codex

Use use_model (#7121 )

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-21 22:10:52 +00:00

e52cc38dfd

Windows: flag some invocations that launch browsers/URLs as dangerous (#7111 )

Prevent certain Powershell/cmd invocations from reaching the sandbox
when they are trying to launch a browser, or run a command with a URL,
etc.

iceweasel-oai · 2025-11-21 13:36:17 -08:00

3bdcbc7292

enable unified exec for experiments (#7118 )

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-21 13:10:01 -08:00

d5f661c91d

feat: Add exp model to experiment with the tools (#7115 )

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-21 12:44:47 -08:00

8ecaad948b

chore: drop model_max_output_tokens (#7100 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-21 17:42:54 +00:00

af65666561

Revert "fix: read max_output_tokens param from config" (#7088 )

Reverts openai/codex#4139

jif-oai · 2025-11-21 11:40:02 +01:00

bce030ddb5

fix: read max_output_tokens param from config (#4139 )

Request param `max_output_tokens` is documented in
`https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/config.md`,
but nowhere uses the item in config, this commit read it from config for
GPT responses API.

see https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/4138 for issue report.

Signed-off-by: Yorling <shallowcloud@yeah.net>

Yorling · 2025-11-20 22:46:34 -08:00

c9e149fd5c

Fixed two tests that can fail in some environments that have global git rewrite rules (#7068 )

This fixes https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/7044

Eric Traut · 2025-11-20 22:45:40 -08:00

bacdc004be

Support all types of search actions (#7061 )

Fixes the 

```
{
  "error": {
    "message": "Invalid value: 'other'. Supported values are: 'search', 'open_page', and 'find_in_page'.",
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "param": "input[150].action.type",
    "code": "invalid_value"
  }
```
error.


The actual-actual fix here is supporting absent `query` parameter.

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-20 20:45:28 -08:00

ab5972d447

Migrate coverage to shell_command (#7042 )

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-21 03:44:00 +00:00

767b66f407

Support full powershell paths in is_safe_command (#7055 )

New shell implementation always uses full paths.

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-20 19:29:15 -08:00

830ab4ce20

[app-server] update doc with codex error info (#6941 )

Document new codex error info. Also fixed the name from
`codex_error_code` to `codex_error_info`.

Celia Chen · 2025-11-21 01:02:37 +00:00

7e2165f394

feat: waiting for an elicitation should not count against a shell tool timeout (#6973 )

Previously, we were running into an issue where we would run the `shell`
tool call with a timeout of 10s, but it fired an elicitation asking for
user approval, the time the user took to respond to the elicitation was
counted agains the 10s timeout, so the `shell` tool call would fail with
a timeout error unless the user is very fast!

This PR addresses this issue by introducing a "stopwatch" abstraction
that is used to manage the timeout. The idea is:

- `Stopwatch::new()` is called with the _real_ timeout of the `shell`
tool call.
- `process_exec_tool_call()` is called with the `Cancellation` variant
of `ExecExpiration` because it should not manage its own timeout in this
case
- the `Stopwatch` expiration is wired up to the `cancel_rx` passed to
`process_exec_tool_call()`
- when an elicitation for the `shell` tool call is received, the
`Stopwatch` pauses
- because it is possible for multiple elicitations to arrive
concurrently, it keeps track of the number of "active pauses" and does
not resume until that counter goes down to zero

I verified that I can test the MCP server using
`@modelcontextprotocol/inspector` and specify `git status` as the
`command` with a timeout of 500ms and that the elicitation pops up and I
have all the time in the world to respond whereas previous to this PR,
that would not have been possible.

---
[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/6973).
* #7005
* __->__ #6973
* #6972

Michael Bolin · 2025-11-20 16:45:38 -08:00

8e5f38c0f0

fix flaky tool_call_output_exceeds_limit_truncated_chars_limit (#7043 )

I am suspecting this is flaky because of the wall time can become 0,
0.1, or 1.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-20 16:36:29 -08:00

1388e99674

feat: update process_exec_tool_call() to take a cancellation token (#6972 )

This updates `ExecParams` so that instead of taking `timeout_ms:
Option<u64>`, it now takes a more general cancellation mechanism,
`ExecExpiration`, which is an enum that includes a
`Cancellation(tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken)` variant.

If the cancellation token is fired, then `process_exec_tool_call()`
returns in the same way as if a timeout was exceeded.

This is necessary so that in #6973, we can manage the timeout logic
external to the `process_exec_tool_call()` because we want to "suspend"
the timeout when an elicitation from a human user is pending.








---
[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/6972).
* #7005
* #6973
* __->__ #6972

Michael Bolin · 2025-11-20 16:29:57 -08:00

f56d1dc8fc

migrate collect_tool_identifiers_for_model to test_codex (#7041 )

Maybe it solved flakiness

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-20 16:02:50 -08:00

9be310041b

core: make shell behavior portable on FreeBSD (#7039 )

- Use /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash on FreeBSD/OpenBSD in the process
group timeout test to avoid command-not-found failures.

- Accept /usr/local/bin/bash as a valid SHELL path to match common
FreeBSD installations.

- Switch the shell serialization duration test to /bin/sh for improved
portability across Unix platforms.

With this change, `cargo test -p codex-core --lib` runs and passes on
FreeBSD.

Xiao-Yong Jin · 2025-11-20 16:01:35 -08:00

0fbcdd77c8

[app-server & core] introduce new codex error code and v2 app-server error events (#6938 )

This PR does two things:
1. populate a new `codex_error_code` protocol in error events sent from
core to client;
2. old v1 core events `codex/event/stream_error` and `codex/event/error`
will now both become `error`. We also show codex error code for
turncompleted -> error status.

new events in app server test:
```
< {
<   "method": "codex/event/stream_error",
<   "params": {
<     "conversationId": "019aa34c-0c14-70e0-9706-98520a760d67",
<     "id": "0",
<     "msg": {
<       "codex_error_code": {
<         "response_stream_disconnected": {
<           "http_status_code": 401
<         }
<       },
<       "message": "Reconnecting... 2/5",
<       "type": "stream_error"
<     }
<   }
< }

 {
<   "method": "error",
<   "params": {
<     "error": {
<       "codexErrorCode": {
<         "responseStreamDisconnected": {
<           "httpStatusCode": 401
<         }
<       },
<       "message": "Reconnecting... 2/5"
<     }
<   }
< }

< {
<   "method": "turn/completed",
<   "params": {
<     "turn": {
<       "error": {
<         "codexErrorCode": {
<           "responseTooManyFailedAttempts": {
<             "httpStatusCode": 401
<           }
<         },
<         "message": "exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized, request id: 9a1b495a1a97ed3e-SJC"
<       },
<       "id": "0",
<       "items": [],
<       "status": "failed"
<     }
<   }
< }
```

Celia Chen · 2025-11-20 23:06:55 +00:00

9bce050385

Attempt to fix unified_exec_formats_large_output_summary flakiness (#7029 )

second attempt to fix this test after
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6884. I think this flakiness is
happening because yield_time is too small for a 10,000 step loop in
python.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-20 14:38:04 -08:00

54ee302a06

Delete shell_command feature (#7024 )

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-20 14:14:56 -08:00

856f97f449

execpolicycheck command in codex cli (#7012 )

adding execpolicycheck tool onto codex cli

this is useful for validating policies (can be multiple) against
commands.

it will also surface errors in policy syntax:
<img width="1150" height="281" alt="Screenshot 2025-11-19 at 12 46
21 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8f99b403-564c-4172-acc9-6574a8d13dc3"
/>

this PR also changes output format when there's no match in the CLI.
instead of returning the raw string `noMatch`, we return
`{"noMatch":{}}`

this PR is a rewrite of: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6932 (due
to the numerous merge conflicts present in the original PR)

---------

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

zhao-oai · 2025-11-20 16:44:31 -05:00

fe7a3f0c2b

increasing user shell timeout to 1 hour (#7025 )

setting user shell timeout to an unreasonably high value since there
isn't an easy way to have a command run without timeouts

currently, user shell commands timeout is 10 seconds

zhao-oai · 2025-11-20 13:39:16 -08:00

c30ca0d5b6

Delete tiktoken-rs (#7018 )

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-20 11:15:04 -08:00

52d0ec4cd8

Fix: Improve text encoding for shell output in VSCode preview (#6178 ) (#6182 )

## 🐛 Problem

Users running commands with non-ASCII characters (like Russian text
"пример") in Windows/WSL environments experience garbled text in
VSCode's shell preview window, with Unicode replacement characters (�)
appearing instead of the actual text.

**Issue**: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/6178

## 🔧 Root Cause

The issue was in `StreamOutput<Vec<u8>>::from_utf8_lossy()` method in
`codex-rs/core/src/exec.rs`, which used `String::from_utf8_lossy()` to
convert shell output bytes to strings. This function immediately
replaces any invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with replacement characters,
without attempting to decode using other common encodings.

In Windows/WSL environments, shell output often uses encodings like:

- Windows-1252 (common Windows encoding)
- Latin-1/ISO-8859-1 (extended ASCII)

## 🛠️ Solution

Replaced the simple `String::from_utf8_lossy()` call with intelligent
encoding detection via a new `bytes_to_string_smart()` function that
tries multiple encoding strategies:

1. **UTF-8** (fast path for valid UTF-8)
2. **Windows-1252** (handles Windows-specific characters in 0x80-0x9F
range)
3. **Latin-1** (fallback for extended ASCII)
4. **Lossy UTF-8** (final fallback, same as before)

## 📁 Changes

### New Files

- `codex-rs/core/src/text_encoding.rs` - Smart encoding detection module
- `codex-rs/core/tests/suite/text_encoding_fix.rs` - Integration tests

### Modified Files

- `codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` - Added text_encoding module
- `codex-rs/core/src/exec.rs` - Updated StreamOutput::from_utf8_lossy()
- `codex-rs/core/tests/suite/mod.rs` - Registered new test module

## ✅ Testing

- **5 unit tests** covering UTF-8, Windows-1252, Latin-1, and fallback
scenarios
- **2 integration tests** simulating the exact Issue #6178 scenario
- **Demonstrates improvement** over the previous
`String::from_utf8_lossy()` approach

All tests pass:

```bash
cargo test -p codex-core text_encoding
cargo test -p codex-core test_shell_output_encoding_issue_6178
```

## 🎯 Impact

- ✅ **Eliminates garbled text** in VSCode shell preview for non-ASCII
content
- ✅ **Supports Windows/WSL environments** with proper encoding detection
- ✅ **Zero performance impact** for UTF-8 text (fast path)
- ✅ **Backward compatible** - UTF-8 content works exactly as before
- ✅ **Handles edge cases** with robust fallback mechanism

## 🧪 Test Scenarios

The fix has been tested with:

- Russian text ("пример")
- Windows-1252 quotation marks (""test")
- Latin-1 accented characters ("café")
- Mixed encoding content
- Invalid byte sequences (graceful fallback)

## 📋 Checklist

- [X] Addresses the reported issue
- [X] Includes comprehensive tests
- [X] Maintains backward compatibility
- [X] Follows project coding conventions
- [X] No breaking changes

---------

Co-authored-by: Josh McKinney <joshka@openai.com>

LIHUA · 2025-11-20 11:04:11 -08:00

397279d46e

Always fallback to real shell (#6953 )

Either cmd.exe or `/bin/sh`.

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-20 10:58:46 -08:00

30ca89424c

Added feature switch to disable animations in TUI (#6870 )

This PR adds support for a new feature flag `tui.animations`. By
default, the TUI uses animations in its welcome screen, "working"
spinners, and "shimmer" effects. This animations can interfere with
screen readers, so it's good to provide a way to disable them.

This change is inspired by [a
PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/4014) contributed by @Orinks.
That PR has faltered a bit, but I think the core idea is sound. This
version incorporates feedback from @aibrahim-oai. In particular:
1. It uses a feature flag (`tui.animations`) rather than the unqualified
CLI key `no-animations`. Feature flags are the preferred way to expose
boolean switches. They are also exposed via CLI command switches.
2. It includes more complete documentation.
3. It disables a few animations that the other PR omitted.

Eric Traut · 2025-11-20 10:40:08 -08:00

d909048a85

Allow unified_exec to early exit (if the process terminates before yield_time_ms) (#6867 )

Thread through an `exit_notify` tokio `Notify` through to the
`UnifiedExecSession` so that we can return early if the command
terminates before `yield_time_ms`.

As Codex review correctly pointed out below 🙌 we also need a
`exit_signaled` flag so that commands which finish before we start
waiting can also exit early.

Since the default `yield_time_ms` is now 10s, this means that we don't
have to wait 10s for trivial commands like ls, sed, etc (which are the
majority of agent commands 😅)

---------

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

hanson-openai · 2025-11-20 13:34:41 +01:00

b5dd189067

[app-server] feat: v2 apply_patch approval flow (#6760 )

This PR adds the API V2 version of the apply_patch approval flow, which
centers around `ThreadItem::FileChange`.

This PR wires the new RPC (`item/fileChange/requestApproval`, V2 only)
and related events (`item/started`, `item/completed` for
`ThreadItem::FileChange`, which are emitted in both V1 and V2) through
the app-server
protocol. The new approval RPC is only sent when the user initiates a
turn with the new `turn/start` API so we don't break backwards
compatibility with VSCE.

Similar to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6758, the approach I
took was to make as few changes to the Codex core as possible,
leveraging existing `EventMsg` core events, and translating those in
app-server. I did have to add a few additional fields to
`EventMsg::PatchApplyBegin` and `EventMsg::PatchApplyEnd`, but those
were fairly lightweight.

However, the `EventMsg`s emitted by core are the following:
```
1) Auto-approved (no request for approval) 
- EventMsg::PatchApplyBegin
- EventMsg::PatchApplyEnd

2) Approved by user
- EventMsg::ApplyPatchApprovalRequest
- EventMsg::PatchApplyBegin
- EventMsg::PatchApplyEnd

3) Declined by user
- EventMsg::ApplyPatchApprovalRequest
- EventMsg::PatchApplyBegin
- EventMsg::PatchApplyEnd
```

For a request triggering an approval, this would result in:
```
item/fileChange/requestApproval
item/started
item/completed
```

which is different from the `ThreadItem::CommandExecution` flow
introduced in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6758, which does the
below and is preferable:
```
item/started
item/commandExecution/requestApproval
item/completed
```

To fix this, we leverage `TurnSummaryStore` on codex_message_processor
to store a little bit of state, allowing us to fire `item/started` and
`item/fileChange/requestApproval` whenever we receive the underlying
`EventMsg::ApplyPatchApprovalRequest`, and no-oping when we receive the
`EventMsg::PatchApplyBegin` later.

This is much less invasive than modifying the order of EventMsg within
core (I tried).

The resulting payloads:
```
{
  "method": "item/started",
  "params": {
    "item": {
      "changes": [
        {
          "diff": "Hello from Codex!\n",
          "kind": "add",
          "path": "/Users/owen/repos/codex/codex-rs/APPROVAL_DEMO.txt"
        }
      ],
      "id": "call_Nxnwj7B3YXigfV6Mwh03d686",
      "status": "inProgress",
      "type": "fileChange"
    }
  }
}
```

```
{
  "id": 0,
  "method": "item/fileChange/requestApproval",
  "params": {
    "grantRoot": null,
    "itemId": "call_Nxnwj7B3YXigfV6Mwh03d686",
    "reason": null,
    "threadId": "019a9e11-8295-7883-a283-779e06502c6f",
    "turnId": "1"
  }
}
```

```
{
  "id": 0,
  "result": {
    "decision": "accept"
  }
}
```

```
{
  "method": "item/completed",
  "params": {
    "item": {
      "changes": [
        {
          "diff": "Hello from Codex!\n",
          "kind": "add",
          "path": "/Users/owen/repos/codex/codex-rs/APPROVAL_DEMO.txt"
        }
      ],
      "id": "call_Nxnwj7B3YXigfV6Mwh03d686",
      "status": "completed",
      "type": "fileChange"
    }
  }
}
```

Owen Lin · 2025-11-19 20:13:31 -08:00

d6c30ed25e

migrating execpolicy -> execpolicy-legacy and execpolicy2 -> execpolicy (#6956 )

zhao-oai · 2025-11-19 19:14:10 -08:00

fb9849e1e3

Revert "[core] add optional status_code to error events (#6865 )" (#6955 )

This reverts commit c2ec477d93.

# External (non-OpenAI) Pull Request Requirements

Before opening this Pull Request, please read the dedicated
"Contributing" markdown file or your PR may be closed:
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/contributing.md

If your PR conforms to our contribution guidelines, replace this text
with a detailed and high quality description of your changes.

Include a link to a bug report or enhancement request.

Celia Chen · 2025-11-20 01:26:14 +00:00

72a1453ac5

stop model migration screen after first time. (#6954 )

it got serialized wrong.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-19 17:17:04 -08:00

6d67b8b283

Single pass truncation (#6914 )

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-19 16:56:37 -08:00

92e3046733

execpolicy2 core integration (#6641 )

This PR threads execpolicy2 into codex-core.

activated via feature flag: exec_policy (on by default)

reads and parses all .codexpolicy files in `codex_home/codex`

refactored tool runtime API to integrate execpolicy logic

---------

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

zhao-oai · 2025-11-19 16:50:43 -08:00

65c13f1ae7

fix(shell) fallback shells (#6948 )

## Summary
Add fallbacks when user_shell_path does not resolve to a known shell
type

## Testing
- [x] Tests still pass

Dylan Hurd · 2025-11-19 16:41:38 -08:00

b00a7cf40d

[core] add optional status_code to error events (#6865 )

We want to better uncover error status code for clients. Add an optional
status_code to error events (thread error, error, stream error) so app
server could uncover the status code from the client side later.

in event log:
```
< {
<   "method": "codex/event/stream_error",
<   "params": {
<     "conversationId": "019a9a32-f576-7292-9711-8e57e8063536",
<     "id": "0",
<     "msg": {
<       "message": "Reconnecting... 5/5",
<       "status_code": 401,
<       "type": "stream_error"
<     }
<   }
< }
< {
<   "method": "codex/event/error",
<   "params": {
<     "conversationId": "019a9a32-f576-7292-9711-8e57e8063536",
<     "id": "0",
<     "msg": {
<       "message": "exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized, request id: 9a0cb03a485067f7-SJC",
<       "status_code": 401,
<       "type": "error"
<     }
<   }
< }
```

Celia Chen · 2025-11-19 19:51:21 +00:00

c2ec477d93

Keep gpt-5.1-codex the default (#6922 )

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-19 11:08:10 -08:00

64ae9aa3c3

storing credits (#6858 )

Expand the rate-limit cache/TUI: store credit snapshots alongside
primary and secondary windows, render “Credits” when the backend reports
they exist (unlimited vs rounded integer balances)

zhao-oai · 2025-11-19 10:49:35 -08:00

72af589398

use another prompt (#6912 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-19 17:47:47 +00:00

91a1d20e2d

NITs (#6911 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-19 17:43:51 +00:00

87716e7cd0

Fix ordering 2 (#6910 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-19 17:40:27 +00:00

8976551f0d

fix: ordering (#6909 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-19 17:39:07 +00:00

f1d6767685

fix: don't truncate at new lines (#6907 )

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-19 17:05:48 +00:00

d62cab9a06

feat: arcticfox in the wild (#6906 )

<img width="485" height="600" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4341740d-dd58-4a3e-b69a-33a3be0606c5"
/>

---------

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

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-19 16:31:06 +00:00

d5dfba2509

fix(core) Support changing /approvals before conversation (#6836 )

## Summary
Setting `/approvals` before the start of a conversation was not updating
the environment_context for a conversation. Not sure exactly when this
problem was introduced, but this should reduce model confusion
dramatically.

## Testing
- [x] Added unit test to reproduce bug, confirmed fix with update
- [x] Tested locally

Dylan Hurd · 2025-11-19 11:32:48 +00:00

15b5eb30ed

chore: consolidate compaction token usage (#6894 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-19 11:26:01 +00:00

3e9e1d993d

fix: parallel tool call instruction injection (#6893 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-19 11:01:57 +00:00

4985a7a444

nit: stable (#6895 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-19 10:43:43 +00:00

10d571f236

feat: warning large commits (#6838 )

jif-oai · 2025-11-19 10:22:10 +00:00

956d3bfac6

Move shell to use truncate_text (#6842 )

Move shell to use the configurable `truncate_text`

---------

Co-authored-by: pakrym-oai <pakrym@openai.com>

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-19 01:56:08 -08:00

efebc62fb7

Run remote auto compaction (#6879 )

pakrym-oai · 2025-11-19 00:43:58 -08:00

75f38f16dd

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