enable, durable disable, and ephemeral enable through
app-server RPC.
- Covered the daemon's exact `{ "ephemeral": true }` request payload.
Related issue: N/A (internal remote-control persistence architecture
change).
## Description
This PR makes `codex remote-control` behave like a foreground CLI
command by default. Running it now starts remote control, waits for
readiness, prints a clear status message with the machine name, and
stays alive until Ctrl-C.
Users who want daemon behavior can use `codex remote-control start`, and
`codex remote-control stop` now prints concise human-readable output.
`--json` remains available for scripts.
Implementation-wise, this now verifies the real app-server state instead
of just assuming startup worked. The CLI starts or connects to
app-server, probes its control socket, calls the `remoteControl/enable`
API, and waits for the remote-control status response/notification
before printing success.
For daemon mode, `codex remote-control start` also reports which managed
app-server binary was used, including its path and best-effort `codex
--version`, so failures are easier to diagnose.
## Examples
Example output:
```
> codex remote-control
Starting app-server with remote control enabled...
This machine is available for remote control as com-97826.
Press Ctrl-C to stop.
```
Error case using daemon (currently expected based on our publicly
released CLI version):
```
> ./target/debug/codex remote-control start
Starting app-server daemon with remote control enabled...
Error: app server did not become ready on /Users/owen/.codex/app-server-control/app-server-control.sock
Daemon used app-server:
path: /Users/owen/.codex/packages/standalone/current/codex
version: 0.130.0
Managed app-server stderr (/Users/owen/.codex/app-server-daemon/app-server.stderr.log):
error: unexpected argument '--remote-control' found
Usage: codex app-server [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]
For more information, try '--help'.
Caused by:
0: failed to connect to /Users/owen/.codex/app-server-control/app-server-control.sock
1: No such file or directory (os error 2)
```
## What changed
- `codex remote-control` now runs remote control in the foreground and
prints a Ctrl-C stop hint.
- `codex remote-control start` starts the daemon and waits for remote
control readiness before reporting success.
- `codex remote-control stop` reports stopped/not-running status in
plain language.
- Startup failures now include recent managed app-server stderr to make
daemon issues easier to diagnose.
- Added coverage for CLI output, readiness waiting, foreground shutdown,
and stderr log tailing.
Anton Panasenko ·
Owen Lin ·