## Why
Executor profile roots can use path conventions that are not native to the current host. Converting them to host paths during configuration or turn reconstruction can reject or drop those roots, while case-insensitive comparison can hide Windows path spelling changes.
## What changed
- Store profile roots as URI-backed `ProfileWorkspaceRoot` values throughout permission snapshots and thread settings, preserving spelling in equality and deduplication.
- Keep effective workspace roots as `PathUri` values for permission materialization and status summaries. Convert Windows sandbox root hints to native paths only at native Windows sandbox boundaries, rejecting incompatible roots.
- Omit the legacy rollout `workspace_roots` field when profile roots cannot be represented as host paths, retaining the compiled permission profile.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for Windows and UNC root spelling changes, settings restoration and turn recording with foreign roots, executor-root status display, and backend-specific Windows root conversion.
GitOrigin-RevId: 903c068fd74959bdd10e7cb1141aa42b953a59a4
## Why
Clients need widget presentation details to render MCP Apps without waiting for the full MCP catalog, including when replaying saved history.
## What changed
- Add `mcpToolCall.mcpAppUi` with the invoked descriptor's `resourceUri` and `preferredModelDisplayMode`, and carry it through tool-call events and saved history.
- Support `fullscreen` and default to `inline` when the display preference is missing or unsupported.
- Keep existing resource URI fields for compatibility. Leave `mcpAppUi` null for older history and tools that declare widgets only in result metadata, where clients still use catalog discovery.
- Update protocol schemas, TypeScript and Python types, and app-server documentation.
## Testing
Add parameterized integration coverage for fullscreen, missing and unsupported preferences, legacy URI metadata, and result-only widgets, verifying consistent tool events and preservation across session resume.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2a9bed804dcea8c2b4903b8406fa6710681f7f5e
## Why
Command execution and plugin measurement events lack model and reasoning-effort labels. Attribution needs to reflect the step that invoked the command, even when model settings change before a background process finishes.
## What changed
- Add `model_slug` and `reasoning_effort` to command execution and plugin measurement analytics.
- Capture model context from resolved step settings and carry it through execution, approval, Guardian review, and plugin metrics collection.
- Preserve the first command-start model context when subsequent start notifications arrive.
- Keep the carried context out of serialized protocol items and generated schemas.
## Testing
Extend analytics tests to cover model switches before invocation and during background execution, default reasoning effort, Guardian-denied commands, and repeated start notifications retaining the original model context.
GitOrigin-RevId: af90e1c0d39bab625f2e89786085b61a9b96c0ce
## What changed
- Add explicit MXC backend selection and carry its identity through exec-server process reporting and sandbox violation classification.
- Launch MXC through the Codex executable with the effective permission profile and command environment.
- Reject exec-server MXC requests when native MXC is unavailable or when they request a TTY, an `arg0` override, or managed networking. Reject private desktop isolation during MXC preparation.
- Allow an explicitly empty child environment and avoid exposing request payload values in launcher decode errors.
## Testing
Add coverage for sandbox selection and unsupported-request rejection, plus Windows RPC tests for stdin writes and temporary-directory permissions derived from the command environment. Native MXC tests skip when MXC is unavailable.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3626ff0f9ad7f9b812ce09b68c31ea9a5a9c72b1
## What changed
- Mark `worktrees` stable and enable it by default, removing it from `/experimental`. Point users who explicitly disable it to their Codex configuration.
- When a local daemon lacks `thread/backgroundTerminals/list`, block worktree creation and `/cd` with guidance to run `codex app-server daemon update` and restart Codex.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for unsupported local daemon methods, unrelated errors, embedded servers, and empty background terminal lists. Update feature-gating tests to disable worktrees explicitly and remove worktrees from the experimental menu snapshot.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3f21d0ebaa02da11a6aaa2e1ac615b4518fc98d8
## Why
`--worktree` previously supported only `codex exec` and `codex exec fork`. Interactive sessions need the same managed checkout support, with configuration and policy resolved for the destination before starting a turn.
## What changed
- Enable `codex --worktree` and `codex fork --worktree <session-id>` behind the `worktrees` feature, restricted to local sessions. Interactive forks require an explicit session selector.
- Resolve interactive and exec worktree forks from the session's latest saved working directory unless `--cd` is supplied. Keep relative `--add-dir` paths anchored to the invocation directory.
- Load interactive destination configuration before telemetry and login policy initialization, and bind checkout ownership before the first turn.
- Reject explicitly untrusted sources, including when destination cloud policy or refreshed configuration reveals distrust. Retain unbound interactive checkouts after startup failure and report manual recovery instructions.
## Testing
Add CLI integration and TUI tests for startup and named forks, destination instructions and configuration, ownership before the first request, trust enforcement, and retained-checkout recovery. Extend exec coverage for saved fork directories, explicit `--cd`, relative writable roots, and cloud policy rejection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 371583f7feca73b218a4ff188b2b85812c8439e6
## What changed
- Add the macOS-only `allow_symlinked_codex_home` user setting. When enabled in the execution host's `$CODEX_HOME/config.toml`, writable roots at or beneath that home may traverse symlinks.
- Keep the exception disabled by default and prevent project config, command-line overrides, and ignored user config from enabling it. Other writable roots remain subject to symlink checks.
- Propagate the resolved setting through local, interactive, and exec-server sandbox paths, including `CODEX_HOME` aliases.
- Explain the opt-out in symlink rejection errors, including that it trusts targets outside `CODEX_HOME` and targets that change between commands.
## Testing
- Add macOS coverage for shell commands, patches, filesystem helpers, process execution, and interactive startup with enabled, disabled, aliased, and out-of-scope homes.
GitOrigin-RevId: 99fcdf611200c9e1b7713cf06f7fdea5bfa7f089
## What changed
- Add the experimental `worktrees` feature and a shared `--worktree` flag for new and forked `codex exec` sessions.
- Create each enabled session in a managed Git worktree, use that checkout as the session working directory, and bind the checkout to the new thread.
- Share the configured worktree pool with Desktop while leaving automatic cleanup disabled for CLI allocations.
- Reject unsupported commands, remote execution, ignored user configuration, ephemeral sessions, and use without the feature enabled before allocating a worktree.
## Testing
- Cover flag placement and inheritance, supported and rejected command combinations, worktree allocation and thread ownership, configuration gating, and compatibility with existing worktree-backed sessions.
GitOrigin-RevId: 011ff4639b09e8992c50d7b823df23e71798670e
## What changed
- Replace `send_user_message_async` with `request_user_input_async`, accepting one or more questions with optional suggested answers while allowing the turn to continue.
- Attach structured question metadata to asynchronous agent messages while retaining readable fallback text, and preserve it through app-server events, thread history, and generated schemas.
- Continue enabling the new tool for model catalogs that advertise either the old or new tool name.
## Testing
- Cover tool registration, question validation, emitted items, continued turn execution, history preservation, and backwards-compatible deserialization.
GitOrigin-RevId: ffc49aebde2e854c3c50a122aa52805fec3fc6b3
## What changed
- Make `local_thread_store_compression` compress cold rollout files across shared and forked histories without a separate compression mode.
- Retire `local_thread_store_shared_compression` while continuing to accept it in strict configuration without changing compression behavior.
- Read rollout files through the compressed-rollout reader when `codex exec resume` determines the latest turn's working directory.
## Testing
- Cover compression and restoration of an archived fork chain.
- Cover cwd-based resume selection when only the compressed rollout remains.
- Cover the removed compatibility key in strict configuration.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8edebf61eccc1f79cabb8e641f8982c76f337bf1
## Why
App-server clients need the explanation and steering instruction returned with a
misalignment policy violation to offer a user-confirmed continuation. Missing or
incomplete details must continue to behave as a terminal block.
## What changed
- Parse optional misalignment classification, explanation, and steering details
from streamed and HTTP Responses errors and propagate them through core errors.
- Include the details in live app-server `error` and `turn/completed` payloads and
export the corresponding protocol schemas and TypeScript types.
- Keep explanations and steering messages out of serialized rollout events and
redact them from debug output.
- Document how clients can resume with `turn/start` after user confirmation.
## Testing
- Cover streamed, HTTP, and WebSocket-wrapped errors, including malformed and
classification-only details.
- Verify live app-server notifications expose resumable details without writing
the explanation or steering message to the rollout.
GitOrigin-RevId: 329258a444c2cd91d0c57ab1720830b33ddcfac5
## What changed
- Add the experimental `amazonBedrockAccessKeys` app-server login flow, persist its credentials in the configured auth store, and use them for SigV4-signed Bedrock requests.
- Report `bedrockAccessKeys` as a distinct auth mode and document access-key login alongside AWS profile and environment credential setup.
- Clear the selected Bedrock provider, AWS settings, and Bedrock-specific model on logout while leaving external AWS credentials and `.env` untouched.
- Reject managed access-key login when higher-precedence configuration would prevent its region or profile settings from taking effect.
## Testing
- Cover access-key login, storage, request signing, configuration conflicts, status reporting, and logout cleanup.
GitOrigin-RevId: bbf297887c6503d3651ceb2aad85c4d626e32723
## What changed
- Add a global `codex exec --thread-source <SOURCE>` option and propagate it to newly created and forked threads.
- Default the source to `user` when the option is omitted.
- Expose the classification as `threadSource` in the TypeScript SDK. It applies when a thread is first created and does not override the source when resuming an existing thread.
## Testing
- Cover CLI parsing and persisted metadata for new, resumed, and forked threads.
- Verify that the TypeScript SDK forwards `threadSource` only for new threads.
GitOrigin-RevId: 67a55a2b1f91b3a88f946c2af1c2a0989abb3130
## What changed
Add macOS-only integration coverage that runs commands under the production
Seatbelt policy and verifies:
- deny globs protect matching files, directory ancestors, symlink aliases, and
paths created after policy application;
- protected directories cannot be moved, replaced, or exchanged across
writable roots; and
- standard read-only and workspace-write profiles continue to allow expected
filesystem operations.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1f666835ee402bedd1d32e87f1082eaaf7b7bf6a
## What changed
- Add an optional `delivery` field to agent message events and app-server
`agentMessage` items, with `"async"` identifying a user-visible message sent
without ending the current turn.
- Preserve the marker through legacy event conversion, thread history
materialization, replay, and generated JSON and TypeScript schemas.
- Require delivery of async agent message completion notifications on the
in-process app-server transport.
## Testing
- Cover preservation of async delivery metadata in thread history.
- Cover delivery-required classification for async agent messages.
GitOrigin-RevId: f92ba25de1293ee271404badfdf0d117d6530329
## What changed
- Request paginated history when `codex exec` starts a persistent thread.
- Keep ephemeral threads unchanged and retry with legacy history when the configured thread store does not support pagination.
- Exercise paginated resume and fork persistence, including resumed history and fork ancestry without copying the source transcript.
## Testing
- Extend unit coverage for persistent and ephemeral thread start parameters.
- Add an integration test for the legacy-history fallback.
GitOrigin-RevId: 610a2db14524b127551e75b7aef541d44368f28a
## What changed
- Add `codex exec fork <SESSION_ID> [PROMPT]` for creating a new thread from
an existing session ID or thread name.
- Allow creating the fork without starting a turn, or immediately continue it
with a prompt and optional images.
- Preserve the source thread ID in the emitted session configuration while
leaving the source session unchanged.
## Testing
- Add CLI parsing coverage and an end-to-end test for promptless and prompted
forks, thread naming, copied history, and unsupported promptless options.
GitOrigin-RevId: b8f28b238a1526cc486c5beb886a63f68b8e7986
## Why
Successful `codex exec resume --last` lookups should not need to audit every rollout file.
## What changed
- Query the state database first when it is available and treat the first usable matching entry as authoritative.
- Verify that an indexed rollout's session ID matches the indexed thread ID before resuming it.
- Fall back to scanning rollouts after a complete database miss, allowing the existing backfill path to repair missing entries.
## Testing
Added integration coverage for missing database entries, usable indexed candidates, and mismatched indexed rollout paths.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9959dacbc908e97f1073118142f276b470aa8e06
## What changed
- Add `--approve-for-me` to interactive and exec commands to route approval requests through automatic review.
- Configure the mode with `approval_policy="on-request"` and the `workspace-write` sandbox.
- Propagate the option across root, `exec`, `resume`, and `fork` argument handling while preserving later subcommand permission overrides.
## Testing
- Cover parsing, permission conflicts, root/subcommand precedence, resume handling, and the effective exec approval and sandbox modes.
GitOrigin-RevId: ae969e8c18f925f943049fefff56255f10b25659
## What changed
- Propagate MCP tool `readOnlyHint` annotations through tool-call start and
completion events.
- Include the optional hint in persisted thread history and app-server
`mcpToolCall` items, preserving compatibility when the annotation is absent.
- Document that the hint describes tool capability, not the outcome of a
particular invocation.
## Testing
- Cover read-only and write-capable tools in live events and persisted rollout
data.
- Verify the hint survives thread reads and resumes for both in-progress and
completed MCP calls.
GitOrigin-RevId: dddfe905146075e5137a1094da485b86b99807f0
## What changed
Stop accepting the hidden, deprecated `--full-auto` flag in `codex exec` and
remove its implicit mapping to the `workspace-write` sandbox. Callers must now
select the sandbox mode explicitly with `--sandbox workspace-write`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0a739eb028eb3e2dd16a7650569256a01123d742
## What changed
Set `excludeTurns` on `codex exec` thread resume requests so the app server
does not return reconstructed turns or replay their restored token usage.
## Testing
Extend the `resume --last` integration test to verify that resuming a session
emits only the live turn's `thread/tokenUsage/updated` event.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3347071142e7453ea9e3ac9ac292aa5384d98430
## What changed
- Resolve shell and unified-exec commands against the trusted plugin roots loaded for each turn.
- Add optional `pluginId` and safe plugin-relative `scriptPath` fields to command execution items and legacy execution events, and propagate them through app-server notifications.
- Include the attribution in command execution analytics while rejecting absolute, unsafe, and unattributed script paths.
## Testing
- Cover attribution for cached curated and remote plugin scripts from command execution through core and app-server events.
- Verify analytics serialization and unsafe-path filtering.
GitOrigin-RevId: 02fac3a233284ccfc6642fa502a95f1881dba83d
## Why
The in-process app server can shut down while analytics for a completed turn are
still queued, preventing the completed-turn and accepted-line events from being
delivered.
## What changed
- Add a bounded analytics queue flush that waits for all preceding facts to be
processed.
- Flush analytics after the in-process runtime drains its outbound work and
before acknowledging shutdown.
- Extend the in-process shutdown timeout budgets to cover runtime draining and
the best-effort analytics flush.
## Testing
- Verify that the flush waits for preceding facts and is a no-op when analytics
is disabled.
- Verify that shutdown waits for delayed analytics delivery, including the
completed-turn and accepted-line events produced by a file change.
GitOrigin-RevId: 57ca24e535e5e2f3f3202b2e5498f075676c910a
## What changed
- Remove unused APIs and test helpers across the Rust workspace.
- Route Linux sandbox test setup through the shared exec request path.
- Drop dependencies that became unnecessary after the cleanup.
GitOrigin-RevId: 48fd9b2b1575bad7add0819786b4d8ec88d8486f
## Why
Multi-agent exec sessions can receive child `turn/completed` notifications on
the same event stream as the primary turn. Backfilling those unrelated
completions issues unnecessary `thread/read` requests.
## What changed
Run completion-item backfill only after a notification has been matched to the
primary exec thread and turn.
## Testing
Add an integration test that delivers a child completion before the primary
completion and verifies that only the primary completion triggers backfill.
GitOrigin-RevId: 46a41236ee6a39e4b341570ff4826a71fa02bb32
## What changed
- Parse `cache_write_tokens` from response input token details and carry it through token usage aggregation.
- Expose `cache_write_input_tokens` in protocol, app-server, exec, and TypeScript SDK usage events, defaulting it to zero for compatibility with older payloads.
- Report cache-write usage in analytics, metrics, traces, and rollout data alongside existing cache-read usage.
## Testing
- Add coverage for response parsing, usage event output, aggregation, analytics, metrics, and telemetry fields.
GitOrigin-RevId: 634e4fbe3086a8923c0ee13b622573e7d9d221bd
## Why
Standalone web search can return structured result DTOs separately from its
model-facing text output. App-server clients need access to that data without
coupling Codex to every result type or field.
## What changed
- Preserve the optional `results` array from `/v1/alpha/search` as opaque JSON
through web-search completion events, thread history, and app-server
`webSearch` items.
- Keep responses from older endpoints compatible when `results` is absent, and
allow clients to ignore result types and fields they do not understand.
- Regenerate the protocol schemas and TypeScript definitions for the optional
field.
## Testing
- Cover responses with missing, empty, and forward-compatible result payloads.
- Verify standalone web-search results round-trip through app-server item
notifications and thread-item conversion.
GitOrigin-RevId: 739ef5694ece5733f7b8749ec41d6bfa3f33c8c5
## Description
This PR migrates standalone web search onto the extension-owned
turn-item path introduced in #31283.
Standalone web search now emits `ExtensionItem::WebSearch` through
generic `TurnItem::Extension`, while app-server still exposes the
existing typed `ThreadItem::WebSearch` JSON shape. Hosted Responses API
web search stays on core-owned `TurnItem::WebSearch`.
## What changed
- Added `web_search::WebSearchItem` and `WebSearchAction` to
`codex-extension-items` under the stable `web.search` kind.
- Collapsed `ExtensionTurnItem` to generic `{ item, legacy_events }` now
that no typed extension special cases remain.
- Kept the existing `WebSearchBegin` / `WebSearchEnd` compatibility
events and canonical-first ordering.
- Updated app-server projection/history and generated TypeScript; the
app-server JSON schema is unchanged.
## Why
Prepare network approval scoping to distinguish execution environments
without changing behavior yet.
## What changed
- Add optional environment IDs to network policy requests.
- Add optional network environment IDs to exec and sandbox request
structs.
- Thread default None values through existing construction points.
- Fix stale constructor call sites that caused the CI compile failures.
## Not included
- Per-environment proxy listeners.
- Network approval cache or prompt behavior changes.
- Ambiguous request attribution handling.
Those behavior changes moved to stacked follow-up #28899.
## Validation
- just fmt
- CI will run tests and clippy
## Why
App-server must report command events containing foreign-platform paths
without changing existing client or rollout path-string formats.
## What changed
- retain `PathUri` through exec command begin/end events
- convert cwd values to `LegacyAppPathString` at the app-server
compatibility boundary
- drop command actions with foreign paths and log them
- serialize rollout-trace cwd values using their inferred native path
representation
- restore Wine coverage for retained Windows cwd values and successful
completion
## Why
It should be possible for app-server to handle "foreign" OS paths in
unified_exec working directories, allowing e.g. a Linux app-server to
run processes on e.g. a Windows exec-server.
## What
Convert the core unified_exec cwd values to use `PathUri`.
Adds fallible path conversion in several places to try to minimize the
scope of this change. The only time this change suppresses errors from
converting `PathUri` to an `AbsolutePathBuf` is when the turn is
configured with no sandboxing at all to allow us to make progress
testing without sandboxing.
Future changes to apply_patch and sandboxing will clean up these error
paths.
A tool's cwd is resolved from joining a model-provided workdir to the
environment's cwd. When using `AbsolutePathBuf::join()`, an
absolute-path workdir would overwrite the environment's cwd and we would
resolve permissions/sandboxing against the model-provided path. This
change extends `PathUri::join()` to also treat an absolute rhs as an
override of the base/lhs.
This also removes some coverage from the remove_env_windows tests until
a follow-up converts foreign paths in command exec events correctly.
## Breaking Changes
When using `AbsolutePathBuf::join()` for workdir resolution, we ended up
resolving tilde-prefixed paths against the app-server's `$HOME`, e.g.
`~/foo/bar` becomes `/home/anp/foo/bar`. It's difficult to do this with
`PathUri` joining, so after offline discussion this PR no longer
implements it.
A quick check of some power users' rollouts suggests that models don't
actually generate home-prefixed absolute working directories for their
spawns, so this shouldn't have any real blast radius.
The workspace denies `clippy::expect_used` in production. Although
`clippy.toml` allows `expect` in tests, Bazel Clippy compiles
integration-test helper code in a way that does not receive that
exemption, which encouraged verbose `unwrap_or_else(... panic!(...))`
and equivalent `match`/`let else` forms.
This allows `clippy::expect_used` once at each integration-test crate
root (including aggregated suites and test-support libraries), then
replaces manual panic-based Result and Option unwraps with
`expect`/`expect_err`. Standalone `tests/*.rs` files remain their own
crate roots. Intentional assertion and unexpected-variant panics remain
unchanged, and the production `expect_used = "deny"` lint remains in
place.
The cleanup is mechanical and net-negative in line count.
## Why
Shell snapshots are currently session-scoped even though shell and cwd
are properties of a selected turn environment. That makes snapshot
refresh depend on separate session-cwd plumbing, prevents retained
environments from retaining their snapshot work, and can make snapshot
construction use a different shell than command execution.
This follows #27955 by making the retained thread-environment service
own environment snapshot lifecycles. Session configuration remains the
requested selection state, while `ThreadEnvironments` remains the source
of successfully resolved environments.
## What changed
- Configure the shell-snapshot builder before initial environment
resolution.
- Start each local environment snapshot task when its `TurnEnvironment`
is built and retain that shared task while environment ID and cwd still
match.
- Inherit retained environment snapshots into spawned child threads.
- Carry the selected `TurnEnvironment` through shell runtimes so
snapshot construction and command execution use the same
environment-specific shell and cwd.
- Load project instructions and warm plugins/skills after initial
environment resolution.
- Continue decoding invalid UTF-8 instruction files lossily without
emitting a startup warning.
- Keep requested selections in `SessionConfiguration`; failed or
duplicate resolutions only affect the resolved environment snapshot.
## Validation
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `just test -p codex-home instructions` (6 passed)
- Focused environment, instruction, shell-snapshot, and user-shell tests
(84 passed)
- Focused shell-snapshot, user-shell, and unified-exec tests (126
passed; two event-timing tests passed on retry)
Addresses #26383 and #26452
## Summary
`codex exec --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust` printed the bypass warning,
but valid untrusted hooks still did not run.
Exec applied the flag to its initial config, then lost it when
app-server reloaded config for the new or resumed thread.
## Fix
Forward `bypass_hook_trust: true` through the existing thread request
config override for both start and resume.
The override is omitted when the flag is not enabled, preserving normal
trust behavior.
## Testing
Added:
- A test confirming start and resume preserve the override.
- An end-to-end exec test confirming a `SessionStart` hook runs and
creates a marker file.
## Why
We want to remove implicit use of `$CODEX_HOME` from `codex-core` and
make embedders responsible for supplying user-level instructions. This
also ensures user instructions load when no primary environment is
selected.
## What changed
Stacked on #27415, which makes `codex exec` surface thread-scoped
runtime warnings.
- Added `UserInstructionsProvider` to `codex-extension-api`, with
absolute source attribution and recoverable loading warnings.
- Added `codex-home` with the filesystem-backed provider for
`AGENTS.override.md` and `AGENTS.md`, preserving precedence, fallback,
trimming, lossy UTF-8 handling, and the existing uncapped global
instruction size.
- Removed global instruction loading from `Config` and require
`ThreadManager` callers to inject a provider.
- Load provider instructions once for each fresh root runtime, including
runtimes without a primary environment. Running sessions retain their
snapshot, while child agents inherit the parent snapshot without
invoking the provider.
- Keep provider instructions separate while loading project `AGENTS.md`,
then assemble the model-visible instructions with the existing ordering,
source attribution, warning, and turn-context behavior.
- Wired the Codex home provider through the CLI, app server, MCP server,
core facade, and thread-manager sample.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-home -p codex-extension-api`
- `just test -p codex-core agents_md`
- `just test -p codex-core guardian`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
thread_start_without_selected_environment_includes_only_global_instruction_source`
- `just test -p codex-exec warning`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Why
`codex exec` drops thread-scoped warning notifications. Warnings
discovered while a thread starts, including unreadable or invalid UTF-8
project `AGENTS.md` files, therefore become silent.
## What changed
- Process global and primary-thread warning notifications while
continuing to ignore warnings from unrelated threads.
- Render runtime warnings in human output and expose them through the
existing non-fatal error item in JSONL output.
- Add focused routing, rendering, and malformed project-instruction
coverage.
## Why
Workspace-specific `AGENTS.md` loading needs to use the selected
environment filesystem so remote workspaces and child agents read
instructions from their actual environment instead of the host
filesystem. The app-server should report the same instruction sources
the initialized thread actually loaded, rather than independently
rescanning configuration and filesystem state.
## What changed
- Introduce `LoadedAgentsMd` to retain ordered user, project, and
internal instructions with their provenance.
- Load and canonicalize workspace `AGENTS.md` paths through the primary
`EnvironmentManager` environment, then render the loaded instructions
when constructing turn context.
- Expose cached loaded instruction sources from initialized threads and
use them for app-server start, resume, and fork responses.
- Preserve global `CODEX_HOME` loading and separator behavior while
excluding empty project files that did not supply model-visible
instructions.
- Add integration coverage for CLI injection, selected-environment
provenance and rendering, empty environment selection, and cached
sources on loaded-thread resume.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core agents_md`
- `just test -p codex-core
selected_environment_sources_match_model_visible_instructions`
- `just test -p codex-exec agents_md`
- `just test -p codex-app-server instruction_sources`
- `just test -p codex-app-server --status-level fail`
## Why
`codex exec` was forcing headless runs to `approval_policy = "never"`
even when the resolved reviewer was `auto_review`. That prevented
unattended exec workflows from reaching the reviewed MCP write path they
were configured to use.
## What changed
- Keep the existing headless `never` default for ordinary exec runs.
- Re-resolve exec config without that synthetic override when the final
reviewer resolves to `AutoReview`, so configured or requirements-driven
approval policy is preserved.
- Add regression coverage for:
- `auto_review` plus `on-request` from user config
- requirements-driven `AutoReview`, asserting exec’s final approval
policy matches the no-override control config exactly
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec`
## Why
This PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/24161#discussion_r3325692763
revealed a subagent data modeling issue, where we overloaded
`forked_from_id` to also mean `parent_thread_id`. That's incorrect since
guardian and review subagents can be a subagent and NOT fork the main
thread's history.
The solution here is to explicitly store a new `parent_thread_id` on
`SessionMeta`, alongside `forked_from_id` which already exists. While
we're at it, also expose it in the app-server protocol on the `Thread`
object.
A thread->subagent relationship and a fork of thread history are
orthogonal concepts.
## What Changed
- Added top-level `parent_thread_id` persistence on `SessionMeta` and
runtime/session plumbing through `SessionConfiguredEvent`,
`CodexSpawnArgs`, `SessionConfiguration`, `ThreadConfigSnapshot`,
`TurnContext`, and `ModelClient`.
- Made turn metadata, request headers, analytics, and subagent-start
events read the separate runtime/top-level parent field instead of
deriving general parent lineage from `SessionSource` or
`forked_from_thread_id`.
- Passed parent lineage separately at delegated subagent, review,
guardian, agent-job, and multi-agent spawn construction sites;
copied-history fork lineage remains derived only from `InitialHistory`.
- Persisted and exposed parent lineage through rollout/thread-store
projections and app-server v2 `Thread.parentThreadId`.
- Updated app-server README text and regenerated app-server schema
fixtures for the additive `parentThreadId` response field.
## Why
#23813 switches the Windows sandbox runner path to `PermissionProfile`,
but it still left one runtime anchor for resolving symbolic
`:workspace_roots` entries. That is not enough once a turn has multiple
effective workspace roots: exact entries and deny globs under
`:workspace_roots` need to be materialized for every runtime root before
the command runner chooses token mode or builds ACL plans.
## What Changed
- Replaces the Windows runner/setup `permission_profile_cwd` plumbing
with `workspace_roots: Vec<AbsolutePathBuf>`.
- Resolves Windows-local `PermissionProfile` data with
`materialize_project_roots_with_workspace_roots(...)` instead of the
single-cwd helper.
- Threads `Config::effective_workspace_roots()` through core execution,
unified exec, TUI setup/read-grant flows, app-server setup, app-server
`command/exec`, and `debug sandbox` on Windows.
- Preserves those workspace roots through the zsh-fork escalation
executor instead of rebuilding them from `sandbox_policy_cwd`.
- Makes `ExecRequest::new(...)` and the remaining
`build_exec_request(...)` helper path take
`windows_sandbox_workspace_roots` explicitly so new call sites cannot
silently fall back to `vec![cwd]`.
- Clarifies the `debug sandbox` non-Windows comment: remaining
cwd-dependent resolution still uses `sandbox_policy_cwd`, while
`:workspace_roots` entries are already materialized from config roots.
- Updates elevated runner IPC `SpawnRequest` to send `workspace_roots`
and bumps the framed IPC protocol version to `3` for the payload shape
change.
- Adds Windows-local resolver coverage for expanding exact and glob
`:workspace_roots` entries across multiple roots, plus core helper
coverage proving explicit roots are preserved.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-windows-sandbox -p codex-core -p codex-tui -p
codex-cli -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-windows-sandbox`
- `cargo test -p codex-core windows_sandbox`
- `cargo test -p codex-core unix_escalation`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server windows_sandbox`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui windows_sandbox`
- `cargo test -p codex-cli debug_sandbox`
- `just test -p codex-core unified_exec`
- `just test -p codex-core
build_exec_request_preserves_windows_workspace_roots`
- `env -u CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_ACTIVE -u
CODEX_NETWORK_ALLOW_LOCAL_BINDING just test -p codex-app-server --lib
command_exec`
- `just test -p codex-windows-sandbox`
- `just test -p codex-exec sandbox`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-windows-sandbox`
A local macOS cross-check with `cargo check --target
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc ...` did not reach crate Rust code because native
dependencies require Windows SDK headers (`windows.h` / `assert.h`) in
this environment; Windows CI remains the real target validation.
Two local targeted filters compile but do not run assertions on macOS:
`env -u CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_ACTIVE -u CODEX_NETWORK_ALLOW_LOCAL_BINDING
just test -p codex-app-server --lib command_exec_processor` matched zero
tests, and `just test -p codex-linux-sandbox landlock` matched zero
tests because the landlock suite is Linux-only.
Add owning plugin id to MCP tool call items so we can better filter them
at plugin level.
## Summary
- add optional `plugin_id` to MCP tool-call items and legacy begin/end
events
- propagate plugin metadata into emitted core items and app-server v2
`ThreadItem::McpToolCall`
- preserve plugin ids through app-server replay/redaction paths and
regenerate v2 schema fixtures
## Testing
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core mcp_tool_call_item_includes_plugin_id --lib`
- `cargo check -p codex-tui --tests`
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server --tests`
- `git diff --check`
## Notes
- `just fix -p codex-core` completed with two non-fatal
`too_many_arguments` warnings on the touched MCP notification helpers.
- A broader `cargo test -p codex-core` run passed core unit tests, then
hit shell/sandbox/snapshot failures in the integration target.
- A broader app-server downstream run hit the existing
`in_process::tests::in_process_start_clamps_zero_channel_capacity` stack
overflow; `cargo test -p codex-exec` also hit the existing sandbox
expectation mismatch in
`thread_lifecycle_params_include_legacy_sandbox_when_no_active_profile`.
## Why
`codex exec resume` should have the same structured-output support as
top-level `codex exec`. Without `--output-schema`, multi-turn automation
has to choose between resumed session context and schema-validated JSON
output.
Fixes#22998.
## What changed
- Marked `--output-schema` as a global `codex exec` flag so it can be
passed after `resume`.
- Reused the existing output schema plumbing so resumed turns attach the
schema to the final response request while preserving session context.
## Why
`SandboxPolicy` is now a legacy compatibility shape, but several tests
still built a `SandboxPolicy` only to immediately convert it into
`PermissionProfile` for APIs that already accept canonical runtime
permissions. Those detours make it harder to audit where legacy sandbox
policy is still required, because boundary-only usages are mixed
together with ordinary test setup.
## What Changed
- Updated tests in `codex-core`, `codex-exec`, `codex-analytics`, and
`codex-config` to construct `PermissionProfile` values directly when the
code under test takes a permission profile.
- Changed exec-policy, request-permissions, session, and sandbox test
helpers to pass `PermissionProfile` through instead of converting from
`SandboxPolicy` internally.
- Left `SandboxPolicy` in place where tests are explicitly exercising
legacy compatibility or request/response boundaries.
## Test Plan
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib safety::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib exec_policy::tests::`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib exec::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib guardian_review_session_config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib tools::network_approval::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib
tools::runtimes::shell::unix_escalation::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib managed_network`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all request_permissions::`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec sandbox`
---
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with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/23030).
* #23036
* __->__ #23030
## Why
Some sandboxed integration tests enabled both ambient temp roots
(`TMPDIR` and literal `/tmp`) even though they were not testing
temp-root behavior. On Linux bwrap, making `/tmp` writable causes
protected metadata mount targets such as `/tmp/.git`, `/tmp/.agents`,
and `/tmp/.codex` to be synthesized. If a run is interrupted, those
top-level markers can be left behind and contaminate later tests.
## What changed
For the incidental integration tests that do not need ambient temp-root
access, set `exclude_tmpdir_env_var` and `exclude_slash_tmp` to `true`.
Dedicated protected-metadata coverage remains in the lower-level sandbox
tests that use isolated temp roots.
## Verification
Focused remote devbox repros passed with a watcher polling `/tmp/.git`,
`/tmp/.agents`, and `/tmp/.codex`; no leaked markers were observed.
## Why
`CODEX_RS_SSE_FIXTURE` let integration-style CLI, exec, and TUI tests
bypass the normal Responses transport by reading SSE from local files.
That kept test-only behavior wired through production client code. The
affected tests can stay hermetic by using the existing
`core_test_support::responses` mock server and passing `openai_base_url`
instead.
## What Changed
- Removed the `CODEX_RS_SSE_FIXTURE` flag,
`codex_api::stream_from_fixture`, the `env-flags` dependency, and the
checked-in SSE fixture files.
- Repointed the affected core, exec, and TUI tests at `MockServer` with
the existing SSE event constructors.
- Removed the Bazel test data plumbing for the deleted fixtures and
refreshed cargo/Bazel lock state.
## Verification
- `cargo build -p codex-cli`
- `cargo test -p codex-api`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all responses_api_stream_cli`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
integration_creates_and_checks_session_file`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec --test all ephemeral`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec --test all resume`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui --test all
resume_startup_does_not_consume_model_availability_nux_count`
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `just fix -p codex-api -p codex-core -p codex-exec -p codex-tui`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
`apply_patch` is now a freeform/custom tool. Keeping the old
JSON/function-style registration and parsing path left another way for
models and tests to invoke `apply_patch`, which made the tool surface
harder to reason about.
## What changed
- Removed the `ApplyPatchToolType::Function` variant, JSON `apply_patch`
spec, and handler support for function payloads.
- Kept `apply_patch_tool_type = freeform` as the supported model
metadata path, including Bedrock catalog metadata.
- Migrated `apply_patch` tests and SSE fixtures to custom/freeform tool
calls.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tools -p codex-protocol -p codex-model-provider`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tools::handlers::apply_patch --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
apply_patch_tool_executes_and_emits_patch_events`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
apply_patch_reports_parse_diagnostics`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec test_apply_patch_tool`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-tools -p codex-protocol -p codex-model-provider -p
codex-exec`
## Why
Message history was implemented inside `codex-core` and surfaced through
core protocol ops and `SessionConfiguredEvent` fields even though the
current consumer is TUI-local prompt recall. That made core own UI
history persistence and exposed `history_log_id` / `history_entry_count`
through surfaces that app-server and other clients do not need.
This change moves message history persistence out of core and keeps the
recall plumbing local to the TUI.
## What changed
- Added a new `codex-message-history` crate for appending, looking up,
trimming, and reading metadata from `history.jsonl`.
- Removed core protocol history ops/events: `AddToHistory`,
`GetHistoryEntryRequest`, and `GetHistoryEntryResponse`.
- Removed `history_log_id` and `history_entry_count` from
`SessionConfiguredEvent` and updated exec/MCP/test fixtures accordingly.
- Updated the TUI to dispatch local app events for message-history
append/lookup and keep its persistent-history metadata in TUI session
state.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-message-history -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec event_processor_with_json_output`
- `cargo test -p codex-mcp-server outgoing_message`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
- `just fix -p codex-message-history -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p
codex-tui -p codex-exec -p codex-mcp-server`
