## What changed
Capture the ID from `response.created` and pass it as `parent_response_id` in Guardian review and classifier request metadata. Clear the current response ID before sampling retries so tool reviews cannot inherit a failed response's ID.
Request Guardian credits with `guardian_credits_requested` on eligible parent requests. Remove the ticket protocol, transport attachment, and ticket-specific body redaction. Keep ordinary app-server client `parent_response_id` values inside `x-codex-turn-metadata` rather than promoting them to Guardian request metadata.
## Testing
Update coverage for HTTP fallback, WebSocket review reuse, missing response IDs, classifier transport retries, and code-mode yield/resume attribution. Extend app-server tests to verify client metadata placement over HTTP and WebSocket.
GitOrigin-RevId: c1665e56382ecec8d260fc2ca0ecd5e20b0b2391
## What changed
- Request and parse server-issued Guardian tickets for eligible Codex backend responses.
- Scope each ticket to the response that produced a Guardian review or classifier request, including HTTP and WebSocket retries, without adding it to model-visible or persisted context.
- Validate ticket shape, reserve its metadata keys, redact it from debug and request-body logging, and attach it only at the Guardian transport boundary.
## Testing
- Cover ticket parsing, endpoint and authentication routing, retry scoping, classifier retries, and redaction for compressed and uncompressed requests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6219dd15c9f19ed3387de516aac1b8e7c9cdb0e3
## Why
Audio models cannot reliably encode tool-generated clips shorter than 25 ms.
## What changed
- Measure the available audio frames in base64-encoded PCM and IEEE float WAV outputs.
- Replace clips under 25 ms with explanatory text while preserving surrounding Code Mode output.
- Leave clips at or above the threshold and unrecognized audio formats unchanged.
## Testing
- Cover the duration boundary across multiple sample rates and all supported `audio()` input forms.
- Verify bounded and truncated WAV chunks, output after `yield_control()`, and end-to-end mixed text and audio output.
GitOrigin-RevId: 342b4bdbc65db4238580f9cdc372763c2576eca5
## What changed
- Default `tools.update_plan.enabled` to `false`; users can explicitly enable it to expose `update_plan`.
- Remove bundled `update_plan` guidance from model, collaboration-mode, multi-agent, compaction, prewarm, and goal-continuation prompts when the tool is disabled.
- Preserve custom base instructions, model catalog instructions, collaboration policies, and user goal text even when they mention planning or `update_plan`.
## Testing
- Cover default and explicitly enabled tool registration, prompt consistency across request paths, and preservation of custom instructions.
GitOrigin-RevId: a53964e6e72f98e2557dd3090fdb7caccb956527
## Why
Environment-backed stdio MCP servers have no host-local working-directory
fallback, so their test fixtures must provide a workspace explicitly.
## What changed
- Set the fixture workspace as `cwd` for environment-backed MCP servers across
the core integration tests.
- Reuse the same test environment when configuring MCP servers and building
fixtures that need an explicit working directory.
GitOrigin-RevId: e38f2029e01fc1377cdc34d01a392ad310419766
## What changed
- Cover the default, explicitly enabled, and explicitly disabled states of
`tools.update_plan.enabled`.
- Verify prompt tool lists remain consistent across requests, including when
custom base and developer instructions are configured.
- Explicitly enable `update_plan` in existing fixtures that depend on the tool.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3be279cb5195dfc5892c2c8ff6a1461fac879309
## Why
Long-lived Guardian sessions can exhaust the review model's context window. After
a rollover, a transcript delta is insufficient because the new window no longer
contains the original transcript or persistent review instructions.
## What changed
- Compact an exhausted Guardian session before submitting the next review while
respecting the review model's token-budget configuration.
- Detect whether the full transcript remains in the reviewer history. If it does
not, reset transcript and Node REPL evidence cursors so the next review replays
the complete transcript and associated image evidence.
- Restore the follow-up reminder and Node REPL policy when compaction removes
them.
## Testing
- Cover rollover both when the reviewer window is already exhausted and when a
follow-up reminder crosses the limit.
- Verify that multimodal reviews preserve the fallback buffer and replay browser
evidence after rollover.
GitOrigin-RevId: f2a02a84e1f25d15c6e2b8eddb93e2d1805449f5
## Why
Executed-tool metadata for a Code Mode cell can span its `exec` and `wait`
outputs. Consumers need to know whether that metadata contains the cell's full
tool call inventory or only a partial record.
## What changed
- Associate recorded tool calls with the originating Code Mode cell across
`exec` and `wait` outputs.
- Add a host-owned `tool_calls_complete` marker when recording finishes without
dropped or truncated calls. The marker describes inventory completeness, not
tool success.
- Preserve the cell metadata through replay and pruning, and clear the
completeness marker when prompt budgeting makes the record incomplete.
## Testing
Add coverage for multi-wait cells, retries, interruptions, recording limits,
argument truncation, prompt budgeting, and rejection of input-forged metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: 377014edec06aab42aadab78b8b5dccc0a1c83ba
## What changed
- Add callback lifetimes to extension `ToolCall`, `ToolEnvironment`, turn-input context, and skill-read request types.
- Require extension tool executors to handle calls for any invocation lifetime and tie their returned futures to that lifetime.
- Update built-in extensions, adapters, and tests to use the lifetime-scoped APIs without retaining host-owned environment capabilities.
GitOrigin-RevId: aca9ce3a1b6870df550bc84ec9308cc65533f161
## What changed
- Add the originating Responses item ID to MCP tool request metadata as
`_meta.itemId`.
- Preserve the initiating `exec` item ID across code-mode cells so nested MCP
calls carry the same origin.
## Testing
- Cover metadata generation for direct and code-mode MCP tool calls.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1161cac64f1cc3a6d4dac4368e63804bd9d2c417
## What changed
- Recognize `cua_repl` alongside `node_repl` when collecting Guardian review evidence, applying computer-use policy, and capturing transcript images.
- Render `cua_repl.js` results with the compact REPL history and transcript views.
- Preserve failed MCP call status and result content when replaying app-server history.
## Testing
- Cover both REPL server names across Guardian policy, evidence, image capture, history rendering, and failed-call replay tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8c13a721f718add403b07e727c1634b59203c51a
## What changed
- Cover object serialization through the `text()` helper directly in the code
mode runtime suite.
- Remove redundant core integration coverage for serialized text and rejected
image outputs.
GitOrigin-RevId: f465b8361e9d725a7246994d9c41e9d01c969011
## What changed
- Remove the legacy `shell_command` handler and runtime, leaving `exec_command`
and `write_stdin` as the shell execution tools.
- Treat legacy `shell_command` model metadata as `unified_exec`, and normalize
legacy user opt-outs so they do not disable command execution. Managed feature
requirements and `shell_tool` can still disable it.
- Preserve shell approvals, sandboxing, zsh-fork support, and output truncation
through the unified execution path.
## Testing
- Cover legacy configuration and model-metadata compatibility.
- Exercise unified shell execution, approvals, truncation, and `apply_patch`
serialization across the app-server and core test suites.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5c2fd6164fc3519cdae4944cb9db276b8467311c
## What changed
Replace the core integration test for allowed `globalThis` properties with an
in-process code-mode runtime test. The test continues to fail when the runtime
exposes a global outside the allowlist without requiring the core network test
harness.
GitOrigin-RevId: f33846ae2bb35e6779b5bec0a3f0ba5729eb707d
## What changed
- Add a focused Code Mode integration test with Guardian transcript images enabled and enhanced Node REPL transcripts disabled.
- Verify that the Guardian request and parent request omit both the screenshot and its surrounding transcript markers.
- Remove this configuration from the broader parameterized transcript-evidence test.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1309de12337a28a7e1d49eca509ba73207d4d9be
## What changed
Move circular-value coverage for the `text()` helper from the core integration
suite to the in-process code mode runtime tests. Verify that stringification
returns no content and surfaces the V8 circular-structure error without needing
a mock server or network access.
GitOrigin-RevId: d506591af5ae8ce0a8c7305d633a7b0f2e458335
## What changed
- Keep validating normalized dynamic tool visibility for both Responses and Responses Lite.
- Exercise the normalized dynamic tool call and its returned metadata only for Responses Lite.
- Let the standard Responses case complete in a single mocked response without expecting a dynamic tool request.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7793e6f6df07fc58c2976a773a1198496af08dfd
## What changed
Use a 2049-by-32 image in the Guardian transcript evidence test and verify that
it is resized to 2048-by-32 while preserving its aspect ratio.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4b1b404c0fc76c46739379ef154e629bf8d669f3
## Why
`node_repl` screenshots are nested tool results and do not appear in the parent
conversation history, so Guardian v2 transcript image collection could miss
them.
## What changed
- Allow Guardian v2 to enable bounded, thread-scoped `node_repl` image capture
when transcript images are configured.
- Add retained `node_repl` screenshots to review requests when transcript
sources include tool outputs, while deduplicating images and keeping them out
of the parent turn input.
## Testing
- Add an integration test covering screenshot capture without the synchronous
Guardian transcript feature flags and verifying that screenshots stay out of
the parent request.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5f70c5f2e80389aa8b2a286c3b7f9b1104865486
## Why
Code Mode rendered document-local `$ref` values as `unknown`, hiding referenced
input and structured-output shapes from generated TypeScript declarations.
## What changed
- Resolve fragment-only JSON Pointer references against the root schema,
including escaped and percent-encoded pointer segments.
- Preserve `$ref` siblings as intersections and parenthesize unions used in
`allOf` intersections.
- Bound recursive and repeated expansion, intermediate rendering work, and
final output size, falling back to `unknown` when a limit is reached or a
reference cannot be resolved safely.
## Testing
Add unit coverage for recursive, escaped, nested-resource, dangling, and
oversized references, plus integration coverage for generated Code Mode tool
descriptions and MCP structured output types.
GitOrigin-RevId: 95c6aa32e25325b5be9359dfac3b3328e5e7a499
## What changed
- Enable the stable `unified_exec` feature by default on every platform.
- Update cross-platform integration test expectations so `exec_command` and
`write_stdin` are exposed on Windows instead of `shell_command`.
GitOrigin-RevId: e5c864bacbde7eab109e7a0e399b8f7b843b384c
## What changed
- Preserve valid image content from completed `node_repl` Code Mode responses alongside text evidence for Guardian reviews.
- Enable multimodal evidence for models that require automatic `node_repl` review, or when both `guardian_enhanced_node_repl_transcripts` and `guardian_node_repl_transcript_images` are enabled.
- Bound retained and rendered evidence, deduplicate images already present in review history, and fall back to text-only evidence when the reviewer lacks image support or prompt capacity.
- Keep review evidence out of the parent turn input.
## Testing
- Cover feature gating, mixed text and image ordering, truncation and eviction, unsupported reviewers, prompt pressure, image detail normalization, and reused review sessions.
GitOrigin-RevId: a3e482402f7b3484401b231dadc662e6e3504fdf
## What changed
- Capture accepted, successful `node_repl` results from Code Mode and include them as bounded, untrusted evidence in Guardian review prompts.
- Enable the enhanced transcript through `guardian_enhanced_node_repl_transcripts` or when the selected model requires automatic Node REPL review.
- Keep this evidence out of the parent model history, exclude encrypted and failed results, and avoid resending admitted evidence when a Guardian session is reused.
- Clear retained evidence and invalidate review sessions when a thread is rolled back.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for evidence ordering, escaping, truncation, and empty responses.
- Add an integration test covering feature-disabled, feature-enabled, and model-required behavior, including filtering and review-session reuse.
GitOrigin-RevId: edc3dca5d5b88d472a492f35531ec46889a89d72
## What changed
- Add `TurnInputRequest` and typed submission results for atomically starting a turn, steering the active turn, or declining input with a specific reason.
- Expose `start_or_steer_turn`, `start_turn_if_idle`, and `steer_turn` on `CodexThread`, and migrate Core consumers to these APIs.
- Make app-server `turn/start` steer an active regular turn and return that turn's ID. Reject incompatible output schemas and non-steerable turns without applying settings or enqueueing input.
## Testing
- Cover concurrent start-or-steer submissions, accepted and rejected settings updates, output-schema compatibility, idle-start rejection, and app-server steering.
GitOrigin-RevId: dd9b5528d76ec650c019e97af420bc13190ea86a
## What changed
- Reject invalid or unsupported image data before producing tool output, so
non-image file contents are not exposed through code mode.
- Preserve valid image bytes and metadata while leaving image preparation and
resizing to the history insertion path.
## Testing
- Cover invalid images in both code mode and standard `view_image` calls.
- Verify that code mode preserves PNG bytes, dimensions, EXIF orientation, and
metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: 07343ed10b781d0ce0ffb5b24432658be4c046e3
## What changed
- Stop adding `code_mode_tool_names` to Responses Lite turn metadata.
- Keep `code_mode_tool_names` reserved so client metadata cannot reintroduce the removed, unbounded inventory.
- Use the opt-in `tool_namespaces_info` metadata, including each function's `code_mode_name`, when authoritative tool details are requested.
## Testing
- Update Responses Lite and code-mode tests to verify the opt-in namespace metadata and normalized code-mode names.
GitOrigin-RevId: cbfb9af984de71c7cc175d0cd47ae799a5275309
## Why
Interrupting a turn should also stop code-mode work that the turn left running.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `code_mode_interrupt` feature.
- When an interrupted turn has the feature enabled, terminate all active code-mode cells and propagate cancellation through nested tool calls.
- Keep the reusable code-mode session alive so its stored state remains available to later turns.
## Testing
Add an integration test that interrupts a long-running nested tool, verifies that active and background cells are removed, and confirms that session state is preserved.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2b8634776a89b636318a39b9e9ad2eefc07cead8
## Why
MCP tool handlers and their Code Mode definitions are immutable for the lifetime
of a stable MCP binding, so rebuilding them for every sampling step repeats schema
construction unnecessarily.
## What changed
- Cache MCP handlers per session and reuse them while the same binding remains
active, invalidating the cache when the binding changes.
- Lazily cache schema-free Code Mode definitions on MCP handlers while continuing
to rebuild definitions for step-local tools whose specifications may change.
- Reapply current app enablement, tool policy, exposure, and plugin schema budgets
whenever cached handlers are registered for a step.
## Testing
- Cover handler and Code Mode definition reuse, binding invalidation, changing app
policy, stable continuation schemas, and step-local custom tool updates.
GitOrigin-RevId: 69c5011fb97c08580ac476e7fb2286b1e92e0359
## What changed
- Add the gated `unified_image_budget` feature for models that support original image detail or Responses Lite.
- Apply one 6,000-pixel, 10,000-patch preprocessing limit regardless of legacy image detail hints.
- Hide detail controls from `view_image` and code mode while continuing to accept existing hints for compatibility.
- Preserve detail-based resizing and tool contracts for unsupported models.
## Testing
- Cover unified resizing limits, Responses Lite, legacy detail hints, unsupported models, and `view_image` integration in code mode.
GitOrigin-RevId: cb07bff1669a96599fdfd076b3d9ec80f2b6fff7
## What changed
- Group top-level function and custom tool definitions into a single `functions` namespace for Responses Lite providers that support namespaced tools.
- Normalize missing, empty, and explicit `functions` namespaces to the same tool identity across registration, routing, lifecycle hooks, configuration, and tool search.
- Keep default tool names unprefixed in code mode, display output, and dispatch traces while preserving explicit non-default namespaces.
## Testing
- Add coverage for Responses Lite serialization, tool search results, namespace normalization and collision handling, routing, lifecycle events, and code-mode namespace policies.
GitOrigin-RevId: d48414005b5d22d39b11a198e19c47814d3a19f2
## What changed
- Allow namespace tool specs to contain custom freeform tools alongside function tools.
- Include namespaced custom tools in deferred tool search and expose them to code mode with names such as `editor__apply_patch`.
- Route custom payloads to matching extension tools while preserving function-only payload validation.
## Testing
- Add serialization, tool search, code-mode definition, and end-to-end dispatch coverage for namespaced custom tools.
GitOrigin-RevId: be64d35f6ae54685c5a9fcf45a732320742ea7e5
## Why
Code-mode `wait` and `terminate` requests can remain pending when the host
transport stalls.
## What changed
- Add a 60-second transport allowance to the runtime timeout for `wait`, and
apply the same transport deadline to `terminate`.
- Return a model-visible timeout error and invalidate the connection when the
deadline expires, so the next execution reconnects to the host.
## Testing
- Cover queued `wait` and `terminate` requests that exceed their deadlines.
- Verify that a timed-out `wait` reports the error and reconnects on the next
code-mode execution.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5d772e5a6f3793aa8865a1160639b851fd4824fb
## Why
MCP tools can be exposed directly, discovered through tool search, or called
from Code Mode. Servers need to be able to opt out of any of these surfaces
without disabling their tools everywhere.
## What changed
- Add `omit_tools_from` to MCP server configuration, accepting any combination
of `direct`, `deferred`, and `code_mode`.
- Apply the exclusions independently when building direct, deferred, and Code
Mode tool surfaces while keeping omitted tools registered for permitted uses.
- Remove client-private `_meta` fields from MCP results returned to Code Mode.
- Include the new setting in the configuration schema and MCP config
serialization.
## Testing
- Cover every exposure combination across Code Mode, Code-Mode-only sessions,
tool search, direct-only namespaces, and prefixed and unprefixed MCP names.
- Verify direct and nested execution paths, parallel-call support, config
round-tripping, and `_meta` filtering.
GitOrigin-RevId: 12dfcb78bb5c5ecf4d70f38a8b5022792463a27f
## What changed
- Move the V8 implementation into a dedicated `codex-code-mode-runtime` crate used by `codex-code-mode-host`, removing the embedded runtime fallback from the Codex process.
- Resolve the host executable from the active installation layout and check its availability before selecting tools.
- Fall back to direct tools with a one-time warning when optional code mode is unavailable. Keep `code_mode_only` and `disable_in_process_fallback` configurations fail-closed.
## Testing
- Cover host discovery for standalone and package layouts, including missing hosts and symlinks.
- Verify direct-tool fallback, one-time warnings, and fail-closed code-mode-only behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5aa3c6f1db148b2231fc24089a2ee0e2b00dbddb
## What changed
- Add the opt-in `executed_tool_call_metadata` feature to record model-attempted direct and code-mode tool calls.
- Attach recorded names and arguments to the matching tool output in the next Responses request, preserving the metadata across sampling retries.
- Bound pending calls and argument sizes, and emit truncation metadata when limits are exceeded.
## Testing
- Cover disabled-by-default behavior, namespaced and nested calls, blocked or failed attempts, retry handling, and recorder limits.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5ce917b73e797b0f6904d46477b9d2cf8ea71bf2
## What changed
Update the code mode yield and termination integration test to generate a
bounded output backlog, then wait on a file-backed gate until the session is
terminated. Remove the timeout that previously guarded submission of the
infinite-loop workload.
GitOrigin-RevId: dd48307f18ab12bfbf02dc26b0f3715f073402a7
## What changed
- Track the first registered tool for each normalized code-mode identifier and use that tool consistently for dispatch metadata and model-facing code-mode declarations.
- Skip duplicate normalized names when building the code-mode executor while preserving shadowed tools in the registry and direct tool exposure where applicable.
- Cover collisions across dynamic and namespaced tools, direct and deferred exposure, code-mode-only operation, and Responses Lite metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: a4acb57ce44e7de1398981b22af4b87e2a35870f
## Why
When the code mode host feature was disabled, thread startup always selected the in-process provider, even when `disable_in_process_fallback` was set.
## What changed
- Select a disabled provider when both the process host and in-process fallback are disabled.
- Return a clear tool error instead of running code mode in process for that configuration.
## Testing
Added an integration test covering code mode with the process host feature and in-process fallback both disabled.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3ed80afc23e0a5518c0133fe337a37b1fa545ead
## What changed
- Allow `features.code_mode_host` to use a configuration table with
`disable_in_process_fallback`. When enabled, failure to start the standalone
host is returned as tool output instead of falling back to embedded V8.
- Preserve the existing fallback behavior by default and continue accepting the
boolean feature toggle.
- Limit displayed host paths in spawn errors to 512 bytes while retaining the
executable-bearing suffix and valid UTF-8 boundaries.
## Testing
- Cover boolean and table-based feature configuration, fallback-disabled host
failures, and bounded ASCII and UTF-8 error paths.
GitOrigin-RevId: ab3d014e79054c2f8beef9a658915f01cca197b2
## What changed
- Add `StartThreadOptions::new` to provide the standard configuration for a new thread.
- Make `ThreadManager::start_thread` the single thread-start entry point and migrate callers from the previous convenience methods.
- Derive default environment selections when `environments` is `None`, while preserving explicit selections, including an empty list.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8977dc11aed54c5e1215a81eaed2b2cf5fc6087a
## What changed
- Accept image output from `image()` and `generatedImage()` only when its URL
uses the `data:` scheme.
- Preserve the dedicated error for remote HTTP URLs and report other malformed
or unsupported image URLs as invalid image output.
## Testing
- Add service-level coverage for rejecting invalid output from both image
helpers.
- Add an end-to-end code-mode test that verifies the tool call fails instead of
returning an invalid image item.
GitOrigin-RevId: beaf8c8830574150e8166b6ff5daf7f6dc4dc0a1
## What changed
- Allow parallel `write_stdin` tool calls to interact with independent terminal sessions.
- Serialize reads and writes within each session so its output buffer and process lifecycle remain consistent.
- Prevent active sessions from being pruned while a `write_stdin` interaction is in progress.
## Testing
- Added unified exec and code mode coverage that uses two terminal sessions concurrently and verifies output from both.
GitOrigin-RevId: 618f5503f4c4670421f680c0f0c27414bc6b2ddd
## Why
Not every Codex distribution currently includes the
`codex-code-mode-host` companion binary. Enabling the process-host
feature should not make code mode unavailable on those surfaces while
packaging support is being completed.
## What changed
- Fall back to an in-process code-mode session only when spawning the
companion binary returns `io::ErrorKind::NotFound`.
- Keep permission, handshake, timeout, and other host failures visible
instead of silently falling back.
- Store the provider's owned-process/in-process choice as one
enum-backed state so later sessions reuse the fallback decision.
- Preserve the underlying spawn `io::Error` while retaining the host
path in the displayed error.
- Update provider, `CodeModeService`, and end-to-end coverage to verify
successful fallback execution.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-code-mode`
- `just test -p codex-core missing_process_host`
## Why
When MCP tools are deferred behind `tool_search`, Code mode keeps them
callable but omits their individual declarations from the initial `exec`
description. The shared MCP `CallToolResult` types were derived only
from directly rendered tools, so deferring every MCP tool also removed
the common response contract that models need to interpret MCP results.
This restores that contract without undoing the context savings from
deferred tool definitions. This is a follow-up to #29486.
## What changed
- Track deferred Code-mode tool definitions separately from directly
rendered definitions.
- Render the shared MCP type preamble when either direct or deferred MCP
tools are available.
- Keep deferred tool declarations out of the initial prompt.
- Add unit and integration coverage for deferred MCP tools.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-code-mode-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-core
code_mode_only_guides_all_tools_search_and_calls_deferred_app_tools`
## Summary
- Promote code_mode_host to stable and enable it by default.
- Preserve features.code_mode_host = false as an opt-out to the
in-process runtime.
- Run core code-mode tests through the standalone host.
- Keep explicit coverage for missing-host failures.
