## Why
Remote plugin sync results need to identify which runtime categories may require
invalidation when a cached bundle changes.
## What changed
- Add `RemotePluginCapabilities` hints for MCP servers, Apps, hooks, and skills.
- Attach capability hints to materialized and removed plugins. Updates union the
declarations from the old and new bundles, while removals inspect the active
bundle before deleting its cache.
- Discover declarations without applying runtime policy or creating runtime
data directories.
## Testing
- Cover Agent Plugin capability discovery with an unavailable runtime data
directory.
- Cover capability accumulation across bundle versions and removal reporting.
GitOrigin-RevId: 338075d22d86f30f52be5785a2d87c77b33609c6
## What changed
- Resolve plugin activation, MCP server policy, and marketplace definitions from the effective configuration stack, including system settings and trusted project overrides.
- Load plugin skills independently for each working directory passed to `skills/list`.
- Exclude project configuration from catalog requests whose `cwds` are omitted or empty.
- Cache up to eight loaded plugin configurations with least-recently-used eviction so requests for different working directories can reuse their results.
## Testing
- Cover layered plugin and MCP policy across trusted and untrusted projects.
- Cover per-directory skill and plugin catalog results, cache reuse and eviction, and system-defined marketplaces.
GitOrigin-RevId: cb68b2b1bdab1da48e05ca7562bc05014431fc71
## What changed
- Apply local `env_vars` declarations from `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` to matching stdio servers loaded from an Agent Plugin manifest.
- Replace matching `${NAME}` entries in the portable server environment with host environment forwarding while preserving the portable command, arguments, and unrelated servers.
- Ignore remote-sourced environment variables and support both inline and file-based Codex MCP declarations.
## Testing
- Cover matching-server filtering, local and remote sources, inline declarations, and an end-to-end `PATH` forwarding round trip.
GitOrigin-RevId: 843e1232a084fa5f571fe56e07266995b87fd53d
## Why
Background marketplace and plugin refreshes can otherwise inherit repository-local or command-scoped Git configuration from the project that launched Codex. That configuration can redirect remotes or invoke Git helpers during an automatic operation.
## What changed
- Run automatic marketplace upgrades, plugin cache refreshes, and curated marketplace lookups with repository-scoped Git environment variables removed and a temporary trusted repository under the Codex home.
- Carry the automatic/manual trust mode through marketplace upgrades and plugin materialization.
- Preserve the caller's Git configuration for explicit marketplace upgrades, plugin installs, and refreshes.
## Testing
- Add regression coverage for repository URL rewrites, protocol helpers, command-scoped configuration, and manual Git filters.
GitOrigin-RevId: 957f45fa3bd7ce7e1b83355f276cf65dc5e99c8e
## What changed
- Resolve MCP server policy directly from the effective user configuration for selected executor-plugin roots.
- Apply server enablement, tool allow/deny lists, and default and per-tool approval modes while preserving stricter plugin-declared restrictions.
- Cover policy merging and opaque selected-root IDs in the executor-plugin MCP integration tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: dce3021969ba71e642de52312449cab6277515c3
## What changed
- Define skill config selectors, ordered rules, and layer-stack parsing in `codex-config`.
- Resolve disabled skill paths from generic skill name/path pairs, so configuration logic no longer depends on `SkillMetadata`.
- Update plugin and host skill consumers to use the `codex-config` API and consolidate the rule tests with the skill config tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3fe67869708df2652befe28d58cdeba933256f84
## What changed
- Route plugin inventory loading and capability summaries through the injected
`SkillRootLoader`.
- Preserve recursive discovery for legacy plugins while restricting agent-plugin
skill discovery to direct children of the skills root.
## Testing
- Verify `plugin/read` excludes nested agent-plugin skills.
- Verify installed agent-plugin telemetry reports skills only for portable,
direct-child layouts.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9e78dd0c70a632d510c780963a6ceb3ad4bc2522
## What changed
- Inject the host skill loader into `PluginsManager` so plugin discovery and agent turns use the same loading and product-policy behavior.
- Share plugin skill snapshots across those paths, preserving a consistent view of skills across workspaces.
- Apply migrated-command precedence after product filtering, allowing an eligible migrated command to replace a filtered native skill with the same name.
## Testing
- Add coverage for product-restricted plugin skills, native-versus-migrated command precedence, and the skills exposed to agent turns.
GitOrigin-RevId: f5ef0d0766ebeeb30d73ffaf044d003c2906ea4d
## What changed
- Track Agent Plugin manifests through plugin, skill, and MCP loading so their capabilities use format-specific behavior without changing legacy plugins.
- Discover only direct-child skills, exclude app and hook capabilities, isolate MCP data, and reject MCP configuration files that are non-regular or resolve outside the plugin root.
- Bound model-visible skill instructions, plugin instructions, MCP descriptions, schemas, individual tools, and the aggregate Agent Plugin MCP tool set.
- Stop MCP and OAuth redirects when Agent Plugins send configured or authorization headers, while retaining existing redirect behavior for legacy MCP servers.
## Testing
- Add coverage for capability filtering, skill discovery, isolated MCP data and reserved-path expansion, unsafe MCP configuration files, context limits, and redirect handling.
GitOrigin-RevId: c9af66b051269f3226628ca280a58d32c808c38f
## Why
A repository can contain a tracked directory that Git implicitly treats as a bare
repository. Its configuration may select helpers such as `core.fsmonitor`, causing
Codex Git operations in that directory to execute repository-controlled code.
## What changed
- Pass `-c safe.bareRepository=explicit` to Codex-managed Git commands so they
reject implicitly discovered bare repositories.
- Continue to support repositories explicitly selected with `--git-dir` or
`GIT_DIR`.
## Testing
Add a regression test that clones a repository containing a tracked embedded Git
repository and verifies that guarded Git inspection rejects it without running
its configured filesystem monitor.
GitOrigin-RevId: 344b5bc1e0ffa94f2a1b788488aa653222da10f3
## Why
Curated plugin capabilities need to follow the active authentication mode, including after an account switch and when the configured model provider differs from the authentication source.
## What changed
- Select the ChatGPT, remote, or API curated marketplace from the current authentication mode, with an API marketplace fallback for ambient Amazon Bedrock credentials.
- Apply that selection consistently to plugin loading, hooks, skills, installed-plugin conflict filtering, marketplace listing, and `codex mcp` discovery.
- Start the local curated repository sync when an account change makes the remote catalog unavailable, and refresh existing thread MCP runtimes when the effective plugin cache changes.
## Testing
Added coverage for account switches, ChatGPT-authenticated Bedrock sessions, API-key MCP discovery, curated marketplace filtering, hook and skill routing, and existing-thread MCP refreshes.
GitOrigin-RevId: dbefdba3a3ea7281e7b6013e057a418770ccfc95
## What changed
- Carry a plugin's local and remote identities together from plugin loading into
`SkillMetadata`.
- Resolve remote IDs from the installed-plugin snapshot when available, falling
back to persisted install metadata only when no snapshot exists.
- Include plugin identity in skill cache keys so identity changes refresh cached
skill metadata.
## Testing
- Cover snapshot and persisted identity resolution, local marketplace isolation,
cached skill refreshes, and propagation through plugin skill snapshots.
GitOrigin-RevId: aabeeb631a43361fe817358ace7f1ea8ba5db708
## What changed
- Recognize root `plugin.json` files using the Agent Plugins 1.0 schema and map their portable metadata, `skills/`, and `mcp.json` into Codex plugin manifests.
- Apply Codex-specific apps, hooks, and interface settings from the inline `com.openai` extension, with `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` as a fallback overlay.
- Preserve legacy manifest precedence when a root `plugin.json` is unrelated, and reject unsupported Agent Plugins schema versions.
- Add a direct-child skill discovery mode that excludes nested skills and paths resolving outside the plugin root.
## Testing
- Cover manifest metadata, validation, extension precedence, legacy fallback, and direct-child skill path boundaries.
GitOrigin-RevId: eab24139f13a5cc5cb3ad3fb444d8e904511aca6
## Why
Git can interpret a requested commit SHA as a branch name when the remote's
default branch has the same name. This can cause a marketplace plugin source
to materialize a different commit than the one it pinned.
## What changed
Resolve `HEAD` after checking out a SHA-pinned Git plugin source and reject the
source when the resolved commit does not exactly match the requested SHA.
Ref-name checkouts retain their existing behavior.
## Testing
Add a regression test with a default branch named after another commit's SHA
and verify that materialization rejects the mismatched checkout.
GitOrigin-RevId: c19cbd98ee6167dad7b2ee72e283b3bd30b59713
## What changed
- Define and export skill metadata, policy, dependency, interface, and configuration rule types from `codex-skills`.
- Update core, plugin, and extension consumers to use the shared models while retaining compatibility re-exports from `codex-core-skills`.
- Share product-restriction handling between host and environment skill metadata.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for default and explicit implicit-invocation and product policies.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9093469f8fff8e2d902dc9781235f64709827a87
## What changed
- Convert supported plugin command Markdown into generated skills when a plugin is installed.
- Read command sources from the manifest's `commands` field, falling back to the plugin's `commands/` directory.
- Load generated command skills alongside native plugin skills while preferring native skills with the same name.
- Skip commands with unsupported templates, missing descriptions, name collisions, or generated skills larger than 4 KB, and keep migration failures from blocking plugin installation.
## Testing
- Cover default and manifest-configured command paths, stale generated skill cleanup, size limits, native-skill precedence, invalid manifest fields, and non-fatal migration errors.
GitOrigin-RevId: 67d910048544b160b191066569bca69b2b951ebc
## What changed
- Scan up to eight skill roots concurrently instead of loading them one at a time.
- Share scan capacity across host-skill and plugin-skill loads to bound aggregate filesystem work.
- Merge completed scans in input order so root precedence and error ordering remain deterministic.
- Skip canonicalization and parsing work for empty roots.
## Testing
- Add coverage for out-of-order scan completion and shared-capacity blocking.
GitOrigin-RevId: 33a47aaa02aee7fe31a050bb04d51c1e2043d6ae
## Summary
- project effective marketplace/plugin config through the enterprise
source policy so blocked installed plugins become inactive
- filter plugin list/read/discovery and CLI marketplace source/snapshot
reporting using the same policy
- enforce source admission for background marketplace cache refreshes
- continue refreshing/upgrading independent marketplaces and plugins
when one entry fails, returning per-entry errors
- include policy-projected plugin state in cache and refresh keys so
requirement changes invalidate stale results
## Stack
This is PR 2 of 2 and is based on #29690. Review the admission model and
source matcher in #29690 first; this PR contains only runtime
enforcement.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` (287 tests)
- `just test -p codex-cli
plugin_list_ignores_implicit_system_marketplace_roots_without_manifests`
- `cargo check -p codex-cli -p codex-app-server --tests`
## Why
Marketplace source deserialization treated `{"source":"npm", ...}` as
unsupported. The loader logged and skipped the entry, so npm-backed
plugins never appeared in `plugin list --available` and `plugin add`
returned "plugin not found".
Codex plugins are installed from a plugin root, not from an npm
dependency tree. For npm-backed marketplace entries, Codex should fetch
the published package contents without running package scripts or
installing unrelated dependencies.
## What changed
- Add `npm` marketplace plugin sources with `package`, optional semver
`version` or version range, and optional HTTPS `registry`.
- Reject unsafe npm source fields before materialization, including
invalid package names, non-semver version selectors, plaintext or
credential-bearing registry URLs, and registry query/fragment data.
- Materialize npm plugins with `npm pack --ignore-scripts`, then unpack
the resulting tarball through the existing hardened plugin bundle
extractor.
- Enforce npm archive and extracted-size limits, require the standard
npm `package/` archive root, and verify the extracted `package.json`
name matches the requested package before installing.
- Keep plugin listings, install-source descriptions, CLI JSON/human
output, app-server v2 `PluginSource`, TUI source summaries, regenerated
schema fixtures, and app-server documentation in sync.
## Impact
Marketplaces can distribute Codex plugins from public or configured
private HTTPS npm registries using the same install flow as existing
materialized plugin sources. `npm` must be available on `PATH` when an
npm-backed plugin is installed.
Fixes#27831
## Validation
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-app-server -p codex-cli`
- npm/schema/core-plugin coverage passed in the run.
- The full focused command finished with `1739 passed`, `11 failed`, and
`6 timed out`; the failures were unrelated local app-server environment
failures from `sandbox-exec: sandbox_apply: Operation not permitted`
plus one missing `test_stdio_server` helper binary.
- Installed an npm-published Codex plugin package through a throwaway
local marketplace and throwaway `CODEX_HOME` to exercise the real npm
materialization path end to end.
## Why
Connector declarations currently enter Codex through broad plugin
capability summaries, then MCP setup, turn tooling, and `app/list` each
reconstruct the same information. That makes executor-selected
connectors difficult to add without coupling connector behavior to the
host plugin loader.
This PR introduces a small connector-owned value that later stack layers
can populate before thread startup.
## What changed
- Move the pure app-declaration parser into `codex-connectors`,
preserving declaration order and category cleanup while leaving
host-side validation and deduplication unchanged.
- Add an immutable `ConnectorSnapshot` with ordered connector IDs and
plugin display-name provenance.
- Adapt the existing local-plugin capability summaries into that
snapshot at current consumer boundaries.
- Use the snapshot for MCP tool provenance, turn connector inventory,
and `app/list`.
- Keep the crate API narrow: no test-only snapshot accessors are
exposed.
The externally visible behavior is unchanged. Connector tools still come
from the orchestrator-owned `/ps/mcp` server, and local plugin
enablement remains owned by the existing plugin loader.
## Stack scope
This is the foundation only. It does not read selected executor packages
or change thread startup. #29852 adds the executor-backed declaration
reader, and #29856 composes selected declarations into a thread
snapshot.
## Why
Executor-owned plugin roots are `PathUri`, but MCP config normalization
still converts them into a native `Path` using the app-server host's
rules. Relative `cwd` values can therefore resolve against the wrong
filesystem when host and executor path conventions differ.
This PR keeps executor MCP paths URI-native until the selected
environment launches the server, while retaining the existing host
parser behavior.
## What changed
- Keep one shared MCP normalization path with narrow host-`Path` and
executor-`PathUri` entrypoints.
- Preserve native host resolution for locally installed plugin MCP
configs.
- For executor configs, default `cwd` to the plugin root and resolve
relative working directories with the root URI's path convention.
- Accept explicit executor `file:` URIs only when they remain within the
selected plugin root.
- Preserve the selected environment id and existing remote
environment-variable ownership rules.
- Route the executor plugin provider through the URI-native entrypoint
without converting the root on the host.
- Ensure `codex doctor` does not probe executor-owned stdio commands or
foreign working directories on the host.
- Cover foreign Windows roots, relative and absolute executor working
directories, traversal rejection, runtime resolution, and doctor
behavior.
```text
plugin root: file:///C:/plugins/demo
configured cwd: scripts
|
v
resolved cwd: file:///C:/plugins/demo/scripts
|
v
launch through the selected executor
```
No new provider or filesystem abstraction is introduced.
## Stack
1. #29614 — add lexical `PathUri` containment.
2. #29620 — share URI-native manifest path resolution.
3. #28918 — keep selected plugin roots and resources URI-native.
4. #29626 — load executor skills without host path conversion.
5. **This PR** — resolve executor MCP working directories without host
path conversion.
## Why
Authentication mode is a domain concept used by login, model selection,
telemetry, and transports. Keeping the canonical type in app-server
protocol forces those lower-level crates to depend on an unrelated wire
API.
## What changed
- Added canonical `codex_protocol::auth::AuthMode` domain values.
- Kept the app-server wire DTO unchanged and added an explicit app-side
conversion.
- Removed production app-server-protocol dependencies from login,
model-provider-info, models-manager, and otel call paths.
## Stack
This is PR 2 of 6, stacked on [PR
#29714](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29714). Review only the
delta from `codex/split-json-rpc-protocols`. Next: [PR
#29722](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29722).
## Validation
- Auth and login coverage passed in the focused protocol/domain test
run.
- App-server account and auth conversion coverage passed.
## Summary
- suppress configured `openai-curated` plugins when the remote plugin
feature is enabled and auth uses the Codex backend
- preserve `openai-api-curated` and non-Codex-backend behavior while
including remote catalog activation in the plugin load cache key
- add core plugin coverage and an app-server integration test for
runtime feature enablement
## Why
The Codex app enables remote plugins through process-local runtime
feature enablement, which can happen after app-server startup tasks have
already observed legacy local plugin state. The existing conflict logic
only preferred a remote plugin when the same plugin was already
installed remotely, so a configured legacy-only plugin could continue
exposing skills and other capabilities from `openai-curated`.
## Impact
When the remote catalog is active, legacy `openai-curated` plugins no
longer contribute skills, MCP servers, apps, or hooks. Remote installed
plugins continue to load normally, and `openai-api-curated` remains
unaffected. This does not change remote fetch, bundle sync, or uninstall
behavior.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins
remote_global_catalog_ignores_local_curated_plugins
remote_plugin_feature_keeps_local_curated_without_codex_backend`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
runtime_remote_plugin_enablement_excludes_local_curated_plugin_skills`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
This PR moves construction of `PluginTelemetryMetadata` from loader and
model helpers into `PluginsManager`, which already owns installed plugin
state and will eventually perform remote identity enrichment. The
metadata type remains in `codex-plugin`, and serialized analytics events
remain unchanged.
## Before
```mermaid
flowchart LR
subgraph Events["Analytics event paths"]
direction TB
Lifecycle["Local install / uninstall"]
Config["Enable / disable"]
Remote["Remote install"]
Used["Plugin used"]
end
subgraph Construction["Metadata construction"]
direction TB
Loader["Loader telemetry helpers"]
Summary["PluginCapabilitySummary::telemetry_metadata"]
Override["Caller adds remote_plugin_id"]
end
Metadata["PluginTelemetryMetadata"]
Lifecycle --> Loader
Config --> Loader
Remote --> Loader
Loader -->|"local events"| Metadata
Loader -->|"remote install"| Override
Override --> Metadata
Used --> Summary
Summary --> Metadata
```
Telemetry metadata was constructed through loader helpers, a
capability-summary method, and a remote-install call-site override.
## After
```mermaid
flowchart LR
subgraph Events["Analytics event paths"]
direction TB
Lifecycle["Local install / uninstall"]
Config["Enable / disable"]
Remote["Remote install"]
Used["Plugin used"]
end
Manager["PluginsManager — single construction owner"]
Metadata["PluginTelemetryMetadata"]
Lifecycle --> Manager
Config --> Manager
Remote -->|"authoritative remote ID"| Manager
Used -->|"capability summary"| Manager
Manager --> Metadata
```
Every analytics path delegates metadata construction to
`PluginsManager`. Remote install still supplies its authoritative
backend ID explicitly.
## What Changes
- Make loader code return a focused plugin capability summary instead of
constructing analytics metadata.
- Centralize immutable plugin telemetry metadata construction in
`PluginsManager`.
- Route local install/uninstall, remote install, enable/disable, and
plugin-used emitters through the manager.
- Preserve the current serialized analytics contract exactly.
Normal metadata still has no remote override. Remote install continues
to provide its authoritative backend ID explicitly, so the existing
serializer continues reporting that ID through `plugin_id`.
Snapshot-based enrichment is intentionally deferred to the final PR.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` (238 tests passed)
- `just test -p codex-plugin` (3 tests passed)
- Scoped Clippy/compile checks passed for `codex-plugin`,
`codex-core-plugins`, `codex-app-server`, and `codex-core`.
## Split Overview
```text
main
├── #27093 Debug analytics capture (merged)
├── #27099 Non-mutating plugin smoke (merged)
├── #27100 Remote install/uninstall smoke (merged)
└── #27102 Plugin telemetry metadata refactor ← you are here
└── #27669 Persist remote plugin identity
After #27102 and #27669 merge:
└── Final PR: add explicit local and remote IDs to plugin analytics
```
Review order and dependencies:
1. [#27093 Add debug-only analytics event
capture](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27093) (merged)
2. [#27099 Add a plugin analytics smoke
workflow](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27099) (merged)
3. [#27100 Add a remote plugin analytics mutation smoke
workflow](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27100) (merged)
4. This metadata refactor, independent and based on `main`
5. [#27669 Persist remote plugin
identity](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27669), stacked on this
PR
6. Final remote-ID behavior PR, created after the prerequisites merge
The original [#26281](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26281)
remains open as the aggregate reference until the final replacement PR
is published.
## Summary
- Preserve raw plugin skill-root snapshots in the matching loaded-plugin
cache entry, keyed by the effective plugin root identity including
namespace.
- Pass those snapshots through `SkillsLoadInput` as an optional preload,
so session startup reuses plugin parsing while ordinary skill loads pass
`None`.
- Keep plugin skill loading cohesive: the existing loaders accept the
optional snapshots directly, and uncached or marketplace-detail paths do
not create a cache.
## Why
Plugin discovery already parses plugin skills to determine available
capabilities. Cold session startup then scanned and parsed the same
roots again while building the skills snapshot.
This solves the same duplicate-work problem as #28623 while keeping
ownership narrow: `PluginsManager` creates and owns
`PluginSkillSnapshots` only for its loaded-plugin cache entry;
`SkillsService` consumes an optional clone. Entry replacement or
clearing naturally drops the snapshots, with no separate generation,
capacity policy, or watcher coupling.
## Validation
- `cargo clippy -p codex-core-skills --all-targets -- -D warnings`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins
skills_service_reuses_skills_parsed_during_plugin_load`
- `just test -p codex-core-skills
namespaces_plugin_skills_using_provided_namespace`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
Support marketplace plugins whose source directory does not include a
discoverable plugin manifest. Metadata-rich `marketplace.json` entries
now act as fallback plugin manifests for listing, local detail reads,
install, and non-curated cache refresh.
The fallback preserves marketplace-entry plugin fields wholesale, then
adds the small Codex-facing compatibility bridge for presentation
metadata. A real source `plugin.json` always wins when present.
## Details
- Capture flattened marketplace-entry fields into
`MarketplacePluginManifestFallback`, preserving fields such as
`version`, `description`, `skills`, `mcpServers`, `apps`, `hooks`,
`agents`, `commands`, `strict`, `author`, and future manifest fields
without a per-field translation list.
- Bridge Claude-style top-level `displayName`, `author.name`,
`homepage`, and marketplace `category` into Codex's nested `interface`
fields only when the nested values are absent.
- Treat fallback metadata as installable only when the marketplace entry
contributes metadata beyond bare `name` and `source`; existing
missing-manifest behavior remains for metadata-free entries.
- Read local plugin details from the already parsed fallback manifest,
including fallback-declared app and MCP paths, instead of rereading only
an on-disk manifest.
- Pass fallback contents into `PluginStore`, which validates them and
injects `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` into Store's existing atomic copy.
Local marketplace source directories are never mutated, and the fallback
path no longer needs an additional staging directory.
- Keep Git source materialization unchanged; Git clones still use the
existing marketplace source staging area before Store installation.
## Why
`built_tools` runs for every sampling request, and local plugin
discovery was repeatedly rereading plugin manifests, skills, MCP
configuration, and app declarations to build the same tool-suggest
metadata.
That source-derived metadata is stable until the existing plugin manager
reloads its cache. Runtime eligibility still needs to reflect the
current install, disable, policy, app-overlap, and authentication state.
## What changed
- Add a bounded, in-memory tool-suggest metadata cache owned by
`PluginsManager`.
- Key cached metadata by plugin identity and source, while applying
authentication routing each time the metadata is projected.
- Invalidate the metadata alongside the existing loaded-plugin cache,
including its normal configuration, marketplace refresh, and
remote-installed-plugin invalidation paths.
- Guard against an in-flight load repopulating stale metadata after
invalidation.
- Keep marketplace membership and all runtime eligibility filtering live
rather than introducing a separate catalog or revision model.
## Impact
Repeated sampling requests reuse already-loaded plugin capability
metadata while retaining the existing plugin-manager lifecycle as the
single freshness boundary.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` — 252 passed
- Added focused coverage for cache invalidation and authentication
reprojection.
## What changed
- retain the parsed plugin manifest namespace on loaded plugins
- carry that namespace through `PluginSkillRoot` and `SkillRoot`
- use the provided namespace when qualifying plugin skill names
- include the namespace in the skills cache key
## Why
Plugin loading has already parsed `plugin.json`, but skill parsing
currently walks every `SKILL.md` ancestor and probes/reads the manifest
again to reconstruct the same namespace. Passing the parsed namespace
removes those repeated filesystem calls, which are particularly costly
on remote filesystems.
Context:
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C0ARA9GF5D4/p1781639496496439?thread_ts=1781202444.891669&cid=C0ARA9GF5D4
## Impact
Plugin skill names remain unchanged. A regression test uses a
deliberately different on-disk manifest name to verify that plugin roots
use the provided parsed namespace.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core-skills -p codex-core-plugins -p codex-plugin
-p codex-utils-plugins` (352 passed)
- `just fix -p codex-core-skills -p codex-core-plugins -p codex-plugin
-p codex-utils-plugins`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
Allow plugin manifests to declare `skills` as either a single path
string or an array of path strings in the core plugin loader.
## Why
Some plugin packages need to expose skills from more than one directory.
Before this change, `plugin.json` only accepted a single string for
`skills`, so manifests like this were ignored as an invalid `skills`
shape:
```json
{
"skills": ["./skills/abc", "./skills/edk"]
}
```
This keeps the existing single-string form working while adding support
for the list form. The final scope is intentionally limited to the core
plugin manifest/load path for `skills`; `apps`, file-backed
`mcpServers`, and the bundled plugin-creator assets are unchanged in
this PR.
## What changed
- Parse `skills` as either a string or an array of strings in
`plugin.json`.
- Store resolved skill paths as a list in `PluginManifestPaths`.
- Load manifest-declared skill roots in addition to the default
`./skills` root.
- Deduplicate exact duplicate skill roots before loading.
- Rely on existing skill-loader dedupe by canonical `SKILL.md` path for
overlapping roots such as `./skills` plus `./skills/abc`.
- Update plugin manifest tests to cover:
- single string `skills`
- list of string `skills`
- duplicate skill roots
- `./skills` as a manifest path
- explicit child roots like `./skills/abc` and `./skills/edk`
- overlapping-root dedupe
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-plugin`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-mcp-extension`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
This fixes plugin manifest parsing for MCP servers declared as an object
directly in `plugin.json`.
Before this change, Codex modeled `mcpServers` as only a string path,
for example:
```json
{
"name": "counter-sample",
"version": "1.1.1",
"mcpServers": "./.mcp.json"
}
```
Some migrated plugins instead provide the server map directly in the
manifest:
```json
{
"name": "counter-sample",
"version": "1.1.1",
"description": "Plugin that declares MCP servers in the manifest",
"mcpServers": {
"counter": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://sample.example/counter/mcp"
}
}
}
```
That object form previously failed during install/load with an error
like:
```text
failed to parse plugin manifest: invalid type: map, expected a string
```
## What changed
- Add a manifest representation for `mcpServers` as either
`Path(Resource)` or `Object(map)`.
- Parse `plugin.json` `mcpServers` as either a string path or an object.
- Route object-valued MCP server maps through the existing plugin MCP
config parser instead of adding a second parser.
- Apply existing per-plugin MCP server policy to object-valued MCP
servers the same way as file-backed MCP servers.
- Include object-valued MCP server names in plugin telemetry/capability
metadata.
- Support object-valued MCP config for executor plugins without
requiring a `.mcp.json` filesystem read.
- Update the bundled plugin-creator validator and `plugin-json-spec.md`
so generated-plugin validation accepts the same object-valued shape.
## Compatibility
Existing plugin manifests that use `"mcpServers": "./.mcp.json"`
continue to work. Plugins can now also use the object shape shown above.
## Tests
Added coverage for the new manifest attribute shape at the install,
normal load, telemetry, and executor-provider layers:
- `install_accepts_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `load_plugins_loads_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `plugin_telemetry_metadata_uses_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `reads_manifest_object_config_without_executor_file_system_access`
Also smoke-tested the plugin-creator validator against both supported
forms:
- `mcpServers` as a direct object in `plugin.json`
- `mcpServers` as `"./.mcp.json"` with a companion `.mcp.json`
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-plugin`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-mcp-extension`
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
- Focused rename/object-form rerun: `just test -p codex-core-plugins
manager::tests::load_plugins_loads_manifest_mcp_server_objects
manager::tests::plugin_telemetry_metadata_uses_manifest_mcp_server_objects
store::tests::install_accepts_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- Focused executor rerun: `just test -p codex-mcp-extension
executor_plugin::provider::tests::reads_manifest_object_config_without_executor_file_system_access`
- `python3
codex-rs/skills/src/assets/samples/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py
/private/tmp/codex-validator-object`
- `python3
codex-rs/skills/src/assets/samples/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py
/private/tmp/codex-validator-path`
## Summary
Plugin loading and auth projection both previously produced
`PluginLoadOutcome`. That made an unfiltered load result look like
runtime-ready capabilities and generated capability summaries before
auth routing had run.
This change keeps loaded plugin records in the cache, applies the
current auth policy in `PluginsManager`, and only then builds
`PluginLoadOutcome` and its summaries. Auth changes still reuse the
cached disk load and re-resolve apps and MCP servers without reloading
plugins.
The updated tests cover cached auth changes and verify that capability
summaries match the effective app/MCP surface.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-plugin`
- `just fix -p codex-core-plugins`
## Summary
- choose the local OpenAI curated marketplace manifest based on auth:
Codex backend auth gets the existing marketplace, direct provider auth
gets `api_marketplace.json`
- include Bedrock API key auth in the direct-provider API marketplace
path
- safely skip the API marketplace when `api_marketplace.json` is absent
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check origin/main...HEAD`
- CI should run the full validation
## Manual Testing
### - New api marketplace not available for API key sign
1. Safely not display anything from api marketplace
<img width="1161" height="289" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-15 at 21 37 43"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a5f16642-8a20-4ac1-a0de-1274a4c7b5b2"
/>
### - New api marketplace for API key sign in
1. Setup api_marketplace.json
```
{
"name": "openai-curated",
"interface": {
"displayName": "Codex official"
},
"plugins": [
{
"name": "linear",
"source": {
"source": "local",
"path": "./plugins/linear"
},
"policy": {
"installation": "AVAILABLE",
"authentication": "ON_INSTALL"
},
"category": "Productivity"
}
]
}
```
2. Log in with API key, observe that only the defined plugin from
api_marketplace.json is available from "Codex Official" (outside of
local testing marketplaces)
<img width="1167" height="446" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-15 at 21 16 53"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7cf61477-d826-4ef6-bc05-0a23ac1c0259"
/>
also checked functionality on codex app
### - SiWC users
Still uses 'default' marketplace.json and renders all plugins
<img width="1171" height="502" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-15 at 21 40 25"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d212ea9b-0aa5-470b-8ea4-450efe65bb2b"
/>
also checked functionality on codex app
## Notes
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` was started locally before splitting
branches, but I stopped relying on local tests per follow-up and left
final validation to PR CI.
## Summary
This is the first step in making plugin auth routing consistent. The
rule should not live as one-off checks in every place that loads or
displays plugin capabilities.
This PR introduces a small resolver for the auth-level policy: given a
plugin's declared apps, MCP servers, current auth mode, and active
state, return the capabilities that are actually usable in that context.
## Why
Product rule:
- SiWC auth can use app connectors, so app declarations stay available.
- API-key/direct auth cannot use app connectors, so app declarations are
removed.
- When an active plugin has both an app and an MCP server with the same
name, the app route wins for Codex-backed auth and the conflicting MCP
server is hidden.
Putting that rule in `capabilities.rs` gives the rest of the stack one
place to ask instead of duplicating auth checks in loader, manager,
marketplace, and details code.
## Validation
- `cargo fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins`
## Context
This is PR5 in the plugin auth-routing stack. Earlier PRs make plugin
surface projection auth-aware, narrow App/MCP conflicts by App
declaration name, and keep connector listings auth-aware. This PR
applies the same name-based App/MCP conflict rule into plugin MCP
loading, so install-time MCP OAuth and plugin detail metadata both
reflect the MCPs available for the current auth route.
## Stack
- PR1: #27652 seed plugin manager auth at construction.
- PR2: #27459 route plugin surfaces by auth mode.
- PR3: #27607 dedupe plugin MCP servers by App declaration name.
- PR4: #27602 preserve plugin Apps in connector listings.
- PR5: #27461 skip install-time plugin MCP OAuth for matching App
routes.
## Summary
- Make `load_plugin_mcp_servers` auth-aware and let it load App
declarations before filtering same-name MCP servers for Codex-backend
auth.
- Use that filtered MCP list for both install-time MCP OAuth and
marketplace plugin detail metadata.
- Preserve API-key/direct auth behavior so plugin MCP servers remain
visible and can still start OAuth.
## Validation
```bash
cargo fmt --all
cargo test -p codex-core-plugins read_plugin_for_config_filters_mcp_servers_for_codex_backend_auth
cargo check -p codex-core-plugins -p codex-app-server
git diff --check
git diff --cached --check
```
## Why
**In short:** this PR discovers MCP registrations by reading a selected
plugin's `.mcp.json` on its executor. #27884 then resolves those
registrations in the shared catalog.
`thread/start.selectedCapabilityRoots` can select a plugin root owned by
an executor, and Codex can resolve that package through the executor
filesystem. MCP declarations inside the selected plugin are still
ignored.
This PR adds the source-specific discovery layer on top of the
selected-plugin catalog boundary in #27884:
```text
selected capability root
|
v
resolve the plugin through its executor filesystem
|
v
read and normalize its MCP config through the same filesystem
|
v
contribute stdio registrations bound to that environment ID
```
The existing MCP launcher and connection manager remain unchanged. MCP
config parsing is shared with local plugins through #27863.
## What changed
- Added an executor plugin MCP provider in the MCP extension.
- Retained only the exact filesystem capability used for package
resolution and reused it for the selected plugin's MCP config, with no
host-filesystem fallback or unrelated process/HTTP authority.
- Read either the manifest-declared MCP config or the default
`.mcp.json`; a missing default file means the plugin has no MCP servers.
- Accepted stdio servers only for this first vertical. Executor-owned
HTTP declarations are skipped with a warning until their placement
semantics are defined.
- Normalized stdio registrations with the owning environment's stable
logical ID and plugin-root working directory.
- Resolved environment-variable names on the owning executor and
rejected explicit local forwarding for non-local plugins.
- Froze discovered declarations once per active thread runtime, then
applied current managed plugin and MCP requirements when contributing
them.
- Carried the selected root ID, display name, and selection order into
the catalog contribution defined by #27884.
## Behavior and scope
There is intentionally no production behavior change yet. This PR
provides the executor provider and contribution boundary, but app-server
does not install it in this change. Existing local plugin MCP loading is
unchanged, and no MCP process is launched by this PR alone.
## Assumptions
- The selected root ID is the plugin policy identity; the manifest
display name is presentation metadata.
- An environment ID is a stable logical authority. Reconnection or
replacement under the same ID does not change ownership.
- Selected plugin packages and their manifests are trusted inputs.
- The selected package and MCP discovery snapshot remain frozen for the
active thread runtime.
## Follow-up
The next PR installs this contributor in app-server and adds an
end-to-end test proving that a selected plugin MCP tool launches on its
owning executor, can be called by the model, survives an explicit MCP
refresh, and is invisible when its root was not selected.
Resume, fork, environment removal or ID changes, dynamic catalog reload,
and executor-owned HTTP MCP placement remain separate lifecycle
decisions.
## Verification
Focused tests cover executor-only filesystem reads, missing and
malformed config, stdio filtering and normalization, managed
requirements, package attribution, and selection order. CI owns
execution of the test suite.
## Context
This is the next step in the plugin auth-routing stack. The earlier PRs
make `PluginsManager` auth-aware and move the broad App/MCP surface
decision into that layer. This PR narrows the ChatGPT/SIWC behavior so
we only hide a plugin MCP server when it conflicts with an App
declaration of the same name.
In product terms: if a plugin exposes both an App route and MCP route
for `foo`, ChatGPT/SIWC sessions should use the App route for `foo`. If
the same plugin also exposes a separate MCP server like `foo2`, that MCP
server should remain available.
```json
// .app.json
{
"apps": {
"foo": {
"id": "connector_abc"
}
}
}
```
```json
// .mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"foo": {
"url": "https://mcp.foo.com/mcp"
},
"foo2": {
"url": "https://mcp.foo2.com/mcp"
}
}
}
```
## Stack
- PR1: #27652 seed plugin manager auth at construction.
- PR2: #27459 route plugin surfaces by auth mode.
- PR3: #27607 dedupe plugin MCP servers by App declaration name.
- PR4: #27602 preserve plugin Apps in connector listings.
- PR5: #27461 skip install-time plugin MCP OAuth for matching App
routes.
## Summary
- Preserve App declaration names in loaded plugin metadata.
- Keep public effective App outputs as deduped connector IDs for
existing callers.
- For ChatGPT/SIWC, suppress only plugin MCP servers whose names match
declared App names.
## Validation
```bash
cargo fmt --all
cargo test -p codex-core-plugins plugin_auth_projection
cargo test -p codex-core-plugins effective_apps
cargo test -p codex-core-plugins read_plugin_for_config_installed_git_source_reads_from_cache_without_cloning
cargo test -p codex-core explicit_plugin_mentions_use_apps_for_chatgpt_dual_surface_plugins
cargo test -p codex-core explicit_plugin_mentions_keep_non_conflicting_mcp_for_chatgpt_auth
cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all plugin_install_filters_disallowed_apps_needing_auth
git diff --check
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Xin Lin <xl@openai.com>
## Why
We have some large gaps in our thread start, resume, and pre-sampling
traces that make it hard to tell where latency is coming from.
## What Changed
- Added coarse spans around thread start/resume, turn context
construction, rollout reconstruction, skill/plugin loading, and tool
preparation.
- Added a breakdown of discoverable-tool preparation across connector
loading, plugin discovery, and local plugin details.
## Testing
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server -p codex-core -p codex-core-skills -p
codex-core-plugins`
- Built the app-server locally and exercised thread start, first turn,
follow-up turn, server restart, thread resume, and a resumed turn.
## Why
We want a thread-selected plugin to eventually expose stdio MCP servers
that run on the executor owning that plugin.
The existing plugin MCP parser lived inside `core-plugins` and was
coupled to the host filesystem loader. Reusing it from an executor
provider would either duplicate MCP normalization or make the plugin
package layer own MCP runtime semantics. This PR creates the shared
MCP-owned boundary first.
In simple terms:
```text
plugin .mcp.json
|
v
shared parser in codex-mcp
|
+-- Declared placement: preserve current local-plugin behavior
|
+-- Environment placement: produce config bound to one executor
```
This builds on the authority-bound plugin descriptors from #27692. It
intentionally does not discover, register, or launch executor MCP
servers yet.
## What changed
- Moved plugin MCP file parsing and normalization from `core-plugins`
into `codex-mcp`.
- Kept support for both existing file shapes: a top-level server map and
an object containing `mcpServers`.
- Kept per-server failure isolation: one invalid server does not discard
valid siblings, while malformed top-level JSON still fails the whole
file.
- Updated the existing local plugin loader to use `Declared` placement,
preserving its current transport, OAuth, relative `cwd`, and error
behavior.
- Added `Environment` placement for the next stacked PR:
- the selected environment ID overrides anything declared by the plugin;
- missing stdio `cwd` defaults to the plugin root;
- relative `cwd` is resolved beneath the plugin root and cannot traverse
outside it;
- bare or source-less environment-variable references resolve on a
non-local executor;
- explicit orchestrator environment-variable forwarding is rejected for
executor-owned plugins.
## User impact
None in this PR. Existing local plugin MCP loading follows the same
behavior through the shared parser. The executor placement mode is not
connected to thread startup until the follow-up registration PR.
## Assumptions
- A selected capability root's environment is authoritative. A plugin
cannot redirect its stdio process to the orchestrator or another
executor.
- Relative working directories belong under the plugin package root.
Explicit absolute working directories remain valid within the owning
environment.
- For a non-local executor, unqualified environment-variable names refer
to that executor. Reading an orchestrator variable requires an explicit
contract and is rejected for now.
- Parsing only produces normalized `McpServerConfig` values. Process
startup remains owned by the existing MCP runtime and connection
manager.
## Follow-ups
1. Add the executor MCP provider and catalog registration: read the
selected plugin's MCP config through the same executor filesystem,
support stdio only, freeze the result per active thread, apply managed
policy, and resolve name collisions as discovered plugin < selected
plugin < explicit config.
2. Install that provider in app-server and add an end-to-end test
proving `thread/start.selectedCapabilityRoots` launches and calls the
MCP tool on the selected executor, preserves the frozen registration
across refresh, and does not expose it to an unselected thread.
3. After the initial executor-stdio vertical, define
resume/fork/environment-replacement semantics, executor HTTP placement,
warning delivery, common MCP tool-context bounds, and move remaining MCP
source composition above core.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-mcp -p codex-core-plugins --tests`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- Added focused parser coverage for legacy local normalization, executor
authority, working-directory handling, and environment-variable
sourcing.
## What
- Parse optional `.app.json` `category` overrides for plugin apps.
- Add nullable `category` to `AppSummary` and `AppTemplateSummary` in
the app-server protocol.
- Fall back from `branding.category` to the first non-empty
`app_metadata.categories` value when building app/template summaries.
- Regenerate schema/type fixtures and update plugin read/install tests.
## Why
The plugin details UI needs a normalized per-app category. Some apps
only provide their default category in metadata, while others need a
local `.app.json` override.
Curated plugin startup refresh now removes cached plugins whose names no
longer appear in the raw openai-curated marketplace. This prevents users
with the old standalone Google Sheets plugin selected locally from
continuing to load its stale cache after the curated repo drops it.
Existing config is left untouched, and plugins still present in the
marketplace continue to refresh from local curated sources.
Validation:
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
`hooks/list` only consumes plugin hook declarations, but previously
loaded every enabled plugin's skills, MCP configuration, apps, and
capability summary before discarding them.
In a local benchmark, this reduced `hooks/list` latency by over 100ms
(e.g., from 594 to 467ms on startup, and 168 to 16ms when making a
`hooks/list` call later in the same TUI session). This is on the
critical path to rendering the TUI, so every 10s of ms should be eyed
skeptically (IMO).
This change adds a hook-specific plugin loading path that preserves
plugin enablement, remote/local conflict resolution, deterministic
ordering, manifest resolution, and hook-loading warnings while skipping
unrelated capabilities. (I think there's room for a more general design
here that allows you to project the capabilities you need at load-time,
but that seems unnecessary right now.)
## Summary
- Preserve app declaration order when loading plugin .app.json files.
- Keep plugin connector summaries in plugin app order after connector
metadata is merged and filtered.
- Add regression coverage for .app.json order and connector summary
order.
## Validation
- just fmt
- just test -p codex-chatgpt
connectors_for_plugin_apps_returns_only_requested_plugin_apps
- just test -p codex-core-plugins
effective_apps_preserves_app_config_order
- just fix -p codex-core-plugins (passes with existing clippy
large_enum_variant warning in core-plugins/src/manifest.rs)
- just fix -p codex-chatgpt
- just bazel-lock-update
- just bazel-lock-check
# Why
This is a follow-up stacked on top of the `plugin_hooks` default-on
change. Once we are comfortable making plugin hooks part of the normal
plugin behavior, the separate feature flag stops buying us much and
leaves extra branching/cache state behind.
# What
- remove the `PluginHooks` feature and generated config-schema entries
- make plugin hook loading/listing follow plugin enablement directly
- drop plugin-manager cache/state that only existed to distinguish
hook-flag toggles
- remove tests and fixtures that modeled `plugin_hooks = true/false`
## Why
Some MCP OAuth providers require a pre-registered public client ID and
cannot rely on dynamic client registration. Codex already supports MCP
OAuth, but it had no way to supply that client ID from config into the
PKCE flow.
## What changed
- add `oauth.client_id` under `[mcp_servers.<server>]` config, including
config editing and schema generation
- thread the configured client ID through CLI, app-server, plugin login,
and MCP skill dependency OAuth entrypoints
- configure RMCP authorization with the explicit client when present,
while preserving the existing dynamic-registration path when it is
absent
- add focused coverage for config parsing/serialization and OAuth URL
generation
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-config -p codex-rmcp-client -p codex-mcp -p
codex-core-plugins`
- `cargo test -p codex-core blocking_replace_mcp_servers_round_trips
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
replace_mcp_servers_streamable_http_serializes_oauth_resource --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_schema_matches_fixture --lib`
## Notes
Broader local package runs still hit unrelated pre-existing stack
overflows in:
- `codex-app-server::in_process_start_clamps_zero_channel_capacity`
-
`codex-core::resume_agent_from_rollout_uses_edge_data_when_descendant_metadata_source_is_stale`
## Why
`--profile-v2 <name>` gives launchers and runtime entry points a named
profile config without making each profile duplicate the base user
config. The base `$CODEX_HOME/config.toml` still loads first, then
`$CODEX_HOME/<name>.config.toml` layers above it and becomes the active
writable user config for that session.
That keeps shared defaults, plugin/MCP setup, and managed/user
constraints in one place while letting a named profile override only the
pieces that need to differ.
## What Changed
- Added the shared `--profile-v2 <name>` runtime option with validated
plain names, now represented by `ProfileV2Name`.
- Extended config layer state so the base user config and selected
profile config are both `User` layers; APIs expose the active user layer
and merged effective user config.
- Threaded profile selection through runtime entry points: `codex`,
`codex exec`, `codex review`, `codex resume`, `codex fork`, and `codex
debug prompt-input`.
- Made user-facing config writes go to the selected profile file when
active, including TUI/settings persistence, app-server config writes,
and MCP/app tool approval persistence.
- Made plugin, marketplace, MCP, hooks, and config reload paths read
from the merged user config so base and profile layers both participate.
- Updated app-server config layer schemas to mark profile-backed user
layers.
## Limits
`--profile-v2` is still rejected for config-management subcommands such
as feature, MCP, and marketplace edits. Those paths remain tied to the
base `config.toml` until they have explicit profile-selection semantics.
Some adjacent background writes may still update base or global state
rather than the selected profile:
- marketplace auto-upgrade metadata
- automatic MCP dependency installs from skills
- remote plugin sync or uninstall config edits
- personality migration marker/default writes
## Verification
Added targeted coverage for profile name validation, layer
ordering/merging, selected-profile writes, app-server config writes,
session hot reload, plugin config merging, hooks/config fixture updates,
and MCP/app approval persistence.
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Matthew Zeng