## Why
Submission diagnostics need approval and turn metadata without logging user input, tool responses, commands, paths, or instruction payloads.
## What changed
- Log thread and submission IDs, operation kind, and parent/root turn IDs as explicit fields.
- Give `Op` and `ThreadSettingsOverrides` selective `Debug` output that retains identifiers, approval decisions, and policy categories while omitting payloads.
- Preserve Guardian review identifiers and status when logging approval of a denied-action retry.
## Testing
Add an app-server integration test that verifies command approval, Guardian review, and turn policy metadata reach SQLite-backed diagnostic logs with `RUST_LOG=off`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 308acb7b70e4849cf31514b11e4d9b46eaf6a09b
## Why
Idle thread unloading stopped waiting after ten seconds, leaving the thread loaded when resource cleanup took longer.
## What changed
Keep awaiting the same shutdown future after the ten-second deadline, emitting `codex.app_server.thread_shutdown_slow` as a warning. Once shutdown completes, remove the thread and send `thread/closed` without requiring another unload request.
## Testing
Add a regression test that blocks writer-lock cleanup past the warning deadline, verifies the thread remains loaded while cleanup is blocked, then releases the lock and checks for `thread/closed` and an empty loaded-thread list.
GitOrigin-RevId: 18c411f86fd69e710e472a4e3572d75f18682147
## What changed
- Load `application.network` requirements at startup and explicit config/account reloads, applying local policy before authentication and cloud configuration bootstrap.
- Block traffic when policy loading fails, cancel requests that a new policy no longer permits, and reject configuration loads based on superseded policy snapshots. Local requirements edits take effect on the next explicit reload or restart.
- Bind authenticated clients to the current account and revoke them when account ownership changes. Carry policy enforcement through backend requests, realtime connections, workload identity exchanges, and code-mode gRPC streams while preserving gRPC trailers.
- Treat denied credential refreshes as policy errors without retrying them or invalidating stored credentials.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for startup restrictions, reload ordering, cancellation after restrictive or malformed requirements edits, account revocation, gRPC destination denial, workload identity cancellation, and credential preservation after denied OAuth refresh.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0cb4c720a906397e9df06675f01ecf60d741101f
## Why
Switching providers or authentication could reuse a previous identity's model catalog, including its default service tier. An in-flight refresh could also overwrite a newer account's catalog after cache storage completed.
## What changed
- Require a matching provider and auth identity for disk and in-memory catalog reuse. Treat legacy entries without an identity as cache misses and fall back to bundled metadata when the in-memory identity no longer matches.
- Recheck identity after fetching and storing a catalog before publishing it.
- Renew cache freshness only when the client version, identity, and ETag match the stored entry.
- Update cache fixtures to include the configured provider and auth identity.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for provider and auth switches, credential rotation, legacy and mismatched cache entries, conditional TTL renewal, and an account switch during cache storage. Verify that API-key requests do not inherit a ChatGPT catalog's default `service_tier`, while explicit tier selection still works.
GitOrigin-RevId: e15d7ffff238d951d7a1c6a68381cbb479994146
## Why
SQLite log persistence needs visibility into batch size, write latency,
failures, and entries dropped before they reach the writer. Exporter
diagnostics must not feed back into the SQLite log sink and keep metric
exports active indefinitely.
## What changed
- Record write count, duration, batch bytes, entry count, largest-entry size,
and queue drops with bounded outcome tags.
- Add explicit byte histogram boundaries for log batch metrics.
- Filter OTLP transport noise and the benign unsolicited HTTP/2 PING warning
from SQLite log persistence to prevent export cycles while retaining other
HTTP/2 warnings.
## Testing
- Cover metric values, tags, queue-drop reasons, and histogram boundaries.
- Verify successful and failed OTLP HTTP and gRPC exports become idle instead
of generating recurring SQLite log-write metrics.
GitOrigin-RevId: a63224ae15945fe84adc977a8b7d55bb47a4de53
## Why
App-server logs can be persisted or included in submitted diagnostics, so credentials used by model providers, authentication refreshes, and attestation requests must not appear in diagnostic output.
## What changed
- Add `RedactedString`, which preserves serialization and string access while replacing debug output with `<redacted>`.
- Use it for model-provider bearer tokens, header and query values, authentication command arguments, and attestation tokens.
- Avoid logging JSON-RPC error payloads and parser or authentication errors that may echo credentials; retain safe context such as error codes and categories.
## Testing
- Add an app-server regression test that exercises provider credentials, refreshed authentication tokens, and attestation tokens, then verifies none appear in persisted SQLite or submitted diagnostic logs.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8c50408adf94d93847658b1320682cf3b637d2cc
## Why
Closing stdin could leave the app-server running when a remote-control client
was still connected.
## What changed
Track each connection's origin and shut down a stdio app-server when its stdio
connection closes, regardless of whether other connections remain. Report the
shutdown reason as `stdio_connection_closed`.
## Testing
Added a regression test that closes stdio while a remote-control connection is
active and verifies that the app-server exits and disconnects the remote client.
GitOrigin-RevId: 51ab14d45dfea7f40a0657a8bb167b54efaf0e48
## What changed
- Add typed helpers for initialized app-server instances, JSON-RPC requests,
responses, notifications, and thread startup.
- Add a composable `MockResponsesConfig` builder while preserving the existing
mock config writers.
- Migrate the app-server integration suite to the shared helpers, removing
repeated request ID management, deserialization, initialization, and config
assembly.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for composing mock provider, feature, and extra config, and
for compatibility of the existing mock config writer.
GitOrigin-RevId: 62da177c1d6e8299400de64bd6766567bf1ba3d8
## Why
App-server deployments can consume structured JSON logs for operational
measurements without requiring an OTEL exporter. Existing tool-result
telemetry reports the handler outcome, but it does not separate time
spent waiting to dispatch from time spent executing the handler.
A compact completion event for the outer, direct tool call lets
consumers measure those phases and correlate them with a conversation
and turn. Code-mode calls are intentionally excluded so nested runtime
calls do not create overlapping events that are easy to double-count.
## What changed
- Added a
[`ToolCallTimingGuard`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/141110a73cff041c42fd51f47e363e83df1dde51/codex-rs/core/src/tools/parallel.rs#L32)
around direct tool calls. Event-only strings and timing state are
captured only when the `codex_core::tools::parallel` `INFO` target is
enabled.
- Added a
[`codex.tool_call`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/141110a73cff041c42fd51f47e363e83df1dde51/codex-rs/core/src/tools/parallel.rs#L313)
completion event with conversation, turn, tool, call, trace, dispatch,
handler, and total timing fields.
- Recorded the execution-start marker after the dispatch lock is
acquired. Event emission snapshots that marker once so a concurrently
starting dispatch cannot produce internally inconsistent fields.
- Limited the event to `ToolCallSource::Direct`; [unit
coverage](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/141110a73cff041c42fd51f47e363e83df1dde51/codex-rs/core/src/tools/parallel.rs#L365)
verifies code-mode calls are ignored.
- Added [cancellation
coverage](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/141110a73cff041c42fd51f47e363e83df1dde51/codex-rs/core/src/tools/parallel.rs#L408)
that holds the execution gate and verifies a call cancelled before
admission emits exactly one dispatch-only timing event.
- Added reusable
[`JsonLogCapture`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/141110a73cff041c42fd51f47e363e83df1dde51/codex-rs/app-server/tests/common/json_logging.rs#L15)
support, a [JSON-logging-specific `TestAppServer`
constructor](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/141110a73cff041c42fd51f47e363e83df1dde51/codex-rs/app-server/tests/common/test_app_server.rs#L172),
and an [end-to-end app-server
test](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/141110a73cff041c42fd51f47e363e83df1dde51/codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/logging.rs#L52)
that drives a direct `exec_command` through the public v2 JSON-RPC API
and validates the emitted JSON event.
Exec-server-specific request and process timing remains in the stacked
PR #30901.
## Suggested logging filter
```bash
LOG_FORMAT=json \
RUST_LOG='warn,codex_core::tools::parallel=info' \
codex app-server
```
## Event example
Identifier and timing values are illustrative.
### `codex.tool_call`
```json
{
"timestamp": "2026-06-27T03:45:20.443Z",
"level": "INFO",
"fields": {
"message": "tool call completed",
"event.name": "codex.tool_call",
"trace_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736",
"conversation.id": "67e55044-10b1-426f-9247-bb680e5fe0c8",
"turn_id": "019f04f8-6ac2-78f1-8625-f04a6d35af18",
"tool_name": "exec_command",
"call_id": "call_7b8483",
"tool_source": "direct",
"execution_started": true,
"dispatch_duration_ms": 12,
"handler_duration_ms": 431,
"total_duration_ms": 443
},
"target": "codex_core::tools::parallel"
}
```
If execution never starts, `execution_started` is `false`,
`handler_duration_ms` is `0`, and `dispatch_duration_ms` covers the full
observed lifetime.
If a duration cannot be represented as an unsigned 64-bit millisecond
value, all three duration fields are omitted rather than populated with
a sentinel that could corrupt downstream calculations.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core
tool_call_timing_guard_ignores_code_mode_source`
- `just test -p codex-core
cancellation_before_dispatch_admission_logs_dispatch_only_timing`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
app_server_emits_structured_tool_call_timing_event`
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* __->__ #30334
## Why
`LOG_FORMAT=json` and `RUST_LOG` are supported by app-server, but the
behavior was only covered indirectly. We should verify the actual JSONL
written by both user-facing entry points: `codex app-server` and the
standalone `codex-app-server` binary.
The existing processor shutdown message also always said the channel
closed, even though the processor can exit for several different
reasons. Structured fields make that event more accurate and useful to
log consumers.
## What changed
- Record the processor `exit_reason`, remaining connection count, and
forced-shutdown state as structured tracing fields.
- Add a shared process-test helper that enables JSON logging, validates
every stderr line as JSON, and verifies the top-level timestamp is RFC
3339.
- Cover both `codex app-server` and `codex-app-server`, asserting the
stable `level`, `fields`, and `target` payload.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-app-server
standalone_app_server_emits_json_info_events`
- `just test -p codex-cli app_server_emits_json_info_events`
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