## Why This is the final PR in the Windows fs-helper sandbox stack and contains the actual bug fix. The exec-server filesystem helper is a direct-spawn path: it asks `SandboxManager` for a `SandboxExecRequest`, then launches the returned argv itself. That works on macOS and Linux because the transformed argv is already a self-contained sandbox wrapper. On Windows, the transformed request carried `WindowsRestrictedToken` metadata, but the direct-spawn fs-helper runner still launched the helper argv directly. That means Windows filesystem built-ins backed by the fs-helper could run with the parent Codex process permissions instead of the configured Windows sandbox. This PR makes the direct-spawn transform produce a self-contained Windows wrapper argv before fs-helper launches it. ## What Changed - Added `SandboxManager::transform_for_direct_spawn()` for callers that launch the returned argv themselves. - Wrapped Windows restricted-token direct-spawn requests with `codex.exe --run-as-windows-sandbox` and then marked the outer request as unsandboxed, matching the macOS/Linux wrapper argv shape. - Updated `exec-server/src/fs_sandbox.rs` to use the direct-spawn transform for fs-helper launches. - Materialized the inner `codex.exe --codex-run-as-fs-helper` executable into `.sandbox-bin` so the sandboxed user can run it. - Carried runtime workspace roots through `FileSystemSandboxContext` as `PathUri` values so `:workspace_roots` policies resolve correctly without sending native client paths over exec-server JSON. - Preserved wrapper setup identity environment needed by Windows sandbox setup without changing the serialized inner helper environment. ## Verification - `just bazel-lock-update` - `just bazel-lock-check` - `just test -p codex-sandboxing transform_for_direct_spawn_windows` - `just test -p codex-exec-server fs_sandbox::tests` - `just fix -p codex-windows-sandbox -p codex-sandboxing -p codex-exec-server -p codex-core -p codex-file-system` Local note: `just fmt` completed Rust formatting, but this workstation still fails the non-Rust formatter phases because uv cannot open its cache and the local buildifier/dotslash path is missing.
Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally on your computer.
If you want Codex in your code editor (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf), install in your IDE.
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Quickstart
Installing and running Codex CLI
Run the following on Mac or Linux to install Codex CLI:
curl -fsSL https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.sh | sh
Run the following on Windows to install Codex CLI:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.ps1 | iex"
Codex CLI can also be installed via the following package managers:
# Install using npm
npm install -g @openai/codex
# Install using Homebrew
brew install --cask codex
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You can also go to the latest GitHub Release and download the appropriate binary for your platform.
Each GitHub Release contains many executables, but in practice, you likely want one of these:
- macOS
- Apple Silicon/arm64:
codex-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz - x86_64 (older Mac hardware):
codex-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
- Apple Silicon/arm64:
- Linux
- x86_64:
codex-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz - arm64:
codex-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
- x86_64:
Each archive contains a single entry with the platform baked into the name (e.g., codex-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl), so you likely want to rename it to codex after extracting it.
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