codex

Speed up /mcp inventory listing (#16831 )

Addresses #16244

This was a performance regression introduced when we moved the TUI on
top of the app server API.

Problem: `/mcp` rebuilt a full MCP inventory through
`mcpServerStatus/list`, including resources and resource templates that
made the TUI wait on slow inventory probes.

Solution: add a lightweight `detail` mode to `mcpServerStatus/list`,
have `/mcp` request tools-and-auth only, and cover the fast path with
app-server and TUI tests.

Testing: Confirmed slow (multi-second) response prior to change and
immediate response after change.

I considered two options:
1. Change the existing `mcpServerStatus/list` API to accept an optional
"details" parameter so callers can request only a subset of the
information.
2. Add a separate `mcpServer/list` API that returns only the servers,
tools, and auth but omits the resources.

I chose option 1, but option 2 is also a reasonable approach.

Eric Traut · 2026-04-06 16:27:02 -07:00

9f737c28dd

[codex-analytics] add protocol-native turn timestamps (#16638 )

---
[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/16638).
* #16870
* #16706
* #16659
* #16641
* #16640
* __->__ #16638

rhan-oai · 2026-04-06 16:22:59 -07:00

756c45ec61

feat: refresh non-curated cache from plugin list. (#16191 )

1. Use versions for non-curated plugin (defined in plugin.json) for
cache refresh
2. Trigger refresh from plugin/list roots

xl-openai · 2026-04-06 15:40:00 -07:00

e62d645e67

Revert "[codex-backend] Make thread metadata updates tolerate pending backfill" (#16923 )

Reverts openai/codex#16877

joeytrasatti-openai · 2026-04-06 21:25:05 +00:00

03c07956cf

[codex-backend] Make thread metadata updates tolerate pending backfill (#16877 )

### Summary
Fix `thread/metadata/update` so it can still patch stored thread
metadata when the list/backfill-gated `get_state_db(...)` path is
unavailable.

What was happening:
- The app logs showed `thread/metadata/update` failing with `sqlite
state db unavailable for thread ...`.
- This was not isolated to one bad thread. Once the failure started for
a user, branch metadata updates failed 100% of the time for that user.
- Reports were staggered across users, which points at local app-server
/ local SQLite state rather than one global server-side failure.
- Turns could still start immediately after the metadata update failed,
which suggests the thread itself was valid and the failure was in the
metadata endpoint DB-handle path.

The fix:
- Keep using the loaded thread state DB and the normal
`get_state_db(...)` fallback first.
- If that still returns `None`, open `StateRuntime::init(...)` directly
for this targeted metadata update path.
- Log the direct state runtime init error if that final fallback also
fails, so future reports have the real DB-open cause instead of only the
generic unavailable error.
- Add a regression test where the DB exists but backfill is not
complete, and verify `thread/metadata/update` can still repair the
stored rollout thread and patch `gitInfo`.

Relevant context / suspect PRs:
- #16434 changed state DB startup to run auto-vacuum / incremental
vacuum. This is the most suspicious timing match for per-user, staggered
local SQLite availability failures.
- #16433 dropped the old log table from the state DB, also near the
timing window.
- #13280 introduced this endpoint and made it rely on SQLite for git
metadata without resuming the thread.
- #14859 and #14888 added/consumed persisted model + reasoning effort
metadata. I checked these because of the new thread metadata fields, but
this failure happens before the endpoint reaches thread-row update/load
logic, so they seem less likely as the direct cause.

### Testing
- `cargo fmt -- --config imports_granularity=Item` completed; local
stable rustfmt emitted warnings that `imports_granularity` is unstable
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_metadata_update`
- `git diff --check`

joeytrasatti-openai · 2026-04-06 13:07:19 -04:00

4ce97cef02

[codex-analytics] subagent analytics (#15915 )

- creates custom event that emits subagent thread analytics from core
- wires client metadata (`product_client_id, client_name,
client_version`), through from app-server
- creates `created_at `timestamp in core
- subagent analytics are behind `FeatureFlag::GeneralAnalytics`

PR stack
- [[telemetry] thread events
#15690](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15690)
- --> [[telemetry] subagent events
#15915](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15915)
- [[telemetry] turn events
#15591](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15591)
- [[telemetry] steer events
#15697](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15697)
- [[telemetry] queued prompt data
#15804](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15804)

Notes:
- core does not spawn a subagent thread for compact, but represented in
mapping for consistency

`INFO | 2026-04-01 13:08:12 | codex_backend.routers.analytics_events |
analytics_events.track_analytics_events:399 | Tracked
codex_thread_initialized event params={'thread_id':
'019d4aa9-233b-70f2-a958-c3dbae1e30fa', 'product_surface': 'codex',
'app_server_client': {'product_client_id': 'CODEX_CLI', 'client_name':
'codex-tui', 'client_version': '0.0.0', 'rpc_transport': 'in_process',
'experimental_api_enabled': None}, 'runtime': {'codex_rs_version':
'0.0.0', 'runtime_os': 'macos', 'runtime_os_version': '26.4.0',
'runtime_arch': 'aarch64'}, 'model': 'gpt-5.3-codex', 'ephemeral':
False, 'initialization_mode': 'new', 'created_at': 1775074091,
'thread_source': 'subagent', 'subagent_source': 'thread_spawn',
'parent_thread_id': '019d4aa8-51ec-77e3-bafb-2c1b8e29e385'} | `

`INFO | 2026-04-01 13:08:41 | codex_backend.routers.analytics_events |
analytics_events.track_analytics_events:399 | Tracked
codex_thread_initialized event params={'thread_id':
'019d4aa9-94e3-75f1-8864-ff8ad0e55e1e', 'product_surface': 'codex',
'app_server_client': {'product_client_id': 'CODEX_CLI', 'client_name':
'codex-tui', 'client_version': '0.0.0', 'rpc_transport': 'in_process',
'experimental_api_enabled': None}, 'runtime': {'codex_rs_version':
'0.0.0', 'runtime_os': 'macos', 'runtime_os_version': '26.4.0',
'runtime_arch': 'aarch64'}, 'model': 'gpt-5.3-codex', 'ephemeral':
False, 'initialization_mode': 'new', 'created_at': 1775074120,
'thread_source': 'subagent', 'subagent_source': 'review',
'parent_thread_id': None} | `

---------

Co-authored-by: jif-oai <jif@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com>

rhan-oai · 2026-04-04 11:06:43 -07:00

4fd5c35c4f

Fix Windows Bazel app-server trust tests (#16711 )

## Why

Extracted from [#16528](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/16528) so
the Windows Bazel app-server test failures can be reviewed independently
from the rest of that PR.

This PR targets:

-
`suite::v2::thread_shell_command::thread_shell_command_runs_as_standalone_turn_and_persists_history`
-
`suite::v2::thread_start::thread_start_with_elevated_sandbox_trusts_project_and_followup_loads_project_config`
-
`suite::v2::thread_start::thread_start_with_nested_git_cwd_trusts_repo_root`

There were two Windows-specific assumptions baked into those tests and
the underlying trust lookup:

- project trust keys were persisted and looked up using raw path
strings, but Bazel's Windows test environment can surface canonicalized
paths with `\\?\` / UNC prefixes or normalized symlink/junction targets,
so follow-up `thread/start` requests no longer matched the project entry
that had just been written
- `item/commandExecution/outputDelta` assertions compared exact trailing
line endings even though shell output chunk boundaries and CRLF handling
can differ on Windows, and Bazel made that timing-sensitive mismatch
visible

There was also one behavior bug separate from the assertion cleanup:
`thread/start` decided whether to persist trust from the final resolved
sandbox policy, but on Windows an explicit `workspace-write` request may
be downgraded to `read-only`. That incorrectly skipped writing trust
even though the request had asked to elevate the project, so the new
logic also keys off the requested sandbox mode.

## What

- Canonicalize project trust keys when persisting/loading `[projects]`
entries, while still accepting legacy raw keys for existing configs.
- Persist project trust when `thread/start` explicitly requests
`workspace-write` or `danger-full-access`, even if the resolved policy
is later downgraded on Windows.
- Make the Windows app-server tests compare persisted trust paths and
command output deltas in a path/newline-normalized way.

## Verification

- Existing app-server v2 tests cover the three failing Windows Bazel
cases above.

Michael Bolin · 2026-04-03 21:41:25 +00:00

a70aee1a1e

Add remote --cd forwarding for app-server sessions (#16700 )

Addresses #16124

Problem: `codex --remote --cd <path>` canonicalized the path locally and
then omitted it from remote thread lifecycle requests, so remote-only
working directories failed or were ignored.

Solution: Keep remote startup on the local cwd, forward explicit `--cd`
values verbatim to `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, and `thread/fork`,
and cover the behavior with `codex-tui` tests.

Testing: I manually tested `--remote --cd` with both absolute and
relative paths and validated correct behavior.


---

Update based on code review feedback:

Problem: Remote `--cd` was forwarded to `thread/resume` and
`thread/fork`, but not to `thread/list` lookups, so `--resume --last`
and picker flows could select a session from the wrong cwd; relative cwd
filters also failed against stored absolute paths.

Solution: Apply explicit remote `--cd` to `thread/list` lookups for
`--last` and picker flows, normalize relative cwd filters on the
app-server before exact matching, and document/test the behavior.

Eric Traut · 2026-04-03 11:26:45 -07:00

0ab8eda375

Fix MCP tool listing for hyphenated server names (#16674 )

Addresses #16671 and #14927

Problem: `mcpServerStatus/list` rebuilt MCP tool groups from sanitized
tool prefixes but looked them up by unsanitized server names, so
hyphenated servers rendered as having no tools in `/mcp`. This was
reported as a regression when the TUI switched to use the app server.

Solution: Build each server's tool map using the original server name's
sanitized prefix, include effective runtime MCP servers in the status
response, and add a regression test for hyphenated server names.

Eric Traut · 2026-04-03 09:05:50 -07:00

a3b3e7a6cc

remove temporary ownership re-exports (#16626 )

Stacked on #16508.

This removes the temporary `codex-core` / `codex-login` re-export shims
from the ownership split and rewrites callsites to import directly from
`codex-model-provider-info`, `codex-models-manager`, `codex-api`,
`codex-protocol`, `codex-feedback`, and `codex-response-debug-context`.

No behavior change intended; this is the mechanical import cleanup layer
split out from the ownership move.

---------

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-03 00:33:34 -07:00

af8a9d2d2b

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>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-02 23:00:02 -07:00

6fff9955f1

Auto-trust cwd on thread start (#16492 )

- Persist trusted cwd state during thread/start when the resolved
sandbox is elevated.
- Add app-server coverage for trusted root resolution and confirm
turn/start does not mutate trust.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-03 00:02:56 +00:00

95e809c135

Fix fork source display in /status (expose forked_from_id in app server) (#16596 )

Addresses #16560

Problem: `/status` stopped showing the source thread id in forked TUI
sessions after the app-server migration.

Solution: Carry fork source ids through app-server v2 thread data and
the TUI session adapter, and update TUI fixtures so `/status` matches
the old TUI behavior.

Eric Traut · 2026-04-02 14:05:29 -07:00

9bb7f0a694

[codex] Remove codex-core config type shim (#16529 )

## Why

This finishes the config-type move out of `codex-core` by removing the
temporary compatibility shim in `codex_core::config::types`. Callers now
depend on `codex-config` directly, which keeps these config model types
owned by the config crate instead of re-expanding `codex-core` as a
transitive API surface.

## What Changed

- Removed the `codex-rs/core/src/config/types.rs` re-export shim and the
`core::config::ApprovalsReviewer` re-export.
- Updated `codex-core`, `codex-cli`, `codex-tui`, `codex-app-server`,
`codex-mcp-server`, and `codex-linux-sandbox` call sites to import
`codex_config::types` directly.
- Added explicit `codex-config` dependencies to downstream crates that
previously relied on the `codex-core` re-export.
- Regenerated `codex-rs/core/config.schema.json` after updating the
config docs path reference.

Michael Bolin · 2026-04-02 01:19:44 -07:00

c1d18ceb6f

core: remove cross-crate re-exports from lib.rs (#16512 )

## Why

`codex-core` was re-exporting APIs owned by sibling `codex-*` crates,
which made downstream crates depend on `codex-core` as a proxy module
instead of the actual owner crate.

Removing those forwards makes crate boundaries explicit and lets leaf
crates drop unnecessary `codex-core` dependencies. In this PR, this
reduces the dependency on `codex-core` to `codex-login` in the following
files:

```
codex-rs/backend-client/Cargo.toml
codex-rs/mcp-server/tests/common/Cargo.toml
```

## What

- Remove `codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` re-exports for symbols owned by
`codex-login`, `codex-mcp`, `codex-rollout`, `codex-analytics`,
`codex-protocol`, `codex-shell-command`, `codex-sandboxing`,
`codex-tools`, and `codex-utils-path`.
- Delete the `default_client` forwarding shim in `codex-rs/core`.
- Update in-crate and downstream callsites to import directly from the
owning `codex-*` crate.
- Add direct Cargo dependencies where callsites now target the owner
crate, and remove `codex-core` from `codex-rs/backend-client`.

Michael Bolin · 2026-04-01 23:06:24 -07:00

aa2403e2eb

core: use codex-mcp APIs directly (#16510 )

## Why

`codex-mcp` already owns the shared MCP API surface, including `auth`,
`McpConfig`, `CODEX_APPS_MCP_SERVER_NAME`, and tool-name helpers in
[`codex-rs/codex-mcp/src/mcp/mod.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/f61e85dbfb5373cde6827d232ac8ea447c237e81/codex-rs/codex-mcp/src/mcp/mod.rs#L1-L35).
Re-exporting that surface from `codex_core::mcp` gives downstream crates
two import paths for the same API and hides the real crate dependency.

This PR keeps `codex_core::mcp` focused on the local `McpManager`
wrapper in
[`codex-rs/core/src/mcp.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/f61e85dbfb5373cde6827d232ac8ea447c237e81/codex-rs/core/src/mcp.rs#L13-L40)
and makes consumers import shared MCP APIs from `codex_mcp` directly.

## What

- Remove the `codex_mcp::mcp` re-export surface from `core/src/mcp.rs`.
- Update `codex-core` internals plus `codex-app-server`, `codex-cli`,
and `codex-tui` test code to import MCP APIs from `codex_mcp::mcp`
directly.
- Add explicit `codex-mcp` dependencies where those crates now use that
API surface, and refresh `Cargo.lock`.

## Verification

- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `cargo test -p codex-core -p codex-cli -p codex-tui`
  - `codex-cli` passed.
- `codex-core` still fails five unrelated config tests in
`core/src/config/config_tests.rs` (`approvals_reviewer_*` and
`smart_approvals_alias_*`).
- A broader `cargo test -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-cli
-p codex-tui` run previously hung in `codex-app-server` test
`in_process_start_uses_requested_session_source_for_thread_start`.

Michael Bolin · 2026-04-01 21:55:22 -07:00

cc97982bbb

Extract MCP into codex-mcp crate (#15919 )

- Split MCP runtime/server code out of `codex-core` into the new
`codex-mcp` crate. New/moved public structs/types include `McpConfig`,
`McpConnectionManager`, `ToolInfo`, `ToolPluginProvenance`,
`CodexAppsToolsCacheKey`, and the `McpManager` API
(`codex_mcp::mcp::McpManager` plus the `codex_core::mcp::McpManager`
wrapper/shim). New/moved functions include `with_codex_apps_mcp`,
`configured_mcp_servers`, `effective_mcp_servers`,
`collect_mcp_snapshot`, `collect_mcp_snapshot_from_manager`,
`qualified_mcp_tool_name_prefix`, and the MCP auth/skill-dependency
helpers. Why: this creates a focused MCP crate boundary and shrinks
`codex-core` without forcing every consumer to migrate in the same PR.

- Move MCP server config schema and persistence into `codex-config`.
New/moved structs/enums include `AppToolApproval`,
`McpServerToolConfig`, `McpServerConfig`, `RawMcpServerConfig`,
`McpServerTransportConfig`, `McpServerDisabledReason`, and
`codex_config::ConfigEditsBuilder`. New/moved functions include
`load_global_mcp_servers` and
`ConfigEditsBuilder::replace_mcp_servers`/`apply`. Why: MCP TOML
parsing/editing is config ownership, and this keeps config
validation/round-tripping (including per-tool approval overrides and
inline bearer-token rejection) in the config crate instead of
`codex-core`.

- Rewire `codex-core`, app-server, and plugin call sites onto the new
crates. Updated `Config::to_mcp_config(&self, plugins_manager)`,
`codex-rs/core/src/mcp.rs`, `codex-rs/core/src/connectors.rs`,
`codex-rs/core/src/codex.rs`,
`CodexMessageProcessor::list_mcp_server_status_task`, and
`utils/plugins/src/mcp_connector.rs` to build/pass the new MCP
config/runtime types. Why: plugin-provided MCP servers still merge with
user-configured servers, and runtime auth (`CodexAuth`) is threaded into
`with_codex_apps_mcp` / `collect_mcp_snapshot` explicitly so `McpConfig`
stays config-only.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-04-01 19:03:26 -07:00

59b68f5519

[codex-analytics] thread events (#15690 )

- add event for thread initialization
- thread/start, thread/fork, thread/resume
- feature flagged behind `FeatureFlag::GeneralAnalytics`
- does not yet support threads started by subagents

PR stack:
- --> [[telemetry] thread events
#15690](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15690)
- [[telemetry] subagent events
#15915](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15915)
- [[telemetry] turn events
#15591](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15591)
- [[telemetry] steer events
#15697](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15697)
- [[telemetry] queued prompt data
#15804](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15804)


Sample extracted logs in Codex-backend
```
INFO     | 2026-03-29 16:39:37 | codex_backend.routers.analytics_events | analytics_events.track_analytics_events:398 | Tracked analytics event codex_thread_initialized thread_id=019d3bf7-9f5f-7f82-9877-6d48d1052531 product_surface=codex product_client_id=CODEX_CLI client_name=codex-tui client_version=0.0.0 rpc_transport=in_process experimental_api_enabled=True codex_rs_version=0.0.0 runtime_os=macos runtime_os_version=26.4.0 runtime_arch=aarch64 model=gpt-5.3-codex ephemeral=False thread_source=user initialization_mode=new subagent_source=None parent_thread_id=None created_at=1774827577 | 
INFO     | 2026-03-29 16:45:46 | codex_backend.routers.analytics_events | analytics_events.track_analytics_events:398 | Tracked analytics event codex_thread_initialized thread_id=019d3b84-5731-79d0-9b3b-9c6efe5f5066 product_surface=codex product_client_id=CODEX_CLI client_name=codex-tui client_version=0.0.0 rpc_transport=in_process experimental_api_enabled=True codex_rs_version=0.0.0 runtime_os=macos runtime_os_version=26.4.0 runtime_arch=aarch64 model=gpt-5.3-codex ephemeral=False thread_source=user initialization_mode=resumed subagent_source=None parent_thread_id=None created_at=1774820022 | 
INFO     | 2026-03-29 16:45:49 | codex_backend.routers.analytics_events | analytics_events.track_analytics_events:398 | Tracked analytics event codex_thread_initialized thread_id=019d3bfd-4cd6-7c12-a13e-48cef02e8c4d product_surface=codex product_client_id=CODEX_CLI client_name=codex-tui client_version=0.0.0 rpc_transport=in_process experimental_api_enabled=True codex_rs_version=0.0.0 runtime_os=macos runtime_os_version=26.4.0 runtime_arch=aarch64 model=gpt-5.3-codex ephemeral=False thread_source=user initialization_mode=forked subagent_source=None parent_thread_id=None created_at=1774827949 | 
INFO     | 2026-03-29 17:20:29 | codex_backend.routers.analytics_events | analytics_events.track_analytics_events:398 | Tracked analytics event codex_thread_initialized thread_id=019d3c1d-0412-7ed2-ad24-c9c0881a36b0 product_surface=codex product_client_id=CODEX_SERVICE_EXEC client_name=codex_exec client_version=0.0.0 rpc_transport=in_process experimental_api_enabled=True codex_rs_version=0.0.0 runtime_os=macos runtime_os_version=26.4.0 runtime_arch=aarch64 model=gpt-5.3-codex ephemeral=False thread_source=user initialization_mode=new subagent_source=None parent_thread_id=None created_at=1774830027 | 
```

Notes
- `product_client_id` gets canonicalized in codex-backend
- subagent threads are addressed in a following pr

rhan-oai · 2026-03-31 12:16:44 -07:00

e8de4ea953

auth: let AuthManager own external bearer auth (#16287 )

## Summary

`AuthManager` and `UnauthorizedRecovery` already own token resolution
and staged `401` recovery. The missing piece for provider auth was a
bearer-only mode that still fit that design, instead of pushing a second
auth abstraction into `codex-core`.

This PR keeps the design centered on `AuthManager`: it teaches
`codex-login` how to own external bearer auth directly so later provider
work can keep calling `AuthManager.auth()` and `UnauthorizedRecovery`.

## Motivation

This is the middle layer for #15189.

The intended design is still:

- `AuthManager` encapsulates token storage and refresh
- `UnauthorizedRecovery` powers staged `401` recovery
- all request tokens go through `AuthManager.auth()`

This PR makes that possible for provider-backed bearer tokens by adding
a bearer-only auth mode inside `AuthManager` instead of building
parallel request-auth plumbing in `core`.

## What Changed

- move `ModelProviderAuthInfo` into `codex-protocol` so `core` and
`login` share one config shape
- add `login/src/auth/external_bearer.rs`, which runs the configured
command, caches the bearer token in memory, and refreshes it after `401`
- add `AuthManager::external_bearer_only(...)` for provider-scoped
request paths that should use command-backed bearer auth without
mutating the shared OpenAI auth manager
- add `AuthManager::shared_with_external_chatgpt_auth_refresher(...)`
and rename the other `AuthManager` helpers that only apply to external
ChatGPT auth so the ChatGPT-only path is explicit at the call site
- keep external ChatGPT refresh behavior unchanged while ensuring
bearer-only external auth never persists to `auth.json`

## Testing

- `cargo test -p codex-login`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`





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Michael Bolin · 2026-03-31 01:26:17 -07:00

0071968829

chore: clean up argument-comment lint and roll out all-target CI on macOS (#16054 )

## Why

`argument-comment-lint` was green in CI even though the repo still had
many uncommented literal arguments. The main gap was target coverage:
the repo wrapper did not force Cargo to inspect test-only call sites, so
examples like the `latest_session_lookup_params(true, ...)` tests in
`codex-rs/tui_app_server/src/lib.rs` never entered the blocking CI path.

This change cleans up the existing backlog, makes the default repo lint
path cover all Cargo targets, and starts rolling that stricter CI
enforcement out on the platform where it is currently validated.

## What changed

- mechanically fixed existing `argument-comment-lint` violations across
the `codex-rs` workspace, including tests, examples, and benches
- updated `tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh` and
`tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh` so non-`--fix` runs default to
`--all-targets` unless the caller explicitly narrows the target set
- fixed both wrappers so forwarded cargo arguments after `--` are
preserved with a single separator
- documented the new default behavior in
`tools/argument-comment-lint/README.md`
- updated `rust-ci` so the macOS lint lane keeps the plain wrapper
invocation and therefore enforces `--all-targets`, while Linux and
Windows temporarily pass `-- --lib --bins`

That temporary CI split keeps the stricter all-targets check where it is
already cleaned up, while leaving room to finish the remaining Linux-
and Windows-specific target-gated cleanup before enabling
`--all-targets` on those runners. The Linux and Windows failures on the
intermediate revision were caused by the wrapper forwarding bug, not by
additional lint findings in those lanes.

## Validation

- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh`
- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --lib --bins`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --tests`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test` in `tools/argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test -p codex-terminal-detection`

## Follow-up

- Clean up remaining Linux-only target-gated callsites, then switch the
Linux lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.
- Clean up remaining Windows-only target-gated callsites, then switch
the Windows lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.

Michael Bolin · 2026-03-27 19:00:44 -07:00

61dfe0b86c

Add ChatGPT device-code login to app server (#15525 )

## Problem

App-server clients could only initiate ChatGPT login through the browser
callback flow, even though the shared login crate already supports
device-code auth. That left VS Code, Codex App, and other app-server
clients without a first-class way to use the existing device-code
backend when browser redirects are brittle or when the client UX wants
to own the login ceremony.

## Mental model

This change adds a second ChatGPT login start path to app-server:
clients can now call `account/login/start` with `type:
"chatgptDeviceCode"`. App-server immediately returns a `loginId` plus
the device-code UX payload (`verificationUrl` and `userCode`), then
completes the login asynchronously in the background using the existing
`codex_login` polling flow. Successful device-code login still resolves
to ordinary `chatgpt` auth, and completion continues to flow through the
existing `account/login/completed` and `account/updated` notifications.

## Non-goals

This does not introduce a new auth mode, a new account shape, or a
device-code eligibility discovery API. It also does not add automatic
fallback to browser login in core; clients remain responsible for
choosing when to request device code and whether to retry with a
different UX if the backend/admin policy rejects it.

## Tradeoffs

We intentionally keep `login_chatgpt_common` as a local validation
helper instead of turning it into a capability probe. Device-code
eligibility is checked by actually calling `request_device_code`, which
means policy-disabled cases surface as an immediate request error rather
than an async completion event. We also keep the active-login state
machine minimal: browser and device-code logins share the same public
cancel contract, but device-code cancellation is implemented with a
local cancel token rather than a larger cross-crate refactor.

## Architecture

The protocol grows a new `chatgptDeviceCode` request/response variant in
app-server v2. On the server side, the new handler reuses the existing
ChatGPT login precondition checks, calls `request_device_code`, returns
the device-code payload, and then spawns a background task that waits on
either cancellation or `complete_device_code_login`. On success, it
reuses the existing auth reload and cloud-requirements refresh path
before emitting `account/login/completed` success and `account/updated`.
On failure or cancellation, it emits only `account/login/completed`
failure. The existing `account/login/cancel { loginId }` contract
remains unchanged and now works for both browser and device-code
attempts.


## Tests

Added protocol serialization coverage for the new request/response
variant, plus app-server tests for device-code success, failure, cancel,
and start-time rejection behavior. Existing browser ChatGPT login
coverage remains in place to show that the callback-based flow is
unchanged.

daniel-oai · 2026-03-27 00:27:15 -07:00

47a9e2e084

codex-tools: extract shared tool schema parsing (#15923 )

## Why

`parse_tool_input_schema` and the supporting `JsonSchema` model were
living in `core/src/tools/spec.rs`, but they already serve callers
outside `codex-core`.

Keeping that shared schema parsing logic inside `codex-core` makes the
crate boundary harder to reason about and works against the guidance in
`AGENTS.md` to avoid growing `codex-core` when reusable code can live
elsewhere.

This change takes the first extraction step by moving the schema parsing
primitive into its own crate while keeping the rest of the tool-spec
assembly in `codex-core`.

## What changed

- added a new `codex-tools` crate under `codex-rs/tools`
- moved the shared tool input schema model and sanitizer/parser into
`tools/src/json_schema.rs`
- kept `tools/src/lib.rs` exports-only, with the module-level unit tests
split into `json_schema_tests.rs`
- updated `codex-core` to use `codex-tools::JsonSchema` and re-export
`parse_tool_input_schema`
- updated `codex-app-server` dynamic tool validation to depend on
`codex-tools` directly instead of reaching through `codex-core`
- wired the new crate into the Cargo workspace and Bazel build graph

Michael Bolin · 2026-03-27 00:03:35 +00:00

44d28f500f

fix: fix old system bubblewrap compatibility without falling back to vendored bwrap (#15693 )

Fixes #15283.

## Summary
Older system bubblewrap builds reject `--argv0`, which makes our Linux
sandbox fail before the helper can re-exec. This PR keeps using system
`/usr/bin/bwrap` whenever it exists and only falls back to vendored
bwrap when the system binary is missing. That matters on stricter
AppArmor hosts, where the distro bwrap package also provides the policy
setup needed for user namespaces.

For old system bwrap, we avoid `--argv0` instead of switching binaries:
- pass the sandbox helper a full-path `argv0`,
- keep the existing `current_exe() + --argv0` path when the selected
launcher supports it,
- otherwise omit `--argv0` and re-exec through the helper's own
`argv[0]` path, whose basename still dispatches as
`codex-linux-sandbox`.

Also updates the launcher/warning tests and docs so they match the new
behavior: present-but-old system bwrap uses the compatibility path, and
only absent system bwrap falls back to vendored.

### Validation

1. Install Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM
2. Compile codex and run without bubblewrap installed - see a warning
about falling back to the vendored bwrap
3. Install bwrap and verify version is 0.4.0 without `argv0` support
4. run codex and use apply_patch tool without errors

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Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com>

viyatb-oai · 2026-03-25 23:51:39 -07:00

937cb5081d

Avoid duplicate auth refreshes in getAuthStatus (#15798 )

I've seen several intermittent failures of
`get_auth_status_returns_token_after_proactive_refresh_recovery` today.
I investigated, and I found a couple of issues.

First, `getAuthStatus(refreshToken=true)` could refresh twice in one
request: once via `refresh_token_if_requested()` and again via the
proactive refresh path inside `auth_manager.auth()`. In the
permanent-failure case this produced an extra `/oauth/token` call and
made the app-server auth tests flaky. Use `auth_cached()` after an
explicit refresh request so the handler reuses the post-refresh auth
state instead of immediately re-entering proactive refresh logic. Keep
the existing proactive path for `refreshToken=false`.

Second, serialize auth refresh attempts in `AuthManager` have a
startup/request race. One proactive refresh could already be in flight
while a `getAuthStatus(refreshToken=false)` request entered
`auth().await`, causing a second `/oauth/token` call before the first
failure or refresh result had been recorded. Guarding the refresh flow
with a single async lock makes concurrent callers share one refresh
result, which prevents duplicate refreshes and stabilizes the
proactive-refresh auth tests.

Eric Traut · 2026-03-25 16:03:53 -06:00

2c67a27a71

Extract codex-core-skills crate (#15749 )

## Summary
- move skill loading and management into codex-core-skills
- leave codex-core with the thin integration layer and shared wiring

## Testing
- CI

---------

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-25 12:57:42 -07:00

9dbe098349

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.

pakrym-oai · 2026-03-25 16:02:22 +00:00

504aeb0e09

[app-server] Add a method to override feature flags. (#15601 )

- [x] Add a method to override feature flags globally and not just
thread level.

Matthew Zeng · 2026-03-25 02:27:00 +00:00

0b08d89304

app-server: add filesystem watch support (#14533 )

### Summary
Add the v2 app-server filesystem watch RPCs and notifications, wire them
through the message processor, and implement connection-scoped watches
with notify-backed change delivery. This also updates the schema
fixtures, app-server documentation, and the v2 integration coverage for
watch and unwatch behavior.

This allows clients to efficiently watch for filesystem updates, e.g. to
react on branch changes.

### Testing
- exercise watch lifecycles for directory changes, atomic file
replacement, missing-file targets, and unwatch cleanup

Ruslan Nigmatullin · 2026-03-24 15:52:13 -07:00

301b17c2a1

tui_app_server: cancel active login before Ctrl+C exit (#15673 )

## Summary

Fixes slow `Ctrl+C` exit from the ChatGPT browser-login screen in
`tui_app_server`.

## Root cause

Onboarding-level `Ctrl+C` quit bypassed the auth widget's cancel path.
That let the active ChatGPT login keep running, and in-process
app-server shutdown then waited on the stale login attempt before
finishing.

## Changes

- Extract a shared `cancel_active_attempt()` path in the auth widget
- Use that path from onboarding-level `Ctrl+C` before exiting the TUI
- Add focused tests for canceling browser-login and device-code attempts
- Add app-server shutdown cleanup that explicitly drops any active login
before draining background work

Eric Traut · 2026-03-24 15:11:43 -06:00

c023e9d959

Move git utilities into a dedicated crate (#15564 )

- create `codex-git-utils` and move the shared git helpers into it with
file moves preserved for diff readability
- move the `GitInfo` helpers out of `core` so stacked rollout work can
depend on the shared crate without carrying its own git info module

---------

Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-24 13:26:23 -07:00

0f957a93cd

chore: stop app-server auth refresh storms after permanent token failure (#15530 )

built from #14256. PR description from @etraut-openai:

This PR addresses a hole in [PR
11802](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/11802). The previous PR
assumed that app server clients would respond to token refresh failures
by presenting the user with an error ("you must log in again") and then
not making further attempts to call network endpoints using the expired
token. While they do present the user with this error, they don't
prevent further attempts to call network endpoints and can repeatedly
call `getAuthStatus(refreshToken=true)` resulting in many failed calls
to the token refresh endpoint.

There are three solutions I considered here:
1. Change the getAuthStatus app server call to return a null auth if the
caller specified "refreshToken" on input and the refresh attempt fails.
This will cause clients to immediately log out the user and return them
to the log in screen. This is a really bad user experience. It's also a
breaking change in the app server contract that could break third-party
clients.
2. Augment the getAuthStatus app server call to return an additional
field that indicates the state of "token could not be refreshed". This
is a non-breaking change to the app server API, but it requires
non-trivial changes for all clients to properly handle this new field
properly.
3. Change the getAuthStatus implementation to handle the case where a
token refresh fails by marking the AuthManager's in-memory access and
refresh tokens as "poisoned" so it they are no longer used. This is the
simplest fix that requires no client changes.

I chose option 3.

Here's Codex's explanation of this change:

When an app-server client asks `getAuthStatus(refreshToken=true)`, we
may try to refresh a stale ChatGPT access token. If that refresh fails
permanently (for example `refresh_token_reused`, expired, or revoked),
the old behavior was bad in two ways:

1. We kept the in-memory auth snapshot alive as if it were still usable.
2. Later auth checks could retry refresh again and again, creating a
storm of doomed `/oauth/token` requests and repeatedly surfacing the
same failure.

This is especially painful for app-server clients because they poll auth
status and can keep driving the refresh path without any real chance of
recovery.

This change makes permanent refresh failures terminal for the current
managed auth snapshot without changing the app-server API contract.

What changed:
- `AuthManager` now poisons the current managed auth snapshot in memory
after a permanent refresh failure, keyed to the unchanged `AuthDotJson`.
- Once poisoned, later refresh attempts for that same snapshot fail fast
locally without calling the auth service again.
- The poison is cleared automatically when auth materially changes, such
as a new login, logout, or reload of different auth state from storage.
- `getAuthStatus(includeToken=true)` now omits `authToken` after a
permanent refresh failure instead of handing out the stale cached bearer
token.

This keeps the current auth method visible to clients, avoids forcing an
immediate logout flow, and stops repeated refresh attempts for
credentials that cannot recover.

---------

Co-authored-by: Eric Traut <etraut@openai.com>

Celia Chen · 2026-03-24 12:39:58 -07:00

88694e8417

feat: include marketplace loading error in plugin/list (#15438 )

Include error.

xl-openai · 2026-03-24 11:47:23 -07:00

621862a7d1

app-server: Add back pressure and batching to command/exec (#15547 )

* Add
`OutgoingMessageSender::send_server_notification_to_connection_and_wait`
which returns only once message is written to websocket (or failed to do
so)
* Use this mechanism to apply back pressure to stdout/stderr streams of
processes spawned by `command/exec`, to limit them to at most one
message in-memory at a time
* Use back pressure signal to also batch smaller chunks into ≈64KiB ones

This should make commands execution more robust over
high-latency/low-throughput networks

Ruslan Nigmatullin · 2026-03-24 11:35:51 -07:00

d61c03ca08

Finish moving codex exec to app-server (#15424 )

This PR completes the conversion of non-interactive `codex exec` to use
app server rather than directly using core events and methods.

### Summary
- move `codex-exec` off exec-owned `AuthManager` and `ThreadManager`
state
- route exec bootstrap, resume, and auth refresh through existing
app-server paths
- replace legacy `codex/event/*` decoding in exec with typed app-server
notification handling
- update human and JSONL exec output adapters to translate existing
app-server notifications only
- clean up "app server client" layer by eliminating support for legacy
notifications; this is no longer needed
- remove exposure of `authManager` and `threadManager` from "app server
client" layer

### Testing
- `exec` has pretty extensive unit and integration tests already, and
these all pass
- In addition, I asked Codex to put together a comprehensive manual set
of tests to cover all of the `codex exec` functionality (including
command-line options), and it successfully generated and ran these tests

Eric Traut · 2026-03-24 08:51:32 -06:00

45f68843b8

Add fork snapshot modes (#15239 )

## Summary
- add `ForkSnapshotMode` to `ThreadManager::fork_thread` so callers can
request either a committed snapshot or an interrupted snapshot
- share the model-visible `<turn_aborted>` history marker between the
live interrupt path and interrupted forks
- update the small set of direct fork callsites to pass
`ForkSnapshotMode::Committed`

Note: this enables /btw to work similarly as Esc to interrupt (hopefully
somewhat in distribution)

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Charley Cunningham · 2026-03-23 19:05:42 -07:00

f547b79bd0

feat: support disable skills by name. (#15378 )

Support disabling skills by name, primarily for plugin skills. We can’t
use the path, since plugin skill paths may change across versions.

xl-openai · 2026-03-23 12:57:40 -07:00

9a33e5c0a0

tui: queue follow-ups during manual /compact (#15259 )

## Summary
- queue input after the user submits `/compact` until that manual
compact turn ends
- mirror the same behavior in the app-server TUI
- add regressions for input queued before compact starts and while it is
running

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Charley Cunningham · 2026-03-23 10:19:44 -07:00

e838645fa2

feat: change multi-agent to use path-like system instead of uuids (#15313 )

This PR add an URI-based system to reference agents within a tree. This
comes from a sync between research and engineering.

The main agent (the one manually spawned by a user) is always called
`/root`. Any sub-agent spawned by it will be `/root/agent_1` for example
where `agent_1` is chosen by the model.

Any agent can contact any agents using the path.

Paths can be used either in absolute or relative to the calling agents

Resume is not supported for now on this new path

jif-oai · 2026-03-20 18:23:48 +00:00

79ad7b247b

feat: Add One-Time Startup Remote Plugin Sync (#15264 )

For early users who have already enabled apps, we should enable plugins
as part of the initial setup.

xl-openai · 2026-03-20 05:01:39 +00:00

b1570d6c23

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>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-19 20:12:07 -07:00

2e22885e79

core: add a full-buffer exec capture policy (#15254 )

Michael Bolin · 2026-03-20 02:38:12 +00:00

a3e59e9e85

[plugins] Install MCPs when calling plugin/install (#15195 )

- [x] Auth MCPs when installing plugins.

Matthew Zeng · 2026-03-19 19:36:58 -07:00

0a344e4fab

Move auth code into login crate (#15150 )

- Move the auth implementation and token data into codex-login.
- Keep codex-core re-exporting that surface from codex-login for
existing callers.

---------

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-03-19 18:58:17 -07:00

2aa4873802

feat(tracing): tag app-server turn spans with turn_id (#15206 )

So we can find and filter spans by `turn.id`.

We do this for the `turn/start`, `turn/steer`, and `turn/interrupt`
APIs.

Owen Lin · 2026-03-19 13:07:19 -07:00

668330acc1

feat: support product-scoped plugins. (#15041 )

1. Added SessionSource::Custom(String) and --session-source.
  2. Enforced plugin and skill products by session_source.
  3. Applied the same filtering to curated background refresh.

xl-openai · 2026-03-19 00:46:15 -07:00

db5781a088

Add thread/shellCommand to app server API surface (#14988 )

This PR adds a new `thread/shellCommand` app server API so clients can
implement `!` shell commands. These commands are executed within the
sandbox, and the command text and output are visible to the model.

The internal implementation mirrors the current TUI `!` behavior.
- persist shell command execution as `CommandExecution` thread items,
including source and formatted output metadata
- bridge live and replayed app-server command execution events back into
the existing `tui_app_server` exec rendering path

This PR also wires `tui_app_server` to submit `!` commands through the
new API.

Eric Traut · 2026-03-18 23:42:40 -06:00

01df50cf42

Support featured plugins (#15042 )

alexsong-oai · 2026-03-18 17:45:30 -07:00

825d09373d

fix: harden plugin feature gating (#15104 )

Resubmit https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15020 with correct
content.

1. Use requirement-resolved config.features as the plugin gate.
2. Guard plugin/list, plugin/read, and related flows behind that gate.
3. Skip bad marketplace.json files instead of failing the whole list.
4. Simplify plugin state and caching.

xl-openai · 2026-03-19 00:03:37 +00:00

dcd5e08269

Feat: reuse persisted model and reasoning effort on thread resume (#14888 )

## Summary

This PR makes `thread/resume` reuse persisted thread model metadata when
the caller does not explicitly override it.

Changes:
- read persisted thread metadata from SQLite during `thread/resume`
- reuse persisted `model` and `model_reasoning_effort` as resume-time
defaults
- fetch persisted metadata once and reuse it later in the resume
response path
- keep thread summary loading on the existing rollout path, while
reusing persisted metadata when available
- document the resume fallback behavior in the app-server README

## Why

Before this change, resuming a thread without explicit overrides derived
`model` and `model_reasoning_effort` from current config, which could
drift from the thread’s last persisted values. That meant a resumed
thread could report and run with different model settings than the ones
it previously used.

## Behavior

Precedence on `thread/resume` is now:
1. explicit resume overrides
2. persisted SQLite metadata for the thread
3. normal config resolution for the resumed cwd

Shijie Rao · 2026-03-18 15:45:17 -07:00

bb30432421

Revert "fix: harden plugin feature gating" (#15102 )

Reverts openai/codex#15020

I messed up the commit in my PR and accidentally merged changes that
were still under review.

xl-openai · 2026-03-18 15:19:29 -07:00

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