## What changed
- Add the creation-time `originator` to app-server thread responses and `thread/started` notifications.
- Persist originators in thread metadata and preserve the first recorded value across list, read, resume, rollout, and SQLite paths.
- Add an `originators` allowlist to `thread/list` for hosted backends. The local app-server accepts omitted or empty values but rejects nonempty filters.
## Testing
- Cover originator persistence across server restarts and list, read, and resume requests.
- Verify local `thread/list` handling for nonempty, omitted, null, and empty originator filters.
- Heap-allocate large TUI dispatcher futures in affected tests to keep them within the Windows test-thread stack.
GitOrigin-RevId: 73ad6e61b8fdd2d93a22d1f971723a19ec7be3fc
## What changed
- Add the experimental `Thread.environments` field with each selected environment's ID, working directory, and runtime workspace roots.
- Populate the field from live thread state in start, resume, read, list, and unarchive responses. Use `null` for unloaded threads and an empty list when a loaded thread has no environment selection.
- Document that the field reports selection rather than connection status and does not affect executor selection or resume behavior.
## Testing
- Cover selection updates, unloaded and resumed threads, loaded pathless unarchives, and clients that subscribe after environment connection notifications.
GitOrigin-RevId: a6daa06aff7089d7c5a1e4c7d03109b41f12fa3c
## What changed
- Replace `send_user_message_async` with `request_user_input_async`, accepting one or more questions with optional suggested answers while allowing the turn to continue.
- Attach structured question metadata to asynchronous agent messages while retaining readable fallback text, and preserve it through app-server events, thread history, and generated schemas.
- Continue enabling the new tool for model catalogs that advertise either the old or new tool name.
## Testing
- Cover tool registration, question validation, emitted items, continued turn execution, history preservation, and backwards-compatible deserialization.
GitOrigin-RevId: ffc49aebde2e854c3c50a122aa52805fec3fc6b3
## What changed
- Add nullable `model` and `reasoningEffort` fields to the shared app-server `Thread` object and generated schemas.
- Report current settings for loaded threads and the latest persisted settings for unloaded threads across thread read, list, start, resume, rollback, metadata update, and notification paths.
- Keep unavailable legacy or filesystem-only settings nullable, and allow metadata reads without loading a thread or dispatching queued work.
## Testing
- Cover live-setting precedence, persisted settings after restart, null legacy values, and model metadata returned by thread lifecycle operations.
GitOrigin-RevId: 22ebe8a8d1910a820d90a97730d812a00d8c1372
## What changed
- Add an optional `toolOutput` to `turn/start` for starting or steering a turn with a named function-call output instead of user input.
- Emit standalone outputs as `functionCallOutput` thread items, persist them in durable history, and include them in resumed threads.
- Validate that tool outputs have a name, are not combined with nonempty `input`, satisfy the text-size limit, and use supported image URLs.
## Testing
- Cover standalone tool-output notifications, model input, and resumed history in both legacy and paginated history modes.
- Cover the text-size limit for structured tool output.
GitOrigin-RevId: a1eeec7b9b7de67b1a1c5e829a54552b85ec118b
## Why
App-server clients need the explanation and steering instruction returned with a
misalignment policy violation to offer a user-confirmed continuation. Missing or
incomplete details must continue to behave as a terminal block.
## What changed
- Parse optional misalignment classification, explanation, and steering details
from streamed and HTTP Responses errors and propagate them through core errors.
- Include the details in live app-server `error` and `turn/completed` payloads and
export the corresponding protocol schemas and TypeScript types.
- Keep explanations and steering messages out of serialized rollout events and
redact them from debug output.
- Document how clients can resume with `turn/start` after user confirmation.
## Testing
- Cover streamed, HTTP, and WebSocket-wrapped errors, including malformed and
classification-only details.
- Verify live app-server notifications expose resumable details without writing
the explanation or steering message to the rollout.
GitOrigin-RevId: 329258a444c2cd91d0c57ab1720830b33ddcfac5
## What changed
- Classify `response.failed` events with the `rate_limit_exceeded` code as a distinct retryable error while preserving any parsed retry delay.
- Expose the error as `rateLimitExceeded` through the core protocol and app-server schemas after stream retries are exhausted.
- Preserve the upstream message for TUI display while keeping it out of telemetry summaries.
## Testing
- Cover SSE classification, retry metadata, protocol conversion and serialization, exhausted stream retries, telemetry redaction, and TUI rendering.
GitOrigin-RevId: 02dab4d3477dcd7653a58c49c4bd38687a616579
## What changed
- Make `thread/turns/list`, `thread/items/list`, and `thread/revert` available
without the experimental API capability.
- Stabilize `thread/reverted`, `thread.historyMode`, and the pagination fields
used by `thread/resume` and `thread/fork`.
- Publish the promoted requests, responses, and fields in the stable JSON and
TypeScript schemas, and update the app-server documentation accordingly.
GitOrigin-RevId: 18b8c53c265211597bb1a62fd62f66f4a3df5f06
## What changed
- Record collaboration tool analytics for `send_message`, `followup_task`,
`interrupt_agent`, and `list_agents`, including receiver attribution, duration,
failures, and interrupted calls.
- Include these calls in per-turn subagent tool counts while keeping the existing
`subAgentActivity` output unchanged and omitting additional public collaborator
tool items.
- Extend the collaboration tool schemas with the new tool variants and the
`interrupted` terminal status.
## Testing
- Add an app-server integration test covering successful and failed calls,
receiver attribution, duration, prompt omission, activity items, and turn
counts.
GitOrigin-RevId: e73eaa05c508261e5fc97e7d08d7881a31e04e22
## Why
A Multi-Agent V2 child can finish after the parent turn that spawned it, so its
successful completion needs to remain associated with that parent turn in
notifications and history.
## What changed
- Add `completed` to `SubAgentActivityKind` and emit the corresponding started
and completed item events on the spawning parent turn when a child succeeds.
- Persist completed activity as a canonical turn item in both legacy and
paginated history, and expose it through app-server history and schemas.
- Render completed activity as terminal in the TUI without counting it as a
separate tool call or tool-runtime event.
## Testing
- Cover successful completion in legacy and paginated history, late updates to
completed parent turns, TUI rendering, analytics, and rollout tracing.
- Verify that terminal child errors do not emit completed activity.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6c71eb8b10e7327611c6af84f70e294e27d94d02
## What changed
- Add an optional `delivery` field to agent message events and app-server
`agentMessage` items, with `"async"` identifying a user-visible message sent
without ending the current turn.
- Preserve the marker through legacy event conversion, thread history
materialization, replay, and generated JSON and TypeScript schemas.
- Require delivery of async agent message completion notifications on the
in-process app-server transport.
## Testing
- Cover preservation of async delivery metadata in thread history.
- Cover delivery-required classification for async agent messages.
GitOrigin-RevId: f92ba25de1293ee271404badfdf0d117d6530329
## What changed
- Recognize `misalignment_policy_violation` errors from response streams and HTTP 400 or 403 responses.
- Preserve the upstream message, use a fallback for blank messages, and treat the error as non-retryable.
- Expose `misalignmentPolicyViolation` through the app-server protocol and generated schemas so turns fail with a typed terminal error.
## Testing
- Cover streamed and HTTP policy violations, fallback messages, retry behavior, and app-server turn completion.
GitOrigin-RevId: fd3485bf0be7bfe3d51c078bbc36a081692fd57f
## What changed
- Add structured `usageLimitExceeded` metadata to failed image-generation
items, including the image limit ID and optional reset timestamp.
- Preserve the failure metadata in completion events, app-server thread
history, thread reads and resumes, and migrated legacy rollouts.
- Export the new failure type in the generated JSON and TypeScript schemas.
## Testing
- Cover usage-limit responses through item completion, persistence, and thread
resume.
- Verify legacy rollout migration retains image-generation failure metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: 91c31a2a47456b6b916ee03002ff314b05946dd4
## What changed
- Add optional `icon` and `color` appearance fields to custom thread sections and expose them through the app-server protocol.
- Persist appearance metadata in SQLite and include it when listing sections or returning threads.
- Let `threadSection/update` preserve an omitted appearance, clear it with `null`, or replace it with a new value.
- Reject appearance fields larger than 64 bytes.
## Testing
- Cover protocol compatibility, persistence across restart, update and clear behavior, and field-length validation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8f55ce4f42f8bd17aa5416848a85845f681953df
## What changed
- Add `transparentBackground` to image-generation items and legacy completion events.
- Map Images API backgrounds to `true` for transparent, `false` for opaque, and `null` for automatic or unavailable values.
- Preserve the metadata in live notifications and persisted or resumed thread history while continuing to deserialize older items that omit it.
## Testing
- Cover transparent, opaque, and automatic backgrounds, including image edits and thread read/resume flows.
- Verify the stable JSON shape and optional TypeScript field.
GitOrigin-RevId: 08527f37f23431df45fab1ed34eb82b2139b49d7
## Why
Read command actions were omitted when a selected environment used a path
convention foreign to the app-server host. Clients need these actions to refer
to files in the executor's filesystem, not paths interpreted on the host.
## What changed
- Resolve read paths against the executor's `PathUri` and serialize them using
the executor's native POSIX, Windows drive, or UNC convention.
- Accept same-drive Windows-relative paths while continuing to reject paths
that require another drive's executor-local current directory.
- Document the path convention used by `commandExecution` notifications.
## Testing
Cover native and cross-platform path serialization, Windows drive-relative
joins, and selected-environment `item/started` and `item/completed`
notifications.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3c5a9bb1caafd35e04a0a0cceab91fee590372b9
## What changed
- Propagate MCP tool `readOnlyHint` annotations through tool-call start and
completion events.
- Include the optional hint in persisted thread history and app-server
`mcpToolCall` items, preserving compatibility when the annotation is absent.
- Document that the hint describes tool capability, not the outcome of a
particular invocation.
## Testing
- Cover read-only and write-capable tools in live events and persisted rollout
data.
- Verify the hint survives thread reads and resumes for both in-progress and
completed MCP calls.
GitOrigin-RevId: dddfe905146075e5137a1094da485b86b99807f0
## What changed
- Add `thread/section/move` to atomically move a thread into, within, or out of a section. Threads can be inserted before an existing member or appended, and moves within a section preserve `sectionEnteredAt`.
- Add `section_position` sorting to `thread/list`, with ascending order as its default, and expose `sectionEnteredAt` in thread responses.
- Persist section positions and entry times in SQLite, including migration of existing section members into recency order. Section membership is no longer updated through `thread/metadata/update`.
## Testing
- Cover section moves, reordering, pagination, persistence across restarts and rollout reconciliation, concurrent updates, and rank renumbering.
GitOrigin-RevId: aec6d7ddedca5277029b5caf5c074975397e956c
## What changed
- Replace the `isPinned` thread metadata and filters with an optional persisted
`section` and `sectionId`.
- Add the paginated `threadSection/list` app-server method so clients can
discover sections even when they contain no threads.
- Seed a stable `Pinned` section, validate section assignments, and support
filtering for a specific section or for unsectioned threads.
## Testing
- Cover section protocol serialization, listing and pagination, metadata
updates, filtering, persistence, migration compatibility, and operation
without SQLite state.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7972b5471d29317b9387bfd90aa9f573f691ad4c
## What changed
- Resolve shell and unified-exec commands against the trusted plugin roots loaded for each turn.
- Add optional `pluginId` and safe plugin-relative `scriptPath` fields to command execution items and legacy execution events, and propagate them through app-server notifications.
- Include the attribution in command execution analytics while rejecting absolute, unsafe, and unattributed script paths.
## Testing
- Cover attribution for cached curated and remote plugin scripts from command execution through core and app-server events.
- Verify analytics serialization and unsafe-path filtering.
GitOrigin-RevId: 02fac3a233284ccfc6642fa502a95f1881dba83d
## What changed
- Add `isPinned` to thread responses and allow `thread/metadata/update` to pin or unpin stored threads.
- Add an `isPinned` filter to `thread/list`, including cursor-based pagination and combinations with relationship filters.
- Persist pin state in SQLite without modifying rollout files, default existing threads to unpinned, and preserve pins through reconciliation and archive transitions.
## Testing
- Cover protocol serialization, database migration and indexing, pin updates, filtered pagination, rollout reconciliation, and archive/unarchive behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: c2eacabd6dae465e2ae6ce8a169e00740960cdb7
## What changed
- Add remote and local audio variants to core and app-server user inputs, including generated JSON and TypeScript schemas.
- Preserve audio fields when converting app-server inputs and response content into thread items.
- Keep unsupported audio out of model requests, TUI rendering, text extraction, and truncated tool output, using explicit text placeholders where audio is submitted as a model input.
## Testing
- Cover app-server media conversion, unsupported-input placeholders, TUI omission, and tool-output truncation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 16152bf3af674575ce569764a8b472e032e7569d
## What changed
- Remove `template_id` from MCP tool call items and lifecycle events.
- Remove `templateId` from app-server `McpToolCallAppContext` responses and generated schemas.
- Update protocol conversions, documentation, and existing test expectations for the revised metadata shape.
GitOrigin-RevId: f2b1304eadff661eec3966673ea71206b1542b98
## What changed
- Define `SleepItem` in `codex-extension-items` and carry `clock.sleep` events through `TurnItem::Extension`.
- Preserve sleep persistence, thread-history reconstruction, and the app-server's `type: "sleep"` schema while reusing the extension-owned type.
## Testing
- Add serialization coverage for the `clock.sleep` extension wire shape and its protocol wrapper.
- Update sleep lifecycle and thread-history tests to exercise the extension-owned item.
GitOrigin-RevId: 34bb33ed9b90a09bf4744aafdb56e019c717a168
## Why
Standalone web search can return structured result DTOs separately from its
model-facing text output. App-server clients need access to that data without
coupling Codex to every result type or field.
## What changed
- Preserve the optional `results` array from `/v1/alpha/search` as opaque JSON
through web-search completion events, thread history, and app-server
`webSearch` items.
- Keep responses from older endpoints compatible when `results` is absent, and
allow clients to ignore result types and fields they do not understand.
- Regenerate the protocol schemas and TypeScript definitions for the optional
field.
## Testing
- Cover responses with missing, empty, and forward-compatible result payloads.
- Verify standalone web-search results round-trip through app-server item
notifications and thread-item conversion.
GitOrigin-RevId: 739ef5694ece5733f7b8749ec41d6bfa3f33c8c5
## Description
This PR adds a new `historyMode = "legacy" | "paginated"` to `Thread`.
This will be stored in `SessionMeta` in the JSONL rollout file and as a
new column in the SQLite thread_metadata table, and exposed on
`thread/start` and on the `Thread` object in app-server.
## What changed
- Added canonical `ThreadHistoryMode` with `legacy` and `paginated`,
defaulting old and new SessionMeta to `legacy`.
- Carried `history_mode` through core session config, ThreadStore stored
metadata, local/in-memory stores, rollout metadata extraction, and the
existing SQLite `threads` table.
- Added experimental `historyMode` to app-server v2 `Thread` and
`thread/start`.
- Made paginated stored threads metadata-discoverable but unsupported
for legacy full-history reads, `load_history`, live resume, and create
paths.
- Regenerated app-server schema fixtures and added
protocol/state/thread-store/app-server coverage for persistence and
fail-closed behavior.
## Compatibility floor
Because users may be running various versions of Codex binaries on the
same machine (TUI, Codex App, etc.), we will need to establish a
compatibility floor for upcoming paginated threads, which will change
how thread storage reads and writes work.
The overall plan here:
```
Release N:
- Add historyMode to SessionMeta / Thread / SQLite metadata.
- Teach binaries to understand paginated threads.
- If a binary sees `historyMode="paginated"` but does not support the paginated contract, it refuses to resume/mutate the thread.
- Default remains `"legacy"`.
Release N+1:
- First-party clients start opting into paginated threads where appropriate.
- Internal dogfood / staged rollout.
- Measure old-client usage and paginated-thread unsupported errors.
Release N+2:
- Only after Release N+ is overwhelmingly deployed, make paginated the default.
- Accept that a small tail of N-1-or-older binaries may not understand paginated threads.
```
The important behavior change is fail-closed handling for a binary that
encounters a persisted `paginated` thread before it knows how to fully
support paginated history. In app-server, if a thread is `paginated`, we
will:
- allow metadata-only discovery paths like `thread/list` and
`thread/read(includeTurns=false)`, so clients can still see the thread
and inspect its `historyMode`
- reject legacy full-history/live-thread paths like
`thread/read(includeTurns=true)` and `thread/resume` with an unsupported
JSON-RPC error
- avoid silently treating an unknown or future `historyMode` as `legacy`
Under the hood, the ThreadStore layer also rejects legacy operations
that would need to load or replay the full thread history for a
paginated thread. That gives us the behavior we want for Release N:
future paginated threads are visible, but this binary fails closed
instead of trying to operate on them as if they were legacy threads.
## Why
MCP tool-call events need to expose trusted app identity and action
metadata directly so v2 clients do not have to infer it from tool names
or resource URIs.
## What changed
- Add optional `appName`, `templateId`, and `actionName` fields to MCP
tool-call `appContext`.
- Populate `appName` and `templateId` from trusted Codex Apps metadata,
and derive `actionName` from the trusted app resource metadata.
- Preserve all three fields through core events, legacy protocol events,
persisted thread history, resume redaction, and app-server v2 responses.
- Document the public `appContext` fields in
`codex-rs/app-server/README.md`.
- Regenerate app-server JSON and TypeScript schemas and add coverage for
serialization, persistence, redaction, and metadata propagation.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol mcp_tool_call`
- `just test -p codex-core
mcp_tool_call_item_metadata_only_trusts_codex_apps_identity
mcp_tool_call_item_includes_app_identity`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
---------
Co-authored-by: Martin Au-Yeung <280153141+martinauyeung-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
## Summary
- rename the rollout-budget exhaustion error from
`RolloutBudgetExceeded` to `SessionBudgetExceeded`
- expose the matching app-server v2 wire value as
`sessionBudgetExceeded`
- regenerate JSON/TypeScript schema fixtures and update the app-server
docs and focused tests
This is a naming-only follow-up to #29715 based on [Pavel's review
suggestion](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29715#discussion_r3463183480).
Runtime behavior is unchanged.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-core rollout_budget`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fmt`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
## Summary
- surface shared rollout-budget exhaustion as
`CodexErr::RolloutBudgetExceeded` instead of a generic interrupted turn
- map it through the existing `CodexErrorInfo` and app-server v2
`codexErrorInfo` path
- keep local compaction from retrying after the shared rollout budget is
exhausted
This gives app-server clients a stable `rolloutBudgetExceeded` error
they can classify without guessing from `status="interrupted"`.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-core rollout_budget`
## Why
view_image needs to support foreign OS remote executors.
## What
- resolve image paths against the selected environment as `PathUri` and
read them through that environment's filesystem
- keep app-server's public path field wire-compatible as
`LegacyAppPathString`, with purpose-specific UI rendering
- cover relative and absolute target-native paths in the core
integration test and run the full `view_image` suite under wine-exec
without skips
## Why
App-server must report command events containing foreign-platform paths
without changing existing client or rollout path-string formats.
## What changed
- retain `PathUri` through exec command begin/end events
- convert cwd values to `LegacyAppPathString` at the app-server
compatibility boundary
- drop command actions with foreign paths and log them
- serialize rollout-trace cwd values using their inferred native path
representation
- restore Wine coverage for retained Windows cwd values and successful
completion
## Summary
- Revert #28655, restoring the thread `recencyAt` behavior introduced by
#27910.
- Move `threads_recency_at` to migration 0039 so it no longer collides
with `external_agent_config_imports` at version 0038.
- Repair databases that already applied the recency migration as version
38 by moving the matching migration-history row to version 39 before
SQLx validation. The current version-38 migration can then apply
normally.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-state
migrations::tests::repairs_recency_migration_that_was_applied_as_version_38`
- `just test -p codex-state -p codex-rollout -p codex-thread-store -p
codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-tui`: 3,439 passed; six TUI tests
could not open the machine's existing read-only incident database at
`~/.codex/sqlite/state_5.sqlite`.
- `just fix -p codex-state`
- `just fmt`
- Verified that state migration versions are unique.
## Why
Revert #27910 to remove the newly introduced thread `recencyAt`
persistence and API behavior from `main`.
## What changed
This reverts commit `fac3158c2a783095768076489815f361fa9b0db4`,
including the state migration, thread-store propagation, app-server API
surface, generated schemas, and related tests.
## Validation
Not run before opening; relying on CI for the initial fast signal.
## Summary
Add a server-owned `recencyAt` timestamp and `recency_at` thread-list
sort key for product recency ordering while preserving the existing
meaning of `updatedAt` as the latest persisted thread mutation.
This is the server-side alternative to #27697. Rather than narrowing
`updatedAt`, clients can sort the sidebar by `recency_at` and continue
treating `updatedAt` as mutation time.
Paired Codex Apps PR:
[openai/openai#1024599](https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1024599)
## Contract
- `recencyAt` initializes when a thread is created.
- A turn start advances `recencyAt` monotonically.
- Commentary, agent output, tool results, token/accounting updates, turn
completion, archive, unarchive, resume, and generic metadata writes do
not advance it.
- `updatedAt` retains its existing behavior and continues to advance for
persisted thread mutations.
- Current servers populate `recencyAt`; the response field is optional
in generated TypeScript so clients connected to older servers can fall
back to `updatedAt`.
- Filesystem-only fallback uses existing updated/mtime ordering when
SQLite is unavailable.
## Persistence and compatibility
Migration 0038 adds second- and millisecond-precision recency columns,
backfills them from the existing updated timestamp, creates list
indexes, and includes an insert trigger so older binaries writing to a
migrated database seed recency without causing later mutations to
advance it.
Generic metadata upserts preserve existing recency values. Turn-start
updates use a dedicated monotonic touch, and process-local allocation
keeps millisecond cursor values unique. State DB list, search, read,
filtered-list repair, rollout fallback propagation, and app-server
conversions all carry the new field.
## API
`Thread` responses include:
```ts
recencyAt?: number
```
`thread/list` and `thread/search` accept:
```json
{ "sortKey": "recency_at" }
```
Generated TypeScript and JSON schemas are included.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-state` — 146 passed
- `just test -p codex-rollout` — 69 passed
- `just test -p codex-thread-store` — 81 passed
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol` — 231 passed
- Focused app-server list ordering, response mapping, archive/unarchive,
and resume lifecycle tests passed
- Scoped `just fix` for state, rollout, thread-store,
app-server-protocol, and app-server
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
- Independent correctness, simplicity, elegance, security, and
test-quality reviews; actionable ordering, lifecycle, query-projection,
and timestamp-uniqueness findings were addressed
## Why
Models sometimes need to pause briefly while waiting for external work,
but using a shell command for that delay ties the wait to a process and
does not naturally resume when new turn input arrives.
## What changed
- add a built-in `sleep` tool behind the under-development `sleep_tool`
feature
- accept a bounded `duration_ms` argument, matching the millisecond
convention used by unified exec
- end the sleep early when either steered user input or mailbox input
arrives
- include elapsed wall-clock time in completed and interrupted outputs
- emit a dedicated core `SleepItem` through `item/started` and
`item/completed`
- expose the sleep item as app-server v2 `ThreadItem::Sleep` and retain
it in reconstructed thread history
- regenerate the configuration schema for the new feature flag
- regenerate app-server JSON and TypeScript schema fixtures
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core sleep_tool_follows_feature_gate`
- `just test -p codex-core any_new_input_interrupts_sleep`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
sleep_emits_started_and_completed_items`
## Why
- `ThreadSource` currently defines a closed set of core-owned values
- Product features also create threads for background or scheduled work
- Adding every product-specific value to the core enum would require
repeated `codex-rs` protocol changes
- Feature-backed values let product callers provide precise attribution
while preserving the existing core classifications
## What Changed
- Adds `ThreadSource::Feature(String)` for app-owned thread source
values
- Represents all app-server v2 thread sources as scalar strings, so a
feature source is supplied as `"automation"`
- Persists and emits the feature's plain string label, so `"automation"`
produces `thread_source="automation"` in analytics
- Keeps `user`, `subagent`, and `memory_consolidation` as explicit
core-owned values and regenerates the app-server schemas and TypeScript
bindings
## Verification
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo check --workspace`
- `just test -p codex-protocol
feature_thread_source_serializes_as_its_app_owned_label`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol
thread_sources_round_trip_as_scalar_labels`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics
thread_initialized_event_serializes_expected_shape`
- `just fmt`
## Why
Multi-agent v2 identifies agents by canonical paths, but its tool
handlers still emitted the larger legacy collaboration begin/end events
built around nickname and role metadata. App-server, rollout-trace,
analytics, and TUI consumers therefore lacked one compact path-based
completion signal that behaved consistently across live events and
replay.
The TUI also needs a bounded `/agent` status surface for v2 agents. It
should use recent local activity for previews, refresh liveness without
loading full histories, and keep the legacy picker available when no
path-backed v2 agent is known.
## What changed
- Replace the v2 `spawn_agent`, `send_message`, `followup_task`, and
`interrupt_agent` legacy lifecycle emissions with a success-only
`SubAgentActivity` event. The event records the tool call ID, occurrence
time, affected thread, canonical agent path, and `started`,
`interacted`, or `interrupted` kind.
- Expose the activity as a completion-only app-server v2
`subAgentActivity` thread item in live notifications and reconstructed
history, regenerate the protocol schemas, and count it in sub-agent tool
analytics.
- Track canonical paths from live activity and loaded-thread metadata in
the TUI, and render the activity in live and replayed transcripts.
- Make `/agent` list running path-backed agents with summaries from
bounded local event buffers. Each summary is capped at 240 graphemes,
the scan is capped at six recent items, only the last three wrapped
lines are shown, and command output is omitted. Liveness falls back to
metadata-only `thread/read` when local turn state is unavailable.
- Persist the activity as a terminal rollout-trace runtime payload and
reduce it to the corresponding spawn, send, follow-up, or close
interaction edge. `interrupt_agent` is classified as a close-edge
operation.
- Preserve the legacy picker when no path-backed v2 agent is known.
## Compatibility
App-server v2 clients that consumed `collabAgentToolCall` begin/end
pairs for these tools must handle the new completion-only
`subAgentActivity` item. Legacy v1 collaboration behavior is unchanged.
## Screenshot
<img width="684" height="288" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-08 at 15 40 47"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/194b3cd0-619d-45fb-b587-cf3e2b1b8a1d"
/>
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-rollout-trace`
- Added focused coverage for activity analytics, terminal trace
serialization, spawn-edge reduction, `interrupt_agent` classification,
TUI status rendering without aggregated command output, and clearing
stale running state after a completed turn.
## 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
This PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/24161#discussion_r3325692763
revealed a subagent data modeling issue, where we overloaded
`forked_from_id` to also mean `parent_thread_id`. That's incorrect since
guardian and review subagents can be a subagent and NOT fork the main
thread's history.
The solution here is to explicitly store a new `parent_thread_id` on
`SessionMeta`, alongside `forked_from_id` which already exists. While
we're at it, also expose it in the app-server protocol on the `Thread`
object.
A thread->subagent relationship and a fork of thread history are
orthogonal concepts.
## What Changed
- Added top-level `parent_thread_id` persistence on `SessionMeta` and
runtime/session plumbing through `SessionConfiguredEvent`,
`CodexSpawnArgs`, `SessionConfiguration`, `ThreadConfigSnapshot`,
`TurnContext`, and `ModelClient`.
- Made turn metadata, request headers, analytics, and subagent-start
events read the separate runtime/top-level parent field instead of
deriving general parent lineage from `SessionSource` or
`forked_from_thread_id`.
- Passed parent lineage separately at delegated subagent, review,
guardian, agent-job, and multi-agent spawn construction sites;
copied-history fork lineage remains derived only from `InitialHistory`.
- Persisted and exposed parent lineage through rollout/thread-store
projections and app-server v2 `Thread.parentThreadId`.
- Updated app-server README text and regenerated app-server schema
fixtures for the additive `parentThreadId` response field.
## Summary
Adds an optional `clientId` field to app-server v2 `UserInput` and
carries it through the core `UserInput` model so clients can correlate
echoed user input items without relying on payload equality.
## Details
- Adds `client_id: Option<String>` to core `UserInput` variants.
- Exposes the v2 app-server field as `clientId` on the wire and in
generated TypeScript.
- Preserves the id when converting between app-server v2 and core
protocol types.
- Regenerates app-server schema fixtures.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Older persisted rollouts can contain `input_image.detail` values of
`auto` or `low` from before `ImageDetail` was narrowed to
`high`/`original`. Current deserialization rejects those values, which
can make resume skip later compacted checkpoints and reconstruct an
oversized raw suffix before the next compaction attempt.
Confirmed Sentry reports fixed by this compatibility path:
- [CODEX-1H3F](https://openai.sentry.io/issues/7500642496/)
- [CODEX-1H6N](https://openai.sentry.io/issues/7501025347/)
- [CODEX-1JDP](https://openai.sentry.io/issues/7504549065/)
- [CODEX-1HW6](https://openai.sentry.io/issues/7503407986/)
## Background
[openai/codex#20693](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20693) added
image-detail plumbing for app-server `UserInput` so input images could
explicitly request `detail: original`. The Slack discussion behind that
PR was about ScreenSpot / bridge evals where user input images were
resized, while tool output images already had MCP/code-mode ways to
request image detail.
In review, the intended new API surface was narrowed to `high` and
`original`: default to `high`, allow `original` when callers need
unchanged image handling, and avoid encouraging new `auto` or `low`
usage. That policy still makes sense for newly emitted values.
The missing compatibility piece is persisted history. Older rollouts can
already contain `auto` and `low`, and resume reconstructs typed history
by deserializing those rollout records. Rejecting old values at that
boundary causes valid compacted checkpoints to be skipped. This PR
restores `auto` and `low` as real variants so old records deserialize
and round-trip without being rewritten as `high`, while product paths
can continue to default to `high` and avoid emitting `auto` for new
behavior.
## What changed
- Restored `ImageDetail::Auto` and `ImageDetail::Low` as first-class
protocol values.
- Preserved `auto`/`low` through rollout deserialization, MCP image
metadata, code-mode image output, and schema/type generation.
- Kept local image byte handling conservative: only `original` switches
to original-resolution loading; `auto`/`low`/`high` continue through the
resize-to-fit path while retaining their detail value.
- Added regression coverage for enum round-tripping and code-mode `low`
detail handling.
## Testing
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-tools`
- `just test -p codex-code-mode`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-core
suite::rmcp_client::stdio_image_responses_preserve_original_detail_metadata`
- `just test -p codex-core
suite::code_mode::code_mode_can_use_mcp_image_result_with_image_helper`
- Loaded broken rollouts on local fixed builds, and started/completed
new turns.
I also attempted `just test -p codex-core`; the local broad run did not
finish green: 2559 tests run, 2467 passed, 55 flaky, 91 failed, 1 timed
out. The failures were broad timeout/deadline failures across unrelated
areas; targeted changed-path core tests above passed.
Add owning plugin id to MCP tool call items so we can better filter them
at plugin level.
## Summary
- add optional `plugin_id` to MCP tool-call items and legacy begin/end
events
- propagate plugin metadata into emitted core items and app-server v2
`ThreadItem::McpToolCall`
- preserve plugin ids through app-server replay/redaction paths and
regenerate v2 schema fixtures
## Testing
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core mcp_tool_call_item_includes_plugin_id --lib`
- `cargo check -p codex-tui --tests`
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server --tests`
- `git diff --check`
## Notes
- `just fix -p codex-core` completed with two non-fatal
`too_many_arguments` warnings on the touched MCP notification helpers.
- A broader `cargo test -p codex-core` run passed core unit tests, then
hit shell/sandbox/snapshot failures in the integration target.
- A broader app-server downstream run hit the existing
`in_process::tests::in_process_start_clamps_zero_channel_capacity` stack
overflow; `cargo test -p codex-exec` also hit the existing sandbox
expectation mismatch in
`thread_lifecycle_params_include_legacy_sandbox_when_no_active_profile`.
## Summary
- Add optional image detail to user image inputs across core, app-server
v2, thread history/event mapping, and the generated app-server
schemas/types.
- Preserve requested detail when serializing Responses image inputs:
omitted detail stays on the existing `high` default, while explicit
`original` keeps local images on the original-resolution path.
- Support `high`/`original` consistently for tool image outputs,
including MCP `codex/imageDetail`, code-mode image helpers, and
`view_image`.
## Why
`session_id` and `thread_id` are separate identities after #20437, but
app-server only surfaced `sessionId` on the `thread/start`,
`thread/resume`, and `thread/fork` response envelopes. Other
thread-bearing surfaces such as `thread/list`, `thread/read`,
`thread/started`, `thread/rollback`, `thread/metadata/update`, and
`thread/unarchive` either lacked the grouping key or forced clients to
special-case those three responses.
Making `sessionId` part of the reusable `Thread` payload gives every v2
API surface one place to expose session-tree identity.
## Mental model
1. thread.sessionId lives on `Thread`
2. It is a view/runtime identity for the current live session tree, not
durable stored lineage metadata
3. When app-server has a live loaded thread, it copies the real value
from core’s session_configured.session_id
4. When it only has stored/unloaded data, it falls back to
thread.sessionId = thread.id
## What changed
- Added `sessionId` to the v2
[`Thread`](8fc9e9b4cf/codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/thread_data.rs (L105-L109)).
- Removed the duplicate top-level `sessionId` fields from
`thread/start`, `thread/resume`, and `thread/fork`; clients should now
read `response.thread.sessionId`.
- Populated `thread.sessionId` when building live thread responses,
replaying loaded threads, and returning stored-thread summaries so the
field is present across start, resume, fork, list, read, rollback,
metadata-update, unarchive, and `thread/started` paths. See
[`load_thread_from_resume_source_or_send_internal`](8fc9e9b4cf/codex-rs/app-server/src/request_processors/thread_processor.rs (L2824-L2918))
and
[`thread_from_stored_thread`](8fc9e9b4cf/codex-rs/app-server/src/request_processors/thread_processor.rs (L3671-L3719)).
- Preserved the stored-thread fallback: if a thread has not been loaded
into a live session tree yet, `thread.sessionId` falls back to
`thread.id`; once the thread is live again, the field reports the active
session tree root.
- Regenerated the JSON/TypeScript schemas and updated the app-server
README examples to show
[`thread.sessionId`](8fc9e9b4cf/codex-rs/app-server/README.md (L306-L310))
on the thread object.
## Summary
- make `thread_source` an explicit optional thread-level field on
`thread/start`, `thread/fork`, and returned thread payloads
- persist `thread_source` in rollout/session metadata so resumed live
threads retain the original value
- replace the old best-effort `session_source` -> `thread_source`
mapping with an explicit caller-supplied analytics classification
## Why
Before this change, analytics `thread_source` was populated by a
best-effort mapping from `session_source`. `session_source` describes
the runtime/client surface, not the actual thread-level origin, so that
projection was not accurate enough to distinguish cases such as `user`,
`subagent`, `memory_consolidation`, and future thread origins reliably.
Making `thread_source` explicit keeps one thread-level analytics field
while letting callers provide the real classification directly instead
of recovering it indirectly from `session_source`.
## Impact
For new analytics events, `thread_source` now reflects the explicit
thread-level classification supplied by the caller rather than an
inferred value derived from `session_source`. Existing protocol fields
remain optional; callers that omit `threadSource` now produce `null`
instead of a best-effort inferred value.
## Validation
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics -p codex-core -p
codex-app-server-protocol --no-run`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
generated_ts_optional_nullable_fields_only_in_params`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics
thread_initialized_event_serializes_expected_shape`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
resume_stopped_thread_from_rollout_preserves_thread_source`
