## Why External-agent imports can complete synchronously or continue in the background for plugins/sessions. Clients need a stable import id to correlate the immediate response with the eventual completion notification, and the completion payload needs enough accounting to show which artifact types succeeded or failed without hiding partial failures. ## What Changed - `externalAgentConfig/import` now returns an `importId`; `externalAgentConfig/import/completed` includes the same `importId` plus type-level `itemResults`. - Completed `itemResults` report `successCount`, `errorCount`, `successes`, and `rawErrors` for each migrated item type. - Added protocol/schema/TypeScript types for import successes, raw errors, and type-level results. No progress notification is included in the final PR. - `ExternalAgentConfigService::import` now returns an outcome object with synchronous item results and pending plugin imports. - Plugin import outcomes track succeeded/failed marketplaces, plugin ids, and raw errors. Plugin failures can be reported in completed accounting while later migration items continue. - Non-plugin synchronous import failures still fail the request, so invalid config/skills-style failures are not reported as a successful import response. - Session imports now return item results. Successful imports include the source session path and imported thread id; prepare, persist, ledger, and source-validation failures become raw errors in completion accounting where the import can continue. - The request processor generates the `importId`, aggregates synchronous results with background plugin/session results, and sends a single completed notification when all selected work is done. - App-server docs and generated schema fixtures were updated for the new response/completed payload shapes. ## Validation - `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol` - `just test -p codex-app-server-client event_requires_delivery` - `CODEX_SQLITE_HOME=/private/tmp/codex-app-server-review-sync-error just test -p codex-app-server external_agent_config_import_returns_error_for_failed_sync_import` - `CODEX_SQLITE_HOME=/private/tmp/codex-app-server-review-external-agent just test -p codex-app-server external_agent_config` Note: local sandbox validation used `CODEX_SQLITE_HOME` because the default sqlite state path is read-only in this environment.
codex-app-server-client
Shared in-process app-server client used by conversational CLI surfaces:
codex-execcodex-tui
Purpose
This crate centralizes startup and lifecycle management for an in-process
codex-app-server runtime, so CLI clients do not need to duplicate:
- app-server bootstrap and initialize handshake
- in-memory request/event transport wiring
- lifecycle orchestration around caller-provided startup identity
- graceful shutdown behavior
Startup identity
Callers pass both the app-server SessionSource and the initialize
client_info.name explicitly when starting the facade.
That keeps thread metadata (for example in thread/list and thread/read)
aligned with the originating runtime without baking TUI/exec-specific policy
into the shared client layer.
Transport model
The in-process path uses typed channels:
- client -> server:
ClientRequest/ClientNotification - server -> client:
InProcessServerEventServerRequestServerNotificationLegacyNotification
JSON serialization is still used at external transport boundaries (stdio/websocket), but the in-process hot path is typed.
Typed requests still receive app-server responses through the JSON-RPC result envelope internally. That is intentional: the in-process path is meant to preserve app-server semantics while removing the process boundary, not to introduce a second response contract.
Bootstrap behavior
The client facade starts an already-initialized in-process runtime, but thread bootstrap still follows normal app-server flow:
- caller sends
thread/startorthread/resume - app-server returns the immediate typed response
- richer session metadata may arrive later as a
SessionConfiguredlegacy event
Surfaces such as TUI and exec may therefore need a short bootstrap phase where they reconcile startup response data with later events.
Backpressure and shutdown
- Queues are bounded and use
DEFAULT_IN_PROCESS_CHANNEL_CAPACITYby default. - Full queues return explicit overload behavior instead of unbounded growth.
shutdown()performs a bounded graceful shutdown and then aborts if timeout is exceeded.
If the client falls behind on event consumption, the worker emits
InProcessServerEvent::Lagged and may reject pending server requests so
approval flows do not hang indefinitely behind a saturated queue.