codex

fix: use tokio for I/O in an async function (#8868 )

I thought this might solve a bug I'm working on, but it turned out to be
a red herring. Nevertheless, this seems like the right thing to do here.

Michael Bolin · 2026-01-07 16:36:23 -08:00

ef8b8ebc94

fix: update resource path resolution logic so it works with Bazel (#8861 )

The Bazelification work in-flight over at
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8832 needs this fix so that Bazel
can find the path to the DotSlash file for `bash`.

With this change, the following almost works:

```
bazel test --test_output=errors //codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-all-test
```

That is, now the `list_tools` test passes, but
`accept_elicitation_for_prompt_rule` still fails because it runs
Seatbelt itself, so it needs to be run outside Bazel's local sandboxing.

Michael Bolin · 2026-01-07 22:33:05 +00:00

54b290ec1d

Feat: appServer.requirementList for requirement.toml (#8800 )

### Summary
We are exposing requirements via `requirement/list` method from
app-server so that we can conditionally disable the agent mode dropdown
selection in VSCE and correctly setting the default value.

### Sample output
#### `etc/codex/requirements.toml`
<img width="497" height="49" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-06 at 11 32 06 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fbd9402e-515f-4b9e-a158-2abb23e866a0"
/>

#### App server response
<img width="1107" height="79" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-06 at 11 30 18 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c0d669cd-54ef-4789-a26c-adb2c41950af"
/>

Shijie Rao · 2026-01-07 13:57:44 -08:00

efd0c21b9b

Support symlink for skills discovery. (#8801 )

Skills discovery now follows symlink entries for SkillScope::User
($CODEX_HOME/skills) and SkillScope::Admin (e.g. /etc/codex/skills).

Added cycle protection: directories are canonicalized and tracked in a
visited set to prevent infinite traversal from circular links.

Added per-root traversal limits to avoid accidentally scanning huge
trees:
- max depth: 6
- max directories: 2000 (logs a warning if truncated)

For now, symlink stat failures and traversal truncation are logged
rather than surfaced as UI “invalid SKILL.md” warnings.

xl-openai · 2026-01-07 13:34:48 -08:00

61e81af887

Warn in /model if BASE_URL set (#8847 )

<img width="763" height="349" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-07 at 18 37 59"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/569d01cb-ea91-4113-889b-ba74df24adaf"
/>

It may not make sense to use the `/model` menu with a custom
OPENAI_BASE_URL. But some model proxies may support it, so we shouldn't
disable it completely. A warning is a reasonable compromise.

gt-oai · 2026-01-07 21:24:18 +00:00

f07b8aa591

Clarify YAML frontmatter formatting in skill-creator (#8610 )

Fixes #8609

# Summary

Emphasize single-line name/description values and quoting when values
could be interpreted as YAML syntax.

# Testing

Not run (skill-only change.)

darlingm · 2026-01-07 14:24:02 -07:00

5f3f70203c

Add feature for optional request compression (#8767 )

Adds a new feature
`enable_request_compression` that will compress using zstd requests to
the codex-backend. Currently only enabled for codex-backend so only enabled for openai providers when using chatgpt::auth even when the feature is enabled

Added a new info log line too for evaluating the compression ratio and
overhead off compressing before requesting. You can enable with
`RUST_LOG=$RUST_LOG,codex_client::transport=info`

```
2026-01-06T00:09:48.272113Z  INFO codex_client::transport: Compressed request body with zstd pre_compression_bytes=28914 post_compression_bytes=11485 compression_duration_ms=0
```

Channing Conger · 2026-01-07 13:21:40 -08:00

21c6d40a44

Simplify error managment in run_turn (#8849 )

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-01-07 13:15:46 -08:00

a9b5e8a136

Override truncation policy at model info level (#8856 )

We used to override truncation policy by comparing model info vs config
value in context manager. A better way to do it is to construct model
info using the config value

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-01-07 13:06:20 -08:00

187924d761

fix: implement 'Allow this session' for apply_patch approvals (#8451 )

**Summary**
This PR makes “ApprovalDecision::AcceptForSession / don’t ask again this
session” actually work for `apply_patch` approvals by caching approvals
based on absolute file paths in codex-core, properly wiring it through
app-server v2, and exposing the choice in both TUI and TUI2.
- This brings `apply_patch` calls to be at feature-parity with general
shell commands, which also have a "Yes, and don't ask again" option.
- This also fixes VSCE's "Allow this session" button to actually work.

While we're at it, also split the app-server v2 protocol's
`ApprovalDecision` enum so execpolicy amendments are only available for
command execution approvals.

**Key changes**
- Core: per-session patch approval allowlist keyed by absolute file
paths
- Handles multi-file patches and renames/moves by recording both source
and destination paths for `Update { move_path: Some(...) }`.
- Extend the `Approvable` trait and `ApplyPatchRuntime` to work with
multiple keys, because an `apply_patch` tool call can modify multiple
files. For a request to be auto-approved, we will need to check that all
file paths have been approved previously.
- App-server v2: honor AcceptForSession for file changes
- File-change approval responses now map AcceptForSession to
ReviewDecision::ApprovedForSession (no longer downgraded to plain
Approved).
- Replace `ApprovalDecision` with two enums:
`CommandExecutionApprovalDecision` and `FileChangeApprovalDecision`
- TUI / TUI2: expose “don’t ask again for these files this session”
- Patch approval overlays now include a third option (“Yes, and don’t
ask again for these files this session (s)”).
    - Snapshot updates for the approval modal.

**Tests added/updated**
- Core:
- Integration test that proves ApprovedForSession on a patch skips the
next patch prompt for the same file
- App-server:
- v2 integration test verifying
FileChangeApprovalDecision::AcceptForSession works properly

**User-visible behavior**
- When the user approves a patch “for session”, future patches touching
only those previously approved file(s) will no longer prompt gain during
that session (both via app-server v2 and TUI/TUI2).

**Manual testing**
Tested both TUI and TUI2 - see screenshots below.

TUI:
<img width="1082" height="355" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/adcf45ad-d428-498d-92fc-1a0a420878d9"
/>


TUI2:
<img width="1089" height="438" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dd768b1a-2f5f-4bd6-98fd-e52c1d3abd9e"
/>

Owen Lin · 2026-01-07 20:11:12 +00:00

66450f0445

[chore] update app server doc with skills (#8853 )

Celia Chen · 2026-01-07 20:07:01 +00:00

e8421c761c

chore: drop some deprecated (#8848 )

jif-oai · 2026-01-07 19:54:45 +00:00

fe460e0f9a

chore: drop useless feature flags (#8850 )

jif-oai · 2026-01-07 19:54:32 +00:00

1253d19641

Fix app-server write_models_cache to treat models with less priority number as higher priority. (#8844 )

Rank models with p0 higher than p1. This shouldn't result in any
behavioral changes. Just reordering.

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-01-07 11:22:13 -08:00

4c9b4b684f

Stop using AuthManager as the source of codex_home (#8846 )

pakrym-oai · 2026-01-07 18:56:20 +00:00

018de994b0

remove unnecessary todos (#8842 )

> // todo(aibrahim): why are we passing model here while it can change?

we update it on each turn with `.with_model`

> //TODO(aibrahim): run CI in release mode.

although it's good to have, release builds take double the time tests
take.

> // todo(aibrahim): make this async function

we figured out another way of doing this sync

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-01-07 10:43:10 -08:00

c31960b13a

Merge Modelfamily into modelinfo (#8763 )

- Merge ModelFamily into ModelInfo
- Remove logic for adding instructions to apply patch
- Add compaction limit and visible context window to `ModelInfo`

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-01-07 10:35:09 -08:00

9179c9deac

fix: upgrade lru crate to 0.16.3 (#8845 )

See https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0002.

Though our `ratatui` fork has a transitive dep on an older version of
the `lru` crate, so to get CI green ASAP, this PR also adds an exception
to `deny.toml` for `RUSTSEC-2026-0002`, but hopefully this will be
short-lived.

Michael Bolin · 2026-01-07 10:11:27 -08:00

a1e81180f8

Move tests below auth manager (#8840 )

To simplify future diffs

pakrym-oai · 2026-01-07 17:36:44 +00:00

fedcb8f63c

chore: unify conversation with thread name (#8830 )

Done and verified by Codex + refactor feature of RustRover

jif-oai · 2026-01-07 17:04:53 +00:00

116059c3a0

fix: handle early codex exec exit (#8825 )

Fixes CodexExec to avoid missing early process exits by registering the
exit handler up front and deferring the error until after stdout is
drained, and adds a regression test that simulates a fast-exit child
while still producing output so hangs are caught.

Thibault Sottiaux · 2026-01-07 08:54:27 -08:00

0d788e6263

chore: rename unified exec sessions (#8822 )

Renaming done by Codex

jif-oai · 2026-01-07 16:12:47 +00:00

4cef89a122

fix: handle /review arguments in TUI (#8823 )

Handle /review <instructions> in the TUI and TUI2 by routing it as a
custom review command instead of plain text, wiring command dispatch and
adding composer coverage so typing /review text starts a review directly
rather than posting a message. User impact: /review with arguments now
kicks off the review flow, previously it would just forward as a plain
command and not actually start a review.

Thibault Sottiaux · 2026-01-07 13:14:55 +00:00

124a09e577

fix: parse git apply paths correctly (#8824 )

Fixes apply.rs path parsing so 
- quoted diff headers are tokenized and extracted correctly, 
- /dev/null headers are ignored before prefix stripping to avoid bogus
dev/null paths, and
- git apply output paths are unescaped from C-style quoting.

**Why**
This prevents potentially missed staging and misclassified paths when
applying or reverting patches, which could lead to incorrect behavior
for repos with spaces or escaped characters in filenames.

**Impact**
I checked and this is only used in the cloud tasks support and `codex
apply <task_id>` flow.

Thibault Sottiaux · 2026-01-07 13:00:31 +00:00

a59052341d

chore: silent just fmt (#8820 )

Done to avoid spammy warnings to end up in the model context without
having to switch to nightly
```
Warning: can't set `imports_granularity = Item`, unstable features are only available in nightly channel.
```

jif-oai · 2026-01-07 12:16:38 +00:00

8372d61be7

chore: stabilize core tool parallelism test (#8805 )

Set login=false for the shell tool in the timing-based parallelism test
so it does not depend on slow user login shells, making the test
deterministic without user-facing changes. This prevents occasional
flakes when running locally.

Thibault Sottiaux · 2026-01-07 09:26:47 +00:00

230a045ac9

Enable model upgrade popup even when selected model is no longer in picker (#8802 )

With `config.toml`:
```
model = "gpt-5.1-codex"
```
(where `gpt-5.1-codex` has `show_in_picker: false` in
[`model_presets.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/core/src/models_manager/model_presets.rs);
this happens if the user hasn't used codex in a while so they didn't see
the popup before their model was changed to `show_in_picker: false`)

The upgrade picker used to not show (because `gpt-5.1-codex` was
filtered out of the model list in code). Now, the filtering is done
downstream in tui and app-server, so the model upgrade popup shows:

<img width="1503" height="227" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-06 at 5 04 37 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/26144cc2-0b3f-4674-ac17-e476781ec548"
/>

charley-oai · 2026-01-06 19:32:27 -08:00

3389465c8d

fix: truncate long approval prefixes when rendering (#8734 )

Fixes inscrutable multiline approval requests:
<img width="686" height="844" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cf9493dc-79e6-4168-8020-0ef0fe676d5e"
/>

Thibault Sottiaux · 2026-01-06 15:17:01 -08:00

8b4d27dfcd

fix: populate the release notes when the release is created (#8799 )

Use the contents of the commit message from the commit associated with
the tag (that contains the version bump) as the release notes by writing
them to a file and then specifying the file as the `body_path` of
`softprops/action-gh-release@v2`.

Michael Bolin · 2026-01-06 15:02:39 -08:00

dc1a568dc7

add web_search_cached flag (#8795 )

Add `web_search_cached` feature to config. Enables `web_search` tool
with access only to cached/indexed results (see
[docs](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/tools-web-search#live-internet-access)).

This takes precedence over the existing `web_search_request`, which
continues to enable `web_search` over live results as it did before.

`web_search_cached` is disabled for review mode, as `web_search_request`
is.

sayan-oai · 2026-01-06 14:53:59 -08:00

54ded1a3c0

[app-server] fix config loading for conversations (#8765 )

Currently we don't load config properly for app server conversations.
see:
https://linear.app/openai/issue/CODEX-3956/config-flags-not-respected-in-codex-app-server.
This PR fixes that by respecting the config passed in.

Tested by running `cargo build -p codex-cli &&
RUST_LOG=codex_app_server=debug CODEX_BIN=target/debug/codex cargo run
-p codex-app-server-test-client -- \
--config
model_providers.mock_provider.base_url=\"http://localhost:4010/v2\" \
    --config model_provider=\"mock_provider\" \
    --config model_providers.mock_provider.name="hello" \
    send-message-v2 "hello"`
and verified that the mock_provider is called instead of default
provider.

#closes
https://linear.app/openai/issue/CODEX-3956/config-flags-not-respected-in-codex-app-server

---------

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

Celia Chen · 2026-01-06 22:02:17 +00:00

11d4f3f45e

feat(app-server): thread/rollback API (#8454 )

Add `thread/rollback` to app-server to support IDEs undo-ing the last N
turns of a thread.

For context, an IDE partner will be supporting an "undo" capability
where the IDE (the app-server client) will be responsible for reverting
the local changes made during the last turn. To support this well, we
also need a way to drop the last turn (or more generally, the last N
turns) from the agent's context. This is what `thread/rollback` does.

**Core idea**: A Thread rollback is represented as a persisted event
message (EventMsg::ThreadRollback) in the rollout JSONL file, not by
rewriting history. On resume, both the model's context (core replay) and
the UI turn list (app-server v2's thread history builder) apply these
markers so the pruned history is consistent across live conversations
and `thread/resume`.

Implementation notes:
- Rollback only affects agent context and appends to the rollout file;
clients are responsible for reverting files on disk.
- If a thread rollback is currently in progress, subsequent
`thread/rollback` calls are rejected.
- Because we use `CodexConversation::submit` and codex core tracks
active turns, returning an error on concurrent rollbacks is communicated
via an `EventMsg::Error` with a new variant
`CodexErrorInfo::ThreadRollbackFailed`. app-server watches for that and
sends the BAD_REQUEST RPC response.

Tests cover thread rollbacks in both core and app-server, including when
`num_turns` > existing turns (which clears all turns).

**Note**: this explicitly does **not** behave like `/undo` which we just
removed from the CLI, which does the opposite of what `thread/rollback`
does. `/undo` reverts local changes via ghost commits/snapshots and does
not modify the agent's context / conversation history.

Owen Lin · 2026-01-06 21:23:48 +00:00

8b7ec31ba7

feat: drop agent bus and store the agent status in codex directly (#8788 )

jif-oai · 2026-01-06 19:44:39 +00:00

188f79afee

Clear copy pill background and add snapshot test (#8777 )

### Motivation
- Fix a visual bug where transcript text could bleed through the
on-screen copy "pill" overlay.
- Ensure the copy affordance fully covers the underlying buffer so the
pill background is solid and consistent with styling.
- Document the approach in-code to make the background-clearing
rationale explicit.

### Description
- Clear the pill area before drawing by iterating `Rect::positions()`
and calling `cell.set_symbol(" ")` and `cell.set_style(base_style)` in
`render_copy_pill` in `transcript_copy_ui.rs`.
- Added an explanatory comment for why the pill background is explicitly
cleared.
- Added a unit test `copy_pill_clears_background` and committed the
corresponding snapshot file to validate the rendering behavior.

### Testing
- Ran `just fmt` (formatting completed; non-blocking environment warning
may appear).
- Ran `just fix -p codex-tui2` to apply lints/fixes (completed). 
- Ran `cargo test -p codex-tui2` and all tests passed (snapshot updated
and tests succeeded).

------
[Codex
Task](https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_i_695c9b23e9b8832997d5a457c4d83410)

Josh McKinney · 2026-01-06 11:21:26 -08:00

a0b2d03302

suppress popups while browsing input history (#8772 )

xl-openai · 2026-01-06 11:13:21 -08:00

4ce9d0aa7b

feat: agent controller (#8783 )

Added an agent control plane that lets sessions spawn or message other
conversations via `AgentControl`.

`AgentBus` (core/src/agent/bus.rs) keeps track of the last known status
of a conversation.

ConversationManager now holds shared state behind an Arc so AgentControl
keeps only a weak back-reference, the goal is just to avoid explicit
cycle reference.

Follow-ups:
* Build a small tool in the TUI to be able to see every agent and send
manual message to each of them
* Handle approval requests in this TUI
* Add tools to spawn/communicate between agents (see related design)
* Define agent types

jif-oai · 2026-01-06 19:08:02 +00:00

1dd1355df3

feat: add analytics config setting (#8350 )

Javi · 2026-01-06 19:04:13 +00:00

915352b10c

chore: clear background terminals on interrupt (#8786 )

jif-oai · 2026-01-06 19:01:07 +00:00

740bf0e755

feat: forced tool tips (#8752 )

Force an announcement tooltip in the CLI. This query the gh repo on this
[file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/codex/main/announcement_tip.toml)
which contains announcements in TOML looking like this:
```
# Example announcement tips for Codex TUI.
# Each [[announcements]] entry is evaluated in order; the last matching one is shown.
# Dates are UTC, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. The from_date is inclusive and the to_date is exclusive.
# version_regex matches against the CLI version (env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")); omit to apply to all versions.
# target_app specify which app should display the announcement (cli, vsce, ...).

[[announcements]]
content = "Welcome to Codex! Check out the new onboarding flow."
from_date = "2024-10-01"
to_date = "2024-10-15"
version_regex = "^0\\.0\\.0$"
target_app = "cli"
``` 

To make this efficient, the announcement is queried on a best effort
basis at the launch of the CLI (no refresh made after this).
This is done in an async way and we display the announcement (with 100%
probability) iff the announcement is available, the cache is correctly
warmed and there is a matching announcement (matching is recomputed for
each new session).

jif-oai · 2026-01-06 18:02:05 +00:00

d1c6329c32

chore: add model/list call to app-server-test-client (#8331 )

Allows us to run `cargo run -p codex-app-server-test-client --
model-list` to return the list of models over app-server.

Owen Lin · 2026-01-06 17:50:17 +00:00

cab7136fb3

feat: add head-tail buffer for unified_exec (#8735 )

jif-oai · 2026-01-06 15:48:44 +00:00

32db8ea5ca

fix: update model examples to gpt-5.2 (#8566 )

The models are outdated and sometime get used by GPT when it to try
delegate.

I have read the CLA Document and I hereby sign the CLA

Abdelkader Boudih · 2026-01-06 08:47:29 -07:00

06e21c7a65

fix: stop honoring CODEX_MANAGED_CONFIG_PATH environment variable in production (#8762 )

Michael Bolin · 2026-01-06 07:10:27 -08:00

7ecd0dc9b3

chore: emit unified exec begin only when PTY exist (#8780 )

jif-oai · 2026-01-06 13:12:54 +00:00

8858012fd1

fix: fix readiness subscribe token wrap-around (#8770 )

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.

Thibault Sottiaux · 2026-01-06 13:09:02 +00:00

6346e4f560

fix: render cwd-relative paths in tui (#8771 )

Display paths relative to the cwd before checking git roots so view
image tool calls keep project-local names in jj/no-.git workspaces.

Josh McKinney · 2026-01-06 03:17:40 +00:00

4c3d2a5bbe

tui2: stop baking streaming wraps; reflow agent markdown (#8761 )

Background
Streaming assistant prose in tui2 was being rendered with viewport-width
wrapping during streaming, then stored in history cells as already split
`Line`s. Those width-derived breaks became indistinguishable from hard
newlines, so the transcript could not "un-split" on resize. This also
degraded copy/paste, since soft wraps looked like hard breaks.

What changed
- Introduce width-agnostic `MarkdownLogicalLine` output in
`tui2/src/markdown_render.rs`, preserving markdown wrap semantics:
initial/subsequent indents, per-line style, and a preformatted flag.
- Update the streaming collector (`tui2/src/markdown_stream.rs`) to emit
logical lines (newline-gated) and remove any captured viewport width.
- Update streaming orchestration (`tui2/src/streaming/*`) to queue and
emit logical lines, producing `AgentMessageCell::new_logical(...)`.
- Make `AgentMessageCell` store logical lines and wrap at render time in
`HistoryCell::transcript_lines_with_joiners(width)`, emitting joiners so
copy/paste can join soft-wrap continuations correctly.

Overlay deferral
When an overlay is active, defer *cells* (not rendered `Vec<Line>`) and
render them at overlay close time. This avoids baking width-derived
wraps based on a stale width.

Tests + docs
- Add resize/reflow regression tests + snapshots for streamed agent
output.
- Expand module/API docs for the new logical-line streaming pipeline and
clarify joiner semantics.
- Align scrollback-related docs/comments with current tui2 behavior
(main draw loop does not flush queued "history lines" to the terminal).

More details
See `codex-rs/tui2/docs/streaming_wrapping_design.md` for the full
problem statement and solution approach, and
`codex-rs/tui2/docs/tui_viewport_and_history.md` for viewport vs printed
output behavior.

Josh McKinney · 2026-01-05 18:37:58 -08:00

c92dbea7c1

fix: accept whitespace-padded patch markers (#8746 )

Trim whitespace when validating '*** Begin Patch'/'*** End Patch'
markers in codex-apply-patch so padded marker lines parse as intended,
and add regression coverage (unit + fixture scenario); this avoids
apply_patch failures when models include extra spacing. Tested with
cargo test -p codex-apply-patch.

Thibault Sottiaux · 2026-01-05 17:41:23 -08:00

771f1ca6ab

chore(apply-patch) additional scenarios (#8230 )

## Summary
More apply-patch scenarios

## Testing
- [x] This pr only adds tests

Dylan Hurd · 2026-01-05 15:56:38 -08:00

b1c93e135b

Allow global exec flags after resume and fix CI codex build/timeout (#8440 )

**Motivation**
- Bring `codex exec resume` to parity with top‑level flags so global
options (git check bypass, json, model, sandbox toggles) work after the
subcommand, including when outside a git repo.

**Description**
- Exec CLI: mark `--skip-git-repo-check`, `--json`, `--model`,
`--full-auto`, and `--dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox` as
global so they’re accepted after `resume`.
- Tests: add `exec_resume_accepts_global_flags_after_subcommand` to
verify those flags work when passed after `resume`.

**Testing**
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec` (pass; ran with elevated perms to allow
network/port binds)
- Manual: exercised `codex exec resume` with global flags after the
subcommand to confirm behavior.

Curtis 'Fjord' Hawthorne · 2026-01-05 22:12:09 +00:00

5f8776d34d

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