## Why
Multi-agent v2 `send_message` deliveries already reach the receiving
model as typed `agent_message` items with encrypted content.
Child-completion notifications are generated by Codex itself, so their
content is plaintext and previously fell back to a serialized JSON
envelope inside an assistant message.
With plaintext `input_text` supported for `agent_message`, both delivery
paths can use the same model-visible type while preserving explicit
author and recipient metadata.
## What changed
- add plaintext `input_text` support to `AgentMessageInputContent` and
regenerate the affected app-server schemas
- preserve `InterAgentCommunication` as structured mailbox input instead
of converting it to assistant text
- record delivered communications as typed `agent_message` history items
- persist a dedicated rollout item so local delivery metadata such as
`trigger_turn` remains available without leaking into the Responses
request
- reconstruct typed agent messages on resume and preserve fork-turn
truncation behavior
- remove request-time assistant-content parsing
- preserve plaintext and encrypted inter-agent deliveries in stage-one
memory inputs
- normalize and link plaintext and encrypted agent messages in rollout
traces without treating inbound messages as child results
- cover the real MultiAgent V2 child-completion path end to end with
deterministic mailbox synchronization
## Verification
- `just test -p codex-core
plaintext_multi_agent_v2_completion_sends_agent_message`
- `just test -p codex-core input_queue_drains_mailbox_in_delivery_order
record_initial_history_reconstructs_typed_inter_agent_message
fork_turn_positions_use_inter_agent_delivery_metadata`
- `just test -p codex-memories-write
serializes_inter_agent_communications_for_memory`
- `just test -p codex-rollout-trace
agent_messages_preserve_routing_and_content
sub_agent_started_activity_creates_spawn_edge`
- `just test -p codex-rollout-trace
agent_result_edge_falls_back_to_child_thread_without_result_message`
- `just test -p codex-protocol -p codex-rollout -p
codex-app-server-protocol`
## Why
`ExecutorFileSystem::get_metadata` reports file kind and timestamps but
not size. Internal callers that need to enforce a size limit therefore
have to read the complete file first, which is especially wasteful for
remote filesystems.
This adds the missing internal metadata so consumers can reject
oversized files before transferring or buffering them. The field is
named `size`, matching VS Code's `FileStat.size` filesystem convention.
## What changed
- add `size: u64` to internal `FileMetadata`
- populate it from the underlying filesystem metadata
- carry it through sandbox-helper and remote exec-server responses
- cover files, directories, symlink targets, and sandboxed reads across
local and remote filesystem implementations
The new field is intentionally not exposed through the app-server API.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-exec-server get_metadata`
- `just test -p codex-exec-server
file_system_sandboxed_metadata_and_read_allow_readable_root`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-skills-extension`
## Why
Standalone image generation emitted a started item but no terminal item
when the backend failed. Clients could leave the operation unresolved or
render it as successful.
## What changed
- Emit a terminal image-generation item with `status: "failed"` when
generation or editing fails.
- Skip image persistence for failed terminal items.
- Render failed image generation distinctly in TUI history.
- Preserve the status when handling live and replayed terminal items.
## Looks for TUI, App-Side change needed
<img width="867" height="89" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e32342f-a982-411e-8498-456639fc468a"
/>
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-image-generation-extension`
- App-server image-generation tests
- Core stream-event tests
- TUI image-generation lifecycle and snapshot tests
- Scoped Clippy and formatting
## Why
`selectedCapabilityRoots` belongs to one thread, but MCP contributors
previously received only the global Codex config. That left no clean way
for a selected executor capability to contribute MCP servers to its own
thread.
## What this PR does
- Gives MCP contributors a small context containing the config and, for
a running thread, its frozen host-seeded inputs.
- Uses the same thread inputs during startup, status queries, refreshes,
and skill dependency checks.
- Keeps threadless MCP operations and the existing hosted Apps behavior
unchanged.
- Adds coverage showing that two threads resolve independent
registrations and that later lifecycle mutations do not change the
frozen MCP inputs.
This PR does not discover plugin manifests, add MCP servers, or launch
anything new. It only establishes the thread-scoped registration
boundary.
## Follow-ups
- Resolve selected executor plugin roots through their owning
environment filesystem.
- Convert their stdio MCP declarations into environment-bound
registrations and add an executor MCP end-to-end test.
## Verification
- `just fmt`
- `cargo check --tests -p codex-protocol -p codex-extension-api -p
codex-mcp-extension -p codex-core -p codex-app-server`
Tests and Clippy were not run.
## Why
First-party async traits should expose their `Send` contracts explicitly
without requiring `async_trait`. This completes the migration pattern
established in #27303 and #27304.
## What changed
- Replaced the remaining first-party `async_trait` traits with native
return-position `impl Future + Send` where statically dispatched and
explicit boxed `Send` futures where object safety is required.
- Kept implementations behavior-preserving, outlining existing async
bodies into inherent methods where that keeps the diff reviewable.
- Removed all direct first-party `async-trait` dependencies and the
workspace dependency declaration.
- Added a cargo-deny policy that permits `async-trait` only through the
remaining transitive wrapper crates.
- Updated `rand` from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 to resolve RUSTSEC-2026-0097 and
keep the full cargo-deny check passing.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-exec-server`: 216 passed, 2 skipped.
- `just test -p codex-model-provider`: 39 passed.
- `just test -p codex-core` and `just test`: changed tests passed;
remaining failures are environment-sensitive suites unrelated to this
migration.
- `cargo deny check`
- `just fix`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo shear`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Why
`main` stopped compiling when #27498 passed an `AbsolutePathBuf` to the
`ExecutorFileSystem` API migrated to `PathUri` by #27653.
## What
Convert referenced image paths to `PathUri` before filesystem reads,
declare the internal path-URI dependency, and refresh `Cargo.lock`.
## Why
Image generation used `std::fs::read` for referenced image paths, which
did not support environment-backed filesystems or their sandbox context.
## What changed
- Expose optional turn environments to extension tool calls.
- Include each environment’s ID, working directory, filesystem, and
sandbox context.
- Read referenced images through the selected environment filesystem.
- Keep sandbox usage at the extension call site so extensions can choose
the appropriate access mode.
- Consolidate image request construction into one async function.
- Add coverage for successful environment reads and read failures.
## Validation
- `cargo check -p codex-image-generation-extension --tests`
- `just fmt`
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
`just test -p codex-image-generation-extension` could not complete
because the build exhausted available disk space.
## Why
MCP servers currently come from user config, local plugins,
compatibility Apps synthesis, and host extensions. Those sources were
composed by mutating a shared map, leaving registration identity,
precedence, removal, and provenance implicit in assembly order.
Before adding executor-owned MCPs, Codex needs one durable resolution
boundary above `McpConnectionManager`. This PR introduces that boundary
while preserving current server configuration, policy, and runtime
behavior. Executor-scoped registrations and explicit policy layers
remain follow-ups.
## What changed
- Add typed `McpServerRegistration` inputs and an immutable
`ResolvedMcpCatalog` in `codex-mcp`.
- Retain each registration's complete `McpServerConfig`, including its
environment binding, while recording its source and provenance.
- Preserve the existing structural precedence between plugin, config,
compatibility, and ordered extension sources.
- Resolve equal-precedence actions by contribution order; provenance IDs
are used only for diagnostics and cannot affect the winner.
- Preserve extension removals and the existing name-scoped `enabled =
false` veto.
- Report same-tier conflicts with every contender and the final catalog
outcome, including whether the winning action registers or removes the
server.
- Require MCP contributors to provide a stable diagnostic identity.
- Derive materialized server maps and plugin ownership from the resolved
catalog.
`McpConnectionManager`, transport startup, tool calls, and resource
routing continue to consume the same effective `McpServerConfig` values.
## Scope
This PR does not add new MCP capabilities or change user-visible
behavior. It does not add executor plugin discovery, thread-scoped
registrations, dynamic refresh generations, or new user/managed policy
semantics.
## Verification
- Added focused catalog coverage for source precedence, complete
configuration preservation, disabled vetoes, plugin ownership,
contribution-order tie breaking, removal outcomes, and conflict
diagnostics.
- Extended hosted Apps coverage for ordered extension removal and
Apps-disabled hosts with and without the hosted extension installed.
- `cargo check -p codex-mcp --tests -p codex-extension-api -p
codex-core`
## Why
We want to remove implicit use of `$CODEX_HOME` from `codex-core` and
make embedders responsible for supplying user-level instructions. This
also ensures user instructions load when no primary environment is
selected.
## What changed
Stacked on #27415, which makes `codex exec` surface thread-scoped
runtime warnings.
- Added `UserInstructionsProvider` to `codex-extension-api`, with
absolute source attribution and recoverable loading warnings.
- Added `codex-home` with the filesystem-backed provider for
`AGENTS.override.md` and `AGENTS.md`, preserving precedence, fallback,
trimming, lossy UTF-8 handling, and the existing uncapped global
instruction size.
- Removed global instruction loading from `Config` and require
`ThreadManager` callers to inject a provider.
- Load provider instructions once for each fresh root runtime, including
runtimes without a primary environment. Running sessions retain their
snapshot, while child agents inherit the parent snapshot without
invoking the provider.
- Keep provider instructions separate while loading project `AGENTS.md`,
then assemble the model-visible instructions with the existing ordering,
source attribution, warning, and turn-context behavior.
- Wired the Codex home provider through the CLI, app server, MCP server,
core facade, and thread-manager sample.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-home -p codex-extension-api`
- `just test -p codex-core agents_md`
- `just test -p codex-core guardian`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
thread_start_without_selected_environment_includes_only_global_instruction_source`
- `just test -p codex-exec warning`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## 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.
We're switching to using a static encoding of the host path in
`PathUri`. We may need a type like this again but we can add it when
it's more compelling.
Stacked on #27454.
## Why
`ext/skills` currently depends on `codex-core` for two host concerns:
reading the concrete `Config` type and borrowing core-owned
model-context fragment types. That coupling prevents the extension from
being assembled independently above core and leaves context that belongs
to the skills feature owned by core.
This stacked PR introduces the host boundary needed for the broader
extension migration while intentionally preserving existing skills
behavior. It is stacked on #27404.
## What changed
- Adds a small public `SkillsExtensionConfig` view and makes skills
installation generic over the host config type.
- Requires the host to map its config into that view; app-server
supplies the current `Config` values.
- Moves the available-skills and selected-skill context fragment
implementations into `ext/skills`, preserving their roles, markers, and
rendered bytes.
- Removes the direct `codex-core` dependency from
`codex-skills-extension`.
- Keeps local discovery, invocation, side effects, and the
`codex-core-skills` compatibility types unchanged for later staged PRs.
## Behavior
This adds no capability and is intended to have no user-visible or
model-visible behavior change. The install API and ownership boundary
change internally; emitted skills context remains byte-for-byte
compatible.
## Validation
- Updates the skills extension integration coverage to use a host-owned
test config.
- Asserts the complete rendered catalog and selected-skill fragments,
including their roles and markers.
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- Rust tests and Clippy were not run locally per request; CI will run
them.
## Why
Hosted skills introduced by #27388 use opaque `skill://` resource
identifiers, but the skills catalog rendered every locator as a `file`
and told the model that every skill body lived on disk. That can send
the model toward filesystem tools for a resource that must instead be
read through its owning authority.
The catalog should describe how each source is accessed without changing
the underlying discovery or invocation behavior.
## What changed
- Render host skills as `file`, executor-owned skills as `environment
resource`, orchestrator-owned skills as `orchestrator resource`, and
custom-provider skills as `custom resource`.
- Update the shared no-alias guidance to describe source locators rather
than assuming every skill is stored on the host filesystem.
- Direct orchestrator resources through `skills.list` and `skills.read`,
and explicitly tell the model not to treat `skill://` identifiers as
filesystem paths.
- Preserve the existing filesystem and alias behavior for local skills.
## Scope
This PR changes only model-visible catalog rendering and guidance. It
does not change skill discovery, selection, prompt injection, provider
routing, catalog caching or refresh behavior, resource validation, or
the `skills.*` tool contract.
## Verification
- Extended skills-extension coverage for host-file and executor-resource
labels.
- Extended the no-executor app-server flow to assert
orchestrator-resource wording and non-filesystem guidance.
## Why
PR #27387 makes backend plugin skills discoverable and invocable without
an executor, but resources referenced by those skills still sit behind
the generic MCP resource surface. The model needs a skills-owned API
that preserves the provider authority and package boundary instead of
treating remote resources like local files.
This is stacked on #27387.
## What
- Adds one `skills` namespace with bounded `list` and `read` tools for
remote skill providers.
- Revalidates `authority + package` against the live remote catalog on
every read, then routes the opaque resource ID back through that
provider.
- Allows the backend provider to read canonical child `skill://`
resources while rejecting cross-package, non-canonical, query, fragment,
and traversal-shaped URIs.
- Caps each serialized tool result at 8 KB. Lists are paginated; reads
return an opaque continuation cursor.
- Marks the JSON output as external context so memory generation can
apply its normal suppression policy.
- Deliberately does not add `skills.search`; that waits for a bounded
plugin-service search contract.
## Tool contract
Pseudo-Python matching the wire shape:
```python
from typing import Literal, NotRequired, TypedDict
class RemoteSkillAuthority(TypedDict):
kind: Literal["remote"]
id: str # e.g. "codex_apps"
class RemoteSkill(TypedDict):
authority: RemoteSkillAuthority
package: str # opaque provider-owned package ID
name: str
description: str
main_resource: str # opaque provider-owned SKILL.md ID
class SkillsListParams(TypedDict):
cursor: NotRequired[str]
class SkillsListResult(TypedDict):
skills: list[RemoteSkill]
next_cursor: str | None
warnings: list[str]
truncated: bool
class SkillsReadParams(TypedDict):
authority: RemoteSkillAuthority # copied from skills.list
package: str # copied from skills.list
resource: str # provider-owned child resource ID
cursor: NotRequired[str] # copy next_cursor to continue
class SkillsReadResult(TypedDict):
resource: str
contents: str
next_cursor: str | None
truncated: bool
class Skills:
def list(self, params: SkillsListParams) -> SkillsListResult: ...
def read(self, params: SkillsReadParams) -> SkillsReadResult: ...
```
There is one namespace for all remote skills, not one tool or MCP server
per skill. No resource ID is converted into a filesystem path.
## Backend dependency
`/ps/mcp` must support direct reads of child resources such as
`skill://plugin_demo/deploy/references/deploy.md`. This PR implements
and tests the Codex side of that contract; production child reads remain
dependent on the corresponding plugin-service support. Search remains
out of scope until that service exposes a bounded search/resource API.
## Validation
- Added an app-server integration test covering `skills.list` followed
by `skills.read` with no executor.
- Ran `just fmt`.
- Ran `just bazel-lock-update` and `just bazel-lock-check`.
- Did not run Rust tests or Clippy locally, per request; CI will run
them.
## Summary
- cache the first remote skill catalog outcome per thread, including
failures
- preserve discovery errors as catalog warnings
- update the existing cache regression test to verify failed discovery
is attempted once
## Why
A failed or hanging `codex_apps` `resources/list` call could run once
while building initial context and immediately again while contributing
first-turn input. With the discovery timeout, an ordinary Apps turn
could wait up to 20 seconds before inference and retry again on later
turns even when no remote skill was mentioned.
Caching a warning-only empty catalog preserves graceful degradation
while preventing repeated synchronous discovery attempts.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- Tests and Clippy not run per request; CI will validate the change.
## Why
#27198 made the extension-owned `codex_apps` MCP connection the hosted
plugin runtime, but its `mcp/skill` resources still bypassed the skills
extension. App-server could list and read those resources through
generic MCP APIs, but a thread with no selected environment did not
expose them in the model's skills catalog or load their `SKILL.md`
through `$skill`.
Hosted skills should stay remote while using the same typed catalog,
source authority, deduplication, bounded contextual catalog, and
selected-skill prompt injection as host and executor skills. They should
not be downloaded or exposed as ambient filesystem paths.
## What changed
- Add a session-scoped `McpResourceClient` over the replaceable MCP
connection manager so resource list/read calls follow startup and
refresh replacements.
- Add a `BackendSkillProvider` that pages `codex_apps` resources,
accepts bounded and validated `mcp/skill` entries, and reads a selected
skill's `SKILL.md` through the same MCP connection.
- Register the remote provider in app-server and include it in the
skills catalog even when a thread has no selected capability roots or
executor.
- Contribute hosted skill metadata through the bounded
`AvailableSkillsInstructions` developer-context path, exclude remote
entries from per-turn catalog injection, and classify `<skills>`
messages as contextual developer content so rollback can trim and
rebuild them correctly.
## Testing
- Extend the app-server MCP resource integration test with
`environments: []` to exercise two-page discovery, filter a
non-`mcp/skill` resource, verify the escaped developer catalog entry and
user-role `<skill>` fragment containing the fetched `SKILL.md`, and
preserve generic MCP resource reads.
- Add core event-mapping coverage that classifies `<skills>` developer
messages as contextual history.
## Summary
- Expand the hosted web search prompt with explicit Markdown-link
citation guidance.
- Keep internal `turnX` reference IDs out of final responses and place
citations next to supported claims.
## Context
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C0AU83S0ZQU/p1781133381448499?thread_ts=1780352049.512299&cid=C0AU83S0ZQU
## Test plan
- Confirmed `codex-rs/ext/web-search/web_run_description.md` exactly
matches the supplied target prompt.
- `UV_CACHE_DIR=/tmp/codex-uv-cache
PATH=/tmp/codex-just/bin:/home/dev-user/.rustup/toolchains/1.95.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:$PATH
python3 scripts/format.py --check`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Recent MCP runtime overlay changes replace same-name configured server
entries with compatibility or extension-provided configs. Those
replacement configs default to enabled, so an MCP server explicitly
configured with `enabled = false` could be initialized anyway.
The connection manager still filters disabled servers correctly, but the
configured disabled state was lost before initialization reached that
filter.
## What changed
- Remember MCP servers that are disabled in the configured view before
applying runtime fallbacks and extension overlays.
- Restore `enabled = false` for those servers after overlays, while
leaving all other overlay fields and `Remove` precedence unchanged.
- Add focused extension-backed regression coverage for a disabled
`codex_apps` server.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-mcp-extension`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-mcp-extension`
The full workspace `just test` suite was not run.
## Why
We're now [discouraging use of
`async_trait`](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20242).
Removing use of `async_trait` from `ToolExecutor` yields a `codex_core`
debug test build speedup of ~78% (from 227.5s to 50.3s) on my machine.
Stacked on #27299, this PR applies the trait change after the handler
bodies have been outlined.
## What
Changed `ToolExecutor::handle` to return an explicit boxed
`ToolExecutorFuture` instead of using `async_trait`.
Updated ToolExecutor implementors to return `Box::pin(...)`, reexported
the future alias through `codex-tools` and `codex-extension-api`, and
removed `codex-tools` direct `async-trait` dependency.
## Why
We're now [discouraging use of
`async_trait`](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20242).
Removing use of `async_trait` from `ToolExecutor` yields a `codex_core`
debug test build speedup of ~78% (from 227.5s to 50.3s) on my machine.
For ease of reviewing, this is a prefactor to extract trait method
implementations to inherent methods. This will prevent changing
indentation from creating a huge diff.
## What
Outlined existing `ToolExecutor::handle` bodies into inherent async
`handle_call` methods across core and extension tool handlers.
The trait methods still use `async_trait` and now delegate to
`self.handle_call(...).await`; handler behavior is unchanged.
## Why
Extension contributors are registered behind `dyn Trait` objects, so
native `async fn`/RPITIT methods would make these traits
non-object-safe. Spell out the boxed, `Send` future contract directly so
`extension-api` no longer needs `async-trait` while retaining the
existing runtime model.
## What changed
- add a shared `ExtensionFuture` alias and use it for asynchronous
contributor methods
- migrate production and test implementations to return `Box::pin(async
move { ... })`
- remove `async-trait` dependencies where they are no longer used,
keeping it dev-only where unrelated test executors still require it
## Behavior
No behavior change is intended. Contributor futures remain boxed,
`Send`, dynamically dispatched, and lazily executed; cancellation and
callback ordering stay unchanged.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-extension-api` (11 passed)
- affected extension crates (64 passed)
- targeted `codex-core` contributor tests (14 passed)
- `just fmt`
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
A broad local `codex-core` run compiled successfully but encountered
unrelated sandbox and missing test-binary fixture failures; CI will run
the full checks.
## Stack
- Base: #27191
- This PR is the third vertical and should be reviewed against
`jif/external-plugins-2`, not `main`.
## Why
#27191 moves the host-owned Apps MCP registration behind an extension
contributor, but deliberately preserves the existing endpoint-selection
feature while that contribution contract lands. App-server can therefore
resolve the server through extensions, yet the hosted plugin endpoint is
still selected through temporary `apps_mcp_path_override` plumbing.
That is not the long-term plugin model. A plugin can bundle skills,
connectors, MCP servers, and hooks, and those components do not all need
the same source or execution environment. In particular, an
authenticated HTTP MCP server can expose plugin capabilities directly
from a backend without an executor or an orchestrator filesystem.
This PR completes that hosted vertical. App-server's MCP extension now
owns the aggregate hosted plugin runtime at `/ps/mcp`. Connector actions
continue to arrive as MCP tools, while backend-provided skills arrive as
MCP resources and use Codex's existing resource list/read paths. No
second backend client, skill filesystem, or generic plugin activation
framework is introduced.
The backend route remains the hosted implementation. This change
replaces Codex's temporary endpoint-selection mechanism, not the service
behind the endpoint.
## What changed
### Hosted plugin runtime
The MCP extension now contributes `codex_apps` as the hosted plugin
runtime rather than as a configurable Apps endpoint:
- `https://chatgpt.com` resolves to
`https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/ps/mcp`;
- a bare custom ChatGPT base resolves to `/api/codex/ps/mcp`;
- the existing product-SKU header and ChatGPT authentication behavior
are preserved;
- executor availability is never consulted for this streamable HTTP
transport.
The same MCP connection carries both component shapes supported by the
hosted endpoint:
- connector actions are discovered and invoked as MCP tools;
- hosted skills are enumerated and read as MCP resources through the
existing `list_mcp_resources` and `read_mcp_resource` paths.
This keeps component access in the subsystem that already owns the
protocol instead of downloading backend skills into an orchestrator
filesystem or inventing a parallel hosted-skill client.
### Explicit runtime ordering
`McpManager` now resolves the reserved `codex_apps` entry in three
ordered phases:
1. install the legacy Apps fallback for compatibility;
2. apply ordered extension `Set` or `Remove` overlays;
3. apply the final ChatGPT-auth gate without synthesizing the server
again.
This ordering is important:
- an ordinary configured or plugin MCP server cannot claim the
auth-bearing `codex_apps` name;
- an extension-contributed hosted runtime wins over the fallback;
- an extension `Remove` remains authoritative;
- a host without the MCP extension retains the legacy Apps endpoint and
current local-only behavior.
The temporary `legacy_apps_mcp_loader_enabled` coordination flag is no
longer needed.
### Remove the path override
The `apps_mcp_path_override` feature and its runtime plumbing are
removed, including:
- the feature registry entry and structured feature config;
- `Config` and `McpConfig` fields;
- config schema output;
- config-lock materialization;
- URL override handling in `codex-mcp`.
Existing boolean and structured forms still deserialize as ignored
compatibility input. They are omitted from new serialized config, and
config-lock comparison normalizes the removed input so older locks
remain replayable.
### App-server coverage
App-server MCP fixtures now serve the hosted route at
`/api/codex/ps/mcp`. Existing resource-read and tool/elicitation flows
therefore exercise the extension-owned endpoint rather than succeeding
through the legacy fallback.
The stack also adds the missing `codex_chatgpt::connectors` re-export
for the manager-backed connector helper introduced in #27191.
## Compatibility
- App-server installs the extension and uses `/ps/mcp` for the hosted
runtime.
- CLI and other hosts that do not install the extension retain the
legacy Apps endpoint.
- Apps disabled or non-ChatGPT authentication removes `codex_apps` from
the effective runtime view.
- Existing local plugins, local skills, executor-selected skills,
configured MCP servers, and MCP OAuth behavior are otherwise unchanged.
- Backend plugin enablement remains account/workspace state owned by the
hosted endpoint; this PR does not add thread-local backend plugin
selection.
## Architectural fit
The stack now proves two independent runtime shapes:
1. #27184 resolves filesystem-backed skills through the executor that
owns a selected root.
2. #27191 and this PR resolve a backend-hosted HTTP MCP through an
extension with no executor.
Together they preserve the intended separation:
- selection identifies a plugin/root when explicit selection is needed;
- each component's owning extension resolves its concrete access
mechanism;
- execution stays with the runtime required by that component;
- existing skills, MCP, connector, and hook subsystems remain the
downstream consumers.
## Planned follow-ups
1. **Executor stdio MCP:** selecting an executor plugin registers a
manifest-declared stdio MCP server and executes it in the environment
that owns the plugin.
2. **Optional backend selection:** only if CCA needs thread-local
selection distinct from backend account/workspace enablement, add a
concrete backend-owned capability location and surface those selected
skills through the skills catalog.
3. **Connector metadata and hooks:** activate those plugin components
through their existing owning subsystems, with executor hooks remaining
environment-bound.
4. **Propagation and persistence:** define explicit resume, fork,
subagent, refresh, and environment-removal semantics once selected roots
have multiple real consumers.
5. **Local convergence:** migrate legacy local skill, MCP, connector,
and hook paths behind their owning extensions one vertical at a time,
then remove duplicate core managers and compatibility plumbing after
parity.
## Verification
Coverage in this change exercises:
- extension-owned `/backend-api/ps/mcp` registration without an
executor;
- preservation of the legacy endpoint in hosts without the extension;
- extension `Set` and `Remove` precedence over the legacy fallback;
- ChatGPT-auth gating for the reserved server;
- hosted MCP resource reads with and without an active thread;
- connector tool invocation and MCP elicitation through the hosted
route;
- ignored boolean and structured forms of the removed path override;
- config-lock replay compatibility for the removed feature.
`cargo check -p codex-features -p codex-mcp-extension -p
codex-app-server` passes. Tests and Clippy were not run locally under
the current development instruction; CI provides the full validation
pass.
## Why
- Currently, there is no analytics event for `/goal` behavior
- Existing events cannot identify goal execution or its resulting
outcome
- The original update in
[#26182](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26182) was implemented
before `/goal` moved into `codex-goal-extension`.
## What Changed
- Adds `codex_goal_event` serialization and enrichment to
`codex-analytics`
- Emits goal events from the canonical `codex-goal-extension` mutation
and accounting paths:
- `created` when a new logical goal is persisted
- `usage_accounted` when cumulative goal usage is persisted
- `status_changed` when the stored goal status changes
- `cleared` when the goal is deleted
- Preserves causal `turn_id` for turn driven events and uses null
attribution for external or idle lifecycle events
- Changes goal deletion to return the deleted row so `cleared` retains
the stable goal ID
## Event Details
Includes standard analytics metadata along with goal specific fields:
- `goal_id`: Stable ID stored in the local SQLite goal row and shared
across the goal's events
- `event_kind`: Observed operation (see the 4 lifecycle events cited in
the above bullet)
- `goal_status`: Resulting or last stored status: `active`, `paused`,
`blocked`, `usage_limited`, etc.
- `has_token_budget`: Indicates whether a token budget is configured
- `turn_id`: Causal turn ID, or null when no causal turn exists
- `cumulative_tokens_accounted`: Cumulative tokens on `usage_accounted`
events; null otherwise
- `cumulative_time_accounted_seconds`: Cumulative active time on
`usage_accounted` events; null otherwise
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-analytics -p codex-state -p codex-goal-extension`
- `just test -p codex-core -E 'test(/goal/)'`
- `just test -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo build -p codex-analytics -p codex-core -p codex-state -p
codex-app-server`
## Stack
- Base: #27184
- This PR is the second vertical and should be reviewed against
`jif/external-plugins-1`, not `main`.
## Why
CCA is moving toward a split runtime where the orchestrator may have no
filesystem or executor, but it still needs to activate remotely hosted
plugin components. HTTP MCP servers are the simplest complete example:
they need configuration and host authentication, but they do not need an
executor process.
The Apps MCP endpoint is currently synthesized by a special-purpose
loader inside the MCP runtime. That works locally, but it leaves hosted
MCP activation outside the extension model being established in #27184.
It also makes the Apps path a poor foundation for plugins whose skills,
MCP servers, connectors, and hooks may come from different sources or
execute in different places.
This PR moves that one behavior behind an extension-owned contribution
while preserving the existing local fallback. It deliberately does not
introduce a generic plugin activation framework.
## What changed
### MCP extension contribution
`codex-extension-api` gains an ordered `McpServerContributor` contract.
A contributor returns typed `Set` or `Remove` overlays for MCP server
configuration; later contributors win for the names they own.
The contract stays at the existing MCP configuration boundary.
Extensions do not create a second connection manager or transport
abstraction.
### Hosted Apps MCP extension
A new `codex-mcp-extension` contributes the reserved `codex_apps` server
from the existing Apps feature, ChatGPT base URL, path override, and
product SKU configuration.
When `apps_mcp_path_override` is enabled for `https://chatgpt.com`, the
resulting streamable HTTP endpoint is
`https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/ps/mcp`. The existing ChatGPT-auth gate
remains authoritative, so this server can run in an orchestrator-only
process without being exposed for API-key sessions.
### One resolved runtime view
`McpManager` now distinguishes three views:
- **configured:** config- and plugin-backed servers before extension
overlays;
- **runtime:** configured servers plus host-installed extension
contributions;
- **effective:** runtime servers after auth gating and compatibility
built-ins.
App-server installs the hosted MCP extension and uses the runtime view
for thread startup, refresh, status, threadless resource reads,
connector discovery, and MCP OAuth lookup. This keeps
`mcpServer/oauth/login` consistent with the servers exposed by the other
MCP APIs. The hosted Apps server itself continues to use existing
ChatGPT host authentication rather than MCP OAuth.
## Compatibility
Hosts that do not install the MCP extension retain the existing Apps MCP
synthesis path. This preserves current local-only, CLI, and
standalone-host behavior while app-server exercises the extension path.
Disabling Apps removes the reserved `codex_apps` entry, and losing
ChatGPT auth removes it from the effective runtime view. Executor
availability is not consulted for this HTTP transport.
## Follow-ups
The next vertical will resolve a manifest-declared stdio MCP server from
an executor-selected plugin root and execute it in the environment that
owns that root. Later verticals can add backend-owned skills, connector
metadata, hooks, durable selection semantics, and incremental local
convergence without changing the component-specific runtime boundaries
introduced here.
## Verification
Focused coverage was added for:
- contributing the hosted Apps MCP at `/backend-api/ps/mcp` without an
executor;
- requiring ChatGPT auth in the effective runtime view;
- removing a reserved configured Apps server when the Apps feature is
disabled.
`cargo check -p codex-app-server -p codex-mcp-extension -p
codex-extension-api -p codex-mcp` passed. Tests and Clippy were not run
locally under the current development instruction; CI provides the full
validation pass.
## Why
Users have indicated that they want an agent to be able to create a new
goal for itself after completing the previous goal. Currently, that's
not possible because agents cannot overwrite an existing goal even if
it's complete. This PR removes this limitation and allows `create_goal`
to overwrite an existing goal if it is in the `complete` state.
## What changed
`create_goal` now replaces the existing goal only when its status is
`complete`. The replacement is performed atomically in the goal store,
creates a fresh active goal with reset usage, and continues to reject
creation while any unfinished goal exists. App server clients see a
single `thread/goal/updated` event when the previous goal is replaced
with the new one.
The tool description and error message now reflect these semantics.
## What didn't change
Agents are not allowed to create a new goal (overwrite their existing
goal) if an existing goal is still active, blocked, paused, or in any
other state other than "completed".
## Why
`codex-extension-api` defines contracts shared by extension crates and
their hosts, but it had no direct test suite. Host and feature tests
cover downstream behavior, while regressions in the API crate's own
typed state, registry ordering, and capability adapters could go
unnoticed.
## What
- Add public-surface integration tests for `ExtensionData`, including
concurrent initialization and poison recovery.
- Cover contributor registration order, approval short-circuiting, event
sink retention, no-op response injection, and closure-based agent
spawning.
- Add the test-only dependencies used by the suite.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-extension-api`
- `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-extension-api`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Why
CCA is moving toward a split runtime where the orchestrator may not have
a filesystem, while executors can expose preinstalled plugins and
skills. A thread therefore needs to select capabilities without asking
app-server or core to interpret executor-owned paths through the
orchestrator's filesystem.
The longer-term model is broader than executor skills:
- A plugin is a bundle of skills, MCP servers, connectors/apps, and
hooks.
- A plugin root can be local, executor-owned, or hosted by a backend.
- Components inside one plugin can use different access and execution
mechanisms. A skill may be read from a filesystem or through backend
tools; an HTTP MCP server can run without an executor; a stdio MCP
server or hook needs an execution environment.
- Core should carry generic extension initialization data. The extension
that owns a component should discover it, expose it to the model, and
invoke it through the appropriate runtime.
This PR establishes that architecture through one complete vertical:
selecting a root on an executor, discovering the skills beneath it,
exposing those skills to the model, and reading an explicitly invoked
`SKILL.md` through the same executor.
## Contract
`thread/start` gains an experimental `selectedCapabilityRoots` field:
```json
{
"selectedCapabilityRoots": [
{
"id": "deploy-plugin@1",
"location": {
"type": "environment",
"environmentId": "workspace",
"path": "/opt/codex/plugins/deploy"
}
}
]
}
```
The root is intentionally not classified as a "plugin" or "skill" in the
API. It can point at a standalone skill, a directory containing several
skills, or a plugin containing skills and other components. This PR only
teaches the skills extension how to consume it; later extensions can
resolve MCP, connector, and hook components from the same selection.
The platform-supplied `id` is stable selection identity. The location
says which runtime owns the root and gives that runtime an opaque path.
App-server does not inspect or canonicalize the path.
## What changed
### Generic thread extension initialization
App-server converts selected roots into `ExtensionDataInit`. Core
carries that generic initialization value until the final thread ID is
known, then creates thread-scoped `ExtensionData` before lifecycle
contributors run.
This keeps `Session` and core independent of the capability-selection
contract. The initialization value is consumed during construction; it
is not retained as another long-lived `Session` field.
### Executor-backed skills
The skills extension now owns an `ExecutorSkillProvider` that:
- resolves the selected environment through `EnvironmentManager`
- discovers, canonicalizes, and reads skills through that environment's
`ExecutorFileSystem`
- contributes the bounded selected-skill catalog as stable developer
context
- reads an explicitly invoked skill body through the authority that
listed it
- warns when an environment or root is unavailable
- never falls back to the orchestrator filesystem for an executor-owned
root
Skill catalog and instruction fragments have hard byte bounds, which
also bound them below the 10K-token per-item context limit. If a
selected executor skill has the same name as a legacy local skill, the
executor selection owns that invocation and the local body is not
injected a second time.
Existing local and bundled skill loading remains in place. Omitting
`selectedCapabilityRoots` therefore preserves current local-only
behavior.
## Current semantics
- Only environment-owned locations are represented in this first
contract.
- Roots are resolved by the destination extension, not by app-server or
core.
- An unavailable executor or invalid root produces a warning and no
capabilities from that root; it does not trigger a local-filesystem
fallback.
- Selection applies to a newly started active thread.
- MCP servers, connectors, and hooks beneath a selected plugin root are
not activated yet.
- Selection is not yet persisted or inherited across resume, fork, or
subagent creation. Existing local capabilities continue to behave as
they do today in those flows.
## Planned vertical follow-ups
1. **Hosted HTTP MCP:** add an extension-backed HTTP MCP source that
works without an executor, then replace the special-purpose MCP plugins
loader with that implementation.
2. **Executor MCP:** register and execute stdio MCP servers through the
environment that owns the selected plugin root.
3. **Backend skills:** add a hosted skill source whose catalog and
bodies are accessed through extension tools rather than a filesystem.
4. **Connectors and hooks:** activate those components through their
owning extensions, using the same selected-root boundary and
component-specific runtime.
5. **Durable selection:** define the desired-selection lifecycle,
persist it, and make resume, fork, and subagent inheritance explicit
rather than accidental.
6. **Local convergence:** incrementally route existing local plugin,
skill, and MCP loading through the same extension model while preserving
current local behavior.
Each follow-up remains reviewable as an end-to-end capability. The
platform selects roots, generic thread extension data carries the
selection, and the owning extension resolves and operates its component.
## Verification
Coverage added for:
- app-server end-to-end discovery and explicit invocation of a skill
inside an executor-selected plugin root
- exclusive invocation when a selected executor skill collides with a
local skill name
- executor filesystem authority for discovery, canonicalization, and
reads
- thread extension initialization before lifecycle contributors run
- stable executor catalog context, explicit invocation, context
rebuilding, hidden skills, and preserved host/remote catalog behavior
Targeted protocol, core-skills, skills-extension, core lifecycle, and
app-server executor-skill tests were run during development.
## Summary
- Update the web search tool prompt to require Markdown links for cited
sources.
- Explicitly tell the model not to use `turnX`-style citations in
responses.
## Context
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C0AU83S0ZQU/p1780964147777649?thread_ts=1780352049.512299&cid=C0AU83S0ZQU
## Test plan
- `git diff --check`
- `python3 scripts/format.py --check` (fails only on Rust formatter
setup: rustup cannot create temp files under `/home/dev-user/.rustup`;
Just and Python formatter checks pass when using temp cache dirs)
## Why
Image edits should use the exact images selected by the model instead of
inferring edit inputs from conversation history.
## What changed
- Replaced the image tool's `action` argument with optional
`referenced_image_paths`.
- Treats omitted or empty references as generation and populated
references as editing.
- Reads referenced absolute image paths and packages them as image data
URLs for the edit request.
- Removed the previous history-selection and image-count heuristics.
- Updated direct and code-mode tool instructions and calls.
- Added an app-server integration test covering an attached image routed
to the image edit endpoint.
## Validation
- Tested end-to-end on local `just codex` with copy pasted image,
attached image, etc.
- `just test -p codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
standalone_image_edit_uses_attached_model_visible_image`
- `just fix -p codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Summary
- add contains_external_context() to tool output so other tools can be
opted out of influencing memory when disable_on_external_context=true
- Classify standalone web-search output as external context (to match
behavior as hosted web search)
- Verify with integration test
## What
- Consume plaintext `output` from standalone search while retaining
optional `encrypted_output` parsing.
- Expose `web.run` to code mode and return search output to nested
JavaScript calls.
- Cover direct and code-mode standalone search paths with integration
tests.
## Why
`/v1/alpha/search` now returns plaintext output, which code mode needs
to consume standalone search results.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-api`
- `just test -p codex-web-search-extension`
- `just test -p codex-core code_mode_can_call_standalone_web_search`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
standalone_web_search_round_trips_output`
## Summary
Responses Lite does not execute hosted Responses tools, so models using
it must route web search and image generation through Codex-owned
executors & standalone Response's API endpoints.
This PR is stacked on #26487.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core responses_lite_ --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
standalone_executors_remain_hidden_without_flags_or_responses_lite
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
hosted_tools_follow_provider_auth_model_and_config_gates --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-web-search-extension -p
codex-image-generation-extension`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all standalone_`
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check`
## Why
Terminal turn errors can leave a goal active. Automatic goal
continuation may then repeatedly hit a permanent failure, including
compaction requests rejected with HTTP 400, and consume excessive
tokens.
This PR changes the goal extension to treat all turn-ending errors
(including non-retryable errors and retryable errors that have exceeded
their retry count) as "blocking" for the goal. The downside to this
change is that there are some errors that may eventually succeed (e.g. a
429 due to a service outage), and previously the goal runtime would have
kept the agent going in these situations.
## What changed
- Block the current active goal when a turn ends with an error other
than a usage-limit error.
- Preserve the existing `usage_limited` transition for usage-limit
errors.
- Share progress accounting, guarded state updates, metrics, and event
emission in the goal runtime.
## Stack
1. [#26547](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26547) - [1 of 2] Align
goal extension with core behavior
2. [#26548](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26548) - [2 of 2] Move
goal runtime to extension
## Why
The goal runtime is moving out of `codex-core` and into
`codex-goal-extension`. This first PR brings the extension back in line
with the current core behavior before the follow-up PR switches
app-server sessions over to the extension, so that review can focus on
ownership and wiring rather than hidden behavior drift.
## What Changed
- Updates the extension `create_goal` and `update_goal` tool
schemas/descriptions to match the current core wording for explicit
token budgets, blocked-goal audits, resumed blocked goals, and
system-owned budget/usage-limit transitions.
- Marks `codex-goal-extension` as the live `/goal` extension crate
rather than an unwired sketch.
- Looks up the live thread before reading goal state for idle
continuation, so continuation setup exits early when no live thread can
accept the automatic turn.
## Why
Multi-agent v2 currently routes agent instructions through normal tool
arguments and inter-agent context. That means the parent model can emit
plaintext task text, Codex can persist it in history/rollouts, and the
recipient can receive it as ordinary assistant-message JSON.
This changes the v2 path so agent instructions stay encrypted between
model calls: Responses encrypts the `message` argument returned by the
model, Codex forwards only that ciphertext, and Responses decrypts it
internally for the recipient model.
## What changed
- Mark the v2 `message` parameter as encrypted for `spawn_agent`,
`send_message`, and `followup_task`.
- Treat multi-agent v2 tool `message` values as ciphertext
unconditionally.
- Store v2 inter-agent task text in
`InterAgentCommunication.encrypted_content` with empty plaintext
`content`.
- Convert encrypted inter-agent communications into the Responses
`agent_message` input item before sending the child request.
- Preserve `agent_message` items across history, rollout, compaction,
telemetry, and app-server schema paths.
- Leave multi-agent v1 unchanged.
## Message shape
The model still calls the v2 tools with a `message` argument, but that
value is now ciphertext:
```json
{
"name": "spawn_agent",
"arguments": {
"task_name": "worker",
"message": "<ciphertext>"
}
}
```
Codex stores the task as encrypted inter-agent communication:
```json
{
"author": "/root",
"recipient": "/root/worker",
"content": "",
"encrypted_content": "<ciphertext>",
"trigger_turn": true
}
```
When Codex builds the recipient request, it forwards the ciphertext
using the new Responses input item:
```json
{
"type": "agent_message",
"author": "/root",
"recipient": "/root/worker",
"content": [
{
"type": "encrypted_content",
"encrypted_content": "<ciphertext>"
}
]
}
```
Responses decrypts that item internally for the recipient model.
## Context impact
- Parent context no longer carries plaintext v2 agent task instructions
from these tool arguments.
- Codex rollout/history stores ciphertext for v2 agent instructions.
- Recipient requests receive an `agent_message` item instead of
assistant commentary JSON for encrypted task delivery.
- Plaintext completion/status notifications are still plaintext because
they are Codex-generated status messages, not encrypted model tool
arguments.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-tools`
- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-rollout`
- `just test -p codex-rollout-trace`
- `just test -p codex-otel`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
## Why
Standalone image generation returns image bytes to the model, but the
model also needs the host artifact path to reference the generated file
in follow-up work.
## What changed
- Append the default saved-image path hint alongside the generated image
tool output.
- Reuse the existing core image-generation hint text.
- Pass the thread ID and Codex home directory needed to compute the
artifact path.
- Add app-server and extension coverage for the model-visible hint.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
standalone_image_generation_returns_saved_path_hint_to_model`
## Why
The skills extension needs to become the path that exposes local host
skills without losing the behavior already owned by core skill loading.
Host skill discovery is not just `$CODEX_HOME/skills`: it also includes
config layers, bundled-skill settings, plugin roots, runtime extra
roots, and the filesystem for the selected primary environment.
Rather than making the extension reload host skills and risk drifting
from that authoritative load, this PR bridges the already-loaded
per-turn skills outcome into the extension. That lets the extension
advertise host skills and inject explicit `$skill` prompts while
preserving the same roots, disabled/hidden state, rendered paths, and
environment-backed file reads that the legacy path uses.
## What Changed
- Adds `HostLoadedSkills` in `core-skills` to wrap the turn's
`SkillLoadOutcome` and read `SKILL.md` through the filesystem that
loaded that skill.
- Stores `HostLoadedSkills` in turn extension data for normal turns and
review turns, so the skills extension can consume the loaded host
catalog without reloading it.
- Adds `HostSkillProvider` under `ext/skills/src/provider/host.rs`,
mapping host-loaded skill metadata into the skills-extension
catalog/read contract.
- Registers the host provider by default from
`codex_skills_extension::install()`.
- Preserves host skill metadata such as dependencies, disabled state,
hidden-from-prompt policy, and slash-normalized display paths.
- Passes host-loaded skills through `SkillListQuery` and
`SkillReadRequest` so explicit skill invocation reads only resources
from the loaded host catalog.
- Adds integration coverage for a real legacy
`$CODEX_HOME/skills/.../SKILL.md` skill being listed and injected
through the installed extension.
## Testing
- Added `installed_extension_loads_host_skills_from_legacy_roots` in
`ext/skills/tests/skills_extension.rs`.
- `just test -p codex-skills-extension`
## Why
Goal idle continuation is extension-triggered model-visible work, so it
should follow one core-owned rule for when automatic work may start. In
particular, it should not jump ahead of queued user/client work, start
while another task is active, or inject a continuation turn while the
thread is in Plan mode.
Keeping this policy in `try_start_turn_if_idle` avoids passing
`collaboration_mode` or review-specific state through
`ThreadLifecycleContributor::on_thread_idle`. Active `/review` is
covered by the same active-task gate because Review turns are not
steerable.
## What Changed
- Teach `Session::try_start_turn_if_idle` to reject automatic idle turns
in Plan mode, both before reserving an idle turn and after building the
turn context.
- Document `CodexThread::try_start_turn_if_idle` as the extension-facing
gate for automatic idle work, including Plan-mode and active Review-task
behavior.
- Add focused coverage for Plan-mode rejection and active Review-task
rejection without queuing synthetic input.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core try_start_turn_if_idle`
## Why
The skills extension needs a real turn-time path before host, executor,
or remote skills can be routed through it. The previous code was mostly
a placeholder catalog/provider sketch, so there was no bounded
available-skills fragment, no source-owned `SKILL.md` read, and no place
for warnings or per-turn selection state to live.
This PR makes `ext/skills` the authority-preserving flow for listing
candidate skills and injecting only explicitly selected main prompts,
without adding more of that logic to `codex-core`.
## What changed
- Expands catalog entries with `main_prompt`, display path, short
description, dependency metadata, enabled/prompt visibility flags, and
authority/package-aware read requests.
- Replaces the placeholder `providers/*` modules with
`SkillProviderSource` and `SkillProviders`, routing list/read/search
calls by source kind and surfacing provider failures as warnings.
- Adds bounded available-skills rendering and `SKILL.md` main-prompt
truncation before the fragments enter model context.
- Resolves explicit skill selections from structured `UserInput::Skill`,
skill-file mentions, `skill://...` paths, and plain `$skill` text
mentions, then reads selected prompts through their owning provider.
- Stores mutable per-thread skills config and per-turn
catalog/selection/warning state.
- Adds `install_with_providers` so tests and future host wiring can
supply concrete providers.
## Testing
- Not run locally.
- Added `codex-rs/ext/skills/tests/skills_extension.rs` coverage for
available-catalog injection, selected prompt injection through the
owning provider, and prompt-hidden skills that remain invokable.
## Why
Goal progress accounting can be reached from multiple completion paths
for the same thread. Each path takes a progress snapshot, writes the
usage delta, and then marks that snapshot as accounted. When two
tool-completion hooks run at the same time, they can both observe the
same unaccounted delta and charge it twice.
## What changed
- Added a per-thread progress-accounting permit to
`GoalAccountingState`.
- Held that permit across the snapshot/write/mark-accounted critical
section for active-turn, idle, and tool-finish accounting.
- Added regression coverage for parallel tool-finish hooks so a shared
token delta is charged once and only one progress event is emitted.
## Testing
- Not run locally.
- Added `parallel_tool_finish_accounts_active_goal_progress_once`.
## Why
The skills extension needs the resolved turn environments to build a
real per-turn `SkillListQuery`. The previous `TurnLifecycleContributor`
hook only had a turn id, so it could only seed a placeholder query and
never carry the executor authorities that executor-scoped skill routing
will need.
Moving catalog resolution onto `TurnInputContributor` puts the skills
extension on the same turn-preparation path that already has the
environment ids and working directories for the submitted turn, while
keeping the actual prompt injection work for follow-up changes.
## What changed
- switch `ext/skills` from `TurnLifecycleContributor` to
`TurnInputContributor`
- build `executor_authorities` from `TurnInputContext.environments` and
pass them through `SkillListQuery`
- keep storing the resolved catalog in `SkillsTurnState`, but drop the
placeholder query helper that no longer matches the real data flow
- update the extension TODOs to reflect that per-turn catalog resolution
now happens in the turn-input contributor, and that prompt/context
injection still needs to move later
## Testing
- Not run locally.
## Disclaimer
Do not use for now
## Why
Extensions can already contribute prompt fragments and request same-turn
item injection, but there was no host-owned hook for contributing
structured `ResponseItem`s while Codex is assembling a new turn's
initial model input. This change adds that seam so extensions can attach
turn-local input that depends on the submitted user input and resolved
turn environments without routing through prompt text or late injection.
## What changed
- add `TurnInputContributor` to `codex_extension_api` and export the new
`TurnInputContext` / `TurnInputEnvironment` types it receives
- teach `ExtensionRegistry` to register and expose turn-input
contributors alongside the existing extension hooks
- call registered turn-input contributors from
`core/src/session/turn.rs` while building the initial injected input for
a turn, then append their returned `ResponseItem`s after the skill and
plugin injections
## Disclaimer
This is only here for iteration purpose! Do not make any code rely on
this
## Why
Skills still live behind `codex-core` discovery and injection paths, but
the extension system needs an authority-aware home before that logic can
move. This adds that boundary without changing current skills behavior,
and keeps host, executor, and remote skills distinct so future
list/read/search flows do not collapse back to ambient local paths.
## What changed
- Add the `codex-skills-extension` workspace/Bazel crate under
`ext/skills`.
- Define the initial catalog, authority, provider, and turn-state types
for authority-bound skill packages and resources.
- Register placeholder thread/config/prompt/turn lifecycle contributors
plus host, executor, and remote provider aggregation points.
- Capture the remaining extraction work as TODOs, including the missing
extension API hooks needed for per-turn catalog construction and typed
skill injection.
- Keep plugins outside the runtime skills model: plugin-installed skills
are treated as materialized host-owned skill sources once available.
## Verification
- Not run locally.
## Why
Standalone image generation remained top-level-only in code-mode
sessions.
## What changed
- Change imagegen exposure from `DirectModelOnly` to `Direct`.
- Keep direct-mode access while enabling nested code-mode access.
- Add a focused regression test for the exposure contract.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-image-generation-extension`
## Why
Standalone image-generation extensions emitted turn items through the
low-level event path, bypassing host-owned finalization such as image
persistence and contributor processing. At the same time, the
generated-image save-path hint must remain visible to the model through
the extension tool's `FunctionCallOutput`, rather than the legacy
built-in developer-message path.
## What changed
- Extended `ExtensionTurnItem` to support image-generation items while
keeping the extension-facing emitter API limited to `emit_started` and
`emit_completed`.
- Routed extension completion through core `finalize_turn_item`, so
standalone image-generation items receive host-owned processing and
persisted `saved_path` values before publication.
- Kept legacy built-in image generation on its existing
developer-message hint path, while standalone image generation returns
its deterministic saved-path hint in `FunctionCallOutput`.
- Shared the image artifact path and output-hint formatting used by core
and the image-generation extension.
- Passed thread identity through extension tool calls so standalone
image generation can construct the same intended artifact path as core.
- Added an app-server integration test covering real standalone image
generation, saved artifact publication, model-visible output hint
wiring, and absence of the legacy developer-message hint.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just test -p codex-web-search-extension`
- `just test -p codex-goal-extension`
- `just test -p codex-memories-extension`
- Targeted `codex-core` tests for image save history, extension
completion finalization, and contributor execution
- `just test -p codex-app-server
standalone_image_generation_returns_saved_path_hint_to_model`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Summary
- opt the extension-backed standalone `web.run` tool into parallel tool
execution
- update the existing extension registration test to assert that the
tool advertises parallel-call support
## Why
The standalone web-search API endpoint now supports parallel requests.
The extension executor still inherited the shared serial default,
causing multiple `web.run` calls to acquire the exclusive runtime lock.
## Impact
Models that emit multiple standalone web-search calls can now execute
them concurrently when model-level parallel tool calls are enabled.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-web-search-extension`
- `git diff --check origin/main...HEAD`
## Summary
- add an extension-owned `GoalApi` for thread goal get/set/clear
operations
- register live goal runtimes with the API from the goal extension
backend
- cover the API and runtime-effect paths in goal extension tests
## Stack
Follow-up app-server wiring PR: #25108
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-goal-extension`
- `just test -p codex-goal-extension`
## Why
Goal steering prompts have grown into long inline Rust strings, which
makes the authored prompt text hard to review and easy to damage while
changing the surrounding plumbing. Moving those prompts into embedded
Markdown templates keeps the policy text in the shape reviewers actually
read, while preserving the existing runtime substitution and objective
escaping behavior.
## What changed
- Added `ext/goal/templates/goals/continuation.md`, `budget_limit.md`,
and `objective_updated.md` for the three goal steering prompts.
- Updated `ext/goal/src/steering.rs` to parse those embedded templates
once with `codex-utils-template` and render the existing goal values
into them.
- Kept user objectives XML-escaped before rendering and converted budget
counters into template variables.
- Added the template directory to `ext/goal/BUILD.bazel` `compile_data`
so Bazel has the same embedded prompt inputs as Cargo.
## Testing
- Not run locally.
## Why
The goal extension needs a way to resume an active goal after the thread
becomes idle, but the old core goal runtime should not be refactored as
part of this step. The missing piece is a small core-owned turn-start
primitive: let an extension ask for a normal model turn only when the
thread is idle, and otherwise fail without injecting into whatever is
currently active.
## What Changed
- Adds `CodexThread::try_start_turn_if_idle(...)` as the narrow
extension-facing primitive for synthetic idle work.
- Implements the session side so it refuses to start when:
- the provided input is empty,
- the session is in plan mode,
- a turn is already active, or
- trigger-turn mailbox work is pending.
- Gives trigger-turn mailbox work priority if it appears while the idle
turn is being prepared.
- Wires `GoalExtension::on_thread_idle` to read the active persisted
goal and submit the continuation prompt through this idle-only
primitive.
- Keeps the legacy core goal continuation implementation in place
instead of folding it into this PR.
## Behavior
This is intentionally best-effort. If `try_start_turn_if_idle` observes
that the thread is not idle, or that higher-priority mailbox work should
run first, it returns the input to the caller. The goal extension drops
that continuation prompt and waits for a future idle opportunity instead
of injecting stale synthetic goal text into an active turn.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core
try_start_turn_if_idle_rejects_active_turn_without_injecting`
- `just test -p codex-goal-extension`
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