## Why
First-party async traits should expose their `Send` contracts explicitly
without requiring `async_trait`. This completes the migration pattern
established in #27303 and #27304.
## What changed
- Replaced the remaining first-party `async_trait` traits with native
return-position `impl Future + Send` where statically dispatched and
explicit boxed `Send` futures where object safety is required.
- Kept implementations behavior-preserving, outlining existing async
bodies into inherent methods where that keeps the diff reviewable.
- Removed all direct first-party `async-trait` dependencies and the
workspace dependency declaration.
- Added a cargo-deny policy that permits `async-trait` only through the
remaining transitive wrapper crates.
- Updated `rand` from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 to resolve RUSTSEC-2026-0097 and
keep the full cargo-deny check passing.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-exec-server`: 216 passed, 2 skipped.
- `just test -p codex-model-provider`: 39 passed.
- `just test -p codex-core` and `just test`: changed tests passed;
remaining failures are environment-sensitive suites unrelated to this
migration.
- `cargo deny check`
- `just fix`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo shear`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
Follow-up to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18178, where we called
out enabling the await-holding lint as a follow-up.
The long-term goal is to enable Clippy coverage for async guards held
across awaits. This PR is intentionally only the first, low-risk cleanup
pass: it narrows obvious lock guard lifetimes and leaves
`codex-rs/Cargo.toml` unchanged so the lint is not enabled until the
remaining cases are fixed or explicitly justified. It intentionally
leaves the active-turn/turn-state locking pattern alone because those
checks and mutations need to stay atomic.
## Common fixes used here
These are the main patterns reviewers should expect in this PR, and they
are also the patterns to reach for when fixing future `await_holding_*`
findings:
- **Scope the guard to the synchronous work.** If the code only needs
data from a locked value, move the lock into a small block, clone or
compute the needed values, and do the later `.await` after the block.
- **Use direct one-line mutations when there is no later await.** Cases
like `map.lock().await.remove(&id)` are acceptable when the guard is
only needed for that single mutation and the statement ends before any
async work.
- **Drain or clone work out of the lock before notifying or awaiting.**
For example, the JS REPL drains pending exec senders into a local vector
and the websocket writer clones buffered envelopes before it serializes
or sends them.
- **Use a `Semaphore` only when serialization is intentional across
async work.** The test serialization guards intentionally span awaited
setup or execution, so using a semaphore communicates "one at a time"
without holding a mutex guard.
- **Remove the mutex when there is only one owner.** The PTY stdin
writer task owns `stdin` directly; the old `Arc<Mutex<_>>` did not
protect shared access because nothing else had access to the writer.
- **Do not split locks that protect an atomic invariant.** This PR
deliberately leaves active-turn/turn-state paths alone because those
checks and mutations need to stay atomic. Those cases should be fixed
separately with a design change or documented with `#[expect]`.
## What changed
- Narrow scoped async mutex guards in app-server, JS REPL, network
approval, remote-control websocket, and the RMCP test server.
- Replace test-only async mutex serialization guards with semaphores
where the guard intentionally lives across async work.
- Let the PTY pipe writer task own stdin directly instead of wrapping it
in an async mutex.
## Verification
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-rmcp-client -p
codex-shell-escalation -p codex-utils-pty -p codex-utils-readiness`
- `just clippy -p codex-core`
- `cargo test -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-rmcp-client -p
codex-shell-escalation -p codex-utils-pty -p codex-utils-readiness` was
run; the app-server suite passed, and `codex-core` failed in the local
sandbox on six otel approval tests plus
`suite::user_shell_cmd::user_shell_command_does_not_set_network_sandbox_env_var`,
which appear to depend on local command approval/default rules and
`CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED=1` in this environment.
Fixes ReadinessFlag::subscribe to avoid handing out token 0 or duplicate
tokens on i32 wrap-around, adds regression tests, and prevents readiness
gates from getting stuck waiting on an unmarkable or mis-authorized
token.
Adam Perry @ OpenAI ·
Michael Bolin ·
Thibault Sottiaux ·
jif-oai ·
pakrym-oai ·