## What changed
- Scope remote installed-plugin and loaded-plugin snapshots to the active account, and discard in-flight loads when the account changes.
- Serialize bundle reconciliation with direct installs and uninstalls, and use cache generations to prevent stale refreshes from overwriting newer state.
- Validate the complete installed-plugin snapshot before downloading bundles or removing stale cache entries, while retaining valid installed metadata when materialization fails.
## Testing
- Cover account changes during plugin loading, incomplete snapshots, refresh/reconciliation races, and reconciliation cancellation recovery.
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## Why
Background marketplace and plugin refreshes can otherwise inherit repository-local or command-scoped Git configuration from the project that launched Codex. That configuration can redirect remotes or invoke Git helpers during an automatic operation.
## What changed
- Run automatic marketplace upgrades, plugin cache refreshes, and curated marketplace lookups with repository-scoped Git environment variables removed and a temporary trusted repository under the Codex home.
- Carry the automatic/manual trust mode through marketplace upgrades and plugin materialization.
- Preserve the caller's Git configuration for explicit marketplace upgrades, plugin installs, and refreshes.
## Testing
- Add regression coverage for repository URL rewrites, protocol helpers, command-scoped configuration, and manual Git filters.
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## What changed
- Give plugin managers for the same cache root a shared semaphore that permits
only one background installed-plugin bundle sync at a time.
- Hold the permit for the lifetime of the spawned sync task and refresh the
installed-plugin cache after a successful local cache change.
## Testing
- Add a test that starts bundle syncs from two plugin managers sharing a Codex
home and verifies that only one request is made.
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## What changed
- Fetch recommendations from the Codex-specific `/ps/plugins/suggested/codex` endpoint and parse its compact response shape.
- Fetch the selected plugin's details before presenting an install request, using them to verify availability and populate connector metadata.
- Skip install elicitation when the selected recommendation is no longer available, and return a retryable response when its metadata cannot be verified.
## Testing
- Cover the new recommendation route and response shape.
- Cover metadata hydration for available plugins and rejection of unavailable plugins.
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## What changed
- Give `PluginsManager` a shared `AuthManager` instead of a separately mutable authentication-mode snapshot.
- Read the current authentication mode and credentials from that shared manager for plugin discovery, startup tasks, CLI commands, MCP setup, and external-agent migration.
- Update test helpers and coverage to exercise plugin projections and curated marketplace selection as authentication changes.
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## What changed
- Add `oauth.callback_port` to MCP server configuration and preserve it when
serializing configuration edits.
- Accept `oauth.callbackPort` from plugin MCP declarations and skill dependency
metadata.
- Prefer the server-specific callback port over `mcp_oauth_callback_port` for
CLI login, app-server, plugin installation, executor, and skill dependency
OAuth flows.
## Testing
- Cover configuration parsing, serialization, and fallback behavior.
- Verify plugin, executor, and skill OAuth registrations use their configured
callback ports instead of the global port.
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## Why
The model provider does not reliably identify which curated plugin catalog is
available. ChatGPT authentication can be used with a custom provider, while an
unauthenticated session should use the API-compatible catalog regardless of its
provider.
## What changed
- Select the ChatGPT curated catalog only for authentication modes that use the
Codex backend; use the API curated catalog for API-key and unauthenticated
sessions.
- Initialize standalone plugin managers with the current authentication mode
across CLI, app-server, MCP, and external-agent migration paths.
- Preserve authentication mode while detecting and importing migrated plugins.
## Testing
- Cover catalog and skill routing across ChatGPT, API-key, unauthenticated,
Bedrock, and custom-provider configurations.
- Verify authenticated plugin migration uses the ChatGPT curated marketplace.
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## What changed
- Add `http_headers_helper` configuration for local streamable HTTP MCP servers. The configured shell command runs once per connection and returns a JSON object of headers that is cached across requests.
- Apply helper headers to MCP startup and OAuth flows while restricting them to the server origin, stopping redirects, rejecting reserved or duplicate headers, and enforcing output and execution limits.
- Reject helpers for remote or managed-disabled servers, use the local environment working directory, and redact helper commands from `codex mcp list` and `codex mcp get` output.
## Testing
- Cover configuration validation, helper lifecycle and output parsing, origin isolation, OAuth discovery and token refresh, managed requirements, environment selection, and CLI redaction.
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## What changed
- Remove the path-only `effective_skill_roots` API and its type-erasing trait in favor of `effective_plugin_skill_roots`, which preserves plugin metadata.
- Remove skill-path ancestor lookup helpers and keep namespace resolution scoped to an explicit plugin root.
- Update plugin manager and namespace tests to exercise the retained APIs directly.
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## What changed
- Define skill config selectors, ordered rules, and layer-stack parsing in `codex-config`.
- Resolve disabled skill paths from generic skill name/path pairs, so configuration logic no longer depends on `SkillMetadata`.
- Update plugin and host skill consumers to use the `codex-config` API and consolidate the rule tests with the skill config tests.
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## What changed
- Route plugin inventory loading and capability summaries through the injected
`SkillRootLoader`.
- Preserve recursive discovery for legacy plugins while restricting agent-plugin
skill discovery to direct children of the skills root.
## Testing
- Verify `plugin/read` excludes nested agent-plugin skills.
- Verify installed agent-plugin telemetry reports skills only for portable,
direct-child layouts.
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## What changed
- Inject the host skill loader into `PluginsManager` so plugin discovery and agent turns use the same loading and product-policy behavior.
- Share plugin skill snapshots across those paths, preserving a consistent view of skills across workspaces.
- Apply migrated-command precedence after product filtering, allowing an eligible migrated command to replace a filtered native skill with the same name.
## Testing
- Add coverage for product-restricted plugin skills, native-versus-migrated command precedence, and the skills exposed to agent turns.
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## What changed
- Move the integration test for reusing plugin-manager skill snapshots into
`codex-core`, which owns both the plugin manager and host skills service
integration.
- Keep the `codex-core-plugins` test focused on resolving local and remote
plugin identities on effective skill roots, and remove its skills-extension
dev dependency.
- Use the skills extension's `HostSkillsSnapshot` type in its world-state
catalog implementation.
## Testing
- Verify the host skills service reuses the plugin manager's parsed snapshot
after the underlying skill file changes, while preserving plugin identity
metadata.
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## What changed
- Track Agent Plugin manifests through plugin, skill, and MCP loading so their capabilities use format-specific behavior without changing legacy plugins.
- Discover only direct-child skills, exclude app and hook capabilities, isolate MCP data, and reject MCP configuration files that are non-regular or resolve outside the plugin root.
- Bound model-visible skill instructions, plugin instructions, MCP descriptions, schemas, individual tools, and the aggregate Agent Plugin MCP tool set.
- Stop MCP and OAuth redirects when Agent Plugins send configured or authorization headers, while retaining existing redirect behavior for legacy MCP servers.
## Testing
- Add coverage for capability filtering, skill discovery, isolated MCP data and reserved-path expansion, unsafe MCP configuration files, context limits, and redirect handling.
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## What changed
- Move host skill discovery, snapshot caching, and configuration handling from
`codex-core-skills` to `codex-skills-extension`.
- Rename `SkillsService` and `SkillsLoadInput` to `HostSkillsService` and
`HostSkillsLoadInput` to distinguish the host implementation from other skill
providers.
- Keep shared loading primitives and skill outcome modeling in
`codex-core-skills`.
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## Why
MCP tools can be exposed directly, discovered through tool search, or called
from Code Mode. Servers need to be able to opt out of any of these surfaces
without disabling their tools everywhere.
## What changed
- Add `omit_tools_from` to MCP server configuration, accepting any combination
of `direct`, `deferred`, and `code_mode`.
- Apply the exclusions independently when building direct, deferred, and Code
Mode tool surfaces while keeping omitted tools registered for permitted uses.
- Remove client-private `_meta` fields from MCP results returned to Code Mode.
- Include the new setting in the configuration schema and MCP config
serialization.
## Testing
- Cover every exposure combination across Code Mode, Code-Mode-only sessions,
tool search, direct-only namespaces, and prefixed and unprefixed MCP names.
- Verify direct and nested execution paths, parallel-call support, config
round-tripping, and `_meta` filtering.
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## What changed
- Add nullable `installedAt` metadata to `PluginSummary` and its generated schemas, expressed as a Unix timestamp in seconds.
- Preserve the backend installation time for remote plugins across plugin list, installed, read, and share-list responses. Return `null` when the timestamp is unavailable, including for local or uninstalled plugins and older backend responses.
## Testing
- Cover timestamp conversion in the remote plugin list integration test and the field's serialization and backward-compatible default in protocol tests.
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## What changed
- Add nullable `disabledReason` and `eligiblePlanTypes` fields to v2
`PluginSummary` responses and generated schemas.
- Preserve the remote catalog values across discovered, installed, and cached
plugin summary paths while returning `null` for local plugins and older
remote responses.
- Treat unrecognized disabled reasons as `unknown` for forward compatibility.
## Testing
- Cover protocol round trips, remote summary propagation, unknown disabled
reasons, and app-server responses for admin-disabled and plan-ineligible
plugins.
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## Why
Curated plugin capabilities need to follow the active authentication mode, including after an account switch and when the configured model provider differs from the authentication source.
## What changed
- Select the ChatGPT, remote, or API curated marketplace from the current authentication mode, with an API marketplace fallback for ambient Amazon Bedrock credentials.
- Apply that selection consistently to plugin loading, hooks, skills, installed-plugin conflict filtering, marketplace listing, and `codex mcp` discovery.
- Start the local curated repository sync when an account change makes the remote catalog unavailable, and refresh existing thread MCP runtimes when the effective plugin cache changes.
## Testing
Added coverage for account switches, ChatGPT-authenticated Bedrock sessions, API-key MCP discovery, curated marketplace filtering, hook and skill routing, and existing-thread MCP refreshes.
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## What changed
- Carry a plugin's local and remote identities together from plugin loading into
`SkillMetadata`.
- Resolve remote IDs from the installed-plugin snapshot when available, falling
back to persisted install metadata only when no snapshot exists.
- Include plugin identity in skill cache keys so identity changes refresh cached
skill metadata.
## Testing
- Cover snapshot and persisted identity resolution, local marketplace isolation,
cached skill refreshes, and propagation through plugin skill snapshots.
GitOrigin-RevId: aabeeb631a43361fe817358ace7f1ea8ba5db708
## Why
Amazon Bedrock configurations can operate without Codex auth, so auth mode alone
cannot determine which curated plugin marketplace to expose.
## What changed
- Pass the resolved model provider into plugin configuration.
- Select `openai-api-curated` when the resolved provider is `amazon-bedrock`,
while retaining API-key auth as a selection signal.
- Cover provider overrides and app-server plugin listing without an `auth.json`
file.
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## Why
The curated plugin startup sync can fall back from Git to HTTP, but those
requests did not use Codex's effective outbound proxy policy.
## What changed
- Thread the configured HTTP client factory into curated plugin sync.
- Route GitHub API, zipball, backup metadata, and returned download URLs
through the route-aware client when system proxy support is enabled.
- Preserve the existing default HTTP client behavior, including its custom CA
fallback, when system proxy support is disabled.
- Apply the standard Codex headers to startup-sync HTTP requests.
## Testing
Add coverage that records route selection for repository, archive, metadata,
and backend-supplied download URLs, and verifies standard headers are sent.
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## What changed
- Define and export skill metadata, policy, dependency, interface, and configuration rule types from `codex-skills`.
- Update core, plugin, and extension consumers to use the shared models while retaining compatibility re-exports from `codex-core-skills`.
- Share product-restriction handling between host and environment skill metadata.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for default and explicit implicit-invocation and product policies.
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## What changed
- Add nullable `mustShowInstallationInterstitial` metadata to app-server
`PluginSummary` responses.
- Preserve the remote service value through catalog, installed-plugin cache,
list, read, and share-list paths.
- Return `null` for local plugins and remote responses that omit the field so
clients can fail closed when the policy is unavailable.
## Testing
- Cover `true`, `false`, and missing values across remote summary paths and
app-server plugin endpoints.
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## What changed
- Convert supported plugin command Markdown into generated skills when a plugin is installed.
- Read command sources from the manifest's `commands` field, falling back to the plugin's `commands/` directory.
- Load generated command skills alongside native plugin skills while preferring native skills with the same name.
- Skip commands with unsupported templates, missing descriptions, name collisions, or generated skills larger than 4 KB, and keep migration failures from blocking plugin installation.
## Testing
- Cover default and manifest-configured command paths, stale generated skill cleanup, size limits, native-skill precedence, invalid manifest fields, and non-fatal migration errors.
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## What changed
- Scan up to eight skill roots concurrently instead of loading them one at a time.
- Share scan capacity across host-skill and plugin-skill loads to bound aggregate filesystem work.
- Merge completed scans in input order so root precedence and error ordering remain deterministic.
- Skip canonicalization and parsing work for empty roots.
## Testing
- Add coverage for out-of-order scan completion and shared-capacity blocking.
GitOrigin-RevId: 33a47aaa02aee7fe31a050bb04d51c1e2043d6ae
## What changed
- Add `subErrorType` to external agent config import failures and carry it through progress and completion notifications, persisted import histories, and analytics.
- Expose plugin store failure subtypes from `PluginInstallError` so manual installs and imported plugins report details such as `failed_to_copy_plugin_file` while failures without a subtype remain `null`.
- Keep existing persisted import records compatible by defaulting the new field when it is absent.
## Testing
- Cover store I/O subtype extraction, analytics serialization, persisted import histories, and migration notification fixtures.
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## What changed
- Carry newly installed or updated remote plugin metadata through effective-plugin refresh callbacks, including coalesced refreshes.
- After a successful refresh, record the current hook hashes for listed workspace plugins associated with the active account while preserving existing hook settings and unrelated state.
- Serialize the background trust write with config mutations, and leave hooks untrusted if the write fails or the active account changes.
## Testing
- Cover eligible plugin selection and escaped hook config keys.
- Verify end-to-end trust for newly materialized plugin hooks, preservation of existing config, and fail-closed behavior when config cannot be written.
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## Summary
- Add `PluginInstallPolicySource` to the app-server v2 `PluginSummary`
payload.
- Propagate remote `installation_policy_source` through plugin
summaries, details, installed-plugin caching, and app-server responses.
- Preserve the supported source values and map unrecognized backend
values to `null`.
- Return `null` for local plugins and expose the field in generated JSON
and TypeScript schemas.
- Update app-server API documentation and plugin list/read coverage.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol` (251 passed)
- Targeted `codex-app-server` plugin list, installed, and read tests (4
passed)
- Targeted `codex-core-plugins` known and unknown policy source tests (2
passed)
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
- enable the remote plugin feature by default
- promote the remote plugin feature from under development to stable
- preserve the existing `features.remote_plugin` override for explicitly
disabling it
- keep legacy disabled-path coverage explicit in TUI and app-server
tests
## Impact
Remote plugin functionality is enabled by default for configurations
that do not set the feature flag. The existing Codex backend
authentication gate still applies.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-features`
- `just test -p codex-tui
plugins_popup_remote_section_fallback_states_snapshot`
- targeted `codex-app-server` plugin-list and skills-list tests
- `git diff --check`
The full TUI and app-server suites were also exercised locally. All
remote-plugin-related coverage passed; unrelated local
sandbox/test-binary failures remain outside this change.
## Summary
- project effective marketplace/plugin config through the enterprise
source policy so blocked installed plugins become inactive
- filter plugin list/read/discovery and CLI marketplace source/snapshot
reporting using the same policy
- enforce source admission for background marketplace cache refreshes
- continue refreshing/upgrading independent marketplaces and plugins
when one entry fails, returning per-entry errors
- include policy-projected plugin state in cache and refresh keys so
requirement changes invalidate stale results
## Stack
This is PR 2 of 2 and is based on #29690. Review the admission model and
source matcher in #29690 first; this PR contains only runtime
enforcement.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` (287 tests)
- `just test -p codex-cli
plugin_list_ignores_implicit_system_marketplace_roots_without_manifests`
- `cargo check -p codex-cli -p codex-app-server --tests`
## Why
MCP authentication has distinct OAuth and ChatGPT-session flows.
Representing that choice as `use_chatgpt_auth` makes one flow implicit
and allows the configuration model to express the distinction only
through a boolean.
ChatGPT credential forwarding also needs a first-party trust boundary. A
configurable `chatgpt_base_url` controls routing, but must not grant an
MCP server permission to receive session credentials.
This change builds on #29733, where the boolean was introduced.
## What changed
- Replace `use_chatgpt_auth` with an `auth` field backed by the
exhaustive `McpServerAuth` enum.
- Support `auth = "oauth"` and `auth = "chatgpt"`, with OAuth remaining
the default.
- Trust only the origin derived from the existing hardcoded
`CHATGPT_CODEX_BASE_URL` when granting ChatGPT auth to an MCP server.
- Keep configured bearer tokens and authorization headers ahead of the
selected authentication flow.
- Update config writers, schema output, fixtures, and integration-test
setup to use the enum.
## Verification
Integration coverage exercises the complete streamable HTTP startup path
in two independent configurations:
- A directly constructed MCP configuration verifies that matching an
overridden `chatgpt_base_url` does not grant ChatGPT auth.
- A persisted `config.toml` containing an attacker-controlled
`chatgpt_base_url` and `auth = "chatgpt"` verifies the same boundary
through normal config parsing.
Both tests complete MCP initialization and tool listing and assert that
the full captured request sequence contains no authorization headers.
Separate integration coverage verifies that configured authorization
takes precedence over ChatGPT auth.
## Why
ChatGPT session authentication was inferred from the reserved Codex Apps
server name. That couples credential routing to Codex Apps-specific
behavior and prevents other MCP endpoints hosted by ChatGPT from
explicitly using the current session.
The opt-in also needs a clear security boundary: an arbitrary MCP
configuration must not be able to redirect ChatGPT credentials to
another origin.
## What changed
- Add `use_chatgpt_auth` to HTTP MCP server configuration, defaulting to
`false`.
- Honor the setting only when the parsed server URL has the same HTTP(S)
origin as the configured `chatgpt_base_url`; otherwise remove the
capability before startup.
- Resolve bearer tokens and static or environment-backed authorization
headers before selecting authentication, with configured authorization
taking precedence over ChatGPT session auth.
- Enable the setting for the built-in Codex Apps and hosted plugin
runtime endpoints while keeping Codex Apps caching and tool
normalization scoped to the reserved server.
- Persist the setting through MCP config rewrite paths and expose it in
the generated config schema.
- Load the current login state for `codex mcp list` so reported auth
status matches runtime behavior.
## Verification
Core integration coverage exercises the complete streamable HTTP MCP
startup path and verifies that:
- a same-origin opted-in server receives the current ChatGPT access
token;
- an explicitly configured authorization header takes precedence;
- a different-origin server completes MCP initialization and tool
listing without receiving any ChatGPT authorization header.
## Why
Config layer provenance describes how effective configuration was
assembled, so it belongs with the config loader rather than in
app-server's serialized API types.
## What changed
- Moved `ConfigLayerSource`, `ConfigLayerMetadata`, and `ConfigLayer`
ownership into `codex-config`.
- Kept app-server's wire payloads unchanged and added explicit
conversions at the app boundary.
- Removed lower-level app-server-protocol dependencies from config
consumers.
## Stack
This is PR 3 of 6, stacked on [PR
#29721](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29721). Review only the
delta from `codex/split-auth-domain-types`. Next: [PR
#29723](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29723).
## Validation
- `codex-config` coverage passed.
- App-server config-manager and config RPC coverage passed.
## Why
Managed marketplace source requirements only become effective when every
local marketplace mutation path applies the same admission decision.
This change centralizes that decision so CLI, app-server, and
external-agent migration flows cannot add, install from, or refresh a
disallowed source.
## What changed
- Match exact normalized Git repository URLs with an optional exact
`ref`.
- Match Git hosts with managed regular expressions.
- Match local marketplaces by exact absolute path.
- Preserve the expected path/name boundary for managed OpenAI
marketplaces.
- Enforce source admission during marketplace add, plugin install, and
configured Git marketplace upgrade.
- Continue upgrading independent marketplaces when one source is
rejected and return a per-marketplace error.
- Load the effective requirements stack at CLI, app-server, and
external-agent migration entry points.
This PR does not filter already configured marketplaces at runtime; that
remains in draft follow-up #29691.
## Stack
This is PR 2 of 3 and is based on #29690, which introduces the
requirements data shape and merge behavior.
## Test plan
- Source matcher coverage for Git URL/ref, host-pattern, local-path, and
managed marketplace cases.
- Marketplace add and plugin install coverage for allowed and rejected
sources.
- Marketplace upgrade coverage for rejection and per-marketplace
continuation.
## Why
Authentication mode is a domain concept used by login, model selection,
telemetry, and transports. Keeping the canonical type in app-server
protocol forces those lower-level crates to depend on an unrelated wire
API.
## What changed
- Added canonical `codex_protocol::auth::AuthMode` domain values.
- Kept the app-server wire DTO unchanged and added an explicit app-side
conversion.
- Removed production app-server-protocol dependencies from login,
model-provider-info, models-manager, and otel call paths.
## Stack
This is PR 2 of 6, stacked on [PR
#29714](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29714). Review only the
delta from `codex/split-json-rpc-protocols`. Next: [PR
#29722](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29722).
## Validation
- Auth and login coverage passed in the focused protocol/domain test
run.
- App-server account and auth conversion coverage passed.
## Summary
- suppress configured `openai-curated` plugins when the remote plugin
feature is enabled and auth uses the Codex backend
- preserve `openai-api-curated` and non-Codex-backend behavior while
including remote catalog activation in the plugin load cache key
- add core plugin coverage and an app-server integration test for
runtime feature enablement
## Why
The Codex app enables remote plugins through process-local runtime
feature enablement, which can happen after app-server startup tasks have
already observed legacy local plugin state. The existing conflict logic
only preferred a remote plugin when the same plugin was already
installed remotely, so a configured legacy-only plugin could continue
exposing skills and other capabilities from `openai-curated`.
## Impact
When the remote catalog is active, legacy `openai-curated` plugins no
longer contribute skills, MCP servers, apps, or hooks. Remote installed
plugins continue to load normally, and `openai-api-curated` remains
unaffected. This does not change remote fetch, bundle sync, or uninstall
behavior.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins
remote_global_catalog_ignores_local_curated_plugins
remote_plugin_feature_keeps_local_curated_without_codex_backend`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
runtime_remote_plugin_enablement_excludes_local_curated_plugin_skills`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Plugin analytics overloaded `plugin_id`: most events used the Codex
`<plugin>@<marketplace>` identity, while remote install events used the
backend plugin ID. That makes the same field change meaning across event
types and complicates downstream identity resolution.
This change makes the contract unambiguous:
- `plugin_id`: the local Codex `<plugin>@<marketplace>` identity, when
resolved
- `remote_plugin_id`: the backend plugin identity, when available
For a remote install failure that happens before plugin details resolve,
`plugin_id` is `null` and `remote_plugin_id` remains populated.
## What changed
All six plugin analytics events use the same identity contract:
- `codex_plugin_installed`
- `codex_plugin_install_failed`
- `codex_plugin_uninstalled`
- `codex_plugin_enabled`
- `codex_plugin_disabled`
- `codex_plugin_used`
Remote identity is resolved from the current installed-plugin snapshot
first, with persisted install metadata as fallback. The telemetry
metadata type keeps local identity optional for failures that occur
before remote details are available.
The app-server test client's manual analytics smokes now find remote
mutation events through `remote_plugin_id` and validate that `plugin_id`
remains local.
## Remote uninstall
Resolve and capture telemetry metadata before removing the local plugin
cache, then emit `codex_plugin_uninstalled` after the backend confirms
success. The event is also emitted when backend uninstall succeeds but
local cache cleanup reports `CacheRemove`.
If a concurrent remote-cache refresh removes the local bundle before
telemetry capture, the already-fetched remote plugin detail supplies
fallback capability metadata.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-analytics` — 82 passed
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` — 271 passed
- `just test -p codex-app-server-test-client` — 5 passed
- `just test -p codex-plugin` — 3 passed
- `just test -p codex-app-server plugin_install` — 37 passed
- `just test -p codex-app-server plugin_uninstall` — 10 passed
The production app-server install/uninstall flow was also exercised
against `plugins~Plugin_f1b845ac33888191ac156169c58733c2`
(`build-ios-apps@openai-curated-remote`), and the plugin's original
uninstalled state was restored.
Adds additive dark-mode plugin logo metadata across manifests, remote
catalogs, and the app-server protocol while keeping uninstalled Git
listings free of synthetic local paths.
Supersedes #28945. This replacement uses an upstream branch so trusted
CI can use the repository-provided remote Bazel configuration.
## Current state
Plugin interfaces expose only the default logo asset. Clients therefore
cannot select a dedicated dark-mode logo even when a plugin provides
one.
## What this PR changes
- Adds nullable `logoDark` and `logoUrlDark` fields to
`PluginInterface`.
- Resolves local `interface.logoDark` assets and maps remote
`logo_url_dark` values.
- Removes path-backed interface assets, including `logoDark`, from
uninstalled Git fallback listings until the plugin has a real local
root.
- Updates the bundled plugin validator and manifest reference.
- Regenerates the app-server JSON schemas and TypeScript types.
Local manifests expose `interface.logoDark` as a package-relative asset
path. Remote catalog responses expose `logo_url_dark`. These values map
into separate app-server fields so clients can preserve local-path and
remote-URL handling.
## Risk
The fields are additive and nullable, so existing clients retain their
current logo behavior. The main risks are an incomplete mapping path or
exposing a synthetic local path for an uninstalled Git plugin.
Local-manifest, remote-catalog, fallback-listing, protocol
serialization, and app-server integration tests cover those paths.
Spiciness: 2/5
## Testing
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
- Regression test first failed with `logo_dark` resolved to
`/assets/logo-dark.png`, then passed after the fallback-listing fix.
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` (267 tests passed)
- `just test -p codex-app-server 'suite::v2::plugin'` (114 tests passed)
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-core-plugins -p
codex-plugin -p codex-skills` (517 tests passed before the follow-up)
- `just test -p codex-tui plugin` (47 tests passed)
- Validated a local plugin manifest containing `interface.logoDark` with
the bundled validator.
## Manual verification
Create a local plugin with both `interface.logo` and
`interface.logoDark`, then call `plugin/list` or `plugin/read`. Confirm
the response contains separate `logo` and `logoDark` paths. For a remote
catalog entry, confirm `logoUrlDark` is populated from `logo_url_dark`.
For an uninstalled Git marketplace entry, confirm path-backed interface
assets remain absent until installation.
Issue: N/A - coordinated maintainer change.
This PR moves construction of `PluginTelemetryMetadata` from loader and
model helpers into `PluginsManager`, which already owns installed plugin
state and will eventually perform remote identity enrichment. The
metadata type remains in `codex-plugin`, and serialized analytics events
remain unchanged.
## Before
```mermaid
flowchart LR
subgraph Events["Analytics event paths"]
direction TB
Lifecycle["Local install / uninstall"]
Config["Enable / disable"]
Remote["Remote install"]
Used["Plugin used"]
end
subgraph Construction["Metadata construction"]
direction TB
Loader["Loader telemetry helpers"]
Summary["PluginCapabilitySummary::telemetry_metadata"]
Override["Caller adds remote_plugin_id"]
end
Metadata["PluginTelemetryMetadata"]
Lifecycle --> Loader
Config --> Loader
Remote --> Loader
Loader -->|"local events"| Metadata
Loader -->|"remote install"| Override
Override --> Metadata
Used --> Summary
Summary --> Metadata
```
Telemetry metadata was constructed through loader helpers, a
capability-summary method, and a remote-install call-site override.
## After
```mermaid
flowchart LR
subgraph Events["Analytics event paths"]
direction TB
Lifecycle["Local install / uninstall"]
Config["Enable / disable"]
Remote["Remote install"]
Used["Plugin used"]
end
Manager["PluginsManager — single construction owner"]
Metadata["PluginTelemetryMetadata"]
Lifecycle --> Manager
Config --> Manager
Remote -->|"authoritative remote ID"| Manager
Used -->|"capability summary"| Manager
Manager --> Metadata
```
Every analytics path delegates metadata construction to
`PluginsManager`. Remote install still supplies its authoritative
backend ID explicitly.
## What Changes
- Make loader code return a focused plugin capability summary instead of
constructing analytics metadata.
- Centralize immutable plugin telemetry metadata construction in
`PluginsManager`.
- Route local install/uninstall, remote install, enable/disable, and
plugin-used emitters through the manager.
- Preserve the current serialized analytics contract exactly.
Normal metadata still has no remote override. Remote install continues
to provide its authoritative backend ID explicitly, so the existing
serializer continues reporting that ID through `plugin_id`.
Snapshot-based enrichment is intentionally deferred to the final PR.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` (238 tests passed)
- `just test -p codex-plugin` (3 tests passed)
- Scoped Clippy/compile checks passed for `codex-plugin`,
`codex-core-plugins`, `codex-app-server`, and `codex-core`.
## Split Overview
```text
main
├── #27093 Debug analytics capture (merged)
├── #27099 Non-mutating plugin smoke (merged)
├── #27100 Remote install/uninstall smoke (merged)
└── #27102 Plugin telemetry metadata refactor ← you are here
└── #27669 Persist remote plugin identity
After #27102 and #27669 merge:
└── Final PR: add explicit local and remote IDs to plugin analytics
```
Review order and dependencies:
1. [#27093 Add debug-only analytics event
capture](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27093) (merged)
2. [#27099 Add a plugin analytics smoke
workflow](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27099) (merged)
3. [#27100 Add a remote plugin analytics mutation smoke
workflow](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27100) (merged)
4. This metadata refactor, independent and based on `main`
5. [#27669 Persist remote plugin
identity](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27669), stacked on this
PR
6. Final remote-ID behavior PR, created after the prerequisites merge
The original [#26281](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/26281)
remains open as the aggregate reference until the final replacement PR
is published.
Summary
- Refresh the installed remote-plugin snapshot and Codex Apps tools
after completing a remote JIT install.
- Gate `completed: true` on every expected `app_connector_id` appearing
after the uncached `tools/list` refresh, while continuing to skip local
bundle verification for server-side installs.
- Keep the cached recommendations response and filter refreshed
installed remote IDs locally, so this does not add another
recommendations fetch.
- Add regression coverage for tools appearing after the hard refresh and
remaining absent after the refresh. The resumed model request sees the
refreshed tool router when installation completes.
Root Cause
- Remote suggestions from `openai-curated-remote` returned `true` before
taking the existing connector refresh path, leaving the resumed turn
with the pre-install Apps tool catalog.
Validation
- `just test -p codex-core request_plugin_install`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins
recommended_plugin_candidates_filter_installed_and_disabled_plugins`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just fix -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-core` was not fully clean locally: 2,729 passed,
26 failed, and 16 skipped. The failures were dominated by local
Seatbelt/network/timing issues, including plugin-install timeouts under
full-suite contention; the focused plugin-install runs pass.
## Summary
- Preserve raw plugin skill-root snapshots in the matching loaded-plugin
cache entry, keyed by the effective plugin root identity including
namespace.
- Pass those snapshots through `SkillsLoadInput` as an optional preload,
so session startup reuses plugin parsing while ordinary skill loads pass
`None`.
- Keep plugin skill loading cohesive: the existing loaders accept the
optional snapshots directly, and uncached or marketplace-detail paths do
not create a cache.
## Why
Plugin discovery already parses plugin skills to determine available
capabilities. Cold session startup then scanned and parsed the same
roots again while building the skills snapshot.
This solves the same duplicate-work problem as #28623 while keeping
ownership narrow: `PluginsManager` creates and owns
`PluginSkillSnapshots` only for its loaded-plugin cache entry;
`SkillsService` consumes an optional clone. Entry replacement or
clearing naturally drops the snapshots, with no separate generation,
capacity policy, or watcher coupling.
## Validation
- `cargo clippy -p codex-core-skills --all-targets -- -D warnings`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins
skills_service_reuses_skills_parsed_during_plugin_load`
- `just test -p codex-core-skills
namespaces_plugin_skills_using_provided_namespace`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
Support marketplace plugins whose source directory does not include a
discoverable plugin manifest. Metadata-rich `marketplace.json` entries
now act as fallback plugin manifests for listing, local detail reads,
install, and non-curated cache refresh.
The fallback preserves marketplace-entry plugin fields wholesale, then
adds the small Codex-facing compatibility bridge for presentation
metadata. A real source `plugin.json` always wins when present.
## Details
- Capture flattened marketplace-entry fields into
`MarketplacePluginManifestFallback`, preserving fields such as
`version`, `description`, `skills`, `mcpServers`, `apps`, `hooks`,
`agents`, `commands`, `strict`, `author`, and future manifest fields
without a per-field translation list.
- Bridge Claude-style top-level `displayName`, `author.name`,
`homepage`, and marketplace `category` into Codex's nested `interface`
fields only when the nested values are absent.
- Treat fallback metadata as installable only when the marketplace entry
contributes metadata beyond bare `name` and `source`; existing
missing-manifest behavior remains for metadata-free entries.
- Read local plugin details from the already parsed fallback manifest,
including fallback-declared app and MCP paths, instead of rereading only
an on-disk manifest.
- Pass fallback contents into `PluginStore`, which validates them and
injects `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` into Store's existing atomic copy.
Local marketplace source directories are never mutated, and the fallback
path no longer needs an additional staging directory.
- Keep Git source materialization unchanged; Git clones still use the
existing marketplace source staging area before Store installation.
## Why
`built_tools` runs for every sampling request, and local plugin
discovery was repeatedly rereading plugin manifests, skills, MCP
configuration, and app declarations to build the same tool-suggest
metadata.
That source-derived metadata is stable until the existing plugin manager
reloads its cache. Runtime eligibility still needs to reflect the
current install, disable, policy, app-overlap, and authentication state.
## What changed
- Add a bounded, in-memory tool-suggest metadata cache owned by
`PluginsManager`.
- Key cached metadata by plugin identity and source, while applying
authentication routing each time the metadata is projected.
- Invalidate the metadata alongside the existing loaded-plugin cache,
including its normal configuration, marketplace refresh, and
remote-installed-plugin invalidation paths.
- Guard against an in-flight load repopulating stale metadata after
invalidation.
- Keep marketplace membership and all runtime eligibility filtering live
rather than introducing a separate catalog or revision model.
## Impact
Repeated sampling requests reuse already-loaded plugin capability
metadata while retaining the existing plugin-manager lifecycle as the
single freshness boundary.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins` — 252 passed
- Added focused coverage for cache invalidation and authentication
reprojection.
## What changed
- retain the parsed plugin manifest namespace on loaded plugins
- carry that namespace through `PluginSkillRoot` and `SkillRoot`
- use the provided namespace when qualifying plugin skill names
- include the namespace in the skills cache key
## Why
Plugin loading has already parsed `plugin.json`, but skill parsing
currently walks every `SKILL.md` ancestor and probes/reads the manifest
again to reconstruct the same namespace. Passing the parsed namespace
removes those repeated filesystem calls, which are particularly costly
on remote filesystems.
Context:
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C0ARA9GF5D4/p1781639496496439?thread_ts=1781202444.891669&cid=C0ARA9GF5D4
## Impact
Plugin skill names remain unchanged. A regression test uses a
deliberately different on-disk manifest name to verify that plugin roots
use the provided parsed namespace.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core-skills -p codex-core-plugins -p codex-plugin
-p codex-utils-plugins` (352 passed)
- `just fix -p codex-core-skills -p codex-core-plugins -p codex-plugin
-p codex-utils-plugins`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
Allow plugin manifests to declare `skills` as either a single path
string or an array of path strings in the core plugin loader.
## Why
Some plugin packages need to expose skills from more than one directory.
Before this change, `plugin.json` only accepted a single string for
`skills`, so manifests like this were ignored as an invalid `skills`
shape:
```json
{
"skills": ["./skills/abc", "./skills/edk"]
}
```
This keeps the existing single-string form working while adding support
for the list form. The final scope is intentionally limited to the core
plugin manifest/load path for `skills`; `apps`, file-backed
`mcpServers`, and the bundled plugin-creator assets are unchanged in
this PR.
## What changed
- Parse `skills` as either a string or an array of strings in
`plugin.json`.
- Store resolved skill paths as a list in `PluginManifestPaths`.
- Load manifest-declared skill roots in addition to the default
`./skills` root.
- Deduplicate exact duplicate skill roots before loading.
- Rely on existing skill-loader dedupe by canonical `SKILL.md` path for
overlapping roots such as `./skills` plus `./skills/abc`.
- Update plugin manifest tests to cover:
- single string `skills`
- list of string `skills`
- duplicate skill roots
- `./skills` as a manifest path
- explicit child roots like `./skills/abc` and `./skills/edk`
- overlapping-root dedupe
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-plugin`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-mcp-extension`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
This fixes plugin manifest parsing for MCP servers declared as an object
directly in `plugin.json`.
Before this change, Codex modeled `mcpServers` as only a string path,
for example:
```json
{
"name": "counter-sample",
"version": "1.1.1",
"mcpServers": "./.mcp.json"
}
```
Some migrated plugins instead provide the server map directly in the
manifest:
```json
{
"name": "counter-sample",
"version": "1.1.1",
"description": "Plugin that declares MCP servers in the manifest",
"mcpServers": {
"counter": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://sample.example/counter/mcp"
}
}
}
```
That object form previously failed during install/load with an error
like:
```text
failed to parse plugin manifest: invalid type: map, expected a string
```
## What changed
- Add a manifest representation for `mcpServers` as either
`Path(Resource)` or `Object(map)`.
- Parse `plugin.json` `mcpServers` as either a string path or an object.
- Route object-valued MCP server maps through the existing plugin MCP
config parser instead of adding a second parser.
- Apply existing per-plugin MCP server policy to object-valued MCP
servers the same way as file-backed MCP servers.
- Include object-valued MCP server names in plugin telemetry/capability
metadata.
- Support object-valued MCP config for executor plugins without
requiring a `.mcp.json` filesystem read.
- Update the bundled plugin-creator validator and `plugin-json-spec.md`
so generated-plugin validation accepts the same object-valued shape.
## Compatibility
Existing plugin manifests that use `"mcpServers": "./.mcp.json"`
continue to work. Plugins can now also use the object shape shown above.
## Tests
Added coverage for the new manifest attribute shape at the install,
normal load, telemetry, and executor-provider layers:
- `install_accepts_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `load_plugins_loads_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `plugin_telemetry_metadata_uses_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- `reads_manifest_object_config_without_executor_file_system_access`
Also smoke-tested the plugin-creator validator against both supported
forms:
- `mcpServers` as a direct object in `plugin.json`
- `mcpServers` as `"./.mcp.json"` with a companion `.mcp.json`
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-plugin`
- `just test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just test -p codex-mcp-extension`
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
- Focused rename/object-form rerun: `just test -p codex-core-plugins
manager::tests::load_plugins_loads_manifest_mcp_server_objects
manager::tests::plugin_telemetry_metadata_uses_manifest_mcp_server_objects
store::tests::install_accepts_manifest_mcp_server_objects`
- Focused executor rerun: `just test -p codex-mcp-extension
executor_plugin::provider::tests::reads_manifest_object_config_without_executor_file_system_access`
- `python3
codex-rs/skills/src/assets/samples/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py
/private/tmp/codex-validator-object`
- `python3
codex-rs/skills/src/assets/samples/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py
/private/tmp/codex-validator-path`
Summary\n- Await endpoint recommendation selection while constructing
each authenticated turn, removing the first-turn cache race.\n- Snapshot
and filter endpoint candidates once per turn, then use that same set for
the bounded contextual user fragment, tool exposure, and exact install
validation.\n- Keep recommendation selection ephemeral: do not persist
recommendation state in or gate resumed threads on prior context.\n-
Hide the legacy list tool in endpoint mode and preserve legacy discovery
unchanged when the endpoint is disabled or unavailable.\n- Keep remote
plugin and connector app identities out of model-visible context and
attach them only to Codex-owned elicitation metadata.\n\nStack\n- 3/4,
based on #28400.\n- Endpoint client and cache: #28399.\n- Generalized
suggestion presentation: #28400.\n- Install-schema follow-up:
#28403.\n\nValidation\n- \n- \n- \n- \n- Full : 2,649 passed and 88
environment-dependent tests failed because this sandbox cannot write ,
nest Seatbelt, or locate auxiliary test binaries.
