## Why
Config loading had become split across crates: `codex-config` owned the
config types and merge logic, while `codex-core` still owned the loader
that assembled the layer stack. This change consolidates that
responsibility in `codex-config`, so the crate that defines config
behavior also owns how configs are discovered and loaded.
To make that move possible without reintroducing the old dependency
cycle, the shell-environment policy types and helpers that
`codex-exec-server` needs now live in `codex-protocol` instead of
flowing through `codex-config`.
This also makes the migrated loader tests more deterministic on machines
that already have managed or system Codex config installed by letting
tests override the system config and requirements paths instead of
reading the host's `/etc/codex`.
## What Changed
- moved the config loader implementation from `codex-core` into
`codex-config::loader` and deleted the old `core::config_loader` module
instead of leaving a compatibility shim
- moved shell-environment policy types and helpers into
`codex-protocol`, then updated `codex-exec-server` and other downstream
crates to import them from their new home
- updated downstream callers to use loader/config APIs from
`codex-config`
- added test-only loader overrides for system config and requirements
paths so loader-focused tests do not depend on host-managed config state
- cleaned up now-unused dependency entries and platform-specific cfgs
that were surfaced by post-push CI
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_loader_tests::`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-exec-server -p
codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-rmcp-client --lib`
- `cargo test --lib -p codex-app-server-client -p codex-exec`
- `cargo test --no-run --lib -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-linux-sandbox --lib`
- `cargo shear`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Notes
- I did not chase unrelated full-suite failures outside the migrated
loader surface.
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib` still hits unrelated proxy-sensitive
failures on this machine, and Windows CI still shows unrelated
long-running/timeouting test noise outside the loader migration itself.
Follow-up to #19266.
## Why
`thread_start_with_non_local_thread_store_does_not_create_local_persistence`
is meant to catch accidental local thread persistence when a non-local
thread store is configured. The Windows flake reported in [this
BuildBuddy
invocation](https://app.buildbuddy.io/invocation/0b75dde4-6828-4e7b-a35b-e45b73fb005d)
showed that the assertion was tripping on an unexpected top-level `.tmp`
entry:
```diff
{
+ ".tmp",
"config.toml",
"installation_id",
"memories",
"skills",
}
```
That `.tmp` does not appear to come from `tempfile::TempDir`; it comes
from unrelated plugin startup work that can legitimately materialize
`codex_home/.tmp`, including the startup remote plugin sync marker in
[`core/src/plugins/startup_sync.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/bce74c70ce058982534507330ff33f7b196708ef/codex-rs/core/src/plugins/startup_sync.rs#L13-L15)
and the curated plugin snapshot under
[`.tmp/plugins`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/bce74c70ce058982534507330ff33f7b196708ef/codex-rs/core-plugins/src/startup_sync.rs#L25-L26).
That makes the regression race unrelated background startup tasks
instead of validating the thread-store invariant it was added to cover.
Rather than weakening the assertion to allow arbitrary `.tmp` entries,
this change isolates the test from plugin warmups so it can stay strict
about unexpected local thread persistence artifacts.
## What changed
- disable plugins in the generated config used by
`app-server/tests/suite/v2/remote_thread_store.rs`
- keep the existing `codex_home` assertions unchanged so the test still
fails if local session or sqlite persistence is introduced
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
suite::v2::remote_thread_store::thread_start_with_non_local_thread_store_does_not_create_local_persistence
-- --exact`
- Add an integration test that guarantees nothing gets written to codex
home dir or sqlite when running a rollout with a non-local ThreadStore
- Add an in-memory "spy" ThreadStore for tests like this
Note I could not find a good way to also ensure there were no filesystem
_reads_ that didn't go through threadstore. I explored a more elaborate
sandboxed-subprocess approach but it isn't platform portable and felt
like it wasn't (yet) worth it.
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