## Why
Memory prompt injection should be owned by the extension path that
app-server composes at runtime, not by an inlined special case inside
`codex-core`. This keeps `codex-core` focused on session orchestration
while allowing the memories extension to own its app-server prompt
behavior.
## What Changed
- Registers `codex-memories-extension` in the app-server extension
registry.
- Moves the memory developer-instruction injection out of
`core/src/session/mod.rs` and into the memories extension prompt
contributor.
- Adds config-change handling so the extension keeps its per-thread
memory settings in sync after startup.
- Leaves memories read/retrieval tools unregistered for now so this PR
only changes prompt injection.
- Removes the stale `cargo-shear` ignore now that app-server depends on
the extension crate.
## Validation
Not run locally; validation is left to CI.
## Why
Remote compaction v2 is the `/responses` implementation of
session-history compaction, but it still needs to preserve the
observable contract of the legacy `/responses/compact` path. In
particular, users and integrations that rely on `PreCompact` and
`PostCompact` hooks should not see different behavior when
`remote_compaction_v2` is enabled.
## What Changed
- Runs `PreCompact` before issuing the remote compaction v2 request,
including `Interrupted` analytics when a pre-hook stops execution.
- Runs `PostCompact` after a successful v2 compaction and aborts the
turn if the post-hook stops execution.
- Adds `compact_remote_parity` coverage that compares legacy and v2
compaction across manual transcript shapes, automatic pre-turn
compaction, automatic mid-turn compaction, hook payloads, replacement
history, follow-up request payloads, and API-key `service_tier=fast`
behavior.
- Registers the new parity suite under `core/tests/suite`.
Relevant code:
-
[`compact_remote_v2.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/af63745cb502183a6fc447d0240f8150934d70b7/codex-rs/core/src/compact_remote_v2.rs)
-
[`compact_remote_parity.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/af63745cb502183a6fc447d0240f8150934d70b7/codex-rs/core/tests/suite/compact_remote_parity.rs)
## Verification
- Added `core/tests/suite/compact_remote_parity.rs` to assert parity
between legacy remote compaction and remote compaction v2 for the
affected request, hook, rollout-history, and follow-up paths.
- Existing `compact_remote_v2` unit coverage still exercises v2
replacement-history retention and compaction-output collection.
## Summary
- move tool_user_shell_type out of the old tools::spec module and call
it from tools directly
- attach the remaining spec planning model tests under spec_plan
- delete core/src/tools/spec.rs
## Tests
- just fmt
- cargo test -p codex-core tools::spec_plan
Note: a broader cargo test -p codex-core run on the earlier PR-head
worktree still hit the pre-existing stack overflow in
agent::control::tests::spawn_agent_fork_last_n_turns_keeps_only_recent_turns.
## Why
The tool runtime path still had a typed output associated type on
`ToolExecutor`, plus a core-only `RegisteredTool` adapter and
extension-only executor aliases. That made every new shared tool runtime
carry extra adapter plumbing before it could participate in core
dispatch, extension tools, hook payloads, telemetry, and model-visible
spec generation.
This PR moves output erasure to the shared executor boundary so core and
extension tools can use the same execution contract directly.
## What Changed
- Changed `codex_tools::ToolExecutor` to return `Box<dyn ToolOutput>`
instead of an associated `Output` type.
- Removed the extension-specific `ExtensionToolExecutor` /
`ExtensionToolOutput` aliases and exposed `ToolExecutor<ToolCall>` plus
`ToolOutput` through `codex-extension-api`.
- Reworked core tool registration around `CoreToolRuntime` and
`ToolRegistry::from_tools`, removing the extra `RegisteredTool` /
`ToolRegistryBuilder` layer.
- Consolidated model-visible spec planning and registry construction in
`core/src/tools/spec_plan.rs`, including deferred tool search and
code-mode-only filtering.
- Added `ToolOutput` helpers for post-tool-use hook ids and inputs so
MCP, unified exec, extension, and other boxed outputs preserve the same
hook payload behavior.
- Updated core handlers, memories tools, and the related
registry/spec/router tests to use the simplified contract.
## Test Coverage
- Updated coverage for tool spec planning, registry lookup, deferred
tool search registration, extension tool routing, post-tool-use hook
payloads, dispatch tracing, guardian output extraction, and memories
extension tool execution.
## Why
Remote compaction v2 was still using `context_compaction` as both the
request trigger and the compacted output shape. The Responses API now
has the landed contract for this flow: Codex sends a dedicated `{
"type": "compaction_trigger" }` input item, and the backend returns the
standard `compaction` output item with encrypted content.
This aligns the v2 path with that wire contract while preserving the
existing local compacted-history post-processing behavior.
## What changed
- Add `ResponseItem::CompactionTrigger` and regenerate the app-server
protocol schema fixtures.
- Send `compaction_trigger` from `remote_compaction_v2` instead of a
payload-less `context_compaction`.
- Collect exactly one backend `compaction` output item, then reuse the
existing compacted-history rebuilding path.
- Treat the trigger item as a transient request marker rather than model
output or persisted rollout/memory content.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol compaction_trigger`
- `cargo test -p codex-core remote_compact_v2`
- `cargo test -p codex-core compact_remote_v2`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
responses_websocket_sends_response_processed_after_remote_compaction_v2`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol schema_fixtures`
## Why
This PR builds on [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610)
and is the app-server side of the migration from mutable per-turn
`SandboxPolicy` replacement toward selecting immutable permission
profiles by id plus mutable runtime workspace roots.
Once permission profiles can carry their own immutable
`workspace_roots`, app-server no longer needs to mutate the selected
`PermissionProfile` just to represent thread-specific filesystem
context. The mutable part now lives on the thread as explicit
`runtimeWorkspaceRoots`, while `:workspace_roots` remains symbolic until
the sandbox is realized for a turn.
## What Changed
- Replaced the v2 permission-selection wrapper surface with plain
profile ids for `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and
`turn/start`.
- Removed the API surface for profile modifications
(`PermissionProfileSelectionParams`,
`PermissionProfileModificationParams`,
`ActivePermissionProfileModification`).
- Added experimental `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` fields to the thread
lifecycle and turn-start APIs.
- Threaded runtime workspace roots through core session/thread
snapshots, turn overrides, app-server request handling, and command
execution permission resolution.
- Kept session permission state symbolic so later runtime root updates
and cwd-only implicit-root retargeting rebind `:workspace_roots`
correctly.
- Updated the embedded clients just enough to send and restore the new
thread state.
- Refreshed the generated schema/TypeScript artifacts and the app-server
README to match the new contract.
## Verification
Targeted coverage for this layer lives in:
- `codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/tests.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_start.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_resume.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/turn_start.rs`
- `codex-rs/core/src/session/tests.rs`
The key regression checks exercise that:
- `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` resolve against the effective cwd on thread
start.
- Profile-declared workspace roots are excluded from the runtime
workspace roots returned by app-server.
- A turn-level runtime workspace-root update persists onto the thread
and is returned by `thread/resume`.
- A named permission profile selected on one turn remains symbolic so a
later runtime-root-only turn update changes the actual sandbox writes.
- A cwd-only turn update retargets the implicit runtime cwd root while
preserving additional runtime roots.
- The protocol fixtures and generated client artifacts stay in sync with
the string-based permission selection contract.
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## Summary
- reserve an explicit opaque `desktop` namespace in `ConfigToml`
- expose `desktop` directly in the app-server v2 `config/read` response
- keep `config/value/write` and `config/batchWrite` as the only mutation
seam for paths like `desktop.someKey`
- regenerate the config/app-server schema outputs and document the new
contract
## Why
The desktop settings work wants one durable, user-editable home for
app-owned preferences in `~/.codex/config.toml`, without forcing Rust to
model every individual desktop setting key.
This PR is only the enabling Rust/app-server layer. It gives the
Electron app a first-class config namespace it can read and write
through the existing config APIs, while leaving the actual desktop
migration to the app PR.
## Behavior and design notes
- **Opaque but explicit:** `desktop` is first-class at the typed config
root, while its children remain app-owned and open-ended.
- **Strict validation still works:** arbitrary nested `desktop.*` keys
are accepted instead of being rejected as unknown config.
- **Existing config APIs stay the seam:** `config/read` returns the bag,
and dotted writes such as `desktop.someKey` continue to flow through
`config/value/write` / `config/batchWrite` rather than a bespoke RPC.
- **No new consumer behavior:** Core/TUI do not start depending on
desktop preferences. This only preserves and exposes the namespace for
callers that intentionally use it.
- **Same persistence machinery:** hand-edited `config.toml` keeps using
the existing TOML edit/write path; this PR does not introduce a second
serializer or side channel.
- **TOML-friendly values:** the namespace is intended for ordinary
JSON-shaped setting values that map cleanly into TOML: strings, numbers,
booleans, arrays, and nested object/table values. This PR does not add
special handling for TOML-only edge cases such as datetimes.
## Layering semantics
Reads keep using the ordinary effective config pipeline, so `desktop`
participates in the same layered `config/read` behavior as the rest of
`ConfigToml`. Writes still target user config through the existing
config service.
## Why this is the shape
The alternative would be teaching Rust about each desktop setting as it
is added. That would make ordinary app preferences into a cross-repo
change, which is exactly the coupling we want to avoid.
This keeps the contract small:
1. Rust owns one opaque `desktop` namespace in `config.toml`.
2. The desktop app owns the schema and meaning of individual keys inside
it.
3. The existing config APIs remain the transport and mutation surface.
That is the piece the desktop settings PR needs in order to move forward
cleanly.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-config strict_config_accepts_opaque_desktop_keys`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
desktop_toml_round_trips_opaque_nested_values`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_schema_matches_fixture`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all desktop_settings`
## Why
This PR is the invariant-cleanup layer that follows the workspace-roots
base merged in [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610).
#22610 adds `[permissions.<id>.workspace_roots]` and keeps runtime
workspace roots separate from the raw permission profile, but its
in-memory representation is intentionally transitional: `Permissions`
still carries the selected profile identity next to a constrained
`PermissionProfile`. That makes APIs such as
`set_constrained_permission_profile_with_active_profile()` fragile
because the id and value only mean the right thing when every caller
keeps them in sync.
This PR introduces a single resolved profile state so profile identity,
`extends`, the profile value, and profile-declared workspace roots
travel together. The next PR,
[#22611](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22611), builds on this by
changing the app-server turn API to select permission profiles by id
plus runtime workspace roots.
## Stack Context
- #22610, now merged: adds profile-declared `workspace_roots`, runtime
workspace roots, and `:workspace_roots` materialization.
- This PR: replaces the parallel active-profile/profile-value fields
with `PermissionProfileState`.
- #22611: switches app-server turn updates toward profile ids plus
runtime workspace roots.
- #22612: updates TUI/exec summaries to show the effective workspace
roots.
Keeping this separate from #22611 is deliberate: reviewers can validate
the internal state invariant before reviewing the app-server protocol
migration.
## What Changed
- Added `ResolvedPermissionProfile::{Legacy, BuiltIn, Named}` and
`PermissionProfileState`.
- Typed built-in profile ids with `BuiltInPermissionProfileId`.
- Moved selected profile identity and profile-declared workspace roots
into the resolved state.
- Replaced `Permissions` parallel profile fields with one
`permission_profile_state`.
- Removed `set_constrained_permission_profile_with_active_profile()`
from session sync paths.
- Kept trusted session replay/`SessionConfigured` compatibility through
explicit session snapshot helpers.
- Updated session configuration, MCP initialization, app-server, exec,
TUI, and guardian call sites to consume `&PermissionProfile` directly.
## Review Guide
Start with `codex-rs/core/src/config/resolved_permission_profile.rs`; it
is the new invariant boundary. Then review
`codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs` to see how config loading records
active profile identity and profile workspace roots. The remaining
call-site changes are mostly mechanical fallout from
`Permissions::permission_profile()` returning `&PermissionProfile`
instead of `&Constrained<PermissionProfile>`.
## Verification
The existing config/session coverage now constructs and asserts through
`PermissionProfileState`. The workspace-root config test also asserts
that profile-declared roots are preserved in the resolved state, which
is the behavior #22611 relies on when runtime roots become mutable
through the app-server API.
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* #22611
* __->__ #22683
## Summary
- add the missing response.created event to the mocked empty follow-up
response in the compact rollback test
- keep the fix scoped to the flaky mocked stream shape, without
increasing timeouts
## Recent flakes on main
- `snapshot_rollback_followup_turn_trims_context_updates` failed in
`rust-ci-full` on `main` in the Ubuntu remote test job on 2026-05-14:
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/25891434395/job/76095284830
- The same `compact_resume_fork` suite also failed recently on `main`
with `snapshot_rollback_past_compaction_replays_append_only_history`,
which has the same mocked Responses stream shape sensitivity this PR is
tightening:
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/25892437363/job/76098329098
## Verification
- env -u CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED cargo test -p codex-core --test
all snapshot_rollback_followup_turn_trims_context_updates -- --nocapture
- repeated the same focused test 3 consecutive times locally
- UV_CACHE_DIR=/private/tmp/uv-cache-codex-fmt just fmt
## Why
- Similar change as https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/21219
- Without change: MCP tool calls receive
`_meta["x-codex-turn-metadata"]` with various key values.
- Issue: MCP servers currently do not know if user input was requested
during the turn (Ex: Model decides to prompt the user for approval
mid-turn before making a possibly risky tool call). MCP servers may want
to know this when tracking latency metrics because these instances are
inflated.
## What Changed
- With change: MCP turn metadata now includes
`user_input_requested_during_turn` when a model-visible
`request_user_input` call happened earlier in the turn, propagated in
`_meta["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`.
- `mark_turn_user_input_requested()` is called when user input is
requested through either MCP elicitation (`mcp.rs`) or the
`request_user_input` tool (`mod.rs`).
- MCP tool call `_meta` is now built immediately before execution
(`mcp_tool_call.rs`) so user input requested earlier in the same turn,
including within the same tool call via elicitation, is reflected in the
metadata.
- Normal `/responses` turn metadata headers are unchanged.
## Verification
- `codex-rs/core/src/session/mcp_tests.rs`
- `codex-rs/core/src/tools/handlers/request_user_input_tests.rs`
- `codex-rs/core/src/turn_metadata_tests.rs`
- `codex-rs/core/tests/suite/search_tool.rs`
## Why
This is the configuration/model half of the alternative permissions
migration we discussed as a comparison point for
[#22401](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22401) and
[#22402](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22402).
The old `workspace-write` model mixes three concerns that we want to
keep separate:
- reusable profile rules that should stay immutable once selected
- user/runtime workspace roots from `cwd`, `--add-dir`, and legacy
workspace-write config
- internal Codex writable roots such as memories, which should not be
shown as user workspace roots
This PR gives permission profiles first-class `workspace_roots` so users
can opt multiple repositories into the same `:workspace_roots` rules
without using broad absolute-path write grants. It also starts
separating the raw selected profile from the effective runtime profile
by making `Permissions` expose explicit accessors instead of public
mutable fields.
A representative `config.toml` looks like this:
```toml
default_permissions = "dev"
[permissions.dev.workspace_roots]
"~/code/openai" = true
"~/code/developers-website" = true
[permissions.dev.filesystem.":workspace_roots"]
"." = "write"
".codex" = "read"
".git" = "read"
".vscode" = "read"
```
If Codex starts in `~/code/codex` with that profile selected, the
effective workspace-root set becomes:
- `~/code/codex` from the runtime `cwd`
- `~/code/openai` from the profile
- `~/code/developers-website` from the profile
The `:workspace_roots` rules are materialized across each root, so
`.git`, `.codex`, and `.vscode` stay scoped the same way everywhere.
Runtime additions such as `--add-dir` can still layer on later stack
entries without mutating the selected profile.
## Stack Shape
This PR intentionally stops before the profile-identity cleanup in
[#22683](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22683) so the base review
stays focused on config loading, workspace-root materialization, and
compatibility with legacy `workspace-write`.
The representation in this PR is therefore transitional: `Permissions`
carries enough state to distinguish the raw constrained profile from the
effective runtime profile, and there are still call sites that must keep
the active profile identity and constrained profile value in sync. The
follow-up PR replaces that with a single resolved profile state
(`ResolvedPermissionProfile` / `PermissionProfileState`) that keeps the
profile id, immutable `PermissionProfile`, and profile-declared
workspace roots together. That follow-up removes APIs such as
`set_constrained_permission_profile_with_active_profile()` where
separate arguments could drift out of sync.
Downstream PRs then build on this base to switch app-server turn updates
to profile ids plus runtime workspace roots and to finish the
user-visible summary behavior. Reviewers should judge this PR as the
workspace-roots foundation, not as the final in-memory shape of selected
permission profiles.
## Review Guide
Suggested review order:
1. Start with `codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs`.
This is the main shape change in the base slice. `Permissions` now
stores a private raw `Constrained<PermissionProfile>` plus runtime
`workspace_roots`. Callers use `permission_profile()` when they need the
raw constrained value and `effective_permission_profile()` when they
need a materialized runtime profile. As noted above,
[#22683](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22683) replaces this
transitional shape with a resolved profile state that keeps identity and
profile data together.
2. Review `codex-rs/config/src/permissions_toml.rs` and
`codex-rs/core/src/config/permissions.rs`.
These add `[permissions.<id>.workspace_roots]`, resolve enabled entries
relative to the policy cwd, and keep `:workspace_roots` deny-read glob
patterns symbolic until the actual roots are known.
3. Review `codex-rs/protocol/src/permissions.rs` and
`codex-rs/protocol/src/models.rs`.
These add the policy/profile materialization helpers that expand exact
`:workspace_roots` entries and scoped deny-read globs over every
workspace root. This is also where `ActivePermissionProfileModification`
is removed from the core model.
4. Review the legacy bridge in
`Config::load_from_base_config_with_overrides` and
`Config::set_legacy_sandbox_policy`.
This is where legacy `workspace-write` roots become runtime workspace
roots, while Codex internal writable roots stay internal and do not
appear as user-facing workspace roots.
5. Then skim downstream call sites.
The interesting pattern is raw-vs-effective access: state/proxy/bwrap
paths keep the raw constrained profile, while execution, summaries, and
user-visible status use the effective profile and workspace-root list.
## What Changed
- added `[permissions.<id>.workspace_roots]` to the config model and
schema
- added runtime `workspace_roots` state to `Config`/`Permissions` and
`ConfigOverrides`
- made `Permissions` profile fields private and replaced direct mutation
with accessors/setters
- added `PermissionProfile` and `FileSystemSandboxPolicy` helpers for
materializing `:workspace_roots` exact paths and deny-read globs across
all roots
- moved legacy additional writable roots into runtime workspace-root
state instead of active profile modifications
- removed `ActivePermissionProfileModification` and its app-server
protocol/schema export
- updated sandbox/status summary paths so internal writable roots are
not reported as user workspace roots
## Verification Strategy
The targeted tests cover the behavior at the layers where regressions
are most likely:
- `codex-rs/core/src/config/config_tests.rs` verifies config loading,
legacy workspace-root seeding, effective profile materialization, and
memory-root handling.
- `codex-rs/core/src/config/permissions_tests.rs` verifies profile
`workspace_roots` parsing and `:workspace_roots` scoped/glob
compilation.
- `codex-rs/protocol/src/permissions.rs` unit tests verify exact and
glob materialization over multiple workspace roots.
- `codex-rs/tui/src/status/tests.rs` and
`codex-rs/utils/sandbox-summary/src/sandbox_summary.rs` verify the
user-facing summaries show effective workspace roots and hide internal
writes.
I also ran `cargo check --tests` locally after the latest stack refresh
to catch cross-crate API breakage from the private-field/accessor
changes.
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## Summary
Remove the deprecated `experimental_instructions_file` config setting
from the typed config surface and the remaining deprecation-notice
plumbing. `model_instructions_file` remains the supported setting and
its loading path is unchanged.
The setting was deprecated when it was renamed to
`model_instructions_file` on January 20, 2026 in
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9555.
## Changes
- Remove `experimental_instructions_file` from `ConfigToml` and
`ConfigProfile`.
- Delete the custom config-layer scan and session deprecation notice for
the removed setting.
- Stop clearing the removed field from generated session config locks.
- Remove the obsolete deprecation-notice test case while keeping
`model_instructions_file` coverage intact.
## Validation
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core model_instructions_file`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `git diff --check`
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Why
The Responses API test support already has structured SSE event
builders. Keeping separate JSON fixture loaders made small mock streams
harder to read and left an on-disk fixture for a single event.
## What changed
- Removed `load_sse_fixture` and `load_sse_fixture_with_id_from_str`
from `core_test_support`.
- Deleted the one `tests/fixtures/incomplete_sse.json` Responses API
fixture.
- Replaced the remaining call sites with `responses::sse(...)` and
existing event helpers.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
stream_no_completed::retries_on_early_close`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
history_dedupes_streamed_and_final_messages_across_turns`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all review::`
## Why
The TUI still had a few low-risk dependencies flowing through the
transitional `legacy_core` namespace after the app-server migration.
These helpers either already have clearer non-core owners or are
presentation logic that does not belong in `codex-core`, so moving them
out reduces the compatibility surface without changing product behavior.
## What changed
This is a low-risk change, almost completely mechanical in nature.
- Route TUI Codex-home lookup through `codex-utils-home-dir`, use
`Config::log_dir` directly, and call
`codex-sandboxing::system_bwrap_warning` without going through
`legacy_core`.
- Move shared `codex resume` hint formatting from `codex-core` into
`codex-utils-cli`.
- Update CLI and TUI call sites to use the shared CLI utility, and keep
the resume-command behavior covered by tests in its new home.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-utils-cli`
- `cargo test -p codex-utils-cli resume_command`
## Summary
Removes the feature since this is effectively on by default in all cases
where we should use it, or can be configured via models.json.
## Testing
- [x] unit tests pass
## Summary
This change lets `forced_chatgpt_workspace_id` accept multiple workspace
IDs instead of a single value.
It keeps the existing config key name, adds backward-compatible parsing
for a single string in `config.toml`, and normalizes the setting into an
allowed workspace list across login enforcement, app-server config
surfaces, and local ChatGPT auth helpers.
## Why
Workspace-restricted deployments may need to allow more than one ChatGPT
workspace without dropping the guardrail entirely.
## Server-side impact
Codex's local server and app-server protocol needed changes because they
previously assumed a single workspace ID. The local login flow now
matches the auth backend interface by sending the allowed workspace list
as a single comma-separated `allowed_workspace_id` query parameter.
## Validation
This was tested with:
- A single workspace config
- With multi-workspace configs
- With multiple workspaces in the config
- The user only being a part of a subset of them
All were successful.
Automated coverage:
- `cargo test -p codex-login`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui local_chatgpt_auth`
- `cargo test --locked -p codex-app-server
login_account_chatgpt_includes_forced_workspace_allowlist_query_param`
## Why
Some core integration-test paths were creating Codex state under ambient
`~/.codex`. In environments where `HOME=/tmp`, that showed up as
`/tmp/.codex`, which is host-level shared state and makes these tests
environment/order sensitive.
The affected paths were:
- `core/tests/suite/live_cli.rs`: `run_live()` spawned the real CLI with
a temp cwd, but without an isolated home, so the child resolved Codex
home from ambient `HOME`.
- core / exec-server integration test binaries using
`configure_test_binary_dispatch(...)`: their startup ctor installs arg0
helper aliases like `apply_patch` and `codex-linux-sandbox`. Full
`arg0_dispatch()` also installs aliases from ambient Codex-home
resolution, so test-binary startup could create `CODEX_HOME/tmp/arg0`;
with `HOME=/tmp`, that became `/tmp/.codex/tmp/arg0/...`.
## What changed
- `live_cli` now gives the spawned CLI a temp `HOME` and temp
`CODEX_HOME`.
- arg0 alias setup now has an explicit-home form,
`prepend_path_entry_for_codex_aliases_in(...)`, so test helpers can
place alias state under a temp directory without relying on ambient
`CODEX_HOME`.
- helper re-entry behavior is preserved with
`dispatch_arg0_if_needed()`, so aliases like `apply_patch` and
`codex-linux-sandbox` still dispatch correctly before test alias
installation.
- core test support keeps the temp Codex home alive for the lifetime of
the test binary, matching the alias lifetime.
## Verification
Verified on `dev2` with `HOME=/tmp` that the focused core test-binary
startup path no longer recreates `/tmp/.codex`.
Also checked the exact `live_cli` test path under `HOME=/tmp`; on `dev2`
it still hits the existing remote-only `cargo_bin("codex-rs")`
resolution failure before spawning the child, but `/tmp/.codex` remains
absent after the run.
## Why
The Docker remote-env coverage was failing before it reached the
behavior those tests are meant to exercise. The remote-aware test
fixture only registered the remote environment, so tests that
intentionally select both `local` and `remote` could not start a turn.
After that was fixed, two tests exposed stale fixtures: the approval
test was auto-approving under workspace-write, and the remote
`view_image` test was writing invalid PNG bytes.
## What Changed
- Added `EnvironmentManager::create_for_tests_with_local(...)` so tests
can keep the provider default while also selecting `local` explicitly.
- Updated `build_remote_aware()` to use that test-only manager when a
remote exec-server URL is present.
- Changed the remote apply-patch approval helper to use
`SandboxPolicy::new_read_only_policy()` so the test actually exercises
approval caching per environment.
- Replaced the hardcoded remote `view_image` PNG blob with the existing
`png_bytes(...)` helper so the test uses a valid image fixture.
## Validation
Ran these isolated Docker remote-env tests on the devbox with
`$remote-tests` setup:
-
`suite::remote_env::apply_patch_freeform_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
-
`suite::remote_env::apply_patch_approvals_are_remembered_per_environment`
-
`suite::remote_env::apply_patch_intercepted_exec_command_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
-
`suite::remote_env::exec_command_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
- `suite::view_image::view_image_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
All five pass.
## Why
Some MCP OAuth providers require a pre-registered public client ID and
cannot rely on dynamic client registration. Codex already supports MCP
OAuth, but it had no way to supply that client ID from config into the
PKCE flow.
## What changed
- add `oauth.client_id` under `[mcp_servers.<server>]` config, including
config editing and schema generation
- thread the configured client ID through CLI, app-server, plugin login,
and MCP skill dependency OAuth entrypoints
- configure RMCP authorization with the explicit client when present,
while preserving the existing dynamic-registration path when it is
absent
- add focused coverage for config parsing/serialization and OAuth URL
generation
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-config -p codex-rmcp-client -p codex-mcp -p
codex-core-plugins`
- `cargo test -p codex-core blocking_replace_mcp_servers_round_trips
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
replace_mcp_servers_streamable_http_serializes_oauth_resource --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_schema_matches_fixture --lib`
## Notes
Broader local package runs still hit unrelated pre-existing stack
overflows in:
- `codex-app-server::in_process_start_clamps_zero_channel_capacity`
-
`codex-core::resume_agent_from_rollout_uses_edge_data_when_descendant_metadata_source_is_stale`
## Summary
- keep Git metadata/status subprocesses independent of repository
`core.fsmonitor` configuration
- preserve existing working-tree state reporting while making the helper
behavior more predictable
- add regression coverage for `get_has_changes` when a repository
defines an fsmonitor command
## Validation
- `cargo fmt --all`
- `cargo test -p codex-core test_get_has_changes_`
- `cargo test -p codex-git-utils`
## Why
Some sandboxed integration tests enabled both ambient temp roots
(`TMPDIR` and literal `/tmp`) even though they were not testing
temp-root behavior. On Linux bwrap, making `/tmp` writable causes
protected metadata mount targets such as `/tmp/.git`, `/tmp/.agents`,
and `/tmp/.codex` to be synthesized. If a run is interrupted, those
top-level markers can be left behind and contaminate later tests.
## What changed
For the incidental integration tests that do not need ambient temp-root
access, set `exclude_tmpdir_env_var` and `exclude_slash_tmp` to `true`.
Dedicated protected-metadata coverage remains in the lower-level sandbox
tests that use isolated temp roots.
## Verification
Focused remote devbox repros passed with a watcher polling `/tmp/.git`,
`/tmp/.agents`, and `/tmp/.codex`; no leaked markers were observed.
## Why
This is a small precursor to the larger permissions-migration work. Both
the comparison stack in
[#22401](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22401) /
[#22402](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22402) and the alternate
stack in [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610) /
[#22611](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22611) /
[#22612](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22612) are easier to
review if the terminology is already settled underneath them.
Because `:project_roots` and `:danger-no-sandbox` have not shipped as
stable user-facing surface area, carrying them forward as aliases would
just add more migration logic to the later stacks. This PR removes that
ambiguity now so the follow-on work can rely on one spelling for each
built-in concept.
## What Changed
- renamed the config-facing special filesystem key from `:project_roots`
to `:workspace_roots`
- dropped unpublished `:project_roots` parsing support in
`core/src/config/permissions.rs`, so new config only recognizes
`:workspace_roots`
- renamed the built-in full-access permission profile id from
`:danger-no-sandbox` to `:danger-full-access`
- dropped unpublished `:danger-no-sandbox` support entirely, including
the old active-profile canonicalization path, and added explicit
rejection coverage for the legacy id
- introduced shared built-in permission-profile id constants in
`codex-rs/protocol/src/models.rs`
- updated `core`, `app-server`, and `tui` call sites that special-case
built-in profiles to use the shared constants and canonical ids
- updated tests and the Linux sandbox README to use `:workspace_roots` /
`:danger-full-access`
## Verification
I focused verification on the three places this rename can regress:
config parsing, active-profile identity surfaced back out of `core`, and
user/server call sites that special-case built-in profiles.
Targeted checks:
-
`config::tests::default_permissions_can_select_builtin_profile_without_permissions_table`
-
`config::tests::default_permissions_read_only_applies_additional_writable_roots_as_modifications`
-
`config::tests::default_permissions_can_select_builtin_full_access_profile`
- `config::tests::legacy_danger_no_sandbox_is_rejected`
- `workspace_root` filtered `codex-core` tests
-
`request_processors::thread_processor::thread_processor_tests::thread_processor_behavior_tests::requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
-
`suite::v2::turn_start::turn_start_rejects_invalid_permission_selection_before_starting_turn`
- `status::tests::status_snapshot_shows_auto_review_permissions`
-
`status::tests::status_permissions_full_disk_managed_with_network_is_danger_full_access`
-
`app_server_session::tests::embedded_turn_permissions_use_active_profile_selection`
## Summary
- carry the per-turn extension data through RunningTask so abort
handling can rebuild SessionTaskContext
- update stale test ExtensionData::new() callsites to pass the turn id
## Testing
- Not run after PR branch creation; CI will cover.
## Why
`--profile-v2 <name>` gives launchers and runtime entry points a named
profile config without making each profile duplicate the base user
config. The base `$CODEX_HOME/config.toml` still loads first, then
`$CODEX_HOME/<name>.config.toml` layers above it and becomes the active
writable user config for that session.
That keeps shared defaults, plugin/MCP setup, and managed/user
constraints in one place while letting a named profile override only the
pieces that need to differ.
## What Changed
- Added the shared `--profile-v2 <name>` runtime option with validated
plain names, now represented by `ProfileV2Name`.
- Extended config layer state so the base user config and selected
profile config are both `User` layers; APIs expose the active user layer
and merged effective user config.
- Threaded profile selection through runtime entry points: `codex`,
`codex exec`, `codex review`, `codex resume`, `codex fork`, and `codex
debug prompt-input`.
- Made user-facing config writes go to the selected profile file when
active, including TUI/settings persistence, app-server config writes,
and MCP/app tool approval persistence.
- Made plugin, marketplace, MCP, hooks, and config reload paths read
from the merged user config so base and profile layers both participate.
- Updated app-server config layer schemas to mark profile-backed user
layers.
## Limits
`--profile-v2` is still rejected for config-management subcommands such
as feature, MCP, and marketplace edits. Those paths remain tied to the
base `config.toml` until they have explicit profile-selection semantics.
Some adjacent background writes may still update base or global state
rather than the selected profile:
- marketplace auto-upgrade metadata
- automatic MCP dependency installs from skills
- remote plugin sync or uninstall config edits
- personality migration marker/default writes
## Verification
Added targeted coverage for profile name validation, layer
ordering/merging, selected-profile writes, app-server config writes,
session hot reload, plugin config merging, hooks/config fixture updates,
and MCP/app approval persistence.
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
- run registered TurnItemContributor hooks for parsed stream output
items
- plumb the active turn extension store into stream item handling
- preserve existing memory citation parsing as fallback after
contributors run
## Tests
- cargo test -p codex-core stream_events_utils -- --nocapture
- just fmt
- just fix -p codex-core
- git diff --check
## Why
`codex_tools::ToolExecutor` keeps a tool spec attached to its runtime
handler, but extension tools still carried a parallel
`ExtensionToolFuture` / `ExtensionToolExecutor` shape. That made
extension-owned tools look different from host tools even though
routing, registration, and execution need the same abstraction.
This PR makes the shared executor contract directly async and lets
extension tools implement it too, so host tools and extension tools can
move through the same registration path.
## What changed
- Changed `ToolExecutor::handle` to an `async fn` using `async-trait`,
and updated built-in tool handlers to implement the async trait
directly.
- Replaced the bespoke `ExtensionToolFuture` contract with a marker
`ExtensionToolExecutor` over `ToolExecutor<ToolCall, Output =
JsonToolOutput>`, re-exporting `ToolExecutor` from
`codex-extension-api`.
- Updated the memories extension tools to implement the shared executor
trait.
- Split tool-router construction into collected executors plus hosted
model specs, keeping hosted tools like web search and image generation
separate from executable handlers.
- Updated spec/router tests and extension-tool stubs for the new
executor shape.
## Verification
- Not run locally.
## 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`
## Summary
Get rid of the `experimental_use_freeform_apply_patch` config option,
since it is now encoded in model config. No deprecation message since it
has been experimental this entire time.
## Testing
- [x] Updated unit tests
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Remove unnecessary prefix filtering from codex
## Test Plan
Test local cli build + make sure backend returns appropriate apps
```
cd ~/code/codex/codex-rs
cargo build -p codex-cli --bin codex
./target/debug/codex
```
Appropriate apps show up in my list
# Why
`PreToolUse.additionalContext` became model-visible after #20692, but
the hook-output spilling path from #21069 never picked up that newer
lane. As a result, oversized `PreToolUse` context could bypass the
truncation/spill treatment that already applies to the other hook
outputs Codex forwards to the model.
# What
- Run `PreToolUseOutcome.additional_contexts` through
`maybe_spill_texts(...)`
- Add an integration test proving a large `PreToolUse.additionalContext`
is replaced with a truncated preview plus spill-file pointer, while the
full text is preserved on disk.
## Why
`multi_agent_v2` already allowed configuring the minimum `wait_agent`
timeout, but the default timeout and upper bound were still hard-coded.
That made it hard to tune waits for subagent mailbox activity in
sessions that need either faster wakeups or longer waits, and it meant
the model-visible `wait_agent` schema could not fully reflect the
resolved runtime limits.
## What Changed
- Added `features.multi_agent_v2.max_wait_timeout_ms` and
`features.multi_agent_v2.default_wait_timeout_ms` alongside the existing
`min_wait_timeout_ms` setting.
- Validated all three timeouts in config as `0..=3_600_000`, with
`min_wait_timeout_ms <= default_wait_timeout_ms <= max_wait_timeout_ms`.
- Thread and review session tool config now passes the resolved
min/default/max values into the `wait_agent` tool schema.
- `wait_agent` now uses the configured default when `timeout_ms` is
omitted and rejects explicit values outside the configured min/max range
instead of silently clamping them.
- Updated the generated config schema and config-lock test coverage for
the new fields.
## Why
On Windows, elevated sandboxed commands run under a dedicated sandbox
account while `HOME` / `USERPROFILE` can still point at the real user's
profile directory. For PowerShell login shells, that combination can
make the sandbox account try to load the real user's PowerShell profile
script. If the sandbox account's execution policy differs from the real
user's policy, startup can emit profile-loading errors before the
requested command runs.
For this backend, loading the profile is not a faithful user login
shell: it is cross-account profile execution. Treating these PowerShell
invocations as non-login shells avoids that invalid startup path.
## Why This Happens Late
The normal `login` decision is resolved when shell argv is created, but
that point is too early to make this Windows sandbox-specific decision.
At argv creation time we do not yet know the actual sandbox attempt that
will run the command. A turn can include sandboxed and unsandboxed
attempts, and a broad turn-level override would also affect Full Access
commands where the user's profile should remain available.
Instead, this change carries the selected `ShellType` alongside the argv
and applies the `-NoProfile` adjustment in the shell runtimes once the
`SandboxAttempt` is known. That keeps the override scoped to actual
`WindowsRestrictedToken` attempts with `WindowsSandboxLevel::Elevated`.
The runtime uses the selected shell metadata rather than re-detecting
PowerShell from argv. That avoids brittle parsing and covers PowerShell
invocation shapes such as `-EncodedCommand`.
## What Changed
- Carry selected shell metadata through `exec_command` / unified exec
requests and shell tool requests.
- Insert `-NoProfile` for PowerShell commands only when the runtime is
about to execute a sandboxed elevated Windows attempt.
- Add focused unit coverage for elevated Windows PowerShell,
`-EncodedCommand`, existing `-NoProfile`, legacy restricted-token
attempts, unsandboxed attempts, and non-PowerShell commands.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core disable_powershell_profile_tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core test_get_command`
- `cargo clippy --fix --tests --allow-dirty --allow-no-vcs -p
codex-core`
A full `cargo test -p codex-core` run was also attempted during
development, but it still hit an unrelated stack overflow in
`agent::control` tests before reaching this area.
## Why
`TurnContext::cwd` is deprecated in favor of resolving paths from the
selected turn environment cwd. A few filesystem-oriented paths were
still constructing sandbox context from the legacy cwd and then mutating
it afterward, or resolving local file paths through the deprecated
helper.
## What changed
- Make `TurnContext::file_system_sandbox_context` take the trusted cwd
explicitly.
- Pass the selected turn environment cwd directly from `apply_patch` and
`view_image` call sites.
- Restrict `spawn_agents_on_csv` to exactly one local environment and
resolve input/output CSV paths from that local environment cwd.
- Remove a redundant test setup assignment that only synchronized
deprecated `TurnContext::cwd` with a replaced config.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core view_image`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
maybe_persist_mcp_tool_approval_writes_project_config_for_project_server`
- `cargo test -p codex-core parse_csv_supports_quotes_and_commas`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
It appears this config flag has been broken/a noop for quite some time:
since https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8850. Let's simplify and get
rid of this.
## Testing
- [x] Updated unit tests
## Why
`TurnContext::cwd` and `TurnContext::resolve_path` are being phased out
in favor of using the selected turn environment cwd directly.
Deprecating both APIs makes any new direct dependency visible while
preserving the existing migration path for current callers.
## What Changed
- Marked `TurnContext::cwd` and `TurnContext::resolve_path` as
deprecated with guidance to use the selected turn environment cwd
instead.
- Added exact `#[allow(deprecated)]` suppressions at each existing
direct usage site, including tests, rather than adding crate-wide
suppression.
- Kept the change behavior-preserving: current cwd reads, writes, and
path resolution continue to use the same values.
## Verification
- `just fmt`
- `cargo check -p codex-core`
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
`code_mode_only` filters code-mode nested tools out of the top-level
tool list. For multi-agent v2, we need a rollout shape where the
collaboration tools remain callable as normal model tools without also
being embedded into the code-mode `exec` tool declaration.
Related to this:
https://openai-corpws.slack.com/archives/C0AQLHB4U75/p1778660267922549
## What Changed
- Adds `features.multi_agent_v2.non_code_mode_only`, including config
resolution, profile override handling, and generated schema coverage.
- Introduces `ToolExposure::DirectModelOnly` so a tool can be included
in the initial model-visible list while staying out of the nested
code-mode tool surface.
- Applies that exposure to the multi-agent v2 tools when the new flag is
set: `spawn_agent`, `send_message`, `followup_task`, `wait_agent`,
`close_agent`, and `list_agents`.
- Updates code-mode-only filtering so direct-model-only tools remain
visible while ordinary nested code-mode tools are still hidden.
## Verification
- Added config parsing/profile tests for `non_code_mode_only`.
- Added tool spec coverage for the code-mode-only multi-agent v2
exposure behavior.
## Why
Recent session history showed no active use of the raw `shell`,
`local_shell`, or `container.exec` execution surfaces. Keeping those
handlers/specs wired into core leaves duplicate shell execution paths
alongside the supported `shell_command` and unified exec tools.
## What changed
- Removed the raw `shell` handler/spec and its `ShellToolCallParams`
protocol helper.
- Removed the legacy `local_shell` and `container.exec` handler/spec
plumbing while preserving persisted-history compatibility for old
response items.
- Normalized model/config `default` and `local` shell selections to
`shell_command`.
- Pruned tests that exercised removed raw-shell/local-shell/apply-patch
variants and kept coverage on `shell_command`, unified exec, and
freeform `apply_patch`.
## Verification
- `git diff --check`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-tools`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tools::handlers::shell`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tools::spec`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tools::router`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
active_call_preserves_triggering_command_context`
- `cargo test -p codex-core guardian_tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all shell_serialization`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all apply_patch_cli`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all shell_command_`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all local_shell`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all otel::`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all hooks::`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-tools`
## Why
Stop sending duplicate `session_id`/`thread_id` headers. We only want
the hyphenated forms as `_` is rejected by some proxies
Related discussion here:
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C095U48JNL9/p1778508316923179
## What
- Keep `session-id` and `thread-id`
- Remove the underscore aliases
## Why
Deferred tools were tracked with separate side-channel filtering after
tool specs had already been assembled. That made the registry
responsible for executing tools while the router/spec planner separately
decided whether those same tools should be exposed to the model up
front.
This PR makes exposure part of the tool handler contract so direct
versus deferred availability travels with the executable tool
registration.
Next step will be to simplify registration
## What Changed
- Adds `ToolExposure` to `codex-tools` and exposes it through
`ToolExecutor`, defaulting tools to `Direct`.
- Teaches dynamic tools and MCP handlers to mark deferred tools as
`Deferred` at construction time.
- Renames the registry object-safe wrapper from `AnyToolHandler` to
`RegisteredTool` and uses `ToolExposure` when deciding whether to
include a handler's spec in the initial model-visible tool list.
- Refactors tool spec planning to derive direct specs and deferred
search entries from registered handlers, removing the router's
special-case deferred dynamic tool filtering.
## Verification
- Not run.
## Why
Codex intentionally ignores unknown `config.toml` fields by default so
older and newer config files keep working across versions. That leniency
also makes typo detection hard because misspelled or misplaced keys
disappear silently.
This change adds an opt-in strict config mode so users and tooling can
fail fast on unrecognized config fields without changing the default
permissive behavior.
This feature is possible because `serde_ignored` exposes the exact
signal Codex needs: it lets Codex run ordinary Serde deserialization
while recording fields Serde would otherwise ignore. That avoids
requiring `#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]` across every config type and
keeps strict validation opt-in around the existing config model.
## What Changed
### Added strict config validation
- Added `serde_ignored`-based validation for `ConfigToml` in
`codex-rs/config/src/strict_config.rs`.
- Combined `serde_ignored` with `serde_path_to_error` so strict mode
preserves typed config error paths while also collecting fields Serde
would otherwise ignore.
- Added strict-mode validation for unknown `[features]` keys, including
keys that would otherwise be accepted by `FeaturesToml`'s flattened
boolean map.
- Kept typed config errors ahead of ignored-field reporting, so
malformed known fields are reported before unknown-field diagnostics.
- Added source-range diagnostics for top-level and nested unknown config
fields, including non-file managed preference source names.
### Kept parsing single-pass per source
- Reworked file and managed-config loading so strict validation reuses
the already parsed `TomlValue` for that source.
- For actual config files and managed config strings, the loader now
reads once, parses once, and validates that same parsed value instead of
deserializing multiple times.
- Validated `-c` / `--config` override layers with the same
base-directory context used for normal relative-path resolution, so
unknown override keys are still reported when another override contains
a relative path.
### Scoped `--strict-config` to config-heavy entry points
- Added support for `--strict-config` on the main config-loading entry
points where it is most useful:
- `codex`
- `codex resume`
- `codex fork`
- `codex exec`
- `codex review`
- `codex mcp-server`
- `codex app-server` when running the server itself
- the standalone `codex-app-server` binary
- the standalone `codex-exec` binary
- Commands outside that set now reject `--strict-config` early with
targeted errors instead of accepting it everywhere through shared CLI
plumbing.
- `codex app-server` subcommands such as `proxy`, `daemon`, and
`generate-*` are intentionally excluded from the first rollout.
- When app-server strict mode sees invalid config, app-server exits with
the config error instead of logging a warning and continuing with
defaults.
- Introduced a dedicated `ReviewCommand` wrapper in `codex-rs/cli`
instead of extending shared `ReviewArgs`, so `--strict-config` stays on
the outer config-loading command surface and does not become part of the
reusable review payload used by `codex exec review`.
### Coverage
- Added tests for top-level and nested unknown config fields, unknown
`[features]` keys, typed-error precedence, source-location reporting,
and non-file managed preference source names.
- Added CLI coverage showing invalid `--enable`, invalid `--disable`,
and unknown `-c` overrides still error when `--strict-config` is
present, including compound-looking feature names such as
`multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text`.
- Added integration coverage showing both `codex app-server
--strict-config` and standalone `codex-app-server --strict-config` exit
with an error for unknown config fields instead of starting with
fallback defaults.
- Added coverage showing unsupported command surfaces reject
`--strict-config` with explicit errors.
## Example Usage
Run Codex with strict config validation enabled:
```shell
codex --strict-config
```
Strict config mode is also available on the supported config-heavy
subcommands:
```shell
codex --strict-config exec "explain this repository"
codex review --strict-config --uncommitted
codex mcp-server --strict-config
codex app-server --strict-config --listen off
codex-app-server --strict-config --listen off
```
For example, if `~/.codex/config.toml` contains a typo in a key name:
```toml
model = "gpt-5"
approval_polic = "on-request"
```
then `codex --strict-config` reports the misspelled key instead of
silently ignoring it. The path is shortened to `~` here for readability:
```text
$ codex --strict-config
Error loading config.toml:
~/.codex/config.toml:2:1: unknown configuration field `approval_polic`
|
2 | approval_polic = "on-request"
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```
Without `--strict-config`, Codex keeps the existing permissive behavior
and ignores the unknown key.
Strict config mode also validates ad-hoc `-c` / `--config` overrides:
```text
$ codex --strict-config -c foo=bar
Error: unknown configuration field `foo` in -c/--config override
$ codex --strict-config -c features.foo=true
Error: unknown configuration field `features.foo` in -c/--config override
```
Invalid feature toggles are rejected too, including values that look
like nested config paths:
```text
$ codex --strict-config --enable does_not_exist
Error: Unknown feature flag: does_not_exist
$ codex --strict-config --disable does_not_exist
Error: Unknown feature flag: does_not_exist
$ codex --strict-config --enable multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text
Error: Unknown feature flag: multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text
```
Unsupported commands reject the flag explicitly:
```text
$ codex --strict-config cloud list
Error: `--strict-config` is not supported for `codex cloud`
```
## Verification
The `codex-cli` `strict_config` tests cover invalid `--enable`, invalid
`--disable`, the compound `multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text`
case, unknown `-c` overrides, app-server strict startup failure through
`codex app-server`, and rejection for unsupported commands such as
`codex cloud`, `codex mcp`, `codex remote-control`, and `codex
app-server proxy`.
The config and config-loader tests cover unknown top-level fields,
unknown nested fields, unknown `[features]` keys, source-location
reporting, non-file managed config sources, and `-c` validation for keys
such as `features.foo`.
The app-server test suite covers standalone `codex-app-server
--strict-config` startup failure for an unknown config field.
## Documentation
The Codex CLI docs on developers.openai.com/codex should mention
`--strict-config` as an opt-in validation mode for supported
config-heavy entry points once this ships.
## 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
Extensions can observe thread and turn lifecycle events today, but there
was no single host-owned hook for changes to the effective thread
configuration. That makes features that need to react to model,
permission, or tool-suggest updates either depend on individual mutation
paths or risk going stale after runtime config refreshes.
This adds a typed config-change contributor so extension-owned state can
stay synchronized with the effective thread config while the host
remains responsible for deciding when config changed.
## What Changed
- Added `ConfigContributor<C>` to `codex_extension_api`, with
before/after immutable snapshots of the effective config plus
session/thread extension stores.
- Added registry builder/accessor support through `config_contributor`
and `config_contributors`.
- Emits config-change callbacks after committed updates from session
settings, per-turn setting updates, and `refresh_runtime_config`.
- Builds effective config snapshots only when config contributors are
registered, and suppresses no-op callbacks when the before/after
snapshots are equal.
- Added a core session regression test that verifies contributors
observe both model changes and user-layer runtime config changes,
including access to session and thread extension stores.
## Validation
Added `config_change_contributor_observes_effective_config_changes` in
`codex-rs/core/src/session/tests.rs` to cover the new contributor path.
## Why
Spawned agents can already override `model` and `reasoning_effort`, but
they have no equivalent way to opt into a model-supported service tier.
That makes it impossible to preserve or intentionally select tiered
execution behavior when delegating work to a sub-agent, even though the
model catalog already advertises supported `service_tiers`.
## What changed
- Add optional `service_tier` to both legacy and `MultiAgentV2`
`spawn_agent` tool inputs.
- Show each picker-visible model's supported service tier ids and
descriptions in the `spawn_agent` tool guidance.
- Resolve service tier selection after the child agent's effective model
is known.
- Inherit the parent tier when omitted and still supported by the final
child model; otherwise clear it.
- Reject explicit unsupported tier requests with a model-facing error.
- Keep explicit `service_tier` usable on full-history forks, while still
honoring the existing model/reasoning fork restrictions.
- Hide `service_tier` alongside other spawn metadata when
`hide_spawn_agent_metadata` is enabled.
## Verification
Added focused coverage for:
- v1/v2 `spawn_agent` schema exposure for `service_tier`
- tier descriptions in spawn guidance
- hidden-metadata suppression
- explicit supported tier selection
- explicit unknown and unsupported tier rejection
- inherited tier preservation or clearing based on child-model support
- full-history fork acceptance for explicit service tiers in both v1 and
v2
Local Rust tests were not run in this workspace per repo guidance; the
new coverage is included for CI.
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