## Before
When we detect an `InvalidImageRequest`, we replace the image by a
placeholder and keep going
## Now
In such `InvalidImageRequest`, we check if the image is due to a user
message or a tool call output. For tool call output we still replace it
with a placeholder to avoid breaking the agentic loop bu tif this is
because of a user message, we send an error to the user
Clean all shell snapshot files corresponding to sessions that have not
been updated in 7 days
Those files should never leak. The only known cases were it can leak are
during non graceful interrupt of the process (`kill -9, `panic`, OS
crash, ...)
The description of the `shell` arg for `exec_command` states the default
is `/bin/bash`, but AFAICT it's the user's default shell.
Default logic
[here](2a06d64bc9/codex-rs/core/src/tools/handlers/unified_exec.rs (L123)).
EDIT: #9004 has an alternative where we inform the model of the default
shell itself.
When an invalid config.toml key or value is detected, the CLI currently
just quits. This leaves the VSCE in a dead state.
This PR changes the behavior to not quit and bubble up the config error
to users to make it actionable. It also surfaces errors related to
"rules" parsing.
This allows us to surface these errors to users in the VSCE, like this:
<img width="342" height="129" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-13 at 4 29 22 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a79ffbe7-7604-400c-a304-c5165b6eebc4"
/>
<img width="346" height="244" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-13 at 4 45 06 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/de874f7c-16a2-4a95-8c6d-15f10482e67b"
/>
User-facing symptom: On terminals that deliver pastes as rapid
KeyCode::Char/Enter streams (notably Windows), paste-burst transient
state
can leak into the next input. Users can see Enter insert a newline when
they meant to submit, or see characters appear late / handled through
the
wrong path.
System problem: PasteBurst is time-based. Clearing only the
classification window (e.g. via clear_window_after_non_char()) can erase
last_plain_char_time without emitting buffered text. If a buffer is
still
non-empty after that, flush_if_due() no longer has a timeout clock to
flush against, so the buffer can get "stuck" until another plain char
arrives.
This was surfaced while adding deterministic regression tests for
paste-burst behavior.
Fix: when disabling burst detection, defuse any in-flight burst state:
flush held/buffered text through handle_paste() (so it follows normal
paste integration), then clear timing and Enter suppression.
Document the rationale inline and update docs/tui-chat-composer.md so
"disable_paste_burst" matches the actual behavior.
**make command summaries more accurate by distinguishing
list/search/read operations across common CLI tools.**
- Added parsing helpers to centralize operand/flag handling (cd_target,
sed_read_path, first_non_flag_operand, single_non_flag_operand,
parse_grep_like, awk_data_file_operand, python_walks_files,
is_python_command) and reused them in summarize_main_tokens/shell
parsing.
- Newly parsed list-files commands: git ls-files, rg --files (incl.
rga/ripgrep-all), eza/exa, tree, du, python -c file-walks, plus fd/find
map to ListFiles when no query.
- Newly parsed search commands: git grep, grep/egrep/fgrep, ag/ack/pt,
rg/rga files-with-matches flags (-l/-L, --files-with-matches,
--files-without-match), with improved flag skipping to avoid
misclassifying args as paths.
- Newly parsed read commands: bat/batcat, less, more, awk <file>, and
more flexible sed -n range + file detection.
- refine “small formatting command” detection for awk/sed, handle cd
with -- or multiple operands, keep pipeline summaries focused on primary
command.
Have only the following Methods:
- `list_models`: getting current available models
- `try_list_models`: sync version no refresh for tui use
- `get_default_model`: get the default model (should be tightened to
core and received on session configuration)
- `get_model_info`: get `ModelInfo` for a specific model (should be
tightened to core but used in tests)
- `refresh_if_new_etag`: trigger refresh on different etags
Also move the cache to its own struct
This is less straightforward than I realized, so created an entry for
this in our `justfile`.
Verified that running `just bazel-codex` from anywhere in the repo uses
the user's `$PWD` as the one to run Codex.
While here, updated the `MODULE.bazel.lock`, though it looks like I need
to add a CI job that runs `bazel mod deps --lockfile_mode=error` or
something.
Adds an integration test for the new behavior introduced in
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9011. The work to create the test
setup was substantial enough that I thought it merited a separate PR.
This integration test spawns `codex` in TUI mode, which requires
spawning a PTY to run successfully, so I had to introduce quite a bit of
scaffolding in `run_codex_cli()`. I was surprised to discover that we
have not done this in our codebase before, so perhaps this should get
moved to a common location so it can be reused.
The test itself verifies that a malformed `rules` in `$CODEX_HOME`
prints a human-readable error message and exits nonzero.
The underlying issue is that when we encountered an error starting a
conversation (any sort of error, though making `$CODEX_HOME/rules` a
file rather than folder was the example in #8803), then we were writing
the message to stderr, but this could be printed over by our UI
framework so the user would not see it. In general, we disallow the use
of `eprintln!()` in this part of the code for exactly this reason,
though this was suppressed by an `#[allow(clippy::print_stderr)]`.
This attempts to clean things up by changing `handle_event()` and
`handle_tui_event()` to return a `Result<AppRunControl>` instead of a
`Result<bool>`, which is a new type introduced in this PR (and depends
on `ExitReason`, also a new type):
```rust
#[derive(Debug)]
pub(crate) enum AppRunControl {
Continue,
Exit(ExitReason),
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub enum ExitReason {
UserRequested,
Fatal(String),
}
```
This makes it possible to exit the primary control flow of the TUI with
richer information. This PR adds `ExitReason` to the existing
`AppExitInfo` struct and updates `handle_app_exit()` to print the error
and exit code `1` in the event of `ExitReason::Fatal`.
I tried to create an integration test for this, but it was a bit
involved, so I published it as a separate PR:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9166. For this PR, please have
faith in my manual testing!
Fixes https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/8803.
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* #9166
* __->__ #9011
The connection was being added to the list after the WebSocket response
was sent.
So the test can sometimes race and observe connections before the list
was updated.
After this change, connection and request is added to the list before
the response is sent.
