## Summary
- track user-like input and tool-output boundaries in current-time
reminder state
- gate reminder injection when delivery_mode is
after_user_or_tool_output
- preserve interval debounce and forced reminders after context-window
changes
## Why
Training can request reminders only after user or tool-output items
while keeping the existing canonical pre-inference history-injection
path.
## Validation
- just test -p codex-core
current_time_reminders_can_follow_only_user_or_tool_outputs
- just test -p codex-core
current_time_reminders_follow_time_interval_and_persist_in_history
- just test -p codex-core
current_time_reminder_is_refreshed_after_compaction
- just fix -p codex-core
## tl;dr
Inject a `CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE` environment variable with the name
of the current permission profile when invoking a shell tool.
## Why
Shell tool owners may need to launch nested commands under the same
named permission profile, including through `codex sandbox -P PROFILE
--include-managed-config`. Until now, child processes could observe
sandbox and network metadata but could not identify the active named
permission profile.
The `--include-managed-config` flag is essential when a helper
reconstructs the sandbox from a profile name: it ensures the nested
sandbox also loads managed enterprise requirements. Without it, using
the inherited profile could unintentionally create a sandbox that does
not enforce the organization's managed restrictions.
The new environment value is intentionally informational and **must not
be treated as trusted input**. Any process in the ancestry can overwrite
an environment variable, so a consumer that passes this value to `codex
sandbox -P` must first validate it against the profiles that helper is
authorized to use.
## Example Use Case
Suppose an organization provides a trusted `remote-bash` wrapper that
lets Codex run a command on an approved build host. The local shell
command uses the named `:workspace` permission profile:
```toml
default_permissions = ":workspace"
```
The command exposed to the model is a small zsh wrapper. It deliberately
delegates with `exec`, preserving the original arguments and process
environment:
```zsh
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
exec /opt/codex-tools/remote_bash.py "$@"
```
The model invokes the public wrapper, not its Python implementation:
```sh
/opt/codex-tools/remote-bash \
--host builder.example.com \
-- printf '%s' 'hello world'
```
Only the inner implementation is authorized to escape the local sandbox:
```starlark
prefix_rule(
pattern=["/opt/codex-tools/remote_bash.py"],
decision="allow",
)
```
With zsh-fork, execution begins with `remote-bash` inside the
`:workspace` sandbox. When the wrapper calls `exec`, the exact prefix
rule matches `remote_bash.py`, so that inner script is restarted
unsandboxed. The escalated process inherits:
```text
CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE=:workspace
```
Inheritance does not make the value trustworthy. `remote_bash.py`
independently allowlists both the remote host and the permission profile
before using either value. In particular, a forged value such as
`:danger-full-access` is rejected before it can reach `codex sandbox
-P`:
```python
import argparse
import os
import shlex
import sys
ALLOWED_HOSTS = {"builder.example.com"}
ALLOWED_PROFILES = {":workspace"}
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--host", required=True)
separator = sys.argv.index("--")
args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:separator])
command = sys.argv[separator + 1:]
if args.host not in ALLOWED_HOSTS:
parser.error("host is not allowlisted")
if not command:
parser.error("the remote command must not be empty")
profile = os.environ.get("CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE")
if not profile:
raise SystemExit("CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE must not be empty")
if profile not in ALLOWED_PROFILES:
raise SystemExit("CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE is not allowlisted")
remote_command = shlex.join(command)
sandbox_command = shlex.join([
"codex", "sandbox", "-P", profile,
"--include-managed-config", "--",
"bash", "-lc", remote_command,
])
print(shlex.join(["ssh", args.host, sandbox_command]))
```
This builds each command layer as an argument vector and uses
`shlex.join()` at the boundary, rather than interpolating untrusted
shell text. After validation and parsing, the nested command has this
structure:
```text
ssh argv:
["ssh", "builder.example.com", SANDBOX_COMMAND]
SANDBOX_COMMAND argv:
["codex", "sandbox", "-P", ":workspace",
"--include-managed-config", "--",
"bash", "-lc", "printf %s 'hello world'"]
bash -lc payload argv:
["printf", "%s", "hello world"]
```
A production implementation could execute that SSH command. The
integration fixture prints it and parses the result back into arguments,
verifying the complete flow:
```text
model invokes outer wrapper
-> zsh-fork starts wrapper under :workspace
-> wrapper execs allowlisted Python script
-> prefix rule restarts Python script unsandboxed
-> Python script inherits CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE=:workspace
-> Python script verifies :workspace is allowlisted
-> remote command runs codex sandbox -P :workspace
with --include-managed-config
-> nested sandbox honors managed enterprise requirements
```
This gives the trusted helper access to resources outside the local
sandbox—such as SSH credentials—while ensuring that it can select only
an explicitly authorized profile and that work on the remote host
remains subject to the organization's managed requirements.
## What changed
- Inject `CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE` after shell environment policy
evaluation so the active profile wins over inherited or configured stale
values.
- Apply the variable to both `shell_command` and unified `exec_command`,
including local, zsh-fork, and remote exec-server paths.
- Remove stale values when the session has no active named profile.
- Preserve the current profile value when loading a shell snapshot so a
parent snapshot cannot restore an older profile.
## Testing
- Added classic-shell integration coverage proving an exact prefix rule
can run a `require_escalated` script outside the `:workspace` sandbox
while preserving `CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE=:workspace`.
- Added zsh-fork integration coverage in which the model invokes an
outer zsh wrapper, an inner allowlisted `remote_bash.py` runs
unsandboxed, and its printed SSH command reconstructs the inherited
`:workspace` sandbox with `--include-managed-config` while preserving
every argument after `--`.
- The example helper treats `CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE` as untrusted and
validates it against `ALLOWED_PROFILES` before constructing the nested
command.
- Assert that the reconstructed sandbox command includes
`--include-managed-config` so nested use of the inherited profile cannot
bypass managed enterprise requirements.
- Added coverage for overriding and removing stale profile values.
- Verified `shell_command` receives the selected active profile.
- Added shell snapshot coverage using `printenv
CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE`.
A zero interval lets callers request a reminder at every
otherwise-eligible inference boundary.
## Validation
- just test -p codex-core load_config_resolves_current_time_reminder
## Why
Helper threads such as task title generation can request a model ID that
is valid for the default OpenAI provider but unavailable from the active
provider. With Amazon Bedrock, `gpt-5.4-mini` is rejected while the
provider static catalog exposes Bedrock model IDs such as
`openai.gpt-5.5` and `openai.gpt-5.4`. This causes repeated background
404s and can surface a misleading turn error even when the main turn
succeeds.
Clients need an explicit way to ask app-server to resolve an unavailable
helper model to the active provider default. That fallback must remain
limited to providers with an authoritative static catalog so custom or
dynamically discovered model IDs are not rewritten based on an
incomplete catalog.
Fixes#28741.
## What changed
- Add the experimental `allowProviderModelFallback` option to
`thread/start`, defaulting to `false` to preserve existing behavior.
- Thread the option through thread creation and model selection.
- When enabled for a static model manager, preserve requested models
present in the catalog and replace unavailable models with the provider
default.
- Continue preserving explicit model IDs for dynamic model managers
without fetching a catalog solely to validate them.
- Document the new `thread/start` behavior in the app-server API
overview.
## Test
Temporary test-client harness:
```
ThreadStartParams {
model: Some("gpt-5.4-mini".to_string()),
allow_provider_model_fallback: true,
..Default::default()
}
```
Command:
```
CODEX_HOME=/tmp/codex-bedrock-thread-start-home \
CODEX_E2E_BEDROCK_THREAD_START_ONLY=1 \
./target/debug/codex-app-server-test-client \
--codex-bin ./target/debug/codex \
-c 'model_provider="amazon-bedrock"' \
send-message-v2 --experimental-api ignored
```
Relevant output:
```
> "method": "thread/start",
> "params": {
> "model": "gpt-5.4-mini",
> "modelProvider": null,
> "allowProviderModelFallback": true,
> ...
> }
< "result": {
< "model": "openai.gpt-5.5",
< "modelProvider": "amazon-bedrock",
< ...
< }
```
## Why
`selectedCapabilityRoots` is durable thread intent: “use this capability
root from environment `worker`.”
The important product assumption is:
> One environment ID always names the same logical executor and stable
contents.
`worker` does not silently change from executor A to an unrelated
executor B. The process-local connection handle for `worker` can still
be replaced while Codex is running, though, for example when
`environment/add` registers a fresh handle for the same logical
environment.
The thread should persist only the stable selection. Each model step
should pair that selection with the exact ready handle captured for that
step.
## The boundary
```text
persisted thread intent
plugin@1 -> environment "worker"
|
| capture the current step
v
model-step view
unavailable, or
plugin@1 + worker's exact captured ready handle
```
The environment ID is the stable identity and cache key. The
`Arc<Environment>` is only a process-local handle retained so consumers
of one model step use the same captured environment. It is never
persisted and it does not imply different environment contents.
## What changes
### Persist the stable selection
Selected roots are written into `SessionMeta` and restored with the
thread. Forked subagents inherit the same selections, including
bounded-history forks.
Only stable data is persisted: root ID, environment ID, and root path.
### Capture readiness together with the exact handle
The environment snapshot records:
```rust
environment_id -> Some(Arc<Environment>) // ready in this step
environment_id -> None // still starting in this step
```
This prevents readiness and execution from coming from different
registry snapshots.
For example:
```text
step snapshot: worker -> handle A, ready
environment/add: worker -> fresh handle B for the same logical environment
current step: plugin@1 still uses captured handle A
```
Without carrying handle A in the snapshot, the resolver could combine “A
was ready” with handle B and treat B as ready before it had finished
starting.
This does not change cache invalidation. Stable capability metadata
remains identified by environment ID and capability root. Replacing a
process-local handle under the same stable environment ID does not
invalidate or rediscover that metadata.
### Resolve availability per model step
- A ready captured environment produces resolved roots using its
captured handle.
- A starting, missing, or failed environment is omitted from that step.
- A selected lazy environment that is outside the turn's captured
environment set is asked to start, and a later step can observe it as
ready.
- No capability files are scanned here.
Transient transport disconnects remain the remote client's reconnect
concern. This PR models initial attachment/readiness; it does not add
live socket-connectivity state.
## Example
```text
thread selection: plugin@1 -> environment "worker"
step 1: worker is starting -> plugin@1 unavailable
step 2: worker is ready -> plugin@1 resolves through worker's captured handle
step 3: fresh local handle -> current step remains pinned; a later step captures its own view
```
Temporary unavailability does not discard the durable selection. Later
PRs can retain stable metadata caches while projecting only currently
available capabilities into model-visible World State.
## Compatibility
The app-server request shape does not change. Older rollouts without
`selected_capability_roots` deserialize to an empty list.
## Stack
1. **This PR:** persist stable selected roots and resolve them through
an exact model-step handle.
2. #29960: cache stable skill metadata and project available skills into
World State.
3. #29946: cache stable plugin declarations and manage the separate live
MCP runtime.
## Why
#28522 routes selected-plugin HTTP MCP traffic through the owning
executor, but OAuth bootstrap and refresh still used host-local clients.
Executor-only servers therefore cannot complete discovery or login
through the same network boundary as the MCP connection.
## What changed
- adapt `codex_exec_server::HttpClient` to RMCP 1.8's `OAuthHttpClient`
contract
- let RMCP own discovery, dynamic registration, PKCE, token exchange,
and refresh
- route auth status, persisted-token startup, and app-server login
through the server runtime while preserving the existing local discovery
path
- add optional `threadId` to `mcpServer/oauth/login` and echo it in the
completion notification
- implement RMCP's redirect policy and 1 MiB OAuth response limit over
executor HTTP
- cover selected-thread OAuth discovery and login through an
executor-only route
Depends on #28522.
## Why
Older rollouts can retain model-visible context for a WorldState section
without having a persisted snapshot for that section. Treating the
missing snapshot as definitely absent can duplicate old context or fail
to tell the model that it was replaced or removed.
This provides a generic migration path for sections moving into
WorldState, beginning with AGENTS.md.
Builds on #29810.
## What changed
- distinguish section state that is absent, known from a persisted
snapshot, or unknown because matching legacy context remains in history
- let WorldState sections identify their own legacy fragments while
`ContextManager` owns history reconciliation and baseline persistence
- make AGENTS.md emit one conservative replacement or removal update for
legacy history, then deduplicate from the newly persisted baseline
- preserve existing environment rendering when persisted section data is
missing or malformed
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core world_state`
- `just test -p codex-core
cold_resume_invalidates_deleted_legacy_agents_md_once -- --exact`
## Why
With deferred executors, a turn can begin before a remote environment
attaches. AGENTS.md discovery previously ran only during session setup,
so instructions from a later environment never reached the model or the
session instruction sources.
WorldState persistence has now landed, so this uses the durable
model-visible baseline directly instead of carrying a temporary
resume/fork compatibility path.
## What
- Add an `AgentsMdManager` in `SessionServices` to own host
instructions, loaded state, and refresh caching.
- When `DeferredExecutor` is enabled, refresh AGENTS.md when attached
environment selections change and freeze the result in the corresponding
`StepContext`.
- Represent AGENTS.md as a persisted WorldState section for every
session, with bounded initial, replacement, and removal updates.
- Remove duplicate AGENTS.md state and rendering from
`SessionConfiguration` and `TurnContext`.
- Build initial context, per-request updates, and compaction context
from the same step-scoped value.
- On resume and fork, compare current instructions with the restored
WorldState baseline and inject a replacement exactly once when they
differ.
Builds on #29833, #29835, and #29837.
## Tests
- Covers a remote environment becoming ready mid-turn, with AGENTS.md
appearing on the next request exactly once and updating canonical
instruction sources.
- Covers full, unchanged, replaced, and removed AGENTS.md WorldState
rendering.
- Covers changed instructions across cold resume and fork without
duplicate reinjection.
- Covers remote-v2 compaction retaining creation-time instructions in
the live session and cold resume appending one replacement when the
source changed.
- Ran focused `codex-core` AGENTS.md, WorldState, and context-update
test suites.
## Stack
This is PR 3 of the simplified HAI single-run-task stack:
- [#19047](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19047) Agent Identity
assertion and task-registration primitives, including the shared
run-task helper used by existing Agent Identity JWT auth.
- [#19049](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19049)
Disabled-by-default ChatGPT auth opt-in that provisions/reuses persisted
Agent Identity runtime auth and its single run task.
- [#19051](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19051) Run-scoped
provider auth that uses one backend-owned task id for first-party
inference and compaction requests.
[#19054](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19054) collapsed out of
the active stack because the simplified design no longer needs a
separate background/control-plane task helper.
## Summary
This PR moves Agent Identity usage into provider auth resolution. That
keeps `AgentAssertion` auth tied to first-party OpenAI provider requests
instead of applying a late session-wide override that could affect
local, custom, Bedrock, API-key, or external-bearer providers.
What changed:
- adds a small `ProviderAuthScope` struct carrying the run auth policy
and session source needed by provider-scoped auth resolution
- lets `Session` opt the existing `ModelClient` into `ChatGptAuth`
policy when `use_agent_identity` is enabled, without adding a second
model-client constructor
- resolves Agent Identity only for first-party OpenAI provider auth
paths
- uses the persisted run task id from the `AgentIdentityAuth` record to
build `AgentAssertion` auth for Responses requests
- routes shared request setup through scoped provider auth so unary
compact requests use the same run-task assertion path as inference turns
- keeps local/custom/Bedrock/env-key/external-bearer provider auth
unchanged
- lets missing run-task state surface through the existing model-request
error path instead of silently falling back to bearer auth
This PR intentionally does not create thread-scoped, target-scoped, or
background-scoped task identities. The run task is the only task Codex
registers in this POC shape.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-model-provider`
- `just test -p codex-core client::tests::provider_auth_scope_uses`
- `just test -p codex-core remote_compact_uses_agent_identity_assertion`
## Summary
- add a cancellable sleep operation to `TimeProvider`
- route `clock.sleep` through the configured provider
- extend the supported sleep duration to 12 hours
- complete the sleep turn item before propagating provider failures
## Why
This isolates the core clock abstraction needed by external clock
integrations. Existing system and app-server behavior remains wall-clock
based in this PR; the stacked follow-up supplies app-server sleeps from
an external clock.
## Why
Ultra should be one user-facing reasoning selection for work that
benefits from both maximum reasoning and proactive multi-agent
delegation. Without it, clients must coordinate maximum reasoning with
the experimental `multiAgentMode` setting, even though the inference
backend still expects its existing `max` effort value.
This change makes reasoning effort the source of truth: clients select
`ultra`, core derives proactive multi-agent behavior when the turn is
eligible for multi-agent V2, and inference requests continue to use the
backend-compatible `max` value.
## What changed
- Add `ultra` as a first-class reasoning effort and preserve
model-catalog ordering when exposing it to clients.
- Convert `ultra` to `max` at the inference request boundary, including
Responses HTTP/WebSocket requests, startup prewarm, compaction, and
memory summarization.
- Derive effective multi-agent mode per turn from effective reasoning
effort:
- eligible multi-agent V2 + `ultra` → `proactive`
- eligible multi-agent V2 + any other effort → `explicitRequestOnly`
- V1 or otherwise ineligible sessions → no multi-agent mode instruction
- Keep the derived effective mode in turn context history so successive
turns can emit a developer-message update only when the effective mode
changes.
- Remove selected multi-agent mode from core session configuration, turn
construction, thread settings, resume/fork restoration, and subagent
spawn plumbing. Subagents inherit reasoning effort and derive their own
effective mode.
- Retain the experimental app-server `multiAgentMode` fields for wire
compatibility while marking them deprecated. Request values are accepted
but ignored; compatibility response fields report `explicitRequestOnly`.
- Display Ultra in the TUI using the order supplied by `model/list`.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core ultra_reasoning_uses_max_for_requests`
- `just test -p codex-tui model_reasoning_selection_popup`
## Why
`WorldState` currently remembers its model-visible diff baseline only in
memory. That leaves no durable source for restoring the exact baseline
after resume, fork, rollback, or compaction.
This is the second PR in the WorldState persistence stack, built on
#29833 and following #29249. It records durable state transitions; the
next PR will replay them during rollout reconstruction.
## What
- Add a `world_state` rollout item containing either a full snapshot or
an RFC 7386 JSON Merge Patch.
- Persist a full snapshot after initial context and after compaction
establishes a new context window.
- Persist non-empty patches when later sampling steps or turns advance
the WorldState baseline.
- Write model-visible history before its matching WorldState record, so
an interrupted write can only cause a safe repeated update on replay.
- Preserve WorldState records for full-history forks while excluding
them from thread previews, metadata, and app-server history
materialization.
Older binaries read rollout lines independently, so they skip the
unknown `world_state` records while retaining the rest of the thread.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core
snapshot_merge_patch_changes_and_removes_nested_values`
- `just test -p codex-core
world_state_baseline_deduplicates_until_history_is_replaced`
- `just test -p codex-core
deferred_executor_compaction_preserves_then_updates_environment_once`
- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-rollout`
- `just test -p codex-state`
- `just test -p codex-thread-store`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
## Why
MCP authentication has distinct OAuth and ChatGPT-session flows.
Representing that choice as `use_chatgpt_auth` makes one flow implicit
and allows the configuration model to express the distinction only
through a boolean.
ChatGPT credential forwarding also needs a first-party trust boundary. A
configurable `chatgpt_base_url` controls routing, but must not grant an
MCP server permission to receive session credentials.
This change builds on #29733, where the boolean was introduced.
## What changed
- Replace `use_chatgpt_auth` with an `auth` field backed by the
exhaustive `McpServerAuth` enum.
- Support `auth = "oauth"` and `auth = "chatgpt"`, with OAuth remaining
the default.
- Trust only the origin derived from the existing hardcoded
`CHATGPT_CODEX_BASE_URL` when granting ChatGPT auth to an MCP server.
- Keep configured bearer tokens and authorization headers ahead of the
selected authentication flow.
- Update config writers, schema output, fixtures, and integration-test
setup to use the enum.
## Verification
Integration coverage exercises the complete streamable HTTP startup path
in two independent configurations:
- A directly constructed MCP configuration verifies that matching an
overridden `chatgpt_base_url` does not grant ChatGPT auth.
- A persisted `config.toml` containing an attacker-controlled
`chatgpt_base_url` and `auth = "chatgpt"` verifies the same boundary
through normal config parsing.
Both tests complete MCP initialization and tool listing and assert that
the full captured request sequence contains no authorization headers.
Separate integration coverage verifies that configured authorization
takes precedence over ChatGPT auth.
## Why
ChatGPT session authentication was inferred from the reserved Codex Apps
server name. That couples credential routing to Codex Apps-specific
behavior and prevents other MCP endpoints hosted by ChatGPT from
explicitly using the current session.
The opt-in also needs a clear security boundary: an arbitrary MCP
configuration must not be able to redirect ChatGPT credentials to
another origin.
## What changed
- Add `use_chatgpt_auth` to HTTP MCP server configuration, defaulting to
`false`.
- Honor the setting only when the parsed server URL has the same HTTP(S)
origin as the configured `chatgpt_base_url`; otherwise remove the
capability before startup.
- Resolve bearer tokens and static or environment-backed authorization
headers before selecting authentication, with configured authorization
taking precedence over ChatGPT session auth.
- Enable the setting for the built-in Codex Apps and hosted plugin
runtime endpoints while keeping Codex Apps caching and tool
normalization scoped to the reserved server.
- Persist the setting through MCP config rewrite paths and expose it in
the generated config schema.
- Load the current login state for `codex mcp list` so reported auth
status matches runtime behavior.
## Verification
Core integration coverage exercises the complete streamable HTTP MCP
startup path and verifies that:
- a same-origin opted-in server receives the current ChatGPT access
token;
- an explicitly configured authorization header takes precedence;
- a different-origin server completes MCP initialization and tool
listing without receiving any ChatGPT authorization header.
## Why
This PR adds a configurable `<context_window_guidance>` developer
section immediately after `<context_window>`. Harness integrations need
this section to give the model deployment-specific instructions for
preparing for context-window transitions.
## What changed
- Add an optional `features.token_budget.guidance_message` config with a
1,000-byte runtime cap and generated schema support.
- Render configured guidance as a developer `ContextualUserFragment`
wrapped in `<context_window_guidance>` immediately after
`<context_window>`.
- Omit the section when guidance is unset, empty, or whitespace-only.
- Preserve the resolved value in config locks and classify persisted
guidance as contextual developer content.
- Add integration coverage for rendered content and ordering.
## Summary
- move sleep tool enablement from top-level `[features].sleep_tool` to
`[features.current_time_reminder].sleep_tool`
- remove the standalone `Feature::SleepTool` flag and gate `clock.sleep`
from resolved current-time configuration
- update config schema, config-lock materialization, and existing sleep
coverage
Stacked on #29907.
## Summary
- expose the interruptible sleep tool as `clock.sleep` instead of
top-level `sleep`
- keep `clock.curr_time` and `clock.sleep` in the same model-visible
namespace when both features are enabled
- update existing core and app-server integration coverage to issue
namespaced sleep calls
## Why
Sleep is a clock operation. Grouping it with `clock.curr_time` gives the
model a more coherent tool surface without changing the sleep feature
gate or runtime behavior.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core sleep_tool_follows_feature_gate`
- `just test -p codex-core any_new_input_interrupts_sleep`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
sleep_emits_started_and_completed_items`
Summary
- Emit `codex_plugin_install_requested` when a validated plugin install
request is made, before the user accepts or declines the elicitation.
- Record the exact model-visible plugin ID, remote plugin ID, required
connector IDs, stable suggestion ID, and `endpoint_recommendation` vs
`legacy_discovery` source.
- Keep `suggest_reason` out of telemetry and leave connector-only
install requests unchanged.
Rollout
- Backend/schema dependency:
https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1065270
- Land the backend PR before this producer starts sending the event.
Validation
- `just test -p codex-analytics` (83 passed)
- `just test -p codex-core request_plugin_install` (17 passed)
- `just fix -p codex-analytics`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
Pick up the AgentGraphStore migration.
- Inject an explicit optional agent graph store into `ThreadManager`
- Move all calls to spawn, close, recursive resume, and
subtree/archive/delete/feedback traversal through it
- Keep using `LocalAgentGraphStore` when SQLite is available
This required some changes to the interface to deal with futures:
- The interface now matches `ThreadStore`'s object-safe pattern by
returning a boxed `AgentGraphStoreFuture` directly, allowing
`ThreadManager` to hold `Arc<dyn AgentGraphStore>`
*Slight behavior change!* Unfiltered subtree enumeration now performs a
single all-status breadth-first traversal, so a closed grandchild
beneath an open edge is included; the previous Open-then-Closed
traversals could not cross mixed-status paths and silently omitted it.
## Why
Topology-neutral app-server integration tests should exercise automatic
environment selection so the same setup covers local and remote
executors.
## What
Migrate eligible tests to `TestAppServer::new_with_auto_env()` and
`send_thread_start_request_with_auto_env()`. Leave explicit-topology
tests unchanged, and skip the request-permissions case on Windows with a
TODO for cross-platform tool routing.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-app-server`
- `bazel test //codex-rs/app-server:app-server-all-wine-exec-test
--test_output=errors`
Stacked on #29788.
## Why
Made a mistake when carving #29746 out of my local changes and the test
was missing from the build graph. Oops!
## What
Enable the app-server Wine exec test target. Remove the `manual` tag
from generated Wine-exec test variants so wildcard Bazel test
invocations select them. Refactor the smoke test to ensure it passes
with current Windows support.
## Why
Some extension hosts need generated images returned without writing them
to the local filesystem or giving the model a local path.
## What changed
**tl;dr**: we now conduct all extension operations in the image gen
extension
- Let hosts provide an optional image save root when installing the
extension.
- Save images and return path hints only when a save root is configured.
- Return image data without saving or adding a path hint when no save
root is configured.
- Preserve the extension-provided `saved_path` instead of persisting
extension images again in core.
- Leave built-in image generation unchanged.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
standalone_image_generation_returns_saved_path_hint_to_model`
- `just test -p codex-core
extension_tool_uses_granted_turn_permissions_without_local_persistence`
- `just test -p codex-core tools::handlers::extension_tools::tests`
- tested on CODEX CLI on both save_root: CODEX_HOME and None
- tested on CODEX APP on both as well
## Why
Start moving towards app-server tests defaulting to running against
remote & foreign OS executors. To do so we need a point of indirection
similar to core integration tests' `build_with_auto_env`, but with the
flexibility of letting tests control environment registration if they
need to.
## What
This adds:
- `TestAppServer::new_with_auto_env()` for constructing an app server
with a default environment defined by the test runner (e.g. bazel)
- `TestAppServer::auto_env_params()` for tests to easily acquire turn
env params tailored to the automatic environment
- `TestAppServer::send_thread_start_request_with_auto_env()` to make it
easy for tests to start a thread using the automatic environment
The above methods all fail if the test calling them has set up an
environment where the automatic environment configuration conflicts with
test-created state.
## Validation
Adds a couple of basic smoke tests to the app-server test suite.
Follow-ups will migrate more tests to use it.
## Why
With `DeferredExecutor`, a sampling request can begin while an
environment is still starting. The model can see that pending state, but
needs a way to wait for the environment within the same turn before
continuing.
Environment startup is owned by Core, so the wait tool should use the
same request-frozen `StepContext` that advertised the starting
environment. This keeps tool registration and execution tied to the
exact startup operation the model saw, even if live thread state later
changes.
Supersedes #29735.
## What
- register `wait_for_environment` when the current `StepContext`
contains starting environments
- wait on the selected `StartingTurnEnvironment` shared resolution and
return a bounded ready or failed result
- rebuild the next request normally, removing the wait tool and exposing
ready environment tools, or reporting the environment as unavailable
after failure
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core deferred_executor_`
- verifies the wait tool is replaced by environment-backed tools after
startup
- verifies startup failure removes both the wait tool and unavailable
environment tools while notifying the model
## Why
Work(TPP) threads can be launched from the Desktop app, but if they all
keep the Desktop app's default originator then downstream attribution
cannot distinguish local Work launches from cloud-backed Work launches.
`thread/start.serviceName` already carries that launch signal, while
`SessionMeta.originator` is the durable thread-level value that survives
resume and fork.
This change converts the Desktop Work service names into an effective
originator at thread creation time, persists that originator with the
thread, and keeps using it for later model requests and memory writes.
## What changed
- Map `CODEX_WORK_LOCAL` and `CODEX_WORK_CLOUD` service names to
per-thread originators, while preserving
`CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` as the highest-precedence override.
- Persist the effective originator in `SessionMeta.originator`, read it
back on resume/fork, and inherit the parent originator for subagent
spawns when there is no persisted session metadata.
- Handle truncated `SpawnAgentForkMode::LastNTurns` forks by falling
back to the live parent originator when the forked history no longer
includes `SessionMeta`.
- Thread the per-thread originator through Responses headers,
websocket/compaction request paths, thread-store creation, rollout
metadata, and memory stage-one telemetry.
## Verification
- `just test -p codex-core
agent::control::tests::spawn_thread_subagent_inherits_parent_originator_without_fork
agent::control::tests::spawn_thread_subagent_fork_last_n_turns_inherits_parent_originator_without_session_meta
thread_manager::tests::originator_override_precedes_service_name_remapping`
- `just test -p codex-core
agent::control::tests::resume_thread_subagent_restores_stored_metadata_and_effective_multi_agent_mode`
- `just test -p codex-memories-write`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-memories-write`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
When `Feature::TokenBudget` is enabled, compaction should behave like
`new_context`: start a fresh context window with the standard injected
context, without asking the server to summarize old history and without
carrying prior user or assistant messages into the next model request.
This is still a compaction operation from the client lifecycle
perspective. Manual `/compact` and auto-compaction should keep the same
observable side effects that clients and hooks expect, including compact
hooks and `TurnItem::ContextCompaction`.
## What changed
- Added `compact_token_budget` to run token-budget manual and inline
auto-compaction through a shared compaction lifecycle.
- Split pending `new_context` requests from forced context-window
startup: `take_new_context_window_request()` consumes pending requests,
and `start_new_context_window()` installs a fresh context window.
- Routed token-budget manual `/compact` and inline auto-compaction to
install a fresh context window locally instead of calling server/local
summarization.
- Preserved compact lifecycle side effects for token-budget compaction
by running pre/post compact hooks and emitting `ContextCompaction` item
start/completion events.
- Updated token-budget tests to assert fresh window IDs, absence of
server-side compaction calls, dropped prior transcript messages/tool
output after reset, and compact hook/item lifecycle behavior.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core
token_budget_context_uses_new_window_after_compaction`
- `just test -p codex-core token_budget_compaction_runs_compact_hooks`
- `just test -p codex-core
token_budget_mid_turn_auto_compaction_resets_before_active_follow_up`
---------
Co-authored-by: pakrym-oai <pakrym@openai.com>
## Summary
- rename the rollout-budget exhaustion error from
`RolloutBudgetExceeded` to `SessionBudgetExceeded`
- expose the matching app-server v2 wire value as
`sessionBudgetExceeded`
- regenerate JSON/TypeScript schema fixtures and update the app-server
docs and focused tests
This is a naming-only follow-up to #29715 based on [Pavel's review
suggestion](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29715#discussion_r3463183480).
Runtime behavior is unchanged.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-core rollout_budget`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fmt`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
## Why
With `model_auto_compact_token_limit_scope = "body_after_prefix"`, the
persistent prefix should not count against the active body window.
`get_context_remaining` and the token-budget reminder should report the
same usable body-after-prefix window that auto-compaction uses, rather
than the total token count since the session began.
This is stacked on #29664 so the mechanical move from `turn.rs` is
isolated from the behavior fix.
## What
- Extends `ContextWindowTokenStatus` with `context_remaining_tokens`.
- Updates `get_context_remaining` to use the shared context-window
accounting.
- Adds integration coverage for body-after-prefix reminder timing and
`get_context_remaining` output.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core body_after_prefix_window`
- `just test -p codex-core auto_compact_body_after_prefix`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
## Summary
- surface shared rollout-budget exhaustion as
`CodexErr::RolloutBudgetExceeded` instead of a generic interrupted turn
- map it through the existing `CodexErrorInfo` and app-server v2
`codexErrorInfo` path
- keep local compaction from retrying after the shared rollout budget is
exhausted
This gives app-server clients a stable `rolloutBudgetExceeded` error
they can classify without guessing from `status="interrupted"`.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-core rollout_budget`
## 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`
## Why
Use a clearer name for what happens when this helper sets up a test
environment.
## What
- Rename the builder and its harness wrapper to use `auto_env` instead
of `remote_env` because the helper will set up a local environment if
configured by the build system.
## Why
Core tests should branch on the executor's operating system, not on
runner details such as Docker or Wine. This keeps platform behavior
stable as new test backends are added and reserves Wine-specific skips
for actual runner debt.
## What
- Add `TestTargetOs` and target/host-aware skip helpers while keeping
`TestEnvironment` internal.
- Replace topology enum access with remote predicates and a narrow
Docker accessor.
- Migrate OS-semantic Wine skips, preserve runner-specific gaps, and
document the skip taxonomy.
## Validation
- `just test -p core_test_support`
- `just test -p codex-core
remote_test_env_can_connect_and_use_filesystem`
- `bazel test //codex-rs/core:core-all-wine-exec-test
--test_output=errors` reached test execution; unrelated existing
view-image, path, and timing failures remain.
- `just test -p codex-core` and `just test` reached broad test
execution; this checkout has unrelated helper, sandbox, and timing
failures.
## Why
With deferred executors, an environment can become ready between two
sampling requests in the same turn. The model-visible environment
update, advertised tools, and eventual tool execution must all describe
the same request-time view.
Otherwise, a request built while only environment B is ready can
advertise a tool without an `environment_id`; if higher-priority
environment A becomes ready before execution, that call could silently
run in A instead.
This PR is stacked on #29527.
## Design
`run_turn` captures one `Arc<StepContext>` at each sampling-request
boundary. That step owns the request's `TurnContext` and environment
snapshot.
- World-state environment updates and tool planning borrow that same
step.
- `ToolCallRuntime` retains the `Arc` while asynchronous tool calls
execute.
- `ToolInvocation` carries the step to handlers; its temporary `turn`
compatibility field is derived from the same object.
- `ToolRouter` does not retain `StepContext`; it only uses it while
constructing the request's tool set.
- With `DeferredExecutor` disabled, step capture keeps using the
environments frozen at turn start.
Simply: every sampling request gets one consistent picture of its
environments, from what the model sees through where its tool calls run.
## What changed
- Build environment-dependent tool specs from the current request's
`StepContext`.
- Use that same step for unified exec, legacy shell, `apply_patch`,
`view_image`, and `request_permissions` execution.
- Hide environment-backed tools, including `request_permissions`, while
no environment is attached.
- Resolve legacy shell paths and metadata from the selected step
environment instead of the stale turn-start environment.
- Capture explicit steps at non-turn-loop boundaries such as compaction,
prompt debug, and startup prewarm.
- Reconcile prompt-debug history from the same step used to build its
tools.
## Follow-up
- Bind yielded code-mode cells to the tool runtime that created them, so
nested calls made after yielding continue to use the originating
request's `StepContext`.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core
deferred_executor_updates_context_and_tools_after_startup`
- `just test -p codex-core
environment_count_controls_environment_backed_tools`
- `just test -p codex-core
build_prompt_input_includes_context_and_user_message`
## Why
view_image needs to support foreign OS remote executors.
## What
- resolve image paths against the selected environment as `PathUri` and
read them through that environment's filesystem
- keep app-server's public path field wire-compatible as
`LegacyAppPathString`, with purpose-specific UI rendering
- cover relative and absolute target-native paths in the core
integration test and run the full `view_image` suite under wine-exec
without skips
## Why
Follow-up to #29249 and its [compaction review
thread](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29249#discussion_r3455055101).
During a turn, environment readiness can change between sampling
requests. Inline compaction must render the same model-visible
`WorldState` used by the request it follows. Rebuilding that state
during compaction can observe a newer environment, make replacement
history disagree with what the model saw, and suppress the next
environment update.
## What changed
- Make `run_turn` own the current `Arc<WorldState>` and replace it only
between sampling requests.
- Build each state from an explicitly chosen environment snapshot, diff
deferred-executor steps against the turn-owned state, and retain the
latest state in `ContextManager` only for cross-turn and resume
tracking.
- Pass the exact turn-owned state into inline compaction and explicit
new-context-window replacement.
- Carry that state with
`InitialContextInjection::BeforeLastUserMessage`, so replacement context
and its stored baseline cannot come from different snapshots.
- Remove obsolete state-recapture helpers and ambiguous TurnContext-only
WorldState builders.
- Add an integration test that moves an environment from starting to
ready during a paused turn, triggers compaction, and verifies the next
request receives the readiness update exactly once.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core
deferred_executor_compaction_preserves_then_updates_environment_once`
- `just test -p codex-core process_compacted_history`
- `just test -p codex-core mid_turn_continuation_compaction`
- `just test -p codex-core build_initial_context`
- `just test -p codex-core
ignores_session_prefix_messages_when_truncating`
## Summary
MCP refresh replaced the published connection manager without shutting
down the manager it superseded. If another task retained that old
manager, its stdio MCP processes stayed alive and accumulated across
refreshes.
Atomically swap in the refreshed manager, then explicitly shut down the
exact manager returned by the swap. Add a process-level regression test
that retains the old manager during refresh and verifies its stdio
process exits while the replacement remains available.
## Context
Explicit cleanup was lost when manager publication moved to `ArcSwap`.
Dropping the old manager is not a reliable shutdown boundary because
active callers can retain its `Arc` and underlying client process
handles.
## Summary
- rename `reminder_interval_model_requests` to
`reminder_interval_seconds`
- read the configured time provider before every model request and
inject a reminder only after the configured number of seconds has
elapsed
- preserve immediate first delivery and forced delivery after compaction
changes the context window
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-core current_time_reminder`
## Summary
Resuming a persisted thread currently deep-clones its complete rollout
history several times. `InitialHistory` is retained for the app-server
response, copied into thread persistence, and copied again by read-only
accessors. These copies scale with the complete rollout rather than the
bounded model context and add measurable latency for large sessions.
This change stores resumed rollout history in `Arc<Vec<RolloutItem>>`.
Rollout loading wraps the parsed vector once, while app-server response
construction, session initialization, and thread persistence share it
through inexpensive `Arc` clones. Read-only history access now returns a
borrowed slice, and fork paths use `Arc::unwrap_or_clone` where they
genuinely need mutable ownership. Rollout reconstruction also consumes
its temporary context instead of cloning the reconstructed model
history.
The serialized representation remains unchanged. In an artificial 123 MB
rollout benchmark, sharing resumed history reduced cold resume latency
by roughly 9–10%. The affected crates compile with their test targets,
all 80 thread-store tests pass, and the Bazel dependency lock remains
valid.
## Summary
Multi-agent v2 tools now use the fixed `collaboration` namespace when
namespace tools are available. This keeps the model-visible hint and the
actual tool surface aligned around `functions.collaboration.*`, without
exposing an unshipped namespace knob to users.
The PR also removes the old `features.multi_agent_v2.tool_namespace`
config/schema surface, updates the MAv2 test fixtures for namespaced
calls, and fixes stale `TurnContext.features` references that were
breaking `codex-core` builds.
## Changes
- Expose MAv2 tools under `collaboration` instead of relying on a
configurable namespace.
- Remove `tool_namespace` from MAv2 TOML config, resolved config,
validation, schema, and tests.
- Update tool-planning and integration fixtures to assert or emit
namespaced MAv2 tool calls.
- Read feature state through `TurnContext.config.features` in the
multi-agent mode context paths.
## Testing
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just test -p codex-features`
## Summary
- let `codex sandbox` accept the JSON value from
`codex/sandbox-state-meta`
- require the payload `permissionProfile` instead of falling back to
ambient permissions
- reuse the existing macOS, Linux, and Windows launch paths, treating
external sandbox state conservatively as read-only
- let opaque forwarders add runtime read roots and disable direct
network access without decoding the payload
Builds on #29113, which is now on `main`.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-cli debug_sandbox::tests`
- `cargo build -p codex-rmcp-client --bin test_stdio_server`
- `just test -p codex-core
stdio_mcp_tool_call_includes_sandbox_state_meta`
- `just test -p codex-mcp`
- `just fmt`
When using Responses Lite, we should all use `additional_tools` and a
developer item instead of the top level tools array & instructions
field. This keeps things 1-to-1.
Forced namespacing for _all_ tools will land in a following PR after
some coordination & fixes in Responses API (around collisions & return
items).
The goal is to eventually expand the scope of this to _all_ requests
from codex, but that will require larger coordination across providers &
slower rollout.
## Summary
- express remote compaction result handling as an exhaustive match
- preserve the special `TurnAborted` path without emitting a generic
compaction error
- rely on the standard `test_codex` provider setup in the compaction
budget test
Follow-up to review feedback on #28707.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core
compaction_budget_exhaustion_aborts_without_error_or_retry`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
NVIDIA asked to measure Fast mode usage and reasoning effort from Codex
CLI OTEL logs. Add the finalized `service_tier` and
`model_reasoning_effort` to the existing `codex.sse_event`
`response.completed` record.
This intentionally reuses the existing completion event and leaves
transport APIs and shared telemetry plumbing unchanged.
## Testing
- `cargo build -p codex-cli --bin codex`
- `just test -p codex-core responses_api_emits_api_request_event`
- End-to-end with the built CLI and a local OTLP/HTTP collector:
- Fast/high emitted `service_tier=priority` and
`model_reasoning_effort=high` with token usage.
- Standard/low omitted `service_tier` and emitted
`model_reasoning_effort=low` with token usage.
## Summary
- read the request-scoped safety-buffering treatment from HTTP response
headers and per-turn WebSocket metadata through one shared header parser
- combine that treatment with Responses API safety-buffering signals
- propagate `showBufferingUi` and nullable `fasterModel` through the
existing `model/safetyBuffering/updated` app-server notification
- update the app-server documentation and generated JSON and TypeScript
schemas
The public implementation contains no model mapping or real model
identifier. Tests and protocol examples use generic `current-model` and
`faster-model` placeholders only.
## Dependencies
- server-side treatment evaluation:
https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1060247
- initial Responses API safety-buffering propagation:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29371
- Codex App UI: https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1057789
## Validation
- Codex API tests: 129 passed
- focused Codex core safety-buffering integration test passed
- app-server protocol tests passed after regenerating schema fixtures
- Clippy fix and repository formatting completed successfully
The broader app-server run compiled all changed crates and completed
with 1,269 passing tests. Its remaining failures were unrelated
environment limitations: macOS sandbox application was denied, one
expected test binary was unavailable, and several existing subprocess
tests timed out as a result.
## Why
Remote stdio MCP servers can run in an environment whose path convention
differs from the Codex host. A Windows cwd such as
`C:\Users\openai\share` is absolute for the executor but was rejected by
a POSIX orchestrator.
Built on #29501, now merged, which only clarifies the host-native
`PathUri` constructor name.
## What changed
- Deserialize MCP cwd values as `LegacyAppPathString` so config does not
apply host path rules.
- Interpret that spelling as host-native for local launches and convert
it to `PathUri` at executor launch.
- Skip host filesystem and command resolution checks for remote stdio in
`codex doctor`.
- Add host-independent config and executor-boundary coverage using the
foreign path convention for each test platform.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-utils-path-uri -p codex-config -p codex-mcp -p
codex-rmcp-client` (408 passed)
- `just test -p codex-cli -p codex-rmcp-client` (372 passed)
- `cargo check --workspace --tests`
- `just test` (11,311 passed; 43 unrelated environment/timing failures)
- `just fix -p codex-cli -p codex-config -p codex-core -p codex-mcp -p
codex-mcp-extension -p codex-rmcp-client -p codex-tui`
## Why
Downstream refactors are producing confusing code with this
functionality having a very generic name. Encoding the specific
conversion approach in the method name makes it clearer.
## What
Rename `PathUri::from_path` to `PathUri::from_host_native_path` and
update its Rust call sites.
## Why
MCP tools were only placed behind `tool_search` when a feature flag was
enabled or when there were at least 100 tools. That made the model's
tool flow depend on both rollout configuration and the number of
installed tools.
The searched-tool flow is now the intended behavior. Making it
unconditional when the model and provider support it gives every
supported setup the same behavior and lets us retire the feature flag
safely.
## What changed
- Defer all effective MCP tools when `tool_search` and namespaced tools
are supported.
- Keep exposing MCP tools directly when search cannot be used, so older
or unsupported model/provider combinations still work.
- Mark `tool_search_always_defer_mcp_tools` as removed and ignore old
configured values.
- Keep plugin filtering, app-only filtering, file handling, and MCP
calls working through the searched-tool flow.
## Why many tests changed
Many tests used to act as if the model could see MCP tools in its first
request and call them immediately. That is no longer the real flow: the
model first receives `tool_search`, searches for a tool, receives the
matching MCP tool, and then calls it in the next request.
The tests therefore needed an extra search step, and checks for tool
names, descriptions, and input fields had to move from the first request
to the search result. These are not separate product changes; they make
the tests follow what the model will actually see after this change. The
plugin tests still check which tools are allowed and where they came
from, the file tests still check upload fields and behavior, and the MCP
round-trip test still checks a successful call from start to finish.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-features`
- Focused `codex-core` tests for MCP exposure and tool planning
- `just test -p codex-core explicit_plugin_mentions`
- `just test -p codex-core stdio_server_round_trip`
- Focused `codex-core` tests for tool search, app-only tools, and MCP
file uploads