# Why
Codex currently negotiates MCP `2025-06-18`, where the client
elicitation capability is represented as an empty object. We were still
serializing `capabilities.elicitation.form`, which belongs to the later
capability shape and can cause strict `2025-06-18` servers to reject
`initialize` with an unrecognized-field error.
This keeps the handshake aligned with the protocol version Codex
actually negotiates and fixes the compatibility regression tracked in
#17492.
# What
- Serialize the client elicitation capability as `elicitation: {}` for
`2025-06-18`.
- Keep elicitation advertised for both Codex Apps and custom MCP
servers.
- Tighten regression coverage so the unit test asserts both the Rust
value and the serialized wire shape.
- Add an app-server integration test that round-trips a form elicitation
from a custom MCP server; the existing connector round-trip continues to
cover the connector path.
# Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-mcp`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server mcp_server_elicitation_round_trip`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
mcp_server_tool_call_round_trips_elicitation`
# Next steps
- Decide whether `tool_call_mcp_elicitation=false` should also suppress
capability advertisement during `initialize`.
- Revisit `form` / `url` capability advertisement when Codex is ready to
negotiate MCP `2025-11-25`, which defines that newer shape.
## Why
Image-view results should be represented as a core-produced turn item
instead of being reconstructed by app-server. At the same time, existing
rollout/history paths still understand the legacy `ViewImageToolCall`
event, so this keeps that event as compatibility output generated from
the new item lifecycle.
## What changed
- Added `TurnItem::ImageView` to `codex-protocol`.
- Emitted image-view item start/completion directly from the core
`view_image` handler.
- Kept `ViewImageToolCall` as a legacy event and generate it from
completed `TurnItem::ImageView` items.
- Kept `thread_history.rs` on the legacy `ViewImageToolCall` replay
path, with `ImageView` item lifecycle events ignored there.
- Updated app-server protocol conversion, rollout persistence, and
affected exhaustive event matches for the new item plus legacy fan-out
shape.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server -p
codex-app-server --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
view_image_tool_attaches_local_image`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p codex-app-server-protocol
-p codex-app-server -p codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p
codex-mcp-server`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
- make selected turn environments the source of truth for session
runtime cwd and MCP runtime environment selection
- keep local/no-selection fallback behavior intact
- add coverage for duplicate selected environments, cwd resolution, and
MCP runtime environment selection
## Validation
- git diff --check
- rustfmt was run on touched Rust files during the implementation
workflow
CI should provide the full Bazel/test signal.
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## Summary
- Route loaded `thread/read` + `includeTurns` through
`CodexThread::load_history` / ThreadStore history instead of direct
rollout JSONL reads.
- Add an in-memory ThreadStore regression test covering loaded
`thread/read includeTurns` without a local rollout path.
## Why
`codex-app-server` currently owns both request-processing code and
transport implementation details. Splitting the transport layer into its
own crate makes that boundary explicit, reduces the amount of
transport-specific dependency surface carried by `codex-app-server`, and
gives future transport work a narrower place to evolve.
## What changed
- Added `codex-app-server-transport` and moved the existing transport
tree into it, including stdio, unix socket, websocket, remote-control
transport, and websocket auth.
- Moved shared transport-facing message types into the new crate so both
the transport implementation and `codex-app-server` use the same
definitions.
- Kept processor-facing connection state and outbound routing in
`codex-app-server`, with the routing tests moved next to that local
wrapper.
- Updated workspace metadata, Bazel crate metadata, and
`codex-app-server` dependencies for the new crate boundary.
## Validation
- `cargo metadata --locked --no-deps`
- `git diff --check`
- Attempted `cargo test -p codex-app-server-transport`, `cargo test -p
codex-app-server`, `just fix -p codex-app-server-transport`, and `just
fix -p codex-app-server`; all were blocked before compilation by the
existing `packageproxy` resolution failure for locked `rustls-webpki =
0.103.13`.
- Attempted Bazel build / lockfile validation; those were blocked by
external fetch failures against BuildBuddy / GitHub while resolving
`v8`.
## Why
Apply-patch file changes are now part of the core turn item stream, so
v2 clients can consume the same first-class item lifecycle path used by
other turn items instead of relying on app-server-specific remapping
from legacy patch events.
## What changed
- Added a core `TurnItem::FileChange` carrying apply-patch changes and
completion metadata.
- Updated the apply-patch tool emitter to send `ItemStarted` /
`ItemCompleted` with the new `FileChange` item while preserving legacy
`PatchApplyBegin` / `PatchApplyEnd` fan-out.
- Updated app-server v2 conversion to render the new core item directly
and stopped `event_mapping` from remapping old patch begin/end events
into item notifications.
- Kept thread history reconstruction based on the existing old
apply-patch events for rollout compatibility.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
apply_patch_tool_executes_and_emits_patch_events`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server bespoke_event_handling`
When a local plugin is shared, Codex now records the local plugin path
by remote plugin id under CODEX_HOME/.tmp.
plugin/share/list includes the remote share URL and the matching local
plugin path when available, and plugin/share/delete
clears the local mapping after deleting the remote share.
Also add sharedURL to plugin/share/list.
## Summary
Adds an app-server `plugin/skill/read` method for remote plugin skill
markdown. The new method calls the plugin-service skill detail endpoint
and returns `skill_md_contents`, so clients can preview skills for
remote plugins before the bundle is installed locally.
## Why
Uninstalled remote plugin skills do not have local `SKILL.md` files.
Without an on-demand remote read, the desktop plugin details UI cannot
render the skill details modal for those skills.
## Validation
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all --
suite::v2::plugin_read::plugin_skill_read_reads_remote_skill_contents_when_remote_plugin_enabled
--exact`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-core-plugins -p
codex-app-server`
## Summary
- Refresh the remote installed-plugin cache after login/logout instead
of keying it by account or eagerly clearing it.
- Reuse the existing single-flight remote installed refresh loop so
newer queued auth refreshes replace older pending requests and the API
result eventually overwrites or clears the cache.
- Keep derived plugin/skills cache and MCP refresh side effects behind
the existing effective-plugin-changed task when the refreshed installed
state changes.
- Leave `clear_plugin_related_caches` scoped to derived plugin/skills
caches so share mutations do not drop remote installed plugins.
## Tests
- `cargo fmt --all --manifest-path codex-rs/Cargo.toml` (passes; stable
rustfmt warns that `imports_granularity = Item` is nightly-only)
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins remote_installed_cache`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
skills_list_loads_remote_installed_plugin_skills_from_cache`
- Build one app-server process ThreadStore from startup config and share
it with ThreadManager and CodexMessageProcessor.
- Remove per-thread/fork store reconstruction so effective thread config
cannot switch the persistence backend.
- Add params to ThreadStore create/resume for specifying thread
metadata, since otherwise the metadata from store creation would be used
(incorrectly).
## Summary
Remote plugin-service returns plugin availability separately from a
user's installed/enabled state. This adds `PluginAvailabilityStatus` to
the app-server protocol, propagates remote catalog `status` into
`PluginSummary`, and rejects install attempts for remote plugins marked
`DISABLED_BY_ADMIN` before downloading or caching the bundle.
This is the `openai/codex` half of the change. The companion
`openai/openai` webview PR is
https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/873269.
## Validation
- `cargo run -p codex-app-server-protocol --bin write_schema_fixtures`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
plugin_list_marks_remote_plugin_disabled_by_admin`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
plugin_list_includes_remote_marketplaces_when_remote_plugin_enabled`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
plugin_install_rejects_remote_plugin_disabled_by_admin_before_download`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol schema_fixtures`
## Why
Remote-control protocol v3 makes segmentation an explicit wire-level
feature. The app-server transport needs to support that protocol
directly so large messages can be chunked, acknowledged, replayed, and
reassembled consistently.
## What changed
- Bump the remote-control websocket protocol version from `2` to `3`.
- Add explicit client/server chunk envelope variants plus chunk-aware
acknowledgements.
- Split oversized outbound server messages into bounded transport
chunks.
- Reassemble ordered inbound client chunks with bounded memory usage and
stream/client invalidation handling.
- Track inbound chunk cursors and outbound ack cursors as `(seq_id,
segment_id)` so duplicate chunks and partial replays behave correctly.
- Add focused coverage for chunk splitting, reassembly, duplicate
suppression, and stream replacement behavior.
## Validation
- Added targeted unit coverage for segmented message handling in
`remote_control`.
- Local validation is currently blocked before compilation because
`packageproxy` does not serve the locked `rustls-webpki 0.103.13`
dependency required by the workspace.
# Why
The hooks feature flag should use the concise canonical name `hooks`,
while existing configs that still use `codex_hooks` continue to work
during the rename.
# What
- change the canonical `Feature::CodexHooks` key from `codex_hooks` to
`hooks`
- register `codex_hooks` through the existing legacy-alias path
- update the config schema and canonical config fixtures to prefer
`hooks`
- add regression coverage that both `hooks` and `codex_hooks` resolve to
`Feature::CodexHooks`
# Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-features`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config::schema_tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
pre_tool_use_blocks_shell_when_defined_in_config_toml`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
hooks_list_uses_each_cwds_effective_feature_enablement`
## Summary
- emit `codex_plugin_installed` after a remote plugin install succeeds
- keep local installs unchanged, but let remote installs override the
analytics `plugin_id` with the backend remote plugin id
(`plugins~Plugin_...`)
- preserve the local/display identity in `plugin_name` and
`marketplace_name`, plus capability metadata from the installed bundle
- add regression coverage for local install analytics, remote install
analytics, and analytics id override serialization
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server`
## Summary
- Download missing remote installed plugin bundles during app-server
startup and plugin/list refresh.
- Upgrade cached remote installed bundles when the backend installed
version changes.
- Remove stale remote installed bundle caches without writing remote
plugin state into config.toml.
## Review note
This is a clean PR branch cut from the current diff on top of latest
`origin/main`. The diff intentionally has no `codex-rs/core/**` files,
so CODEOWNERS should not request the core-directory owner review from
stale PR history.
## Validation
Already run on the source branch before creating this clean PR:
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
app_server_startup_sync_downloads_remote_installed_plugin_bundles --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
plugin_list_sync_upgrades_and_removes_remote_installed_plugin_bundles --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
app_server_startup_remote_plugin_sync_runs_once -- --nocapture`
- `just fix -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `git diff --check`
- migrate `thread/turns/list` to ThreadStore. Uses ThreadStore for most
data now but merges in the in-memory state from thread manager
- keep v2 `thread/list` pathless-store friendly by converting
`StoredThread` directly to API `Thread`
- add regression coverage for pathless store history/listing
## Why
`item/fileChange/outputDelta` text output was only the tool's summary or
error text and not used by client surfaces.
We keep `item/fileChange/outputDelta` in the app-server protocol as a
deprecated compatibility entry, but the server no longer emits it.
## What changed
- stop the `apply_patch` runtime from emitting `ExecCommandOutputDelta`
events
- simplify `item_event_to_server_notification` so command output deltas
always map to `item/commandExecution/outputDelta`
- remove the app-server bookkeeping that tried to detect whether an
output delta belonged to a file change
- mark `item/fileChange/outputDelta` as a deprecated legacy protocol
entry in the v2 types, schema, and README
- simplify the file-change approval tests so they only wait for
completion instead of expecting output-delta notifications
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-manager-sample`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
protocol::event_mapping::tests::exec_command_output_delta_maps_to_command_execution_output_delta
-- --exact`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
turn_start_file_change_approval_accept_for_session_persists_v2 --
--exact` *(failed before the test assertions because the wiremock
`/responses` mock received 0 requests in setup)*
## Why
Follow-up to #20291.
The v2 item-event-to-notification translation had been embedded in
`app-server/src/bespoke_event_handling.rs`, which made it hard to reuse
anywhere else. This PR moves that stateless mapping into shared protocol
code so other entry points can produce the same `ServerNotification`
payloads without copying app-server logic.
That also lets `thread-manager-sample` demonstrate the same notification
surface that the app server exposes, instead of only printing the final
assistant message.
## What changed
- move `item_event_to_server_notification` into
`codex-app-server-protocol::protocol::event_mapping`
- keep the mapper tests next to the shared implementation in
`codex-app-server-protocol`
- re-export the mapper from `codex-core-api` so lightweight consumers
can use it without reaching into `app-server-protocol` directly
- simplify `app-server/src/bespoke_event_handling.rs` so it delegates
the stateless event-to-notification projection to the shared helper
- update `thread-manager-sample` to:
- print mapped notifications as newline-delimited JSON
- use the shared mapper through `codex-core-api`
- enable the default feature set so the sample exposes the normal tool
surface
- use a `read_only` permission profile so shell commands can run in the
sample without widening permissions
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-api`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server bespoke_event_handling::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-manager-sample`
- `cargo run -p codex-thread-manager-sample -- "briefly explore the repo
with pwd and ls, then summarize it"`
## Why
Large MCP tool call outputs can make rollout JSONL files enormous. In
the session that motivated this change, the biggest JSONL records were:
- `event_msg/mcp_tool_call_end`
- `response_item/function_call_output`
both containing the same unbounded MCP payloads - just 3 MCP tool calls
that each were multi-hundred MBs 😱
This PR truncates both of those JSONL records.
## How
#### For `response_item/function_call_output`
Unified exec already bounds tool output before it is injected into
model-facing history, which also keeps the corresponding rollout
`response_item/function_call_output` records small.
MCP should follow the same pattern: truncate the model-facing tool
output at the tool-output boundary, while leaving code-mode/raw hook
consumers alone.
#### For `event_msg/mcp_tool_call_end`
`McpToolCallEnd` also needs its own bounded event copy because it is the
app-server/replay/UI event shape that backs `ThreadItem::McpToolCall`.
Unfortunately this is _not_ downstream of the `ToolOutput` trait.
## Model behavior
Model behavior is actually unchanged as a result of this PR.
Before this PR, MCP output was:
1. Converted to `FunctionCallOutput`.
2. Recorded into in-memory history.
3. Truncated by `ContextManager::record_items()` before later model
turns saw it.
After this branch, MCP output is truncated earlier, in
`McpToolOutput::response_payload()`, using the same helper. Then
`ContextManager::record_items()` sees an already-truncated output and
effectively has little/no additional work to do.
So the model should still see the same kind of truncated function-call
output. The practical difference is where truncation happens: earlier,
before rollout persistence/app-server emission can see the giant
payload.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core mcp_tool_output`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
mcp_tool_call::tests::truncate_mcp_tool_result_for_event`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
mcp_post_tool_use_payload_uses_model_tool_name_args_and_result`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
Codex is repurposing `session` to mean a thread group, so the realtime
provider session id should no longer use `session_id` / `sessionId` in
Codex-facing protocol payloads. This PR renames that provider-specific
field to `realtime_session_id` / `realtimeSessionId` and intentionally
breaks clients that still send the old field names.
## What Changed
- Renamed realtime provider session fields in `ConversationStartParams`,
`RealtimeConversationStartedEvent`, and `RealtimeEvent::SessionUpdated`.
- Renamed app-server v2 realtime request and notification fields to
`realtimeSessionId`.
- Removed legacy serde aliases for `session_id` / `sessionId`; clients
must send the new names.
- Propagated the rename through core realtime startup, app-server
adapters, codex-api websocket handling, and TUI realtime state.
- Regenerated app-server protocol schema/TypeScript outputs and updated
app-server README examples.
- Kept upstream Realtime API concepts unchanged: provider `session.id`
parsing and `x-session-id` headers still use the upstream wire names.
## Testing
- CI is running on the latest pushed commit.
- Earlier local verification on this PR:
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-core
realtime_conversation`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-app-server
realtime_conversation`
- attempted `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-tui` (local
linker bus error while linking the test binary)
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## Why
Fixes#20145.
`config/value/write` treats a JSON `null` value as a request to clear
the config key. Clearing a key that is already absent should be
idempotent, but clearing a nested key such as `features.personality`
from an empty `config.toml` returned `configPathNotFound` because
`clear_path` treated the missing `features` parent table as an error.
That makes app-server reset flows brittle because clients have to read
first and avoid sending a clear request unless the parent path already
exists.
## What Changed
- Updated app-server config clearing so missing intermediate tables, or
non-table parents, are treated as an unchanged no-op.
- Removed the now-unreachable `MergeError::PathNotFound` path from
config write merging.
- Added a regression test covering `features.personality = null` against
an empty user config.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server clear_missing_nested_config_is_noop`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server` was run; the config manager unit
suite passed, but one unrelated integration test failed because
`turn_start_emits_thread_scoped_warning_notification_for_trimmed_skills`
expected `7` trimmed skills and observed `8`.
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
1. Adds v2 plugin/share/save, plugin/share/list, and plugin/share/delete
RPCs.
2. Implements save by archiving a local plugin root, enforcing a size
limit, uploading through the workspace upload flow, and supporting
updates via remotePluginId.
3. Lists created workspace plugins
4. Deletes a previously uploaded/shared plugin.
## Why
After `hooks/list` exposes the hook inventory, clients need a way to
persist user hook preferences, make those changes effective in
already-open sessions, and distinguish user-controllable hooks from
managed requirements without adding another bespoke app-server write
API.
## What
- Extends `hooks/list` entries with effective `enabled` state.
- Persists user-level hook state under `hooks.state.<hook-id>` so the
model can grow beyond a single boolean over time.
- Uses the existing `config/batchWrite` path for hook state updates
instead of introducing a dedicated hook write RPC.
- Refreshes live session hook engines after config writes so
already-open threads observe updated enablement without a restart.
## Stack
1. openai/codex#19705
2. openai/codex#19778
3. This PR - openai/codex#19840
4. openai/codex#19882
## Reviewer Notes
The generated schema files account for much of the raw diff. The core
behavior is in:
- `hooks/src/config_rules.rs`, which resolves per-hook user state from
the config layer stack.
- `hooks/src/engine/discovery.rs`, which projects effective enablement
into `hooks/list` from source-derived managedness.
- `config/src/hook_config.rs`, which defines the new `hooks.state`
representation.
- `core/src/session/mod.rs`, which rebuilds live hook state after user
config reloads.
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Summary:
- Return from external agent import before session history import
finishes
- Run session import work in the background and emit the existing
completion notification when it is done
- Serialize session imports so duplicate requests do not create
duplicate imported threads
Verification:
- cargo test -p codex-app-server external_agent_config_
- cargo test -p codex-external-agent-sessions
- just fix -p codex-app-server
- just fix -p codex-external-agent-sessions
- git diff --check
## Summary
- Support Claude Code `ai-title` / `aiTitle` records when detecting and
importing external agent sessions.
- Preserve existing `custom-title` / `customTitle` precedence; only fall
back to `aiTitle` when no custom title is present.
- Add coverage for both detection and import title selection, including
the custom-title-over-ai-title case.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-external-agent-sessions`
- `just fix -p codex-external-agent-sessions`
## Why
We need a way to list the available hooks to expose via the TUI and App
so users can view and manage their hooks
## What
- Adds `hooks/list` for one or more `cwd` values that returns discovered
hook metadata
## Stack
1. openai/codex#19705
2. This PR - openai/codex#19778
3. openai/codex#19840
4. openai/codex#19882
## Review Notes
The generated schema files account for most of the raw diff, these files
have the core change:
- `hooks/src/engine/discovery.rs` builds the inventory entries during
hook discovery while leaving runtime handlers focused on execution.
- `app-server/src/codex_message_processor.rs` wires `hooks/list` into
the app-server flow for each requested `cwd`.
- `app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2.rs` defines the new v2
request/response payloads exposed on the wire.
### Core Changes
`core/src/plugins/manager.rs` adds `plugins_for_layer_stack(...)` so
`skills/list` and `hooks/list`can resolve plugin state for each
requested `cwd`
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## Summary
update the local login success page to match the Codex desktop auth UX
use theme-aware colors and an inline 20px Codex mark
keep the actual localhost success page aligned with the browser auth UX
PR
## Tests
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Plugin MCP servers are loaded from plugin manifests rather than
top-level `[mcp_servers]`, so their tool approval preferences need to be
stored and applied through the owning plugin config. Without this,
choosing "Always allow" for a plugin MCP tool could write a preference
that was not reliably used on later tool calls.
## Summary
- Add plugin-scoped MCP policy config under
`plugins.<plugin>.mcp_servers`, including server enablement, tool
allow/deny lists, server defaults, and per-tool approval modes.
- Overlay plugin MCP policy onto manifest-provided server configs when
plugins are loaded.
- Route persistent "Always allow" writes for plugin MCP tools back to
the owning `plugins.<plugin>.mcp_servers.<server>.tools.<tool>` config
entry.
- Reload user config after persisting an approval and make the plugin
load cache config-aware so stale plugin MCP policy is not reused after
`config.toml` changes.
- Regenerate the config schema and add coverage for plugin MCP policy
loading, approval lookup, persistence, and stale-cache prevention.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib plugin_mcp`
## Why
The precursor PR keeps successful client responses typed until
app-server's outgoing response seam. This follow-up uses that seam to
move successful client-response analytics out of individual handlers and
into the shared sender path, while keeping filtering decisions inside
`codex-analytics`.
## What changed
- Emit successful client-response analytics centrally from
`OutgoingMessageSender::send_response`.
- Remove duplicate handler-local response tracking for the current
thread/turn lifecycle responses.
- Keep analytics ingestion selective inside `AnalyticsEventsClient`, so
unrelated client traffic is ignored before cloning or boxing.
- Collapse client-response analytics facts onto one typed path and
normalize payloads in the reducer.
- Add direct client-filter coverage plus sender-level coverage for the
centralized forwarding path.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server outgoing_message::tests --lib`
## Summary
- Fetch remote plugin detail before sending the uninstall request.
- Use the detail response to derive the marketplace namespace and plugin
name for cache cleanup.
- Stop the uninstall before the backend POST if detail lookup fails, so
backend state and local cache state do not diverge.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server plugin_uninstall`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
`pr17088` adds typed server-originated request/response plumbing, but
successful client responses are still erased into bare JSON-RPC `result`
values before app-server can make any typed decision about them.
This precursor PR keeps successful client responses typed until the
outgoing response seam. It is intentionally limited to
protocol/app-server plumbing so the analytics behavior change can review
separately on top.
## What changed
- Add `ClientResponsePayload` as the pre-serialization client response
body type.
- Route app-server successful response paths through the typed payload
seam while preserving existing handler-local analytics behavior.
- Keep `InterruptConversation` JSON-RPC-only because it has no
`ClientResponse` variant.
- Move the new payload conversion tests into a dedicated protocol test
module.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
## Why
[#17088](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17088) changed
`OutgoingMessageSender::new` to require an `AnalyticsEventsClient`, but
one `command_exec` test added earlier on `main` still called the old
one-argument constructor. That leaves current `main` failing to compile
in Bazel and argument-comment-lint jobs.
## What changed
- Pass `AnalyticsEventsClient::disabled()` to the missed
`OutgoingMessageSender::new` test call site in `command_exec.rs`.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
timeout_or_cancellation_reports_cancellation_without_timeout_exit_code`
## Why
Codex analytics needs a typed seam for app-server-originated
request/response traffic so future tool-approval analytics can consume
those facts without adding bespoke callsite tracking each time. Server
responses arrive as JSON-RPC `id + result` payloads, so analytics has to
reconstruct the matching typed response from the original typed request
while that request context still exists in app-server.
This also puts analytics on the app-server outbound path, which needs to
avoid keeping the runtime alive during shutdown. The final ownership fix
keeps the normal strong auth-manager retention in analytics and makes
the external-auth refresh bridge hold a weak back-reference to
`OutgoingMessageSender`, breaking the runtime cycle at the bridge
boundary instead of exposing retention policy through the analytics
client API.
## What changed
- Adds typed `ServerRequest` and `ServerResponse` analytics facts, plus
`AnalyticsEventsClient::track_server_request` and
`track_server_response`.
- Renames the existing client-side facts to `ClientRequest` and
`ClientResponse` so reducers can distinguish client-to-server traffic
from server-to-client traffic.
- Adds `ServerRequest::response_from_result`, allowing a stored typed
request to decode the matching typed server response from a raw JSON-RPC
result payload.
- Threads `AnalyticsEventsClient` through `OutgoingMessageSender` and
records targeted server requests, replayed targeted requests, and
matching targeted responses with the responding connection id needed for
correlation.
- Intentionally leaves broadcast server requests/responses out of
analytics for now because the current model is per connection, while
broadcasts fan one logical request out across multiple connections.
- Breaks the app-server shutdown cycle by storing
`Weak<OutgoingMessageSender>` in `ExternalAuthRefreshBridge` and
upgrading it only when an external-auth refresh is actually requested.
- Keeps reducer ingestion of the new server-side facts as no-ops for
now; this PR is plumbing for later tool-approval analytics work.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server outgoing_message::tests::`
- Covers typed-response reconstruction plus the targeted, replayed,
broadcast-exclusion, and response-attribution analytics paths.
## Follow-up
This PR intentionally stops at ingestion plumbing, so `ServerRequest`
and `ServerResponse` facts are still reducer no-ops. Once a follow-up PR
adds real downstream analytics output for those facts:
- replace the temporary pre-reducer observation seam with reducer tests
for the emitted event shape;
- add end-to-end coverage in `app-server/tests/suite/v2/analytics.rs`
for the real app-server workflow and captured analytics payload;
- remove the temporary sender-level observer tests added here in favor
of the real-output coverage above.
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