## What changed
- Add `RemoteEnvironmentOptions` and `upsert_environment_with_options` so embedding hosts can attach trusted HTTP headers to remote exec-server WebSocket handshakes.
- Preserve the headers across session reconnects while redacting them from debug output.
- Reject invalid, duplicate, and WebSocket-controlled headers, and require `wss://` for non-loopback destinations.
- Connect header-bearing loopback WebSockets directly, with DNS results restricted to loopback addresses.
## Testing
- Cover header validation and redaction, delivery on initial connections and reconnects, and loopback destination enforcement.
GitOrigin-RevId: f2e2b0456c8e33c13fd8ab4ee040a8b5c15e885d
## What changed
- Add `Environment::last_ready_info()` to return a snapshot of the most recently accepted `EnvironmentReadyInfo`.
- Preserve the distinction between no accepted report and an accepted report with no capability roots.
## Testing
- Cover pending, ordinary, failed, recovered, replaced, empty, and invalid readiness reports.
- Verify that previously returned snapshots remain unchanged after later reports.
GitOrigin-RevId: cd051a56e7ad54a673c851eb58238c5837335c03
## What changed
- Allow a valid Ready report to replace a deferred environment's provisioning failure while preserving the same environment instance.
- Treat provisioning failures as retryable and reconnect when a completed or concurrently publishing startup attempt contains a stale failure.
- Report provisioning failures from `status()` without starting a connection, and retain Ready state when a late failure arrives.
## Testing
- Cover recovery after failed and invalid provisioning reports, capability-root resolution after recovery, and the race between Ready and publication of an earlier startup failure.
GitOrigin-RevId: cce419403248168da81bc5a6ab20f919aed81142
## Why
Exec-server process and network-policy events need stable attribution to the
launching tool call and executor without recording process payloads.
## What changed
- Add optional `ExecMetadata` to `ExecParams` and propagate the thread and tool
call IDs from unified exec.
- Emit bounded OpenTelemetry events for process start, spawn failure, sandbox
denial, and exit. Correlate them with the launch trace and registry-issued
executor identity while excluding arguments, paths, environment values,
output, and error text.
- Preserve launch attribution across long-running processes and reconnects, and
attach the same metadata to network-policy audit events.
- Keep the protocol backward compatible when metadata is omitted, and prevent
invalid trace headers from inheriting an unrelated active span.
## Testing
Add coverage for metadata serialization and propagation, lifecycle event
fields, trace relationships, reconnect behavior, spawn failures, sandbox
denials, and network-policy attribution.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7aa480a7289c73cb95e2c124c35500bb6f0d5084
## Why
Planned executor replacement needs a fresh session without waiting for the old
session's transient-disconnect recovery to finish.
## What changed
- Add `Environment::refresh_connection` for remote Noise registry-backed
environments. It performs a fresh registry lookup, reuses a healthy session
when the executor identity is unchanged, and connects to a replacement when
it has changed.
- Retire superseded sessions and connection attempts so they cannot publish
stale state, accept late RPC results, or replay outstanding work.
- Preserve the existing environment and filesystem handles while replacing the
underlying client, and require a live status probe before refresh succeeds.
## Testing
Add coverage for replacement and session reuse, recovery and connection races,
lookup and handshake failures, handle preservation, and late RPC responses.
GitOrigin-RevId: f1d11208cbfe8af8feb25f6b6b8100da82169a99
## What changed
- Include `environmentInfo` in the exec-server `initialize` response and seed the Rust client's metadata cache from it.
- Fall back to one lazy `environment/info` request when connecting to older servers that omit initialization metadata, then share the cached result across client clones and session recovery.
- Keep app-server `environment/info` requests uncached so they continue to probe the executor.
## Testing
- Cover initialization metadata, the legacy-server fallback, shared caching, accepted WebSocket environments, and repeated uncached app-server probes.
GitOrigin-RevId: 380132d9db183998d73e8c6b0954e4d70c7e8406
## What changed
- Add `EnvironmentManager::from_accepted_websocket` so embedding hosts can
construct a remote environment from an already accepted and authenticated
Axum WebSocket.
- Add `replace_accepted_websocket` to retire the current transport and resume
the same exec-server session on a host-supplied replacement connection.
- Serialize replacement handoffs, reject overlapping replacements, and release
the handoff claim when a replacement attempt is cancelled or fails.
## Testing
- Cover initial connection validation and immediate environment readiness.
- Verify replacement retry behavior and recovery of a running process and its
output after reconnecting.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1f2ab7bcf7b5abbbece5c101801432dc84a8058d
## What changed
- Add the `shellSnapshotV2` executor capability and an optional shell snapshot request to `ExecParams`.
- Capture and restore Unix shell state and profile exports from an in-memory, attachment-scoped cache for `bash`, `zsh`, and `sh`.
- Apply environment policies, runtime `PATH` entries, sandbox context, and live managed-proxy settings when preparing restored commands.
- Bound snapshot size, capture time, scope length, and cache capacity, and fall back to the original command when capture fails.
## Testing
- Cover local, remote, TTY, sandboxed, and supported-shell execution, plus environment filtering, proxy handling, in-memory reuse, and capture failure fallback.
GitOrigin-RevId: 624f747972c249c88c6f10f42cf0af97b75b5541
## What changed
- Create remote plugin metrics directories through the standard executor filesystem API.
- Remove the `private` directory-creation protocol option and its platform-specific handling.
- Update the executor temporary-directory documentation to describe child-visible sidecars without an owner-private guarantee.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9a8532403a3ad2bf998281735be0b668893918c9
## Why
An `apply_patch` path can be replaced with a symlink after verification, allowing an unsandboxed patch operation to reach a different file than the one that was approved.
## What changed
- Add `follow_symlinks` options to executor filesystem reads, writes, metadata lookups, directory creation, and removal, including the corresponding `followSymlinks` protocol fields.
- Implement no-follow filesystem operations on Unix and Windows that reject links in any path component and restrict file access to regular files.
- Run `apply_patch` with symlink traversal disabled when an otherwise-required sandbox is bypassed, while retaining the existing follow-symlink default for standalone callers.
## Testing
- Cover leaf and ancestor symlinks across patch add, update, delete, and move operations, including a path swap after verification.
- Exercise local and remote no-follow filesystem behavior, concurrent directory creation, special-file rejection, and Windows reparse points.
GitOrigin-RevId: 43fd479084891493ce13564fbd894b98f329c6dd
## What changed
- Add spans for environment resolution, readiness waits, and environment info,
including fields for the selected environment and resolution state.
- Propagate the active span and tracing subscriber into spawned resolution,
startup, and shell-snapshot tasks.
- Verify that blocking snapshots retain the expected nested environment spans.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3c47e9ec1ebf45dbe1250b9ff76e2983d2a8df2a
## Why
`CODEX_EXEC_SERVER_NOISE_AUTH_TOKEN` is an execution-server credential and
must not be exposed to model-reachable commands or command hooks, including
when shell environment policy explicitly sets a case variant of the name.
## What changed
- Add `CODEX_EXEC_SERVER_NOISE_AUTH_TOKEN` to the shared list of
non-inheritable environment variables.
- Keep the environment variable constant in `codex-protocol` so the exec
server and environment scrubber use the same definition.
- Verify case-insensitive removal after policy overrides for shell commands
and command hooks.
GitOrigin-RevId: 759b224b6a7fb4f56f7b1a6d94ffbb0b188c658f
## Why
Transient executor disconnects could leave capability discovery and skill catalogs
stuck on a cached failure for the rest of a thread, even after the executor
reconnected.
## What changed
- Replay capability discovery after executor recovery and retry transient failures
on later requests while continuing to cache permanent failures.
- Avoid caching skill catalogs produced from failed discovery so a later step can
load the recovered catalog.
- Mark the MCP runtime dirty when recovered manifests change the projected MCP
servers, and allow discovery to be cancelled with the turn.
## Testing
- Cover same-request recovery after a disconnect and recovery on a later request.
- Cover retry classification through connection-attempt errors and skill catalog
caching after discovery recovers.
GitOrigin-RevId: a57f90844351e73ea831931f72a9ddc4e4f3335c
## What changed
- Resolve manifest-declared metric operations against the executor filesystem for remote plugin commands.
- Create the measurement sidecar in an executor-native, owner-private temporary directory, stream its bounded output back for validation, and clean up the directory afterward.
- Extend the exec-server protocol with the executor temporary directory and atomic private-directory creation.
## Testing
- Cover remote unified-exec measurements for foreground and background commands.
- Verify private directories use owner-only permissions on Unix and fail closed on unsupported platforms.
GitOrigin-RevId: dbbd0a84717b91237fc5728e510e18994eb46dd4
## Why
A retryable failure during the initial remote exec-server connection left the
environment disconnected on subsequent readiness checks.
## What changed
Route retryable startup errors through the existing reconnect path. This lets
later `get()` and `wait_until_ready()` calls establish a replacement client,
while concurrent callers share the same reconnect attempt.
## Testing
Add a WebSocket test that fails the initial handshake, then verifies that later
readiness and client requests share a successful replacement connection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 82d425af0a73331884439b4350a7a1052d4ae865
## What changed
- Add the `environmentConfig/read` RPC for selecting literal TOML paths from executor-local config and requirements layers.
- Return layer precedence, cloud insertion points, source and base-directory metadata, and executor home and hostname context without normalizing path-bearing values.
- Expose the operation through both remote clients and local `Environment` instances, with invalid selectors reported as invalid parameters.
## Testing
- Cover projected remote config reads and rejection of empty selectors.
GitOrigin-RevId: fee15bf833de6bcb2058d405ed5b1d5d928d7218
## What changed
- Remove the separate deferred registration handle, direct readiness publisher,
and Noise environment upsert API from `EnvironmentManager`.
- Use `report_environment_provisioning_status` and
`materialize_pending_noise_environment` as the provisioning flow while keeping
ordinary environments isolated from provisioning reports.
- Cover readiness updates, invalid reports, duplicate materialization, and
conflicts with ordinary environments in the deferred environment tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: d14207c0abb0636d331be4f875fec6e53f3d2fe6
## What changed
- Add pending, ready, and failed provisioning states for Noise environments.
- Preserve the same environment instance whether provisioning is reported before or after materialization, and reject conflicts with ordinary environments.
- Make readiness and failure reports idempotent while rejecting contradictory terminal transitions.
- Delay connection attempts until a provisioned environment is selected and provisioning succeeds.
## Testing
- Cover status reports before and after materialization, terminal failures, repeated and contradictory reports, and replacement between ordinary and deferred environments.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4360a8f2a80c1a99a1dc9257e5d77c07b72b8eb3
## Why
Executor capability discovery can traverse plugin and skill roots, including
symlinks. Under restricted filesystem permissions, discovery must not expose
files outside the permitted paths.
## What changed
- Pass each environment's filesystem sandbox context through capability root
discovery and apply it to metadata, directory walks, and file reads.
- Enable discovery for restricted sessions so permitted executor skills remain
available while inaccessible roots and symlink targets are omitted.
- Key discovery caches by sandbox context and reject sandboxed discovery on
executors that do not advertise support for it.
- Split requests with more than 128 roots into supported-size batches.
## Testing
- Cover permitted and denied external symlink targets.
- Verify restricted skill listing excludes inaccessible skills.
- Verify cache separation across permission contexts and discovery of 129 roots.
GitOrigin-RevId: 44d16468ca003403bdb8b71a04ae8c9ff94ed494
## What changed
- Add `EnvironmentManager::publish_ready_info` to update the selected capability
roots for an existing environment without replacing it.
- Store readiness as an atomically replaceable snapshot so repeated publications
expose the latest roots while deferred completion still controls connection
readiness.
- Validate published roots and reject updates for missing environments.
## Testing
- Cover publication, replacement, repeated and invalid updates, and interaction
with deferred environment completion.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1477f60e1319f840e6b33703ef2af052713779fd
## What changed
- Rename `ReqwestHttpClient` to `RouteAwareHttpClient` to reflect that delegated HTTP uses Codex's shared route-aware transport.
- Use `codex_http_client` response and error types plus transport-neutral `http` and `url` types, removing the exec server's direct `reqwest` dependency.
## Testing
- Cover fragment stripping and Unicode hostname normalization for delegated HTTP requests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8b0fc60a76004feb57198bfb4afb1371c9ceb1bd
## Why
Remote environment connections need to honor Codex's effective outbound proxy policy, including when a rendezvous connection reconnects.
## What changed
- Pass the configured `HttpClientFactory` into remote environment transports and use `WebSocketConnector` for exec-server and rendezvous WebSockets.
- Resolve proxy routes asynchronously so these connections can use the configured system proxy.
- Add connector options that preserve Tungstenite's default TLS behavior and enable `TCP_NODELAY` for latency-sensitive rendezvous traffic.
## Testing
- Verify prepared remote environments connect through a configured system proxy.
- Verify initial and reconnected encrypted relay peers use the system proxy.
- Cover default TLS selection and opt-in `TCP_NODELAY` behavior in the WebSocket client.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8a8da2116e37cb3a891269d0c0b037986fecdd3c
## Why
Noise environment registry requests need to follow the exec server's effective
outbound proxy policy without exposing registry URLs or response headers in HTTP
diagnostics.
## What changed
- Build the registry client from the supplied `HttpClientFactory` and use a
route-aware API client with redirects and request logging disabled.
- Defer construction of the Noise connection provider until the outbound HTTP
policy is available.
- Map route-aware request failures into registry errors while retaining timeout
detection across response body reads.
## Testing
Add coverage for system-proxy routing, sensitive registry metadata redaction,
stalled response-body timeouts, and prepared Noise configuration validation.
GitOrigin-RevId: d312dfe037f72732085bf38109af44df76ed0b53
## Why
Delegated HTTP requests need to honor the same outbound proxy policy as the
Codex process that starts the exec server.
## What changed
- Pass the configured `HttpClientFactory` through local and remote exec-server
startup and use route-aware client pools for delegated HTTP and local MCP
requests.
- Preserve per-request timeouts and follow-or-stop redirect behavior while
keeping request URLs and sensitive response headers out of diagnostics.
## Testing
- Cover configured system-proxy routing across the exec-server transport.
- Cover both redirect policies and verify that success and failure logs do not
expose request or response secrets.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4af6aec1d265c4db62dfcb6e1fb076fb31736137
## Why
The TUI must inspect the default execution environment before loading its final
configuration. Initializing the environment manager at that point can give
startup services the bootstrap HTTP policy instead of the effective policy after
managed requirements are applied.
## What changed
- Split environment discovery from manager construction so callers can inspect
the default environment without starting remote connections.
- Build the environment manager after final configuration loading and pass its
resolved `HttpClientFactory` through all construction paths.
- Add shared test support for managers that use the legacy default HTTP policy.
## Testing
- Cover connection-free environment discovery and explicit HTTP policy
propagation.
- Verify TUI startup services use the final managed `respect_system_proxy` value.
GitOrigin-RevId: 928fa31e6b4bcfbe1a121cade2f351427fdfa0f4
## Why
`local` identifies the environment owned by `EnvironmentManager`, but dynamic
remote environment registration previously allowed that ID to be replaced.
## What changed
Reject `local` in the shared environment ID validator used by dynamic remote
environment registration.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2622551f78989c16c432e6dd3d7da9bd8b0527c5
## What changed
- Remove unused APIs and test helpers across the Rust workspace.
- Route Linux sandbox test setup through the shared exec request path.
- Drop dependencies that became unnecessary after the cleanup.
GitOrigin-RevId: 48fd9b2b1575bad7add0819786b4d8ec88d8486f
## Why
Remote executions need managed-network proxy listeners in the executor so their
loopback proxy addresses are reachable by the launched process.
## What changed
- Add a capability-gated exec-server protocol field for executor-local proxy
launch configuration, including network policy, audit metadata, and execution
attribution.
- Start the proxy while preparing a remote process, replace inherited proxy
environment variables with its local addresses, and derive the sandbox
context from its listeners.
- Keep the proxy alive until inherited output streams close, then shut it down.
- Reject unsupported remote settings such as MITM and credential injection.
## Testing
- Cover configuration round trips and rejection of unsupported settings.
- Verify executor-local startup, blocked-domain enforcement, protocol
compatibility, and proxy lifetime through process closure.
GitOrigin-RevId: c984f54e3e600aa9ebcbf8cf4574046e2c199d11
## Why
Selected capability roots can contribute plugins, MCP servers, connectors, and
skills. Discovering each contribution separately requires repeated access to the
executor filesystem.
## What changed
- Add the `capabilityRoots/discoverV1` exec-server RPC to scan selected roots and
materialize recognized plugin manifests, configuration files, skill
instructions, and skill metadata in one bounded request.
- Add the opt-in `executor_capability_discovery` feature, with a thread-scoped
cache and per-step snapshot shared by MCP and skill discovery.
- Parse MCP, connector, and skill contributions from the materialized snapshot,
including serving cached skill instructions without another filesystem read.
## Testing
- Cover discovery limits, manifest precedence, root-local failures, cache reuse,
plugin contributions, and parity with the existing environment skill loader.
GitOrigin-RevId: f98fd2321cafb58c596db02da1f83c09d8eb375d
## What changed
- Let deferred environments provide selected capability roots with their ready signal.
- Validate that those roots have unique, non-empty IDs, belong to the registering environment, and stay within the root limit.
- Include roots from ready turn environments when resolving MCP contributions, and refresh the MCP runtime when the selected root set changes.
- Expose the exact ready root set to MCP contributors so executor plugins become available with their environment.
## Testing
- Cover ready-root propagation, validation failures, replacement isolation, reconnection, and MCP plugin availability refresh.
GitOrigin-RevId: ec3498aab1164824025094e96a9b1063b7b731ad
## What changed
- Track connected and disconnected states across initial remote exec-server connections and reconnection attempts.
- Emit experimental `thread/environment/connected` and `thread/environment/disconnected` app-server notifications for each thread selecting the environment. Each payload identifies the thread and environment; current state is not replayed when a thread starts.
- Stop forwarding connection events when an environment selection is removed or replaced.
## Testing
- Cover connection, disconnection, reconnection, shared-environment notifications, and replacement of a selected environment.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5dd767372363c4a2a8319fc16164be117d5bd20c
## What changed
- Replace pending WebSocket URL registration with deferred Noise environment
registration that gates connection attempts on an explicit readiness signal.
- Reuse the Noise rendezvous transport after readiness so reconnects request a
fresh connection bundle.
- Preserve terminal errors for failed or dropped registrations and keep late
completion isolated from replacement environments.
## Testing
- Add coverage for readiness gating, registration failure and replacement,
eager Noise connections, and reconnection through a fresh rendezvous bundle.
GitOrigin-RevId: 83e23fa03a02e3b2bdf1a83fe26d7ac461f55cf3
## What changed
- Add the experimental `environment/status` request for inspecting a configured environment without starting or reconnecting it.
- Report `ready`, `pending`, `disconnected`, or `unknown`, including error details for disconnected and unknown environments.
- Probe ready remote environments over their existing exec-server connection.
## Testing
- Add an app-server integration test covering local and remote ready, pending, disconnected, and unknown environments.
GitOrigin-RevId: 397bba603aa9e0b59008ee6cb7cbde46e357652c
## What changed
- Add the initialized `environment/status` RPC, which reports `ready` when the exec server can handle requests.
- Expose environment IDs and `ready`, `pending`, or `disconnected` status through `EnvironmentManager` and `Environment`.
- Keep status checks non-mutating: they do not start or recover lazy remote environments, and probe only an existing connection.
## Testing
- Cover the status RPC over WebSocket and the in-process request processor.
- Verify that checking an unstarted stdio environment leaves it pending and that failed connections report as disconnected.
GitOrigin-RevId: 22febeb6a3457849292128a8991c6400c22b3fd8
## Why
Remote environment provisioning can finish after a thread starts, before an
exec-server WebSocket URL is available.
## What changed
- Add `EnvironmentManager::register_pending_environment` and a one-shot
`PendingEnvironmentRegistration` handle that resolves to either a validated
WebSocket URL or a terminal provisioning error.
- Let lazy remote exec-server clients wait for that result, while preserving
reconnection behavior after a successful registration.
- Keep replacement registrations isolated so completing an older handle does
not resolve the current environment with the same ID.
## Testing
Add coverage for successful connection and reconnection, provisioning and
dropped-registration failures, invalid URLs, replacement isolation, and the
deferred-executor startup flow.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5c05be2b72291b77a1f71176d7075b1ad63332a5
## Why
A thread can select skill roots that live in an executor environment.
`skills/list` needs a passive snapshot of the roots that are usable now:
it must not start an executor, wait for recovery, or reconnect a failed
environment.
The initial implementation checked the immutable first startup result.
After a successful connection later entered recovery or failed, that
result still looked successful. A read-only catalog request could then
wait for recovery or trigger a new connection while reading the
filesystem.
## What
- inspect readiness from the current exec-server connection state
- return roots only while their environment can serve a request
immediately
- omit environments that have not started, are connecting, or are
recovering
- return warnings for missing environments and terminal connection
failures
- add a fail-fast filesystem view that never starts, waits for, or
reconnects an environment
- expose the passive selected-root snapshot through `CodexThread`
## Behavior
- Local and currently connected environments are ready.
- Starting and recovering environments are omitted without a warning so
callers can retry later.
- Missing and terminally failed environments are omitted with a warning.
- A disconnect between readiness inspection and filesystem access fails
promptly instead of crossing into the normal recovery path.
- Normal model-turn and execution paths keep their existing reconnect
behavior.
## Design
The recovery policy is private to the exec-server client. Callers choose
the explicit fail-fast filesystem method; the existing client and
filesystem APIs remain reconnecting. This keeps the passive contract at
the transport boundary instead of plumbing timeout or retry flags
through the skills stack.
## Coverage
- a lazy stdio environment stays unstarted during passive inspection
- missing and terminally failed environments surface warnings
- a real websocket disconnect proves current readiness drops, a
previously acquired fail-fast filesystem handle returns promptly, and
readiness returns after recovery
## Scope
This PR only provides passive readiness and fail-fast filesystem
primitives. It does not add app-server API fields or notifications.
## Stack
- #31582 uses these primitives for experimental thread-scoped
`skills/list`.
- #30228 adds targeted invalidation notifications.
## Why
`selectedCapabilityRoots` is durable thread intent: “use this capability
root from environment `worker`.”
The important product assumption is:
> One environment ID always names the same logical executor and stable
contents.
`worker` does not silently change from executor A to an unrelated
executor B. The process-local connection handle for `worker` can still
be replaced while Codex is running, though, for example when
`environment/add` registers a fresh handle for the same logical
environment.
The thread should persist only the stable selection. Each model step
should pair that selection with the exact ready handle captured for that
step.
## The boundary
```text
persisted thread intent
plugin@1 -> environment "worker"
|
| capture the current step
v
model-step view
unavailable, or
plugin@1 + worker's exact captured ready handle
```
The environment ID is the stable identity and cache key. The
`Arc<Environment>` is only a process-local handle retained so consumers
of one model step use the same captured environment. It is never
persisted and it does not imply different environment contents.
## What changes
### Persist the stable selection
Selected roots are written into `SessionMeta` and restored with the
thread. Forked subagents inherit the same selections, including
bounded-history forks.
Only stable data is persisted: root ID, environment ID, and root path.
### Capture readiness together with the exact handle
The environment snapshot records:
```rust
environment_id -> Some(Arc<Environment>) // ready in this step
environment_id -> None // still starting in this step
```
This prevents readiness and execution from coming from different
registry snapshots.
For example:
```text
step snapshot: worker -> handle A, ready
environment/add: worker -> fresh handle B for the same logical environment
current step: plugin@1 still uses captured handle A
```
Without carrying handle A in the snapshot, the resolver could combine “A
was ready” with handle B and treat B as ready before it had finished
starting.
This does not change cache invalidation. Stable capability metadata
remains identified by environment ID and capability root. Replacing a
process-local handle under the same stable environment ID does not
invalidate or rediscover that metadata.
### Resolve availability per model step
- A ready captured environment produces resolved roots using its
captured handle.
- A starting, missing, or failed environment is omitted from that step.
- A selected lazy environment that is outside the turn's captured
environment set is asked to start, and a later step can observe it as
ready.
- No capability files are scanned here.
Transient transport disconnects remain the remote client's reconnect
concern. This PR models initial attachment/readiness; it does not add
live socket-connectivity state.
## Example
```text
thread selection: plugin@1 -> environment "worker"
step 1: worker is starting -> plugin@1 unavailable
step 2: worker is ready -> plugin@1 resolves through worker's captured handle
step 3: fresh local handle -> current step remains pinned; a later step captures its own view
```
Temporary unavailability does not discard the durable selection. Later
PRs can retain stable metadata caches while projecting only currently
available capabilities into model-visible World State.
## Compatibility
The app-server request shape does not change. Older rollouts without
`selected_capability_roots` deserialize to an empty list.
## Stack
1. **This PR:** persist stable selected roots and resolve them through
an exact model-step handle.
2. #29960: cache stable skill metadata and project available skills into
World State.
3. #29946: cache stable plugin declarations and manage the separate live
MCP runtime.
## Why
The app-server and exec-server expose separate JSON-RPC APIs, but
exec-server currently sources its serialized protocol and envelope types
through app-server-oriented code. Giving each API an explicit owner
makes the crate boundary legible without introducing shared generic
envelopes.
## What changed
- Added `codex-exec-server-protocol` to own exec DTOs, process IDs, and
JSON-RPC envelopes.
- Updated exec-server clients, transports, handlers, and tests to use
the new crate.
- Exposed app-server's existing JSON-RPC types through a public `rpc`
module while retaining root re-exports.
- Preserved existing wire shapes, including exec `PathUri` behavior.
## Stack
This is PR 1 of 6. Next: [PR
#29721](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29721), which moves auth
mode below the app wire boundary.
## Validation
- Exec-server protocol and server coverage passed in the focused
protocol test runs.
- App-server protocol schema fixtures passed.
## Summary
- add the exec-server working directory to `environment/info` as an
optional `PathUri`
- populate it from the executor process's current directory
- preserve compatibility with older responses that omit `cwd`
## Why
Remote clients currently have no executor-native default working
directory. This forces callers such as app-server-backend to assume
`/workspace`, which fails for laptop environments. Reporting the cwd
alongside the detected shell lets clients use the path convention and
location of the actual executor.
## Impact
This is backward-compatible: the new response field is optional, and
clients can continue handling responses from older exec servers. A
follow-up app-server-backend change will consume the value for cwd-less
`command/exec` requests.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-exec-server` (275 passed, 2 skipped)
## Why
Managed network configures commands to use local HTTP and SOCKS proxies.
For commands delegated to the exec server, the proxy environment and the
sandbox policy were prepared separately. On macOS, that meant a command
could receive `HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:43123` while Seatbelt still
denied access to port `43123`.
## What changed
`NetworkProxy` now prepares the command environment and sandbox context
together from the same runtime snapshot:
```text
Prepared managed network
├── command environment: HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:43123
└── sandbox context: allow outbound to 127.0.0.1:43123
```
That context travels with remote exec requests. The exec server
preserves the managed proxy and CA environment, and macOS Seatbelt
allows only the prepared loopback proxy ports without enabling broad
network access or local binding.
The protocol field is optional and the existing enforcement flag remains
in place, preserving compatibility with callers that do not send the new
context.
## Why
Downstream refactors are producing confusing code with this
functionality having a very generic name. Encoding the specific
conversion approach in the method name makes it clearer.
## What
Rename `PathUri::from_path` to `PathUri::from_host_native_path` and
update its Rust call sites.
## Why
PR #29108 lets the orchestrator send sandbox intent with `process/start`
without wrapping the command for its own operating system.
This PR completes that boundary by making the executor interpret and
enforce the intent using its own filesystem paths and sandbox
implementation.
For example, a macOS TUI targeting a Linux devbox sends `/bin/bash -lc
pwd`. The Linux executor turns that into its own `codex-linux-sandbox
... /bin/bash -lc pwd` launch.
## What changes
- Keep `process/start` unchanged when no sandbox intent is present.
- Convert sandbox `PathUri` values into native paths on the executor.
- Bind symbolic `:workspace_roots` permissions to the executor's native
sandbox cwd.
- Select the sandbox implementation on the executor and wrap the
original command immediately before spawning it.
- Reject sandbox-required execution before spawning when the executor
cannot enforce the intent.
- Pass exec-server runtime paths into process creation so Linux can
locate `codex-linux-sandbox`.
The boundary is therefore:
```text
orchestrator executor
original argv + sandbox intent -> select and enforce local sandbox
```
This PR intentionally treats a denied remote command as an ordinary
command failure. Draft follow-up #29424 carries a semantic
`sandboxDenied` result back to unified exec for the existing approval
and retry flow.
## Platform scope
Linux and macOS use their existing direct-spawn sandbox transforms.
Windows sandboxed remote process launch is intentionally unsupported in
this PR. The current Windows direct-spawn wrapper does not correctly
preserve arbitrary argv, TTY behavior, or pass the full child
environment out of band. The executor rejects the request instead of
running it incorrectly or unsandboxed.
## Known follow-ups
- The transported permission profile can still contain
orchestrator-materialized helper or explicit paths. A `TODO(jif)` marks
where the executor boundary should receive pre-host-materialization
permission intent.
- The sandbox wrapper currently replaces a requested custom inner
`arg0`. A `TODO(jif)` marks where this must be preserved or rejected
explicitly.
- Draft PR #29424 contains the deferred sandbox-denial classification
and approval/retry behavior.
## Rollout assumption
This executor-sandbox stack is unreleased and its client and executor
are expected to move together. This PR does not add mixed-version
negotiation with older exec servers.
## What changed
PR #29099 stopped sending the orchestrator's concrete sandbox wrapper to
a remote exec-server. Remote commands now arrive as plain native argv.
This PR adds the next piece: Codex also sends portable sandbox intent
next to that plain argv.
For a remote unified-exec command, the request can now include:
- the canonical permission profile before local workspace-root
materialization
- the sandbox cwd and workspace roots as `PathUri` values
- Windows sandbox settings
- the legacy Landlock setting
- whether managed networking must be enforced
The important part is that symbolic entries such as `:workspace_roots`
stay symbolic while crossing the boundary. The executor can then bind
them to its own workspace-root paths instead of receiving
orchestrator-local absolute paths.
The data travels through `ExecRequest` into `ExecParams`. Older
exec-servers can still deserialize requests because the new fields have
defaults.
## Why
The orchestrator should not decide how another machine implements
sandboxing.
For example:
- a local macOS Codex would normally build a Seatbelt command
- a remote Linux executor needs a Linux sandbox command instead
The orchestrator now sends the plain command plus the policy it intended
to enforce. A later PR can let the exec-server choose and build the
correct sandbox for its own operating system.
## Important detail
This keeps the portable intent separate from the local `SandboxType`.
`SandboxType::None` is ambiguous:
- it can mean the command was explicitly approved to run without a
sandbox
- it can also mean the orchestrator host has no concrete sandbox
implementation available
Those cases are different for remote execution. This PR adds
`sandbox_requested` so an executor can still receive sandbox intent when
the orchestrator cannot build a local wrapper. Explicit unsandboxed
retries still send no sandbox context.
## Behavior today
This PR only transports the intent. The exec-server accepts the new
fields but does not apply them yet.
Remote commands therefore remain unsandboxed after this PR, just as they
are after PR #29099.
## Follow-up
The next PR will make exec-server read this portable intent, bind
symbolic workspace permissions to executor-native roots, choose the
sandbox for its own operating system, build the wrapper locally, and
then spawn the command.
## Why
Remote environments registered through `environment/add` currently use
the fixed 10-second WebSocket connection timeout. Slow-starting
executors need a caller-selected connection window, but this should not
add retry policy or couple exec-server behavior to Core’s
`deferred_executor` feature.
Make the timeout an optional part of the existing experimental request.
Existing clients continue using the current default, while callers that
know an executor may take longer can request a larger window explicitly.
Depends on #28683.
## What changed
- Add optional `connectTimeoutMs` to `EnvironmentAddParams` and document
it in the app-server README.
- Pass the optional timeout through `EnvironmentRequestProcessor` into
one `EnvironmentManager::upsert_environment()` path; the manager applies
the existing default when it is omitted.
- Preserve the existing single-attempt lifecycle. The configured value
controls WebSocket connection and handshake time for both initial
connection and later reconnects; initialization retains its separate
timeout.
- Add an app-server integration test that sends the real JSON-RPC
request and verifies a stalled handshake observes the requested timeout.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-exec-server`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
environment_add_applies_connect_timeout`
## Rollout
This is additive and does not enable `deferred_executor`. Callers should
send a non-default timeout only after a compatible app-server is
deployed; omitted or `null` values retain the existing 10-second
default.
## Why
Remote environments can be registered before their exec-server is first
used. Starting the connection at registration time uses that startup
window, while sharing one startup result prevents background work and
capability calls from opening competing connections.
Keep initial startup simple: each environment makes one connection
attempt using its configured transport timeout. A failed initial attempt
is final for that environment, while an environment that disconnects
after connecting can still recover on a later operation.
## What changed
- Start URL and Noise environments in the background when they are added
to `EnvironmentManager`. Provider snapshots are fully validated before
connection work begins.
- Share one initial connection attempt and its saved result across
metadata, process, filesystem, and HTTP callers.
- Keep configured stdio environments lazy until first use so
registration does not launch a process.
- Tie background startup work to the environment lifetime so replacing
or dropping an environment cancels unfinished work.
- After an established client disconnects, share one fresh connection
attempt across concurrent callers. A failed attempt fails the current
operation without permanently preventing a later attempt.
- Store the shared lazy client directly on `Environment` and expose
small methods for starting, observing, and awaiting startup.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-exec-server`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
turn_start_resolves_sticky_thread_local_environment_and_turn_overrides`
## Why
Codex can run a remote exec server through the Noise relay, but the
normal
environment-manager path could not establish an
environment-registry-backed
harness connection. Signed rendezvous URLs and harness authorizations
are
short-lived, so reconnects must fetch a fresh bundle instead of
retaining
stale connection credentials. A stalled registry request must also fail
within
the regular remote connection deadline, without exposing these
credentials in
debug logs.
Issue: N/A (internal environment-service integration).
## What Changed
- Add environment-manager configuration for a registry-backed Noise
rendezvous
environment.
- Request a fresh bundle from
`/cloud/environment/{environment_id}/connect` for every physical harness
connection, using the existing 10-second remote connection timeout.
- Share the Environment Registry register, connect, and validate wire
payloads
through `codex-exec-server` and `codex-core-api`.
- Redact the signed rendezvous URL and harness authorization from the
public
connect response's `Debug` output.
- Add focused coverage for registry bundle retrieval, stalled requests,
and
credential redaction.
## Why
Rendezvous forwards traffic between the orchestrator and exec-server.
The endpoints need to authenticate each other and encrypt that traffic
without trusting Rendezvous with plaintext or endpoint keys.
## Changes
- Adds a hybrid Noise IK channel through Clatter using X25519,
ML-KEM-768, AES-256-GCM, and SHA-256.
- Binds each handshake to `environment_id`, `executor_registration_id`,
and `stream_id`.
- Pins the registry-provided executor key and carries the harness
authorization inside the encrypted handshake.
- Orders relay frames before consuming Noise nonces and fragments large
JSON-RPC messages into bounded records.
- Bounds handshake payloads, frames, streams, and message reassembly.
Runtime activation is in
[openai/codex#26245](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26245).
## Stack
1. **[openai/codex#26242](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26242)**:
Noise channel and relay transport
2. [openai/codex#26245](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26245):
remote registration and runtime activation
## Verification
- `just test -p codex-exec-server`
- Oversized initiator payload regression coverage
- `just fix -p codex-exec-server`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `cargo shear`
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## Why
This is the second-to-last place in the exec-server protocol that needs
to migrate to URIs to support cross-OS operation.
## What
- Change `ExecParams.cwd` to `PathUri`.
- Keep the cwd URI-shaped through core and rmcp producers, converting it
to `AbsolutePathBuf` only in `LocalProcess::start_process`.
- Reject non-native cwd URIs before launch and update the affected
protocol documentation and call sites.
## Why
`PathUri::from_abs_path` can fail for absolute paths that do not have a
normal `file:` URI representation, forcing filesystem call sites to
handle a conversion error even though the original path can be preserved
losslessly.
## What
Make `from_abs_path` infallible and migrate its callers. Unrepresentable
paths use `file:///%00/bad/path/<base64>`, encoding Unix bytes or
Windows UTF-16LE; `to_abs_path` validates and decodes that fallback. The
leading encoded null reserves a namespace that cannot collide with a
real Unix or Windows path, and fallback URIs remain opaque to lexical
path operations.
## Validation
Added path-URI coverage for Unix null and non-UTF-8 paths, Windows
device/verbatim and non-Unicode paths, serialization, malformed
fallbacks, opaque lexical operations, invalid native payloads, and
literal `/bad/path` collision resistance.
## Why
We're moving exec-server to use PathUri for its internal path
representations.
## What
Move `ExecutorFileSystem` APIs to use `PathUri` instead of
`AbsolutePathBuf`. Future changes will convert higher-level parts of
exec-server.
