## Why When Codex uses a remote `ExecutorFileSystem`, every `get_metadata` call is an exec-server round trip. Upward discovery currently pays those round trips serially in two latency-sensitive places: - session startup, while locating the configured project root before loading `AGENTS.md`; and - Git-root discovery, which runs before per-turn Git diff enrichment. The goal is to remove the serial ancestor dependency without adding a new filesystem RPC, JSON-RPC batch method, Git executable dependency, or cache. ## Example Assume this layout, with `.git` as the configured project-root marker: ```text /workspace/repo/.git /workspace/repo/AGENTS.md /workspace/repo/crates/core/ <- cwd ``` The marker probes have this required precedence: ```text 1. /workspace/repo/crates/core/.git 2. /workspace/repo/crates/.git 3. /workspace/repo/.git 4. /workspace/.git 5. /.git ``` Previously, probe 2 was not sent until probe 1 returned, and probe 3 was not sent until probe 2 returned. With this change, the client lazily keeps up to eight ordinary `fs/getMetadata` requests in flight, but consumes their results in the order above. Codex must still learn that probes 1 and 2 are absent before accepting probe 3, so the nearest root always wins. Once probe 3 succeeds, the client has its answer and stops awaiting probes 4 and 5. Requests that were already sent may still finish on the worker. For the marker phase alone, with a 50 ms client-to-worker round trip and fast local metadata calls, finding the root at probe 3 changes from roughly three serialized round trips (150 ms) to one round trip plus worker processing. The later `AGENTS.md` candidate phase remains separate and ordered. Only after `/workspace/repo` is selected does `AGENTS.md` discovery check instruction candidates, in root-to-cwd order: ```text /workspace/repo/AGENTS.override.md /workspace/repo/AGENTS.md /workspace/repo/crates/AGENTS.override.md /workspace/repo/crates/AGENTS.md /workspace/repo/crates/core/AGENTS.override.md /workspace/repo/crates/core/AGENTS.md ``` The first configured candidate found in each directory wins. These checks remain ordered and no instruction candidate above `/workspace/repo` is issued. Git-root discovery uses the same bounded lookup with only `.git` as the marker. ## What changed - Added a client-side find-up helper that generates `ancestor x marker` probes lazily, nearest directory first and configured marker order within each directory. - Uses an ordered concurrency window of eight scalar metadata requests. This bounds executor load while preserving nearest-root and marker precedence. - Reuses the helper for both configured project-root discovery and remote Git-root discovery. - Keeps Git ancestor and marker construction in `AbsolutePathBuf`, converting only each complete `.git` probe to `PathUri`. This preserves native paths that require an opaque URI fallback, such as Windows namespace paths. - Preserves existing error behavior: `AGENTS.md` discovery propagates non-`NotFound` metadata errors, while Git discovery treats a failed marker probe as absent and continues upward. - Reads each discovered `AGENTS.md` directly instead of statting it a second time. No filesystem trait or exec-server protocol method is added. An empty `project_root_markers` list performs no ancestor-marker I/O and checks instruction candidates only in `cwd`. This change also deliberately does not cache roots across turns. ## Symlinks Upward traversal remains **lexical**. The helper does not canonicalize `cwd`; it appends marker names to the supplied path and walks that path's textual parents. The filesystem performs the actual metadata/read operation, and the current local and exec-server implementations follow live symlink targets. For example: ```text /tmp/pkg -> /workspace/repo/packages/pkg cwd = /tmp/pkg/src actual Git marker = /workspace/repo/.git ``` The lexical probes are `/tmp/pkg/src/.git`, `/tmp/pkg/.git`, `/tmp/.git`, and `/.git`. They do not jump from `/tmp/pkg` to the target's parent `/workspace/repo`, so this spelling of `cwd` does not discover `/workspace/repo/.git`. That is the existing behavior and is unchanged by this PR. Conversely, if `/tmp/repo -> /workspace/repo`, then probing `/tmp/repo/.git` follows the directory symlink and finds `/workspace/repo/.git`; the reported root remains the lexical path `/tmp/repo`. A live symlink used directly as `.git`, another configured marker, or `AGENTS.md` is also followed. A symlinked `AGENTS.md` is loaded when its target is a regular file, while a broken symlink behaves as `NotFound`.
Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally on your computer.
If you want Codex in your code editor (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf), install in your IDE.
If you want the desktop app experience, run
codex app or visit the Codex App page.
If you are looking for the cloud-based agent from OpenAI, Codex Web, go to chatgpt.com/codex.
Quickstart
Installing and running Codex CLI
Run the following on Mac or Linux to install Codex CLI:
curl -fsSL https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.sh | sh
Run the following on Windows to install Codex CLI:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.ps1 | iex"
Codex CLI can also be installed via the following package managers:
# Install using npm
npm install -g @openai/codex
# Install using Homebrew
brew install --cask codex
Then simply run codex to get started.
You can also go to the latest GitHub Release and download the appropriate binary for your platform.
Each GitHub Release contains many executables, but in practice, you likely want one of these:
- macOS
- Apple Silicon/arm64:
codex-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz - x86_64 (older Mac hardware):
codex-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
- Apple Silicon/arm64:
- Linux
- x86_64:
codex-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz - arm64:
codex-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
- x86_64:
Each archive contains a single entry with the platform baked into the name (e.g., codex-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl), so you likely want to rename it to codex after extracting it.
Using Codex with your ChatGPT plan
Run codex and select Sign in with ChatGPT. We recommend signing into your ChatGPT account to use Codex as part of your Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, or Enterprise plan. Learn more about what's included in your ChatGPT plan.
You can also use Codex with an API key, but this requires additional setup.
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