## Summary
During assistant-message streaming, blank markdown lines in the
transient active tail were prefixed with two spaces. Ratatui measured
those whitespace-only lines as two viewport rows, so list- and
table-heavy answers showed doubled vertical gaps while streaming and
then visibly compacted when finalized into scrollback.
- keep whitespace-only `StreamingAgentTailCell` lines structurally empty
while preserving nonblank message prefixes
- clear impossible hyperlink metadata when normalizing a blank tail line
- add an inline snapshot and height regression proving one blank
markdown line occupies one viewport row
Related to #26618, but fixes a separate live-tail row-height issue
rather than stale committed markdown content.
## How to Test
Recommended before/after reproduction:
1. Start the latest Codex build without this change.
2. Submit this exact prompt:
> Send 20 different lists: bullets vs numbered, simple vs complex with
paragraphs in between items, etc. Intertwine them with some tables and
some paragraphs.
3. While the answer streams, observe duplicated vertical gaps around
list items and paragraphs. When the answer finishes, observe the spacing
compact.
4. Start this branch with `just c` and submit the same prompt.
5. Confirm each intended blank markdown line occupies one terminal row
throughout streaming and that the spacing does not compact or jump when
the answer finishes.
6. As a focused regression, verify the sections after the first table,
especially loose lists with paragraphs between items; those blank rows
should remain stable throughout streaming.
Targeted tests:
- `just test -p codex-tui
streaming_agent_tail_blank_line_uses_one_viewport_row`
- `just test -p codex-tui history_cell::tests`
## Test Notes
- Verified the exact prompt above in a real tmux TUI using latest Codex
and this branch as the before/after comparison.
- The full `just test -p codex-tui` run completed 2,782 of 2,784 tests
successfully. Two unrelated guardian feature-flag tests fail
reproducibly in isolation because the expected `OverrideTurnContext`
message is absent.
- `just argument-comment-lint` is blocked locally by the existing Bazel
`compiler-rt` missing-header glob error; the touched Rust diff was
inspected manually for opaque positional literals.
## Summary
- accept non-empty model-defined reasoning effort values while
preserving built-in effort behavior
- propagate the non-Copy effort type through core, app-server, TUI,
telemetry, and persistence call sites
- preserve string wire encoding and expose an open-string schema for
clients
- update model selection and shortcut behavior for model-advertised
effort values
## Root cause
`ReasoningEffort` gained a string-backed custom variant, so it could no
longer implement `Copy` or rely on derived closed-enum serialization.
Existing consumers still moved effort values from shared references and
assumed a fixed built-in value set.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- Local tests and compilation were not run per request; relying on CI.
## Why
Standalone `web.run` calls run in the extension, so they need normal
web-search progress activity while a request is in flight and durable
completed activity after a thread is reloaded.
Follow-up to #23823; uses the extension turn-item emission path added in
#24813.
## What changed
- Emit standalone `web.run` start/completion items through the host
turn-item emitter, preserving standard client delivery and rollout
persistence.
- Include useful completion detail for queries, image queries, and
literal-URL `open`/`find` commands.
- Render completed searches as `Searched the web` or `Searched the web
for <detail>`, with snapshot coverage for the detail-free case.
- Extend the app-server round-trip test to verify completed search
activity is reconstructed by `thread/read` after a fresh-process reload.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-web-search-extension`
- `just test -p codex-app-server -E
"test(standalone_web_search_round_trips_encrypted_output)"`
# Why
Fixes#24529. Completed hook output in the TUI rendered each
`HookOutputEntry` as one ratatui line, so explicit newlines inside hook
output were not shown as separate transcript rows. That made multiline
`SessionStart.additionalContext` hard to inspect even though the
model-facing context path preserved the original text.
# What
- Split completed hook output entries on explicit newlines before
rendering them in `codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell/hook_cell.rs`.
- Keep the hook output prefix, such as `hook context:` or `warning:`, on
the first physical line only.
- Preserve explicit blank lines and render continuation lines with the
hook body indent.
- Add unit coverage for multiline context and warning output, plus a
chatwidget snapshot regression for `SessionStart` history output.
# Testing
- `cargo nextest run -p codex-tui completed_hook_multiline
hook_completed_before_reveal_renders_completed_without_running_flash`
- `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-tui -- --ignore-rust-version
--lib --tests`
## Why
Wrapped URLs in rich TUI output, especially URLs rendered inside
Markdown tables, are split across terminal rows. In terminals that
support OSC 8 hyperlinks, treating each visible fragment as part of the
complete destination enables reliable open-link and copy-link actions
even after table layout wraps the URL.
This addresses the semantic-link portion of #12200 and the behavior
described in
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/12200#issuecomment-4535452980. It
does not change ordinary drag-selection across bordered table rows.
## What Changed
- Added shared TUI OSC 8 support that validates `http://` and `https://`
destinations, sanitizes terminal payloads, and applies metadata
separately from visible line width/layout.
- Added semantic web-link annotations to assistant and proposed-plan
Markdown, including explicit web links and bare web URLs in prose and
table cells while excluding code and non-web Markdown destinations.
- Preserved complete URL targets through table wrapping, narrow pipe
fallback, streaming, transcript overlay rendering, history insertion,
and resize replay.
- Routed intentional Codex-owned links in notices,
status/setup/app-link, feedback, onboarding, MCP/plugin help, memories,
and update surfaces through the shared hyperlink handling.
## How to Test
1. Run Codex in a terminal with OSC 8 link support, such as Ghostty, and
request an assistant response containing a Markdown table whose last
column contains a long `https://` URL.
2. Make the terminal narrow enough for the URL to wrap across multiple
bordered table rows.
3. Use the terminal's open-link or copy-link action on more than one
wrapped URL fragment and confirm each fragment resolves to the complete
original URL.
4. Resize the terminal after the table is rendered and repeat the link
action to confirm the destination survives scrollback replay.
5. Open the transcript overlay while rich output is present and confirm
web links remain interactive there.
6. As a regression check, render inline/fenced code containing URL text
and a Markdown link such as
`[https://example.com](mailto:support@example.com)`; confirm these do
not acquire a web OSC 8 destination.
Targeted automated coverage exercised Markdown links and exclusions,
wrapped and pipe-fallback tables, streaming/transcript overlay
propagation, status-link truncation, and rendered word-wrapping cell
alignment. `just test -p codex-tui` was also run; it passed the
hyperlink coverage and reproduced two unrelated existing guardian
feature-flag test failures.
## Stack
- **Current: #24489 [1 of 2]** - render markdown tables in app style.
- **Stacked follow-up: #24636 [2 of 2]** - render cramped markdown
tables as key/value records.
## Why
Markdown tables currently render as boxed terminal grids, which gives
ordinary assistant output a heavier visual treatment than surrounding
rich text. This row-separated layout is the best match for how the App
renders tables, while accented headers remain distinguishable even when
a terminal font renders bold subtly.
<table>
<tr><td>
<p align="center">Codex CLI - Before</p>
<img width="1722" height="742" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-25 at 18 46 17"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f673d92a-ebd8-46e2-b414-3d985e41b6a4"
/>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<p align="center">Codex CLI - After</p>
<img width="1720" height="957" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/36a3d331-bea1-439b-b5be-e97b0731bd6f"
/>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<p align="center">Codex App</p>
<img width="979" height="1293" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-25 at 18 45 04"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7d97cae0-9256-4f6e-a4b3-8b8f22b0d901"
/>
</td></tr>
</table>
## What Changed
- Render markdown tables as padded, aligned rows without an enclosing
box.
- Style table headers with the active syntax-theme accent plus bold
text, while keeping separators low contrast and theme-aware.
- Use a segmented heavy header rule and thin body-row rules, preserving
wrapping, narrow-width fallback, streaming parity, and rich-history
rendering.
- Update focused assertions and snapshots for the final table layout.
## How to Test
1. Render a markdown table in the TUI with several rows and columns.
2. Confirm the header uses the active theme accent, rows use
one-character interior padding, and the table has no enclosing box.
3. Confirm the header is followed by segmented `━` rules and multiple
body rows are separated by muted segmented `─` rules.
4. Render the same table while streaming and in history/raw-mode
toggles; the final rich layout should remain stable.
5. Render a narrow table with long content and verify wrapping or pipe
fallback does not overflow.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-tui table`
- `just test -p codex-tui streaming::controller::tests`
- `just argument-comment-lint-from-source -p codex-tui -- --all-targets`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `just fmt`
`just test -p codex-tui` was also run after accepting the snapshots; it
fails only in the unrelated existing guardian app tests
`update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_review_policy_and_restores_default`
and
`update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_manual_review_policy_without_history`.
# Summary
The standalone update action currently downloads and runs the Codex
installer as an interactive command. When an existing managed Codex
install is present, accepting an update can therefore enter an installer
prompt instead of completing the update.
This change runs the standalone installer with `CODEX_NON_INTERACTIVE=1`
on macOS/Linux and Windows. The installer environment-variable support
is introduced by the parent PR; this PR wires that behavior into the
Codex CLI update action. The rendered Windows command remains
shell-safe, and long update commands wrap within the update-notice card.
The standard test target snapshots the standalone notice for both
platforms.
# Stack
1. [#21567](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/21567) - Adds
environment-controlled release selection and noninteractive installer
behavior.
2. [#24637](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/24637) - Runs
standalone updates with `CODEX_NON_INTERACTIVE=1`. (current)
3. [#24639](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/24639) - Removes
explicit release argument inputs in favor of `CODEX_RELEASE`.
# Evidence
Standalone updater-shaped macOS install with an existing npm-managed
Codex on `PATH`:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a27fe9e9-db3a-4c39-a514-24bd3d1f01e8
# Testing
Tests: targeted `codex-tui` update-action and update-notice snapshot
tests, Rust formatting, benchmark smoke validation, macOS live-terminal
standalone-update smoke testing, Windows ARM64 PowerShell
standalone-update smoke testing through Parallels, and CI.
## Summary
- Bump the workspace Rust toolchain from `1.93.0` to `1.95.0` across
Cargo, Bazel, CI, release workflows, devcontainers, and the Codex
environment config.
- Refresh `MODULE.bazel.lock` so the Bazel Rust toolchain artifacts
match the new version.
- Leave purpose-specific toolchains unchanged, including the
`argument-comment-lint` nightly and the upstream `rusty_v8` `1.91.0`
build pin.
- Includes fixes for new lints from `just fix` and a few codex-authored
fixes for lints without a suggestion.
## Why
Numbered Markdown findings become hard to scan when long items visually
run together or when wrapped explanatory paragraphs lose their list
indentation. This is especially visible in review output: the next
number can look attached to the previous finding, and paragraph
continuation rows can jump back toward the left margin instead of
staying grouped beneath their item.
<table><tr><td>
<center>Before</center>
<img width="1718" height="836" alt="CleanShot 2026-05-24 at 14 00 49"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f1ee0023-50fa-4f81-a641-ae08b17b99bd"
/>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<center>After</center>
<img width="1714" height="906" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b123a5e0-a232-47bf-96d5-c935295f7c0a"
/>
</td></tr>
</table>
## What Changed
- Insert a blank separator before a sibling list item when the previous
item occupies more than one rendered line.
- Preserve compact rendering for lists whose sibling items each render
on one line.
- Preserve list-body leading whitespace when transient streamed
assistant rows require another wrapping pass for history display, so
wrapped paragraphs stay aligned beneath their item.
- Share the existing leading-whitespace prefix logic used by history
insertion instead of introducing a second indentation rule.
- Keep streamed Markdown output aligned with completed rendering and add
snapshots for findings-style spacing and streamed paragraph indentation.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex from this branch and open the recorded repro session
`019e563f-7d58-7ff2-8ec7-828f20fa61ca`.
2. Inspect the numbered `Findings` list whose items contain explanatory
paragraphs.
3. Confirm each multiline finding is separated from the next numbered
finding by one blank line.
4. Confirm wrapped rows of each indented paragraph remain aligned
beneath the finding body, rather than returning to the left edge.
5. Render a short one-line numbered or unordered list and confirm its
items remain compact without added blank rows.
Targeted tests:
- `just test -p codex-tui history_cell insert_history markdown_render
markdown_stream streaming::controller`
- `just argument-comment-lint-from-source -p codex-tui`
## Related Work
PR #24346 changes Markdown table column allocation in parallel. This PR
is intentionally limited to list-item readability and history wrapping;
both branches touch `codex-rs/tui/src/markdown_render.rs`, so a small
merge conflict may need resolution depending on merge order.
## Summary
The TUI `/mcp` inventory flow should reflect the app server’s MCP status
response. It was also joining those results with the TUI process’s local
`config.mcp_servers`, which can diverge once MCP state is owned by a
remote app server and cause stale local command, URL, status, or
empty-state details to render.
This change removes the local config join from the app-server-backed
inventory renderer. The TUI now renders directly from the existing
`mcpServerStatus/list` payload and treats an empty status response as
the empty MCP inventory state.
## Known limitation
The existing `mcpServerStatus/list` payload does not include
disabled-state or disabled-reason fields. To preserve the current
app-server API, this PR does not try to infer that state from
client-local config. If remote `/mcp` needs to show disabled/reason
details again, that should come from app-server-owned status data in a
follow-up.
Related to #22914, #22915, and #22916.
# What
<img width="1792" height="1024" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8f81d232-5813-4994-a61d-e42a05a93a3e"
/>
`SubagentStop` runs when a thread-spawned subagent turn is about to
finish. Thread-spawned subagents use `SubagentStop` instead of the
normal root-agent `Stop` hook.
Configured handlers match on `agent_type`. Hook input includes the
normal stop fields plus:
- `agent_id`: the child thread id.
- `agent_type`: the resolved subagent type.
- `agent_transcript_path`: the child subagent transcript path.
- `transcript_path`: the parent thread transcript path.
- `last_assistant_message`: the final assistant message from the child
turn, when available.
- `stop_hook_active`: `true` when the child is already continuing
because an earlier stop-like hook blocked completion.
`SubagentStop` shares the same completion-control semantics as `Stop`,
scoped to the child turn:
- No decision allows the child turn to finish.
- `decision: "block"` with a non-empty `reason` records that reason as
hook feedback and continues the child with that prompt.
- `continue: false` stops the child turn. If `stopReason` is present,
Codex surfaces it as the stop reason.
# Lifecycle Scope
Only thread-spawned subagents run `SubagentStop`.
Internal/system subagents such as Review, Compact, MemoryConsolidation,
and Other do not run normal `Stop` hooks and do not run `SubagentStop`.
This avoids exposing synthetic matcher labels for internal
implementation paths.
# Stack
1. #22782: add `SubagentStart`.
2. This PR: add `SubagentStop`.
3. #22882: add subagent identity to normal hook inputs.
Builds on #23502.
## Why
#23502 adds the app-server `thread/settings/update` API and matching
`thread/settings/updated` notification. The TUI already lets users
change thread-scoped settings such as model, reasoning effort, service
tier, approvals, permissions, personality, and collaboration mode, but
those updates need to flow through the app server so embedded and
connected clients observe the same thread state.
This is a rework (simplification) of PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22510. It has the same
functionality, but the underlying `thread/settings/update` api is now
simpler in that it no longer returns the effective settings as a
response. Now, clients receive the effective settings only through the
`thread/settings/updated` notification.
## What Changed
This updates the TUI to send `thread/settings/update` whenever those
thread-scoped settings change and to treat the RPC response as the
authoritative acknowledgement. It also routes `thread/settings/updated`
notifications back into cached session state and the visible chat widget
so active and inactive threads stay in sync after app-server-originated
changes.
The implementation is kept to the TUI layer: settings conversion and
merge logic live under `codex-rs/tui/src/app/thread_settings.rs`, with
dispatch/routing hooks in the existing app and chat widget paths.
## Verification
I manually tested using `codex app-server --listen unix://` and then
launching two copies of the TUI that use the same local app server. I
then resumed the same thread on both and verified that changes like plan
mode, fast mode, model, reasoning effort, etc. are reflected "live" in
the second client when modified in the first and vice versa.
# What
`SubagentStart` runs once when Codex creates a thread-spawned subagent,
before that child sends its first model request. Thread-spawned
subagents use `SubagentStart` instead of the normal root-agent
`SessionStart` hook.
Configured handlers match on the subagent `agent_type`, using the same
value passed to `spawn_agent`. When no agent type is specified, Codex
uses the default agent type.
Hook input includes the normal session-start fields plus:
- `agent_id`: the child thread id.
- `agent_type`: the resolved subagent type.
`SubagentStart` may return `hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext`. That
context is added to the child conversation before the first model
request.
# Lifecycle Scope
Only thread-spawned subagents run `SubagentStart`.
Internal/system subagents such as Review, Compact, MemoryConsolidation,
and Other do not run normal `SessionStart` hooks and do not run
`SubagentStart`. This avoids exposing synthetic matcher labels for
internal implementation paths.
Also the `SessionStart` hook no longer fires for subagents, this matches
behavior with other coding agents' implementation
# Stack
1. This PR: add `SubagentStart`.
2. #22873: add `SubagentStop`.
3. #22882: add subagent identity to normal hook inputs.
## Why
The app server API should expose permission profile identity, not the
lower-level runtime permission model. `PermissionProfile` is the
compiled sandbox/network representation that the server uses internally;
exposing it through app-server-protocol forces clients to understand
details that should remain implementation-level.
The API boundary should prefer `ActivePermissionProfile`: a stable
profile id, plus future parent-profile metadata, that clients can pass
back when they want to select the same active permissions. This also
avoids schema generation collisions between the app-server v2 API type
space and the core protocol model.
Incidentally, while PR makes a number of changes to `command/exec`, note
that we are hoping to deprecate this API in favor of `process/spawn`, so
we don't need to be too finicky about these changes.
## What Changed
- Removed `PermissionProfile` from the app-server-protocol API surface,
including generated schema and TypeScript exports.
- Changed `CommandExecParams.permissionProfile` to
`ActivePermissionProfile`.
- Resolve command exec profile ids through `ConfigManager` for the
command cwd, matching turn override selection semantics.
- Updated downstream TUI tests/helpers to use core permission types
directly instead of app-server-protocol `PermissionProfile` shims.
## Why
This PR builds on [#22610](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22610)
and is the app-server side of the migration from mutable per-turn
`SandboxPolicy` replacement toward selecting immutable permission
profiles by id plus mutable runtime workspace roots.
Once permission profiles can carry their own immutable
`workspace_roots`, app-server no longer needs to mutate the selected
`PermissionProfile` just to represent thread-specific filesystem
context. The mutable part now lives on the thread as explicit
`runtimeWorkspaceRoots`, while `:workspace_roots` remains symbolic until
the sandbox is realized for a turn.
## What Changed
- Replaced the v2 permission-selection wrapper surface with plain
profile ids for `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and
`turn/start`.
- Removed the API surface for profile modifications
(`PermissionProfileSelectionParams`,
`PermissionProfileModificationParams`,
`ActivePermissionProfileModification`).
- Added experimental `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` fields to the thread
lifecycle and turn-start APIs.
- Threaded runtime workspace roots through core session/thread
snapshots, turn overrides, app-server request handling, and command
execution permission resolution.
- Kept session permission state symbolic so later runtime root updates
and cwd-only implicit-root retargeting rebind `:workspace_roots`
correctly.
- Updated the embedded clients just enough to send and restore the new
thread state.
- Refreshed the generated schema/TypeScript artifacts and the app-server
README to match the new contract.
## Verification
Targeted coverage for this layer lives in:
- `codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/tests.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_start.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/thread_resume.rs`
- `codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/turn_start.rs`
- `codex-rs/core/src/session/tests.rs`
The key regression checks exercise that:
- `runtimeWorkspaceRoots` resolve against the effective cwd on thread
start.
- Profile-declared workspace roots are excluded from the runtime
workspace roots returned by app-server.
- A turn-level runtime workspace-root update persists onto the thread
and is returned by `thread/resume`.
- A named permission profile selected on one turn remains symbolic so a
later runtime-root-only turn update changes the actual sandbox writes.
- A cwd-only turn update retargets the implicit runtime cwd root while
preserving additional runtime roots.
- The protocol fixtures and generated client artifacts stay in sync with
the string-based permission selection contract.
---
[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
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with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/22611).
* #22612
* __->__ #22611
## Why
`codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs` had become the dumping ground for
transcript rendering: the shared trait, common helpers, and the concrete
cells for messages, plans, MCP/search, notices, patches, approvals,
session chrome, and separators all lived together. That made small
transcript changes require reopening a very large file and made
ownership less obvious.
## What changed
- Replaced the monolithic `history_cell.rs` with a `history_cell/`
module tree organized by concern.
- Kept the existing `crate::history_cell::*` surface stable through
re-exports in `history_cell/mod.rs`.
- Moved the existing render coverage into `history_cell/tests.rs`.
## Reviewer notes
- This PR is intentionally mechanical in mature — existing code and
tests moving into files that match their concern.
- The snapshot files under `codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell/snapshots/`
moved with the extracted test module. `insta` resolves these unnamed
snapshots relative to the source file that declares them, so this is
path churn only; snapshot contents were not updated.
- The small non-mechanical seam edits are limited to split fallout:
sibling-module visibility for shared cell containers, moving
approval-specific exec-snippet helpers beside approvals, fixing the
separator module path, and keeping a couple of existing test helpers
reachable after extraction.
Based on work from Vincent K -
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19060
<img width="1836" height="642" alt="CleanShot 2026-04-29 at 20 47 40@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b647bb89-65fe-40c8-80b0-7a6b7c984634"
/>
## Why
Compaction rewrites the conversation context that future model turns
receive, but hooks currently have no deterministic lifecycle point
around that rewrite. This adds compact lifecycle hooks so users can
audit manual and automatic compaction, surface hook messages in the UI,
and run post-compaction follow-up without overloading tool or prompt
hooks.
## What Changed
- Added `PreCompact` and `PostCompact` hook events across hook config,
discovery, dispatch, generated schemas, app-server notifications,
analytics, and TUI hook rendering.
- Added trigger matching for compact hooks with the documented `manual`
and `auto` matcher values.
- Wired `PreCompact` before both local and remote compaction, and
`PostCompact` after successful local or remote compaction.
- Kept compact hook command input to lifecycle metadata: session id,
Codex turn id, transcript path, cwd, hook event name, model, and
trigger.
- Made compact stdout handling consistent with other hooks: plain stdout
is ignored as debug output, while malformed JSON-looking stdout is
reported as failed hook output.
- Added integration coverage for compact hook dispatch, trigger
matching, post-compact execution, and the audited behavior that
`decision:"block"` does not block compaction.
## Out of Scope
- Hook-specific compaction blocking is not implemented;
`decision:"block"` and exit-code-2 blocking semantics are intentionally
unsupported for `PreCompact`.
- Custom compaction instructions are not exposed to compact hooks in
this PR.
- Compact summaries, summary character counts, and summary previews are
not exposed to compact hooks in this PR.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-hooks`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
manual_pre_compact_block_decision_does_not_block_compaction`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server hooks_list`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_schema_matches_fixture`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui hooks_browser`
## Docs
The developer documentation for Codex hooks should be updated alongside
this feature to document `PreCompact` and `PostCompact`, the
`manual`/`auto` matcher values, and the compact hook payload fields.
---------
Co-authored-by: Vincent Koc <vincentkoc@ieee.org>
## Why
Granular copy is particularly difficult with the current output. Part of
it was solved with the introduction of the `/copy` command but when you
only need to copy parts of a response, you still encounter some issues:
- When you copy a paragraph, the result is a sequence of separate lines
instead of one correctly joined paragraph.
- When a word wraps, part of it stays on the original line and the rest
appears at the start of the next line.
- When you copy a long command, extra line breaks are often inserted,
and command arguments can be split across multiple lines.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0ef85c84-9363-4aad-b43a-15fce062a443
## Solution
Now that we own the scrollback and we re-create it when we resize, we
have the opportunity of toggling between the raw text and the rich text
we see today.
- Add TUI raw scrollback mode with `tui.raw_output_mode`, `/raw
[on|off]`, and the configurable `tui.keymap.global.toggle_raw_output`
action.
- Render transcript cells through rich/raw-aware paths so raw mode
preserves source text and lets the terminal soft-wrap selection-friendly
output.
- Bind raw-mode toggle to `alt-r` by default, with the keybinding path
toggling silently while `/raw` continues to emit confirmation messages.
## Related Issues
Likely addressed by raw mode:
- #12200: clean copy for multiline and soft-wrapped output. Raw mode
removes Codex-inserted wrapping/indentation and lets the terminal
soft-wrap logical lines.
- #9252: command suggestions gain unwanted leading spaces when copied.
Raw mode renders transcript text without the rich-mode left
padding/gutter.
- #8258: prompt output is hard to copy because of leading indentation.
Raw mode renders user/source-backed transcript text without that
decorative indentation.
Partially or conditionally addressed:
- #2880: copy/export message as Markdown. Raw mode exposes raw Markdown
for terminal selection, but this PR does not add a dedicated
export/copy-message command.
- #19820: mouse drag selection + copy in the TUI. Raw mode improves
terminal-native selection of output/history text, but this PR does not
implement in-TUI mouse selection, highlighting, auto-copy, or composer
selection.
- #18979: copied content is divided into two parts. This should improve
cases caused by Codex-inserted wraps/padding in rendered output; if the
report is about pasting into the composer/input path, that remains
outside this PR.
## Validation
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
raw_output_mode_can_change_without_inserting_notice -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
raw_slash_command_toggles_and_accepts_on_off_args -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui raw_output_toggle -- --nocapture`
- `git diff --check`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots`
## Why
Issue #20489 calls out that animated TUI affordances can be noisy for
screen-reader users. Codex already has `tui.animations = false` as a
reduced-motion setting, but some live activity rows render spinner-style
prefixes in that mode. These were relatively recent regressions.
We have also regressed this pattern more than once by adding new
spinner/shimmer callsites that do not think through the reduced-motion
path, so this PR adds a small guardrail while fixing the current
surfaces.
## What changed
- Omit the live status-row spinner when animations are disabled, so the
row starts with stable text like `Working (...)`.
- Render running hook headers without the spinner prefix when animations
are disabled, while preserving shimmer/spinner behavior when animations
are enabled.
- Centralize TUI activity indicators in `tui/src/motion.rs`, with
explicit reduced-motion choices for hidden prefixes, static bullets, and
plain shimmer-text fallbacks.
- Route existing spinner/shimmer callsites through the central motion
helper, including exec rows, MCP/web-search/loading rows, hook rows,
plugin loading, and onboarding loading text.
- Add a source-scan regression test that rejects direct `spinner(...)`
or `shimmer_spans(...)` usage outside the central module and primitive
definition.
- Add focused coverage that reduced-motion active exec rows are stable,
status rows start without a spinner, running hooks omit the spinner, and
MCP inventory loading stays stable.
- Update the one affected status-indicator snapshot; the existing detail
tree prefix remains unchanged.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
## Why
With the local model layer and app-server routing in place from PR1,
this PR moves the active TUI runtime onto app-server notifications. The
affected pieces share the same event flow, so the command surface,
session state, bottom-pane prompts, chat rendering, history/status
views, and tests move together to keep the stacked branch buildable.
This PR also removes the obsolete compatibility surface that is no
longer used after the migration. The proposed protocol-boundary verifier
layer was dropped from the stack; enforcing that final boundary will be
simpler once `codex-tui` no longer needs any `codex_protocol`
references.
This PR is part 2 of a 2-PR stack:
1. Add TUI-owned replacement models and extract app-server event
routing.
2. Move the active TUI flow to app-server notifications and delete
obsolete adapter code.
## What changed
- Rewired app command and session handling to use app-server request and
notification shapes.
- Moved approval overlays, request-user-input flows, MCP elicitation,
realtime events, and review commands onto the app-server-facing model
surface.
- Updated chat rendering, history cells, status views, multi-agent UI,
replay state, and TUI tests to use app-server notifications plus the
local models introduced in PR1.
- Deleted `codex-rs/tui/src/app/app_server_adapter.rs` and the
superseded `chatwidget/tests/background_events.rs` fixture path.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-tui --tests`
- Top of stack: `cargo test -p codex-tui`
## Why
We need `PermissionRequest` hook support!
Also addresses:
- https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/16301
- run a script on Hook to do things like play a sound to draw attention
but actually no-op so user can still approve
- can omit the `decision` object from output or just have the script
exit 0 and print nothing
- https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/15311
- let the script approve/deny on its own
- external UI what will run on Hook and relay decision back to codex
## Reviewer Note
There's a lot of plumbing for the new hook, key files to review are:
- New hook added in `codex-rs/hooks/src/events/permission_request.rs`
- Wiring for network approvals
`codex-rs/core/src/tools/network_approval.rs`
- Wiring for tool orchestrator `codex-rs/core/src/tools/orchestrator.rs`
- Wiring for execve
`codex-rs/core/src/tools/runtimes/shell/unix_escalation.rs`
## What
- Wires shell, unified exec, and network approval prompts into the
`PermissionRequest` hook flow.
- Lets hooks allow or deny approval prompts; quiet or invalid hooks fall
back to the normal approval path.
- Uses `tool_input.description` for user-facing context when it helps:
- shell / `exec_command`: the request justification, when present
- network approvals: `network-access <domain>`
- Uses `tool_name: Bash` for shell, unified exec, and network approval
permission-request hooks.
- For network approvals, passes the originating command in
`tool_input.command` when there is a single owning call; otherwise falls
back to the synthetic `network-access ...` command.
<details>
<summary>Example `PermissionRequest` hook input for a shell
approval</summary>
```json
{
"session_id": "<session-id>",
"turn_id": "<turn-id>",
"transcript_path": "/path/to/transcript.jsonl",
"cwd": "/path/to/cwd",
"hook_event_name": "PermissionRequest",
"model": "gpt-5",
"permission_mode": "default",
"tool_name": "Bash",
"tool_input": {
"command": "rm -f /tmp/example"
}
}
```
</details>
<details>
<summary>Example `PermissionRequest` hook input for an escalated
`exec_command` request</summary>
```json
{
"session_id": "<session-id>",
"turn_id": "<turn-id>",
"transcript_path": "/path/to/transcript.jsonl",
"cwd": "/path/to/cwd",
"hook_event_name": "PermissionRequest",
"model": "gpt-5",
"permission_mode": "default",
"tool_name": "Bash",
"tool_input": {
"command": "cp /tmp/source.json /Users/alice/export/source.json",
"description": "Need to copy a generated file outside the workspace"
}
}
```
</details>
<details>
<summary>Example `PermissionRequest` hook input for a network
approval</summary>
```json
{
"session_id": "<session-id>",
"turn_id": "<turn-id>",
"transcript_path": "/path/to/transcript.jsonl",
"cwd": "/path/to/cwd",
"hook_event_name": "PermissionRequest",
"model": "gpt-5",
"permission_mode": "default",
"tool_name": "Bash",
"tool_input": {
"command": "curl http://codex-network-test.invalid",
"description": "network-access http://codex-network-test.invalid"
}
}
```
</details>
## Follow-ups
- Implement the `PermissionRequest` semantics for `updatedInput`,
`updatedPermissions`, `interrupt`, and suggestions /
`permission_suggestions`
- Add `PermissionRequest` support for the `request_permissions` tool
path
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# Why
Add product analytics for hook handler executions so we can understand
which hooks are running, where they came from, and whether they
completed, failed, stopped, or blocked work.
# What
- add the new `codex_hook_run` analytics event and payload plumbing in
`codex-rs/analytics`
- emit hook-run analytics from the shared hook completion path in
`codex-rs/core`
- classify hook source from the loaded hook path as `system`, `user`,
`project`, or `unknown`
```
{
"event_type": "codex_hook_run",
"event_params": {
"thread_id": "string",
"turn_id": "string",
"model_slug": "string",
"hook_name": "string, // any HookEventName
"hook_source": "system | user | project | unknown",
"status": "completed | failed | stopped | blocked"
}
}
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
# Motivation
Make hook display less noisy and more useful by keeping transient hook
activity out of permanent history unless there is useful output,
preserving visibility for meaningful hook work, and making completed
hook severity easier to scan.
Also addresses some of the concerns in
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/15497
# Changes
## Demo
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9d8cebd4-a502-4c95-819c-c806c0731288
Reverse spec for the behavior changes in this branch:
## Hook Lifecycle Rendering
- Hook start events no longer write permanent history rows like `Running
PreToolUse hook`.
- Running hooks now render in a dedicated live hook area above the
composer. It's similar to the active cell we use for tool calls but its
a separate lane.
- Running hook rows use the existing animation setting.
## Hook Reveal Timing
- We wait 300ms before showing running hook rows and linger for up to
600ms once visible.
- This is so fast hooks don't flash a transient `Running hook` row
before user can read it every time.
- If a fast hook completes with meaningful output, only the completed
hook result is written to history.
- If a fast hook completes successfully with no output, it leaves no
visible trace.
## Completed Hook Output
- Completed hooks with output are sticky, for example `• SessionStart
hook (completed)`.
- Hook output entries are rendered under that row with stable prefixes:
`warning:`, `stop:`, `feedback:`, `hook context:`, and `error:`.
- Blocked hooks show feedback entries, for example `• PreToolUse hook
(blocked)` followed by `feedback: ...`.
- Failed hooks show error entries, for example `• PostToolUse hook
(failed)` followed by `error: ...`.
- Stopped hooks show stop entries and remain visually treated as
non-success.
## Parallel Hook Behavior
- Multiple simultaneously running hooks can be tracked in one live hook
cell.
- Adjacent running hooks with the same hook event name and same status
message collapse into a count, for example `• Running 3 PreToolUse
hooks: checking command policy`.
- Running hooks with different event names or different status messages
remain separate rows.
## Hook Run Identity
- `PreToolUse` and `PostToolUse` hook run IDs now include the tool call
ID which prevents concurrent tool-use hooks from sharing a run ID and
clobbering each other in the UI.
- This ID scoping applies to tool-use hooks only; other hook event types
keep their existing run identity behavior.
## App-Server Hook Notifications
- App-server `HookStarted` and `HookCompleted` notifications use the
same live hook rendering path as core hook events.
- `UserPromptSubmit` hook notifications now render through the same
completed hook output format, including warning and stop entries.