Eric Traut 999576f7b8 Fixed a hole in token refresh logic for app server (#11802)
We've continued to receive reports from users that they're seeing the
error message "Your access token could not be refreshed because your
refresh token was already used. Please log out and sign in again." This
PR fixes two holes in the token refresh logic that lead to this
condition.

Background: A previous change in token refresh introduced the
`UnauthorizedRecovery` object. It implements a state machine in the core
agent loop that first performs a load of the on-disk auth information
guarded by a check for matching account ID. If it finds that the on-disk
version has been updated by another instance of codex, it uses the
reloaded auth tokens. If the on-disk version hasn't been updated, it
issues a refresh request from the token authority.

There are two problems that this PR addresses:

Problem 1: We weren't doing the same thing for the code path used by the
app server interface. This PR effectively replicates the
`UnauthorizedRecovery` logic for that code path.

Problem 2: The `UnauthorizedRecovery` logic contained a hole in the
`ReloadOutcome::Skipped` case. Here's the scenario. A user starts two
instances of the CLI. Instance 1 is active (working on a task), instance
2 is idle. Both instances have the same in-memory cached tokens. The
user then runs `codex logout` or `codex login` to log in to a separate
account, which overwrites the `auth.json` file. Instance 1 receives a
401 and refreshes its token, but it doesn't write the new token to the
`auth.json` file because the account ID doesn't match. Instance 2 is
later activated and presented with a new task. It immediately hits a 401
and attempts to refresh its token but fails because its cached refresh
token is now invalid. To avoid this situation, I've changed the logic to
immediately fail a token refresh if the user has since logged out or
logged in to another account. This will still be seen as an error by the
user, but the cause will be clearer.

I also took this opportunity to clean up the names of existing functions
to make their roles clearer.
* `try_refresh_token` is renamed `request_chatgpt_token_refresh`
* the existing `refresh_token` is renamed `refresh_token_from_authority`
(there's a new higher-level function named `refresh_token` now)
* `refresh_tokens` is renamed `refresh_and_persist_chatgpt_token`, and
it now implicitly reloads
* `update_tokens` is renamed `persist_tokens`
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