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## Summary Introduces a single background/control-plane agent task for ChatGPT backend requests that do not have a thread-scoped task, with `AuthManager` owning the default ChatGPT backend authorization decision. Callers now ask `AuthManager` for the default ChatGPT backend authorization header. `AuthManager` decides whether that is bearer or background AgentAssertion based on config/internal state, while low-level bootstrap paths can explicitly request bearer-only auth. This PR is stacked on PR4 and focuses on the shared background task auth plumbing plus the first tranche of backend/control-plane consumers. The remaining callsite wiring is split into PR4.2 to keep review size down. ## Stack - PR1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17385 - add `features.use_agent_identity` - PR2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17386 - register agent identities when enabled - PR3: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17387 - register agent tasks when enabled - PR3.1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17978 - persist and prewarm registered tasks per thread - PR4: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17980 - use task-scoped `AgentAssertion` for downstream calls - PR4.1: this PR - introduce AuthManager-owned background/control-plane `AgentAssertion` auth - PR4.2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18260 - use background task auth for additional backend/control-plane calls ## What Changed - add background task registration and assertion minting inside `codex-login` - persist `agent_identity.background_task_id` separately from per-session task state - make `BackgroundAgentTaskManager` private to `codex-login`; call sites do not instantiate or pass it around - teach `AuthManager` the ChatGPT backend base URL and feature-derived background auth mode from resolved config - expose bearer-only helpers for bootstrap/registration/refresh-style paths that must not use AgentAssertion - wire `AuthManager` default ChatGPT authorization through app listing, connector directory listing, remote plugins, MCP status/listing, analytics, and core-skills remote calls - preserve bearer fallback when the feature is disabled, the backend host is unsupported, or background task registration is not available ## Validation - `just fmt` - `cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-login -p codex-analytics -p codex-app-server -p codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-cloud-tasks -p codex-models-manager -p codex-chatgpt -p codex-model-provider -p codex-mcp -p codex-core-skills` - `cargo test -p codex-login agent_identity` - `cargo test -p codex-model-provider bearer_auth_provider` - `cargo test -p codex-core agent_assertion` - `cargo test -p codex-app-server remote_control` - `cargo test -p codex-cloud-requirements fetch_cloud_requirements` - `cargo test -p codex-models-manager manager::tests` - `cargo test -p codex-chatgpt` - `cargo test -p codex-cloud-tasks` - `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-login -p codex-analytics -p codex-app-server -p codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-cloud-tasks -p codex-models-manager -p codex-chatgpt -p codex-model-provider -p codex-mcp -p codex-core-skills` - `just fix -p codex-app-server` - `git diff --check`
Codex CLI (Rust Implementation)
We provide Codex CLI as a standalone executable to ensure a zero-dependency install.
Installing Codex
Today, the easiest way to install Codex is via npm:
npm i -g @openai/codex
codex
You can also install via Homebrew (brew install --cask codex) or download a platform-specific release directly from our GitHub Releases.
Documentation quickstart
- First run with Codex? Start with
docs/getting-started.md(links to the walkthrough for prompts, keyboard shortcuts, and session management). - Want deeper control? See
docs/config.mdanddocs/install.md.
What's new in the Rust CLI
The Rust implementation is now the maintained Codex CLI and serves as the default experience. It includes a number of features that the legacy TypeScript CLI never supported.
Config
Codex supports a rich set of configuration options. Note that the Rust CLI uses config.toml instead of config.json. See docs/config.md for details.
Model Context Protocol Support
MCP client
Codex CLI functions as an MCP client that allows the Codex CLI and IDE extension to connect to MCP servers on startup. See the configuration documentation for details.
MCP server (experimental)
Codex can be launched as an MCP server by running codex mcp-server. This allows other MCP clients to use Codex as a tool for another agent.
Use the @modelcontextprotocol/inspector to try it out:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector codex mcp-server
Use codex mcp to add/list/get/remove MCP server launchers defined in config.toml, and codex mcp-server to run the MCP server directly.
Notifications
You can enable notifications by configuring a script that is run whenever the agent finishes a turn. The notify documentation includes a detailed example that explains how to get desktop notifications via terminal-notifier on macOS. When Codex detects that it is running under WSL 2 inside Windows Terminal (WT_SESSION is set), the TUI automatically falls back to native Windows toast notifications so approval prompts and completed turns surface even though Windows Terminal does not implement OSC 9.
codex exec to run Codex programmatically/non-interactively
To run Codex non-interactively, run codex exec PROMPT (you can also pass the prompt via stdin) and Codex will work on your task until it decides that it is done and exits. If you provide both a prompt argument and piped stdin, Codex appends stdin as a <stdin> block after the prompt so patterns like echo "my output" | codex exec "Summarize this concisely" work naturally. Output is printed to the terminal directly. You can set the RUST_LOG environment variable to see more about what's going on.
Use codex exec --ephemeral ... to run without persisting session rollout files to disk.
Experimenting with the Codex Sandbox
To test to see what happens when a command is run under the sandbox provided by Codex, we provide the following subcommands in Codex CLI:
# macOS
codex sandbox macos [--full-auto] [--log-denials] [COMMAND]...
# Linux
codex sandbox linux [--full-auto] [COMMAND]...
# Windows
codex sandbox windows [--full-auto] [COMMAND]...
# Legacy aliases
codex debug seatbelt [--full-auto] [--log-denials] [COMMAND]...
codex debug landlock [--full-auto] [COMMAND]...
Selecting a sandbox policy via --sandbox
The Rust CLI exposes a dedicated --sandbox (-s) flag that lets you pick the sandbox policy without having to reach for the generic -c/--config option:
# Run Codex with the default, read-only sandbox
codex --sandbox read-only
# Allow the agent to write within the current workspace while still blocking network access
codex --sandbox workspace-write
# Danger! Disable sandboxing entirely (only do this if you are already running in a container or other isolated env)
codex --sandbox danger-full-access
The same setting can be persisted in ~/.codex/config.toml via the top-level sandbox_mode = "MODE" key, e.g. sandbox_mode = "workspace-write".
In workspace-write, Codex also includes ~/.codex/memories in its writable roots so memory maintenance does not require an extra approval.
Code Organization
This folder is the root of a Cargo workspace. It contains quite a bit of experimental code, but here are the key crates:
core/contains the business logic for Codex. Ultimately, we hope this to be a library crate that is generally useful for building other Rust/native applications that use Codex.exec/"headless" CLI for use in automation.tui/CLI that launches a fullscreen TUI built with Ratatui.cli/CLI multitool that provides the aforementioned CLIs via subcommands.
If you want to contribute or inspect behavior in detail, start by reading the module-level README.md files under each crate and run the project workspace from the top-level codex-rs directory so shared config, features, and build scripts stay aligned.