## Why
Adding goal metrics makes it possible to track how often goals are
created, completed, and stopped by budget limits, plus the final token
and wall-clock usage for terminal outcomes.
## What Changed
- Added OpenTelemetry metric constants for goal lifecycle tracking:
- `codex.goal.created`: increments each time a new persisted goal is
created or an existing goal is replaced with a new objective.
- `codex.goal.completed`: increments when a goal transitions to
`complete`.
- `codex.goal.budget_limited`: increments when a goal transitions to
`budget_limited` because its token budget has been reached.
- `codex.goal.token_count`: records the final persisted token count when
a goal transitions to `complete` or `budget_limited`.
- `codex.goal.duration_s`: records the final persisted elapsed
wall-clock time, in seconds, when a goal transitions to `complete` or
`budget_limited`.
- Emitted creation metrics when a goal is created or replaced.
- Emitted terminal outcome counters and final usage histograms when a
goal transitions to `complete` or `budget_limited`, avoiding
double-counting later in-flight accounting for already budget-limited
goals.
- Added focused `codex-core` tests for create/complete metrics and
one-time budget-limit metrics.
## Why
SQLite state was still being opened from consumer paths, including lazy
`OnceCell`-backed thread-store call sites. That let one process
construct multiple state DB connections for the same Codex home, which
makes SQLite lock contention and `database is locked` failures much
easier to hit.
State DB lifetime should be chosen by main-like entrypoints and tests,
then passed through explicitly. Consumers should use the supplied
`Option<StateDbHandle>` or `StateDbHandle` and keep their existing
filesystem fallback or error behavior when no handle is available.
The startup path also needs to keep the rollout crate in charge of
SQLite state initialization. Opening `codex_state::StateRuntime`
directly bypasses rollout metadata backfill, so entrypoints should
initialize through `codex_rollout::state_db` and receive a handle only
after required rollout backfills have completed.
## What Changed
- Initialize the state DB in main-like entrypoints for CLI, TUI,
app-server, exec, MCP server, and the thread-manager sample.
- Pass `Option<StateDbHandle>` through `ThreadManager`,
`LocalThreadStore`, app-server processors, TUI app wiring, rollout
listing/recording, personality migration, shell snapshot cleanup,
session-name lookup, and memory/device-key consumers.
- Remove the lazy local state DB wrapper from the thread store so
non-test consumers use only the supplied handle or their existing
fallback path.
- Make `codex_rollout::state_db::init` the local state startup path: it
opens/migrates SQLite, runs rollout metadata backfill when needed, waits
for concurrent backfill workers up to a bounded timeout, verifies
completion, and then returns the initialized handle.
- Keep optional/non-owning SQLite helpers, such as remote TUI local
reads, as open-only paths that do not run startup backfill.
- Switch app-server startup from direct
`codex_state::StateRuntime::init` to the rollout state initializer so
app-server cannot skip rollout backfill.
- Collapse split rollout lookup/list APIs so callers use the normal
methods with an optional state handle instead of `_with_state_db`
variants.
- Restore `getConversationSummary(ThreadId)` to delegate through
`ThreadStore::read_thread` instead of a LocalThreadStore-specific
rollout path special case.
- Keep DB-backed rollout path lookup keyed on the DB row and file
existence, without imposing the filesystem filename convention on
existing DB rows.
- Verify readable DB-backed rollout paths against `session_meta.id`
before returning them, so a stale SQLite row that points at another
thread's JSONL falls back to filesystem search and read-repairs the DB
row.
- Keep `debug prompt-input` filesystem-only so a one-off debug command
does not initialize or backfill SQLite state just to print prompt input.
- Keep goal-session test Codex homes alive only in the goal-specific
helper, rather than leaking tempdirs from the shared session test
helper.
- Update tests and call sites to pass explicit state handles where DB
behavior is expected and explicit `None` where filesystem-only behavior
is intended.
## Validation
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo check -p
codex-rollout -p codex-thread-store -p codex-app-server -p codex-core -p
codex-tui -p codex-exec -p codex-cli --tests`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout state_db_`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout find_thread_path`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout find_thread_path -- --nocapture`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout try_init_ -- --nocapture`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo clippy -p
codex-rollout --lib -- -D warnings`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-thread-store
read_thread_falls_back_when_sqlite_path_points_to_another_thread --
--nocapture`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-thread-store`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
shell_snapshot`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
--test all personality_migration`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
--test all rollout_list_find`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
--test all rollout_list_find::find_prefers_sqlite_path_by_id --
--nocapture`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
--test all rollout_list_find -- --nocapture`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
interrupt_accounts_active_goal_before_pausing`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-app-server get_auth_status -- --test-threads=1`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-app-server --lib`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo check -p codex-rollout
-p codex-app-server --tests`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-rollout
-p codex-thread-store -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-tui -p
codex-exec -p codex-cli`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-rollout -p
codex-app-server`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p
codex-rollout`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-core`
- `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-core`
- `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-rollout`
Focused coverage added in `codex-rollout`:
- `recorder::tests::state_db_init_backfills_before_returning` verifies
the rollout metadata row exists before startup init returns.
- `state_db::tests::try_init_waits_for_concurrent_startup_backfill`
verifies startup waits for another worker to finish backfill instead of
disabling the handle for the process.
-
`state_db::tests::try_init_times_out_waiting_for_stuck_startup_backfill`
verifies startup does not hang indefinitely on a stuck backfill lease.
-
`tests::find_thread_path_accepts_existing_state_db_path_without_canonical_filename`
verifies DB-backed lookup accepts valid existing rollout paths even when
the filename does not include the thread UUID.
-
`tests::find_thread_path_falls_back_when_db_path_points_to_another_thread`
verifies DB-backed lookup ignores a stale row whose existing path
belongs to another thread and read-repairs the row after filesystem
fallback.
Focused coverage updated in `codex-core`:
- `rollout_list_find::find_prefers_sqlite_path_by_id` now uses a
DB-preferred rollout file with matching `session_meta.id`, so it still
verifies that valid SQLite paths win without depending on stale/empty
rollout contents.
`cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_list_respects_search_term_filter
-- --test-threads=1 --nocapture` was attempted locally but timed out
waiting for the app-server test harness `initialize` response before
reaching the changed thread-list code path.
`bazel test //codex-rs/thread-store:thread-store-unit-tests
--test_output=errors` was attempted locally after the thread-store fix,
but this container failed before target analysis while fetching `v8+`
through BuildBuddy/direct GitHub. The equivalent local crate coverage,
including `cargo test -p codex-thread-store`, passes.
A plain local `cargo check -p codex-rollout -p codex-app-server --tests`
also requires system `libcap.pc` for `codex-linux-sandbox`; the
follow-up app-server check above used `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1` in
this container.
## Why
This is a prep PR in the multi-environment process-tool stack. It
separates ownership/config cleanup from the behavior change that teaches
process tools to route by selected environment, so the follow-up PR can
focus on model-facing `environment_id` behavior.
## Stack
1. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20646 - `EnvironmentContext`
rendering for selected environments
2. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20669 - selected-environment
ownership and tool config prep (this PR)
3. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20647 - process-tool
`environment_id` routing
## What Changed
- keep the resolved turn environment list wrapped in
`ResolvedTurnEnvironments` through `TurnContext` instead of unwrapping
it back to a raw `Vec`
- add `TurnContext::resolve_path_against` so cwd-relative path
resolution has one shared helper
- replace the old tool config boolean with `ToolEnvironmentMode::{None,
Single, Multiple}`
## Testing
- Tests not run locally; this prep refactor is covered by GitHub CI for
the stack.
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Why
The model needs a way to see which environments are available during a
multi-environment turn without changing the legacy single-environment
prompt surface or pulling replay/persistence changes into the same
review.
## Stack
1. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20646 - `EnvironmentContext`
rendering for selected environments (this PR)
2. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20669 - selected-environment
ownership and tool config prep
3. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20647 - process-tool
`environment_id` routing
## What Changed
- extend `environment_context` so multi-environment turns render an
`<environments>` block with the selected environment ids and cwd values
- keep zero- and single-environment turns on the existing cwd-only
render path
- keep replay and persistence paths on the legacy surface for now so
this PR stays scoped to live prompt rendering
- add focused coverage in
`codex-rs/core/src/context/environment_context_tests.rs`
## Testing
- CI
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## 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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## Why
`/goal` is supposed to keep Codex working until the goal is actually
done. The previous continuation logic had two ways to stop early: the
continuation prompt told the model to wait for new input when it felt
blocked, and the runtime suppressed another continuation turn after a
continuation finished without any tool calls.
That made goals stop short even when the agent could still keep making
progress (I received a few reports of this from users). It also relied
on a brittle heuristic that treated "no registry tool calls" as
equivalent to "should stop."
## What changed
- removed the continuation prompt sentence that told the model to stop
and wait for new input when it could not continue productively
- removed the goal runtime suppression heuristic that stopped
auto-continuation after a no-tool continuation turn
- deleted the continuation-activity bookkeeping and left `tool_calls` as
telemetry only
- added focused regressions for the two intended behaviors: completed
no-tool continuation turns still continue, while `request_user_input`
keeps the existing turn open instead of spawning a new continuation
- 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).
## 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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## Why
This bug is exposed by Guardian/auto-review approvals. With the managed
network proxy enabled, a blocked network request can be reported back
through the network approval service as an approval denial after the
command has already started. Before this change, the shell and unified
exec runtimes registered those network approval calls, but did not have
a way to observe an async proxy denial as a cancellation/failure signal
for the running process.
The result was confusing: Guardian/auto-review could correctly deny
network access, but the command path could keep running or unregister
the approval without surfacing the denial as the command failure.
## What Changed
- `NetworkApprovalService` now attaches a cancellation token to active
and deferred network approvals.
- Proxy-denial outcomes are recorded only for active registrations,
cancel the owning token, and are consumed when the approval is
finalized.
- The shell runtime combines the normal command timeout with the
network-denial cancellation token.
- Unified exec stores the deferred network approval object, terminates
tracked processes when the proxy denial arrives, and returns the denial
as a process failure while polling or completing the process.
- Tool orchestration passes the active network approval cancellation
token into the sandbox attempt and preserves deferred approval errors
instead of silently unregistering them.
- App-server `command/exec` now handles the combined
timeout-or-cancellation expiration variant used by the runtime.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core network_approval --lib`
- `cargo clippy -p codex-app-server --all-targets -- -D warnings`
- `cargo clippy -p codex-core --all-targets -- -D warnings`
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## Summary
- include the live auto-review trunk rollout when `/feedback` uploads
logs
- upload that attachment as
`auto-review-rollout-<parent-thread-id>.jsonl` so it is distinguishable
from the parent rollout
- show the same auto-review attachment name in the TUI consent popup
## Scope
- this only covers the live cached auto-review trunk for the current
parent thread
- it does not add durable historical parent->auto-review lookup
- it does not add persisted rollout support for ephemeral parallel
review forks
## UI
<img width="599" height="185" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-28 at 1 17 18 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6a0e79c2-5d21-4702-8a89-f765778bc9e9"
/>
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core
cached_guardian_subagent_exposes_its_rollout_path`
- `cargo test -p codex-feedback`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui feedback_upload_consent_popup_snapshot`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
feedback_good_result_consent_popup_includes_connectivity_diagnostics_filename`
## Known unrelated local failures
- `cargo test -p codex-core` currently fails in the pre-existing proxy
env snapshot test
`tools::runtimes::tests::maybe_wrap_shell_lc_with_snapshot_keeps_user_proxy_env_when_proxy_inactive`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui` currently hits pre-existing `status::*`
snapshot drift unrelated to this change
## Follow-Up
- persist parallel auto-review fork sessions so /feedback can include
their rollout history too
- attach each persisted fork as its own clearly named file, for example
auto-review-rollout-<parent-thread-id>-fork <n>.jsonl, instead of
merging multiple Guardian sessions into one attachment
- keep the same live-session-only scope initially; durable historical
parent -> auto-review lookup can remain a separate decision if we later
need feedback from resumed sessions
Summary:
- Add codex-thread-manager-sample, a one-shot binary that starts a
ThreadManager thread, submits a prompt, and prints the final assistant
output.
- Pass ThreadStore into ThreadManager::new and expose
thread_store_from_config for existing callsites.
- Build the sample Config directly with only --model and prompt inputs.
Verification:
- just fmt
- cargo check -p codex-thread-manager-sample -p codex-app-server -p
codex-mcp-server
- git diff --check
Tests: Not run per request.
## Summary
- Add `disable_tool_suggest` to app and plugin config, schema, and
TypeScript output
- Exclude disabled connectors and plugins from tool suggestion discovery
- Persist "never show again" tool-suggestion choices back into
`config.toml`
- Update config docs and add coverage for connector and plugin
suppression
## Testing
- Added and updated unit tests for config persistence and tool-suggest
filtering
- Not run (not requested)
## Why
MultiAgentV2 sessions need startup guidance that matches the role of the
thread that is actually being created. Root agents and subagents have
different responsibilities, and forked subagents can inherit parent
rollout history. If the parent hint is carried into the child context,
the child can see stale or conflicting developer guidance before its own
session-specific context is added.
## What changed
- Added `features.multi_agent_v2.root_agent_usage_hint_text` and
`features.multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text` config fields,
including schema/config parsing support.
- Injected the matching root or subagent hint into the initial context
as its own developer message when `multi_agent_v2` is enabled.
- Filtered configured MultiAgentV2 usage-hint developer messages out of
forked parent history so a child thread receives fresh guidance for its
own session source/config.
- Added targeted coverage for config parsing, initial-context rendering,
feature-config deserialization, and forked-history filtering.
## Context examples
With this config:
```toml
[features.multi_agent_v2]
enabled = true
root_agent_usage_hint_text = "Root guidance."
subagent_usage_hint_text = "Subagent guidance."
```
A root thread initial context renders the root hint as a standalone
developer message:
```text
[developer]
<existing developer context, when present>
[developer]
Root guidance.
```
A subagent thread initial context renders the subagent hint instead:
```text
[developer]
<existing developer context, when present>
[developer]
Subagent guidance.
```
When a subagent forks parent history, any parent developer message whose
text exactly matches the configured MultiAgentV2 root or subagent hint
is omitted from the forked history before the child receives its fresh
subagent hint.
## Why
`SessionConfiguredEvent` is the internal event that tells clients what
permissions are active for a session. Emitting both `sandbox_policy` and
`permission_profile` leaves two possible authorities and forces every
consumer to decide which one to honor. At this point in the migration,
the profile is expressive enough to represent managed, disabled, and
external sandbox enforcement, so the internal event can be profile-only.
The wire compatibility concern is older serialized events or rollout
data that only contain `sandbox_policy`; those still need to
deserialize.
## What Changed
- Removes `sandbox_policy` from `SessionConfiguredEvent` and makes
`permission_profile` required.
- Adds custom deserialization so old payloads with only `sandbox_policy`
are upgraded to a cwd-anchored `PermissionProfile`.
- Updates core event emission and TUI session handling to sync
permissions from the profile directly.
- Updates app-server response construction to derive the legacy
`sandbox` response field from the active thread snapshot instead of from
`SessionConfiguredEvent`.
- Updates yolo-mode display logic to treat both
`PermissionProfile::Disabled` and managed unrestricted filesystem plus
enabled network as full-access, while still preserving the distinction
between no sandbox and external sandboxing.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol session_configured_event --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol serialize_event --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec session_configured --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
thread_response_permission_profile_preserves_enforcement --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
session_configured_reports_permission_profile_for_external_sandbox
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui session_configured --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
yolo_mode_includes_managed_full_access_profiles --lib`
---
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* #19899
* #19776
* #19775
* __->__ #19774
## Why
Fixes#19475.
`codex exec` can finish successfully and then emit an `ERROR` on stderr:
```text
failed to record rollout items: thread <id> not found
```
That happens because shutdown closes the live thread writer before
emitting `ShutdownComplete`. The terminal event was still using the
normal `send_event_raw` path, so it tried to append rollout items
through a recorder that had already been removed. The answer is correct,
but wrappers that treat stderr as failure can retry completed exec runs.
This looks like a likely recent regression from
[#18882](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18882), which routed live
thread writes through `ThreadStore` and added the shutdown-time live
writer close. I have not bisected this, so the PR treats #18882 as the
likely source based on the affected shutdown code path rather than a
proven first-bad commit.
## What Changed
`ShutdownComplete` now bypasses rollout persistence after thread
shutdown and is delivered directly to clients. The shutdown path still
records the protocol event in the rollout trace before delivery,
preserving trace visibility without attempting a post-shutdown
thread-store append.
The change also adds a regression test with the in-memory thread store
to assert that shutdown creates and shuts down the live thread without
appending another item after shutdown.
## Why
The experimental `PermissionProfile` API had both `:cwd` and
`:project_roots` special filesystem paths, which made the permission
root ambiguous. This PR removes the unstable `current_working_directory`
special path before the permissions API is stabilized, so callers use
`:project_roots` for symbolic project-root access.
## What changed
- Removes `FileSystemSpecialPath::CurrentWorkingDirectory` from protocol
and app-server protocol models, plus regenerated app-server
JSON/TypeScript schemas.
- Replaces internal `:cwd` permission entries with `:project_roots`
entries.
- Keeps the existing cwd-update behavior for legacy-shaped
workspace-write profiles, while removing the deleted
`CurrentWorkingDirectory` case from that compatibility path.
- Keeps `PermissionProfile::workspace_write()` as the reusable symbolic
workspace-write helper, with docs noting that `:project_roots` entries
resolve at enforcement time.
- Updates app-server docs/examples and approval UI labeling to stop
advertising `:cwd` as a permission token.
## Compatibility
Persisted rollout items may contain the old
`{"kind":"current_working_directory"}` tag from earlier experimental
`permissionProfile` snapshots. This PR keeps that tag as a
deserialize-only alias for `ProjectRoots { subpath: None }`, while
continuing to serialize only the new `project_roots` tag.
## Follow-up
This PR intentionally does not introduce an explicit project-root set on
`SessionConfiguration` or runtime sandbox resolution. Today, the
resolver still uses the active cwd as the single implicit project root.
A follow-up should model project roots separately from tool cwd so
`:project_roots` entries can resolve against the configured project
roots, and resolve to no entries when there are no project roots.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol permissions:: --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-sandboxing -p codex-exec-server --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core session_configuration_apply_ --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
command_exec_permission_profile_project_roots_use_command_cwd --test
all`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
thread_read_session_state_does_not_reuse_primary_permission_profile
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
preset_matching_accepts_workspace_write_with_extra_roots --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-config --lib`
## Why
Several execution paths still converted profile-backed permissions into
`SandboxPolicy` and then rebuilt runtime permissions from that legacy
shape. Those round trips are unnecessary after the preceding PRs and can
lose split filesystem semantics. Core approval and escalation should
carry the resolved profile directly.
## What Changed
- Removes `sandbox_policy` from `ResolvedPermissionProfile`; the
resolved permission object now carries the canonical `PermissionProfile`
directly.
- Updates exec-policy fallback, shell/unified-exec interception,
escalation reruns, and related tests to pass profiles instead of legacy
policies.
- Removes legacy additional-permission merge helpers that built an
effective `SandboxPolicy` before rebuilding runtime permissions.
- Keeps legacy projections only at compatibility boundaries that still
require `SandboxPolicy`, not in core permission computation.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core direct_write_roots`
- `cargo test -p codex-core runtime_roots_to_legacy_projection`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
---
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* #19736
* #19735
* #19734
* #19395
* __->__ #19394
## Why
Runtime decisions should not infer permissions from the lossy legacy
sandbox projection once `PermissionProfile` is available. In particular,
`Disabled` and `External` need to remain distinct, and managed profiles
with split filesystem or deny-read rules should not be collapsed before
approval, network, safety, or analytics code makes decisions.
## What Changed
- Changes managed network proxy setup and network approval logic to use
`PermissionProfile` when deciding whether a managed sandbox is active.
- Migrates patch safety, Guardian/user-shell approval paths, Landlock
helper setup, analytics sandbox classification, and selected
turn/session code to profile-backed permissions.
- Validates command-level profile overrides against the constrained
`PermissionProfile` rather than a strict `SandboxPolicy` round trip.
- Preserves configured deny-read restrictions when command profiles are
narrowed.
- Adds coverage for profile-backed trust, network proxy/approval
behavior, patch safety, analytics classification, and command-profile
narrowing.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core direct_write_roots`
- `cargo test -p codex-core runtime_roots_to_legacy_projection`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
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* #19395
* #19394
* __->__ #19393
## Why
Config loading had become split across crates: `codex-config` owned the
config types and merge logic, while `codex-core` still owned the loader
that assembled the layer stack. This change consolidates that
responsibility in `codex-config`, so the crate that defines config
behavior also owns how configs are discovered and loaded.
To make that move possible without reintroducing the old dependency
cycle, the shell-environment policy types and helpers that
`codex-exec-server` needs now live in `codex-protocol` instead of
flowing through `codex-config`.
This also makes the migrated loader tests more deterministic on machines
that already have managed or system Codex config installed by letting
tests override the system config and requirements paths instead of
reading the host's `/etc/codex`.
## What Changed
- moved the config loader implementation from `codex-core` into
`codex-config::loader` and deleted the old `core::config_loader` module
instead of leaving a compatibility shim
- moved shell-environment policy types and helpers into
`codex-protocol`, then updated `codex-exec-server` and other downstream
crates to import them from their new home
- updated downstream callers to use loader/config APIs from
`codex-config`
- added test-only loader overrides for system config and requirements
paths so loader-focused tests do not depend on host-managed config state
- cleaned up now-unused dependency entries and platform-specific cfgs
that were surfaced by post-push CI
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_loader_tests::`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-exec-server -p
codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-rmcp-client --lib`
- `cargo test --lib -p codex-app-server-client -p codex-exec`
- `cargo test --no-run --lib -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-linux-sandbox --lib`
- `cargo shear`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Notes
- I did not chase unrelated full-suite failures outside the migrated
loader surface.
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib` still hits unrelated proxy-sensitive
failures on this machine, and Windows CI still shows unrelated
long-running/timeouting test noise outside the loader migration itself.
## Why
After #19391, `PermissionProfile` and the split filesystem/network
policies could still be stored in parallel. That creates drift risk: a
profile can preserve deny globs, external enforcement, or split
filesystem entries while a cached projection silently loses those
details. This PR makes the profile the runtime source and derives
compatibility views from it.
## What Changed
- Removes stored filesystem/network sandbox projections from
`Permissions` and `SessionConfiguration`; their accessors now derive
from the canonical `PermissionProfile`.
- Derives legacy `SandboxPolicy` snapshots from profiles only where an
older API still needs that field.
- Updates MCP connection and elicitation state to track
`PermissionProfile` instead of `SandboxPolicy` for auto-approval
decisions.
- Adds semantic filesystem-policy comparison so cwd changes can preserve
richer profiles while still recognizing equivalent legacy projections
independent of entry ordering.
- Updates config/session tests to assert profile-derived projections
instead of parallel stored fields.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core direct_write_roots`
- `cargo test -p codex-core runtime_roots_to_legacy_projection`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
---
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* #19395
* #19394
* #19393
* __->__ #19392
## Why
This supersedes #19391. During stack repair, GitHub marked #19391 as
merged into a temporary stack branch rather than into `main`, so the
runtime-config change needed a fresh PR.
`PermissionProfile` is now the canonical permissions shape after #19231
because it can distinguish `Managed`, `Disabled`, and `External`
enforcement while also carrying filesystem rules that legacy
`SandboxPolicy` cannot represent cleanly. Core config and session state
still needed to accept profile-backed permissions without forcing every
profile through the strict legacy bridge, which rejected valid runtime
profiles such as direct write roots.
The unrelated CI/test hardening that previously rode along with this PR
has been split into #19683 so this PR stays focused on the permissions
model migration.
## What Changed
- Adds `Permissions.permission_profile` and
`SessionConfiguration.permission_profile` as constrained runtime state,
while keeping `sandbox_policy` as a legacy compatibility projection.
- Introduces profile setters that keep `PermissionProfile`, split
filesystem/network policies, and legacy `SandboxPolicy` projections
synchronized.
- Uses a compatibility projection for requirement checks and legacy
consumers instead of rejecting profiles that cannot round-trip through
`SandboxPolicy` exactly.
- Updates config loading, config overrides, session updates, turn
context plumbing, prompt permission text, sandbox tags, and exec request
construction to carry profile-backed runtime permissions.
- Preserves configured deny-read entries and `glob_scan_max_depth` when
command/session profiles are narrowed.
- Adds `PermissionProfile::read_only()` and
`PermissionProfile::workspace_write()` presets that match legacy
defaults.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core direct_write_roots`
- `cargo test -p codex-core runtime_roots_to_legacy_projection`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
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* #19395
* #19394
* #19393
* #19392
* __->__ #19606
Adds the core runtime behavior for active goals on top of the model
tools from PR 3.
## Why
A long-running goal should be a core runtime concern, not something
every client has to implement. Core owns the turn lifecycle, tool
completion boundaries, interruptions, resume behavior, and token usage,
so it is the right place to account progress, enforce budgets, and
decide when to continue work.
## What changed
- Centralized goal lifecycle side effects behind
`Session::goal_runtime_apply(GoalRuntimeEvent::...)`.
- Starts goal continuation turns only when the session is idle; pending
user input and mailbox work take priority.
- Accounts token and wall-clock usage at turn, tool, mutation,
interrupt, and resume boundaries; `get_thread_goal` remains read-only.
- Preserves sub-second wall-clock remainder across accounting boundaries
so long-running goals do not drift downward over time.
- Treats token budget exhaustion as a soft stop by marking the goal
`budget_limited` and injecting wrap-up steering instead of aborting the
active turn.
- Suppresses budget steering when `update_goal` marks a goal complete.
- Pauses active goals on interrupt and auto-reactivates paused goals
when a thread resumes outside plan mode.
- Suppresses repeated automatic continuation when a continuation turn
makes no tool calls.
- Added continuation and budget-limit prompt templates.
## Verification
- Added focused core coverage for continuation scheduling, accounting
boundaries, budget-limit steering, completion accounting, interrupt
pause behavior, resume auto-activation, and wall-clock remainder
accounting.
Adds the model-facing goal tools on top of the app-server API from PR 2.
## Why
Once goals are persisted and exposed to clients, the model needs a
small, constrained tool surface for goal workflows. The tool contract
should let the model inspect goals, create them only when explicitly
requested, and mark them complete without giving it broad control over
user/runtime-owned state.
## What changed
- Added `get_goal`, `create_goal`, and `update_goal` tool specs behind
the `goals` feature flag.
- Added core goal tool handlers that validate objectives and token
budgets before mutating persisted state.
- Constrained `create_goal` to create only when no goal exists, with
optional `token_budget` only when a budget is explicitly provided.
- Tightened the `create_goal` instructions so the model does not infer
goals from ordinary task requests.
- Constrained `update_goal` to expose only goal completion; pause,
resume, clear, and budget-limited transitions remain user- or
runtime-controlled.
- Registered the goal tools in the tool registry and kept them out of
review contexts where they should not appear.
## Verification
- Added tool-registry coverage for feature gating and tool availability.
- Added core session tests for create/get/update behavior, duplicate
goal rejection, budget validation, and completion-only updates.
## Why
`ReadOnlyAccess` was a transitional legacy shape on `SandboxPolicy`:
`FullAccess` meant the historical read-only/workspace-write modes could
read the full filesystem, while `Restricted` tried to carry partial
readable roots. The partial-read model now belongs in
`FileSystemSandboxPolicy` and `PermissionProfile`, so keeping it on
`SandboxPolicy` makes every legacy projection reintroduce lossy
read-root bookkeeping and creates unnecessary noise in the rest of the
permissions migration.
This PR makes the legacy policy model narrower and explicit:
`SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` and `SandboxPolicy::WorkspaceWrite` represent
the old full-read sandbox modes only. Split readable roots, deny-read
globs, and platform-default/minimal read behavior stay in the runtime
permissions model.
## What changed
- Removes `ReadOnlyAccess` from
`codex_protocol::protocol::SandboxPolicy`, including the generated
`access` and `readOnlyAccess` API fields.
- Updates legacy policy/profile conversions so restricted filesystem
reads are represented only by `FileSystemSandboxPolicy` /
`PermissionProfile` entries.
- Keeps app-server v2 compatible with legacy `fullAccess` read-access
payloads by accepting and ignoring that no-op shape, while rejecting
legacy `restricted` read-access payloads instead of silently widening
them to full-read legacy policies.
- Carries Windows sandbox platform-default read behavior with an
explicit override flag instead of depending on
`ReadOnlyAccess::Restricted`.
- Refreshes generated app-server schema/types and updates tests/docs for
the simplified legacy policy shape.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server-protocol --tests`
- `cargo check -p codex-windows-sandbox --tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol sandbox_policy_`
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* #19395
* #19394
* #19393
* #19392
* #19391
* __->__ #19449
- Route cold thread/resume and thread/fork source loading through
ThreadStore reads instead of direct rollout path operations
- Keep lookups that explicitly specify a rollout-path using the local
thread store methods but return an invalid-request error for remote
ThreadStore configurations
- Add some additional unit tests for code path coverage
## Why
The profile conversion path still required a `cwd` even when it was only
translating a legacy `SandboxPolicy` into a `PermissionProfile`. That
made profile producers invent an ambient `cwd`, which is exactly the
anchoring we are trying to remove from permission-profile data. A legacy
workspace-write policy can be represented symbolically instead: `:cwd =
write` plus read-only `:project_roots` metadata subpaths.
This PR creates that cwd-free base so the rest of the stack can stop
threading cwd through profile construction. Callers that actually need a
concrete runtime filesystem policy for a specific cwd still have an
explicitly named cwd-bound conversion.
## What Changed
- `PermissionProfile::from_legacy_sandbox_policy` now takes only
`&SandboxPolicy`.
- `FileSystemSandboxPolicy::from_legacy_sandbox_policy` is now the
symbolic, cwd-free projection for profiles.
- The old concrete projection is retained as
`FileSystemSandboxPolicy::from_legacy_sandbox_policy_for_cwd` for
runtime/boundary code that must materialize legacy cwd behavior.
- Workspace-write profiles preserve `CurrentWorkingDirectory` and
`ProjectRoots` special entries instead of materializing cwd into
absolute paths.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p
codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-app-server -p codex-exec -p
codex-exec-server -p codex-tui -p codex-sandboxing -p
codex-linux-sandbox -p codex-analytics --tests`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p codex-app-server-protocol
-p codex-app-server -p codex-exec -p codex-exec-server -p codex-tui -p
codex-sandboxing -p codex-linux-sandbox -p codex-analytics`
---
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* #19395
* #19394
* #19393
* #19392
* #19391
* __->__ #19414
## Why
`PermissionProfile` is becoming the canonical permissions abstraction,
but the old shape only carried optional filesystem and network fields.
It could describe allowed access, but not who is responsible for
enforcing it. That made `DangerFullAccess` and `ExternalSandbox` lossy
when profiles were exported, cached, or round-tripped through app-server
APIs.
The important model change is that active permissions are now a disjoint
union over the enforcement mode. Conceptually:
```rust
pub enum PermissionProfile {
Managed {
file_system: FileSystemSandboxPolicy,
network: NetworkSandboxPolicy,
},
Disabled,
External {
network: NetworkSandboxPolicy,
},
}
```
This distinction matters because `Disabled` means Codex should apply no
outer sandbox at all, while `External` means filesystem isolation is
owned by an outside caller. Those are not equivalent to a broad managed
sandbox. For example, macOS cannot nest Seatbelt inside Seatbelt, so an
inner sandbox may require the outer Codex layer to use no sandbox rather
than a permissive one.
## How Existing Modeling Maps
Legacy `SandboxPolicy` remains a boundary projection, but it now maps
into the higher-fidelity profile model:
- `ReadOnly` and `WorkspaceWrite` map to `PermissionProfile::Managed`
with restricted filesystem entries plus the corresponding network
policy.
- `DangerFullAccess` maps to `PermissionProfile::Disabled`, preserving
the “no outer sandbox” intent instead of treating it as a lax managed
sandbox.
- `ExternalSandbox { network_access }` maps to
`PermissionProfile::External { network }`, preserving external
filesystem enforcement while still carrying the active network policy.
- Split runtime policies that legacy `SandboxPolicy` cannot faithfully
express, such as managed unrestricted filesystem plus restricted
network, stay `Managed` instead of being collapsed into
`ExternalSandbox`.
- Per-command/session/turn grants remain partial overlays via
`AdditionalPermissionProfile`; full `PermissionProfile` is reserved for
complete active runtime permissions.
## What Changed
- Change active `PermissionProfile` into a tagged union: `managed`,
`disabled`, and `external`.
- Keep partial permission grants separate with
`AdditionalPermissionProfile` for command/session/turn overlays.
- Represent managed filesystem permissions as either `restricted`
entries or `unrestricted`; `glob_scan_max_depth` is non-zero when
present.
- Preserve old rollout compatibility by accepting the pre-tagged `{
network, file_system }` profile shape during deserialization.
- Preserve fidelity for important edge cases: `DangerFullAccess`
round-trips as `disabled`, `ExternalSandbox` round-trips as `external`,
and managed unrestricted filesystem + restricted network stays managed
instead of being mistaken for external enforcement.
- Preserve configured deny-read entries and bounded glob scan depth when
full profiles are projected back into runtime policies, including
unrestricted replacements that now become `:root = write` plus deny
entries.
- Regenerate the experimental app-server v2 JSON/TypeScript schema and
update the `command/exec` README example for the tagged
`permissionProfile` shape.
## Compatibility
Legacy `SandboxPolicy` remains available at config/API boundaries as the
compatibility projection. Existing rollout lines with the old
`PermissionProfile` shape continue to load. The app-server
`permissionProfile` field is experimental, so its v2 wire shape is
intentionally updated to match the higher-fidelity model.
## Verification
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `cargo check --tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol permission_profile`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
preserving_deny_entries_keeps_unrestricted_policy_enforceable`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
permission_profile_file_system_permissions`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol serialize_client_response`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
session_configured_reports_permission_profile_for_external_sandbox`
- `just fix`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
## Why
`codex-models-manager` had grown to own provider-specific concerns:
constructing OpenAI-compatible `/models` requests, resolving provider
auth, emitting request telemetry, and deciding how provider catalogs
should be sourced. That made the manager harder to reuse for providers
whose model catalog is not fetched from the OpenAI `/models` endpoint,
such as Amazon Bedrock.
This change moves provider-specific model discovery behind
provider-owned implementations, so the models manager can focus on
refresh policy, cache behavior, picker ordering, and model metadata
merging.
## What Changed
- Introduced a `ModelsManager` trait with separate `OpenAiModelsManager`
and `StaticModelsManager` implementations.
- Added `ModelsEndpointClient` so OpenAI-compatible HTTP fetching lives
outside `codex-models-manager`.
- Moved `/models` request construction, provider auth resolution,
timeout handling, and request telemetry into `codex-model-provider` via
`OpenAiModelsEndpoint`.
- Added provider-owned `models_manager(...)` construction so configured
OpenAI-compatible providers use `OpenAiModelsManager`, while
static/catalog-backed providers can return `StaticModelsManager`.
- Added an Amazon Bedrock static model catalog for the GPT OSS Bedrock
model IDs.
- Updated core/session/thread manager code and tests to depend on
`Arc<dyn ModelsManager>`.
- Moved offline model test helpers into
`codex_models_manager::test_support`.
## Metadata References
The Bedrock catalog metadata is based on the official Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI model documentation:
- [Amazon Bedrock OpenAI
models](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-parameters-openai.html)
lists the Bedrock model IDs, text input/output modalities, and `128,000`
token context window for `gpt-oss-20b` and `gpt-oss-120b`.
- [Amazon Bedrock `gpt-oss-120b` model
card](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-openai-gpt-oss-120b.html)
lists the `bedrock-runtime` model ID `openai.gpt-oss-120b-1:0`, the
`bedrock-mantle` model ID `openai.gpt-oss-120b`, text-only modalities,
and `128K` context window.
- [OpenAI `gpt-oss-120b` model
docs](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-oss-120b)
document configurable reasoning effort with `low`, `medium`, and `high`,
plus text input/output modality.
The display names, default reasoning effort, and priority ordering are
Codex-local catalog choices.
## Test Plan
- Manually verified app-server model listing with an AWS profile:
```shell
CODEX_HOME="$(mktemp -d)" cargo run -p codex-app-server-test-client -- \
--codex-bin ./target/debug/codex \
-c 'model_provider="amazon-bedrock"' \
-c 'model_providers.amazon-bedrock.aws.profile="codex-bedrock"' \
-c 'model_providers.amazon-bedrock.aws.region="us-west-2"' \
model-list
```
The response returned the Bedrock catalog with `openai.gpt-oss-120b-1:0`
as the default model and `openai.gpt-oss-20b-1:0` as the second listed
model, both text-only and supporting low/medium/high reasoning effort.
## Summary
Adds the debug CLI entry point for reducing recorded rollout traces.
This gives developers a direct way to inspect whether the emitted trace
stream reduces into the expected conversation/runtime model.
## Stack
This is PR 5/5 in the rollout trace stack.
- [#18876](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18876): Add rollout
trace crate
- [#18877](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18877): Record core
session rollout traces
- [#18878](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18878): Trace tool and
code-mode boundaries
- [#18879](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18879): Trace sessions
and multi-agent edges
- [#18880](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18880): Add debug trace
reduction command
## Review Notes
This PR is intentionally last: it depends on the trace crate, core
recorder, runtime/tool events, and session/agent edge data all existing.
The command should remain a debug/developer tool and avoid adding new
runtime behavior.
The useful review question is whether the CLI exposes the reducer in the
smallest practical way for local inspection without turning the debug
command into a supported user-facing workflow.
## Summary
Extends rollout tracing across tool dispatch and code-mode runtime
boundaries. This records canonical tool-call lifecycle events and links
code-mode execution/wait operations back to the model-visible calls that
caused them.
## Stack
This is PR 3/5 in the rollout trace stack.
- [#18876](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18876): Add rollout
trace crate
- [#18877](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18877): Record core
session rollout traces
- [#18878](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18878): Trace tool and
code-mode boundaries
- [#18879](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18879): Trace sessions
and multi-agent edges
- [#18880](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18880): Add debug trace
reduction command
## Review Notes
This PR is about attribution. Reviewers should focus on whether direct
tool calls, code-mode-originated tool calls, waits, outputs, and
cancellation boundaries are recorded with enough source information for
deterministic reduction without coupling the reducer to live runtime
internals.
The stack remains valid after this layer: tool and code-mode traces
reduce through the existing crate model, while the broader session and
multi-agent relationships are added in the next PR.
## Why
Per-turn permission overrides should use the same canonical profile
abstraction as session configuration. That lets TUI submissions preserve
exact configured permissions without round-tripping through legacy
sandbox fields.
## What changed
This adds `permission_profile` to user-turn operations, threads it
through TUI/app-server submission paths, fills the new field in existing
test fixtures, and adds coverage that composer submission includes the
configured profile.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui permissions -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all permissions_messages --
--nocapture`
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* #18288
* #18287
* #18286
* __->__ #18285
Begin migrating the thread write codepaths to ThreadStore.
This starts using ThreadStore inside of core session code, not only in
the app server code.
Rework the interfaces around thread recording/persistence. We're left
with the following:
* `ThreadManager`: owns the process-level registry of loaded threads and
handles cross-thread orchestration: start, resume, fork, lookup, remove,
and route ops to running CodexThreads.
* `CodexThread`: represents one loaded/running thread from the outside.
It is the handle app-server and callers use to submit ops, inspect
session metadata, and shut the thread down.
* `LiveThread`: session-owned persistence lifecycle handle for one
active thread. Core session code uses it to append rollout items,
materialize lazy persistence, flush, shutdown, discard init-failed
writers, and load that thread’s persisted history.
* `ThreadStore`: storage backend abstraction. It answers “how are
threads persisted, read, listed, updated, archived?” Local and remote
implementations live behind this trait.
* `LocalThreadStore`: local ThreadStore implementation. It owns the
file/sqlite-specific details and keeps RolloutRecorder as a local
implementation detail.
This is a few too many Thread abstractions for my liking, but they do
all represent different concepts / needs / layers.
Migration note: in places where the core code explicitly requires a
path, rather than a thread ID, throw an error if we're running with a
remote store.
Cover the new local live-writer lifecycle with focused tests and
preserve app-server thread-start behavior, including ephemeral pathless
sessions.
## Why
Enterprise and business-like ChatGPT plans should get Codex's Fast
service tier by default when the user or caller has not made an explicit
service-tier choice. At the same time, callers need a durable way to
choose standard routing without adding a new persisted `standard`
service tier value. This keeps existing config compatibility while
letting core own the managed default policy.
## What changed
- Resolve the effective service tier in core at session creation:
explicit `fast` or `flex` wins, explicit null/clear or
`[notice].fast_default_opt_out = true` resolves to standard routing, and
otherwise eligible ChatGPT plans resolve to Fast when FastMode is
enabled.
- Add `[notice].fast_default_opt_out` as the persisted opt-out marker
for managed Fast defaults.
- Treat app-server/TUI `service_tier: null` as an explicit
standard/clear choice by preserving that intent through config loading.
- Update TUI rendering to use core's effective service tier for startup
and status surfaces while still keeping `config.service_tier` as the
explicit configured choice.
- Update `/fast off` to clear `service_tier`, persist the opt-out
marker, and send explicit standard for subsequent turns.
## Verification
- Added unit coverage for config override/notice handling, service-tier
resolution, runtime null clearing, and `/fast off` turn propagation.
- `cargo build -p codex-cli`
Full test suite was not run locally per author request.
## Why
Clients that observe `SessionConfigured` need the same canonical
permission view that app-server thread responses provide. Reporting the
profile in protocol events lets clients keep their local state
synchronized without reinterpreting legacy sandbox fields.
## What changed
This adds `permission_profile` to `SessionConfigured` and propagates it
through core, exec JSON output, MCP server messages, and TUI
history/widget handling.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui permissions -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all permissions_messages --
--nocapture`
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* #18284
* #18283
* __->__ #18282
## Summary
Allow the user to approve a request_permissions_tool request with the
condition that all commands in the rest of the turn are reviewed by
guardian, regardless of sandbox status.
## Testing
- [x] Added unit tests
- [x] Ran locally
## Why
`approvals_reviewer` now uses `auto_review` as the canonical config/API
value after #18504, but the Rust enum variant and nearby helper/test
names still used `GuardianSubagent` / guardian approval wording. That
made follow-up code and reviews confusing even though the external value
had already moved to Auto-review.
## What changed
- Renamed `ApprovalsReviewer::GuardianSubagent` to
`ApprovalsReviewer::AutoReview`.
- Updated protocol, app-server, config, core, TUI, exec, and analytics
test callsites.
- Renamed nearby helper/test names from guardian approval wording to
Auto-review wording where they refer to the approvals reviewer mode.
- Preserved wire compatibility:
- `auto_review` remains the canonical serialized value.
- `guardian_subagent` remains accepted as a legacy alias.
This intentionally does not rename the `[features].guardian_approval`
key, `Feature::GuardianApproval`, `core/src/guardian`, analytics event
names, or app-server Guardian review event types.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
approvals_reviewer_serializes_auto_review_and_accepts_legacy_guardian_subagent`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
approvals_reviewer_serializes_auto_review_and_accepts_legacy_guardian_subagent`
- `cargo test -p codex-config approvals_reviewer`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui update_feature_flags`
- `cargo test -p codex-core permissions_instructions`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui permissions_selection`
## Why
Resume and reconstruction need to preserve the permissions that were
active for each user turn. If rollouts only keep legacy sandbox fields,
replay cannot faithfully represent profile-shaped overrides introduced
earlier in the stack.
## What changed
This records `permission_profile` on user-turn rollout events,
reconstructs it through history/state extraction, and updates rollout
reconstruction and related fixtures to keep the field explicit.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all permissions_messages --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all request_permissions --
--nocapture`
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* #18288
* #18287
* #18286
* #18285
* #18284
* #18283
* #18282
* __->__ #18281
## Why
`PermissionProfile` is becoming the canonical permissions shape shared
by core and app-server. After app-server responses expose the active
profile, clients need to be able to send that same shape back when
starting, resuming, forking, or overriding a turn instead of translating
through the legacy `sandbox`/`sandboxPolicy` shorthands.
This still needs to preserve the existing requirements/platform
enforcement model. A profile-shaped request can be downgraded or
rejected by constraints, but the server should keep the user's
elevated-access intent for project trust decisions. Turn-level profile
overrides also need to retain existing read protections, including
deny-read entries and bounded glob-scan metadata, so a permission
override cannot accidentally drop configured protections such as
`**/*.env = deny`.
## What changed
- Adds optional `permissionProfile` request fields to `thread/start`,
`thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and `turn/start`.
- Rejects ambiguous requests that specify both `permissionProfile` and
the legacy `sandbox`/`sandboxPolicy` fields, including running-thread
resume requests.
- Converts profile-shaped overrides into core runtime filesystem/network
permissions while continuing to derive the constrained legacy sandbox
projection used by existing execution paths.
- Preserves project-trust intent for profile overrides that are
equivalent to workspace-write or full-access sandbox requests.
- Preserves existing deny-read entries and `globScanMaxDepth` when
applying turn-level `permissionProfile` overrides.
- Updates app-server docs plus generated JSON/TypeScript schema fixtures
and regression coverage.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol schema_fixtures`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
session_configuration_apply_permission_profile_preserves_existing_deny_read_entries`
---
[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/18279).
* #18288
* #18287
* #18286
* #18285
* #18284
* #18283
* #18282
* #18281
* #18280
* __->__ #18279
## Summary
Short circuit the convo if auto-review hits too many denials
## Testing
- [x] Added unit tests
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Eric Traut