## Why
Customers need finer-grained control over allowed sandbox modes based on
the host Codex is running on. For example, they may want stricter
sandbox limits on devboxes while keeping a different default elsewhere.
Our current cloud requirements can target user/account groups, but they
cannot vary sandbox requirements by host. That makes remote development
environments awkward because the same top-level `allowed_sandbox_modes`
has to apply everywhere.
## What
Adds a new `remote_sandbox_config` section to `requirements.toml`:
```toml
allowed_sandbox_modes = ["read-only"]
[[remote_sandbox_config]]
hostname_patterns = ["*.org"]
allowed_sandbox_modes = ["read-only", "workspace-write"]
[[remote_sandbox_config]]
hostname_patterns = ["*.sh", "runner-*.ci"]
allowed_sandbox_modes = ["read-only", "danger-full-access"]
```
During requirements resolution, Codex resolves the local host name once,
preferring the machine FQDN when available and falling back to the
cleaned kernel hostname. This host classification is best effort rather
than authenticated device proof.
Each requirements source applies its first matching
`remote_sandbox_config` entry before it is merged with other sources.
The shared merge helper keeps that `apply_remote_sandbox_config` step
paired with requirements merging so new requirements sources do not have
to remember the extra call.
That preserves source precedence: a lower-precedence requirements file
with a matching `remote_sandbox_config` cannot override a
higher-precedence source that already set `allowed_sandbox_modes`.
This also wires the hostname-aware resolution through app-server,
CLI/TUI config loading, config API reads, and config layer metadata so
they all evaluate remote sandbox requirements consistently.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-config remote_sandbox_config`
- `cargo test -p codex-config host_name`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
load_config_layers_applies_matching_remote_sandbox_config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
system_remote_sandbox_config_keeps_cloud_sandbox_modes`
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core` unit tests passed; `tests/all.rs`
integration matrix was intentionally stopped after the relevant focused
tests passed
- `just fix -p codex-config`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server`
## Summary
When auto-review is enabled, it should handle request_permissions tool.
We'll need to clean up the UX but I'm planning to do that in a separate
pass
## Testing
- [x] Ran locally
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## Why
Cloud-hosted sessions need a way for the service that starts or manages
a thread to provide session-owned config without treating all config as
if it came from the same user/project/workspace TOML stack.
The important boundary is ownership: some values should be controlled by
the session/orchestrator, some by the authenticated user, and later some
may come from the executor. The earlier broad config-store shape made
that boundary too fuzzy and overlapped heavily with the existing
filesystem-backed config loader. This PR starts with the smaller piece
we need now: a typed session config loader that can feed the existing
config layer stack while preserving the normal precedence and merge
behavior.
## What Changed
- Added `ThreadConfigLoader` and related typed payloads in
`codex-config`.
- `SessionThreadConfig` currently supports `model_provider`,
`model_providers`, and feature flags.
- `UserThreadConfig` is present as an ownership boundary, but does not
yet add TOML-backed fields.
- `NoopThreadConfigLoader` preserves existing behavior when no external
loader is configured.
- `StaticThreadConfigLoader` supports tests and simple callers.
- Taught thread config sources to produce ordinary `ConfigLayerEntry`
values so the existing `ConfigLayerStack` remains the place where
precedence and merging happen.
- Wired the loader through `ConfigBuilder`, the config loader, and
app-server startup paths so app-server can provide session-owned config
before deriving a thread config.
- Added coverage for:
- translating typed thread config into config layers,
- inserting thread config layers into the stack at the right precedence,
- applying session-provided model provider and feature settings when
app-server derives config from thread params.
## Follow-Ups
This intentionally stops short of adding the remote/service transport.
The next pieces are expected to be:
1. Define the proto/API shape for this interface.
2. Add a client implementation that can source session config from the
service side.
## Verification
- Added unit coverage in `codex-config` for the loader and layer
conversion.
- Added `codex-core` config loader coverage for thread config layer
precedence.
- Added app-server coverage that verifies session thread config wins
over request-provided config for model provider and feature settings.
Wires patch_updated events through app_server. These events are parsed
and streamed while apply_patch is being written by the model. Also adds 500ms of buffering to the patch_updated events in the diff_consumer.
The eventual goal is to use this to display better progress indicators in
the codex app.
- 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.
This is the second cleanup in the await-holding lint stack. The
higher-level goal, following https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18178
and https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18398, is to enable Clippy
coverage for guards held across `.await` points without carrying broad
suppressions.
The stack is working toward enabling Clippy's
[`await_holding_lock`](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#await_holding_lock)
lint and the configurable
[`await_holding_invalid_type`](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#await_holding_invalid_type)
lint for Tokio guard types.
Several existing fields used `tokio::sync::Mutex<()>` only as
one-at-a-time async gates. Those guards intentionally lived across
`.await` while an operation was serialized. A mutex over `()` suggests
protected data and trips the await-holding lint shape; a single-permit
`tokio::sync::Semaphore` expresses the intended serialization directly.
## What changed
- Replace `Mutex<()>` serialization gates with `Semaphore::new(1)` for
agent identity ensure, exec policy updates, guardian review session
reuse, plugin remote sync, managed network proxy refresh, auth token
refresh, and RMCP session recovery.
- Update call sites from `lock().await` / `try_lock()` to
`acquire().await` / `try_acquire()`.
- Map closed-semaphore errors into the existing local error types, even
though these semaphores are owned for the lifetime of their managers.
- Update session test builders for the new
`managed_network_proxy_refresh_lock` type.
## Verification
- The split stack was verified at the final lint-enabling head with
`just clippy`.
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[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/18403).
* #18698
* #18423
* #18418
* __->__ #18403
## Summary
Introduces a single background/control-plane agent task for ChatGPT
backend requests that do not have a thread-scoped task, with
`AuthManager` owning the default ChatGPT backend authorization decision.
Callers now ask `AuthManager` for the default ChatGPT backend
authorization header. `AuthManager` decides whether that is bearer or
background AgentAssertion based on config/internal state, while
low-level bootstrap paths can explicitly request bearer-only auth.
This PR is stacked on PR4 and focuses on the shared background task auth
plumbing plus the first tranche of backend/control-plane consumers. The
remaining callsite wiring is split into PR4.2 to keep review size down.
## Stack
- PR1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17385 - add
`features.use_agent_identity`
- PR2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17386 - register agent
identities when enabled
- PR3: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17387 - register agent tasks
when enabled
- PR3.1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17978 - persist and
prewarm registered tasks per thread
- PR4: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17980 - use task-scoped
`AgentAssertion` for downstream calls
- PR4.1: this PR - introduce AuthManager-owned background/control-plane
`AgentAssertion` auth
- PR4.2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18260 - use background
task auth for additional backend/control-plane calls
## What Changed
- add background task registration and assertion minting inside
`codex-login`
- persist `agent_identity.background_task_id` separately from
per-session task state
- make `BackgroundAgentTaskManager` private to `codex-login`; call sites
do not instantiate or pass it around
- teach `AuthManager` the ChatGPT backend base URL and feature-derived
background auth mode from resolved config
- expose bearer-only helpers for bootstrap/registration/refresh-style
paths that must not use AgentAssertion
- wire `AuthManager` default ChatGPT authorization through app listing,
connector directory listing, remote plugins, MCP status/listing,
analytics, and core-skills remote calls
- preserve bearer fallback when the feature is disabled, the backend
host is unsupported, or background task registration is not available
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-login -p codex-analytics -p
codex-app-server -p codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-cloud-tasks -p
codex-models-manager -p codex-chatgpt -p codex-model-provider -p
codex-mcp -p codex-core-skills`
- `cargo test -p codex-login agent_identity`
- `cargo test -p codex-model-provider bearer_auth_provider`
- `cargo test -p codex-core agent_assertion`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server remote_control`
- `cargo test -p codex-cloud-requirements fetch_cloud_requirements`
- `cargo test -p codex-models-manager manager::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-chatgpt`
- `cargo test -p codex-cloud-tasks`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-login -p codex-analytics -p
codex-app-server -p codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-cloud-tasks -p
codex-models-manager -p codex-chatgpt -p codex-model-provider -p
codex-mcp -p codex-core-skills`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
This is the AgentAssertion downstream slice for feature-gated agent
identity support, replacing the oversized AgentAssertion slice from PR
#17807.
It isolates task-scoped downstream AgentAssertion wiring on top of the
merged PR3.1 work without re-carrying the earlier agent registration,
task registration, or task-state history.
This PR includes the task-scoped bug-fix call sites from the review:
generic file upload auth, MCP OpenAI file upload auth, and ARC monitor
auth. Broader user/control-plane calls move to PR4.1 and PR4.2.
## Stack
- PR1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17385 - add
`features.use_agent_identity`
- PR2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17386 - register agent
identities when enabled
- PR3: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17387 - register agent tasks
when enabled
- PR3.1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17978 - persist and
prewarm registered tasks per thread
- PR4: this PR - use task-scoped `AgentAssertion` downstream when
enabled
- PR4.1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18094 - introduce
AuthManager-owned background/control-plane `AgentAssertion` auth
- PR4.2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18260 - use background
task auth for additional backend/control-plane calls
## What Changed
- add AgentAssertion envelope generation in `codex-core`
- route downstream HTTP and websocket auth through AgentAssertion when
an agent task is present
- extend the model-provider auth provider so non-bearer authorization
schemes can be passed through cleanly
- make generic file uploads attach the full authorization header value
- make MCP OpenAI file uploads use the cached thread agent task
assertion when present
- make ARC monitor calls use the cached thread agent task assertion when
present
## Why
The original PR had drifted ancestry and showed a much larger diff than
the semantic change actually required. Restacking it onto PR3.1 keeps
the reviewable surface down to the downstream assertion slice.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-login -p codex-analytics -p
codex-app-server -p codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-cloud-tasks -p
codex-models-manager -p codex-chatgpt -p codex-model-provider -p
codex-mcp -p codex-core-skills`
- `cargo test -p codex-model-provider bearer_auth_provider`
- `cargo test -p codex-core agent_assertion`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server remote_control`
- `cargo test -p codex-cloud-requirements fetch_cloud_requirements`
- `cargo test -p codex-models-manager manager::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-chatgpt`
- `cargo test -p codex-cloud-tasks`
- `cargo test -p codex-login agent_identity`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-login -p codex-analytics -p
codex-app-server -p codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-cloud-tasks -p
codex-models-manager -p codex-chatgpt -p codex-model-provider -p
codex-mcp -p codex-core-skills`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
- persist registered agent tasks in the session state update stream so
the thread can reuse them
- prewarm task registration once identity registration succeeds, while
keeping startup failures best-effort
- isolate the session-side task lifecycle into a dedicated module so
AgentIdentityManager and RegisteredAgentTask do not leak across as many
core layers
## Testing
- cargo test -p codex-core startup_agent_task_prewarm
- cargo test -p codex-core
cached_agent_task_for_current_identity_clears_stale_task
- cargo test -p codex-core record_initial_history_
## Summary
- Add the executor-backed RMCP stdio transport.
- Wire MCP stdio placement through the executor environment config.
- Cover local and executor-backed stdio paths with the existing MCP test
helpers.
## Stack
```text
o #18027 [6/6] Fail exec client operations after disconnect
│
@ #18212 [5/6] Wire executor-backed MCP stdio
│
o #18087 [4/6] Abstract MCP stdio server launching
│
o #18020 [3/6] Add pushed exec process events
│
o #18086 [2/6] Support piped stdin in exec process API
│
o #18085 [1/6] Add MCP server environment config
│
o main
```
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## Summary
- Reverts PR #17749 so queued inter-agent mail can again preempt after
reasoning/commentary output item boundaries.
- Applies the revert to the current `codex/turn.rs` module layout and
restores the prior pending-input test expectations/snapshots.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all pending_input`
- `cargo test -p codex-core` failed in unrelated
`tools::js_repl::tests::js_repl_imported_local_files_can_access_repl_globals`:
dotslash download hit `mktemp: mkdtemp failed ... Operation not
permitted` in the sandbox temp dir.
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Adds max_context_window to model metadata and routes core context-window
reads through resolved model info. Config model_context_window overrides
are clamped to max_context_window when present; without an override, the
model context_window is used.
Cap the model-visible skills section to a small share of the context
window, with a fallback character budget, and keep only as many implicit
skills as fit within that budget.
Emit a non-fatal warning when enabled skills are omitted, and add a new
app-server warning notification
Record thread-start skill metrics for total enabled skills, kept skills,
and whether truncation happened
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## Summary
- trust-gate project `.codex` layers consistently, including repos that
have `.codex/hooks.json` or `.codex/execpolicy/*.rules` but no
`.codex/config.toml`
- keep disabled project layers in the config stack so nested trusted
project layers still resolve correctly, while preventing hooks and exec
policies from loading until the project is trusted
- update app-server/TUI onboarding copy to make the trust boundary
explicit and add regressions for loader, hooks, exec-policy, and
onboarding coverage
## Security
Before this change, an untrusted repo could auto-load project hooks or
exec policies from `.codex/` as long as `config.toml` was absent. This
makes trust the single gate for project-local config, hooks, and exec
policies.
## Stack
- Parent of #15936
## Test
- cargo test -p codex-core without_config_toml
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## Summary
- pass split filesystem sandbox policy/cwd through apply_patch contexts,
while omitting legacy-equivalent policies to keep payloads small
- keep the fs helper compatible with legacy Landlock by avoiding helper
read-root permission expansion in that mode and disabling helper network
access
## Root Cause
`d626dc38950fb40a1a5ad0a8ffab2485e3348c53` routed exec-server filesystem
operations through a sandboxed helper. That path forwarded legacy
Landlock into a helper policy shape that could require direct
split-policy enforcement. Sandboxed `apply_patch` hit that edge through
the filesystem abstraction.
The same 0.121 edit-regression path is consistent with #18354: normal
writes route through the `apply_patch` filesystem helper, fail under
sandbox, and then surface the generic retry-without-sandbox prompt.
Fixes#18069Fixes#18354
## Validation
- `cd codex-rs && just fmt`
- earlier branch validation before merging current `origin/main` and
dropping the now-separate PATH fix:
- `cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-exec-server`
- `cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-core file_system_sandbox_context`
- `cd codex-rs && just fix -p codex-exec-server`
- `cd codex-rs && just fix -p codex-core`
- `git diff --check`
- `cd codex-rs && cargo clean`
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Follow-up to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18178, where we called
out enabling the await-holding lint as a follow-up.
The long-term goal is to enable Clippy coverage for async guards held
across awaits. This PR is intentionally only the first, low-risk cleanup
pass: it narrows obvious lock guard lifetimes and leaves
`codex-rs/Cargo.toml` unchanged so the lint is not enabled until the
remaining cases are fixed or explicitly justified. It intentionally
leaves the active-turn/turn-state locking pattern alone because those
checks and mutations need to stay atomic.
## Common fixes used here
These are the main patterns reviewers should expect in this PR, and they
are also the patterns to reach for when fixing future `await_holding_*`
findings:
- **Scope the guard to the synchronous work.** If the code only needs
data from a locked value, move the lock into a small block, clone or
compute the needed values, and do the later `.await` after the block.
- **Use direct one-line mutations when there is no later await.** Cases
like `map.lock().await.remove(&id)` are acceptable when the guard is
only needed for that single mutation and the statement ends before any
async work.
- **Drain or clone work out of the lock before notifying or awaiting.**
For example, the JS REPL drains pending exec senders into a local vector
and the websocket writer clones buffered envelopes before it serializes
or sends them.
- **Use a `Semaphore` only when serialization is intentional across
async work.** The test serialization guards intentionally span awaited
setup or execution, so using a semaphore communicates "one at a time"
without holding a mutex guard.
- **Remove the mutex when there is only one owner.** The PTY stdin
writer task owns `stdin` directly; the old `Arc<Mutex<_>>` did not
protect shared access because nothing else had access to the writer.
- **Do not split locks that protect an atomic invariant.** This PR
deliberately leaves active-turn/turn-state paths alone because those
checks and mutations need to stay atomic. Those cases should be fixed
separately with a design change or documented with `#[expect]`.
## What changed
- Narrow scoped async mutex guards in app-server, JS REPL, network
approval, remote-control websocket, and the RMCP test server.
- Replace test-only async mutex serialization guards with semaphores
where the guard intentionally lives across async work.
- Let the PTY pipe writer task own stdin directly instead of wrapping it
in an async mutex.
## Verification
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-rmcp-client -p
codex-shell-escalation -p codex-utils-pty -p codex-utils-readiness`
- `just clippy -p codex-core`
- `cargo test -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-rmcp-client -p
codex-shell-escalation -p codex-utils-pty -p codex-utils-readiness` was
run; the app-server suite passed, and `codex-core` failed in the local
sandbox on six otel approval tests plus
`suite::user_shell_cmd::user_shell_command_does_not_set_network_sandbox_env_var`,
which appear to depend on local command approval/default rules and
`CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED=1` in this environment.
## Summary
First PR in the split from #17956.
- adds the core/app-server `RateLimitReachedType` shape
- maps backend `rate_limit_reached_type` into Codex rate-limit snapshots
- carries the field through app-server notifications/responses and
generated schemas
- updates existing constructors/tests for the new optional field
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-backend-client`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server rate_limits`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui workspace_`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui status_`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-backend-client`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
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