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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-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 keeps the legacy default preferences read access
(user-preference-read) needed for cfprefs-backed macOS behavior.
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.
Legacy SandboxPolicy / sandbox_mode configs are still supported on Linux.
They can continue to use the legacy Landlock path when the split filesystem
policy is sandbox-equivalent to the legacy model after cwd resolution.
Split filesystem policies that need direct FileSystemSandboxPolicy
enforcement, such as read-only or denied carveouts under a broader writable
root, automatically route through bubblewrap. The legacy Landlock path is used
only when the split filesystem policy round-trips through the legacy
SandboxPolicy model without changing semantics. That includes overlapping
cases like /repo = write, /repo/a = none, /repo/a/b = write, where the
more specific writable child must reopen under a denied parent.
The Linux sandbox helper prefers the first bwrap found on PATH outside the
current working directory whenever it is available. If bwrap is present but
too old to support --argv0, the helper keeps using system bubblewrap and
switches to a no---argv0 compatibility path for the inner re-exec. If
bwrap is missing, it falls back to the vendored bubblewrap path compiled into
the binary and Codex surfaces a startup warning through its normal notification
path instead of printing directly from the sandbox helper. Codex also surfaces
a startup warning when bubblewrap cannot create user namespaces. WSL2 uses the
normal Linux bubblewrap path. WSL1 is not supported for bubblewrap sandboxing
because it cannot create the required user namespaces, so Codex rejects
sandboxed shell commands that would enter the bubblewrap path before invoking
bwrap.
Windows
Legacy SandboxPolicy / sandbox_mode configs are still supported on
Windows.
The elevated setup/runner backend supports legacy ReadOnlyAccess::Restricted
for read-only and workspace-write policies. Restricted read access honors
explicit readable roots plus the command cwd, and keeps writable roots
readable when workspace-write is used.
When include_platform_defaults = true, the elevated Windows backend adds
backend-managed system read roots required for basic execution, such as
C:\Windows, C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86), and
C:\ProgramData. When it is false, those extra system roots are omitted.
The elevated Windows sandbox also supports:
- legacy
ReadOnlyandWorkspaceWritebehavior - split filesystem policies that need exact readable roots, exact writable roots, or extra read-only carveouts under writable roots
The unelevated restricted-token backend still supports the legacy full-read
Windows model for legacy ReadOnly and WorkspaceWrite behavior. It also
supports a narrow split-filesystem subset: full-read split policies whose
writable roots still match the legacy WorkspaceWrite root set, but add extra
read-only carveouts under those writable roots.
New [permissions] / split filesystem policies remain supported on Windows
only when they can be enforced directly by the selected Windows backend or
round-trip through the legacy SandboxPolicy model without changing semantics.
Policies that would require direct explicit unreadable carveouts (none) or
reopened writable descendants under read-only carveouts still fail closed
instead of running with weaker enforcement.
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.