codex

codex-rs: fix thread resume rejoin semantics (#11756 )

## Summary
- always rejoin an in-memory running thread on `thread/resume`, even
when overrides are present
- reject `thread/resume` when `history` is provided for a running thread
- reject `thread/resume` when `path` mismatches the running thread
rollout path
- warn (but do not fail) on override mismatches for running threads
- add more `thread_resume` integration tests and fixes; including
restart-based resume-with-overrides coverage

## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all thread_resume`
- manual test with app-server-test-client
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/11755
- manual test both stdio and websocket in app

Max Johnson · 2026-02-13 23:09:58 +00:00

fb0aaf94de

fix: reduce usage of open_if_present (#11344 )

jif-oai · 2026-02-10 19:25:07 +00:00

847a6092e6

Defer persistence of rollout file (#11028 )

- Defer rollout persistence for fresh threads (`InitialHistory::New`):
keep rollout events in memory and only materialize rollout file + state
DB row on first `EventMsg::UserMessage`.
- Keep precomputed rollout path available before materialization.
- Change `thread/start` to build thread response from live config
snapshot and optional precomputed path.
- Improve pre-materialization behavior in app-server/TUI: clearer
invalid-request errors for file-backed ops and a friendlier `/fork` “not
ready yet” UX.
- Update tests to match deferred semantics across
start/read/archive/unarchive/fork/resume/review flows.
- Improved resilience of user_shell test, which should be unrelated to
this change but must be affected by timing changes

For Reviewers:
* The primary change is in recorder.rs
* Most of the other changes were to fix up broken assumptions in
existing tests

Testing:
* Manually tested CLI
* Exercised app server paths by manually running IDE Extension with
rebuilt CLI binary
* Only user-visible change is that `/fork` in TUI generates visible
error if used prior to first turn

Eric Traut · 2026-02-07 23:05:03 -08:00

b3de6c7f2b

Handle required MCP startup failures across components (#10902 )

Summary
- add a `required` flag for MCP servers everywhere config/CLI data is
touched so mandatory helpers can be round-tripped
- have `codex exec` and `codex app-server` thread start/resume fail fast
when required MCPs fail to initialize

jif-oai · 2026-02-06 17:14:37 +01:00

aab61934af

chore(config) Default Personality Pragmatic (#10705 )

## Summary
Switch back to Pragmatic personality

## Testing
- [x] Updated unit tests

Dylan Hurd · 2026-02-04 21:22:47 -08:00

a05aadfa1b

chore: add phase to message responseitem (#10455 )

### What

add wiring for `phase` field on `ResponseItem::Message` to lay
groundwork for differentiating model preambles and final messages.
currently optional.

follows pattern in #9698.

updated schemas with `just write-app-server-schema` so we can see type
changes.

### Tests
Updated existing tests for SSE parsing and hydrating from history

sayan-oai · 2026-02-03 02:52:26 +00:00

fc05374344

chore(core) Default to friendly personality (#10305 )

## Summary
Update default personality to friendly

## Testing
- [x] Unit tests pass

Dylan Hurd · 2026-01-31 17:11:32 -07:00

8a461765f3

chore(personality) new schema with fallbacks (#10147 )

## Summary
Let's dial in this api contract in a bit more with more robust fallback
behavior when model_instructions_template is false.

Switches to a more explicit template / variables structure, with more
fallbacks.

## Testing
- [x] Adding unit tests
- [x] Tested locally

Dylan Hurd · 2026-01-30 00:10:12 -07:00

e3ab0bd973

fix(app-server, core): defer initial context write to rollout file until first turn (#9950 )

### Overview
Currently calling `thread/resume` will always bump the thread's
`updated_at` timestamp. This PR makes it the `updated_at` timestamp
changes only if a turn is triggered.

### Additonal context
What we typically do on resuming a thread is **always** writing “initial
context” to the rollout file immediately. This initial context includes:
- Developer instructions derived from sandbox/approval policy + cwd
- Optional developer instructions (if provided)
- Optional collaboration-mode instructions
- Optional user instructions (if provided)
- Environment context (cwd, shell, etc.)

This PR defers writing the “initial context” to the rollout file until
the first `turn/start`, so we don't inadvertently bump the thread's
`updated_at` timestamp until a turn is actually triggered.

This works even though both `thread/resume` and `turn/start` accept
overrides (such as `model`, `cwd`, etc.) because the initial context is
seeded from the effective `TurnContext` in memory, computed at
`turn/start` time, after both sets of overrides have been applied.

**NOTE**: This is a very short-lived solution until we introduce sqlite.
Then we can remove this.

Owen Lin · 2026-01-27 10:41:54 -08:00

fc0fd85349

feat: ephemeral threads (#9765 )

Add ephemeral threads capabilities. Only exposed through the
`app-server` v2

The idea is to disable the rollout recorder for those threads.

jif-oai · 2026-01-24 14:57:40 +00:00

83775f4df1

feat(app-server) Expose personality (#9674 )

### Motivation
Exposes a per-thread / per-turn `personality` override in the v2
app-server API so clients can influence model communication style at
thread/turn start. Ensures the override is passed into the session
configuration resolution so it becomes effective for subsequent turns
and headless runners.

### Testing
- [x] Add an integration-style test
`turn_start_accepts_personality_override_v2` in
`codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/turn_start.rs` that verifies a
`/personality` override results in a developer update message containing
`<personality_spec>` in the outbound model request.

------
[Codex
Task](https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_i_6971d646b1c08322a689a54d2649f3fe)

Dylan Hurd · 2026-01-22 18:00:20 -08:00

2b1ee24e11

Support end_turn flag (#9698 )

Experimental flag that signals the end of the turn.

pakrym-oai · 2026-01-22 17:27:48 +00:00

b511c38ddb

Show session header before configuration (#9568 )

We were skipping if we know the model. We shouldn't

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2026-01-21 02:13:54 +00:00

3a0eeb8edf

Add total (non-partial) TextElement placeholder accessors (#9545 )

## Summary
- Make `TextElement` placeholders private and add a text-backed accessor
to avoid assuming `Some`.
- Since they are optional in the protocol, we want to make sure any
accessors properly handle the None case (getting the placeholder using
the byte range in the text)
- Preserve placeholders during protocol/app-server conversions using the
accessor fallback.
- Update TUI composer/remap logic and tests to use the new
constructor/accessor.

charley-oai · 2026-01-20 14:04:11 -08:00

be9e55c5fc

Add text element metadata to protocol, app server, and core (#9331 )

The second part of breaking up PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9116

Summary:

- Add `TextElement` / `ByteRange` to protocol user inputs and user
message events with defaults.
- Thread `text_elements` through app-server v1/v2 request handling and
history rebuild.
- Preserve UI metadata only in user input/events (not `ContentItem`)
while keeping local image attachments in user events for rehydration.

Details:

- Protocol: `UserInput::Text` carries `text_elements`;
`UserMessageEvent` carries `text_elements` + `local_images`.
Serialization includes empty vectors for backward compatibility.
- app-server-protocol: v1 defines `V1TextElement` / `V1ByteRange` in
camelCase with conversions; v2 uses its own camelCase wrapper.
- app-server: v1/v2 input mapping includes `text_elements`; thread
history rebuilds include them.
- Core: user event emission preserves UI metadata while model history
stays clean; history replay round-trips the metadata.

charley-oai · 2026-01-15 17:26:41 -08:00

1fa8350ae7

Add text element metadata to types (#9235 )

Initial type tweaking PR to make the diff of
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9116 smaller

This should not change any behavior, just adds some fields to types

charley-oai · 2026-01-14 16:41:50 -08:00

4a9c2bcc5a

[fix] app server flaky thread/resume tests (#8870 )

Fix flakiness of CI tests:
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/20350530276/job/58473691443?pr=8282

This PR does two things:
1. test with responses API instead of chat completions API in
thread_resume tests;
2. have a new responses API fixture that mocks out arbitrary numbers of
responses API calls (including no calls) and have the same repeated
response.

Tested by CI

Celia Chen · 2026-01-08 10:17:05 -08:00

c4af304c77

[app-server] feat: expose gitInfo/cwd/etc. on Thread (#7060 )

Port the new additions from https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6337 on
the legacy API to v2. Mainly need `gitInfo` and `cwd` for VSCE.

Owen Lin · 2025-11-21 10:37:12 -08:00

aa4e0d823e

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

[app-server] populate thread>turns>items on thread/resume (#6848 )

This PR allows clients to render historical messages when resuming a
thread via `thread/resume` by reading from the list of `EventMsg`
payloads loaded from the rollout, and then transforming them into Turns
and ThreadItems to be returned on the `Thread` object.

This is implemented by leveraging `SessionConfiguredNotification` which
returns this list of `EventMsg` objects when resuming a conversation,
and then applying a stateful `ThreadHistoryBuilder` that parses from
this EventMsg log and transforms it into Turns and ThreadItems.

Note that we only persist a subset of `EventMsg`s in a rollout as
defined in `policy.rs`, so we lose fidelity whenever we resume a thread
compared to when we streamed the thread's turns originally. However,
this behavior is at parity with the legacy API.

Owen Lin · 2025-11-19 15:58:09 +00:00

1924500250

fix: typos in model picker (#6859 )

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Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-19 06:29:02 +00:00

793063070b

fix: add more fields to ThreadStartResponse and ThreadResumeResponse (#6847 )

This adds the following fields to `ThreadStartResponse` and
`ThreadResumeResponse`:

```rust
    pub model: String,
    pub model_provider: String,
    pub cwd: PathBuf,
    pub approval_policy: AskForApproval,
    pub sandbox: SandboxPolicy,
    pub reasoning_effort: Option<ReasoningEffort>,
```

This is important because these fields are optional in
`ThreadStartParams` and `ThreadResumeParams`, so the caller needs to be
able to determine what values were ultimately used to start/resume the
conversation. (Though note that any of these could be changed later
between turns in the conversation.)

Though to get this information reliably, it must be read from the
internal `SessionConfiguredEvent` that is created in response to the
start of a conversation. Because `SessionConfiguredEvent` (as defined in
`codex-rs/protocol/src/protocol.rs`) did not have all of these fields, a
number of them had to be added as part of this PR.

Because `SessionConfiguredEvent` is referenced in many tests, test
instances of `SessionConfiguredEvent` had to be updated, as well, which
is why this PR touches so many files.

Michael Bolin · 2025-11-18 21:18:43 -08:00

a75321a64c

Update defaults to gpt-5.1 (#6652 )

## Summary
- update documentation, example configs, and automation defaults to
reference gpt-5.1 / gpt-5.1-codex
- bump the CLI and core configuration defaults, model presets, and error
messaging to the new models while keeping the model-family/tool coverage
for legacy slugs
- refresh tests, fixtures, and TUI snapshots so they expect the upgraded
defaults

## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-core
config::tests::test_precedence_fixture_with_gpt5_profile`


------
[Codex
Task](https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_i_6916c5b3c2b08321ace04ee38604fc6b)

Ahmed Ibrahim · 2025-11-17 17:40:11 -08:00

ddcc60a085

[app-server] feat: thread/resume supports history, path, and overrides (#6483 )

This updates `thread/resume` to be at parity with v1's
`ResumeConversationParams`. Turns out history is useful for codex cloud
and path is useful for the VSCode extension. And config overrides are
always useful.

Owen Lin · 2025-11-12 22:02:43 +00:00

964220ac94

[app-server] feat: expose additional fields on Thread (#6338 )

Add the following fields to Thread:

```
    pub preview: String,
    pub model_provider: String,
    pub created_at: i64,
```

Will prob need another PR once this lands:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6337

Owen Lin · 2025-11-07 04:08:45 +00:00

2030b28083

[app-server] feat: v2 Thread APIs (#6214 )

Implements:
```
thread/list
thread/start
thread/resume
thread/archive
```

along with their integration tests. These are relatively light wrappers
around the existing core logic, and changes to core logic are minimal.

However, an improvement made for developer ergonomics:
- `thread/start` and `thread/resume` automatically attaches a
conversation listener internally, so clients don't have to make a
separate `AddConversationListener` call like they do today.

For consistency, also updated `model/list` and `feedback/upload` (naming
conventions, list API params).

Owen Lin · 2025-11-05 20:28:43 +00:00

2ab1650d4d

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