## Why
MCP servers can expose new tools during discovery. Refreshing the catalog after a tool-list notification lets Codex discover and call those tools in the same turn.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `mcp_tool_list_changed` feature for ordinary MCP servers.
- Track notifications in transport order and refresh catalogs before subsequent discovery or tool binding. Coalesce concurrent refreshes and retry listings invalidated by notifications, including during pagination.
- Retain the previous catalog on refresh failure, apply a retry cooldown, and invalidate affected startup caches. Allow notification refreshes to proceed while admitted calls finish.
## Testing
Add coverage for same-turn discovery and invocation in direct and Code Mode, notifications during startup and pagination, disabled behavior, cache invalidation, and concurrent refreshes with timeout recovery.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9afee8deba00dd9851b5f32625f61f96965aa00c
## What changed
- Remove feature-flag checks from managed worktree creation and repository-aware session discovery, while retaining local workspace and trust checks.
- Make TUI voice availability follow platform support instead of `features.realtime_conversation`.
- Ignore `features.worktrees` and `features.realtime_conversation` configuration overrides, warn when managed requirements reference them, and hide both flags from `/experimental`, including catalogs from older servers.
## Testing
Add coverage for ignored configuration overrides and managed requirements, and update session filtering, worktree grouping, and experimental feature discovery tests for the retired flags.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1d64e890e6e2f8a78926a9ea163126c0890b068e
## Why
Environment tool availability and selectors should remain stable as selected environments become ready.
## What changed
- Keep configured environment tools advertised even when no execution environment is ready, and derive `environment_id` selectors from all selected environments.
- Return guidance to wait when an environment is unavailable, while preserving errors for unknown environment IDs. Require a usable primary environment for `write_stdin`.
- Always include `shell` and `login` in the `exec_command` schema and mark `stable_environment_tools` as removed.
## Testing
Update integration tests to expect environment tools with empty or starting environments, and remove explicit feature opt-ins from affected scenarios.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1590c1b5be16a39e4a370663c552b881602545b5
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `executor_capability_discovery_v2` feature to acquire `capabilities/discoverV2` inventories from supporting remote executors using each selected environment's working directory and sandbox.
- Share snapshots with MCP and world-state contributors and skill providers without activating discovered plugins or publishing discovered skills to the model.
- Cache inventories by environment instance, executor session, working directory, and sandbox. Coalesce concurrent requests, refresh the cache at turn start, retry transient failures, and refresh MCP projections after recovery.
- Resolve the system skills root in the executor and pass it explicitly to capability location discovery.
## Testing
Add coverage for feature gating, unsupported executors, inert inventories, cache reuse and eviction, turn refreshes, failure recovery, executor replacement, and system skill locations.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1bdca28fa7f17622b27e2713ab3dcc0c13426889
## What changed
Use `conversation` when neither a local `async_classifier_mode` override nor a model default specifies a mode. Keep `snapshot` available as an explicit override and update the configuration documentation and schema to describe the new fallback.
## Testing
Expand configuration tests to cover all local override and model default combinations. Update app-server approval tests to exercise conversation mode without an explicit override, and explicitly select snapshot mode in tests that depend on it.
GitOrigin-RevId: a62479a3f6454bf28d589373a236d8b0ab5023b9
## What changed
- Default `features.api_key_cyber_access_programs` to `true` and allow `codex exec` to select Daybreak with an OpenAI API key. Select the advertised standard program when `daybreak=false`, while respecting explicit feature opt-outs.
- Resolve API-key eligibility for TUI background turns from the target thread's feature settings, including project opt-outs. Omit access-program overrides when the server cannot report those settings.
- Preserve automatic server treatment for unlisted models and missing or empty Cyber program metadata in exec and TUI. Continue rejecting Daybreak when a nonempty program list does not offer it.
## Testing
Update regression coverage for API-key Daybreak selection, the off override, explicit opt-outs, resumed sessions, target-thread settings, and missing model metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: f3cf7bd95a2754d4b4281bc70b18c7da4b177552
## What changed
- Mark `cli_daybreak` as stable and enable it by default.
- Apply Daybreak to background turns only for eligible OpenAI accounts, allowing API-key accounts when `api_key_cyber_access_programs` is enabled. Preserve saved settings for ineligible accounts and report account lookup failures when Daybreak is enabled for the OpenAI provider.
- Skip inheriting Daybreak configuration when the app server does not support reading effective configuration.
## Testing
Expand dynamic-tool request tests to cover the feature toggle, ChatGPT and API-key authentication, API-key program eligibility, and unsupported configuration reads.
GitOrigin-RevId: 55a57315c9f527f977dd8305ea62d4096ed7dae9
## What changed
Add `features.multi_agent_v2.disable_native_tools` to hide native multi-agent tools while keeping the V2 runtime and its instructions enabled for host-provided tools. The option defaults to `false`, preserving existing tool exposure.
## Testing
Extend configuration parsing tests for the new option and parameterize the multi-agent catalog scenario to cover both settings. Add a snapshot showing native tools are absent while the V2 runtime and instructions remain enabled.
GitOrigin-RevId: 21a53584d2395bb678813c876a8b7927bea61c90
## What changed
Register the disabled-by-default `async_compaction` feature and accept either a boolean or a `[features.async_compaction]` table. Add `model_async_compact_threshold_percent` with a default of 65 and a valid range of 1–100, validated even when the feature is disabled. Setting a threshold alone does not enable the feature.
Expose the threshold in the runtime configuration and update the JSON schema for both configuration forms.
## Testing
Add configuration loader tests covering boolean and table forms, default and custom thresholds, explicit enablement, and rejection of out-of-range values.
GitOrigin-RevId: cf33de76878e7044bc8cf5d146375a07ea9eb078
## Why
Client-supplied tool outputs can carry task instructions. Even when marked with `retain: true`, these instructions could be trimmed before compaction and disappear from the compacted history.
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `retain_client_tool_outputs` feature to honor retention for explicitly marked, named `function_call_output` items without a `call_id`.
- Preserve eligible outputs in remote compaction v2 and when starting a new context window, keeping their original role.
- Stop emergency tool-output trimming at a retained output.
- Share the existing 64,000-token retention budget, keeping outputs whole and dropping an oversized output and older items rather than partially truncating it.
- Place initial context before retained standalone outputs and account for their images in retained-image counts.
## Testing
Add a scenario covering enabled and disabled retention, emergency trimming, oversized-output handling, and preservation of the latest instruction after compaction and cold resume. Verify that retention annotations stay out of model requests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 449179670e4d2be2623928700738758e43b5dc1a
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `output_token_replay` feature to request `output.encrypted_content` from OpenAI providers.
- Preserve encrypted message and tool-call output, message and function-call status, and output-text `annotations` and `logprobs` through history and replay. Update the generated protocol schemas and SDK types.
- Strip output ciphertext from requests to other providers while retaining it in stored history, including after replay is disabled. Remove encrypted content from memory extraction inputs.
## Testing
Add integration coverage for the feature/provider combinations, metadata replay across follow-up requests, and history preservation when resuming with replay disabled.
GitOrigin-RevId: 77729a021b6771933402aebe74ece8eb39c057e2
## What changed
- Add `grpc+stdio://` as a host transport and the disabled-by-default `code_mode_host_grpc` feature flag to select it.
- Share a lazy HTTP/2 channel and host process across code-mode sessions while keeping session state isolated.
- Use HTTP/2 keepalives to detect unresponsive hosts, kill and reap disconnected children, and spawn a fresh host on reconnect. Exit the host when its stdio connection closes.
## Testing
Add coverage for shared-host session isolation, host exit on stdin EOF, and recovery after an unresponsive host is reaped. Exercise nested tool calls with both legacy stdio and gRPC stdio, asserting that the feature flag selects the expected transport.
GitOrigin-RevId: 31389d8540de236b8e0571d3c24e29e117b75c4a
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `subagent_default_context_limits` feature and expose it in the configuration schema. When enabled, shared configuration for spawning and resuming subagents clears inherited `model_context_window` and `model_auto_compact_token_limit` overrides so subagents use their model's default context window and auto-compaction threshold.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5168ae2b4fbe72c533d8c6152922a8bceb2c5cbd
## What changed
Add `preserve_fork_prefix` to the multi-agent v2 configuration, defaulting to `false`. When enabled, full forks retain the parent's model-visible history, including commentary and tool records, and append the child's instructions. Legacy compaction without a reusable context baseline still rebuilds the child context.
Mark copied history as inherited, complete unfinished tool calls in the fork snapshot, and exclude inherited manual approvals from authorization review while retaining them in model context.
## Testing
Add coverage for preserved request prefixes, child instructions, legacy and paginated histories, Code Mode, missing inherited tool outputs, compaction fallback, and approval isolation across checkpoint replay. Update the noisy helper failure test to read its response before starting cleanup.
GitOrigin-RevId: ce9235dfa111c88d6ce66cb93d564fb63b326489
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `features.credential_masking` flag to enable credential brokerage through an already enabled network proxy, retaining custom credential providers and managed configuration precedence.
- Prevent project configuration from overriding credential masking and apply existing credential-broker protections to project shell settings when masking is enabled.
- Keep brokerage inactive when the proxy is disabled. Warn at startup and after permission-profile changes when masking is inactive because sandboxing or the proxy is disabled, or provider environment keys conflict.
## Testing
Add coverage for configuration precedence, project protections in both configuration loaders, permission-profile transitions, inactive-masking warnings, and shell snapshot masking of built-in and custom credentials.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4bcb293356e8c1524bdaa4f1b95cbc1e935a5271
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `guardian_trust_orchestrator_connectors` feature flag. When enabled, Guardian V2 accepts connectors with nonblank IDs from the host-owned plugin service orchestrator as a trusted source without requiring a matching user configuration declaration.
Distinguish orchestrator provenance from user configuration in trusted-tool context. Trust remains scoped to the exact server or connector identity and source; descriptions, outputs, other tools, and other connectors remain untrusted.
## Testing
Add coverage for host-owned connector context, rejection of extension-owned Apps lookalikes and blank connector IDs, source-specific trust metadata, and context token limits. Snapshot the connector approval request history.
GitOrigin-RevId: fbd87dd71110ca7b2b92d50eef02e1e739a74a02
## What changed
- Use the standard shell executor and remove the zsh fork escalation runtime, `codex-execve-wrapper`, and `shell-escalation` crate.
- Ignore `shell_zsh_fork` and `unified_exec_zsh_fork`, emit migration notices for legacy configuration, and warn when ignoring managed requirements for these flags.
- Keep the active session's `apply_patch` alias directory readable under restricted filesystem permissions.
## Testing
Add coverage for legacy configuration startup and shell execution, migration notice rendering, active alias directory selection, and nested `apply_patch` execution while other files in `CODEX_HOME` remain unreadable.
GitOrigin-RevId: 43af461fea32b4980550ee7237effd2bc0646ed8
## What changed
Mark `code_mode_interrupt` as stable and enable it by default, so interrupting a turn terminates active code mode cells and nested tool calls.
## Testing
Update the existing interruption test to use the feature default instead of explicitly enabling `CodeModeInterrupt`. It verifies that active cells and nested tools are aborted while stored session values remain available.
GitOrigin-RevId: 17be94f208713bc232e2292feb48261938254db3
## What changed
Enable `instant_interrupt` by default so new user input can preempt responses and yield foreground code-mode observations. Keep the feature marked as under development and update feature-policy tests to allow this exception.
Explicitly disable instant interrupts in core, TUI, and Python SDK tests that depend on responses completing before steering or processing subsequent input.
GitOrigin-RevId: a8cab2d6c445bfdbd10b0b2abcf7893d32ee8595
## What changed
Register `code_mode_tool_description_first` as an under-development feature, disabled by default, for placing tool descriptions before namespace descriptions in Code Mode. Add the boolean option to the configuration schema.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5d7e2f7cef87a040f9d96b0d97c2697880c12c17
## Why
Transcript content can contain forged role headers, transcript boundaries, or claims of user approval. Guardian needs to distinguish that content from host-assigned authorship metadata.
## What changed
- Add `features.guardianv2.transcript_mode` with `line` (the default) and `json` options for synchronous review and asynchronous scoring.
- Render JSON transcript entries with host-assigned metadata and escaped `text`, and prepend matching provenance instructions to reviewer and classifier prompts.
- Preserve JSON metadata when budget recovery shortens historical text, and keep provenance instructions outside the configured classifier prompt limit.
## Testing
Add coverage for forged roles and approvals remaining within their original entries, JSON metadata surviving budget recovery, and provenance instructions surviving prompt limits. Extend review and scoring integration tests to verify JSON evidence and matching instructions.
GitOrigin-RevId: 81a3580390d3c4d1a664e554976cda5f1adc9a2c
## Why
Fast mode previously gated both Fast and Ultra Fast, preventing policies from allowing one while disabling the other.
## What changed
- Add the default-enabled `features.ultrafast_mode` flag and enforce it independently of `features.fast_mode` in service-tier selection, requests, and agent prewarming.
- Filter TUI service-tier commands and selections by the corresponding policy and model catalog support.
- Report `supportsIndependentSpeedModes: true` from `configRequirements/read` and update the protocol schemas and generated bindings. Retain the shared Fast gate when connecting to older servers that omit this capability.
- Preserve legacy cloud speed denials by translating `rbac-fast-mode` fragments with `fast_mode = false` into a denial of both modes, while retaining higher-priority enterprise overrides.
## Testing
Add coverage for all four Fast/Ultra Fast policy combinations in requirements responses and request routing, agent prewarm inheritance, TUI command visibility and saved selections, and legacy cloud denial normalization and override precedence.
GitOrigin-RevId: 147e08524c4b228ea9d46b25a9f8aa64c359e169
## What changed
- Add the default-disabled `code_mode_tool_search` feature to expose `await tools.tool_search({query: "...", limit: 8})` in code mode when the model supports tool search.
- Return BM25-ranked deferred tools as `{tools: [{name, description}]}`, including callable names and TypeScript declarations for use in later code cells.
- Filter results through the current step's nested-tool policy before applying the limit, preserving namespace restrictions, normalized identities, description prefixes, and schema budgets.
- Add ranked-search guidance while retaining `ALL_TOOLS` catalog discovery and description overrides.
## Testing
Add coverage for feature and model-capability gating, namespace restrictions, argument validation, schema budgets, and discovery followed by deferred MCP and dynamic tool calls. Extend the scenario snapshot to cover search, invocation, yielding, and completion through `wait`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 092a29dd5f0773c518f53a001b9cafb917422f13
## What changed
Add `features.cli_daybreak`, disabled by default, to gate Daybreak controls and automatic access-program selection in the TUI and `codex exec`. Apply the gate to resumed sessions and background task turns, and hide `/daybreak` when disabled. Explicit `--cyber-access-program` overrides remain available.
## Testing
Extend tests to cover disabled controls, history replay, foreground and background turn requests, exec resume/fork behavior, and explicit access-program overrides with the feature disabled.
GitOrigin-RevId: ae96a4a8c7ab97c619716b9f39ea9f295df6e5a6
## Why
Updating a CRLF file with `apply_patch` previously normalized its line endings to LF unless preservation was explicitly enabled. Preserve the file's existing line endings without requiring an opt-in.
## What changed
- Use line-ending-preserving updates for both tool calls and standalone `apply_patch` invocations, removing the legacy normalization mode.
- Mark `apply_patch_preserve_line_endings` as removed.
- Always set `CODEX_APPLY_PATCH_PRESERVE_LINE_ENDINGS=1` in child environments for compatibility with older patch executables, overriding stale values.
## Testing
Update CLI, tool-call, shell-heredoc, and app-server tests to check CRLF preservation by default. Keep coverage for overriding stale compatibility environment values.
GitOrigin-RevId: 96d0b0e5350faa3fc7a45d63627a132657b44523
## What changed
Add the default-off `stable_environment_tools` feature flag. When enabled, advertise environment-backed tools before an executor is ready, keep environment selectors stable as readiness changes, and include the `shell` and `login` parameters. Execution still requires a usable environment and its policy.
When disabled, expose environment-backed tools only when a usable environment exists, derive selectors from usable environments, and condition shell parameters on the execution configuration. Restore tool-specific unavailable-environment errors and skip the environment readiness check for `write_stdin`.
## Testing
Parameterize the empty-environment tool availability test for both flag states, check that commands require a ready transport by default, and explicitly opt tests that rely on stable tool exposure into the feature.
GitOrigin-RevId: 68c6240fb3adf85d7f9b407804d4823c515abfdc
## Why
Third-party exposure settings can eagerly expose tool schemas or exclude tools from `exec`. Keeping eligible tools deferred lets MCP catalogs change between turns without changing the model's eager tool prefix.
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `code_mode_only_strict_3p_tools` feature, applied only when the effective model tool mode is Code Mode Only.
- Defer eligible MCP, app, and client-supplied dynamic tools while keeping them discoverable and callable through `exec`.
- Override `deferLoading`, MCP/app `omit_tools_from`, and direct-only or excluded namespace settings. Log conflicts without adding prompt warnings.
- Preserve disabled, app-only, policy-denied, and over-budget tool restrictions. Keep built-in tool exposure unchanged, including when a dynamic tool has the same name.
## Testing
Add unit and integration coverage for exposure overrides, effective model modes, tool eligibility, and app discovery and dispatch. Add an MCP refresh scenario that verifies the eager tool prefix stays unchanged as tools are added, replaced, and removed while `exec` tracks the current catalog.
GitOrigin-RevId: a6a8e401214119bb02ea4711473c8fa3ec85c81a
Register `incremental_tools` as an under-development feature that is disabled by default, and expose it in the configuration schema for top-level and profile feature settings.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9579822c745e9fce598085bdc5ef8da6aabb06d7
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `guardianv2_decisions_comparison` feature to run Decisions alongside Guardian V2 snapshot classification using the same policy and evidence. Initialize the comparison sampler with `CODEX_GUARDIAN_DECISIONS_API_KEY`.
Publish the baseline score before awaiting comparison results, and keep comparison results and failures from changing approvals. Apply Guardian's input token budget, skip conversation evidence, and cancel comparison work when the baseline classification is superseded. Record success, failure, and skip outcomes with bounded diagnostic reasons, including setup failures.
## Testing
Add lifecycle tests covering disabled comparison, disagreeing classifications, backend failures, unchanged published scores, matching policy and evidence, and rejection of over-budget requests before either backend sends them.
GitOrigin-RevId: 743d34c8ee440362da94f001058366027b39bd11
## Why
Subagents spawned without forked history do not receive their parent's client-defined dynamic tools, preventing them from using those tools for delegated work.
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `multi_agent_v2_dynamic_tools` feature flag. When enabled, fresh V2 subagents inherit the parent's dynamic tool definitions and persist them in session metadata.
## Testing
Add coverage for V1 and V2 feature gating, tool persistence, and a fresh V2 subagent calling an inherited tool and receiving its result without inheriting parent history. Update TUI assertions and a snapshot to reflect blank-line separation and question text in recovered answers.
GitOrigin-RevId: a17a16bf5570f54ce922c1521cffb883022354f2
## What changed
- Mark `api_key_model_discovery` as stable and enable it by default, while preserving explicit user opt-outs and provider catalog requirements.
- Fall back to bundled models when discovery is disabled at runtime, including when a remote catalog has already been loaded.
## Testing
Extend model-list coverage for default enablement, app overrides, and user configuration precedence. Add a regression assertion that runtime opt-outs hide loaded catalogs without additional fetches, and update daemon compatibility tests for the new default.
GitOrigin-RevId: feaf732757792cc58063f21a5327d0e633f079f4
## What changed
- Add `features.guardianv2.async_classifier_mode` with `snapshot` and `conversation` modes. Local configuration overrides model defaults; snapshots remain the fallback.
- Retain completed classifier requests and responses in conversation mode, appending transcript deltas without repeating previously delivered user instructions.
- Rebuild retained history when authorization, classifier instructions, or parent compaction changes, after an incomplete response, or when the next request exceeds the configured token limit. Add `async_classifier_conversation_token_limit`, defaulting to 100,000 tokens, while preserving the model's input limit for fresh requests.
- Serialize conversation requests in observation order, bound outstanding work, and reject stale work after authorization changes or thread shutdown. Record retained and new input token costs.
## Testing
Add tests for configuration precedence, history reuse and resets, ordered admission, queue overflow, and stale or stopped requests. Exercise the approval matrix in both modes, including resume, fork, mandatory review, authorization changes, and stream failure after an early score.
GitOrigin-RevId: 35b9800104648cde4f467086e678dee12458c3e5
## What changed
Register `browser_annotation_api` as a stable, default-enabled feature intended for requirements rather than user configuration. It controls websites opening and customizing annotation tools in desktop apps, independently of ordinary user-driven annotation.
Add the key to the configuration schema, extending the browser requirements support introduced in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18956.
## Testing
Extend `browser_feature_requirements_are_valid` to verify that enterprise requirements setting `browser_annotation_api = false` disable the feature.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8c7bb65932e08560040958b4472fe45f6d1c916f
## What changed
Register `in_app_voice` as a stable, default-enabled feature and add it to the configuration schema. The gate is intended for managed requirements to control permission for voice in desktop apps; permission does not establish voice availability or provider support.
## Testing
Add app-server coverage for reporting `in_app_voice = false` from `requirements.toml` in both requirements and feature-list responses. Extend the CLI feature-list test to verify that cloud-managed requirements disable the gate despite a user-configured `true` value, without rewriting the user configuration.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6ec3bc0176fdb3e1714b0136bf812bd56591f6a1
## Why
Refreshing available model descriptions changes the `spawn_agent` tool schema. Keep model choices current while preserving tool definitions and earlier conversation input.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `model_catalog_in_context` feature for multi-agent V1 and V2. When enabled and model overrides are available, move model listings from tool descriptions into developer `<model_catalog>` messages.
- Include picker-visible, compatible models with descriptions, reasoning efforts, and service tiers in a listing bounded to 1,000 bytes. Point `spawn_agent` guidance to the latest catalog.
- Append updated listings only when their rendered content changes, restore missing listings, and invalidate retained catalogs when they no longer apply.
## Testing
Extend integration coverage for V1 and V2 with the feature enabled and disabled. Verify that catalog refreshes preserve tool definitions and prior input when enabled, append the updated listing once, and retain the existing tool-description behavior when disabled. Add a request-history snapshot for the V1 opt-in path.
GitOrigin-RevId: 67b11b4ad6c35f00d0e29edf6343bb0b4804d797
## What changed
Forward explicit `cyberAccessProgram` selections for the built-in OpenAI provider when both `api_key_cyber_access_programs` and `api_key_model_discovery` are enabled. The new feature defaults to disabled and can be toggled through the app server's experimental feature enablement API.
Reject explicit selections in OpenAI API-key sessions when either feature is disabled, instead of silently omitting the program. Leave entitlement and model restrictions to the server, and preserve the requested program when a server rejection triggers transport retries.
## Testing
Add app-server coverage for both feature gates, forwarding all three program values, and server rejection without fallback. Update core coverage for API-key resumes with disabled features and custom-provider omission.
GitOrigin-RevId: aa639afb841aa651b28f6f3f61198299372baa2d
## What changed
Register `login_shell_package_path` as a disabled-by-default experimental feature and add it to the configuration schema. Expose it in `/experimental` as “Bundled tools in login shells,” with a description explaining its intended use when login shell startup resets `PATH`.
## Testing
Extend the experimental feature metadata snapshot test to cover the new feature's label, description, and unchecked default state.
GitOrigin-RevId: dc110486ccd8d2d76ac788ba5a413a1374699ff8
## What changed
Add `features.multi_agent_v2.message_board_remote` with a board URL and a bearer token supplied directly or through an environment variable. When configured, use the remote board in preference to local or in-memory storage, including in ephemeral sessions, while preserving the existing board tools and session identity.
Ignore remote board settings in project-local configuration and use the runtime HTTP client and clock for remote requests.
## Testing
Add a mock-server integration test and snapshot covering an ephemeral session posting through the existing tool, with the expected bearer authentication, session identity, timestamp, and returned post.
GitOrigin-RevId: 263413d90a1ee4c0bdba8c1b08ba9f68bdd7a986
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `guardian_root_handoff_context` feature to select worker-specific root evidence for Guardian reviews. Use recorded `spawn_agent`, `send_message`, and `followup_task` calls targeting a worker or its ancestors to select the three preceding root messages per handoff, plus the three latest root messages so recent cancellations remain visible before another handoff.
Preserve verified tool answers and evidence without known ordering, and retain the existing shared message cap. Fall back to the existing root context when no usable handoff window remains or the latest authorization message is a heartbeat. Update the review context revision when the selection changes.
## Testing
Add a delegation scenario and Guardian request snapshot covering ancestor handoffs, separate worker branches, cancellation visibility, and fallback after compaction removes handoff calls. Extend heartbeat coverage to exercise the new feature and verify that the latest turn's trusted skills are retained.
GitOrigin-RevId: 87dc39158f78b2b7e9f4f2e4afc653257ea12025
## Why
The transcript supplied to Guardian may omit earlier user instructions, restrictions, or revoked permissions. History retrieval lets the reviewer check relevant authorization before approving actions with side effects.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `guardian_conversation_history_tools` feature. With Apps enabled, expose `user_message.search_messages` and `user_message.read_messages` through the parent's live Apps connection and conversation identity.
- Recheck the parent's current app and tool policy on each call, rejecting disabled tools and calls requiring approval.
- Add retrieval instructions that distinguish user authorization from assistant context and account for later revocations and incomplete results. Allow overrides through `auto_review.experimental_conversation_history_prompt`.
- Limit history responses to an estimated 4,000 tokens by default, configurable through `auto_review.conversation_history_max_output_tokens`, while preserving stricter parent and reviewer limits.
- Allow explicit extension registries for isolated sessions and prevent those sessions from inheriting the implicit Apps connection.
## Testing
Add scenarios covering history tool exposure, parent connection and identity reuse, custom prompts, output truncation, stricter reviewer budgets, and live permission changes on a reused reviewer. Extend configuration coverage for blank prompt overrides.
GitOrigin-RevId: 055a69b113c8548bd58e7d5618ea026ba6d1ffb1
## What changed
- Add `CodexThread::prewarm_with_history()` to prepare a WebSocket response with existing conversation history and executed-tool metadata using `generate: false`. The next turn can reuse the prepared response when its prompt extends that history and request settings match.
- Keep startup prewarming and `prewarm()` on the existing empty-input path, and skip preparation when the cached WebSocket is ready.
- Label prewarm telemetry by input mode and WebSocket continuation metrics with `after_prewarm`.
- Rename `persistent_mode_enabled` to `persistent_execution_enabled` without changing its behavior.
## Testing
Extend WebSocket coverage to check history preservation during reconnect prewarming, reuse of the prepared response on the next turn, and omission of `previous_response_id` for a non-prefix prompt.
GitOrigin-RevId: c7731541b11b2e6668027a47f37f696213268c66
## Why
Guardian reviews need to retain original evidence across parent compaction when checkpoint reuse is disabled, including after resume and rollback.
## What changed
- Make disabling `guardian_reuse_parent_compaction` select a bounded, independent review transcript while preserving thread-owned authorization.
- Keep synchronous reviews and asynchronous scoring independent of parent checkpoints, and allow reviewer sessions to continue using transcript deltas across parent compaction.
- Persist transcript entries with rollback provenance while remaining compatible with older checkpoint readers and metadata-free checkpoints.
- Exclude compaction output from the transcript and synthetic summaries from rollback turn boundaries. Use acceptance ordering to remove rolled-back evidence even when persistence order differs.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for reviewer continuity, evidence retention across compaction and resume, rollback after local and remote compaction, and checkpoint serialization compatibility.
GitOrigin-RevId: fea0852cc5537372854f4a34bacb6bfda6d13e88
## What changed
Add `Features::persistent_mode_enabled` and use it for persistent instructions and current-time reminder defaults. Enablement still requires `ReasoningEffort::Persistent`.
Change `PersistentModeState::new` to accept an explicit enablement boolean, separating instruction rendering from reasoning-effort selection.
## Testing
Update persistent-context tests to use boolean enablement while preserving coverage for instruction replacement, removal, deduplication, and retained history without a snapshot.
GitOrigin-RevId: f412b90d783438d1526956a56c11b9e66385ee0e
## Why
With `instant_interrupt` enabled, new user input should reach the model without waiting for an unfinished response or stream retry backoff.
## What changed
- Interrupt request setup, response streaming, and retry backoff when user input arrives, then continue the turn with the queued input.
- Reset the WebSocket connection and continuation state after preemption so the next request sends full history.
- Drain pending input after a preempted step even when compaction leaves the estimated context above the token limit.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for WebSocket reconnection with full history, interrupted retry backoff, input queued during compaction, and yielding running code-mode calls. Add a streaming scenario that preserves completed commentary while excluding unfinished assistant text from the replacement request.
GitOrigin-RevId: b7e42b6afffbf87da15af05e0850af8579d1353f
## Why
User input queued during a long-running code-mode `exec` or `wait` can remain pending until the call returns. Allow these calls to yield early so Codex can receive the new input while the cell continues running.
## What changed
- Add the `instant_interrupt` feature flag, disabled by default.
- Watch queued user input for each sampling request and pass a shared preemption signal to code-mode `exec` and `wait` calls, including calls received later in the same response.
- Yield running cell IDs without stopping the cells, allowing subsequent `wait` calls to collect their results.
## Testing
Add integration coverage for enabled and disabled behavior, repeated steering during `exec` and `wait`, input deferred during compaction, and later calls in the same response. Verify that direct tool results and queued user messages are preserved, and add a scenario snapshot showing continuation after a cell yields.
GitOrigin-RevId: e33466a980d98e113bfb6c6a45c59de0cc7b3c1d
## Why
Ephemeral sessions cannot use the SQLite-backed agent message board. An in-memory backend lets agents share discussions without creating durable board storage.
## What changed
- Add the opt-in `message_board_in_memory` setting to the multi-agent v2 configuration, allowing the board to run in ephemeral sessions when both required features are enabled.
- Share board state across agents in the same tree and release it when the last handle is dropped.
- Implement channels, posts, subscriptions, notifications, search, and paginated reads through the existing `AgentMessageBoard` interface, including request deduplication.
## Testing
Add coverage for shared handles, concurrent request deduplication, tree isolation, and state release. Run existing query and tool test cases against both backends, and extend the parent/child scenario to verify ephemeral board sharing without creating a board database.
GitOrigin-RevId: d0b2083f8ea5b1c5a3a70f258ef738b87ea74cef
## Why
Fixed schema budgets can strip parameter descriptions from large MCP tools or render their Code Mode input types as `unknown`. Allow larger budgets to preserve that guidance.
## What changed
- Add `mcp_servers.<name>.tool_input_schema_max_bytes` to configure the UTF-8 byte threshold for best-effort input schema compaction, retaining the 5,000-byte default.
- Add `features.code_mode.tool_input_schema_max_bytes` for rendered input types. Use the largest of the 16,000-byte default, the Code Mode setting, and the ordinary MCP server's explicit setting.
- Apply rendering budgets to prompt declarations and the runtime tool catalog, and avoid reusing cached declarations after the Code Mode budget changes.
## Testing
Add coverage for UTF-8 compaction thresholds, budget precedence, configuration round trips, and preservation of parameter guidance in both the Code Mode prompt and `ALL_TOOLS`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0ef2823a614d4794e636f518b09c0b03a5239b45
## Why
Agent messages arriving during a response can interrupt sampling at reasoning or commentary boundaries, cutting off remaining tool calls.
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `defer_mailbox_preemption` feature flag. When enabled, sampling continues past these boundaries and queued agent messages reach the next model request alongside completed tool results.
## Testing
Add streaming scenarios and snapshots for reasoning and commentary boundaries with deferral enabled and disabled. Verify that deferral preserves the planned tool call and that both queued messages arrive in order in the next request.
GitOrigin-RevId: d6846dd73b3afb47e7293f3b1aa2abcd04e37853
## What changed
Promote `write_stdin_approval` to stable and enable it by default.
## Testing
Update the stdin approval suite to rely on the default feature setting. Adjust the background network approval test to account for terminal input review before network access and explicitly wait for the network assessment.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1bb449f6d9ecf4ee451e84f95f839a6744877e8b
## What changed
- Move `Provider` and `RetryConfig` into `codex-client`, retaining re-exports from `codex-api`, and switch `codex-model-provider-info` to depend on `codex-client`.
- Move feature-state metric emission into `codex-core`, preserving its behavior while removing the `codex-features` dependency on `codex-otel`.
- Explicitly enable TLS features for `tonic` in `codex-config` and `reqwest` in `codex-http-client`.
- Enable `png`'s `zlib-rs` feature directly in `codex-utils-image` to keep encoded PNG bytes stable when WebSocket dependencies are absent.
GitOrigin-RevId: 91fd63ab01b55d516b3e80e3644d06af8d5a01f6
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