`SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` previously implied broad read access and could
not express a narrower read surface.
This change introduces an explicit read-access model so we can support
user-configurable read restrictions in follow-up work, while preserving
current behavior today.
It also ensures unsupported backends fail closed for restricted-read
policies instead of silently granting broader access than intended.
## What
- Added `ReadOnlyAccess` in protocol with:
- `Restricted { include_platform_defaults, readable_roots }`
- `FullAccess`
- Updated `SandboxPolicy` to carry read-access configuration:
- `ReadOnly { access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
- `WorkspaceWrite { ..., read_only_access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
- Preserved existing behavior by defaulting current construction paths
to `ReadOnlyAccess::FullAccess`.
- Threaded the new fields through sandbox policy consumers and call
sites across `core`, `tui`, `linux-sandbox`, `windows-sandbox`, and
related tests.
- Updated Seatbelt policy generation to honor restricted read roots by
emitting scoped read rules when full read access is not granted.
- Added fail-closed behavior on Linux and Windows backends when
restricted read access is requested but not yet implemented there
(`UnsupportedOperation`).
- Regenerated app-server protocol schema and TypeScript artifacts,
including `ReadOnlyAccess`.
## Compatibility / rollout
- Runtime behavior remains unchanged by default (`FullAccess`).
- API/schema changes are in place so future config wiring can enable
restricted read access without another policy-shape migration.
## Why
`suite::v2::app_list::list_apps_uses_thread_feature_flag_when_thread_id_is_provided`
has been flaky in CI. The test exercises `thread/start`, which
initializes `codex_apps`. In CI/Linux, that path can reach OS
keyring-backed MCP OAuth credential lookup (`Codex MCP Credentials`) and
intermittently abort the MCP process (observed stack overflow in
`zbus`), causing the test to fail before the assertion logic runs.
## What Changed
- Updated the test config in
`codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/app_list.rs` to set
`mcp_oauth_credentials_store = "file"` in both relevant config-writing
paths:
- The in-test config override inside
`list_apps_uses_thread_feature_flag_when_thread_id_is_provided`
- `write_connectors_config(...)`, which is used by the v2 `app_list`
test suite
- This keeps test coverage focused on thread-scoped app feature flags
while removing OS keyring/DBus dependency from this test path.
## How It Was Verified
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
list_apps_uses_thread_feature_flag_when_thread_id_is_provided --
--nocapture`
These leaked into the repo:
- #4905 `codex-rs/windows-sandbox-rs/Cargo.lock`
- #5391 `codex-rs/app-server-test-client/Cargo.lock`
Note that these affect cache keys such as:
9722567a80/.github/workflows/rust-release.yml (L154)
so it seems best to remove them.
This is in response to seeing this on BuildBuddy:
> There were tests whose specified size is too big. Use the
--test_verbose_timeout_warnings command line option to see which ones
these are.
- Update token usage aggregation to refresh model context window after a
model change.
- Add protocol/core tests, including an e2e model-switch test that
validates switching to a smaller model updates telemetry.
- Clamp auto-compaction to the minimum of configured limit and 90% of
context window
- Add an e2e compact test for clamped behavior
- Update remote compact tests to account for earlier auto-compaction in
setup turns
- Run pre-sampling compact through a single helper that builds
previous-model turn context and compacts before the follow-up request
when switching to a smaller context window.
- Keep compaction events on the parent turn id and add compact suite
coverage for switch-in-session and resume+switch flows.
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with a detailed and high quality description of your changes.
Include a link to a bug report or enhancement request.
## What
This change introduces a new `ReadOnlyAccess` model and threads it through
sandbox policy consumers so read access is explicit instead of implicit.
- Added `ReadOnlyAccess` to protocol:
- `Restricted { include_platform_defaults, readable_roots }`
- `FullAccess`
- Changed `SandboxPolicy` shape:
- `ReadOnly` is now `ReadOnly { access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
- `WorkspaceWrite` now carries `read_only_access: ReadOnlyAccess`
- Kept existing behavior for now by defaulting to `ReadOnlyAccess::FullAccess`
in constructors and current config/app-server mappings.
- Added helper methods to compute effective readable roots (including optional
platform defaults + cwd) and to detect full read access.
- Updated seatbelt policy generation to honor restricted read roots by emitting
scoped `(allow file-read* ...)` entries when full read access is not granted.
- Updated Linux backends (`bwrap`, legacy landlock path) to fail closed with an
explicit `UnsupportedOperation` when restricted read access is requested but
not yet implemented there.
- Updated Windows sandbox backends (standard, elevated, and runner paths) to
fail closed in the same way for restricted read access.
- Updated all call sites/tests/pattern matches for the new structured variants
and regenerated app-server protocol schema/types.
## Why
The previous `SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` implied full-disk read access and left
no way to express a narrower read surface.
This refactor establishes the policy model needed to support user-configurable
read restrictions in a follow-up without changing current runtime behavior.
It also ensures we do not silently ignore future restricted-read policies on
platform backends that do not support them yet. Failing closed keeps sandbox
semantics predictable and avoids accidental over-permission.
## Compatibility and rollout notes
- Existing behavior is preserved by default (`FullAccess`).
- Existing config/app-server flows continue to serialize/deserialize cleanly.
- New schema artifacts are included to keep generated protocol outputs in sync.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p codex-linux-sandbox -p codex-windows-sandbox -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo check -p codex-windows-sandbox`
- Targeted crate/test runs were executed during development for protocol/core/
sandbox-related crates.
## What
This change introduces a new `ReadOnlyAccess` model and threads it through
sandbox policy consumers so read access is explicit instead of implicit.
- Added `ReadOnlyAccess` to protocol:
- `Restricted { include_platform_defaults, readable_roots }`
- `FullAccess`
- Changed `SandboxPolicy` shape:
- `ReadOnly` is now `ReadOnly { access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
- `WorkspaceWrite` now carries `read_only_access: ReadOnlyAccess`
- Kept existing behavior for now by defaulting to `ReadOnlyAccess::FullAccess`
in constructors and current config/app-server mappings.
- Added helper methods to compute effective readable roots (including optional
platform defaults + cwd) and to detect full read access.
- Updated seatbelt policy generation to honor restricted read roots by emitting
scoped `(allow file-read* ...)` entries when full read access is not granted.
- Updated Linux backends (`bwrap`, legacy landlock path) to fail closed with an
explicit `UnsupportedOperation` when restricted read access is requested but
not yet implemented there.
- Updated Windows sandbox backends (standard, elevated, and runner paths) to
fail closed in the same way for restricted read access.
- Updated all call sites/tests/pattern matches for the new structured variants
and regenerated app-server protocol schema/types.
## Why
The previous `SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` implied full-disk read access and left
no way to express a narrower read surface.
This refactor establishes the policy model needed to support user-configurable
read restrictions in a follow-up without changing current runtime behavior.
It also ensures we do not silently ignore future restricted-read policies on
platform backends that do not support them yet. Failing closed keeps sandbox
semantics predictable and avoids accidental over-permission.
## Compatibility and rollout notes
- Existing behavior is preserved by default (`FullAccess`).
- Existing config/app-server flows continue to serialize/deserialize cleanly.
- New schema artifacts are included to keep generated protocol outputs in sync.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p codex-linux-sandbox -p codex-windows-sandbox -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo check -p codex-windows-sandbox`
- Targeted crate/test runs were executed during development for protocol/core/
sandbox-related crates.
## Summary
- Remove `Feature::SearchTool` and the `search_tool` config key from the
feature registry/schema.
- Gate `search_tool_bm25` exposure via `Feature::Apps` in
`core/src/tools/spec.rs`.
- Update MCP selection logic in `core/src/codex.rs` to use
`Feature::Apps` for search-tool behavior.
- Update `core/tests/suite/search_tool.rs` to enable `Feature::Apps`.
- Regenerate `core/config.schema.json` via `just write-config-schema`.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all suite::search_tool::`
## Tickets
- None
I gave Codex the following bug report about the logic to report the
host's resources introduced in
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/11488 and this PR is its proposed
fix.
The fix seems like an escaping issue, mostly.
---
The logic to print out the runner specs has an awk error on Mac:
```
Runner: GitHub Actions 1014936475
OS: macOS 15.7.3
Hardware model: VirtualMac2,1
CPU architecture: arm64
Logical CPUs: 5
Physical CPUs: 5
awk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
{printf >>> \ <<< "%.1f GiB\\n\", $1 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024}
awk: illegal statement at source line 1
Total RAM:
Disk usage:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk3s5 320Gi 237Gi 64Gi 79% 2.0M 671M 0% /System/Volumes/Data
```
as well as Linux:
```
Runner: GitHub Actions 1014936469
OS: Linux runnervmwffz4 6.11.0-1018-azure #18~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jun 28 04:46:03 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
awk: cmd. line:1: /Model name/ {gsub(/^[ \t]+/,\"\",$2); print $2; exit}
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ backslash not last character on line
CPU model:
Logical CPUs: 4
awk: cmd. line:1: /MemTotal/ {printf \"%.1f GiB\\n\", $2 / 1024 / 1024}
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ backslash not last character on line
Total RAM:
Disk usage:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 72G 50G 22G 70% /
```
I don't think this policy change increases the risk, other than
potentially exposing the caller to bugs in these kernel calls, which are
unlikely.
Without this change, some tools are silently failing or making incorrect
decisions about the processor type (e.g. installing x86 binaries rather
than Apple silicon binaries).
This addresses #11210
---------
Co-authored-by: viyatb-oai <viyatb@openai.com>
This stack layer makes app-server thread event delivery connection-aware
so resumed/attached threads only emit notifications and approval prompts
to subscribed connections.
- Added per-thread subscription tracking in `ThreadState`
(`subscribed_connections`) and mapped subscription ids to `(thread_id,
connection_id)`.
- Updated listener lifecycle so removing a subscription or closing a
connection only removes that connection from the thread’s subscriber
set; listener shutdown now happens when the last subscriber is gone.
- Added `connection_closed(connection_id)` plumbing (`lib.rs` ->
`message_processor.rs` -> `codex_message_processor.rs`) so disconnect
cleanup happens immediately.
- Scoped bespoke event handling outputs through `TargetedOutgoing` to
send requests/notifications only to subscribed connections.
- Kept existing threadresume behavior while aligning with the latest
split-loop transport structure.
## Summary
Consolidate `/status` Permissions lines into a simpler view. It should
only show "Default," "Full Access," or "Custom" (with specifics)
## Testing
- [x] many snapshots updated
Windows release builds were compiling and linking four release binaries
on a single runner, which slowed the release pipeline. The
Windows-specific logic also made `rust-release.yml` harder to read and
maintain.
## What Changed
- Extracted Windows release logic into a reusable workflow at
`.github/workflows/rust-release-windows.yml`.
- Updated `.github/workflows/rust-release.yml` to call the reusable
Windows workflow via `workflow_call`.
- Parallelized Windows binary builds with one 4-entry matrix over two
targets (`x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, `aarch64-pc-windows-msvc`) and two
bundles (`primary`, `helpers`).
- Kept signing centralized per target by downloading both prebuilt
bundles and signing all four executables together.
- Preserved final release artifact behavior and filtered intermediate
`windows-binaries*` artifacts out of the published release asset set.
## What
This change introduces a new `ReadOnlyAccess` model and threads it through
sandbox policy consumers so read access is explicit instead of implicit.
- Added `ReadOnlyAccess` to protocol:
- `Restricted { include_platform_defaults, readable_roots }`
- `FullAccess`
- Changed `SandboxPolicy` shape:
- `ReadOnly` is now `ReadOnly { access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
- `WorkspaceWrite` now carries `read_only_access: ReadOnlyAccess`
- Kept existing behavior for now by defaulting to `ReadOnlyAccess::FullAccess`
in constructors and current config/app-server mappings.
- Added helper methods to compute effective readable roots (including optional
platform defaults + cwd) and to detect full read access.
- Updated seatbelt policy generation to honor restricted read roots by emitting
scoped `(allow file-read* ...)` entries when full read access is not granted.
- Updated Linux backends (`bwrap`, legacy landlock path) to fail closed with an
explicit `UnsupportedOperation` when restricted read access is requested but
not yet implemented there.
- Updated Windows sandbox backends (standard, elevated, and runner paths) to
fail closed in the same way for restricted read access.
- Updated all call sites/tests/pattern matches for the new structured variants
and regenerated app-server protocol schema/types.
## Why
The previous `SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` implied full-disk read access and left
no way to express a narrower read surface.
This refactor establishes the policy model needed to support user-configurable
read restrictions in a follow-up without changing current runtime behavior.
It also ensures we do not silently ignore future restricted-read policies on
platform backends that do not support them yet. Failing closed keeps sandbox
semantics predictable and avoids accidental over-permission.
## Compatibility and rollout notes
- Existing behavior is preserved by default (`FullAccess`).
- Existing config/app-server flows continue to serialize/deserialize cleanly.
- New schema artifacts are included to keep generated protocol outputs in sync.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p codex-linux-sandbox -p codex-windows-sandbox -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo check -p codex-windows-sandbox`
- Targeted crate/test runs were executed during development for protocol/core/
sandbox-related crates.
Users were reporting that when they were actively editing a skill file,
they would see frequent errors (one per second) across all of their
active session until they fixed all frontmatter parse errors. This
change will reduce the chatter at the expense of a slightly longer delay
before skills are updated in the UI.
This addresses #11385
Windows release builds in `.github/workflows/rust-release.yml` were
still using GitHub-hosted `windows-latest` and `windows-11-arm` runners.
This change aligns release builds with the faster dedicated Codex runner
pool already used in CI, and adds machine-spec logging at startup so
runner capacity (CPU/RAM/disk) is visible in build logs.
## What Changed
- Updated the `build` job to support matrix entries that provide a full
`runs_on` object:
- `runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs_on || matrix.runner }}`
- Switched Windows release matrix entries to Codex runners:
- `windows-latest` -> `windows-x64` with:
- `group: codex-runners`
- `labels: codex-windows-x64`
- `windows-11-arm` -> `windows-arm64` with:
- `group: codex-runners`
- `labels: codex-windows-arm64`
- Updated the ARM-specific zstd install condition to match the new
runner id:
- `matrix.runner == 'windows-arm64'`
- Added early platform-specific runner diagnostics steps
(Linux/macOS/Windows) that print OS, CPU, logical CPU count, total RAM,
and disk usage.
