## Why
`main` recently needed
[#17691](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17691) because code behind
`cfg(not(debug_assertions))` was not being compiled by the Bazel PR
workflow. Our existing CI only built the fast/debug configuration, so
PRs could stay green while release-only Rust code still failed to
compile. This PR adds a release-style compile check that is cheap enough
to run on every PR.
## What Changed
- Added a `verify-release-build` job to `.github/workflows/bazel.yml`.
- Represented each supported OS once in that job's matrix: x64 Linux,
arm64 macOS, and x64 Windows.
- Kept the build close to fastbuild cost by using
`--compilation_mode=fastbuild` while forcing Rust to compile with
`-Cdebug-assertions=no`, which makes `cfg(not(debug_assertions))` true
without also turning on release optimizations or debug-info generation.
- Added comments in `.github/workflows/bazel.yml` and
`scripts/list-bazel-release-targets.sh` to make the job's intent and
target scope explicit.
- Restored the Bazel repository cache save behavior to run after every
non-cancelled job, matching
[#16926](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/16926), and removed the
now-unused `repository-cache-hit` output from `prepare-bazel-ci`.
- Reused the shared `prepare-bazel-ci` action from the parent PR so the
new job does not duplicate Bazel setup boilerplate.
## Verification
- Used `bazel aquery` on `//codex-rs/tui:codex-tui` to confirm the Rust
compile still uses `opt-level=0` and `debuginfo=0` while passing
`-Cdebug-assertions=no`.
- Parsed `.github/workflows/bazel.yml` as YAML locally.
- Ran `bash -n scripts/list-bazel-release-targets.sh`.
## Summary
- Allows selected MCP results to return a larger default result set.
- Keeps the existing default cap for other MCP results.
- Applies the cap consistently when higher explicit limits are
requested.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-core tool_search`
- Ran a local CLI smoke test with two stdio MCP servers exposing 100
tools each; the selected-server query returned 20 tools and the
regular-server query returned 8.
- Add trace-only wire logging for realtime websocket request/event text
payloads and the WebRTC call SDP request.
- Gate raw realtime logs behind
`RUST_LOG=codex_api::realtime_websocket::wire=trace` so normal logs stay
quiet.
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Introduce a ThreadStore interface for mediating access to the filesystem
(rollout jsonl files + sqlite db) based thread storage.
In later PRs we'll move the existing fs code behind a "local"
implementation of this ThreadStore interface.
This PR should be a no-op behaviorally, it only introduces the
interface.
Problem: PR #17372 moved initialized request handling into
`dispatch_initialized_client_request`, leaving analytics code that uses
`connection_id` without a local binding and breaking `codex-app-server`
builds.
Solution: Restore the `connection_id` binding from
`connection_request_id` before initialized request validation and
analytics tracking.
## Summary
Fix the TUI `$` skill popup so personal skills appear reliably when
Codex is connected to a remote app-server.
## What changed
- load skills on TUI startup with an explicit forced refresh
- refresh skills using the actual current cwd instead of an empty `cwds`
list
- resync an already-open `$` popup when skill mentions are updated
- add a regression test for refreshing an open mention popup
## Root cause
The TUI was sometimes sending `list_skills` with `cwds: []` after
`SessionConfigured`.
For the launchd app-server flow, the server resolved that empty cwd list
to its own process cwd, which was `/`. The response therefore came back
tagged with `cwd: "/"`, and the TUI later filtered skills by exact cwd
match against the actual project cwd such as `/Users/starr/code/dream`.
That dropped all personal skills from the mention list, so `$` only
showed plugins/apps.
## Verification
Built successfully with remote cache disabled:
```bash
cd /Users/starr/code/codex-worktrees/starr-skill-popup-20260413130509
bazel --output_base=/tmp/codex-bazel-verify-starr-skill-popup build //codex-rs/cli:codex --noremote_accept_cached --noremote_upload_local_results --disk_cache=
```
Also verified interactively in a PTY against the live app-server at
`ws://127.0.0.1:4511`:
- launched the built TUI
- typed `$`
- confirmed personal skills appeared in the popup, including entries
such as `Applied Devbox`, `CI Debug`, `Channel Summarization`, `Codex PR
Review`, and `Daily Digest`
## Files changed
- `codex-rs/tui/src/app.rs`
- `codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget.rs`
- `codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer.rs`
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## Summary
- route apply_patch runtime execution through the selected Environment
filesystem instead of the local self-exec path
- keep the standalone apply_patch command surface intact while restoring
its launcher/test/docs contract
- add focused apply_patch filesystem sandbox regression coverage
## Validation
- remote devbox Bazel run in progress
- passed: //codex-rs/apply-patch:apply-patch-unit-tests
--test_filter=test_read_file_utf8_with_context_reports_invalid_utf8
- in progress / follow-up: focused core and exec Bazel test slices on
dev
## Follow-up under review
- remote pre-verification and approval/retry behavior still need
explicit scrutiny for delete/update flows
- runtime sandbox-denial classification may need a tighter assertion
path than rendered stderr matching
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## Why
This stack adds a new Bazel CI lane that verifies Rust code behind
`cfg(not(debug_assertions))`, but adding that job directly to
`.github/workflows/bazel.yml` would duplicate the same setup in multiple
places. Extracting the shared setup first keeps the follow-up change
easier to review and reduces the chance that future Bazel workflow edits
drift apart.
## What Changed
- Added `.github/actions/prepare-bazel-ci/action.yml` as a composite
action for the Bazel job bootstrap shared by multiple workflow jobs.
- Moved the existing Bazel setup, repository-cache restore, and
execution-log setup behind that action.
- Updated the `test` and `clippy` jobs in `.github/workflows/bazel.yml`
to call `prepare-bazel-ci`.
- Exposed `repository-cache-hit` and `repository-cache-path` outputs so
callers can keep the existing cache-save behavior without duplicating
the restore step.
## Verification
- Parsed `.github/workflows/bazel.yml` as YAML locally after rebasing
the stack.
- CI will exercise the refactored jobs end to end.
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Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/17704).
* #17705
* __->__ #17704
## Summary
- Refactors `MessageProcessor` and per-connection session state so
initialized service RPC handling can be moved into spawned tasks in a
follow-up PR.
- Shares the processor and initialized session data with
`Arc`/`OnceLock` instead of mutable borrowed connection state.
- Keeps initialized request handling synchronous in this PR; it does
**not** call `tokio::spawn` for service RPCs yet.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server` *(fails on existing hardening gaps
covered by #17375, #17376, and #17377; the pipelined config regression
passed before the unrelated failures)*
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
In the app-server debug client, allow redirecting output to a file in
addition to just stdout. Shell redirecting works OK but is a bit weird
with the interactive mode of the debug client since a bunch of newlines
get dumped into the shell. With async messages from MCPs starting it's
also tricky to actually type in a prompt.
To allow the ability to have guaranteed-unique cursors, we make two
important updates:
* Add new updated_at_ms and created_at_ms columns that are in
millisecond precision
* Guarantee uniqueness -- if multiple items are inserted at the same
millisecond, bump the new one by one millisecond until it becomes unique
This lets us use single-number cursors for forwards and backwards paging
through resultsets and guarantee that the cursor is a fixed point to do
(timestamp > cursor) and get new items only.
This updated implementation is backwards-compatible since multiple
appservers can be running and won't handle the previous method well.
## Summary
Adds `thread_source` field to the existing Codex turn metadata sent to
Responses API
- Sends `thread_source: "user"` for user-initiated sessions: CLI, VS
Code, and Exec
- Sends `thread_source: "subagent"` for subagent sessions
- Omits `thread_source` for MCP, custom, and unknown session sources
- Uses the existing turn metadata transport:
- HTTP requests send through the `x-codex-turn-metadata` header
- WebSocket `response.create` requests send through
`client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
session_source_thread_source_name_classifies_user_and_subagent_sources`
- `cargo test -p codex-core turn_metadata_state`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test responses_headers
responses_stream_includes_turn_metadata_header_for_git_workspace_e2e --
--nocapture`
## Summary
This PR removes `image_detail_original` as a runtime experiment and
makes original image detail available whenever the selected model
supports it.
Concretely, this change:
- drops the `image_detail_original` feature flag from the feature
registry and generated config schema
- makes tool-emitted image detail depend only on
`ModelInfo.supports_image_detail_original`
- updates `view_image` and `code_mode`/`js_repl` image emission to use
that capability check directly
- removes now-redundant experiment-specific tests and instruction
coverage
- keeps backward compatibility for existing configs by silently ignoring
a stale `features.image_detail_original` entry
The net effect is that `detail: "original"` is always available on
supported models, without requiring an experiment toggle.
- Add outputModality to thread/realtime/start and wire text/audio output
selection through app-server, core, API, and TUI.\n- Rename the realtime
transcript delta notification and add a separate transcript done
notification that forwards final text from item done without correlating
it with deltas.
This changes multi-agent v2 mailbox handling so incoming inter-agent
messages no longer preempt an in-flight sampling stream at reasoning or
commentary output-item boundaries.
## Summary
Move `codex marketplace add` onto a shared core implementation so the
CLI and app-server path can use one source of truth.
This change:
- adds shared marketplace-add orchestration in `codex-core`
- switches the CLI command to call that shared implementation
- removes duplicated CLI-only marketplace add helpers
- preserves focused parser and add-path coverage while moving the shared
behavior into core tests
## Why
The new `marketplace/add` RPC should reuse the same underlying
marketplace-add flow as the CLI. This refactor lands that consolidation
first so the follow-up app-server PR can be mostly protocol and handler
wiring.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core marketplace_add`
- `cargo test -p codex-cli marketplace_cmd`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-cli`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
- Pin Rust git patch dependencies to immutable revisions and make
cargo-deny reject unknown git and registry sources unless explicitly
allowlisted.
- Add checked-in SHA-256 coverage for the current rusty_v8 release
assets, wire those hashes into Bazel, and verify CI override downloads
before use.
- Add rusty_v8 MODULE.bazel update/check tooling plus a Bazel CI guard
so future V8 bumps cannot drift from the checked-in checksum manifest.
- Pin release/lint cargo installs and all external GitHub Actions refs
to immutable inputs.
## Future V8 bump flow
Run these after updating the resolved `v8` crate version and checksum
manifest:
```bash
python3 .github/scripts/rusty_v8_bazel.py update-module-bazel
python3 .github/scripts/rusty_v8_bazel.py check-module-bazel
```
The update command rewrites the matching `rusty_v8_<crate_version>`
`http_file` SHA-256 values in `MODULE.bazel` from
`third_party/v8/rusty_v8_<crate_version>.sha256`. The check command is
also wired into Bazel CI to block drift.
## Notes
- This intentionally excludes RustSec dependency upgrades and
bubblewrap-related changes per request.
- The branch was rebased onto the latest origin/main before opening the
PR.
## Validation
- cargo fetch --locked
- cargo deny check advisories
- cargo deny check
- cargo deny check sources
- python3 .github/scripts/rusty_v8_bazel.py check-module-bazel
- python3 .github/scripts/rusty_v8_bazel.py update-module-bazel
- python3 -m unittest discover -s .github/scripts -p
'test_rusty_v8_bazel.py'
- python3 -m py_compile .github/scripts/rusty_v8_bazel.py
.github/scripts/rusty_v8_module_bazel.py
.github/scripts/test_rusty_v8_bazel.py
- repo-wide GitHub Actions `uses:` audit: all external action refs are
pinned to 40-character SHAs
- yq eval on touched workflows and local actions
- git diff --check
- just bazel-lock-check
## Hash verification
- Confirmed `MODULE.bazel` hashes match
`third_party/v8/rusty_v8_146_4_0.sha256`.
- Confirmed GitHub release asset digests for denoland/rusty_v8
`v146.4.0` and openai/codex `rusty-v8-v146.4.0` match the checked-in
hashes.
- Streamed and SHA-256 hashed all 10 `MODULE.bazel` rusty_v8 asset URLs
locally; every downloaded byte stream matched both `MODULE.bazel` and
the checked-in manifest.
## Pin verification
- Confirmed signing-action pins match the peeled commits for their tag
comments: `sigstore/cosign-installer@v3.7.0`, `azure/login@v2`, and
`azure/trusted-signing-action@v0`.
- Pinned the remaining tag-based action refs in Bazel CI/setup:
`actions/setup-node@v6`, `facebook/install-dotslash@v2`,
`bazelbuild/setup-bazelisk@v3`, and `actions/cache/restore@v5`.
- Normalized all `bazelbuild/setup-bazelisk@v3` refs to the peeled
commit behind the annotated tag.
- Audited Cargo git dependencies: every manifest git dependency uses
`rev` only, every `Cargo.lock` git source has `?rev=<sha>#<same-sha>`,
and `cargo deny check sources` passes with `required-git-spec = "rev"`.
- Shallow-fetched each distinct git dependency repo at its pinned SHA
and verified Git reports each object as a commit.
This PR teaches the TUI to render guardian review timeouts as explicit
terminal history entries instead of dropping them from the live
timeline.
It adds timeout-specific history cells for command, patch, MCP tool, and
network approval reviews.
It also adds snapshot tests covering both the direct guardian event path
and the app-server notification path.
## Summary\n- add an exec-server package-local test helper binary that
can run exec-server and fs-helper flows\n- route exec-server filesystem
tests through that helper instead of cross-crate codex helper
binaries\n- stop relying on Bazel-only extra binary wiring for these
tests\n\n## Testing\n- not run (per repo guidance for codex changes)
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## Summary
- Add `turn/inject_items` app-server v2 request support for appending
raw Responses API items to a loaded thread history without starting a
turn.
- Generate JSON schema and TypeScript protocol artifacts for the new
params and empty response.
- Document the new endpoint and include a request/response example.
- Preserve compatibility with the typo alias `turn/injet_items` while
returning the canonical method name.
## Testing
- Not run (not requested)
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