## Why
`shell_zsh_fork` and unified exec need to remain independently
controllable for enterprise rollouts, but we also need a third mode that
composes them. That composed mode is intended to preserve unified exec
command lifecycle support while letting the zsh fork provide more
accurate `execv(2)` interception.
Enabling `unified_exec_zsh_fork` by itself is intentionally not
sufficient. It is a composition gate, not a dependency-enabling
shortcut:
- `unified_exec` selects the PTY-backed unified exec tool.
- `shell_zsh_fork` opts into the zsh fork backend.
- `unified_exec_zsh_fork` only allows those two already-enabled modes to
be composed so local zsh unified exec commands can launch through the
zsh fork.
This separation is deliberate. Enterprises and staged rollouts must be
able to enable or disable unified exec and zsh-fork independently. If
`unified_exec_zsh_fork` implied either dependency, then enabling one
under-development composition flag would silently activate a shell
backend that the configured feature set left disabled.
This PR introduces only the configuration and planning gate for that
composition. Existing `shell_zsh_fork` behavior continues to use the
standalone shell tool unless the new composition feature is explicitly
enabled alongside both dependencies.
## What Changed
- Added the under-development feature flag `unified_exec_zsh_fork`.
- Added `UnifiedExecFeatureMode` so the three input feature flags
collapse into `Disabled`, `Direct`, or `ZshFork` mode before tool
planning.
- Updated tool selection so zsh-fork composition requires
`unified_exec`, `shell_zsh_fork`, and `unified_exec_zsh_fork`.
- Kept the existing standalone zsh-fork shell tool behavior when only
`shell_zsh_fork` is enabled.
- Updated config schema output for the new feature flag.
## Verification
- Added feature and tool-config coverage for the new gate.
- Added planner coverage proving `shell_zsh_fork` remains standalone
until composition is explicitly enabled.
- Ran focused tests for `codex-features`, `codex-tools`, and the
affected `codex-core` planner case.
---
[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/24979).
* #24982
* #24981
* #24980
* __->__ #24979
## Summary
- add executor filesystem canonicalization as a bound-path operation
- route remote canonicalization through the exec-server filesystem RPC
surface
- keep path normalization attached to the filesystem that owns the path
## Stack
- 2/5 in the skills path authority stack extracted from
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25098
- follows merged https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25121
## Validation
- `cd
/Users/starr/code/codex-worktrees/pr-25098-restack-review-pr1b/codex-rs
&& just fmt`
- Not run: tests/checks (not requested)
- GitHub CI pending on rewritten head
## Why
Guardian auto-review normally uses the provider-preferred review model
when one is available. Some parent models need model-catalog metadata to
select a different review model while keeping older `/models` payloads
compatible when that metadata is absent.
## What changed
- Added optional `ModelInfo::auto_review_model_override` metadata to the
public model payload as a review-model slug.
- Updated Guardian review model selection to prefer the catalog override
when present, while preserving the existing provider preferred-model
path and parent-model fallback when it is omitted.
- Added focused Guardian coverage for override and no-override model
selection.
- Added an `auto_review` core integration suite test that loads override
metadata from a remote model catalog path and asserts the strict
auto-review `/responses` request uses the catalog-selected review model.
- Updated existing `ModelInfo` fixtures and local catalog constructors
for the new optional field.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
model_info_defaults_availability_nux_to_none_when_omitted`
- `cargo test -p codex-core guardian_review_uses_`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
remote_model_override_uses_catalog_model_for_strict_auto_review --test
all`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Python files under `scripts/` were not covered by the repository
formatting recipe or the CI formatting job, so formatting drift could
merge unnoticed.
## What
- Add a dedicated `scripts/pyproject.toml` and `scripts/uv.lock` so
root-script formatting uses a locked Ruff version.
- Extend `just fmt` to format root Python scripts and add
`fmt-scripts-check` for CI.
- Run `just fmt-scripts-check` from `.github/workflows/ci.yml`,
installing `uv` through SHA-pinned `astral-sh/setup-uv` while retaining
the `uv` `0.11.3` pin.
- Apply Ruff formatting to the root Python scripts, including
`scripts/just-shell.py`, and extend
`sdk/python/tests/test_artifact_workflow_and_binaries.py` to cover the
root formatting recipe.
- Update `AGENTS.md` so agents run `just fmt` after code changes
anywhere in the repository.
## Validation
- Extended the existing Python SDK workflow test to assert that `just
fmt` includes root Python scripts.
## Why
[#25089](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25089) introduced the
background worker that compresses cold archived rollouts, and
[#25654](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25654) made that pass
faster once it starts. But the worker still deleted
`rollout-compression.lock` on successful exit, so the existing six-hour
staleness window only helped with overlapping or crashed workers. Each
new local thread-store initialization could immediately rescan archived
rollouts even if a full pass had just finished.
This change keeps the existing marker around long enough to throttle
redundant reruns. The worker is still best-effort, but it no longer does
repeated startup scans when nothing new is eligible for compression.
## What Changed
- Replace the drop-scoped `CompressionLock` with a
`CompressionRunMarker` that claims the existing
`.tmp/rollout-compression.lock` path and leaves it in place after
success.
- Reuse the existing six-hour staleness window to block both overlapping
starts and immediate reruns, while still letting a stale marker be
reclaimed.
- Update the worker docs and debug logging to describe the new "already
running or recently ran" behavior.
- Extend the rollout compression tests to assert that a successful run
leaves the marker behind and that a fresh marker suppresses a new run.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-rollout`
## Why
`codex_core` is consistently a bottleneck for incremental builds during
iteration. The simplest fix is to make the crate smaller.
## Summary
`codex-core` owns several reusable prompt renderers and static prompt
assets, which makes the crate harder to split apart.
Rename `codex-review-prompts` to `codex-prompts` and move shared review,
goal, permissions, compaction, realtime, hierarchical AGENTS.md, and
`apply_patch` prompts into it. Move prompt-only tests and update
consumers and `CODEOWNERS`.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-prompts -p codex-apply-patch`
- `just test -p codex-core prompt_caching`
- Bazel builds for the affected crates
## Summary
Make the root `justfile` usable from Windows without maintaining a
separate Windows copy of most recipes.
The repo recipes previously assumed POSIX shell behavior for things like
variadic argument forwarding (`"$@"`) and stderr redirection
(`2>/dev/null`). That made common workflows such as `just fmt`, `just
test`, and `just log` unreliable from Windows. This PR introduces a
small cross-platform shell adapter so recipes can stay mostly unified
while still expanding the few shell-specific constructs correctly on
macOS/Linux and Windows.
## What Changed
- Add `scripts/just-shell.py` as the configured `just` shell adapter.
- On Unix it invokes `sh -cu`.
- On Windows it invokes `pwsh -CommandWithArgs` so arguments containing
spaces are preserved.
- Add portable recipe placeholders:
- `{args}` expands to `"$@"` on Unix and the equivalent PowerShell
forwarded-args expression on Windows.
- `{stderr-null}` expands to the platform-specific stderr suppression
used by `fmt`.
- Convert most variadic one-line recipes to the unified `{args}` form,
including `codex`, `exec`, `file-search`, `app-server-test-client`,
`fix`, `clippy`, `bench`, `mcp-server-run`, `write-app-server-schema`,
and `argument-comment-lint-from-source`.
- Keep genuinely shell-specific recipes split or Unix-only for now,
including recipes backed by `.sh` scripts or recipes whose bodies are
more than simple command forwarding.
- Add a Windows `just install` path that installs PowerShell via
`winget` when `pwsh` is not available, then runs the same basic Rust
setup steps.
- Update the SDK test that validates the root `fmt` recipe so it
recognizes the new portable stderr placeholder.
## Validation
- `just --summary`
- `just --dry-run fmt`
- `just --dry-run bench-smoke`
- `just --dry-run codex foo "bar binky" baz`
- `just --dry-run write-hooks-schema`
- `just --dry-run bazel-lock-update`
- `just --dry-run argument-comment-lint-from-source -- "foo bar"`
- `git diff --check -- justfile scripts/just-shell.py
sdk/python/tests/test_artifact_workflow_and_binaries.py`
- Verified Windows argv preservation through `scripts/just-shell.py`
with arguments containing spaces.
- `uv run --frozen --project sdk/python --extra dev pytest
sdk/python/tests/test_artifact_workflow_and_binaries.py::test_root_fmt_recipe_formats_rust_and_python_sdk`
## 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
## Summary
Renames the MultiAgentV2 turn-triggering tool from `assign_task` to
`followup_task` so the exposed tool name better describes sending an
additional task to an existing agent.
This updates the tool spec, handler/module names, registry wiring,
default multi-agent v2 usage hints, and tests. Rollout trace
classification keeps accepting legacy `assign_task` events so older
traces still reduce correctly, while docs show the new tool name.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core followup_task`
- `just test -p codex-core -E
'test(multi_agent_feature_selects_one_agent_tool_family) |
test(multi_agent_v2_can_use_configured_tool_namespace) |
test(code_mode_only_can_expose_namespaced_multi_agent_v2_as_normal_tools)'`
- `just test -p codex-rollout-trace`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-rollout-trace`
Notes: `just fmt` ran `cargo fmt` but failed in the Python ruff phase
because the local environment could not resolve `hatchling>=1.27.0` from
the configured internal registry. A full `just test -p codex-core` also
hit unrelated environment-sensitive integration failures involving
missing spawned test binaries/sandbox behavior; the changed multi-agent
spec/handler tests passed in the filtered runs above.
## Summary
- add public `codex_exec_server::EnvironmentPathRef`
- bind an absolute path to its owning executor filesystem
- keep path operations in the next review slice
## Stack
- 1/5 in the skills path authority stack extracted from
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25098
## Validation
- `cd /Users/starr/code/codex-worktrees/pr-25098-restack4/codex-rs &&
just fmt`
- GitHub CI pending on rewritten head
## Why
[#25089](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/25089) added the
background worker for compressing cold archived rollouts, but the worker
still processed files effectively one at a time: each compression job
was sent to `spawn_blocking` and then awaited before the next file
started. On machines with a backlog of archived rollouts, that makes
catch-up slower than it needs to be even though the actual compression
work already runs off the async runtime.
## What Changed
- Queue rollout compression work in a `JoinSet` while directory
traversal continues.
- Cap the worker at two in-flight compression jobs so it can overlap
compression without turning the background task into unbounded blocking
work.
- Drain pending jobs before returning, including the
`read_dir.next_entry()` error path, so every launched job still
contributes to the final `compressed`, `skipped`, and `failed` stats.
- Treat task join failures the same way as compression failures in the
worker's warning and failure accounting.
## Summary
- Configure the rust-release build job with
`CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI=true`
- Document the macOS SecureTransport/libgit2 failure mode that hit the
`libwebrtc`/`libyuv` git submodule fetch
## Root cause
The release run at
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/26717498860/job/78745156683
repeatedly failed before compilation because Cargo's libgit2 fetch path
could not clone the nested `yuv-sys/libyuv` submodule from
`chromium.googlesource.com`, ending with `SecureTransport error:
connection closed via error`.
## Validation
- `git diff --check`
This is a workflow-only change, so I did not run Rust package tests.
## Why
Codex 0.135.0 started shipping bundled SQLite 3.51.x via SQLx 0.9.0 to
avoid the older WAL corruption bug fixed by #24728. On Windows x64,
#25367 reports an immediate `STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION` crash on a
Haswell CPU when starting normal Codex paths.
Rather than downgrading SQLite, this keeps the newer bundled SQLite
source and removes SQLite compiler-intrinsic code paths from the Windows
x64 release build.
## What changed
For `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` release builds, export
`LIBSQLITE3_FLAGS=SQLITE_DISABLE_INTRINSIC` before `cargo build` in:
- `.github/workflows/rust-release.yml`
- `.github/workflows/rust-release-windows.yml`
Other targets keep their current SQLite build flags.
## Verification
- `git diff --check`
## Rollout compression stack
This stack splits #24941 into reviewable steps for local rollout
compression. The design is intentionally staged:
1. Teach readers, listing, search, and lookup to understand compressed
rollouts.
2. Make append and resume paths materialize compressed rollouts back to
plain JSONL before writing.
3. Add a disabled-by-default worker that can compress cold archived
rollouts behind `local_thread_store_compression`.
The key invariant is that writers append to plain `.jsonl`. A
`.jsonl.zst` file is a cold/read representation; if a write is needed,
the compressed file is materialized back to plain JSONL first. Readers
prefer plain `.jsonl` when both forms exist and can fall back to the
compressed sibling during transitions.
The worker is deliberately the last PR and remains behind an
under-development feature flag. It currently scans only
`archived_sessions`, not active `sessions`, because active sessions have
the highest resume/append race risk. That means this stack does not yet
compress most unarchived local history.
## Known race / follow-up
The remaining unresolved design question is writer/compressor
coordination. Even for archived rollouts, a resume or metadata update
can append while the worker is replacing the plain file with
`.jsonl.zst`; the current double-stat checks narrow but do not fully
eliminate the window where a writer has opened the plain file before
unlink. Do not treat the worker PR as production-ready until we either:
- prevent append/resume paths from racing archived compression, or
- introduce a shared representation/append lock or equivalent
coordination.
The first two PRs are useful independently: they make compressed
rollouts readable and make append paths safely recover back to plain
JSONL. The third PR isolates the worker behavior so that coordination
issue is reviewable separately.
## Validation
Focused local validation for the stack includes:
- `just test -p codex-rollout`
- `just test -p codex-thread-store` where thread-store paths were
touched
- `just test -p codex-features` for the feature flag slice
- `just bazel-lock-check` after dependency graph changes
- scoped `just fix -p ...` passes for changed crates
CI is still the source of truth for the full platform matrix.
## This PR in the stack
This is PR 3/3, based on #25088. It adds the under-development feature
flag and starts the best-effort background worker when enabled. The
worker currently compresses only cold archived rollouts, skips active
sessions, verifies compressed output, preserves mtime and permissions,
keeps a store-level lock heartbeat, and cleans stale temp files.
Stack order:
1. #25087: read compressed local rollouts.
2. #25088: materialize compressed rollouts before append.
3. This PR: add the disabled local compression worker.
## Summary
- preserve existing explicit SQLite thread titles during rollout
reconciliation/backfill when the incoming rollout title is only
first-message-derived
- keep stale inferred-title repair behavior while avoiding session-index
scans during startup backfill
- add a regression test for renamed titles surviving reconcile
## Testing
- just fmt
- just test -p codex-rollout
- just test -p codex-state
Closes#24886.
## Why
Users can configure the TUI status line and terminal title with
`model-with-reasoning`, but issue #24886 asks for a compact
reasoning-only item. That lets a setup show just `default`, `low`,
`medium`, `high`, or `xhigh` without repeating the model name.
## What changed
- Added a `reasoning` item for `/statusline` and `/title` setup flows.
- Rendered the item from the effective reasoning effort, including
collaboration-mode overrides.
- Registered `reasoning` with `codex doctor` so Codex-generated
terminal-title config is not reported as invalid.
- Updated TUI setup snapshots so the picker previews include the new
item.
## Summary
Fixes#25295.
The slash-command popup reused its previous `ScrollState` when the
composer filter token changed. After scrolling the full `/` command
list, typing a narrower filter such as `/st` could clamp the stale
selection into the filtered results and highlight the wrong command.
This resets the popup selection and viewport only when the parsed filter
token changes, so normal arrow navigation is preserved while new filters
start at the first match.
## Why
`codex app [PATH]` is the documented CLI entry point for opening Codex
Desktop on a workspace. Recent desktop builds can focus the app while
failing to honor paths passed as macOS document-open arguments via `open
-a Codex.app <workspace>`, which broke `codex app .` for users. See
#25333; related report: #25166.
The desktop app still supports the explicit
`codex://threads/new?path=...` route, so the CLI should use that
app-owned launch surface instead of depending on folder-open event
delivery.
## What Changed
- Build a `codex://threads/new?path=<workspace>` URL in the macOS app
launcher.
- Pass that URL to `open -a <Codex.app>` instead of passing the
workspace path as a document argument.
- Add coverage that workspace paths needing escaping round-trip through
URL query encoding.
## Verification
- `just test -p codex-cli codex_new_thread_url_encodes_workspace_path`
## Summary
I frequently want to be able to paste into the searchable menu -- the
most common use-case here is when specifying an upstream for a
`/review`, where I copy the upstream from an open terminal.
