## What changed
- Add `async_elastic_budgeting` and `async_elastic_sections` under `[features.guardianv2]`, independently of synchronous budgeting and disabled by default.
- Apply section limits and elastic allocation to new classifier evidence after accounting for setup and retained conversation history. Preserve the configured elastic policy when applying model defaults.
- Keep permission context whole during elastic allocation and record truncation observations when image preparation rejects an image.
## Testing
Add coverage for configuration validation, fixed and elastic conversation budgeting, retained history and cursor preservation, and complete classifier requests that retain evidence beyond the fixed entry limit.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2955f0482f7c3e18325e296fc2ccb6592ffcb73a
## What changed
Allow `thread/inject_items` to accept wrapped items with `retention: "default"` or `retention: "always"`, while preserving support for raw response items. Persist explicit policies separately from legacy client-authored metadata.
Carry explicitly retained items through local and remote compaction, context-window changes, and child-agent creation, subject to retention budgets. Preserve history order and keep retained tool exchanges together; require matching calls and outputs to be adjacent in the injection request and both marked `always`.
Update Quinn dependencies and record exceptions for additional Hickory DNSSEC advisories where DNSSEC is disabled.
## Testing
Update injection tests for explicit retention metadata and extend the compaction scenario to cover a retained tool exchange across repeated compaction and restart.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1195a4ed62dc162a62e58bc2ad733262fbabea27
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `catalog_apps_instructions` feature to use the selected model's `model_messages.apps.usage_instructions`, subject to existing Apps availability and model gates.
- Preserve valid catalog text literally, allow an empty string to clear guidance, and fall back to bundled instructions for missing, whitespace-only, or oversized values. Overrides are limited to 800 UTF-8 bytes.
- Reconcile guidance with the latest retained Apps fragment, emitting replacement or removal notices when needed and avoiding repeated updates across resumes. Preserve compatibility with bundled guidance and legacy checkpoints.
- Recognize catalog Apps fragments as contextual developer messages in event mapping and rollout rollback.
## Testing
Add resolver, world-state, client, and scenario coverage for literal text and byte limits, feature and availability gates, model switches, clearing guidance, resumes, and legacy history recovery.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6240d407ada8f22fa101753ff3ddb338632ae283
## What changed
Route direct reviews through the reusable Guardian session so sequential `thread/guardianReview` calls on the same loaded thread can share review history with live approvals. Keep the reviewer conversation separate from the actor and follow the parent thread's persistence settings. Retries reassess the final call under the current policy.
## Testing
Extend app-server coverage to verify history reuse within a parent thread and isolation between parents. Extend the core scenario and snapshot to cover sequential direct reviews without executing the recorded commands.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5f10a04aec43a9351e38575265cb6b5ff06530a5
## What changed
Add `transcript_selected_exec_results` to synchronous Guardian elastic budgeting so selected Code Mode `exec` outputs can receive a separate token reservation and entry cap from ordinary tool evidence.
Configure selection with `nested_tool_names`. Match results against the host-recorded inventory of completed nested tool calls, including normalized tool names, even when the original `exec` call has left review history. Leave the new section's reservation at zero when omitted.
## Testing
Add coverage for recorded-inventory matching and results whose calls are missing from history. Extend the elastic budgeting scenario to verify that selected output is retained while ordinary tool output is capped.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6a8de250e36b18f2acfdab993c83c254f101ce87
## Why
MCP servers discovered on different executors can share a name. Resolving them by name alone exposes only one server and prevents tools and resources from being addressed independently.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `multi_environment_mcp` feature to expose environment-scoped servers, including multiple installations of the same plugin.
- Carry exact `McpServerKey` identities through catalogs, connections, tool calls, resources, and approval tracking. Give environment-scoped tools stable namespaces derived from their environment.
- Include `environment_id` in scoped resource listings and accept it in resource requests. Require it for environment-owned servers when multiple environments are selected.
- Preserve server ownership through hooks and use the owning environment's permissions for scoped elicitation review.
## Testing
Add coverage for same-named servers across environments, independent calls and approvals, resource selection, plugin discovery, and rejection of hook changes to the tool environment.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5593372b06a15c16aa3220faa3b19f5d3b20e67e
## Why
Code Mode needs a way to forward mixed MCP tool results while preserving their content types and order.
## What changed
Add `content(block)` and `content(iterable)` so callers can forward tool output with `content(result.content)`. Text, image, and audio blocks become their corresponding output items; resource links and embedded resources are serialized as text. Invalid blocks and encrypted text are rejected, and iterators are closed when a block is rejected.
Share MCP block conversion and image detail types with the protocol layer, while preserving existing `image()` and `audio()` input handling.
## Testing
Add coverage for mixed content ordering, iterator behavior and cleanup, invalid blocks, image metadata, short audio clips, and output suppression after exit. Add an integration scenario verifying that MCP text and image blocks reach the model in order.
GitOrigin-RevId: 83832ec6c530dd35ea1e3373680627997c6e13c1
## What changed
Mark `untrusted_as_tool_output` as stable and enable it by default. Untrusted additional context, such as browser information and goal objectives, now reaches the model as `function_call_output` items in the `agent` namespace instead of user messages. Setting `features.untrusted_as_tool_output = false` preserves the message format.
## Testing
Update core, app-server, TUI, and Python SDK test expectations for the default output format. Cover context persistence, deduplication, goal continuation, and explicit opt-out behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: 30828351e2ed584928f6055b6dcf276d8288c0fb
## Why
Aggregate resource listings omitted dormant MCP servers, leaving callers without their names for explicit queries.
## What changed
Include a sorted `deferredServers` list in aggregate `list_mcp_resources` and `list_mcp_resource_templates` results alongside resources from ready servers. Apply the listing filters to deferred servers and omit the field when empty. Discovery leaves dormant servers unstarted; callers can query them by passing `server` explicitly.
## Testing
Extend the resource discovery scenario for direct calls and Code Mode to verify deferred server names, confirm discovery leaves the server unstarted, and then list and read resources by server name.
GitOrigin-RevId: f95b8beb64bb1329f4ae3245e8c375614fcb3360
## What changed
Simplify the post-denial rule in the Guardian policy template: user re-approval after seeing the concrete risk sets `user_authorization` to `high`. Remove repeated qualifiers about explicit approval of the exact action and certainty that approval came from the user; the authorization scoring guidance still covers those requirements.
Update the Guardian extra-policy review snapshot to match the revised prompt.
GitOrigin-RevId: 63643222e8f9c46c9d902ac8f5d1e11d24fafe9c
## What changed
Add `exec_tools_update_hint` and `exec_tools_removed_definitions_header` to `model_messages.tools.incremental_tools` and use them when rendering Code Mode catalog updates and removals.
Overrides are literal strings limited to 512 UTF-8 bytes per field. Missing, null, or oversized values use the existing bundled wording. Empty strings omit the guidance while retaining changed definitions and removal keys. Wording changes alone do not trigger catalog updates.
## Testing
Extend unit coverage for defaults, null fields, independent fallback, and UTF-8 byte limits. Add scenario assertions and a snapshot covering custom and empty wording, model switches, catalog changes, and restoration after compaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: da9e00fdb5197a2b5fa39ce533ba87c76ff3e82c
## Why
Changes to nested tools should update the model's catalog without repeating the full `functions.exec` declaration or rewriting retained context.
## What changed
Pass structured exec definitions through the tool router into the session's tool world state. Enable granular updates for Responses Lite in `CodeModeOnly` when both `IncrementalTools` and `IncrementalExecTools` are enabled.
Append changed tool definitions, namespace instructions, and removals as developer messages. Keep common exec instructions and shared types frozen until compaction, then install the latest full catalog.
## Testing
Add feature-gating coverage and a scenario snapshot covering tool additions and removals, namespace instruction changes, eager/deferred transitions, re-enabling tools, retained context, and catalog restoration after compaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: bbf850d4e5018388eeb4c09345d885d776962e09
## Why
An inherited turn can suppress a fork's configured developer instructions, leaving the first side-chat request without its developer policy.
## What changed
- Move shared side-conversation instructions and the history boundary into `codex-context-fragments`.
- Inject the developer policy before the user-role boundary when creating a TUI side-chat fork, while retaining the configured instructions.
- Distinguish attached and temporary policies, applying the worktree restriction only to temporary side chats.
- Add guidance to set up recurring monitors in the main chat or a new chat because temporary side chats cannot run scheduled updates.
## Testing
Add a TUI integration test that checks the first side-chat model request contains the policy and boundary. Add a core request-history snapshot covering an attached side chat that preserves inherited context, policy, and its prior answer after resuming from disk.
GitOrigin-RevId: 889cb317dc3327457cd9ef0879ec9f77dbfaeeba
## Why
Regular chats start MCP servers eagerly even when cached tool definitions are available and the servers go unused. Allow those chats to use the cached catalog and defer eligible stdio servers until first use.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `mcp_lazy_stdio_startup` feature and expose it through experimental feature configuration.
- Defer cached stdio servers in regular chats when enabled, while keeping servers that require a live startup connection eager. Required servers with `startup_readiness = "catalog"` may defer; explicit reconnects remain eager.
- Announce the full eager startup batch before terminal statuses and exclude dormant servers from the initial startup summary. Update TUI tracking so deferred servers can report startup independently in later rounds.
## Testing
Add scenario coverage for a cached server staying dormant during unrelated work, starting on first use, and refreshing tool definitions and visibility. Cover required live startup, eager event ordering, experimental feature configuration, and TUI status handling.
GitOrigin-RevId: 74075fcd4f26c8c79b5901b6a8cb03fdb9e35a7f
## What changed
- When `multi_agent_v2.disable_native_tools` is enabled, use bundled mode policies instead of model catalog guidance, while preserving explicitly configured mode hints.
- Refer to multi-agent tools and instruct the model to read the full multi-agent skill before calling them. Keep proactive delegation enabled for `Ultra` reasoning and explicit-request-only delegation for other reasoning levels.
- Reset retained nonempty custom mode hints to explicit-request-only guidance when multi-agent support is disabled, including after a cold resume.
## Testing
Extend integration tests and request snapshots to cover hosted-tool guidance, configured hint precedence, proactive mode with `Ultra` reasoning, and the mode reset after a cold resume.
GitOrigin-RevId: 403791ef76f990e385d9c155d9c2edc9acfcd4fe
## What changed
Refocus `openai-docs` on Codex and ChatGPT Work behavior and first-time API integrations. Skip API questions about existing integrations, action requests, and tasks fully answered by supplied text or data. Retain model migration guidance when users explicitly invoke `$openai-docs`.
Replace the broad routing workflow with guidance to check available tools and settings, consult documentation for the relevant product surface, and verify recent changes through the changelog and linked client changes or tests.
Update the skill's display metadata and affected skill catalog snapshots to match.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0a0e9abbee9975ebd30917b7477f475096f2c86b
## Why
Incremental tool declarations were limited to Responses Lite. Regular OpenAI Responses requests sent the full current tool catalog on each request.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `incremental_tools_legacy` feature for regular OpenAI Responses, independently of the Responses Lite `incremental_tools` flag.
- Support tool declarations and updates in conversation history, including during compaction, while preserving existing history prefixes.
- Keep hosted `web_search` configuration in top-level `tools` rather than `additional_tools`, including in compaction requests.
## Testing
Extend request-history scenarios and snapshots to cover regular Responses catalog updates, model switches, compaction, and MCP tool removal and restoration. Assert that incremental requests preserve input prefixes and keep web search out of history declarations.
GitOrigin-RevId: fa347409e387aa973ce2e41df8505769b7db1ec2
## What changed
Extend `guardian_review` to assess recorded MCP tool calls using the current tool catalog, bindings, and approval policy without executing the call or remembering an approval. Return no assessment when policy or a remembered approval skips review, and reject tools blocked by app configuration.
## Testing
Add a scenario test that compares direct and live MCP review inputs, verifies that neither dispatches the tool, and checks that the current app approval policy can skip review.
GitOrigin-RevId: 05746dd0804a0f96d7946468701d5222171ff64f
## Why
Multi-agent V2 still supplied native tool usage guidance when native tools were disabled, leaving instructions for unavailable tools in model requests.
## What changed
Skip bundled and model catalog role guidance for both root agents and subagents when `disable_native_tools` is enabled. Preserve explicitly configured usage hints.
## Testing
Add coverage for omitted bundled and catalog guidance and preserved configured hints with native tools disabled. Update the request snapshot and assert that spawned agents do not receive native tool call guidance.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6f2facabc95e78cbf64af19636a4daf488bbcc51
## What changed
When `features.guardian_denial_reconsideration` is enabled, retry the first terminal denial once using the unchanged inference request. Buffer provisional output so only the selected response enters reviewer history, while allowing tool calls to proceed normally.
Preserve the original denial if the retry fails or times out, and continue to honor cancellation. Account for token usage from both attempts, including failed reviews.
Remove `auto_review.experimental_denial_reconsideration_prompt` and warn when it remains in configuration.
## Testing
Update the Guardian scenario and snapshot to verify identical retry inputs, retained tool evidence, and reuse of the selected assessment in a subsequent review, with asynchronous compaction enabled.
GitOrigin-RevId: cc4e303d40a02acc824c8b4b954852325e64ad52
## Why
A Code Mode script can start a command without returning its session handle. Make retained sessions visible to the model so it can find running commands and collect exited results with `write_stdin`.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `command_sessions_world_state` feature.
- Publish snapshots of up to 16 retained sessions with their IDs, running or exited status, and whether they are in use. Report omitted sessions and suppress unchanged updates.
- Preserve session visibility when `write_stdin` is unavailable and refresh snapshots after compaction. Clear stale session handles after restart or when the feature is disabled.
## Testing
Add an end-to-end scenario and model-visible history snapshot covering a dropped command handle, unchanged state, unavailable polling, compaction, exit and result collection, and stale-handle cleanup after restart.
GitOrigin-RevId: 45704d8c6403149997231aafb8496c12879aff23
## What changed
- Expose `AgentSessionReader` and `AgentRef` for read-only access to host-owned agent session membership.
- Read direct children when rendering V2 environment context, using the existing roster size limits. Refresh membership when rebuilding context after compaction, and omit the roster if the provider is absent or the read fails.
- Preserve unrecorded initial input across suspension or interruption while waiting for a roster read. Resolve the roster before advancing the compaction window.
## Testing
Add coverage for roster refreshes after compaction, unchanged environments avoiding extra reads, unavailable rosters, recoverable input during blocked reads, and stale compaction results rejected after a concurrent history replacement.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3c7e3822af09e9295d405e53dabb87b020c8f00c
## What changed
- Add `features.guardianv2.sync_elastic_budgeting` and `sync_elastic_sections` to configure section minimums, per-entry token caps, and optional section maximums. Require and validate section limits when enabled.
- Use the selected budgeting policy consistently for history capture, resume, prompt preparation, and review input budgeting. Keep fixed budgeting as the default.
## Testing
Add configuration validation tests, capture-and-resume coverage for both budgeting modes, and a request-history snapshot verifying retained instructions and transcript section limits.
GitOrigin-RevId: c7b0bdfd3e0e008d75c4d8a204959bcc58eb1bf8
## Why
Agent messages that arrive after a model request starts must survive compaction until a normal inference request includes them. Compactor output alone does not establish that those messages were delivered.
## What changed
- Persist history sequences and sampling checkpoints in harness metadata, capturing the input prefix for each normal inference request.
- Retain pending agent messages within existing size budgets during local and remote compaction, placing the summary before pending messages and subsequent caller input.
- Preserve sampling progress across history replacement and resume, and drain queued mail after interrupted sampling even when compaction leaves context above the token limit.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for request-boundary sampling checkpoints, pending messages across local compaction and repeated remote compaction with resume, and injected messages that interrupt sampling before mid-turn compaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: 26c04ab96b5a1c3cc1d6625ccc74a0f00201d14c
## Why
Tests need to distinguish slow subprocess startup from operation timeouts and wait for asynchronous work before asserting results or cleaning up fixtures.
## What changed
- Synchronize subprocess readiness, queued-turn completion, and matching UI events; allow more time for cold startup and separate startup from shutdown deadlines.
- Adapt Windows fixtures and permission expectations, provide the voice-host test runtime DLL path, and normalize platform paths and animated status snapshots.
- Use current configuration permissions when changing directories in embedded TUI sessions, while retaining saved permissions for remote sessions.
- Allow the release prompt-prefix comparison to accept the exact image-tool description update that removes image detail options, and refresh the corresponding tool snapshot.
## Testing
Extend inherited-session metadata coverage to both legacy and paginated thread history, including persisted history mode and revision-aware resume.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0afb38403fc0adb0d83175344749584f0cdf9979
## What changed
Mark `unified_image_budget` stable and enable it by default. Supported models now use unified image preparation with `original` detail, and `view_image` omits the `detail` parameter from its advertised schema.
## Testing
Update image input, MCP output, history replay, and tool schema expectations for the new default. Keep explicit coverage of the disabled feature and models that do not support original image detail.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2d6fc8019149fcf18b5813db2d2082ba95de2241
## Why
Repository skill discovery must reflect current filesystem access, including newly approved grants and narrower permissions. Previously listed skills can remain in conversation history after a turn-scoped grant expires, so catalog updates need to tell the model when availability changes.
## What changed
- Discover repository skills through the selected executor's permission-aware filesystem accessor and refresh snapshots when the working directory or access changes. Use the current step's snapshot for skill selection and invocation.
- Preserve repository boundaries even when project markers are hidden by read restrictions, and report unsupported sandbox backends as skill-loading errors.
- Track grant-dependent catalog entries and emit availability notices when skills disappear or return, even when the metadata budget is exhausted.
- Resolve implicit skill paths through their owning filesystem and exclude remote repository skills from local implicit command attribution.
## Testing
Add coverage for turn and session grants, grant expiry and restoration, hidden and newly created repository markers, cached read denials on Windows, unsupported remote sandboxes, and executor-backed implicit skill paths.
GitOrigin-RevId: ac1af483e73e3130524aeeabe218630435054028
## Why
Uploaded audio always reserved 12,000 tokens per file, even for short clips. This could discard recordings during compaction that would fit within the retained-message budget.
## What changed
- Add optional audio duration metadata to attachments and cache measured durations per session, resolving metadata for new input and replayed history.
- Use measured durations for history estimates and compaction budgets at 10 tokens per second, rounded up and capped at 12,000 tokens. Keep the full budget for missing or unusable metadata.
- Bound metadata lookups to 250 milliseconds per batch with up to eight concurrent requests, and record accepted input before lookup so interruption preserves the batch.
## Testing
Add coverage for duration rounding and fallback estimates, mixed measured and unknown audio, retention through compaction and cold resume, and interruption during metadata lookup.
GitOrigin-RevId: 26fe320c7024944d9d4c371d5fdcda84442b5cc5
## Why
Uploaded audio was rejected even for audio-capable models. Invalid or expired recordings also need to be excluded from later requests so users can continue the conversation.
## What changed
- Accept uploaded audio when the selected model supports audio; otherwise, preserve valid sibling input and report the unsupported attachment before inference.
- Track successful audio decoding by model and provider, and attribute provider rejections against the exact submitted request. Preserve attachments when attribution is ambiguous.
- Persist confirmed rejected file IDs across compaction and resume, omitting them from future requests without rewriting retained user history.
- Check audio availability before remote compaction and retry once without an unambiguously rejected recording. Include guidance to remove or replace affected attachments in audio errors.
## Testing
Add unit and scenario coverage for uploaded audio across follow-up turns, compaction, cold and paginated resume, model switching, ambiguous rejections, expired files, and queued or interrupted input.
GitOrigin-RevId: e701901e7b1c0865c9f2a5918197215f549b06c0
## Why
Board notifications were skipped when recipients had no active turn accepting mailbox delivery. Queue them through the ordinary agent-message path so idle recipients can receive them in a later turn.
## What changed
- Submit board notices as `Op::InterAgentCommunication` with `trigger_turn` disabled, preserving normal mailbox scheduling without reopening finalized answers.
- Hold a residency guard through dispatch of submitted agent messages to coordinate delivery with agent eviction.
- Update board tool descriptions to describe the host's notification queueing and wake policy.
## Testing
Update local and HTTP board scenarios to cover queued idle notices, delivery after a finalized answer, and mailbox delivery before a pending tool call. Extend residency coverage to verify that submission waits for the eviction gate and queued messages survive eviction.
GitOrigin-RevId: a77137fc40932f5903852e14742483844e07c9bc
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `guardian_denial_reconsideration` feature to reconsider a synchronous Guardian denial once before publishing the final decision. The follow-up uses the same review session, evidence, model settings, and original deadline, without compacting the retained context.
Only a valid second assessment replaces the denial. Invalid or failed follow-ups keep the original denial and discard the review session; cancellation and timeout retain their normal outcomes.
Allow a custom developer message through `auto_review.experimental_denial_reconsideration_prompt`, limited to 1,000 UTF-8 bytes. Omitted or blank values use the built-in prompt, which grants no new authorization and preserves the security policy.
## Testing
Add scenario coverage for feature gating, unchanged approvals, reconsidered approvals and denials, invalid assessments, failed follow-ups, custom prompts, and retained context. Extend cancellation coverage to reconsideration and config tests to prompt normalization and byte-limit validation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 61c45d5a948e3e5684c4b4048d6e90fd3f1f2476
## What changed
- Gate GIF output behind `features.image_generation_animation`, disabled by default.
- Accept `gif` options for generation and editing, with optional `frame_count` and `frame_duration_ms` controls. Use `gif: {}` for API defaults.
- Preserve animated output with `.gif` filenames and `image/gif` data URLs while providing a still preview to the model.
- Add guidance for simple animations and spritesheet-based GIF edits.
## Testing
Add integration coverage for GIF generation and editing, explicit frame controls and API defaults, saved animation bytes, and still-preview replay across follow-up turns.
GitOrigin-RevId: 08afa0316ae3675921652157836191a649f563cf
## What changed
Restore `code_mode_only_strict_3p_tools` as an opt-in feature under development. When the effective tool mode is Code Mode Only, keep eligible MCP/app and client-supplied dynamic tools deferred and callable through `exec`, regardless of `deferLoading`, `omit_tools_from`, or namespace exclusion and direct-only settings.
Preserve hidden tools, tool policy restrictions, and built-in tool classification. Log conflicting exposure settings without adding warnings to the model prompt. Leave other effective tool modes unaffected.
## Testing
Add coverage for exposure overrides, model mode overrides, built-in name collisions, and hidden or denied tools. Update integration coverage for app access restrictions and MCP catalog refreshes that preserve the cached prompt prefix while `exec` uses the current tools.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0cb085ba9d23bebc48dbc3fa298b982de0a66c47
## Why
Search discovery must account for the active model's supported tools while honoring host search restrictions. Automatic fallback must also preserve the provider that owns existing browsing references.
## What changed
- Resolve search from model metadata, client configuration, and managed requirements, exposing the selected provider's tools.
- Discover hosted search with the model's supported tools and carry the discovered invocation context into calls.
- Allow native fallback for eligible discovery failures only when search policy permits it and hosted search has not already been used. Do not replay failed hosted invocations through native search.
- Keep native fallback references on native search across later turns, discovery recovery, and resume. Release unused fallback offers and coordinate background calls to prevent conflicting provider use.
## Testing
Add app-server and core scenario coverage for provider selection, discovery failures, search restrictions, reference continuity, resume, and concurrent background search. Include a snapshot covering discovery and call history across a model switch.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0f22605722daaa424c4fa34660654cde5a6db049
## What changed
Mark `code_mode_only_strict_3p_tools` as removed and stop overriding MCP/app and dynamic tool exposure settings. Code Mode Only now honors `omit_tools_from`, namespace exclusions, direct-only namespaces, and dynamic tool deferral settings without strict-mode exceptions.
## Testing
Update coverage for exposure settings, hidden and policy-denied tools, app access restrictions, and deferred MCP catalog refreshes that preserve the cached prefix while `exec` uses the current tools.
GitOrigin-RevId: 356ccd572f952b5a80ff9a0c31085330b9fe6e8b
## Why
Injected agent messages need to reach active sampling before stale tool calls execute, while messages queued around a final answer must wait for the next task without requesting another response.
## What changed
- Include injected `agent_message` items in mailbox preemption checks when the matching turn still accepts mail and `DeferMailboxPreemption` is disabled.
- Treat injected agent messages as queue-only mail so they do not reopen delivery after a final answer or force a follow-up response.
## Testing
Add a streaming scenario and context snapshot covering idle injection, active sampling preemption, deferred delivery around a final answer, and preservation of message payloads and ordering before the next task.
GitOrigin-RevId: 70f49cbe5074725c11e1fcb33eea05e0e92e17f7
## What changed
Enable `multi_agent_v2` and the new `agent_message_board_mcp` feature to automatically start a temporary, tree-scoped HTTP MCP message board without plugin or endpoint configuration. The MCP feature defaults off and takes precedence over `agent_message_board`.
Share board state across parent and child agents while retaining each caller's host binding. Keep the server alive while participating threads remain, and serialize board tool calls through the MCP server configuration.
## Testing
Extend the HTTP board integration scenario to cover automatic discovery, parent-child message sharing, child subscriptions and posts after the parent unloads, serialized mutations, and absence of a persistent board database.
GitOrigin-RevId: 613183c14b2ab67dfb1aaf3a3abf338376d1cc05
## What changed
Add `AgentRuntimeOwnership::Host` and an `AgentTurnAdmission` provider so hosts can acquire execution capacity before runtime tasks run, including root turns. Require the provider at startup and retain its execution guard for the task lifetime. Controller ownership remains the default; host ownership skips controller rollout-budget accounting, budget reminders, and subagent roster context.
Keep pending admission interruptible without blocking input submission. Report admission failures through the turn lifecycle, record accepted input before exposing the error, and unwind task setup such as review mode. Preserve recoverable input during suspension. On interruption, skip prompts that still require a `UserPromptSubmit` hook rather than recording them without inspection.
## Testing
Add integration tests for missing-provider startup cleanup, denial and immediate retry, steering during admission, cancellation, execution guard lifetime, submit-hook handling, suspension recovery, and review-mode cleanup. Add a context snapshot verifying retained input reaches the next admitted turn.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9ee85fad2ecfbfb38735bac8ef88888fb179a967
## Why
Host-provided context such as budget reminders can become stale while compaction runs. Replaying a captured value or retaining its comparison snapshot can prevent the next step from emitting a fresh reminder, even when the remaining budget has changed.
## What changed
- Add `WorldStateSectionContribution::without_full_context()` to omit a section's fragment and comparison snapshot from initial and compacted context rebuilds while preserving ordinary step updates.
- Reset comparison state after prefix compaction for sections excluded at either capture or installation, including when their messages survive in the live suffix.
- Include step World State updates when building debug prompt input.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for budget reminders refreshing after remote compaction within the same threshold, unchanged request prefixes within a context window, refreshes with a retained live suffix, and step reminders in debug prompts.
GitOrigin-RevId: ea4456755e16c93b5d16e8c762b26a33f8571a86
## Why
Delegation messages containing `<source_orbit_id>` fail sender provenance parsing, leaving Guardian without the sender's instructions.
## What changed
Accept an optional `<source_orbit_id>` between `<source_thread_id>` and `<input>`, rejecting values containing `<`. Continue to derive sender authority from the source thread ID.
## Testing
Update the cross-host sender context scenario and snapshot to include orbit attribution. The scenario checks that sender evidence reaches Guardian after compaction and rollback without exposing it to the receiving agent.
GitOrigin-RevId: 463b18667384d30297245eedcd0f6bcbf683634e
## Why
Direct Guardian review rejected recorded `exec_command` calls intercepted as `apply_patch`, even though normal execution could review those patches.
## What changed
Share intercepted patch preparation between execution and direct review so Guardian assesses the verified patch and its approval requirement without applying it.
## Testing
Extend the direct patch review scenario to cover `exec_command` heredocs alongside native `apply_patch` calls, asserting identical live and direct review inputs and no file writes after direct approval.
GitOrigin-RevId: af62cf66a3f01c65a65c15cfad3fc9cdd1f2bf19
## What changed
Add a `message-board` plugin with connection metadata for the HTTP MCP server. It defaults to `http://127.0.0.1:7777/mcp`, uses `CODEX_MESSAGE_BOARD_TOKEN` for bearer authentication, and marks the server as required.
Document installation and endpoint overrides through `mcp_servers.codex_message_board`. Installing the plugin does not start the server.
## Testing
Extend the HTTP board integration scenario to cover both direct configuration and plugin installation, verifying that a child can post a decision and its restarted parent can discover the same board and read it. Add a plugin context snapshot and include the plugin resources in Bazel test data.
GitOrigin-RevId: d6cf797caaa4dbdcd45114c2ad0a6bd695cf056f
## What changed
- Add `codex-message-board-mcp` to serve discussion tools at `/mcp` through ordinary MCP configuration, backed by the existing SQLite board and a read-only Codex registry.
- Require bearer authentication and validate `threadId` and `sessionId` metadata against persisted agent membership. Support additional allowed HTTP hosts with `--allowed-host`.
- Expose a reusable `serve_http` library entry point and scope retry deduplication to the caller within an MCP session.
## Testing
Add integration coverage for a child posting and its restarted parent reading the persisted board, including reads while a database writer lock is held. Cover invalid tokens, disallowed hosts, missing caller metadata, invalid membership, and startup without an existing registry.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5e3d71eaaf120169e2585acd0b5f84df1b402f00
## What changed
Allow `guardian_review` to assess a final recorded `request_permissions` call without granting permissions. Build the review action using the same permission request preparation as live review, while continuing to reject earlier permission requests in the recorded history.
Return no assessment when the approval policy is `never` or granular policy disables permission requests.
## Testing
Add coverage comparing live and direct permission review inputs, plus tests that disallowed requests return no assessment without contacting the reviewer.
GitOrigin-RevId: cb5935202b0980e657b023f840a0186cea5e0b74
## What changed
Allow `guardian_review` to assess recorded native `apply_patch` calls alongside `exec_command` calls. Use the existing patch preparation and approval logic without applying the patch, and skip assessment when approval is unnecessary.
## Testing
Add coverage that compares direct and live patch review inputs, verifies that an allow decision leaves files unchanged, and checks that writable files skip review without writes or model requests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8634ad8c00a67bcac9e7930ebf89c02707c3a6f7
## What changed
- Add `model_messages.plugins` overrides for generic usage guidance, selected-plugin hints, and recommendation introductions, with independent fallback to bundled wording for missing or invalid fields.
- Validate text limits and required template placeholders while keeping plugin identities, available capabilities, and eligibility controlled by the client.
- Track generic guidance changes across model switches and session resume, emitting replacement or retirement notices and supporting legacy snapshots and retained history.
## Testing
Add unit and scenario coverage for sparse overrides, literal text preservation, template validation, UTF-8 size bounds, capability filtering, recommendation fallback, and guidance recovery after resume.
GitOrigin-RevId: 148b658c2d8490c9d0dc208addbee1be5342a5f5
## Why
`start_or_steer_turn` rejected agent messages, preventing callers from submitting follow-up work through the turn input API.
## What changed
Route `TurnInput::InterAgentCommunication` through native agent message delivery and return `TurnInputSubmission::Accepted`, without implying an immediate turn ID. These submissions request work regardless of `trigger_turn`, retain the recipient's settings, and forward turn-start options.
Wrap plaintext messages with agent context while preserving encrypted content. Reject submissions to idle recipients when the host is draining.
## Testing
Add scenario tests and snapshots covering queued-message ordering, encrypted follow-ups, preemption at reasoning boundaries, and follow-ups arriving before or after a final answer. Extend drain-gate coverage to agent submissions with parent-turn lineage.
GitOrigin-RevId: 92d49465f97bb366babbf1b1bc18a1e8a6c6ed1c
## What changed
- Allow audio inputs to carry uploaded file references via `fileId` in the app-server API and `file_id` in model content, preserving existing inline audio shapes and Python class names.
- Preserve mixed inline and file-backed audio ordering through history reconstruction and migration, and budget file-backed audio conservatively when duration is unknown.
- Keep uploaded audio disabled at runtime: reject it before inference or raw history injection, preserve accompanying text, and prevent rejected attachments from reaching follow-up or resumed requests.
## Testing
Add coverage for wire-format round trips, SDK compatibility, mixed audio history ordering, and rejection during turn start, steering, task completion, and raw injection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 70895c47a2494c0c9936348ad1250eb1b7b892a6
## What changed
Mark `deferred_tool_world_state` as stable and enable it by default. Deferred tool namespaces now appear in the developer `<tools>` context instead of the `tool_search` description. Explicitly disabling the feature preserves discovery metadata in the search description.
## Testing
Update tool discovery tests to cover the default behavior and explicit opt-out, and refresh request snapshots for the deferred namespace context.
GitOrigin-RevId: d58e369ea22754cee593c26a5ca011e41ba56e79
## What changed
- Add `StartThreadOptions` setters for captured thread instructions and execution policy snapshots. Captured instructions replace the live thread provider; empty text clears the thread contribution. Hosts must supply inherited settings again on cold resume.
- Install inherited policies in independent managers only when the destination ignores user and project rules, has no additional policy files, and has matching managed requirements. Preserve managed command restrictions, host executable mappings, and network denials, including restrictions that absolute-path rules could otherwise bypass.
- Reject inherited startup settings for isolated sessions and reject combining local and transported execution policies.
## Testing
Add coverage for policy inheritance through children and grandchildren, incompatible or weakened policies, absolute-path amendments, and captured instructions overriding or clearing live instructions on startup and resume. An execution integration test checks that an inherited allow rule runs without approval while a managed denial still blocks execution.
GitOrigin-RevId: c1147992fe5bb5ba4bcf981c08fcfcb6f6bca8a1
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