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charlesgong-openai 1883dedc0e [codex] Support object-valued plugin MCP manifests (#28580)
## Summary
This fixes plugin manifest parsing for MCP servers declared as an object
directly in `plugin.json`.

Before this change, Codex modeled `mcpServers` as only a string path,
for example:

```json
{
  "name": "counter-sample",
  "version": "1.1.1",
  "mcpServers": "./.mcp.json"
}
```

Some migrated plugins instead provide the server map directly in the
manifest:

```json
{
  "name": "counter-sample",
  "version": "1.1.1",
  "description": "Plugin that declares MCP servers in the manifest",
  "mcpServers": {
    "counter": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sample.example/counter/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

That object form previously failed during install/load with an error
like:

```text
failed to parse plugin manifest: invalid type: map, expected a string
```

## What changed
- Add a manifest representation for `mcpServers` as either
`Path(Resource)` or `Object(map)`.
- Parse `plugin.json` `mcpServers` as either a string path or an object.
- Route object-valued MCP server maps through the existing plugin MCP
config parser instead of adding a second parser.
- Apply existing per-plugin MCP server policy to object-valued MCP
servers the same way as file-backed MCP servers.
- Include object-valued MCP server names in plugin telemetry/capability
metadata.
- Support object-valued MCP config for executor plugins without
requiring a `.mcp.json` filesystem read.
- Update the bundled plugin-creator validator and `plugin-json-spec.md`
so generated-plugin validation accepts the same object-valued shape.

## Compatibility
Existing plugin manifests that use `"mcpServers": "./.mcp.json"`
continue to work. Plugins can now also use the object shape shown above.

## Tests
Added coverage for the new manifest attribute shape at the install,
normal load, telemetry, and executor-provider layers:

- `install_accepts_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `load_plugins_loads_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `plugin_telemetry_metadata_uses_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `reads_manifest_object_config_without_executor_file_system_access`

Also smoke-tested the plugin-creator validator against both supported
forms:

- `mcpServers` as a direct object in `plugin.json`
- `mcpServers` as `"./.mcp.json"` with a companion `.mcp.json`

## Validation
- `just test -p codex-plugin`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-mcp-extension`
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
- Focused rename/object-form rerun: `just test -p codex-core-plugins
manager::tests::load_plugins_loads_manifest_mcp_server_objects
manager::tests::plugin_telemetry_metadata_uses_manifest_mcp_server_objects
store::tests::install_accepts_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- Focused executor rerun: `just test -p codex-mcp-extension
executor_plugin::provider::tests::reads_manifest_object_config_without_executor_file_system_access`
- `python3
codex-rs/skills/src/assets/samples/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py
/private/tmp/codex-validator-object`
- `python3
codex-rs/skills/src/assets/samples/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py
/private/tmp/codex-validator-path`
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