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- Changed `requires_mcp_tool_approval` to apply MCP spec defaults when
annotations are missing.
- Unannotated tools now default to:
- `readOnlyHint = false`
- `destructiveHint = true`
- `openWorldHint = true`
- This means unannotated MCP tools now go through approval/ARC
monitoring instead of silently bypassing it.
- Explicitly read-only tools still skip approval unless they are also
explicitly marked destructive.
**Previous behavior**
Failed open for missing annotations, which was unsafe for custom MCP
tools that omitted or forgot annotations.
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This PR adds code to recover from a narrow app-server timing race where
a follow-up can be sent after the previous turn has already ended but
before the TUI has observed that completion.
Instead of surfacing turn/steer failed: no active turn to steer, the
client now treats that as a stale active-turn cache and falls back to
starting a fresh turn, matching the intended submit behavior more
closely. This is similar to the strategy employed by other app server
clients (notably, the IDE extension and desktop app).
This race exists because the current app-server API makes the client
choose between two separate RPCs, turn/steer and turn/start, based on
its local view of whether a turn is still active. That view is
replicated from asynchronous notifications, so it can be stale for a
brief window. The server may already have ended the turn while the
client still believes it is in progress. Since the choice is made
client-side rather than atomically on the server, tui_app_server can
occasionally send turn/steer for a turn that no longer exists.
## Summary
- keep legacy Windows restricted-token sandboxing as the supported
baseline
- support the split-policy subset that restricted-token can enforce
directly today
- support full-disk read, the same writable root set as legacy
`WorkspaceWrite`, and extra read-only carveouts under those writable
roots via additional deny-write ACLs
- continue to fail closed for unsupported split-only shapes, including
explicit unreadable (`none`) carveouts, reopened writable descendants
under read-only carveouts, and writable root sets that do not match the
legacy workspace roots
## Example
Given a filesystem policy like:
```toml
":root" = "read"
":cwd" = "write"
"./docs" = "read"
```
the restricted-token backend can keep the workspace writable while
denying writes under `docs` by layering an extra deny-write carveout on
top of the legacy workspace-write roots.
A policy like:
```toml
"/workspace" = "write"
"/workspace/docs" = "read"
"/workspace/docs/tmp" = "write"
```
still fails closed, because the unelevated backend cannot reopen the
nested writable descendant safely.
## Stack
-> fix: support split carveouts in windows restricted-token sandbox
#14172
fix: support split carveouts in windows elevated sandbox #14568
TL;DR: update the quickstart integration assertion to match the current
example output.
- replace the stale `Status:` expectation for
`01_quickstart_constructor` with `Server:`, `Items:`, and `Text:`
- keep the existing guard against `Server: unknown`
## Summary
- remove the fork-startup `build_initial_context` injection
- keep the reconstructed `reference_context_item` as the fork baseline
until the first real turn
- update fork-history tests and the request snapshot, and add a
`TODO(ccunningham)` for remaining nondiffable initial-context inputs
## Why
Fork startup was appending current-session initial context immediately
after reconstructing the parent rollout, then the first real turn could
emit context updates again. That duplicated model-visible context in the
child rollout.
## Impact
Forked sessions now behave like resume for context seeding: startup
reconstructs history and preserves the prior baseline, and the first
real turn handles any current-session context emission.
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- Removes provenance filtering in the mentions feature for apps and
skills that were installed as part of a plugin.
- All skills and apps for a plugin are mentionable with this change.
## Why
This is a follow-up to #15360. That change fixed the `arg0` helper
setup, but `rmcp-client` still coerced stdio transport environment
values into UTF-8 `String`s before program resolution and process spawn.
If `PATH` or another inherited environment value contains non-UTF-8
bytes, that loses fidelity before it reaches `which` and `Command`.
## What changed
- change `create_env_for_mcp_server()` to return `HashMap<OsString,
OsString>` and read inherited values with `std::env::var_os()`
- change `TransportRecipe::Stdio.env`, `RmcpClient::new_stdio_client()`,
and `program_resolver::resolve()` to keep stdio transport env values in
`OsString` form within `rmcp-client`
- keep the `codex-core` config boundary stringly, but convert configured
stdio env values to `OsString` once when constructing the transport
- update the rmcp-client stdio test fixtures and callers to use
`OsString` env maps
- add a Unix regression test that verifies `create_env_for_mcp_server()`
preserves a non-UTF-8 `PATH`
## How to verify
- `cargo test -p codex-rmcp-client`
- `cargo test -p codex-core mcp_connection_manager`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
Targeted coverage in this change includes
`utils::tests::create_env_preserves_path_when_it_is_not_utf8`, while the
updated stdio transport path is exercised by the existing rmcp-client
tests that construct `RmcpClient::new_stdio_client()`.
### Summary
Add the v2 app-server filesystem watch RPCs and notifications, wire them
through the message processor, and implement connection-scoped watches
with notify-backed change delivery. This also updates the schema
fixtures, app-server documentation, and the v2 integration coverage for
watch and unwatch behavior.
This allows clients to efficiently watch for filesystem updates, e.g. to
react on branch changes.
### Testing
- exercise watch lifecycles for directory changes, atomic file
replacement, missing-file targets, and unwatch cleanup
- move the shared byte-based middle truncation logic from `core` into
`codex-utils-string`
- keep token-specific truncation in `codex-core` so rollout can reuse
the shared helper in the next stacked PR
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## Summary
- drop `sandbox_permissions` from the sandboxing `ExecOptions` and
`ExecRequest` adapter types
- remove the now-unused plumbing from shell, unified exec, JS REPL, and
apply-patch runtime call sites
- default reconstructed `ExecParams` to `SandboxPermissions::UseDefault`
where the lower-level API still requires the field
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test -p codex-core` (still running locally; first failures
observed in `suite::cli_stream::responses_mode_stream_cli`,
`suite::cli_stream::responses_mode_stream_cli_supports_openai_base_url_config_override`,
and
`suite::cli_stream::responses_mode_stream_cli_supports_openai_base_url_env_fallback`)
Switch plugin-install background MCP OAuth to a silent login path so the
raw authorization URL is no longer printed in normal success cases.
OAuth behavior is otherwise unchanged, with fallback URL output via
stderr still shown only if browser launch fails.
Before:
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