Follow-up to [#13388](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/13388). This uses the same general fix pattern as [#12421](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/12421), but in the `codex-core` compact/resume/fork path. ## Why `compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` started overflowing the stack on Windows CI after `#13388`. The important part is that this was not a compaction-recursion bug. The test exercises a path with several thin `async fn` wrappers around much larger thread-spawn, resume, and fork futures. When one `async fn` awaits another inline, the outer future stores the callee future as part of its own state machine. In a long wrapper chain, that means a caller can accidentally inline a lot more state than the source code suggests. That is exactly what was happening here: - `ThreadManager` convenience methods such as `start_thread`, `resume_thread_from_rollout`, and `fork_thread` were inlining the larger spawn/resume futures beneath them. - `core_test_support::test_codex` added another wrapper layer on top of those same paths. - `compact_resume_fork` adds a few more helpers, and this particular test drives the resume/fork path multiple times. On Windows, that was enough to push both the libtest thread and Tokio worker threads over the edge. The previous 8 MiB test-thread workaround proved the failure was stack-related, but it did not address the underlying future size. ## How This Was Debugged The useful debugging pattern here was to turn the CI-only failure into a local low-stack repro. 1. First, remove the explicit large-stack harness so the test runs on the normal `#[tokio::test]` path. 2. Build the test binary normally. 3. Re-run the already-built `tests/all` binary directly with progressively smaller `RUST_MIN_STACK` values. Running the built binary directly matters: it keeps the reduced stack size focused on the test process instead of also applying it to `cargo` and `rustc`. That made it possible to answer two questions quickly: - Does the failure still reproduce without the workaround? Yes. - Does boxing the wrapper futures actually buy back stack headroom? Also yes. After this change, the built test binary passes with `RUST_MIN_STACK=917504` and still overflows at `786432`, which is enough evidence to justify removing the explicit 8 MiB override while keeping a deterministic low-stack repro for future debugging. If we hit a similar issue again, the first places to inspect are thin `async fn` wrappers that mostly forward into a much larger async implementation. ## `Box::pin()` Primer `async fn` compiles into a state machine. If a wrapper does this: ```rust async fn wrapper() { inner().await; } ``` then `wrapper()` stores the full `inner()` future inline as part of its own state. If the wrapper instead does this: ```rust async fn wrapper() { Box::pin(inner()).await; } ``` then the child future lives on the heap, and the outer future only stores a pinned pointer to it. That usually trades one allocation for a substantially smaller outer future, which is exactly the tradeoff we want when the problem is stack pressure rather than raw CPU time. Useful references: - [`Box::pin`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/boxed/struct.Box.html#method.pin) - [Async book: Pinning](https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/04_pinning/01_chapter.html) ## What Changed - Boxed the wrapper futures in `core/src/thread_manager.rs` around `start_thread`, `resume_thread_from_rollout`, `fork_thread`, and the corresponding `ThreadManagerState` spawn helpers so callers no longer inline the full spawn/resume state machine through multiple layers. - Boxed the matching test-only wrapper futures in `core/tests/common/test_codex.rs` and `core/tests/suite/compact_resume_fork.rs`, which sit directly on top of the same path. - Restored `compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` in `core/tests/suite/compact_resume_fork.rs` to a normal `#[tokio::test]` and removed the explicit `TEST_STACK_SIZE_BYTES` thread/runtime sizing. - Simplified a tiny helper in `compact_resume_fork` by making `fetch_conversation_path()` synchronous, which removes one more unnecessary future layer from the test path. ## Verification - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all suite::compact_resume_fork::compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history -- --exact --nocapture` - `cargo test -p codex-core --test all suite::compact_resume_fork -- --nocapture` - Re-ran the built `codex-core` `tests/all` binary directly with reduced stack sizes: - `RUST_MIN_STACK=917504` passes - `RUST_MIN_STACK=786432` still overflows - `cargo test -p codex-core` - Still fails locally in unrelated existing integration areas that expect the `codex` / `test_stdio_server` binaries or hit the existing `search_tool` wiremock mismatches.
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_preferencesgrant: does not add preferences access clauses. macos_preferences = "readonly": enables cfprefs read clauses anduser-preference-read.macos_preferences = "readwrite": includes readonly clauses plususer-preference-writeand 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: enablescom.apple.axservermach lookup.macos_calendar = true: enablescom.apple.CalendarAgentmach 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.