viyatb-oai 6ed0440611 feat(cli): add explicit sandbox permission profiles (#20117)
## Why

`codex sandbox` is useful for exercising sandbox behavior directly, but
before this stack the CLI
only picked up permission profiles indirectly from the active config.
The existing debug-sandbox path
already compiled `[permissions]` profiles through normal config loading,
as covered by the existing
profile tests in
[`debug_sandbox.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/de2ccf94735a3d8a2a7077e6a5292026413867cf/codex-rs/cli/src/debug_sandbox.rs#L715-L760).

This adds the smallest stable entry point first: an explicit profile
selector that reuses the same
config machinery as normal Codex config, so standalone testing becomes
possible without changing
current no-selector behavior.

## What changed

- Add additive `--permissions-profile NAME` support to `codex sandbox
macos|linux|windows`.
- Resolve built-in and user-defined profile names by feeding
`default_permissions` through the
existing config compilation path instead of inventing a sandbox-only
parser.
- Make an explicit selector win over an ambient active profile's legacy
`sandbox_mode`.
- Keep the existing no-selector behavior unchanged.

## Stack

1. #20117 `sandbox-ui-profile` --> this PR
2. #20118 `sandbox-ui-config`

Both PRs are additive. Replay JSON is intentionally deferred to a
follow-up design pass.

## Tests ran

- `cargo test -p codex-cli debug_sandbox`
- `cargo test -p codex-cli sandbox_macos_parses_permissions_profile`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
cli_override_takes_precedence_over_profile_sandbox_mode`
- macOS branch-binary smoke on the rebased top of stack: built-in
`:workspace` and user-defined
  profiles both executed successfully through `--permissions-profile`.
- Linux devbox branch-binary smoke on the rebased top of stack: built-in
`:workspace` and
user-defined profiles both executed successfully through
`--permissions-profile`.
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