## Why
We want to make it possible for an app-server orchestrator on one OS to
control an exec-server on another host running a different OS. In
practice this kinda already works if you get lucky and the two hosts
have the same path format, but we mangle quite a lot of operations if
either end is Windows.
This test starts exercising that interaction, although right now the
initial bootstrap fails. Future changes will expand the test's
assertions to match improved support.
## What
Stacked on #27964. This adds a small Windows exec-server fixture and a
Linux protocol smoke test using the reusable Wine harness, covering
Windows environment discovery, non-TTY `cmd.exe` execution, output, exit
status, and working directory.
Once we've got the full codex binary cross-building under Bazel we could
consider moving to the real binary instead of the stripped down
exec-server-only binary used here.
## Why
Managed deployments need a reliable deny gate for remote control.
Persisted enablement and explicit startup requests currently remain able
to start the transport, while the removed `features.remote_control` key
is intentionally only a compatibility no-op.
This adds a dedicated requirement that administrators can use to force
remote control off without deleting the user's persisted preference.
Removing the requirement and restarting restores the prior choice.
## What Changed
- Added top-level `allow_remote_control` requirements parsing, sourced
layer precedence, debug output, and `configRequirements/read` exposure
as `allowRemoteControl`.
- Added a typed transport policy captured from the startup requirements
snapshot. Managed disable forces the initial state to disabled and
prevents enrollment, refresh, connection, and persisted-preference
mutation.
- Rejected every `remoteControl/*` RPC before parameter deserialization
with JSON-RPC `-32600` and `remote control is disabled by managed
requirements`.
- Preserved the existing disabled status notification and the previous
behavior when the requirement is `true` or omitted.
- Regenerated app-server protocol schemas and documented the new
requirement.
## Verification
- Confirmed all remote-control RPCs, including a malformed request,
return the managed-policy error while the initial status notification
remains `disabled`.
- Confirmed explicit ephemeral startup and persisted enablement make no
backend connection and leave the SQLite preference unchanged.
- Confirmed `allow_remote_control = true` does not enable or block
remote control and `configRequirements/read` returns
`allowRemoteControl: false` for the deny policy.
Related issue: N/A (managed-policy hardening).
## Context
Some plugins expose both Apps and MCP servers. This PR moves auth-aware
surface projection into `core-plugins::PluginsManager`, so callers get a
consistent effective plugin view. Later PRs narrow the conflict rule and
update listing/install paths.
The high level goal of this PR is to set up the plumbing to
conditionally filter App/MCP in the plugin manager layer. We start by
removing MCP servers when using SIWC/Codex-backend auth, and removing
Apps when using API-key-style auth.
This PR is now stacked on #27652, which contains only the constructor
plumbing for seeding `PluginsManager` with the current auth mode.
## Stack
- PR1: #27652 seed plugin manager auth at construction.
- PR2: #27459 route plugin surfaces by auth mode.
- PR3: #27607 dedupe plugin MCP servers by App declaration name.
- PR4: #27602 preserve plugin Apps in connector listings.
- PR5: #27461 skip install-time plugin MCP OAuth for matching App
routes.
## Summary
- API-key/non-ChatGPT routes hide plugin Apps and keep plugin MCPs.
- ChatGPT/SIWC with Apps enabled keeps plugin Apps and suppresses MCPs
for dual-surface plugins.
- MCP-only plugins stay available for ChatGPT/SIWC sessions.
- Cached plugin load outcomes are re-projected when auth mode changes.
## Validation
```bash
cargo test -p codex-core-plugins plugin_auth_projection
cargo test -p codex-core list_tool_suggest_discoverable_plugins
git diff --check
```
## Why
We want to make it possible for an app-server orchestrator on one OS to
control an exec-server on another host running a different OS. In
practice this kinda already works if you get lucky and the two hosts
have the same path format, but we mangle quite a lot of operations if
either end is Windows.
We should be able to test the cross-platform interactions for
exec-server, but we want to do this fairly soon and need a lightweight
option for testing. Using Wine to run the Windows side is far from
perfect, but it should give us a decent measure of how well we're
handling the basics of paths, process spawning, shell interaction, etc.
Future changes will add actual exec-server tests and possibly extensions
to the Wine testing environment.
## What
To make the cross-target-triple build easy, these tests are added only
to the Bazel build. This change adds an x86_64 Wine prebuilt managed by
Bazel and some build rules that can set up the needed toolchain
transition.
The support library for running Wine in a test environment created by
the Bazel rules comes with its own basic unit and integration tests.
Their primary priority is to make sure we don't leak child processes on
developer machines and that we can build and launch a basic hello world
binary.
## Validation
Confirmed these new tests are running on the [x86_64 bazel ubuntu
jobs](https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/27446432302/job/81132356855?pr=27937):
```
//bazel/rules/testing/wine:wine-smoke-test (cached) PASSED in 3.7s
//bazel/rules/testing/wine:wine-test-support-unit-tests (cached) PASSED in 15.8s
```
## Context
Plugins can expose more than one way for Codex to use them: App
connectors for ChatGPT/SIWC-backed sessions and MCP servers for API key
login sessions. The broader goal is to make `PluginsManager` the place
that understands which plugin surfaces should be visible for the current
auth route, so callers do not each have to make that decision
themselves.
This PR is the small setup step for that work. It lets the plugin
manager be created with the current `AuthMode`, which gives the followup
auth routing PRs the information they need without relying on setter
injection.
## Stack
- PR1: #27652 seed plugin manager auth at construction.
- PR2: #27459 route plugin surfaces by auth mode.
- PR3: #27607 dedupe plugin MCP servers by App declaration name.
- PR4: #27602 preserve plugin Apps in connector listings.
- PR5: #27461 skip install-time plugin MCP OAuth for matching App
routes.
## Summary
- Let `PluginsManager::new_with_restriction_product` accept an initial
`AuthMode`.
- Keep `PluginsManager::new` behavior unchanged for ordinary callers.
## Validation
```bash
cargo test -p codex-core-plugins plugins_manager_tracks_auth_mode
cargo test -p codex-core list_tool_suggest_discoverable_plugins
git diff --check
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Xin Lin <xl@openai.com>
## Summary
- Keep local plugin suggestions bounded to fallback and explicitly
configured plugins.
- Preserve app-overlap recommendations for remote plugins using cached
catalog metadata.
- Remove the WSL-specific local discovery exception and move
manager-owned discovery tests into `codex-core-plugins`.
## Why
Local curated marketplaces were allowlisted before plugin detail
loading, so every uninstalled candidate could be deep-read before its
app IDs were checked. That caused per-turn reads of candidate plugin
manifests, skills, app configs, hooks, and MCP configs, which is
especially expensive on slow disks.
Remote discovery does not need those local candidate reads because app
IDs are already available in the cached remote catalog. Installed local
plugins are still loaded when needed to determine the user's installed
app IDs.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins discoverable::tests` (13 passed)
- `just test -p codex-core plugins::discoverable::tests` (4 passed)
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
[#25345](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25345) was approved,
green, and squash-merged into its stacked base branch,
`fcoury/tokenmaxxing-api`. Four minutes later, that base branch was
force-pushed back to an API-only rebased head while preparing
[#25344](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25344) for `main`. As a
result, the squash commit from #25345 was orphaned and the TUI command
never reached `main` or a release.
This PR relands the orphaned TUI change from
[`411410b8`](411410b85c)
on current `main`.
## What changed
- Add `/usage`, `/usage daily`, `/usage weekly`, and `/usage cumulative`
for account token activity.
- Fetch account usage asynchronously through the existing
`account/usage/read` app-server RPC.
- Render daily, weekly, and cumulative activity with theme-aware
terminal palettes and bounded transient cards.
- Preserve transcript ordering while assistant streams, history
consolidations, active cells, and hooks complete.
- Hide `/usage` from completion when backend auth is unavailable while
keeping typed-command guidance.
- Carry current-main behavior forward for cwd-aware Markdown parsing,
Windows Terminal color detection, and personal access token auth.
- Clear pending usage cards on thread rollback and delay completed cards
until live hook output is committed.
- Add focused regression and snapshot coverage for loading, auth errors,
invalid views, rollback, hook ordering, layout, and charts.
## Prior review
The original implementation was approved by Eric Traut in #25345 after
testing multiple themes and light/dark terminals. This PR preserves that
reviewed implementation while adapting it to current `main` and adding
regression coverage for newer rollback and hook lifecycle behavior.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-tui token_activity palette renderable
usage_command` — 37 passed.
- Focused rollback, hook-ordering, and error snapshot tests — 4 passed.
- `just fix -p codex-tui` — passed.
- `UV_CACHE_DIR=/private/tmp/codex-uv-cache just fmt` — passed.
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots` — no pending snapshots.
- `just test -p codex-tui` — 2,870 passed; two unrelated guardian
feature-flag tests failed because their expected `OverrideTurnContext`
event was absent:
-
`update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_manual_review_policy_without_history`
-
`update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_review_policy_and_restores_default`
- `just argument-comment-lint` could not complete because the local
Bazel LLVM `compiler-rt` repository is missing `include/sanitizer/*.h`.
The touched Rust diff was manually inspected and no missing
opaque-literal argument comments were found.
## Stack
1. [1 of 3] Support long raw TUI goal objectives - #27508
2. [2 of 3] Support long pasted text in TUI goals - #27509
3. **[3 of 3] Support images in TUI goals** - this PR
## Why
The first two PRs make goal definitions resilient to long text, but
`/goal` still dropped image inputs from the composer. That meant a user
could attach images while defining a goal and the resulting goal
continuation would not have any useful reference to those images.
Goal state still persists only objective text, so image inputs need to
become paths or URLs that the agent can read later.
## What Changed
- Extends TUI `GoalDraft` with local image attachments and remote image
URLs.
- Copies local goal images through the app-server filesystem layer into
the managed goal attachment directory, then rewrites active image
placeholders to file references.
- Appends unplaced local images and remote image URLs to the objective
as referenced image files or URLs.
- Preserves goal image metadata through live `/goal` submission and
queued `/goal` dispatch.
## Verification
- Added goal materialization coverage for local image files and remote
image URLs.
- Added/updated TUI slash-command coverage showing `/goal` drafts
include attached images instead of dropping them.
## Manual Testing
- Attached an image by bracketed-pasting its local path into a live
`/goal` composer. The `[Image #1]` placeholder became a server-host
`image-1.png` reference, copied bytes matched exactly, and no attachment
was written under the TUI's local home.
- Deleted an image placeholder before submitting a small goal and
verified no image was copied.
- Attached PNG and JPEG files to the same goal. Placeholder order was
preserved as `image-1.png` and `image-2.jpg`, and both remote copies
matched their source bytes.
- Tried extensionless, malformed-extension, and
extension/content-mismatched paths; the composer rejected them as image
attachments before goal dispatch rather than creating misleading managed
image files.
- Combined a local image, a large pasted block, and enough raw text to
exceed 4,000 characters. The remote attachment directory contained the
image, paste sidecar, and `goal-objective.md`; all embedded references
used server-host paths and both payloads matched their sources.
- Submitted an image replacement while a goal was active, verified no
image was copied before confirmation, then canceled and confirmed the
attachment count was unchanged.
## Why
We have some large gaps in our thread start, resume, and pre-sampling
traces that make it hard to tell where latency is coming from.
## What Changed
- Added coarse spans around thread start/resume, turn context
construction, rollout reconstruction, skill/plugin loading, and tool
preparation.
- Added a breakdown of discoverable-tool preparation across connector
loading, plugin discovery, and local plugin details.
## Testing
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server -p codex-core -p codex-core-skills -p
codex-core-plugins`
- Built the app-server locally and exercised thread start, first turn,
follow-up turn, server restart, thread resume, and a resumed turn.
In the release job from
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/27391514823
staging the nine npm release tarballs serially took 104 seconds.
Each package build writes to a separate staging directory, output path,
and npm cache. Run them through the script's existing thread pool,
bounded by the available CPU count. Delete each staging tree as its
build finishes so concurrency does not retain all copies until the end.
On ubuntu-24.04 in
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/27397232050
two serial trials took 103 and 101 seconds, while concurrent trials
both took 41 seconds. Comparing every extracted file from the first
serial and concurrent sets found no differences. This removes about one
minute from every release.
In the Windows x64 packaging job from
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/27391514823
building the primary and app-server package archives serially took 116
seconds.
Both archives read the same signed-binary directory but write separate
package trees and output files. Run them concurrently with xargs -P2.
The package helper rewrites DotSlash executables under the process temp
directory. A naive concurrent run failed when one process tried to
replace an executable used by the other. Give each bundle separate TMP
and TEMP roots to keep those caches independent.
On Windows x64 in
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/27397197944
three serial trials took 127, 128, and 126 seconds. Concurrent trials
took 76, 74, and 74 seconds, saving 52 to 54 seconds. This removes about
50 seconds from the release critical path without changing the packaging
commands or output set.
## Why
`PathUri::from_abs_path` can fail for absolute paths that do not have a
normal `file:` URI representation, forcing filesystem call sites to
handle a conversion error even though the original path can be preserved
losslessly.
## What
Make `from_abs_path` infallible and migrate its callers. Unrepresentable
paths use `file:///%00/bad/path/<base64>`, encoding Unix bytes or
Windows UTF-16LE; `to_abs_path` validates and decodes that fallback. The
leading encoded null reserves a namespace that cannot collide with a
real Unix or Windows path, and fallback URIs remain opaque to lexical
path operations.
## Validation
Added path-URI coverage for Unix null and non-UTF-8 paths, Windows
device/verbatim and non-Unicode paths, serialization, malformed
fallbacks, opaque lexical operations, invalid native payloads, and
literal `/bad/path` collision resistance.
