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Celia Chen 0bb152b01d chore: remove SkillMetadata.permissions and derive skill sandboxing from permission_profile (#13061)
## Summary

This change removes the compiled permissions field from skill metadata
and keeps permission_profile as the single source of truth.

Skill loading no longer compiles skill permissions eagerly. Instead, the
zsh-fork skill escalation path compiles `skill.permission_profile` when
it needs to determine the sandbox to apply for a skill script.

  ## Behavior change

  For skills that declare:
```
  permissions: {}
```
we now treat that the same as having no skill permissions override,
instead of creating and using a default readonly sandbox. This change
makes the behavior more intuitive:

  - only non-empty skill permission profiles affect sandboxing
- omitting permissions and writing permissions: {} now mean the same
thing
- skill metadata keeps a single permissions representation instead of
storing derived state too

Overall, this makes skill sandbox behavior easier to understand and more
predictable.
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codex-core

This crate implements the business logic for Codex. It is designed to be used by the various Codex UIs written in Rust.

Dependencies

Note that codex-core makes some assumptions about certain helper utilities being available in the environment. Currently, this support matrix is:

macOS

Expects /usr/bin/sandbox-exec to be present.

When using the workspace-write sandbox policy, the Seatbelt profile allows writes under the configured writable roots while keeping .git (directory or pointer file), the resolved gitdir: target, and .codex read-only.

Network access and filesystem read/write roots are controlled by SandboxPolicy. Seatbelt consumes the resolved policy and enforces it.

Seatbelt also supports macOS permission-profile extensions layered on top of SandboxPolicy:

  • no extension profile provided: keeps legacy default preferences read access (user-preference-read).
  • extension profile provided with no macos_preferences grant: does not add preferences access clauses.
  • macos_preferences = "readonly": enables cfprefs read clauses and user-preference-read.
  • macos_preferences = "readwrite": includes readonly clauses plus user-preference-write and cfprefs shm write clauses.
  • macos_automation = true: enables broad Apple Events send permissions.
  • macos_automation = ["com.apple.Notes", ...]: enables Apple Events send only to listed bundle IDs.
  • macos_accessibility = true: enables com.apple.axserver mach lookup.
  • macos_calendar = true: enables com.apple.CalendarAgent mach lookup.

Linux

Expects the binary containing codex-core to run the equivalent of codex sandbox linux (legacy alias: codex debug landlock) when arg0 is codex-linux-sandbox. See the codex-arg0 crate for details.

All Platforms

Expects the binary containing codex-core to simulate the virtual apply_patch CLI when arg1 is --codex-run-as-apply-patch. See the codex-arg0 crate for details.