# What
`SubagentStart` runs once when Codex creates a thread-spawned subagent,
before that child sends its first model request. Thread-spawned
subagents use `SubagentStart` instead of the normal root-agent
`SessionStart` hook.
Configured handlers match on the subagent `agent_type`, using the same
value passed to `spawn_agent`. When no agent type is specified, Codex
uses the default agent type.
Hook input includes the normal session-start fields plus:
- `agent_id`: the child thread id.
- `agent_type`: the resolved subagent type.
`SubagentStart` may return `hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext`. That
context is added to the child conversation before the first model
request.
# Lifecycle Scope
Only thread-spawned subagents run `SubagentStart`.
Internal/system subagents such as Review, Compact, MemoryConsolidation,
and Other do not run normal `SessionStart` hooks and do not run
`SubagentStart`. This avoids exposing synthetic matcher labels for
internal implementation paths.
Also the `SessionStart` hook no longer fires for subagents, this matches
behavior with other coding agents' implementation
# Stack
1. This PR: add `SubagentStart`.
2. #22873: add `SubagentStop`.
3. #22882: add subagent identity to normal hook inputs.
## Context
The CLI rate-limit surfaces previously described usage windows as fixed
5-hour and weekly limits. We want the CLI to display whatever supported
rate-limit period the server returns instead of assuming a 5-hour/1-week
pair. This supports generalized Codex rate-limit periods.
## Summary
- Formats CLI rate-limit warning/status labels only for the supported
returned window durations: approximate 5h, daily, weekly, monthly, and
annual.
- Uses generic fallback copy when a primary or secondary window has no
duration, so missing secondary protection data does not produce stale
weekly copy.
- Uses generic fallback copy for unsupported window durations instead of
adding arbitrary hourly, multi-day, multi-week, or multi-year labels.
- Updates status line and terminal title setup descriptions/previews to
talk about primary/secondary usage limits rather than fixed 5h/weekly
limits.
- Adds rendered insta snapshot coverage for the updated rate-limit
status surfaces and `/status` fallback labels.
## Tests
Tested locally:
- one primary window
- one secondary window
- primary and secondary window
Addresses #23181
## Why
Renamed threads can share names, so hints that suggest resuming directly
by name are ambiguous. Issue #23181 asks for the picker hint to include
the thread name and thread ID in parens so users can disambiguate
safely.
## What
- Adds a shared resume hint formatter for named threads: run `codex
resume`, then select `<name> (<thread-id>)`.
- Uses that hint for /rename confirmations, TUI session summaries, and
CLI/TUI exit messages.
- Keeps direct `codex resume <thread-id>` guidance for unnamed threads.
## Verification
Manually verified that message after `/rename` and after `/exit` include
session ID in parens.
---------
Co-authored-by: Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@openai.com>
Addresses #22833, #22245, #23067
## Why
`/goal` can keep synthesizing turns even when the next turn cannot make
meaningful progress. Hard usage exhaustion can replay failing turns, and
repeated permission or external-resource blockers can keep burning
tokens while waiting for user or system intervention.
## What changed
- Add resumable `blocked` and `usageLimited` goal states. As with
`paused`, goal continuation stops with these states.
- Move to `usageLimited` after usage-limit failures.
- Allow the built-in `update_goal` tool to set `blocked` only under
explicit repeated-impasse guidance. Updated goal continuation prompt to
specify that agent should use `blocked` only when it has made at least
three attempts to get past an impasse.
Most of the files touched by this PR are because of the small app server
protocol update.
## Validation
I manually reproduced a number of situations where an agent can run into
a true impasse and verified that it properly enters `blocked` state. I
then resumed and verified that it once again entered `blocked` state
several turns later if the impasse still exists.
I also manually reproduced the usage-limit condition by creating a
simulated responses API endpoint that returns 429 errors with the
appropriate error message. Verified that the goal runtime properly moves
the goal into `usageLimited` state and TUI UI updates appropriately.
Verified that `/goal resume` resumes (and immediately goes back into
`ussageLImited` state if appropriate).
## Follow-up PRs
Small changes will be needed to the GUI clients to properly handle the
two new states.
Addresses #22599
## Why
`/side` currently lets `Esc` return to the parent thread. Multiple users
reported that this collides with queued-steer UI that also advertises
`Esc`, so a timing-sensitive keypress can dismiss an ephemeral side chat
instead of sending the queued prompt.
After removing that dismissal shortcut, the same `Esc` path could fall
through to main-thread backtrack/edit-previous handling, which is not
valid for ephemeral side conversations. This keeps `/side` out of both
global `Esc` behaviors.
## What changed
- Remove `Esc` from the `/side` return shortcut matcher while keeping
the existing `Ctrl+C` and `Ctrl+D` behavior.
- Update side-conversation hints and blocked-command copy to advertise
`Ctrl+C` as the return shortcut.
- Rename the reserved `Esc` keymap label to describe backtracking only.
- Block backtrack/edit-previous handling while a side conversation is
active and report `Editing previous prompts is unavailable in side
conversations.` when that path would have fired.
- Keep composer-owned `Esc` behavior, such as Vim insert-mode escape,
routed locally.
- Refresh focused shortcut assertions and TUI snapshots for the updated
footer and new side-conversation error message.
## Verification
Manually tested `/side` use cases and `Esc`, `Ctrl+C`, `Ctrl+D`.
## Why
The TUI startup test surface had drifted into expensive, brittle
coverage:
- `tui/tests/suite/no_panic_on_startup.rs` was already ignored as flaky
while still spawning a PTY to exercise malformed exec-policy rules.
- `tui/tests/suite/model_availability_nux.rs` used a seeded session,
cursor-query spoofing, and repeated interrupts to verify a narrow
resume-path invariant.
- `app/tests.rs` had started accumulating unrelated startup and summary
coverage in one flat module even after the surrounding app code was
split into feature modules.
This keeps those behaviors covered while making the tests cheaper to
understand and less likely to rot. It also preserves the malformed-rules
regression from #8803 without requiring a terminal orchestration test.
## What changed
- Replaced the malformed `rules` startup PTY case with a direct
exec-policy loader regression:
[`rules_path_file_returns_read_dir_error`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/21b6b5622f18b8cac0ea41fd083b3106778d9ffc/codex-rs/core/src/exec_policy_tests.rs#L264-L284)
- Made the existing fresh-session-only startup tooltip behavior explicit
with
[`should_prepare_startup_tooltip_override`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/21b6b5622f18b8cac0ea41fd083b3106778d9ffc/codex-rs/tui/src/app/thread_routing.rs#L1272-L1279),
then added focused coverage for the resume/fork gate and the persisted
NUX counter.
- Split startup and session-summary coverage out of
`tui/src/app/tests.rs` into dedicated modules so the test layout better
mirrors the current app architecture.
- Converted one single-message goal validation snapshot into semantic
assertions where layout was not the behavior under test.
- Removed the two PTY-heavy suite files that the narrower tests now
supersede.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core rules_path_file_returns_read_dir_error`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui startup_`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui session_summary_`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
goal_slash_command_rejects_oversized_objective`
## Why
Users and support need a single command that captures the local Codex
runtime, configuration, auth, terminal, network, and state shape without
asking the user to know which diagnostic depth to choose first. `codex
doctor` now runs the useful checks by default and makes the detailed
human output the default because the command is usually run when someone
already needs context.
The command also targets concrete support failure modes we have seen
while iterating on the design:
- update-target mismatches like #21956, where the installed package
manager target can differ from the running executable
- terminal and multiplexer issues that depend on `TERM`, tmux/zellij
state, color handling, and TTY metadata
- provider-specific HTTP/WebSocket connectivity, including ChatGPT
WebSocket handshakes and API-key/provider endpoint reachability
- local state/log SQLite integrity problems and large rollout
directories
- feedback reports that need an attached, redacted diagnostic snapshot
without asking the user to run a second command
## What Changed
- Adds `codex doctor` as a grouped CLI diagnostic report with default
detailed output and `--summary` for the compact view.
- Adds stable report sections for Environment, Configuration, Updates,
Connectivity, and Background Server, plus a top Notes block that
promotes anomalies such as available updates, large rollout directories,
optional MCP issues, and mixed auth signals.
- Adds runtime provenance, install consistency, bundled/system search
readiness, terminal/multiplexer metadata, `config.toml` parse status,
auth mode details, sandbox details, feature flag summaries, update
cache/latest-version state, app-server daemon state, SQLite integrity
checks, rollout statistics, and provider-aware network diagnostics.
- Adds ChatGPT WebSocket diagnostics that report the negotiated HTTP
upgrade as `HTTP 101 Switching Protocols` and include timeout, DNS,
auth, and provider context in detailed output.
- Makes reachability provider-aware: API-key OpenAI setups check the API
endpoint, ChatGPT auth checks the ChatGPT path, and custom/AWS/local
providers check configured HTTP endpoints when available.
- Adds structured, redacted JSON output where `checks` is keyed by check
id and `details` is a key/value object for support tooling.
- Integrates doctor with feedback uploads by attaching a best-effort
`codex-doctor-report.json` report and adding derived Sentry tags for
overall status and failing/warning checks.
- Updates the TUI feedback consent copy so users can see that the doctor
report is included when logs/diagnostics are uploaded.
- Updates the CLI bug issue template to ask reporters for `codex doctor
--json` and render pasted reports as JSON.
## Example Output
The examples below are sanitized from local smoke runs with `--no-color`
so the structure is reviewable in plain text.
### `codex doctor`
```text
Codex Doctor v0.0.0 · macos-aarch64
Notes
↑ updates 0.130.0 available (current 0.0.0, dismissed 0.128.0)
⚠ rollouts 1,526 active files · 2.53 GB on disk
⚠ mcp MCP configuration has optional issues
⚠ auth mixed auth signals: ChatGPT login plus API key env var; HTTP reachability uses API-key mode
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Environment
✓ runtime local debug build
version 0.0.0
install method other
commit unknown
executable ~/code/codex.fcoury-doct…x-rs/target/debug/codex
✓ install consistent
context other
managed by npm: no · bun: no · package root —
PATH entries (2) ~/.local/share/mise/installs/node/24/bin/codex
~/.local/share/mise/shims/codex
✓ search ripgrep 15.1.0 (system, `rg`)
✓ terminal Ghostty 1.3.2-main-+b0f827665 · tmux 3.6a · TERM=xterm-256color
terminal Ghostty
TERM_PROGRAM ghostty
terminal version 1.3.2-main-+b0f827665
TERM xterm-256color
multiplexer tmux 3.6a
tmux extended-keys on
tmux allow-passthrough on
tmux set-clipboard on
✓ state databases healthy
CODEX_HOME ~/.codex (dir)
state DB ~/.codex/state_5.sqlite (file) · integrity ok
log DB ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite (file) · integrity ok
active rollouts 1,526 files · 2.53 GB (avg 1.70 MB)
archived rollouts 8 files · 3.84 MB (avg 491.11 KB)
Configuration
✓ config loaded
model gpt-5.5 · openai
cwd ~/code/codex.fcoury-doctor/codex-rs
config.toml ~/.codex/config.toml
config.toml parse ok
MCP servers 1
feature flags 36 enabled · 7 overridden (full list with --all)
overrides code_mode, code_mode_only, memories, chronicle, goals, remote_control, prevent_idle_sleep
✓ auth auth is configured
auth storage mode File
auth file ~/.codex/auth.json
auth env vars present OPENAI_API_KEY
stored auth mode chatgpt
stored API key false
stored ChatGPT tokens true
stored agent identity false
⚠ mcp MCP configuration has optional issues — Set the missing MCP env vars or disable the affected server.
configured servers 1
disabled servers 0
streamable_http servers 1
optional reachability openaiDeveloperDocs: https://developers.openai.com/mcp (HEAD connect failed; GET connect failed)
✓ sandbox restricted fs + restricted network · approval OnRequest
approval policy OnRequest
filesystem sandbox restricted
network sandbox restricted
Connectivity
✓ network network-related environment looks readable
✓ websocket connected (HTTP 101 Switching Protocols) · 15s timeout
model provider openai
provider name OpenAI
wire API responses
supports websockets true
connect timeout 15000 ms
auth mode chatgpt
endpoint wss://chatgpt.com/backend-api/<redacted>
DNS 2 IPv4, 2 IPv6, first IPv6
handshake result HTTP 101 Switching Protocols
✗ reachability one or more required provider endpoints are unreachable over HTTP — Check proxy, VPN, firewall, DNS, and custom CA configuration.
reachability mode API key auth
openai API https://api.openai.com/v1 connect failed (required)
Background Server
○ app-server not running (ephemeral mode)
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
11 ok · 1 idle · 4 notes · 1 warn · 1 fail failed
--summary compact output --all expand truncated lists
--json redacted report
```
### `codex doctor --summary`
```text
Codex Doctor v0.0.0 · macos-aarch64
Notes
↑ updates 0.130.0 available (current 0.0.0, dismissed 0.128.0)
⚠ rollouts 1,526 active files · 2.53 GB on disk
⚠ mcp MCP configuration has optional issues
⚠ auth mixed auth signals: ChatGPT login plus API key env var; HTTP reachability uses API-key mode
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Environment
✓ runtime local debug build
✓ install consistent
✓ search ripgrep 15.1.0 (system, `rg`)
✓ terminal Ghostty 1.3.2-main-+b0f827665 · tmux 3.6a · TERM=xterm-256color
✓ state databases healthy
Configuration
✓ config loaded
✓ auth auth is configured
⚠ mcp MCP configuration has optional issues — Set the missing MCP env vars or disable the affected server.
✓ sandbox restricted fs + restricted network · approval OnRequest
Updates
✓ updates update configuration is locally consistent
Connectivity
✓ network network-related environment looks readable
✓ websocket connected (HTTP 101 Switching Protocols) · 15s timeout
✗ reachability one or more required provider endpoints are unreachable over HTTP — Check proxy, VPN, firewall, DNS, and custom CA configuration.
Background Server
○ app-server not running (ephemeral mode)
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
11 ok · 1 idle · 4 notes · 1 warn · 1 fail failed
Run codex doctor without --summary for detailed diagnostics.
--all expand truncated lists --json redacted report
```
### `codex doctor --json` shape
```json
{
"schema_version": 1,
"overall_status": "fail",
"checks": {
"runtime.provenance": {
"id": "runtime.provenance",
"category": "Environment",
"status": "ok",
"summary": "local debug build",
"details": {
"version": "0.0.0",
"install method": "other",
"commit": "unknown"
}
},
"sandbox.helpers": {
"id": "sandbox.helpers",
"category": "Configuration",
"status": "ok",
"summary": "restricted fs + restricted network · approval OnRequest",
"details": {
"approval policy": "OnRequest",
"filesystem sandbox": "restricted",
"network sandbox": "restricted"
}
}
}
}
```
### `/feedback` new sentry attachment
<img width="938" height="798" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-13 at 15 36 14"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/715e62e0-d7b4-4fea-a35a-fd5d5d33c4c0"
/>
### New section in CLI issue template
<img width="1164" height="435" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-13 at 15 47 24"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9081dc25-a28c-4afa-8ba1-e299c2b4031d"
/>
## How to Test
1. Run `cargo run --bin codex -- doctor --no-color`.
2. Confirm the detailed report is the default and includes promoted
Notes, grouped sections, terminal details, state DB integrity, rollout
stats, provider reachability, WebSocket diagnostics, and app-server
status.
3. Run `cargo run --bin codex -- doctor --summary --no-color`.
4. Confirm the compact view keeps the same sections and summary counts
but omits detailed key/value rows.
5. Run `cargo run --bin codex -- doctor --json`.
6. Confirm the output is redacted JSON, `checks` is an object keyed by
check id, and each check's `details` is a key/value object.
7. Preview the CLI bug issue template and confirm the `Codex doctor
report` field appears after the terminal field, asks for `codex doctor
--json`, and renders pasted output as JSON.
8. Start a feedback flow that includes logs.
9. Confirm the upload consent copy lists `codex-doctor-report.json`
alongside the log attachments.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-cli doctor`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
doctor_report_tags_summarize_status_counts`
- `cargo test -p codex-feedback`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui feedback_view`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Picker-style UI in the TUI has accumulated a mix of hardcoded navigation
keys. Some lists supported page movement, some did not; some accepted
Vim-like keys, while others only accepted arrows; and tabbed or
horizontally adjustable pickers had no shared keymap action for
left/right movement.
This PR makes picker/list navigation consistent and configurable so
users can rely on the same defaults across the TUI.
## What Changed
- Adds shared list keymap actions for:
- vertical movement: `move_up`, `move_down`
- horizontal movement: `move_left`, `move_right`
- paging and jumps: `page_up`, `page_down`, `jump_top`, `jump_bottom`
- Adds defaults:
- Up/down: arrows, `Ctrl+P/N`, `Ctrl+K/J`, and plain `k/j` where text
input is not active
- Page up/down: `PageUp/PageDown` and `Ctrl+B/F`
- First/last: `Home/End`
- Left/right: `Left/Right` and `Ctrl+H/L`
- Wires the shared list keymap through picker and list surfaces
including session resume, multi-select, tabbed selection lists,
settings-style lists, app-link selection, MCP elicitation,
request-user-input, and the OSS selection wizard.
- Keeps search behavior intact by reserving printable characters for
query text in searchable pickers.
- Updates keymap setup actions, config schema, snapshots, and focused
coverage for the new list actions.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex from this branch and open the session picker, for example
with an existing session history.
2. In the session list, verify that `Ctrl+J/K` moves the selection
down/up.
3. Verify that `Ctrl+F/B` pages down/up and `Home/End` jumps to the
first/last visible session.
4. Type printable search text such as `j` or `k` and confirm it updates
the query instead of navigating.
5. Focus a picker control that changes values horizontally, such as a
session picker toolbar control, and verify `Ctrl+H/L` changes the
focused value like left/right arrows.
Targeted tests run:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui keymap::tests::`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui keymap_setup::tests::`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui horizontal_list_keys`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui page_and_jump_navigation_use_list_keymap`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui ctrl_h_l_move_provider_selection`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui scroll_state::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
switching_tabs_changes_visible_items_and_clears_search`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui toggle_sort_key_reloads_with_new_sort`
Also ran `just write-config-schema`, `just fmt`, `just fix -p
codex-tui`, `just argument-comment-lint`, and `git diff --check`.
Note: `cargo test -p codex-tui` was attempted and still aborts in the
pre-existing
`tests::fork_last_filters_latest_session_by_cwd_unless_show_all` stack
overflow, which is unrelated to this branch.
## Why
The Codex App has animated pets, but the TUI had no equivalent ambient
companion surface. This brings that experience into terminal Codex while
keeping the main chat flow usable: the pet should feel present, but it
cannot cover transcript text, composer input, approvals, or picker
content.
The feature also needs to be terminal-aware. Different terminals support
different image protocols, tmux can interfere with image rendering, and
some users will want pets disabled entirely or anchored differently
depending on their layout.
<table>
<tr><td>
<img width="4110" height="2584" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-05 at 12 41
45@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/68a1fcbc-2104-48d6-b834-69c6aaa95cdf"
/>
<p align="center">macOS - Ghostty, iTerm2 and WezTerm with Custom
Pet</p>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
![Uploading CleanShot 2026-05-10 at 20.28.30.png…]()
<p align="center">Windows Terminal</p>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<img width="3902" height="2752" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-05 at 12 39
02@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/300e2931-6b00-467e-91cb-ab8e28470500"
/>
<p align="center">Linux - WezTerm and Ghostty</p>
</td></tr>
</table>
## What Changed
- Add a TUI ambient pet renderer in `codex-rs/tui/src/pets/`.
- Port the app-style pet animation states so the sprite changes with
task status, waiting-for-input states, review/ready states, and
failures.
- Add `/pets` selection UI with a preview pane, loading state, built-in
pet choices, and a first-row `Disable terminal pets` option.
- Download built-in pet spritesheets on demand from the same public CDN
path already used by Android, under
`https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex/pets/v1/...`, and cache them
locally under `~/.codex/cache/tui-pets/`.
- Keep custom pets local.
- Add config support for pet selection, disabling pets, and choosing
whether the pet follows the composer bottom or anchors to the terminal
bottom.
- Reserve layout space around the pet so transcript wrapping, live
responses, and composer input do not render underneath the sprite.
- Gate image rendering by terminal capability, disable image pets under
tmux, and support both Kitty Graphics and SIXEL terminals.
- Add redraw cleanup for terminal image artifacts, including sixel cell
clearing.
## Current Scope
- This is an initial TUI version of ambient pets, not full App parity.
- It focuses on ambient sprite rendering, `/pets` selection, custom
pets, terminal capability gating, and on-demand CDN-backed built-in
assets.
- The ambient text overlay is currently disabled, so the TUI renders the
pet sprite without extra status text beside it.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex TUI in a terminal with image support.
2. Run `/pets`.
3. Confirm the picker shows built-in pets plus custom pets, and the
first item is `Disable terminal pets`.
4. On a fresh `~/.codex/cache/tui-pets/`, move onto a built-in pet and
confirm the first preview downloads the spritesheet from the shared
Codex pets CDN and renders successfully.
5. Move through the pet list and confirm subsequent built-in previews
use the local cache.
6. Select a pet, then send and receive messages. Confirm transcript and
composer text wrap before the pet instead of rendering underneath the
sprite.
7. Change the pet anchor setting and confirm the pet can either follow
the composer bottom or sit at the terminal bottom.
8. Return to `/pets`, choose `Disable terminal pets`, and confirm the
sprite disappears cleanly.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui ambient_pet_`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
resize_reflow_wraps_transcript_early_when_pet_is_enabled`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots`
This PR replaces the TUI’s file-only `@mention` popup with a unified
mentions experience. Typing `@...` now searches across filesystem
matches, installed plugins, and skills in one popup, with result types
clearly labeled and selectable from the same flow.
- Adds a unified `@mentions` popup that returns:
- plugins
- skills
- files
- directories
- Adds search modes so users can narrow the popup without changing their
query:
- All Results _(default/same as Codex App)_
- Filesystem Only
- Plugins _(...and skills)_
- Preserves existing insertion behavior:
- selected file paths are inserted into the prompt
- paths with spaces are quoted
- image file selections still attach as images when possible
- selecting a plugin or skill inserts the corresponding `$name`
- the composer records the canonical mention binding, such as
`plugin://...` or the skill path
- Expanded `@mentions` rendering:
- type tags for Plugin, Skill, File, and Dir
- distinct plugin/filesystem colors
- stable fixed-height layout (8 rows)
- truncation behavior for narrow terminals
Note:
- The unified mentions popup does not display app connectors under
`@mention` results for Codex App parity. Connector mentions remain
available through the existing `$mention` path.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f93781ed-57d3-4cb5-9972-675bc5f3ef3f
## Why
Users have requested the ability to edit a goal's objective after a goal
has been created. This PR exposes a new `/goal edit` command in the TUI
to address this request.
In the process of implementing this, I also noticed an existing bug in
the goal runtime. When a goal's objective is updated through the
`thread/goal/set` app server API, the goal runtime didn't emit a new
steering prompt to tell the agent about the new objective. This PR also
fixes this hole.
## What Changed
- Adds `/goal edit` in the TUI, opening an edit box prefilled with the
current goal objective.
- Keeps active and paused goals in their current state, resets completed
goals to active, keeps budget-limited goals budget-limited, and
preserves the existing token budget.
- Changes the existing `thread/goal/set` behavior so editing an
objective preserves goal accounting instead of resetting it. The older
reset-on-new-objective behavior was left over from before
`thread/goal/clear`; clients that need to reset accounting can now clear
the existing goal and create a new one.
- Reuses the existing goal set API path; this does not add or change
app-server protocol surface area.
- Adds a dedicated goal runtime steering prompt when an externally
persisted goal mutation changes the objective, so active turns receive
the updated objective.
## Validation
- Make sure `/goal edit` returns an error if no goal currently exists
- Make sure `/goal edit` displays an edit box that can be optionally
canceled with no side effects
- Make sure that an edited goal results in a steer so the agent starts
pursuing the new objective
- Make sure the new objective is reflected in the goal if you use
`/goal` to display the goal summary
- Make sure that `/goal edit` doesn't reset the token budget, time/token
accounting on the updated goal
## Why
Mixed prose lines that contained URLs started taking the URL-preserving
wrapping path, but that path could split ordinary words mid-token. A
follow-up issue remained in scrollback insertion: when already-rendered
indented rows were wrapped again, continuation rows could lose their
margin and fall back to terminal hard wrapping. Together those bugs made
normal Markdown output look broken around links, lists, blockquotes, and
indented content.
Separately, the local argument-comment lint wrappers failed under
environments that set `PYTHONSAFEPATH=1`, because Python no longer adds
the script directory to `sys.path` automatically. That prevented the
lint from reaching Rust callsites at all.
<img width="1778" height="1558" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-09 at 11 51 38"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9274d150-1757-4f1a-89ac-5bdc9997d8cb"
/>
## What Changed
- Preserve URL tokens without turning every neighboring prose word into
a character-level split point.
- Add a mixed URL/prose wrapper that keeps ordinary words whole,
preserves leading whitespace, and re-splits long non-URL tokens against
the actual width available on continuation rows.
- Reuse a rendered history row's leading whitespace as the continuation
indent when scrollback insertion has to pre-wrap it again.
- Add regression coverage for markdown wrapping, history-cell rendering,
scrollback continuation margins, leading-indent width accounting, and
continuation-row re-splitting.
- Make both argument-comment lint entrypoints explicitly add their own
directory to `sys.path`, so sibling imports still work when
`PYTHONSAFEPATH=1`.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex and render a long Markdown response that mixes prose with
inline links, blockquotes, lists, and indented code-like text.
2. Confirm that ordinary words next to links stay whole instead of
breaking mid-word.
3. Resize or replay the transcript and confirm wrapped continuation rows
keep their expected left margin for blockquotes, lists, and indented
content.
4. Run the source argument-comment lint from a shell with
`PYTHONSAFEPATH=1` and confirm it starts normally instead of failing to
import `wrapper_common`.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui mixed_line --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui preserves_prefix_on_wrapped_rows --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
agent_markdown_cell_does_not_split_words_after_inline_markdown --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
mixed_url_markdown_wraps_prose_without_splitting_words_snapshot --lib`
- `python3 tools/argument-comment-lint/test_wrapper_common.py`
- `just argument-comment-lint-from-source -p codex-tui -- --lib`
Notes:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui` currently reaches the new tests
successfully, then still aborts in the pre-existing
`tests::fork_last_filters_latest_session_by_cwd_unless_show_all`
stack-overflow failure.
Fixes#21665.
## Why
The TUI status line is the right place for compact, glanceable session
state. The original request was motivated by the need to see the active
permission posture without opening `/permissions` or `/status`,
especially when switching between safer and more permissive modes during
a session.
This PR intentionally separates `permissions` from `approval-mode`
instead of combining them into one status-line item. They answer related
but different questions: `permissions` describes the active
sandbox/profile shape, while `approval-mode` describes how command
approvals are handled. Keeping them separate makes each item
independently configurable and avoids long combined labels in an already
space-constrained status line.
The tradeoff is that users who want the full permission posture in the
status line need to opt into both items. In exchange, users can show
only the sandbox/profile label, only the approval behavior, or both, and
named user-defined profiles remain concise. Non-standard permission
shapes are rendered as `Custom permissions` rather than trying to
squeeze detailed profile contents into the status line; `/status`
remains the fuller explanatory surface.
## What changed
- Added a configurable `permissions` status-line item.
- Added a separate `approval-mode` status-line item, with `approval` as
an alias.
- Render standard permission states compactly as `Read Only`,
`Workspace`, or `Full Access`.
- Preserve user-defined permission profile names directly in the status
line.
- Render unnamed non-standard permission shapes as `Custom permissions`.
- Refresh status surfaces when `/permissions` updates the permission
profile, approval policy, or approval reviewer.
- Updated status-line preview snapshot coverage for the new items.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
status_permissions_non_default_workspace_write_uses_workspace_label`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
permissions_selection_emits_history_cell_when_selection_changes`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots --manifest-path tui/Cargo.toml`
Supersedes the abandoned #19859, rebuilt on latest `main`.
# Why
PR #19705 adds discovery for hooks bundled with plugins, but `/plugins`
still only shows skills, apps, and MCP servers. This follow-up makes
bundled hooks visible in the same plugin detail view so users can
inspect the full plugin surface in one place.
We also need `PluginHookSummary` to populate Plugin Hooks in the app;
`hooks/list` is not enough there because plugin detail needs to show
hooks for disabled plugins too.
# What
- extend `plugin/read` with `PluginHookSummary` entries for bundled
hooks
- summarize plugin hooks while loading plugin details
- render a `Hooks` row in the `/plugins` detail popup
<img width="3456" height="848" alt="CleanShot 2026-04-27 at 11 45 34@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fe3a38d6-a260-4351-8513-fb04c93d725b"
/>
Based on work from Vincent K -
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19060
<img width="1836" height="642" alt="CleanShot 2026-04-29 at 20 47 40@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b647bb89-65fe-40c8-80b0-7a6b7c984634"
/>
## Why
Compaction rewrites the conversation context that future model turns
receive, but hooks currently have no deterministic lifecycle point
around that rewrite. This adds compact lifecycle hooks so users can
audit manual and automatic compaction, surface hook messages in the UI,
and run post-compaction follow-up without overloading tool or prompt
hooks.
## What Changed
- Added `PreCompact` and `PostCompact` hook events across hook config,
discovery, dispatch, generated schemas, app-server notifications,
analytics, and TUI hook rendering.
- Added trigger matching for compact hooks with the documented `manual`
and `auto` matcher values.
- Wired `PreCompact` before both local and remote compaction, and
`PostCompact` after successful local or remote compaction.
- Kept compact hook command input to lifecycle metadata: session id,
Codex turn id, transcript path, cwd, hook event name, model, and
trigger.
- Made compact stdout handling consistent with other hooks: plain stdout
is ignored as debug output, while malformed JSON-looking stdout is
reported as failed hook output.
- Added integration coverage for compact hook dispatch, trigger
matching, post-compact execution, and the audited behavior that
`decision:"block"` does not block compaction.
## Out of Scope
- Hook-specific compaction blocking is not implemented;
`decision:"block"` and exit-code-2 blocking semantics are intentionally
unsupported for `PreCompact`.
- Custom compaction instructions are not exposed to compact hooks in
this PR.
- Compact summaries, summary character counts, and summary previews are
not exposed to compact hooks in this PR.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-hooks`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
manual_pre_compact_block_decision_does_not_block_compaction`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server hooks_list`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_schema_matches_fixture`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui hooks_browser`
## Docs
The developer documentation for Codex hooks should be updated alongside
this feature to document `PreCompact` and `PostCompact`, the
`manual`/`auto` matcher values, and the compact hook payload fields.
---------
Co-authored-by: Vincent Koc <vincentkoc@ieee.org>
## Why
Long `/goal` definitions currently reach lower-level goal validation and
can produce an opaque failure. This bug was reported by a user. Pasted
instruction blocks are especially confusing because the composer can
still contain a paste placeholder before expansion, which may otherwise
fall into the generic prompt-size error path.
There was also a related paste edge case where `/goal ` followed by a
multiline block whose first pasted line was blank looked like a bare
`/goal` command. That showed the goal usage/summary instead of setting
the pasted objective.
## What Changed
This adds TUI-side preflight validation for `/goal <objective>` using
the shared `MAX_THREAD_GOAL_OBJECTIVE_CHARS` limit. Oversized typed,
queued, and pasted goal objectives now fail locally with a goal-specific
message that recommends putting longer instructions in a file and
referencing that file from the goal.
The TUI now also lets inline-argument slash commands consume later-line
arguments before treating the first line as a bare command, so `/goal `
followed by blank lines and then objective text sets the goal instead of
opening the bare `/goal` flow.
## Manual Testing
1. Start the TUI with goals enabled and an active session.
2. Submit `/goal ` followed by exactly 4,000 objective characters. It
should continue through the normal goal-setting path.
3. Submit `/goal ` followed by 4,001 objective characters. It should not
set a goal, and should show `Goal objective is too long: 4,001
characters. Limit: 4,000 characters.` followed by the guidance to put
longer instructions in a file and reference that file from the goal.
4. Type `/goal `, paste a large block that becomes a `[Pasted Content
... chars]` placeholder, then submit. It should validate the expanded
pasted text and show the goal-specific file guidance rather than the
generic prompt-size error.
5. Type `/goal `, paste a multiline block whose first line is blank,
then submit. It should set the objective from the non-blank pasted
content instead of showing `Usage: /goal <objective>` or the bare goal
summary.
6. While a turn is running, queue an oversized `/goal` command. When the
queue drains, it should show the same goal-specific error and should not
emit a goal-setting request.
## Summary
Early adopters of the `/goal` feature have provided feedback that they
expect a goal they explicitly paused to remain paused when they resume a
thread. Previously, resuming a thread would reactivate a paused goal.
This PR keeps persisted goal status unchanged during thread resume. This
honors the user feedback while also simplifying the core goal logic.
Rather than have the core logic automatically resume a paused goal, that
responsibility is transferred to the client. The TUI now detects a
resumed thread with a paused goal and asks the user whether to `Resume
goal` or `Leave paused`. The prompt appears only for quiet resume flows,
so users who resume with an immediate prompt are not interrupted.
<img width="544" height="111" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0ac9de1c-6ee6-47ba-b223-c03c8eb4c192"
/>
# Why
When a user interrupts a turn while a hook is still running, the normal
turn status is cleared but the separate live hook row can remain visible
as `Running` because the TUI may never receive a matching
`HookCompleted` event before cancellation. Once the turn itself is
finalized, that turn-scoped live state should not remain on screen.
# What
- clear any still-live `active_hook_cell` during turn finalization
- add a regression snapshot covering an interrupted turn with a visible
`PreToolUse` hook row
# Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-tui interrupted_turn_clears_visible_running_hook`
- attempted `cargo test -p codex-tui` (currently aborts on unrelated
existing stack overflow in
`app::tests::discard_side_thread_removes_agent_navigation_entry`)
This PR adds marketplace upgrade to the `/plugins` menu so users can
update configured marketplaces. It adds a `Ctrl+U` shortcut on eligible
marketplace tabs, a loading state, and the app-server request flow
needed to perform `marketplace/upgrade`. After a successful upgrade, the
TUI refreshes plugin data, plugin mentions, and user config so updated
marketplace contents show up across the menu and other plugin surfaces.
It also preserves the current marketplace tab on no-op and failure paths
and surfaces backend error details directly in the TUI.
- Add a `Ctrl+U` upgrade option for user-configured marketplace tabs in
`/plugins`
- Show the upgrade footer hint only on upgradeable marketplace tabs
- Show a loading state during `marketplace/upgrade`
- Surface already-up-to-date and per-marketplace failure results from
the backend
- Refresh plugin data, plugin mentions, and user config after successful
upgrades
- Add tests and snapshot updates for the shortcut flow, loading state,
and failure messaging
Steps to test:
1. Add a `/plugin` marketplace to Codex TUI.
2. Open `/plugins`, move to that marketplace tab, and confirm the footer
shows `Ctrl+U` to upgrade.
3. Press `Ctrl+U` and confirm the popup switches into an upgrade loading
state.
4. When the request finishes, confirm you see the expected result:
updated marketplace contents on success, an already-up-to-date message
on no-op, or backend error details on failure. On no-op or failure,
confirm the popup stays on the same marketplace tab.
## Why
Users have shared that the TUI can feel too visually flat because themes
mostly show up in code syntax highlighting. The configurable statusline
is a natural place to make the active theme more visible, while still
letting users keep the existing monotone statusline if they prefer it.
## What Changed
- Added a statusline styling helper that builds the rendered statusline
from `(StatusLineItem, text)` segments, preserving item identity while
keeping the plain text output unchanged.
- Derived foreground accent colors from the active syntax theme by
looking up TextMate scopes through the existing syntax highlighter, with
conservative ANSI fallbacks when a scope does not provide a foreground.
- Tuned theme-derived colors to keep the accents visible without making
the statusline feel overly bright.
- Added `[tui].status_line_use_colors`, defaulting to `true`, plus a
separated `/statusline` toggle so users can enable or disable
theme-derived statusline colors from the setup UI.
- Updated the live statusline and `/statusline` preview to use the same
styled builder, while keeping terminal-title preview text plain.
- Kept statusline separators and active-agent add-ons subdued while
removing blanket dimming from the whole passive statusline.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui status_line`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui theme_picker`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui foreground_style_for_scopes`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core status_line_use_colors`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots --manifest-path tui/Cargo.toml`
## Visual
<img width="369" height="23" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-30 at 6 16 08 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/11d03efb-8e4f-4450-8f4d-00a9659ef4cd"
/>
<img width="385" height="23" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-30 at 6 16 02 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a3d89f36-bdc1-42e8-8e84-61350e3999e2"
/>
## Why
Goal mode shows elapsed time in compact hour/minute form. That is easy
to scan for shorter runs, but once a goal runs past 24 hours, large hour
counts become harder to read at a glance.
## What changed
Updated `codex-rs/tui/src/goal_display.rs` so unbudgeted goal elapsed
time keeps the existing compact format below one day, then switches to a
day-aware format once the elapsed time reaches 24 hours:
- `23h 59m`
- `1d 0h 0m`
- `2d 23h 42m`
The formatter now covers the 24-hour boundary in unit tests, and the TUI
status-line snapshot for a completed elapsed goal now exercises the
multi-day display.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
Here's my longest-running test task:
<img width="186" height="23" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cedfcdab-7f6e-44e6-8495-8a39f63973fb"
/>
## Why
`hooks/list` and `hooks/config/write` give us read/write access to hooks
and their state. This hooks up the TUI as a client so users can inspect
and manage that state directly.
## What
- add a two-page `/hooks` browser in the TUI: an event overview with
installed/active counts, followed by a per-event handler page with
toggle controls and detail rendering
- thread managed-state metadata through hook discovery and `hooks/list`
so the UI can label admin-managed hooks and suppress toggles for them
- persist hook toggles through the existing config-write path and add
snapshot coverage for the event list, handler list, managed-hook, and
empty states
## Stack
1. openai/codex#19705
2. openai/codex#19778
3. openai/codex#19840
4. This PR - openai/codex#19882
## Reviewer Notes
- Main UI logic is in
`codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/hooks_browser_view.rs`; most of the diff
is the new view plus its snapshot coverage
- Request / write plumbing for opening the browser and persisting
toggles is in `codex-rs/tui/src/app/background_requests.rs` and
`codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget/hooks.rs`
- Outside the TUI, the only behavioral change in this PR is threading
`is_managed` through hook discovery and `hooks/list` so managed hooks
render as non-toggleable
- The `codex-rs/tui/src/status/snapshots/` churn is unrelated merge
fallout from the stacked base branch's newer permission-label rendering
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Why
With the local model layer and app-server routing in place from PR1,
this PR moves the active TUI runtime onto app-server notifications. The
affected pieces share the same event flow, so the command surface,
session state, bottom-pane prompts, chat rendering, history/status
views, and tests move together to keep the stacked branch buildable.
This PR also removes the obsolete compatibility surface that is no
longer used after the migration. The proposed protocol-boundary verifier
layer was dropped from the stack; enforcing that final boundary will be
simpler once `codex-tui` no longer needs any `codex_protocol`
references.
This PR is part 2 of a 2-PR stack:
1. Add TUI-owned replacement models and extract app-server event
routing.
2. Move the active TUI flow to app-server notifications and delete
obsolete adapter code.
## What changed
- Rewired app command and session handling to use app-server request and
notification shapes.
- Moved approval overlays, request-user-input flows, MCP elicitation,
realtime events, and review commands onto the app-server-facing model
surface.
- Updated chat rendering, history cells, status views, multi-agent UI,
replay state, and TUI tests to use app-server notifications plus the
local models introduced in PR1.
- Deleted `codex-rs/tui/src/app/app_server_adapter.rs` and the
superseded `chatwidget/tests/background_events.rs` fixture path.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-tui --tests`
- Top of stack: `cargo test -p codex-tui`
This PR adds marketplace removal to the /plugins menu, giving users a
way to remove user-configured plugin marketplaces. It adds a `Ctrl+R`
shortcut to remove selected marketplace tabs, a confirmation prompt,
loading and error states, and the app-server request flow needed to
perform marketplace/remove. After a successful removal, the TUI
refreshes config, plugin mentions, user config, and plugin data so the
removed marketplace disappears from the menu and other surfaces in the
TUI.
- Add `Ctrl+R` removal option for user-configured marketplace tabs
- Show marketplace removal confirmation, loading, and error states
- Route `marketplace/remove` through the TUI background request flow
- Refresh config, plugin mentions, and plugin data after successful
removal
- Adds reusable per-tab footer hints so removal guidance only appears on
applicable tabs
- Add test coverage for `Ctrl+R` behavior while plugin search is active
Steps to test:
- Add a marketplace using the TUI /plugins menu
- Use Ctrl+R to remove the marketplace
- Accept the confirmation prompt
- Confirm the marketplace is removed when the process completes.
## Summary
- include the live auto-review trunk rollout when `/feedback` uploads
logs
- upload that attachment as
`auto-review-rollout-<parent-thread-id>.jsonl` so it is distinguishable
from the parent rollout
- show the same auto-review attachment name in the TUI consent popup
## Scope
- this only covers the live cached auto-review trunk for the current
parent thread
- it does not add durable historical parent->auto-review lookup
- it does not add persisted rollout support for ephemeral parallel
review forks
## UI
<img width="599" height="185" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-28 at 1 17 18 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6a0e79c2-5d21-4702-8a89-f765778bc9e9"
/>
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core
cached_guardian_subagent_exposes_its_rollout_path`
- `cargo test -p codex-feedback`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui feedback_upload_consent_popup_snapshot`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
feedback_good_result_consent_popup_includes_connectivity_diagnostics_filename`
## Known unrelated local failures
- `cargo test -p codex-core` currently fails in the pre-existing proxy
env snapshot test
`tools::runtimes::tests::maybe_wrap_shell_lc_with_snapshot_keeps_user_proxy_env_when_proxy_inactive`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui` currently hits pre-existing `status::*`
snapshot drift unrelated to this change
## Follow-Up
- persist parallel auto-review fork sessions so /feedback can include
their rollout history too
- attach each persisted fork as its own clearly named file, for example
auto-review-rollout-<parent-thread-id>-fork <n>.jsonl, instead of
merging multiple Guardian sessions into one attachment
- keep the same live-session-only scope initially; durable historical
parent -> auto-review lookup can remain a separate decision if we later
need feedback from resumed sessions
## Why
The paused goal statusline currently points users at `/goal` to unpause
a goal, but bare `/goal` is the summary command and does not change the
goal state. Instead of making `/goal` mutate state only when a goal is
paused, this gives the action an explicit command that reads naturally
in the UI.
## What Changed
- Replace `/goal unpause` with `/goal resume` for reactivating a paused
goal.
- Update the paused goal statusline and `/goal` summary copy to point at
`/goal resume`.
This PR adds a new feature to the `/plugins` menu that gives users the
ability to add new plugin marketplaces. It introduces an Add Marketplace
tab to the right of installed marketplaces, a source prompt, loading and
error states, and the app-server request flow needed to perform the
install. After a successful `marketplace/add`, the popup refreshes back
into the newly added marketplace tab so the new plugins are immediately
visible.
- Add an Add Marketplace tab to the `/plugins` menu
- Prompt for marketplace source input from git repo, URL, or local path
- Show loading and error states during `marketplace/add`
- Refresh plugin data after success and switch into the newly added
marketplace tab
- Add tests and snapshot updates
## Summary
- suggest Plan mode when the current composer draft contains the
standalone word `plan`
- shares the Codex App heuristics for detection
- excludes things line `/plan` and the word plan in shell mode
- reuse the existing `Shift+Tab` mode cycle and add thread-scoped
dismissal with `Esc`
- replace the normal footer hint while the reminder is visible so the
statusline stays anchored
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/01123ae8-cee6-4e95-b563-44655c071cde
## Why
The desktop app already nudges users toward Plan mode when their draft
clearly signals planning intent. The TUI had the underlying `/plan` and
`Shift+Tab` flows, but no equivalent reminder at the moment the user was
most likely to benefit from them.
## Details
The reminder is shown only when Plan mode is available, the draft
contains standalone `plan`, the user is not already in Plan mode, the
composer is actionable, and the current thread has not dismissed the
reminder. Slash-command and shell-command drafts are excluded.
The first implementation used an extra composer row, but that moved the
statusline whenever the heuristic fired. This version keeps the layout
stable by rendering the reminder in the existing footer row instead.
## Validation
- `INSTA_UPDATE=always cargo test -p codex-tui
chatwidget::tests::plan_mode::plan_mode_nudge -- --nocapture`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `./tools/argument-comment-lint/run.py -p codex-tui`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Fixes#19814.
The TUI's current `Worked for ...` timing behavior is a leftover from
#9599. At that point, models could emit multiple assistant messages in
one turn for preambles/commentary, but the TUI did not yet have a
reliable signal that an assistant message was the final answer when it
started streaming. To avoid showing an ever-growing elapsed time on each
preamble separator, #9599 made the separator timer incremental by
tracking elapsed time since the previous separator.
That workaround is no longer the right model for the final
completed-turn display. Since then, #16638 added protocol-native turn
timing, including `duration_ms` on turn completion. With that cumulative
duration available at the point where the TUI renders the completed-turn
separator, the UI can show the actual turn duration directly instead of
carrying per-separator timing state.
## What Changed
- Thread `duration_ms` into `ChatWidget::on_task_complete` from both
legacy `TurnCompleteEvent` handling and app-server `TurnCompleted`
notifications.
- Use `duration_ms` for the final `Worked for ...` separator, falling
back to the status indicator timer only when the protocol duration is
unavailable.
- Keep mid-turn separators before later assistant text as plain visual
dividers instead of clocked `Worked for ...` separators.
- Remove the old incremental separator timer state and helper
(`last_separator_elapsed_secs` / `worked_elapsed_from`).
- Add a snapshot regression test for a turn that runs a command and then
completes with a final answer, verifying the final separator uses the
cumulative turn duration.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
final_worked_for_uses_cumulative_turn_duration_snapshot`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
Manual repro prompt:
```text
Manual timing repro. First send a short preamble/commentary sentence before using tools. Then run exactly this shell command: sleep 75; echo MANUAL_TIMING_DONE. After the command finishes, give a final answer that says "done". Do not skip the preamble.
```
After this change, the mid-turn break before the final answer should be
a plain divider, and the final completed-turn separator should show
`Worked for ...` using the cumulative turn duration.
Before:
<img width="414" height="102" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-27 at 10 09 01 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b9e2ce01-2460-40e4-a5c4-c9ba8add2557"
/>
After:
<img width="485" height="149" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-27 at 10 09 07 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d24089ae-d4e2-41b6-b966-07c98706ead4"
/>
## Why
The TUI currently handles keyboard shortcuts as hard-coded event matches
spread across app, composer, pager, list, approval, and navigation code.
That makes shortcuts hard to customize, makes displayed hints easy to
drift from actual behavior, and makes future keymap work riskier because
there is no central action inventory.
This PR adds the foundation for configurable, action-based keymaps
without adding the interactive remapping UI yet. Onboarding
intentionally stays on fixed startup shortcuts because users cannot
reasonably configure keymaps before completing onboarding.
This is PR1 in the keymap stack:
- PR1: #18593: configurable keymap foundation
- PR2: #18594: `/keymap` picker and guided remapping UI
- PR3: #18595: Vim composer mode and the remap option
## Design Notes
The new model resolves named actions into concrete runtime bindings once
from config, then passes those bindings to the UI surfaces that handle
input or render shortcut hints.
The main concepts are:
- **Context**: a scope where an action is active, such as `global`,
`chat`, `composer`, `editor`, `pager`, `list`, or `approval`.
- **Action**: a named operation inside a context, such as
`global.open_transcript`, `composer.submit`, or `pager.close`.
- **Binding**: one or more single-key shortcuts assigned to an action,
written as config strings such as `ctrl-t`, `alt-backspace`, or
`page-down`. Multi-step sequences such as `ctrl-x ctrl-s`, `g g`, or
leader-key flows are not part of this PR.
- **Resolution order**: context-specific config wins first, supported
global fallbacks come next, and built-in defaults fill in anything
unset.
- **Explicit unbinding**: an empty array removes an action binding in
that scope and does not fall through to a fallback binding.
- **Conflict validation**: a resolved keymap rejects duplicate active
bindings inside the same scope so one keypress cannot dispatch two
actions.
## What Changed
- Added `TuiKeymap` config support under `[tui.keymap]`, including typed
contexts/actions, key alias normalization, generated schema coverage,
and user-facing config errors.
- Added `RuntimeKeymap` resolution in `codex-rs/tui/src/keymap.rs`,
including fallback precedence, built-in defaults, explicit unbinding,
and per-context conflict validation.
- Rewired existing TUI handlers to consume resolved keymap actions
instead of directly matching hard-coded keys in each component.
- Updated key hint rendering and footer/pager/list surfaces so displayed
shortcuts follow the resolved keymap.
- Kept onboarding shortcuts fixed in
`codex-rs/tui/src/onboarding/keys.rs` instead of exposing them through
`[tui.keymap]`.
## Validation
The branch includes focused coverage for config parsing, key
normalization, runtime fallback resolution, explicit unbinding,
duplicate-key conflict validation, default keymap consistency,
onboarding startup key behavior, and UI hint snapshots affected by
resolved key bindings.
## Summary
- Remove `ghost_snapshot` / `GhostCommit` from the Responses API surface
and generated SDK/schema artifacts.
- Keep legacy config loading compatible, but make undo a no-op that
reports the feature is unavailable.
- Clean up core history, compaction, telemetry, rollout, and tests to
stop carrying ghost snapshot items.
## Testing
- Unit tests passed for `codex-protocol`, `codex-core` targeted undo and
compaction flows, `codex-rollout`, and `codex-app-server-protocol`.
- Regenerated config and app-server schemas plus Python SDK artifacts
and verified they match the checked-in outputs.
Implements #18162
This updates the TUI terminal title to show an explicit action-required
state when Codex is blocked on user approval or input. The terminal
title now uses the activity title item to cover both active work and
blocked-on-user states, while still accepting the legacy spinner config
value.
Changes
- Rename the terminal title item from `spinner` to `activity` while
preserving legacy config compatibility
- Show `[ ! ] Action Required `while approval or input overlays are
active, with a blinking `[ . ]` alternate state
- Suppress the normal working spinner while Codex is blocked on user
action
- Add targeted coverage for action-required title behavior and legacy
title-item parsing
Testing
- Trigger an approval or input modal and confirm the tab title
alternates between `[ ! ] Action Required` and `[ . ] Action Required`
- Disable the activity title item and confirm the action-required title
does not appear
- Resolve the prompt and confirm the title returns to the normal
spinning/idel state
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## Why
Fixes#19632.
When a delegated agent requests approval for an in-progress file change,
the parent TUI handles that request from an inactive thread. The app
server already sent the `FileChange` item with the proposed diff, but
the inactive-thread approval path was not recovering and rendering it
the same way as the active-thread path.
The result was an inconsistent approval prompt: main-thread edits show a
normal patch preview history item before the approval modal, while
delegated edits did not show that preview in the transcript flow.
## What Changed
- Recover buffered or historical `FileChange` item changes when building
inactive-thread file-change approval requests.
- Reuse the app-server file-change conversion helper for both live
transcript rendering and inactive-thread approvals.
- Render recovered delegated patches as a normal patch preview history
cell before the approval modal.
- Keep apply-patch approval modals focused on the decision prompt and
optional metadata; they do not render a synthetic command line or embed
the diff body.
## Manual Repro And Verification
I manually reproduced the issue using a file under `~/Desktop` so the
write would require approval.
Before the fix:
1. Ask the main thread: `Use apply_patch, not shell redirection or
Python, to create ~/Desktop/bug1.txt with three short lines.`
2. Observe the expected TUI shape: the transcript shows a normal patch
preview such as `• Added ~/Desktop/bug1.txt (+N -0)` above the approval
modal, and the modal contains only the approval prompt/options without a
synthetic command line.
3. Ask for the delegated path: `Spawn a worker. Have it use apply_patch,
not shell redirection or Python, to create ~/Desktop/bug1.txt with four
short lines.`
4. Observe the delegated approval is inconsistent: the parent view does
not render the proposed patch as the normal transcript preview before
the modal, so the diff context is missing from the stream or appears
inside the modal instead of in the history flow.
After the fix:
1. Repeat the delegated worker prompt with `apply_patch`.
2. Confirm the parent view renders the same normal patch preview history
cell (`• Added ~/Desktop/bug1.txt (+N -0)` plus the diff) immediately
before the approval modal.
3. Confirm the approval modal remains focused on the decision prompt.
For delegated approvals it may show the worker thread label, but it
should not show a `$ apply_patch` command line or embed the diff body in
the modal.
## Why
Auto-review can deny an action that the user later decides they want to
retry. Today there is no TUI surface for selecting a recent denial and
sending explicit approval context back into the session, so users have
to restate intent manually and the retry can be reviewed without the
original denied action context.
This adds a narrow TUI-driven path for approving a recent denied action
while still keeping the retry inside the normal auto-review flow.
## What Changed
- Added `/auto-review-denials` to open a picker of recent denied
auto-review actions.
- Added a small in-memory TUI store for the 10 most recent denied
auto-review events.
- Selecting a denial sends the structured denied event back through the
existing core/app-server op path.
- Core now injects a developer message containing the approved action
JSON rather than the full assessment event.
- Auto-review transcript collection now preserves this specific approval
developer message so follow-up review sessions can see the user approval
context.
- Added TUI snapshot/unit coverage for the picker and approval dispatch
path.
- Added core coverage for retaining the approval developer message in
the auto-review transcript.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core
collect_guardian_transcript_entries_keeps_manual_approval_developer_message`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui auto_review_denials`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
approving_recent_denial_emits_structured_core_op_once`
## Notes
This intentionally keeps retries going through auto-review. The approval
signal is context for the exact previously denied action, not a blanket
bypass for similar future actions.
Adds the TUI user experience for goals on top of the core runtime from
PR 4.
## Why
Users need a direct TUI control surface for long-running goals. The UI
should make the current goal visible, support common goal actions
without waiting for a model turn, and avoid confusing end-of-turn
notifications while an active goal is immediately continuing.
## What changed
- Added `/goal` summary rendering for the current goal, including
active, paused, budget-limited, and complete states.
- Added `/goal <objective>` creation/replacement through the app-server
goal API rather than a model prompt.
- Added `/goal clear`, `/goal pause`, and `/goal unpause` command
variants.
- Added a confirmation menu when the user enters a new goal while
another goal already exists.
- Updated `/goal` help and summary tip text so it reflects the supported
command variants without advertising slash-command token budgets.
- Added footer/statusline goal indicators, including elapsed time and
token budget display when a budget exists from API/tool-created goals.
- Consumes goal updated/cleared notifications so the TUI stays in sync
with external app-server changes.
- Suppresses end-of-turn desktop notifications only when a goal is still
active and follow-up work is expected.
- Preserves slash-command history behavior and avoids leaking queued
`/goal` state into unrelated submissions.
## Verification
- Added TUI unit and snapshot coverage for goal command availability,
summary rendering, control commands, replacement menu behavior,
status/footer display, notification handling, and command history.
Selection menus in the TUI currently let disabled rows interfere with
numbering and default focus. This makes mixed menus harder to read and
can land selection on rows that are not actionable. This change updates
the shared selection-menu behavior in list_selection_view so disabled
rows are not selected when these views open, and prevents them from
being numbered like selectable rows.
- Disabled rows no longer receive numeric labels
- Digit shortcuts map to enabled rows only
- Default selection moves to the first enabled row in mixed menus
- Updated affected snapshot
- Added snapshot coverage for a plugin detail error popup
- Added a focused unit test for shared selection-view behavior
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Supersedes #18735.
The scheduled rust-release-prepare workflow force-pushed
`bot/update-models-json` back to the generated models.json-only diff,
which dropped the test and snapshot updates needed for CI.
This PR keeps the latest generated `models.json` from #18735 and adds
the corresponding fixture updates:
- preserve model availability NUX in the app-server model cache fixture
- update core/TUI expectations for the new `gpt-5.4` `xhigh` default
reasoning
- refresh affected TUI chatwidget snapshots for the `gpt-5.5`
default/model copy changes
Validation run locally while preparing the fix:
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server model_list`
- `cargo test -p codex-core includes_no_effort_in_request`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
includes_default_reasoning_effort_in_request_when_defined_by_model_info`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui --lib chatwidget::tests`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots`
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Co-authored-by: aibrahim-oai <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
This change aligns the `/statusline` and `/title` UIs around the same
normalized item model so both surfaces use consistent ids, labels, and
preview semantics. It keeps the shared preview work from #18435 ,
tightens the remaining mismatches by standardizing item naming, expands
title/status item coverage where appropriate, and makes `/title` preview
use the same title-specific formatting path as the real rendered
terminal title.
- Normalizes persisted item ids and keeps legacy aliases for
compatibility
- Aligns `status-line` and `terminal-title` items with the shared
preview model
- Routes `terminal-title` preview through title-specific formatting and
truncation
- Updates the affected status/title setup snapshots
Added to `/statusline`:
- status
- task-progress
Normalized in `/statusline`:
- model-name -> model
- project-root -> project-name
Added to `/title`:
- current-dir
- context-remaining
- context-used
- five-hour-limit
- weekly-limit
- codex-version
- used-tokens
- total-input-tokens
- total-output-tokens
- session-id
- fast-mode
- model-with-reasoning
Normalized in `/title`:
- project -> project-name
- thread -> thread-title
- model-name -> model
## 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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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
This PR makes the `/statusline` and `/title` setup UIs share one
preview-value source instead of each surface using its own examples.
Both pickers now render consistent live values when available, and
stable placeholders when they are not. It also resolves live preview
values at the shared preview-item layer, so `/title` preview can use
real runtime values for title-specific cases like status text, task
progress, and project-name fallback behavior.
- Adds a shared preview data model for status surfaces
- Maps status-line items and terminal-title items onto that shared
preview list
- Feeds both setup views from the same chatwidget-derived preview data,
with terminal-title-specific formatting applied before `/title` preview
renders
- Keeps project-root preview aligned with status-line behavior while
project in /title keeps its title fallback/truncation behavior
- Adds snapshot coverage for live-only, hardcoded-only, and mixed cases
Test Steps
- Open Codex TUI and launch `/statusline`.
- Toggle and reorder items, then verify the preview uses current session
values when possible, and placeholder values for missing values (ex: no
thread ID).
- Open `/title` and verify it shows the same normalized values,
including live status/task-progress values when available.
## Problem
The TUI resolved fork parent titles from local CODEX_HOME metadata,
which could show missing or stale titles when app-server metadata is
authoritative.
This is a lingering bug left over from the migration of the TUI to the
app-server interface. I found it when I asked Codex to review all places
where the TUI code was still directly accessing the local CODEX_HOME.
## Solution
Route fork parent title metadata through the app-server session state
and render only that supplied title, with focused snapshot coverage for
stale local metadata.
## Testing
I manually tested by renaming a thread then forking it and confirming
that the "forked from" message indicated the parent thread's name.
Fixes stale test fixtures left after the active bundled model catalog
updates in #18586 and #18388. Those changes made `gpt-5.4` the current
default and removed several older hardcoded slugs, which left Windows
Bazel shards failing TUI and config tests.
What changed:
- Refresh TUI model migration, availability NUX, plan-mode, status, and
snapshot fixtures to use active bundled model slugs.
- Update the config edit test expectation for the TOML-quoted
`"gpt-5.2"` migration key.
- Move the model catalog tests into
`codex-rs/tui/src/app/tests/model_catalog.rs` so touching them does not
trip the blob-size policy for `app.rs`.
Verification:
- CI Bazel/lint checks are expected to cover the affected test shards.
## Summary
Side conversations can hide important state changes from the parent
conversation while the user is focused on the side thread. In
particular, the parent may finish, fail, need user input, or require an
approval while the side conversation remains visible. Users need a
lightweight signal for those states, but parent approval overlays should
not interrupt the side conversation itself.
This change adds parent-conversation status to the side conversation
context label and defers parent interactive overlays while side mode is
active. When the user exits side mode, pending parent approvals and
input requests are restored in the main thread. The pending approval
footer avoids duplicating the same parent approval status, and replayed
notice cells are filtered when restoring a pending interactive request
so tips or warnings do not crowd out the approval prompt.
The change is contained to the TUI side-conversation and thread replay
paths.
Example 1: Approval pending
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1cc0f1a3-9cab-4d60-aed2-96523ccafc20"
/>
Example 2: Turn complete
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/653521a5-e298-4366-ae1c-72b56eb88eeb"
/>
## Problem
The TUI resume/fork picker was backfilling thread names from local
rollout indexes. This was left over from before the TUI was moved to the
app server. It should be using app-server APIs because the TUI might be
connected to a remote connection.
This bug wasn't (yet) reported by a user. I found it by asking Codex to
review places in the TUI code where it was still directly accessing the
CODEX_HOME directory rather than going through app-server APIs.
## Solution
The resume picker and session lookups should use app-server thread APIs
only. Remove legacy rollout name/list backfills, and avoid local name
reads in fork history.
## Testing
I manually tested `codex resume` and `codex resume --all` to look for
functional or performance regressions in the resume picker.
## Summary
Third PR in the split from #17956. Stacked on #18220.
- shows workspace-owner/member-specific rate-limit messages behind
`workspace_owner_usage_nudge`
- prompts workspace members to notify the owner or request a usage-limit
increase
- sends the confirmed nudge through the app-server API and renders
completion feedback
- adds focused TUI snapshot coverage for prompts and completion states
- feature gate
## 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`
The TUI supports long-running turns and agent threads, but quick side
questions have required interrupting the main flow or manually
forking/navigating threads. This PR adds a guarded `/side` flow so users
can ask brief side-conversation questions in an ephemeral fork while
keeping the primary thread focused. This also helps address the feature
request in #18125.
The implementation creates one side conversation at a time, lets `/side`
open either an empty side thread or immediately submit `/side
<question>`, and returns to the parent with Esc or Ctrl+C. Side
conversations get hidden developer guardrails that treat inherited
history as reference-only and steer the model away from workspace
mutations unless explicitly requested in the side conversation.
The TUI hides most slash commands while side mode is active, leaving
only `/copy`, `/diff`, `/mention`, and `/status` available there.
## Why
Users have asked to queue follow-up slash commands while a task is
running, including in #14081, #14588, #14286, and #13779. The previous
TUI behavior validated slash commands immediately, so commands that are
only meaningful once the current turn is idle could not be queued
consistently.
The queue should preserve what the user typed and defer command parsing
until the item is actually dispatched. This also gives `/fast`, `/review
...`, `/rename ...`, `/model`, `/permissions`, and similar slash
workflows the same FIFO behavior as plain queued prompts.
## What Changed
- Added a queued-input action enum so queued items can be dispatched as
plain prompts, slash commands, or user shell commands.
- Changed `Tab` queueing to accept slash-led prompts without validating
them up front, then parse and dispatch them when dequeued.
- Added `!` shell-command queueing for `Tab` while a task is running,
while preserving existing `Enter` behavior for immediate shell
execution.
- Moved queued slash dispatch through shared slash-command parsing so
inline commands, unavailable commands, unknown commands, and local
config commands report at dequeue time.
- Continued queue draining after local-only actions and after slash menu
cancellation or selection when no task is running.
- Preserved slash-popup completion behavior so `/mo<Tab>` completes to
`/model ` instead of queueing the prefix.
- Updated pending-input preview snapshots to show queued follow-up
inputs.
## Verification
I did a bunch of manual validation (and found and fixed a few bugs along
the way).
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