## Summary
This PR improves `js_repl` crash diagnostics so kernel failures are
debuggable without weakening timeout/reset guarantees.
## What Changed
- Added bounded kernel stderr capture and truncation logic (line + byte
caps).
- Added structured kernel snapshots (`pid`, exit status, stderr tail)
for failure paths.
- Enriched model-visible kernel-failure errors with a structured
diagnostics payload:
- `js_repl diagnostics: {...}`
- Included only for likely kernel-failure write/EOF cases.
- Improved logging around kernel write failures, unexpected exits, and
kill/wait paths.
- Added/updated unit tests for:
- UTF-8-safe truncation
- stderr tail bounds
- structured diagnostics shape/truncation
- conditional diagnostics emission
- timeout kill behavior
- forced kernel-failure diagnostics
## Why
Before this, failures like broken pipe / unexpected kernel exit often
surfaced as generic errors with little context. This change preserves
existing behavior but adds actionable diagnostics while keeping output
bounded.
## Scope
- Code changes are limited to:
-
`/Users/fjord/code/codex-jsrepl-seq/codex-rs/core/src/tools/js_repl/mod.rs`
## Validation
- `cargo clippy -p codex-core --all-targets -- -D warnings`
- Targeted `codex-core` js_repl unit tests (including new
diagnostics/timeout coverage)
- Tried starting a long running js_repl command (sleep for 10 minutes),
verified error output was as expected after killing the node process.
#### [git stack](https://github.com/magus/git-stack-cli)
- 👉 `1` https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/11666
- ⏳ `2` https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/10673
- ⏳ `3` https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/10670
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.