## Why
Turn construction passed resolved environments through several layers
while leaving the environment shell unresolved. As a result,
model-visible environment context could fall back to the session shell
instead of reporting the selected remote environment's shell.
Resolve environment metadata at the turn-context boundary so each turn
carries the shell that belongs to its selected environment. Keep request
validation in app-server, where invalid selections can be returned as
straightforward JSON-RPC errors without coupling core turn construction
to that policy.
## What changed
- resolve environment selections eagerly in
`new_turn_context_from_configuration`
- store the full resolved `Shell` on each `TurnEnvironment`
- simplify the now-redundant resolved-environment constructor plumbing
- keep duplicate and unknown-environment validation as a small
app-server preflight
- add a remote-environment integration test that runs a full
`test_codex` turn and verifies the model-visible environment message
reports `bash`
## Testing
- `cargo check -p codex-core --test all -p codex-app-server`
- `remote_test_env_exposes_bash_shell_to_model` on the Linux
remote-executor harness
## Why
We're moving exec-server to use PathUri for its internal path
representations.
## What
Move `ExecutorFileSystem` APIs to use `PathUri` instead of
`AbsolutePathBuf`. Future changes will convert higher-level parts of
exec-server.
## Why
Thread cwd and environment selections are a single logical setting in
core: updating one without the other can silently desynchronize the
next-turn execution context. This change makes that relationship
explicit in the internal thread settings flow while preserving the
existing app-server public API shape.
## What changed
- Moved the cwd/environment pair through internal
`ThreadSettingsOverrides.environment_settings` instead of a top-level
internal `cwd` field.
- Kept `thread/settings/update` public params unchanged, with app-server
translating top-level `cwd` into the paired internal settings shape.
- Moved `Op::UserInput` environment overrides into thread settings so
user turns and settings updates use the same core path.
- Updated core, app-server, MCP, memories, sample, and test callsites to
construct the paired settings shape.
## Verification
- `git diff --check`
- Local test run starting after PR creation.
## Why
Thread settings cwd overrides are expected to be resolved before they
enter core. Keeping this boundary as a plain `PathBuf` made it easy for
core/session code to keep fallback normalization and relative-path
resolution logic in places that should only receive an already-resolved
cwd.
This is intentionally the absolute-cwd-only slice: it does not change
environment selection stickiness or cwd-to-default-environment fallback
behavior.
## What changed
- Changes `ThreadSettingsOverrides.cwd`,
`CodexThreadSettingsOverrides.cwd`, and `SessionSettingsUpdate.cwd` to
use `AbsolutePathBuf`.
- Removes core-side cwd normalization/resolution from session settings
updates.
- Updates affected core/app-server test helpers and callsites to pass
existing absolute cwd values or use `abs()` helpers.
## Validation
Opening as draft so CI can start while local validation continues.
## Stack
1. #25850 - Key request-permission grants by environment: stores and
applies sticky permission grants per environment id.
2. #25858 - Add `environmentId` to `request_permissions`: lets the model
target a selected environment and resolves relative permission paths
against it.
3. #25862 - Propagate permission approval environment id: carries the
selected environment id through approval events, app-server requests,
TUI prompts, and delegate forwarding.
4. This PR (#25867) - Add remote request permissions integration
coverage: verifies the selected remote environment across request,
approval, grant reuse, and exec.
This PR is stacked on #25862 and should be reviewed after #25850,
#25858, and #25862.
## Why
The environment-scoped permission stack needs one end-to-end check that
exercises the CCA-shaped path, not only unit-level parsing. This
verifies that a model-sent `environmentId` on `request_permissions`
reaches the approval event, stores the grant under the selected
environment, and is reused by a later tool call in that same
environment.
## What Changed
- Adds a remote executor integration test for `request_permissions` with
`environmentId: remote` and a relative write root.
- Asserts the permission event reports the remote environment and cwd,
and that the normalized grant resolves under the remote cwd.
- Approves the grant, then runs a remote `exec_command` without explicit
per-call permissions and verifies it completes without another exec
approval and writes only in the remote filesystem.
## Verification
- Not run locally per instruction.
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
Adds experimental `additionalContext` support to `turn/start` and
`turn/steer` so clients can provide ephemeral external context, such as
browser or automation state, without turning that plumbing into a
visible user prompt or triggering user-prompt lifecycle behavior.
## API Shape
The parameter shape is:
```ts
additionalContext?: Record<string, {
value: string
kind: "untrusted" | "application"
}> | null
```
Example:
```json
{
"additionalContext": {
"browser_info": {
"value": "Active tab is CI failures.",
"kind": "untrusted"
},
"automation_info": {
"value": "CI rerun is in progress.",
"kind": "application"
}
}
}
```
The keys are opaque and caller-defined.
## Context Injection
When provided, accepted entries are inserted into model context as
hidden contextual message items, not as visible thread user-message
items.
`kind: "untrusted"` entries are inserted with role `user`:
```text
<external_${key}>${value}</external_${key}>
```
`kind: "application"` entries are inserted with role `developer`:
```text
<${key}>${value}</${key}>
```
Values are not escaped. Each value is truncated to 1k approximate tokens
before wrapping.
For `turn/start`, accepted additional context is inserted before normal
user input. For `turn/steer`, additional context is merged only when the
steer includes non-empty user input; context-only steers still reject as
empty input.
## Dedupe Strategy
`AdditionalContextStore` lives on session state and stores the latest
complete additional-context map.
Each `turn/start` or non-empty `turn/steer` treats its
`additionalContext` as the current complete set of values. Entries are
injected only when the key is new or the exact entry for that key
changed, including `value` or `kind`. After merging, the store is
replaced with the provided map, so omitted keys are removed from the
retained set and can be injected again later if reintroduced.
Omitting `additionalContext`, passing `null`, or passing an empty object
resets the store to empty and injects nothing.
## What Changed
- Threads experimental v2 `additionalContext` through app-server into
core turn start and steer handling.
- Adds separate contextual fragment types for untrusted user-role
context and application developer-role context.
- Uses pending response input items so additional context can be
combined with normal user input without treating it as prompt text.
- Adds integration coverage for start/steer flow, role routing,
dedupe/reset behavior, deletion/re-add behavior, hook-blocked input
behavior, empty context-only steer rejection, external-fragment marker
matching, and truncation.
## Summary
Removes the feature since this is effectively on by default in all cases
where we should use it, or can be configured via models.json.
## Testing
- [x] unit tests pass
## Why
The Docker remote-env coverage was failing before it reached the
behavior those tests are meant to exercise. The remote-aware test
fixture only registered the remote environment, so tests that
intentionally select both `local` and `remote` could not start a turn.
After that was fixed, two tests exposed stale fixtures: the approval
test was auto-approving under workspace-write, and the remote
`view_image` test was writing invalid PNG bytes.
## What Changed
- Added `EnvironmentManager::create_for_tests_with_local(...)` so tests
can keep the provider default while also selecting `local` explicitly.
- Updated `build_remote_aware()` to use that test-only manager when a
remote exec-server URL is present.
- Changed the remote apply-patch approval helper to use
`SandboxPolicy::new_read_only_policy()` so the test actually exercises
approval caching per environment.
- Replaced the hardcoded remote `view_image` PNG blob with the existing
`png_bytes(...)` helper so the test uses a valid image fixture.
## Validation
Ran these isolated Docker remote-env tests on the devbox with
`$remote-tests` setup:
-
`suite::remote_env::apply_patch_freeform_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
-
`suite::remote_env::apply_patch_approvals_are_remembered_per_environment`
-
`suite::remote_env::apply_patch_intercepted_exec_command_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
-
`suite::remote_env::exec_command_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
- `suite::view_image::view_image_routes_to_selected_remote_environment`
All five pass.
## Summary
- add multi-environment apply_patch routing for both freeform and
function-call tool flows
- parse and reconcile the optional environment selector in the main
apply_patch parser, then verify against the selected environment in the
handler
- carry environment_id through runtime and approval surfaces so
remote-targeted patches stay explicit end to end
## Testing
- just fmt
- remote exec-server e2e: `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
apply_patch_multi_environment_uses_remote_executor -- --nocapture` on
dev via `scripts/test-remote-env.sh`
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## Why
When a turn exposes multiple selected environments, shell-style tools
need a model-facing way to identify the intended target environment and
handlers need to resolve that target before parsing cwd-relative
permission fields or launching processes.
This PR scopes that rollout to process tools. Filesystem-oriented tools
such as `apply_patch`, `view_image`, and `list_dir` are intentionally
left for follow-up slices.
## What Changed
- Adds an `include_environment_id` option to shell-style tool schema
builders.
- Exposes optional `environment_id` on `shell`, `shell_command`, and
`exec_command` only when `ToolEnvironmentMode::Multiple` is active.
- Adds a shared handler helper that parses `environment_id` and
`workdir` from JSON function-call arguments and returns the selected
`Environment` plus effective absolute cwd.
- Uses that helper in `shell`, `shell_command`, and `exec_command`
handling so process execution uses the selected environment filesystem
and cwd.
- Changes `ExecCommandRequest` to carry a required resolved `cwd`,
removing the process-manager fallback to the primary turn cwd for new
exec commands.
- Leaves `write_stdin` unchanged because it targets an existing process
id, not a new environment.
## Testing
- Added unit coverage for process-tool schema exposure, selected
environment resolution, primary fallback, no-environment handling,
unknown environment ids, and resolving cwd-relative permission paths
against the selected environment cwd.
- Added a remote-suite e2e coverage case for `exec_command` routing
across explicit zero environments, one local environment, and
local+remote environments.
- Ran `just fmt` and `git diff --check`.
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## Why
`ReadOnlyAccess` was a transitional legacy shape on `SandboxPolicy`:
`FullAccess` meant the historical read-only/workspace-write modes could
read the full filesystem, while `Restricted` tried to carry partial
readable roots. The partial-read model now belongs in
`FileSystemSandboxPolicy` and `PermissionProfile`, so keeping it on
`SandboxPolicy` makes every legacy projection reintroduce lossy
read-root bookkeeping and creates unnecessary noise in the rest of the
permissions migration.
This PR makes the legacy policy model narrower and explicit:
`SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` and `SandboxPolicy::WorkspaceWrite` represent
the old full-read sandbox modes only. Split readable roots, deny-read
globs, and platform-default/minimal read behavior stay in the runtime
permissions model.
## What changed
- Removes `ReadOnlyAccess` from
`codex_protocol::protocol::SandboxPolicy`, including the generated
`access` and `readOnlyAccess` API fields.
- Updates legacy policy/profile conversions so restricted filesystem
reads are represented only by `FileSystemSandboxPolicy` /
`PermissionProfile` entries.
- Keeps app-server v2 compatible with legacy `fullAccess` read-access
payloads by accepting and ignoring that no-op shape, while rejecting
legacy `restricted` read-access payloads instead of silently widening
them to full-read legacy policies.
- Carries Windows sandbox platform-default read behavior with an
explicit override flag instead of depending on
`ReadOnlyAccess::Restricted`.
- Refreshes generated app-server schema/types and updates tests/docs for
the simplified legacy policy shape.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server-protocol --tests`
- `cargo check -p codex-windows-sandbox --tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol sandbox_policy_`
---
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with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/19449).
* #19395
* #19394
* #19393
* #19392
* #19391
* __->__ #19449
## Why
The post-merge `rust-ci-full` run for #18999 still failed the Ubuntu
remote `suite::remote_env` sandboxed filesystem tests. That run checked
out merge commit `ddde50c611e4800cb805f243ed3c50bbafe7d011`, so the arg0
guard lifetime fix was present.
The Docker-backed failure had two remaining pieces:
- The sandboxed filesystem helper needs to execute Codex through the
`codex-linux-sandbox` arg0 alias path. The helper sandbox was only
granting read access to the real Codex executable parent, so the alias
parent also has to be visible inside the helper sandbox.
- The remote-env tests were building sandbox contexts with
`FileSystemSandboxContext::new()`, which captures the local test runner
cwd. In the Docker remote exec-server, that host checkout path does not
exist, so spawning the filesystem helper failed with `No such file or
directory` before the helper could process the request.
## What Changed
- Track all helper runtime read roots instead of a single root.
- Add both the real Codex executable parent and the
`codex-linux-sandbox` alias parent to sandbox readable roots.
- Avoid sending an unused local cwd in remote filesystem sandbox
contexts when the permission profile has no cwd-dependent entries.
- Build the Docker remote-env test sandbox contexts with a cwd path that
exists inside the container.
- Add unit coverage for the alias-parent root and remote sandbox cwd
handling.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
remote_test_env_sandboxed_read_allows_readable_root`
- `just fix -p codex-exec-server`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
## Summary\n- add an exec-server package-local test helper binary that
can run exec-server and fs-helper flows\n- route exec-server filesystem
tests through that helper instead of cross-crate codex helper
binaries\n- stop relying on Bazel-only extra binary wiring for these
tests\n\n## Testing\n- not run (per repo guidance for codex changes)
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## Summary
- make AGENTS.md discovery and loading fully FS-aware and remove the
non-FS discover helper
- migrate remote-aware codex-core tests to use TestEnv workspace setup
instead of syncing a local workspace copy
- add AGENTS.md corner-case coverage, including directory fallbacks and
remote-aware integration coverage
## Testing
- cargo test -p codex-core project_doc -- --nocapture
- cargo test -p codex-core hierarchical_agents -- --nocapture
- cargo test -p codex-core agents_md -- --nocapture
- cargo test -p codex-tui status -- --nocapture
- cargo test -p codex-tui-app-server status -- --nocapture
- just fix
- just fmt
- just bazel-lock-update
- just bazel-lock-check
- just argument-comment-lint
- remote Linux executor tests in progress via scripts/test-remote-env.sh
`CODEX_TEST_REMOTE_ENV` will make `test_codex` start the executor
"remotely" (inside a docker container) turning any integration test into
remote test.
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