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  • permissions: remove legacy read-only access modes (#19449)
    ## Why
    
    `ReadOnlyAccess` was a transitional legacy shape on `SandboxPolicy`:
    `FullAccess` meant the historical read-only/workspace-write modes could
    read the full filesystem, while `Restricted` tried to carry partial
    readable roots. The partial-read model now belongs in
    `FileSystemSandboxPolicy` and `PermissionProfile`, so keeping it on
    `SandboxPolicy` makes every legacy projection reintroduce lossy
    read-root bookkeeping and creates unnecessary noise in the rest of the
    permissions migration.
    
    This PR makes the legacy policy model narrower and explicit:
    `SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` and `SandboxPolicy::WorkspaceWrite` represent
    the old full-read sandbox modes only. Split readable roots, deny-read
    globs, and platform-default/minimal read behavior stay in the runtime
    permissions model.
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Removes `ReadOnlyAccess` from
    `codex_protocol::protocol::SandboxPolicy`, including the generated
    `access` and `readOnlyAccess` API fields.
    - Updates legacy policy/profile conversions so restricted filesystem
    reads are represented only by `FileSystemSandboxPolicy` /
    `PermissionProfile` entries.
    - Keeps app-server v2 compatible with legacy `fullAccess` read-access
    payloads by accepting and ignoring that no-op shape, while rejecting
    legacy `restricted` read-access payloads instead of silently widening
    them to full-read legacy policies.
    - Carries Windows sandbox platform-default read behavior with an
    explicit override flag instead of depending on
    `ReadOnlyAccess::Restricted`.
    - Refreshes generated app-server schema/types and updates tests/docs for
    the simplified legacy policy shape.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - `cargo check -p codex-app-server-protocol --tests`
    - `cargo check -p codex-windows-sandbox --tests`
    - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol sandbox_policy_`
    
    
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  • tui: carry permission profiles on user turns (#18285)
    ## Why
    
    Per-turn permission overrides should use the same canonical profile
    abstraction as session configuration. That lets TUI submissions preserve
    exact configured permissions without round-tripping through legacy
    sandbox fields.
    
    ## What changed
    
    This adds `permission_profile` to user-turn operations, threads it
    through TUI/app-server submission paths, fills the new field in existing
    test fixtures, and adds coverage that composer submission includes the
    configured profile.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - `cargo test -p codex-tui permissions -- --nocapture`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all permissions_messages --
    --nocapture`
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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  • app-server: accept permission profile overrides (#18279)
    ## Why
    
    `PermissionProfile` is becoming the canonical permissions shape shared
    by core and app-server. After app-server responses expose the active
    profile, clients need to be able to send that same shape back when
    starting, resuming, forking, or overriding a turn instead of translating
    through the legacy `sandbox`/`sandboxPolicy` shorthands.
    
    This still needs to preserve the existing requirements/platform
    enforcement model. A profile-shaped request can be downgraded or
    rejected by constraints, but the server should keep the user's
    elevated-access intent for project trust decisions. Turn-level profile
    overrides also need to retain existing read protections, including
    deny-read entries and bounded glob-scan metadata, so a permission
    override cannot accidentally drop configured protections such as
    `**/*.env = deny`.
    
    ## What changed
    
    - Adds optional `permissionProfile` request fields to `thread/start`,
    `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and `turn/start`.
    - Rejects ambiguous requests that specify both `permissionProfile` and
    the legacy `sandbox`/`sandboxPolicy` fields, including running-thread
    resume requests.
    - Converts profile-shaped overrides into core runtime filesystem/network
    permissions while continuing to derive the constrained legacy sandbox
    projection used by existing execution paths.
    - Preserves project-trust intent for profile overrides that are
    equivalent to workspace-write or full-access sandbox requests.
    - Preserves existing deny-read entries and `globScanMaxDepth` when
    applying turn-level `permissionProfile` overrides.
    - Updates app-server docs plus generated JSON/TypeScript schema fixtures
    and regression coverage.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol schema_fixtures`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core
    session_configuration_apply_permission_profile_preserves_existing_deny_read_entries`
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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  • Add turn-scoped environment selections (#18416)
    ## Summary
    - add experimental turn/start.environments params for per-turn
    environment id + cwd selections
    - pass selections through core protocol ops and resolve them with
    EnvironmentManager before TurnContext creation
    - treat omitted selections as default behavior, empty selections as no
    environment, and non-empty selections as first environment/cwd as the
    turn primary
    
    ## Testing
    - ran `just fmt`
    - ran `just write-app-server-schema`
    - not run: unit tests for this stacked PR
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • Update models.json (#18586)
    - Replace the active models-manager catalog with the deleted core
    catalog contents.
    - Replace stale hardcoded test model slugs with current bundled model
    slugs.
    - Keep this as a stacked change on top of the cleanup PR.
  • Forward app-server turn clientMetadata to Responses (#16009)
    ## Summary
    App-server v2 already receives turn-scoped `clientMetadata`, but the
    Rust app-server was dropping it before the outbound Responses request.
    This change keeps the fix lightweight by threading that metadata through
    the existing turn-metadata path rather than inventing a new transport.
    
    ## What we're trying to do and why
    We want turn-scoped metadata from the app-server protocol layer,
    especially fields like Hermes/GAAS run IDs, to survive all the way to
    the actual Responses API request so it is visible in downstream
    websocket request logging and analytics.
    
    The specific bug was:
    - app-server protocol uses camelCase `clientMetadata`
    - Responses transport already has an existing turn metadata carrier:
    `x-codex-turn-metadata`
    - websocket transport already rewrites that header into
    `request.request_body.client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`
    - but the Rust app-server never parsed or stored `clientMetadata`, so
    nothing from the app-server request was making it into that existing
    path
    
    This PR fixes that without adding a new header or a second metadata
    channel.
    
    ## How we did it
    ### Protocol surface
    - Add optional `clientMetadata` to v2 `TurnStartParams` and
    `TurnSteerParams`
    - Regenerate the JSON schema / TypeScript fixtures
    - Update app-server docs to describe the field and its behavior
    
    ### Runtime plumbing
    - Add a dedicated core op for app-server user input carrying turn-scoped
    metadata: `Op::UserInputWithClientMetadata`
    - Wire `turn/start` and `turn/steer` through that op / signature path
    instead of dropping the metadata at the message-processor boundary
    - Store the metadata in `TurnMetadataState`
    
    ### Transport behavior
    - Reuse the existing serialized `x-codex-turn-metadata` payload
    - Merge the new app-server `clientMetadata` into that JSON additively
    - Do **not** replace built-in reserved fields already present in the
    turn metadata payload
    - Keep websocket behavior unchanged at the outer shape level: it still
    sends only `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, but that JSON
    string now contains the merged fields
    - Keep HTTP fallback behavior unchanged except that the existing
    `x-codex-turn-metadata` header now includes the merged fields too
    
    ### Request shape before / after
    Before, a websocket `response.create` looked like:
    ```json
    {
      "type": "response.create",
      "client_metadata": {
        "x-codex-turn-metadata": "{\"session_id\":\"...\",\"turn_id\":\"...\"}"
      }
    }
    ```
    Even if the app-server caller supplied `clientMetadata`, it was not
    represented there.
    
    After, the same request shape is preserved, but the serialized payload
    now includes the new turn-scoped fields:
    ```json
    {
      "type": "response.create",
      "client_metadata": {
        "x-codex-turn-metadata": "{\"session_id\":\"...\",\"turn_id\":\"...\",\"fiber_run_id\":\"fiber-start-123\",\"origin\":\"gaas\"}"
      }
    }
    ```
    
    ## Validation
    ### Targeted tests added / updated
    - protocol round-trip coverage for `clientMetadata` on `turn/start` and
    `turn/steer`
    - protocol round-trip coverage for `Op::UserInputWithClientMetadata`
    - `TurnMetadataState` merge test proving client metadata is added
    without overwriting reserved built-in fields
    - websocket request-shape test proving outbound `response.create`
    contains merged metadata inside
    `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`
    - app-server integration tests proving:
    - `turn/start` forwards `clientMetadata` into the outbound Responses
    request path
      - websocket warmup + real turn request both behave correctly
      - `turn/steer` updates the follow-up request metadata
    
    ### Commands run
    - `just write-app-server-schema`
    - `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
    - `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core
    turn_metadata_state_merges_client_metadata_without_replacing_reserved_fields
    --lib`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
    responses_websocket_preserves_custom_turn_metadata_fields`
    - `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all client_metadata`
    - `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
    turn_start_forwards_client_metadata_to_responses_websocket_request_body_v2
    -- --nocapture`
    - `just fmt`
    - `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol
    -p codex-app-server`
    - `just fix -p codex-exec -p codex-tui-app-server`
    - `just argument-comment-lint`
    
    ### Full suite note
    `cargo test` in `codex-rs` still fails in:
    -
    `suite::v2::turn_interrupt::turn_interrupt_resolves_pending_command_approval_request`
    
    I verified that same failure on a clean detached `HEAD` worktree with an
    isolated `CARGO_TARGET_DIR`, so it is not caused by this patch.
  • extract models manager and related ownership from core (#16508)
    ## Summary
    - split `models-manager` out of `core` and add `ModelsManagerConfig`
    plus `Config::to_models_manager_config()` so model metadata paths stop
    depending on `core::Config`
    - move login-owned/auth-owned code out of `core` into `codex-login`,
    move model provider config into `codex-model-provider-info`, move API
    bridge mapping into `codex-api`, move protocol-owned types/impls into
    `codex-protocol`, and move response debug helpers into a dedicated
    `response-debug-context` crate
    - move feedback tag emission into `codex-feedback`, relocate tests to
    the crates that now own the code, and keep broad temporary re-exports so
    this PR avoids a giant import-only rewrite
    
    ## Major moves and decisions
    - created `codex-models-manager` as the owner for model
    cache/catalog/config/model info logic, including the new
    `ModelsManagerConfig` struct
    - created `codex-model-provider-info` as the owner for provider config
    parsing/defaults and kept temporary `codex-login`/`codex-core`
    re-exports for old import paths
    - moved `api_bridge` error mapping + `CoreAuthProvider` into
    `codex-api`, while `codex-login::api_bridge` temporarily re-exports
    those symbols and keeps the `auth_provider_from_auth` wrapper
    - moved `auth_env_telemetry` and `provider_auth` ownership to
    `codex-login`
    - moved `CodexErr` ownership to `codex-protocol::error`, plus
    `StreamOutput`, `bytes_to_string_smart`, and network policy helpers to
    protocol-owned modules
    - created `codex-response-debug-context` for
    `extract_response_debug_context`, `telemetry_transport_error_message`,
    and related response-debug plumbing instead of leaving that behavior in
    `core`
    - moved `FeedbackRequestTags`, `emit_feedback_request_tags`, and
    `emit_feedback_request_tags_with_auth_env` to `codex-feedback`
    - deferred removal of temporary re-exports and the mechanical import
    rewrites to a stacked follow-up PR so this PR stays reviewable
    
    ## Test moves
    - moved auth refresh coverage from `core/tests/suite/auth_refresh.rs` to
    `login/tests/suite/auth_refresh.rs`
    - moved text encoding coverage from
    `core/tests/suite/text_encoding_fix.rs` to
    `protocol/src/exec_output_tests.rs`
    - moved model info override coverage from
    `core/tests/suite/model_info_overrides.rs` to
    `models-manager/src/model_info_overrides_tests.rs`
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • Use AbsolutePathBuf for cwd state (#15710)
    Migrate `cwd` and related session/config state to `AbsolutePathBuf` so
    downstream consumers consistently see absolute working directories.
    
    Add test-only `.abs()` helpers for `Path`, `PathBuf`, and `TempDir`, and
    update branch-local tests to use them instead of
    `AbsolutePathBuf::try_from(...)`.
    
    For the remaining TUI/app-server snapshot coverage that renders absolute
    cwd values, keep the snapshots unchanged and skip the Windows-only cases
    where the platform-specific absolute path layout differs.
  • chore(core) Add approvals reviewer to UserTurn (#15426)
    ## Summary
    Adds support for approvals_reviewer to `Op::UserTurn` so we can migrate
    `[CodexMessageProcessor::turn_start]` to use Op::UserTurn
    
    ## Testing
    - [x] Adds quick test for the new field
    
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • Split features into codex-features crate (#15253)
    - Split the feature system into a new `codex-features` crate.
    - Cut `codex-core` and workspace consumers over to the new config and
    warning APIs.
    
    Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • Add Smart Approvals guardian review across core, app-server, and TUI (#13860)
    ## Summary
    - add `approvals_reviewer = "user" | "guardian_subagent"` as the runtime
    control for who reviews approval requests
    - route Smart Approvals guardian review through core for command
    execution, file changes, managed-network approvals, MCP approvals, and
    delegated/subagent approval flows
    - expose guardian review in app-server with temporary unstable
    `item/autoApprovalReview/{started,completed}` notifications carrying
    `targetItemId`, `review`, and `action`
    - update the TUI so Smart Approvals can be enabled from `/experimental`,
    aligned with the matching `/approvals` mode, and surfaced clearly while
    reviews are pending or resolved
    
    ## Runtime model
    This PR does not introduce a new `approval_policy`.
    
    Instead:
    - `approval_policy` still controls when approval is needed
    - `approvals_reviewer` controls who reviewable approval requests are
    routed to:
      - `user`
      - `guardian_subagent`
    
    `guardian_subagent` is a carefully prompted reviewer subagent that
    gathers relevant context and applies a risk-based decision framework
    before approving or denying the request.
    
    The `smart_approvals` feature flag is a rollout/UI gate. Core runtime
    behavior keys off `approvals_reviewer`.
    
    When Smart Approvals is enabled from the TUI, it also switches the
    current `/approvals` settings to the matching Smart Approvals mode so
    users immediately see guardian review in the active thread:
    - `approval_policy = on-request`
    - `approvals_reviewer = guardian_subagent`
    - `sandbox_mode = workspace-write`
    
    Users can still change `/approvals` afterward.
    
    Config-load behavior stays intentionally narrow:
    - plain `smart_approvals = true` in `config.toml` remains just the
    rollout/UI gate and does not auto-set `approvals_reviewer`
    - the deprecated `guardian_approval = true` alias migration does
    backfill `approvals_reviewer = "guardian_subagent"` in the same scope
    when that reviewer is not already configured there, so old configs
    preserve their original guardian-enabled behavior
    
    ARC remains a separate safety check. For MCP tool approvals, ARC
    escalations now flow into the configured reviewer instead of always
    bypassing guardian and forcing manual review.
    
    ## Config stability
    The runtime reviewer override is stable, but the config-backed
    app-server protocol shape is still settling.
    
    - `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, and `turn/start` keep stable
    `approvalsReviewer` overrides
    - the config-backed `approvals_reviewer` exposure returned via
    `config/read` (including profile-level config) is now marked
    `[UNSTABLE]` / experimental in the app-server protocol until we are more
    confident in that config surface
    
    ## App-server surface
    This PR intentionally keeps the guardian app-server shape narrow and
    temporary.
    
    It adds generic unstable lifecycle notifications:
    - `item/autoApprovalReview/started`
    - `item/autoApprovalReview/completed`
    
    with payloads of the form:
    - `{ threadId, turnId, targetItemId, review, action? }`
    
    `review` is currently:
    - `{ status, riskScore?, riskLevel?, rationale? }`
    - where `status` is one of `inProgress`, `approved`, `denied`, or
    `aborted`
    
    `action` carries the guardian action summary payload from core when
    available. This lets clients render temporary standalone pending-review
    UI, including parallel reviews, even when the underlying tool item has
    not been emitted yet.
    
    These notifications are explicitly documented as `[UNSTABLE]` and
    expected to change soon.
    
    This PR does **not** persist guardian review state onto `thread/read`
    tool items. The intended follow-up is to attach guardian review state to
    the reviewed tool item lifecycle instead, which would improve
    consistency with manual approvals and allow thread history / reconnect
    flows to replay guardian review state directly.
    
    ## TUI behavior
    - `/experimental` exposes the rollout gate as `Smart Approvals`
    - enabling it in the TUI enables the feature and switches the current
    session to the matching Smart Approvals `/approvals` mode
    - disabling it in the TUI clears the persisted `approvals_reviewer`
    override when appropriate and returns the session to default manual
    review when the effective reviewer changes
    - `/approvals` still exposes the reviewer choice directly
    - the TUI renders:
    - pending guardian review state in the live status footer, including
    parallel review aggregation
      - resolved approval/denial state in history
    
    ## Scope notes
    This PR includes the supporting core/runtime work needed to make Smart
    Approvals usable end-to-end:
    - shell / unified-exec / apply_patch / managed-network / MCP guardian
    review
    - delegated/subagent approval routing into guardian review
    - guardian review risk metadata and action summaries for app-server/TUI
    - config/profile/TUI handling for `smart_approvals`, `guardian_approval`
    alias migration, and `approvals_reviewer`
    - a small internal cleanup of delegated approval forwarding to dedupe
    fallback paths and simplify guardian-vs-parent approval waiting (no
    intended behavior change)
    
    Out of scope for this PR:
    - redesigning the existing manual approval protocol shapes
    - persisting guardian review state onto app-server `ThreadItem`s
    - delegated MCP elicitation auto-review (the current delegated MCP
    guardian shim only covers the legacy `RequestUserInput` path)
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • Fix wait_agent expectations in core tests (#14637)
    ## Summary
    - update stale core tool-spec expectations from `wait` to `wait_agent`
    - update the prompt-caching tool-name assertion to match the renamed
    tool
    - fix the Bazel regressions introduced after #14631 renamed the
    multi-agent wait tool
    
    ## Testing
    - cargo test -p codex-core tools::spec::tests
    - cargo test -p codex-core
    suite::prompt_caching::prompt_tools_are_consistent_across_requests
    
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • Stabilize multi-agent feature flag (#14622)
    - make multi_agent stable and enabled by default
    - update feature and tool-spec coverage to match the new default
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • config: enforce enterprise feature requirements (#13388)
    ## Why
    
    Enterprises can already constrain approvals, sandboxing, and web search
    through `requirements.toml` and MDM, but feature flags were still only
    configurable as managed defaults. That meant an enterprise could suggest
    feature values, but it could not actually pin them.
    
    This change closes that gap and makes enterprise feature requirements
    behave like the other constrained settings. The effective feature set
    now stays consistent with enterprise requirements during config load,
    when config writes are validated, and when runtime code mutates feature
    flags later in the session.
    
    It also tightens the runtime API for managed features. `ManagedFeatures`
    now follows the same constraint-oriented shape as `Constrained<T>`
    instead of exposing panic-prone mutation helpers, and production code
    can no longer construct it through an unconstrained `From<Features>`
    path.
    
    The PR also hardens the `compact_resume_fork` integration coverage on
    Windows. After the feature-management changes,
    `compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` was
    overflowing the libtest/Tokio thread stacks on Windows, so the test now
    uses an explicit larger-stack harness as a pragmatic mitigation. That
    may not be the ideal root-cause fix, and it merits a parallel
    investigation into whether part of the async future chain should be
    boxed to reduce stack pressure instead.
    
    ## What Changed
    
    Enterprises can now pin feature values in `requirements.toml` with the
    requirements-side `features` table:
    
    ```toml
    [features]
    personality = true
    unified_exec = false
    ```
    
    Only canonical feature keys are allowed in the requirements `features`
    table; omitted keys remain unconstrained.
    
    - Added a requirements-side pinned feature map to
    `ConfigRequirementsToml`, threaded it through source-preserving
    requirements merge and normalization in `codex-config`, and made the
    TOML surface use `[features]` (while still accepting legacy
    `[feature_requirements]` for compatibility).
    - Exposed `featureRequirements` from `configRequirements/read`,
    regenerated the JSON/TypeScript schema artifacts, and updated the
    app-server README.
    - Wrapped the effective feature set in `ManagedFeatures`, backed by
    `ConstrainedWithSource<Features>`, and changed its API to mirror
    `Constrained<T>`: `can_set(...)`, `set(...) -> ConstraintResult<()>`,
    and result-returning `enable` / `disable` / `set_enabled` helpers.
    - Removed the legacy-usage and bulk-map passthroughs from
    `ManagedFeatures`; callers that need those behaviors now mutate a plain
    `Features` value and reapply it through `set(...)`, so the constrained
    wrapper remains the enforcement boundary.
    - Removed the production loophole for constructing unconstrained
    `ManagedFeatures`. Non-test code now creates it through the configured
    feature-loading path, and `impl From<Features> for ManagedFeatures` is
    restricted to `#[cfg(test)]`.
    - Rejected legacy feature aliases in enterprise feature requirements,
    and return a load error when a pinned combination cannot survive
    dependency normalization.
    - Validated config writes against enterprise feature requirements before
    persisting changes, including explicit conflicting writes and
    profile-specific feature states that normalize into invalid
    combinations.
    - Updated runtime and TUI feature-toggle paths to use the constrained
    setter API and to persist or apply the effective post-constraint value
    rather than the requested value.
    - Updated the `core_test_support` Bazel target to include the bundled
    core model-catalog fixtures in its runtime data, so helper code that
    resolves `core/models.json` through runfiles works in remote Bazel test
    environments.
    - Renamed the core config test coverage to emphasize that effective
    feature values are normalized at runtime, while conflicting persisted
    config writes are rejected.
    - Ran `compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` inside
    an explicit 8 MiB test thread and Tokio runtime worker stack, following
    the existing larger-stack integration-test pattern, to keep the Windows
    `compact_resume_fork` test slice from aborting while a parallel
    investigation continues into whether some of the underlying async
    futures should be boxed.
    
    ## Verification
    
    - `cargo test -p codex-config`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core feature_requirements_ -- --nocapture`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core
    load_requirements_toml_produces_expected_constraints -- --nocapture`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core
    compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history -- --nocapture`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core compact_resume_fork -- --nocapture`
    - Re-ran the built `codex-core` `tests/all` binary with
    `RUST_MIN_STACK=262144` for
    `compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` to confirm
    the explicit-stack harness fixes the deterministic low-stack repro.
    - `cargo test -p codex-core`
    - This still fails locally in unrelated integration areas that expect
    the `codex` / `test_stdio_server` binaries or hit existing `search_tool`
    wiremock mismatches.
    
    ## Docs
    
    `developers.openai.com/codex` should document the requirements-side
    `[features]` table for enterprise and MDM-managed configuration,
    including that it only accepts canonical feature keys and that
    conflicting config writes are rejected.
  • add fast mode toggle (#13212)
    - add a local Fast mode setting in codex-core (similar to how model id
    is currently stored on disk locally)
    - send `service_tier=priority` on requests when Fast is enabled
    - add `/fast` in the TUI and persist it locally
    - feature flag
  • feat: add local date/timezone to turn environment context (#12947)
    ## Summary
    
    This PR includes the session's local date and timezone in the
    model-visible environment context and persists that data in
    `TurnContextItem`.
    
      ## What changed
    - captures the current local date and IANA timezone when building a turn
    context, with a UTC fallback if the timezone lookup fails
    - includes current_date and timezone in the serialized
    <environment_context> payload
    - stores those fields on TurnContextItem so they survive rollout/history
    handling, subagent review threads, and resume flows
    - treats date/timezone changes as environment updates, so prompt caching
    and context refresh logic do not silently reuse stale time context
    - updates tests to validate the new environment fields without depending
    on a single hardcoded environment-context string
    
    ## test
    
    built a local build and saw it in the rollout file:
    ```
    {"timestamp":"2026-02-26T21:39:50.737Z","type":"response_item","payload":{"type":"message","role":"user","content":[{"type":"input_text","text":"<environment_context>\n  <shell>zsh</shell>\n  <current_date>2026-02-26</current_date>\n  <timezone>America/Los_Angeles</timezone>\n</environment_context>"}]}}
    ```
  • Allow clients not to send summary as an option (#12950)
    Summary is a required parameter on UserTurn. Ideally we'd like the core
    to decide the appropriate summary level.
    
    Make the summary optional and don't send it when not needed.
  • Use model catalog default for reasoning summary fallback (#12873)
    ## Summary
    - make `Config.model_reasoning_summary` optional so unset means use
    model default
    - resolve the optional config value to a concrete summary when building
    `TurnContext`
    - add protocol support for `default_reasoning_summary` in model metadata
    
    ## Validation
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --lib client::tests -- --nocapture`
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
  • core: bundle settings diff updates into one dev/user envelope (#12417)
    ## Summary
    - bundle contextual prompt injection into at most one developer message
    plus one contextual user message in both:
      - per-turn settings updates
      - initial context insertion
    - preserve `<model_switch>` across compaction by rebuilding it through
    canonical initial-context injection, instead of relying on
    strip/reattach hacks
    - centralize contextual user fragment detection in one shared definition
    table and reuse it for parsing/compaction logic
    - keep `AGENTS.md` in its natural serialized format:
      - `# AGENTS.md instructions for {dirname}`
      - `<INSTRUCTIONS>...</INSTRUCTIONS>`
    - simplify related tests/helpers and accept the expected snapshot/layout
    updates from bundled multi-part messages
    
    ## Why
    The goal is to converge toward a simpler, more intentional prompt shape
    where contextual updates are consistently represented as one developer
    envelope plus one contextual user envelope, while keeping parsing and
    compaction behavior aligned with that representation.
    
    ## Notable details
    - the temporary `SettingsUpdateEnvelope` wrapper was removed; these
    paths now return `Vec<ResponseItem>` directly
    - local/remote compaction no longer rely on model-switch strip/restore
    helpers
    - contextual user detection is now driven by shared fragment definitions
    instead of ad hoc matcher assembly
    - AGENTS/user instructions are still the same logical context; only the
    synthetic `<user_instructions>` wrapper was replaced by the natural
    AGENTS text format
    
    ## Testing
    - `just fmt`
    - `cargo test -p codex-app-server
    codex_message_processor::tests::extract_conversation_summary_prefers_plain_user_messages
    -- --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core
    compact::tests::collect_user_messages_filters_session_prefix_entries
    --lib -- --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
    'suite::compact::snapshot_request_shape_pre_turn_compaction_strips_incoming_model_switch'
    -- --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
    'suite::compact_remote::snapshot_request_shape_remote_pre_turn_compaction_strips_incoming_model_switch'
    -- --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
    'suite::client::includes_apps_guidance_as_developer_message_when_enabled'
    -- --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
    'suite::client::includes_developer_instructions_message_in_request' --
    --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
    'suite::client::includes_user_instructions_message_in_request' --
    --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
    'suite::client::resume_includes_initial_messages_and_sends_prior_items'
    -- --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
    'suite::review::review_input_isolated_from_parent_history' -- --exact`
    - `cargo test -p codex-exec --test all
    'suite::resume::exec_resume_last_respects_cwd_filter_and_all_flag' --
    --exact`
    - `cargo test -p core_test_support
    context_snapshot::tests::full_text_mode_preserves_unredacted_text --
    --exact`
    
    ## Notes
    - I also ran several targeted `compact`, `compact_remote`,
    `prompt_caching`, `model_visible_layout`, and `event_mapping` tests
    while iterating on prompt-shape changes.
    - I have not claimed a clean full-workspace `cargo test` from this
    environment because local sandbox/resource conditions have previously
    produced unrelated failures in large workspace runs.
  • chore: remove codex-core public protocol/shell re-exports (#12432)
    ## Why
    
    `codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` re-exported a broad set of types and modules
    from `codex-protocol` and `codex-shell-command`. That made it easy for
    workspace crates to import those APIs through `codex-core`, which in
    turn hides dependency edges and makes it harder to reduce compile-time
    coupling over time.
    
    This change removes those public re-exports so call sites must import
    from the source crates directly. Even when a crate still depends on
    `codex-core` today, this makes dependency boundaries explicit and
    unblocks future work to drop `codex-core` dependencies where possible.
    
    ## What Changed
    
    - Removed public re-exports from `codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` for:
    - `codex_protocol::protocol` and related protocol/model types (including
    `InitialHistory`)
      - `codex_protocol::config_types` (`protocol_config_types`)
    - `codex_shell_command::{bash, is_dangerous_command, is_safe_command,
    parse_command, powershell}`
    - Migrated workspace Rust call sites to import directly from:
      - `codex_protocol::protocol`
      - `codex_protocol::config_types`
      - `codex_protocol::models`
      - `codex_shell_command`
    - Added explicit `Cargo.toml` dependencies (`codex-protocol` /
    `codex-shell-command`) in crates that now import those crates directly.
    - Kept `codex-core` internal modules compiling by using `pub(crate)`
    aliases in `core/src/lib.rs` (internal-only, not part of the public
    API).
    - Updated the two utility crates that can already drop a `codex-core`
    dependency edge entirely:
      - `codex-utils-approval-presets`
      - `codex-utils-cli`
    
    ## Verification
    
    - `cargo test -p codex-utils-approval-presets`
    - `cargo test -p codex-utils-cli`
    - `cargo check --workspace --all-targets`
    - `just clippy`
  • Fix compaction context reinjection and model baselines (#12252)
    ## Summary
    - move regular-turn context diff/full-context persistence into
    `run_turn` so pre-turn compaction runs before incoming context updates
    are recorded
    - after successful pre-turn compaction, rely on a cleared
    `reference_context_item` to trigger full context reinjection on the
    follow-up regular turn (manual `/compact` keeps replacement history
    summary-only and also clears the baseline)
    - preserve `<model_switch>` when full context is reinjected, and inject
    it *before* the rest of the full-context items
    - scope `reference_context_item` and `previous_model` to regular user
    turns only so standalone tasks (`/compact`, shell, review, undo) cannot
    suppress future reinjection or `<model_switch>` behavior
    - make context-diff persistence + `reference_context_item` updates
    explicit in the regular-turn path, with clearer docs/comments around the
    invariant
    - stop persisting local `/compact` `RolloutItem::TurnContext` snapshots
    (only regular turns persist `TurnContextItem` now)
    - simplify resume/fork previous-model/reference-baseline hydration by
    looking up the last surviving turn context from rollout lifecycle
    events, including rollback and compaction-crossing handling
    - remove the legacy fallback that guessed from bare `TurnContext`
    rollouts without lifecycle events
    - update compaction/remote-compaction/model-visible snapshots and
    compact test assertions (including remote compaction mock response
    shape)
    
    ## Why
    We were persisting incoming context items before spawning the regular
    turn task, which let pre-turn compaction requests accidentally include
    incoming context diffs without the new user message. Fixing that exposed
    follow-on baseline issues around `/compact`, resume/fork, and standalone
    tasks that could cause duplicate context injection or suppress
    `<model_switch>` instructions.
    
    This PR re-centers the invariants around regular turns:
    - regular turns persist model-visible context diffs/full reinjection and
    update the `reference_context_item`
    - standalone tasks do not advance those regular-turn baselines
    - compaction clears the baseline when replacement history may have
    stripped the referenced context diffs
    
    ## Follow-ups (TODOs left in code)
    - `TODO(ccunningham)`: fix rollback/backtracking baseline handling more
    comprehensively
    - `TODO(ccunningham)`: include pending incoming context items in
    pre-turn compaction threshold estimation
    - `TODO(ccunningham)`: inject updated personality spec alongside
    `<model_switch>` so some model-switch paths can avoid forced full
    reinjection
    - `TODO(ccunningham)`: review task turn lifecycle
    (`TurnStarted`/`TurnComplete`) behavior and emit task-start context
    diffs for task types that should have them (excluding `/compact`)
    
    ## Validation
    - `just fmt`
    - CI should cover the updated compaction/resume/model-visible snapshot
    expectations and rollout-hydration behavior
    - I did **not** rerun the full local test suite after the latest
    resume-lookup / rollout-persistence simplifications
  • chore: rm remote models fflag (#11699)
    rm `remote_models` feature flag.
    
    We see issues like #11527 when a user has `remote_models` disabled, as
    we always use the default fallback `ModelInfo`. This causes issues with
    model performance.
    
    Builds on #11690, which helps by warning the user when they are using
    the default fallback. This PR will make that happen much less frequently
    as an accidental consequence of disabling `remote_models`.
  • feat: introduce Permissions (#11633)
    ## Why
    We currently carry multiple permission-related concepts directly on
    `Config` for shell/unified-exec behavior (`approval_policy`,
    `sandbox_policy`, `network`, `shell_environment_policy`,
    `windows_sandbox_mode`).
    
    Consolidating these into one in-memory struct makes permission handling
    easier to reason about and sets up the next step: supporting named
    permission profiles (`[permissions.PROFILE_NAME]`) without changing
    behavior now.
    
    This change is mostly mechanical: it updates existing callsites to go
    through `config.permissions`, but it does not yet refactor those
    callsites to take a single `Permissions` value in places where multiple
    permission fields are still threaded separately.
    
    This PR intentionally **does not** change the on-disk `config.toml`
    format yet and keeps compatibility with legacy config keys.
    
    ## What Changed
    - Introduced `Permissions` in `core/src/config/mod.rs`.
    - Added `Config::permissions` and moved effective runtime permission
    fields under it:
      - `approval_policy`
      - `sandbox_policy`
      - `network`
      - `shell_environment_policy`
      - `windows_sandbox_mode`
    - Updated config loading/building so these effective values are still
    derived from the same existing config inputs and constraints.
    - Updated Windows sandbox helpers/resolution to read/write via
    `permissions`.
    - Threaded the new field through all permission consumers across core
    runtime, app-server, CLI/exec, TUI, and sandbox summary code.
    - Updated affected tests to reference `config.permissions.*`.
    - Renamed the struct/field from
    `EffectivePermissions`/`effective_permissions` to
    `Permissions`/`permissions` and aligned variable naming accordingly.
    
    ## Verification
    - `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-tui -p codex-cli -p codex-app-server
    -p codex-exec -p codex-utils-sandbox-summary`
    - `cargo build -p codex-core -p codex-tui -p codex-cli -p
    codex-app-server -p codex-exec -p codex-utils-sandbox-summary`
  • feat: make sandbox read access configurable with ReadOnlyAccess (#11387)
    `SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` previously implied broad read access and could
    not express a narrower read surface.
    This change introduces an explicit read-access model so we can support
    user-configurable read restrictions in follow-up work, while preserving
    current behavior today.
    
    It also ensures unsupported backends fail closed for restricted-read
    policies instead of silently granting broader access than intended.
    
    ## What
    
    - Added `ReadOnlyAccess` in protocol with:
      - `Restricted { include_platform_defaults, readable_roots }`
      - `FullAccess`
    - Updated `SandboxPolicy` to carry read-access configuration:
      - `ReadOnly { access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
      - `WorkspaceWrite { ..., read_only_access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
    - Preserved existing behavior by defaulting current construction paths
    to `ReadOnlyAccess::FullAccess`.
    - Threaded the new fields through sandbox policy consumers and call
    sites across `core`, `tui`, `linux-sandbox`, `windows-sandbox`, and
    related tests.
    - Updated Seatbelt policy generation to honor restricted read roots by
    emitting scoped read rules when full read access is not granted.
    - Added fail-closed behavior on Linux and Windows backends when
    restricted read access is requested but not yet implemented there
    (`UnsupportedOperation`).
    - Regenerated app-server protocol schema and TypeScript artifacts,
    including `ReadOnlyAccess`.
    
    ## Compatibility / rollout
    
    - Runtime behavior remains unchanged by default (`FullAccess`).
    - API/schema changes are in place so future config wiring can enable
    restricted read access without another policy-shape migration.
  • fix(protocol): approval policy never prompt (#11288)
    This removes overly directed language about how the model should behave
    when it's in `approval_policy=never` mode.
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: Dylan Hurd <dylan.hurd@openai.com>
  • Remove offline fallback for models (#11238)
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    Include a link to a bug report or enhancement request.
  • feat: add support for allowed_web_search_modes in requirements.toml (#10964)
    This PR makes it possible to disable live web search via an enterprise
    config even if the user is running in `--yolo` mode (though cached web
    search will still be available). To do this, create
    `/etc/codex/requirements.toml` as follows:
    
    ```toml
    # "live" is not allowed; "disabled" is allowed even though not listed explicitly.
    allowed_web_search_modes = ["cached"]
    ```
    
    Or set `requirements_toml_base64` MDM as explained on
    https://developers.openai.com/codex/security/#locations.
    
    ### Why
    - Enforce admin/MDM/`requirements.toml` constraints on web-search
    behavior, independent of user config and per-turn sandbox defaults.
    - Ensure per-turn config resolution and review-mode overrides never
    crash when constraints are present.
    
    ### What
    - Add `allowed_web_search_modes` to requirements parsing and surface it
    in app-server v2 `ConfigRequirements` (`allowedWebSearchModes`), with
    fixtures updated.
    - Define a requirements allowlist type (`WebSearchModeRequirement`) and
    normalize semantics:
      - `disabled` is always implicitly allowed (even if not listed).
      - An empty list is treated as `["disabled"]`.
    - Make `Config.web_search_mode` a `Constrained<WebSearchMode>` and apply
    requirements via `ConstrainedWithSource<WebSearchMode>`.
    - Update per-turn resolution (`resolve_web_search_mode_for_turn`) to:
    - Prefer `Live → Cached → Disabled` when
    `SandboxPolicy::DangerFullAccess` is active (subject to requirements),
    unless the user preference is explicitly `Disabled`.
    - Otherwise, honor the user’s preferred mode, falling back to an allowed
    mode when necessary.
    - Update TUI `/debug-config` and app-server mapping to display
    normalized `allowed_web_search_modes` (including implicit `disabled`).
    - Fix web-search integration tests to assert cached behavior under
    `SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` (since `DangerFullAccess` legitimately prefers
    `live` when allowed).
  • fix(core) switching model appends model instructions (#10651)
    ## Summary
    When switching models, we should append the instructions of the new
    model to the conversation as a developer message.
    
    ## Test
    - [x] Adds a unit test
  • feat: land unified_exec (#10641)
    Land `unified_exec` for all non-windows OS
  • Update tests to stop using sse_completed fixture (#10638)
    Summary:
    - replace the `sse_completed` fixture and related JSON template with
    direct `responses::ev_completed` payload builders
    - cascade the new SSE helpers through all affected core tests for
    consistency and clarity
    - remove legacy fixtures that were no longer needed once the helpers are
    in place
    
    Testing:
    - Not run (not requested)
  • Cleanup collaboration mode variants (#10404)
    ## Summary
    
    This PR simplifies collaboration modes to the visible set `default |
    plan`, while preserving backward compatibility for older partners that
    may still send legacy mode
    names.
    
    Specifically:
    - Renames the old Code behavior to **Default**.
    - Keeps **Plan** as-is.
    - Removes **Custom** mode behavior (fallbacks now resolve to Default).
    - Keeps `PairProgramming` and `Execute` internally for compatibility
    plumbing, while removing them from schema/API and UI visibility.
    - Adds legacy input aliasing so older clients can still send old mode
    names.
    
    ## What Changed
    
    1. Mode enum and compatibility
    - `ModeKind` now uses `Plan` + `Default` as active/public modes.
    - `ModeKind::Default` deserialization accepts legacy values:
      - `code`
      - `pair_programming`
      - `execute`
      - `custom`
    - `PairProgramming` and `Execute` variants remain in code but are hidden
    from protocol/schema generation.
    - `Custom` variant is removed; previous custom fallbacks now map to
    `Default`.
    
    2. Collaboration presets and templates
    - Built-in presets now return only:
      - `Plan`
      - `Default`
    - Template rename:
      - `core/templates/collaboration_mode/code.md` -> `default.md`
    - `execute.md` and `pair_programming.md` remain on disk but are not
    surfaced in visible preset lists.
    
    3. TUI updates
    - Updated user-facing naming and prompts from “Code” to “Default”.
    - Updated mode-cycle and indicator behavior to reflect only visible
    `Plan` and `Default`.
    - Updated corresponding tests and snapshots.
    
    4. request_user_input behavior
    - `request_user_input` remains allowed only in `Plan` mode.
    - Rejection messaging now consistently treats non-plan modes as
    `Default`.
    
    5. Schemas
    - Regenerated config and app-server schemas.
    - Public schema types now advertise mode values as:
      - `plan`
      - `default`
    
    ## Backward Compatibility Notes
    
    - Incoming legacy mode names (`code`, `pair_programming`, `execute`,
    `custom`) are accepted and coerced to `default`.
    - Outgoing/public schema surfaces intentionally expose only `plan |
    default`.
    - This allows tolerant ingestion of older partner payloads while
    standardizing new integrations on the reduced mode set.
    
    ## Codex author
    `codex fork 019c1fae-693b-7840-b16e-9ad38ea0bd00`
  • fix: enable per-turn updates to web search mode (#10040)
    web_search can now be updated per-turn, for things like changes to
    sandbox policy.
    
    `SandboxPolicy::DangerFullAccess` now sets web_search to `live`, and the
    default is still `cached`.
    
    Added integration tests.
  • remove sandbox globals. (#9797)
    Threads sandbox updates through OverrideTurnContext for active turn
    Passes computed sandbox type into safety/exec
  • make cached web_search client-side default (#9974)
    [Experiment](https://console.statsig.com/50aWbk2p4R76rNX9lN5VUw/experiments/codex_web_search_rollout/summary)
    for default cached `web_search` completed; cached chosen as default.
    
    Update client to reflect that.
  • change collaboration mode to struct (#9793)
    Shouldn't cause behavioral change
  • feat(core) update Personality on turn (#9644)
    ## Summary
    Support updating Personality mid-Thread via UserTurn/OverwriteTurn. This
    is explicitly unused by the clients so far, to simplify PRs - app-server
    and tui implementations will be follow-ups.
    
    ## Testing
    - [x] added integration tests
  • Feat: request user input tool (#9472)
    ### Summary
    * Add `requestUserInput` tool that the model can use for gather
    feedback/asking question mid turn.
    
    
    ### Tool input schema
    ```
    {
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
      "title": "requestUserInput input",
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "required": ["questions"],
      "properties": {
        "questions": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Questions to show the user (1-3). Prefer 1 unless multiple independent decisions block progress.",
          "minItems": 1,
          "maxItems": 3,
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "required": ["id", "header", "question"],
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Stable identifier for mapping answers (snake_case)."
              },
              "header": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Short header label shown in the UI (12 or fewer chars)."
              },
              "question": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Single-sentence prompt shown to the user."
              },
              "options": {
                "type": "array",
                "description": "Optional 2-3 mutually exclusive choices. Put the recommended option first and suffix its label with \"(Recommended)\". Only include \"Other\" option if we want to include a free form option. If the question is free form in nature, do not include any option.",
                "minItems": 2,
                "maxItems": 3,
                "items": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "additionalProperties": false,
                  "required": ["value", "label", "description"],
                  "properties": {
                    "value": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "Machine-readable value (snake_case)."
                    },
                    "label": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "User-facing label (1-5 words)."
                    },
                    "description": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "One short sentence explaining impact/tradeoff if selected."
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
    ```
    
    ### Tool output schema
    ```
    {
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
      "title": "requestUserInput output",
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "required": ["answers"],
      "properties": {
        "answers": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Map of question id to user answer.",
          "additionalProperties": {
            "type": "object",
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "required": ["selected"],
            "properties": {
              "selected": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": { "type": "string" }
              },
              "other": {
                "type": ["string", "null"]
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
    ```
  • Add collaboration developer instructions (#9424)
    - Add additional instructions when they are available
    - Make sure to update them on change either UserInput or UserTurn
  • [search] allow explicitly disabling web search (#9249)
    moving `web_search` rollout serverside, so need a way to explicitly
    disable search + signal eligibility from the client.
    
    - Add `x‑oai‑web‑search‑eligible` header that signifies whether the
    request can have web search.
    - Only attach the `web_search` tool when the resolved `WebSearchMode` is
    `Live` or `Cached`.
  • Add text element metadata to types (#9235)
    Initial type tweaking PR to make the diff of
    https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9116 smaller
    
    This should not change any behavior, just adds some fields to types
  • add WebSearchMode enum (#9216)
    ### What
    Add `WebSearchMode` enum (disabled, cached live, defaults to cached) to
    config + V2 protocol. This enum takes precedence over legacy flags:
    `web_search_cached`, `web_search_request`, and `tools.web_search`.
    
    Keep `--search` as live.
    
    ### Tests
    Added tests
  • clean models manager (#9168)
    Have only the following Methods:
    - `list_models`: getting current available models
    - `try_list_models`: sync version no refresh for tui use
    - `get_default_model`: get the default model (should be tightened to
    core and received on session configuration)
    - `get_model_info`: get `ModelInfo` for a specific model (should be
    tightened to core but used in tests)
    - `refresh_if_new_etag`: trigger refresh on different etags
    
    Also move the cache to its own struct
  • Assemble sandbox/approval/network prompts dynamically (#8961)
    - Add a single builder for developer permissions messaging that accepts
    SandboxPolicy and approval policy. This builder now drives the developer
    “permissions” message that’s injected at session start and any time
    sandbox/approval settings change.
    - Trim EnvironmentContext to only include cwd, writable roots, and
    shell; removed sandbox/approval/network duplication and adjusted XML
    serialization and tests accordingly.
    
    Follow-up: adding a config value to replace the developer permissions
    message for custom sandboxes.