## Why
Wrapped URLs in rich TUI output, especially URLs rendered inside
Markdown tables, are split across terminal rows. In terminals that
support OSC 8 hyperlinks, treating each visible fragment as part of the
complete destination enables reliable open-link and copy-link actions
even after table layout wraps the URL.
This addresses the semantic-link portion of #12200 and the behavior
described in
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/12200#issuecomment-4535452980. It
does not change ordinary drag-selection across bordered table rows.
## What Changed
- Added shared TUI OSC 8 support that validates `http://` and `https://`
destinations, sanitizes terminal payloads, and applies metadata
separately from visible line width/layout.
- Added semantic web-link annotations to assistant and proposed-plan
Markdown, including explicit web links and bare web URLs in prose and
table cells while excluding code and non-web Markdown destinations.
- Preserved complete URL targets through table wrapping, narrow pipe
fallback, streaming, transcript overlay rendering, history insertion,
and resize replay.
- Routed intentional Codex-owned links in notices,
status/setup/app-link, feedback, onboarding, MCP/plugin help, memories,
and update surfaces through the shared hyperlink handling.
## How to Test
1. Run Codex in a terminal with OSC 8 link support, such as Ghostty, and
request an assistant response containing a Markdown table whose last
column contains a long `https://` URL.
2. Make the terminal narrow enough for the URL to wrap across multiple
bordered table rows.
3. Use the terminal's open-link or copy-link action on more than one
wrapped URL fragment and confirm each fragment resolves to the complete
original URL.
4. Resize the terminal after the table is rendered and repeat the link
action to confirm the destination survives scrollback replay.
5. Open the transcript overlay while rich output is present and confirm
web links remain interactive there.
6. As a regression check, render inline/fenced code containing URL text
and a Markdown link such as
`[https://example.com](mailto:support@example.com)`; confirm these do
not acquire a web OSC 8 destination.
Targeted automated coverage exercised Markdown links and exclusions,
wrapped and pipe-fallback tables, streaming/transcript overlay
propagation, status-link truncation, and rendered word-wrapping cell
alignment. `just test -p codex-tui` was also run; it passed the
hyperlink coverage and reproduced two unrelated existing guardian
feature-flag test failures.
## Why
Raw output mode intentionally sends logical source lines to the terminal
without Codex-inserted wrapping so copied content retains its original
line structure. In Zellij, soft-wrapped continuation rows from those raw
lines are not confined by the inline history scroll region. When raw
mode replays a long transcript, continuation rows can occupy the
composer viewport and are overwritten on the following draw, leaving the
transcript visibly truncated underneath the composer.
This is specific to the combination of Zellij and raw terminal-wrapped
history. Rich output and non-Zellij terminals should continue using the
existing insertion behavior.
Related context: #20819 introduced raw output mode, and #22214 removed
the broad Zellij insertion workaround after the standard rich-output
path no longer required it.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| <img width="1728" height="916" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f85398a5-e930-46d9-bcfd-106a24c41466"
/> | <img width="1723" height="912" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5c62e16a-a6e5-4842-bcb2-eab163cda04c"
/> |
## What Changed
- Cache Zellij detection in `Tui` and select a dedicated insertion mode
only for `HistoryLineWrapPolicy::Terminal` batches in Zellij.
- For that guarded path, clear the existing viewport, append raw source
lines through the terminal so its soft wrapping remains
selection-friendly, and reserve empty viewport rows before redrawing the
composer.
- Add snapshot regressions for both an incremental soft-wrapped raw
insert and an overflowing raw transcript replay that starts at the top
of the cleared terminal.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex inside Zellij with raw output enabled or toggle raw
output after a multiline response is in history.
2. Produce or replay output containing long logical lines, such as a
fenced shell command with several wrapped lines.
3. Confirm the wrapped history remains visible above the composer and
the composer no longer overwrites the end of the response.
4. Toggle back to rich output or run outside Zellij and confirm standard
history rendering still behaves normally.
Targeted tests run:
- `just test -p codex-tui vt100_zellij_raw -- --nocapture`
Additional validation notes:
- `just test -p codex-tui` was attempted; the two new Zellij raw
insertion tests passed, while two existing
`app::tests::update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_*` tests failed
outside this history insertion path.
- `just argument-comment-lint` was attempted but local Bazel analysis
fails before reaching the changed source because the LLVM `compiler-rt`
package is missing `include/sanitizer/*.h`. Modified literal callsites
were inspected manually.
## Why
Fixes#17139.
On macOS, runtime diagnostics such as `MallocStackLogging` messages can
be written directly to process stderr while the inline TUI owns the
terminal. Those bytes paint into the same viewport as the composer
without passing through the renderer or composer state, making
diagnostic output appear to leak into the input area.
## What Changed
- Add a macOS terminal stderr guard while the inline TUI owns the
viewport.
- Restore stderr when Codex returns terminal ownership for external
interactive programs, suspend/resume, panic handling, and normal
shutdown.
- Add an fd-level regression test that verifies output is suppressed
only while terminal ownership is held and restored at each handoff
boundary.
## How to Test
1. On macOS, launch the interactive TUI and leave the composer visible.
2. Exercise the workflow that triggers an allocator/runtime stderr
diagnostic during an active session, as reported in #17139.
3. Confirm the diagnostic no longer overwrites the active composer
region.
4. Suspend or exit the TUI and confirm subsequent terminal stderr output
remains visible.
The platform diagnostic is environment-dependent, so the deterministic
regression check is the new fd-lifecycle test in
`tui::terminal_stderr::tests::suppresses_stderr_only_while_terminal_is_owned`.
Targeted validation:
- `just argument-comment-lint-from-source -p codex-tui` passed.
- `just test -p codex-tui` exercised and passed the new stderr-guard
regression test. The full invocation currently fails in two unrelated
guardian-policy tests,
`update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_review_policy_and_restores_default`
and
`update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_manual_review_policy_without_history`,
which reproduce when rerun in isolation.
## Why
Older Git for Windows versions can leave the Windows console output mode
without virtual terminal processing after Codex runs git metadata
commands in a repository. When the TUI later emits ANSI control
sequences for redraws, restore, or image rendering, Windows Terminal can
show raw escape bytes or leave the prompt/status area corrupted.
This is a targeted mitigation for the repo-conditioned Windows rendering
corruption reported in #23888 and related reports #23512 and #23628.
Updating Git avoids the trigger for affected users, but Codex should
also reassert the terminal mode before it writes TUI control sequences.
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58"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/55ac72bb-37d0-400e-99bc-12dd5ea4092d"
/> |
## What Changed
- Re-enable Windows virtual terminal processing for stdout and stderr
before TUI mode setup, restore, redraw, resume, and pet image render
paths.
- Treat invalid, null, or non-console handles as no-ops so redirected or
non-console output is unaffected.
- Keep the helper as a no-op on non-Windows platforms.
## How to Test
1. On Windows Terminal with a Git 2.28.0 for Windows install, start
Codex inside a valid Git repository.
2. Start a new Codex CLI session.
3. Confirm the prompt, working indicator, and bottom status line remain
readable instead of showing raw ANSI escape sequences.
4. Repeat outside a Git repository to confirm the ordinary non-repo
startup path is unchanged.
Targeted tests:
- Not run locally; the behavior depends on Windows console mode APIs and
the current worktree is on macOS.
## Why
Codex TUI startup still feels slower than 0.117.0 after the app-server
move in 0.118.0. A visible chunk of launch-to-input latency comes from
serial terminal startup probes: cursor position, keyboard enhancement
support, and default foreground/background color queries can each wait
on terminal responses before the first usable frame.
Refs #16335.
## What
This PR batches the terminal startup probes into one bounded probe. It
also reuses the probed cursor position and default colors during TUI
setup, fast-paths the primary-device-attributes fallback as keyboard
enhancement unsupported, and keeps lightweight startup timing logs for
future tuning.
The startup telemetry is intentionally left in production: it records
phase timings for terminal probes and initial-frame scheduling so future
startup regressions can be diagnosed from normal logs rather than
re-adding one-off debug instrumentation.
## Benchmark
In the local pty startup benchmark, the pre-optimization `main` baseline
was about 250.5ms median from launch to accepted chat input. This
probe-only branch measured about 152ms median, for an approximate
savings of 95-100ms.
## Stack
1. [#23175: [1 of 2] Optimize TUI startup terminal
probes](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23175) — this PR
2. [#23176: [2 of 2] Start fresh TUI thread in
background](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23176) — layered on
this PR
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
## Why
We added Zellij-specific TUI workarounds because older Zellij behavior
did not work with Codex's normal terminal model:
- #8555 made `tui.alternate_screen = "auto"` disable alternate screen in
Zellij so transcript history stayed available.
- #16578 avoided scroll-region operations in Zellij by emitting raw
newlines and using a separate composer styling path.
This PR removes both workarounds because the latest Zellij release
tested locally (`zellij 0.44.1`) works correctly with Codex's standard
TUI behavior: normal alternate-screen handling, redraw, and history
insertion.
## What Changed
- Removed the `InsertHistoryMode::Zellij` path and the Zellij-only
newline scrollback insertion behavior.
- Removed cached `is_zellij` state from the TUI and composer.
- Removed Zellij-specific composer styling, the helper snapshot, and the
`TerminalInfo::is_zellij()` convenience method that only served this
workaround.
- Changed `tui.alternate_screen = "auto"` to use alternate screen for
Zellij too; `--no-alt-screen` and `tui.alternate_screen = "never"` still
preserve the inline mode escape hatch.
- Updated the generated config schema description for
`tui.alternate_screen`.
## How to Test
Manual smoke path used with `zellij 0.44.1`:
1. Build and run this branch inside a Zellij `0.44.1` session with
default config.
2. Start Codex normally and produce enough assistant/tool output to
create scrollback.
3. Confirm the transcript remains readable, the composer renders
normally, and scrolling through terminal history works.
4. Resize the Zellij pane while output exists and confirm the TUI
redraws without duplicated, missing, or stale rows.
5. Compare with `--no-alt-screen` or `-c tui.alternate_screen=never` if
you want to verify the inline fallback still works.
Targeted tests:
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `cargo test -p codex-terminal-detection`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui alternate_screen_auto_uses_alt_screen`
Attempted but did not complete locally:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui` built and ran the new test successfully,
then failed later on unrelated local failures in
`status_permissions_full_disk_managed_*` and a stack overflow in
`tests::fork_last_filters_latest_session_by_cwd_unless_show_all`.
## Documentation
No developers.openai.com Codex documentation update is needed for this
revert.
## Why
The Codex App has animated pets, but the TUI had no equivalent ambient
companion surface. This brings that experience into terminal Codex while
keeping the main chat flow usable: the pet should feel present, but it
cannot cover transcript text, composer input, approvals, or picker
content.
The feature also needs to be terminal-aware. Different terminals support
different image protocols, tmux can interfere with image rendering, and
some users will want pets disabled entirely or anchored differently
depending on their layout.
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/68a1fcbc-2104-48d6-b834-69c6aaa95cdf"
/>
<p align="center">macOS - Ghostty, iTerm2 and WezTerm with Custom
Pet</p>
</td></tr>
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<p align="center">Windows Terminal</p>
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<p align="center">Linux - WezTerm and Ghostty</p>
</td></tr>
</table>
## What Changed
- Add a TUI ambient pet renderer in `codex-rs/tui/src/pets/`.
- Port the app-style pet animation states so the sprite changes with
task status, waiting-for-input states, review/ready states, and
failures.
- Add `/pets` selection UI with a preview pane, loading state, built-in
pet choices, and a first-row `Disable terminal pets` option.
- Download built-in pet spritesheets on demand from the same public CDN
path already used by Android, under
`https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex/pets/v1/...`, and cache them
locally under `~/.codex/cache/tui-pets/`.
- Keep custom pets local.
- Add config support for pet selection, disabling pets, and choosing
whether the pet follows the composer bottom or anchors to the terminal
bottom.
- Reserve layout space around the pet so transcript wrapping, live
responses, and composer input do not render underneath the sprite.
- Gate image rendering by terminal capability, disable image pets under
tmux, and support both Kitty Graphics and SIXEL terminals.
- Add redraw cleanup for terminal image artifacts, including sixel cell
clearing.
## Current Scope
- This is an initial TUI version of ambient pets, not full App parity.
- It focuses on ambient sprite rendering, `/pets` selection, custom
pets, terminal capability gating, and on-demand CDN-backed built-in
assets.
- The ambient text overlay is currently disabled, so the TUI renders the
pet sprite without extra status text beside it.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex TUI in a terminal with image support.
2. Run `/pets`.
3. Confirm the picker shows built-in pets plus custom pets, and the
first item is `Disable terminal pets`.
4. On a fresh `~/.codex/cache/tui-pets/`, move onto a built-in pet and
confirm the first preview downloads the spritesheet from the shared
Codex pets CDN and renders successfully.
5. Move through the pet list and confirm subsequent built-in previews
use the local cache.
6. Select a pet, then send and receive messages. Confirm transcript and
composer text wrap before the pet instead of rendering underneath the
sprite.
7. Change the pet anchor setting and confirm the pet can either follow
the composer bottom or sit at the terminal bottom.
8. Return to `/pets`, choose `Disable terminal pets`, and confirm the
sprite disappears cleanly.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui ambient_pet_`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
resize_reflow_wraps_transcript_early_when_pet_is_enabled`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots`
## Why
The alpha TUI can render the initial trust-directory prompt with stale
terminal text showing through spaces when startup begins below existing
shell output. The first inline viewport transition can happen while the
previous viewport is still empty, so the old clear path no-ops before
Ratatui draws the prompt. Ratatui then skips blank cells because its
previous buffer also thinks those cells are blank, leaving old terminal
contents visible inside the prompt.
## What Changed
- Clear from the new inline viewport top when the previous viewport is
empty during a viewport transition.
- Keep the existing clear-from-old-viewport behavior for normal viewport
updates.
- Add a VT100-backed regression test that pre-fills terminal contents,
performs the first viewport clear, and verifies stale text inside the
new viewport is removed while shell content above the viewport remains.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex alpha in a terminal that already has visible shell output
above the cursor.
2. Use a fresh untrusted project directory so the trust-directory prompt
appears.
3. Confirm the prompt text renders cleanly, with spaces staying blank
instead of showing fragments of previous shell output.
4. As a regression check, confirm content above the inline viewport is
still preserved in terminal scrollback.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
first_viewport_change_clears_from_new_viewport_when_old_viewport_is_empty
-- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
## Why
Granular copy is particularly difficult with the current output. Part of
it was solved with the introduction of the `/copy` command but when you
only need to copy parts of a response, you still encounter some issues:
- When you copy a paragraph, the result is a sequence of separate lines
instead of one correctly joined paragraph.
- When a word wraps, part of it stays on the original line and the rest
appears at the start of the next line.
- When you copy a long command, extra line breaks are often inserted,
and command arguments can be split across multiple lines.
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## Solution
Now that we own the scrollback and we re-create it when we resize, we
have the opportunity of toggling between the raw text and the rich text
we see today.
- Add TUI raw scrollback mode with `tui.raw_output_mode`, `/raw
[on|off]`, and the configurable `tui.keymap.global.toggle_raw_output`
action.
- Render transcript cells through rich/raw-aware paths so raw mode
preserves source text and lets the terminal soft-wrap selection-friendly
output.
- Bind raw-mode toggle to `alt-r` by default, with the keybinding path
toggling silently while `/raw` continues to emit confirmation messages.
## Related Issues
Likely addressed by raw mode:
- #12200: clean copy for multiline and soft-wrapped output. Raw mode
removes Codex-inserted wrapping/indentation and lets the terminal
soft-wrap logical lines.
- #9252: command suggestions gain unwanted leading spaces when copied.
Raw mode renders transcript text without the rich-mode left
padding/gutter.
- #8258: prompt output is hard to copy because of leading indentation.
Raw mode renders user/source-backed transcript text without that
decorative indentation.
Partially or conditionally addressed:
- #2880: copy/export message as Markdown. Raw mode exposes raw Markdown
for terminal selection, but this PR does not add a dedicated
export/copy-message command.
- #19820: mouse drag selection + copy in the TUI. Raw mode improves
terminal-native selection of output/history text, but this PR does not
implement in-TUI mouse selection, highlighting, auto-copy, or composer
selection.
- #18979: copied content is divided into two parts. This should improve
cases caused by Codex-inserted wraps/padding in rendered output; if the
report is about pasting into the composer/input path, that remains
outside this PR.
## Validation
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
raw_output_mode_can_change_without_inserting_notice -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
raw_slash_command_toggles_and_accepts_on_off_args -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui raw_output_toggle -- --nocapture`
- `git diff --check`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots`
## Summary
Bound TUI startup terminal response probes so unsupported terminals
cannot stall startup for multiple seconds.
This replaces the Unix startup uses of crossterm's blocking response
probes with short `/dev/tty` probes that use nonblocking reads and
`poll` with a 100ms timeout. It covers the initial cursor-position
query, keyboard enhancement support detection, and OSC 10/11
default-color detection. The default-color probe uses one shared
deadline for foreground and background instead of allowing two
independent full waits.
The diagnostic mode/trace env vars from the investigation branch are
intentionally not included. The shipped behavior is simply bounded
probing by default, while non-Unix keeps the existing crossterm fallback
path.
## Details
- Add a private `terminal_probe` module for bounded Unix terminal probes
and response parsers.
- Let `custom_terminal::Terminal` accept a caller-provided initial
cursor position so startup can compute it before constructing the
terminal.
- Use bounded cursor, keyboard enhancement, and default-color probes on
Unix startup.
- Preserve default-color cache behavior so a failed attempted query does
not retry forever.
## Validation
- `cd codex-rs && just fmt`
- `cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-tui terminal_probe`
- `cd codex-rs && just fix -p codex-tui`
- `cd codex-rs && just argument-comment-lint`
- `git diff --check`
- `git diff --cached --check`
`cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-tui` still aborts on the
pre-existing local stack overflow in
`app::tests::discard_side_thread_keeps_local_state_when_server_close_fails`;
I reproduced that same focused failure on `main` before this PR work, so
it is not introduced by this change.
Manual validation in the VM showed the original crossterm path taking
about 2s per unanswered probe, while bounded probing returned in about
100ms per probe.
## Why
Codex now has configurable TUI keymaps, but the composer still behaves
like a plain text field. Users who prefer modal editing need a way to
keep Vim muscle memory while drafting prompts, and the keymap picker
needs to expose Vim-specific actions if those bindings are configurable
instead of hardcoded.
## What Changed
- Adds composer Vim mode with insert/normal state, common normal-mode
movement and editing commands, `d`/`y` operator-pending flows, and
mode-aware footer and cursor indicators.
- Adds `/vim`, an optional global `toggle_vim_mode` binding, and
`tui.vim_mode_default` so Vim mode can be toggled per session or enabled
as the default composer state.
- Extends runtime and config keymaps with `vim_normal` and
`vim_operator` contexts, exposes those contexts in `/keymap`, refreshes
the config schema, and validates Vim bindings separately.
- Integrates Vim normal mode with existing composer behavior: `/` opens
slash command entry, `!` enters shell mode, `j`/`k` navigate history at
history boundaries, successful submissions reset back to normal mode,
and paste burst handling remains insert-mode only.
- Teaches the TUI render path to apply and restore cursor style so Vim
insert mode can use a bar cursor without leaving the terminal in that
state after exit.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-tui keymap -- --nocapture` on the keymap/Vim
coverage
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots`
## Docs
This introduces user-facing `/vim`, `tui.vim_mode_default`, and Vim
keymap contexts under `tui.keymap`, so the public CLI configuration and
slash-command docs should be updated before the feature ships.
## Why
Codex enables enhanced keyboard reporting while the TUI owns the
terminal. In iTerm2, exiting the TUI with Ctrl+C can intermittently
leave the parent shell receiving raw CSI-u / `modifyOtherKeys` fragments
instead of normal key input.
Final terminal cleanup should put the parent shell back into normal
keyboard reporting even if the terminal misses the usual stack pop.
Fixes#19553.
## What Changed
- Move TUI keyboard enhancement setup and detection into
`tui/src/tui/keyboard_modes.rs`.
- Add an exit-only `restore_after_exit()` path that performs the normal
keyboard enhancement pop plus unconditional keyboard enhancement and
`modifyOtherKeys` resets.
- Keep temporary restore paths, such as external-editor handoff, using
the balanced stack pop behavior.
## Confidence
Medium. This is a speculative fix: I was not able to reproduce the
reported iTerm2 behavior manually, but the symptoms line up with
terminal keyboard reporting state surviving Codex exit. The added reset
sequences are scoped to final TUI shutdown and should be harmless when
the terminal is already clean.
Fixes multiple scrollback and terminal resize issues: #5538, #5576,
#8352, #12223, #16165, and #15380.
## Why
Codex writes finalized transcript output into terminal scrollback after
wrapping it for the current viewport width. A later terminal resize
could leave that scrollback shaped for the old width, so wider windows
kept narrow output and narrower windows could show stale wrapping
artifacts until enough new output replaced the visible area.
This is also the foundation PR for responsive markdown tables. Table
rendering needs finalized transcript content to be width-sensitive after
insertion, not only while content is first streaming. Markdown table
rendering itself stays in #18576.
## Stack
- PR1: resize backlog reflow and interrupt cleanup
- #18576: markdown table support
## What Changed
- Rebuild source-backed transcript history when the terminal width
changes. `terminal_resize_reflow` is introduced through the experimental
feature system, but is enabled by default for this rollout so we can
validate behavior across real terminals.
- Preserve assistant and plan stream source so finalized streaming
output can participate in resize reflow after consolidation.
- Debounce resize work, but force a final source-backed reflow when a
resize happened during active or unconsolidated streaming output.
- Clear stale pending history lines on resize so old-width wrapped
output is not emitted just before rebuilt scrollback.
- Bound replay work with `[tui.terminal_resize_reflow].max_rows`:
omitted uses terminal-specific defaults, `0` keeps all rendered rows,
and a positive value sets an explicit cap. The cap applies both while
initially replaying a resumed transcript into scrollback and when
rebuilding scrollback after terminal resize.
- Consolidate interrupted assistant streams before cleanup, then clear
pending stream output and active-tail state consistently.
- Move resize reflow and thread event buffering helpers out of `app.rs`
into dedicated TUI modules.
- Add focused coverage for resize reflow, feature-gated behavior,
streaming source preservation, interrupted output cleanup,
unicode-neutral text, terminal-specific row caps, and composer/layout
stability.
## Runtime Bounds
Resize reflow keeps only the most recent rendered rows when a row cap is
active. The default is `auto`, which maps to the detected terminal's
default scrollback size where Codex can identify it: VS Code `1000`,
Windows Terminal `9001`, WezTerm `3500`, and Alacritty `10000`.
Terminals without a dedicated mapping use the conservative fallback of
`1000` rows. Users can override this with `[tui.terminal_resize_reflow]
max_rows = N`, or set `max_rows = 0` to disable row limiting.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
- `cargo test --manifest-path codex-rs/Cargo.toml -p codex-tui reflow`
- `cargo test --manifest-path codex-rs/Cargo.toml -p codex-tui
transcript_reflow`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- PR CI in progress on the squashed branch
Fixes https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/13638
## Why
VS Code's integrated terminal can run a Linux shell through WSL without
exposing `TERM_PROGRAM` to the Linux process, and with crossterm
keyboard enhancement flags enabled that environment can turn dead-key
composition into malformed key events instead of composed Unicode input.
Codex already handles composed Unicode correctly, so the fix is to avoid
enabling the terminal mode that breaks this path for the affected
terminal combination.
## What Changed
- Automatically skip crossterm keyboard enhancement flags when Codex
detects WSL plus VS Code, including a Windows-side `TERM_PROGRAM` probe
through WSL interop.
- Add `CODEX_TUI_DISABLE_KEYBOARD_ENHANCEMENT` so users can
force-disable or force-enable the keyboard enhancement policy for
diagnosis.
## Verification
- Added unit coverage for env parsing, VS Code detection, and the WSL/VS
Code auto-disable policy.
- `cargo check -p codex-tui` passed.
- `./tools/argument-comment-lint/run.py -p codex-tui -- --tests` passed.
- `cargo test -p codex-tui` was attempted locally, but the checkout
failed during linking before tests executed because V8 symbols from
`codex-code-mode` were unresolved for `arm64`.
Problem: TUI desktop notifications are hard-gated on terminal focus, so
terminal/IDE hosts that want in-focus notifications cannot opt in.
Solution: Add a flat `[tui] notification_condition` setting (`unfocused`
by default, `always` opt-in), carry grouped TUI notification settings
through runtime config, apply method + condition together in the TUI,
and regenerate the config schema.
Before this, the TUI was starting 2 app-server. One to check the login
status and one to actually start the session
This PR make only one app-server startup and defer the login check in
async, outside of the frame rendering path
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## TL;DR
Fixes the issues when using Codex CLI with Zellij multiplexer. Before
this PR there would be no scrollback when using it inside a zellij
terminal.
## Problem
Addresses #2558
Zellij does not support ANSI scroll-region manipulation (`DECSTBM` /
Reverse Index) or the alternate screen buffer in the way traditional
terminals do. When codex's TUI runs inside Zellij, two things break: (1)
inline history insertion corrupts the display because the scroll-region
escape sequences are silently dropped or mishandled, and (2) the
composer textarea renders with inherited background/foreground styles
that produce unreadable text against Zellij's pane chrome.
## Mental model
The fix introduces a **Zellij mode** — a runtime boolean detected once
at startup via `codex_terminal_detection::terminal_info().is_zellij()` —
that gates two subsystems onto Zellij-safe terminal strategies:
- **History insertion** (`insert_history.rs`): Instead of using
`DECSTBM` scroll regions and Reverse Index (`ESC M`) to slide content
above the viewport, Zellij mode scrolls the screen by emitting `\n` at
the bottom row and then writes history lines at absolute positions. This
avoids every escape sequence Zellij mishandles.
- **Viewport expansion** (`tui.rs`): When the viewport grows taller than
available space, the standard path uses `scroll_region_up` on the
backend. Zellij mode instead emits newlines at the screen bottom to push
content up, then invalidates the ratatui diff buffer so the next draw is
a full repaint.
- **Composer rendering** (`chat_composer.rs`, `textarea.rs`): All text
rendering in the input area uses an explicit `base_style` with
`Color::Reset` foreground, preventing Zellij's pane styling from
bleeding into the textarea. The prompt chevron (`›`) and placeholder
text use explicit color constants instead of relying on `.bold()` /
`.dim()` modifiers that render inconsistently under Zellij.
## Non-goals
- This change does not fix or improve Zellij's terminal emulation
itself.
- It does not rearchitect the inline viewport model; it adds a parallel
code path gated on detection.
- It does not touch the alternate-screen disable logic (that already
existed and continues to use `is_zellij` via the same detection).
## Tradeoffs
- **Code duplication in `insert_history.rs`**: The Zellij and Standard
branches share the line-rendering loop (color setup, span merging,
`write_spans`) but differ in the scrolling preamble. The duplication is
intentional — merging them would force a complex conditional state
machine that's harder to reason about than two flat sequences.
- **`invalidate_viewport` after every Zellij history flush or viewport
expansion**: This forces a full repaint on every draw cycle in Zellij,
which is more expensive than ratatui's normal diff-based rendering. This
is necessary because Zellij's lack of scroll-region support means the
diff buffer's assumptions about what's on screen are invalid after we
manually move content.
- **Explicit colors vs semantic modifiers**: Replacing `.bold()` /
`.dim()` with `Color::Cyan` / `Color::DarkGray` / `Color::White` in the
Zellij branch sacrifices theme-awareness for correctness. If the project
ever adopts a theming system, Zellij styling will need to participate.
## Architecture
The Zellij detection flag flows through three layers:
1. **`codex_terminal_detection`** — `TerminalInfo::is_zellij()` (new
convenience method) reads the already-detected `Multiplexer` variant.
2. **`Tui` struct** — caches `is_zellij` at construction; passes it into
`update_inline_viewport`, `flush_pending_history_lines`, and
`insert_history_lines_with_mode`.
3. **`ChatComposer` struct** — independently caches `is_zellij` at
construction; uses it in `render_textarea` for style decisions.
The two caches (`Tui.is_zellij` and `ChatComposer.is_zellij`) are read
from the same global `OnceLock<TerminalInfo>`, so they always agree.
## Observability
No new logging, metrics, or tracing is introduced. Diagnosis depends on:
- Whether `ZELLIJ` or `ZELLIJ_SESSION_NAME` env vars are set (the
detection heuristic).
- Visual inspection of the rendered TUI inside Zellij vs a standard
terminal.
- The insta snapshot `zellij_empty_composer` captures the Zellij-mode
render path.
## Tests
- `terminal_info_reports_is_zellij` — unit test in `terminal-detection`
confirming the convenience method.
- `zellij_empty_composer_snapshot` — insta snapshot in `chat_composer`
validating the Zellij render path for an empty composer.
- `vt100_zellij_mode_inserts_history_and_updates_viewport` — integration
test in `insert_history` verifying that Zellij-mode history insertion
writes content and shifts the viewport.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Why
This finishes the config-type move out of `codex-core` by removing the
temporary compatibility shim in `codex_core::config::types`. Callers now
depend on `codex-config` directly, which keeps these config model types
owned by the config crate instead of re-expanding `codex-core` as a
transitive API surface.
## What Changed
- Removed the `codex-rs/core/src/config/types.rs` re-export shim and the
`core::config::ApprovalsReviewer` re-export.
- Updated `codex-core`, `codex-cli`, `codex-tui`, `codex-app-server`,
`codex-mcp-server`, and `codex-linux-sandbox` call sites to import
`codex_config::types` directly.
- Added explicit `codex-config` dependencies to downstream crates that
previously relied on the `codex-core` re-export.
- Regenerated `codex-rs/core/config.schema.json` after updating the
config docs path reference.
This is a follow-up to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15922. That
previous PR deleted the old `tui` directory and left the new
`tui_app_server` directory in place. This PR renames `tui_app_server` to
`tui` and fixes up all references.
This is the part 1 of 2 PRs that will delete the `tui` /
`tui_app_server` split. This part simply deletes the existing `tui`
directory and marks the `tui_app_server` feature flag as removed. I left
the `tui_app_server` feature flag in place for now so its presence
doesn't result in an error. It is simply ignored.
Part 2 will rename the `tui_app_server` directory `tui`. I did this as
two parts to reduce visible code churn.
Fixes#10661.
### Problem
On Windows, the sign-in menu can exit immediately if the OS-level input
buffer contains trailing characters (like the Enter key from running the
command).
### Solution
**Flush Input Buffer on Init**: Use FlushConsoleInputBuffer on Windows
(and cflush on Unix) in ui::init() to discard any input captured before
the TUI was ready.
Verified by @CodebyAmbrose in #10661.
## Summary
- preserve baseline streaming behavior (smooth mode still commits one
line per 50ms tick)
- extract adaptive chunking policy and commit-tick orchestration from
ChatWidget into `streaming/chunking.rs` and `streaming/commit_tick.rs`
- add hysteresis-based catch-up behavior with bounded batch draining to
reduce queue lag without bursty single-frame jumps
- document policy behavior, tuning guidance, and debug flow in rustdoc +
docs
## Testing
- just fmt
- cargo test -p codex-tui
This PR adds a new `tui.notifications_method` config option that accepts
values of "auto", "osc9" and "bel". It defaults to "auto", which
attempts to auto-detect whether the terminal supports OSC 9 escape
sequences and falls back to BEL if not.
The PR also removes the inconsistent handling of notifications on
Windows when WSL was used.
Fixes#2558
Codex uses alternate screen mode (CSI 1049) which, per xterm spec,
doesn't support scrollback. Zellij follows this strictly, so users can't
scroll back through output.
**Changes:**
- Add `tui.alternate_screen` config: `auto` (default), `always`, `never`
- Add `--no-alt-screen` CLI flag
- Auto-detect Zellij and skip alt screen (uses existing `ZELLIJ` env var
detection)
**Usage:**
```bash
# CLI flag
codex --no-alt-screen
# Or in config.toml
[tui]
alternate_screen = "never"
```
With default `auto` mode, Zellij users get working scrollback without
any config changes.
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Co-authored-by: Josh McKinney <joshka@openai.com>
Clamp frame draw notifications in the `FrameRequester` scheduler so we
don't redraw more frequently than a user can perceive.
This applies to both `codex-tui` and `codex-tui2`, and keeps the
draw/dispatch loops simple by centralizing the rate limiting in a small
helper module.
- Add `FrameRateLimiter` (pure, unit-tested) to clamp draw deadlines
- Apply the limiter in the scheduler before emitting `TuiEvent::Draw`
- Use immediate redraw requests for scroll paths (scheduler now
coalesces + clamps)
- Add scheduler tests covering immediate/delayed interactions
Add `ctrl+g` shortcut to enable opening current prompt in configured
editor (`$VISUAL` or `$EDITOR`).
- Prompt is updated with editor's content upon editor close.
- Paste placeholders are automatically expanded when opening the
external editor, and are not "recompressed" on close
- They could be preserved in the editor, but it would be hard to prevent
the user from modifying the placeholder text directly, which would drop
the mapping to the `pending_paste` value
- Image placeholders stay as-is
- `ctrl+g` explanation added to shortcuts menu, snapshot tests updated
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ee05c81-fa49-4e99-8b07-fc9eef0bbfce
1. Adds SkillScope::Public end-to-end (core + protocol) and loads skills
from the public cache directory
2. Improves repo skill discovery by searching upward for the nearest
.codex/skills within a git repo
3. Deduplicates skills by name with deterministic ordering to avoid
duplicates across sources
4. Fixes garbled “Skill errors” overlay rendering by preventing pending
history lines from being injected during the modal
5. Updates the project docs “Skills” intro wording to avoid hardcoded
paths
Introduces an `EventBroker` between the crossterm `EventStream` source
and the consumers in the TUI. This enables dropping + recreating the
`crossterm_events` without invalidating the consumer.
Dropping and recreating the crossterm event stream enables us to fully
relinquish `stdin` while the app keeps running. If the stream is not
dropped, it will continue to read from `stdin` even when it is not
actively being polled, potentially stealing input from other processes.
See
[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1f3o33u/myterious_crossterm_input_after_running_vim/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
and [here](https://ratatui.rs/recipes/apps/spawn-vim/) for details.
### Tests
Added tests for new `EventBroker` setup, existing tests pass, tested
locally.
Pull FrameRequester out of tui.rs into its own module and make a
FrameScheduler struct. This is effectively an Actor/Handler approach
(see https://ryhl.io/blog/actors-with-tokio/). Adds tests and docs.
Small refactor of pending_viewport_area logic.
Piping to codex fails to do anything useful and locks up the process.
We currently check for stdout, but not stdin
```
❯ echo foo|just c
cargo run --bin codex -- "$@"
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.21s
Running `target/debug/codex`
Error: stdin is not a terminal
error: Recipe `codex` failed on line 10 with exit code 1
```
- Moved the unix-only suspend/resume logic into a dedicated job_control
module housing SuspendContext, replacing scattered cfg-gated fields and
helpers in tui.rs.
- Tui now holds a single suspend_context (Arc-backed) instead of
multiple atomics, and the event stream uses it directly for Ctrl-Z
handling.
- Added detailed docs around the suspend/resume flow, cursor tracking,
and the Arc/atomic ownership model for the 'static event stream.
- Renamed the process-level SIGTSTP helper to suspend_process and the
cursor tracker to set_cursor_y to better reflect their roles.
## What?
Fixed error handling in `insert_history_lines_to_writer` where all
terminal operations were silently ignoring errors via `.ok()`.
## Why?
Silent I/O failures could leave the terminal in an inconsistent state
(e.g., scroll region not reset) with no way to debug. This violates Rust
error handling best practices.
## How?
- Changed function signature to return `io::Result<()>`
- Replaced all `.ok()` calls with `?` operator to propagate errors
- Added `tracing::warn!` in wrapper function for backward compatibility
- Updated 15 test call sites to handle Result with `.expect()`
## Testing
- ✅ Pass all tests
## Type of Change
- [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change)
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Signed-off-by: Huaiwu Li <lhwzds@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Traut <etraut@openai.com>
Instead of querying all 256 terminal colors on startup, which was slow
in some terminals, hardcode the default xterm palette.
Additionally, tweak the shimmer so that it blends between default_fg and
default_bg, instead of "dark gray" (according to the terminal) and pure
white (regardless of terminal theme).
TuiEvent is supposed to be purely events that come from the "driver",
i.e. events from the terminal. Everything app-specific should be an
AppEvent. In this case, it didn't need to be an event at all.
This was supposed to be fixed by #2569, but I think the actual fix got
lost in the refactoring.
Intended behavior: pressing ^Z moves the cursor below the viewport
before suspending.