## What changed
- Select fresh authentication for each HTTP operation on eligible OpenAI MCP connections while preserving the connection's credential source and account network policy. Stop redirects when requests carry runtime assertions.
- Pass the owning thread's authentication and runtime context through app discovery, connector metadata, and trusted-access requests. Include the runtime authentication mode in MCP connection and tool-cache identities.
- Give resumed actors analytics clients bound to their own authentication context, and serialize stored-credential reloads with token refresh while preserving host-provided credentials.
## Testing
Add coverage for fresh request assertions, revoked account policies, redirect handling, resumed-actor isolation, and MCP uploads in dual-header and assertion-only modes.
GitOrigin-RevId: f06900a6db61cd6cf53c3aa8075afeec4d5706d9
## Why
MCP permission profiles need the directory context used to interpret them. Prepared calls must retain that context alongside their captured permissions across runtime refreshes.
## What changed
- Store each server's permission source as thread permissions or a captured environment `FileSystemSandboxContext`.
- Capture environment working directories, home and temporary directories, and materialized workspace roots. Retain the host working directory for thread permissions.
- Expose the captured source through `PreparedMcpCall::permission_source()`, while keeping hosted Apps on thread permissions even when a local environment is attached.
## Testing
Extend binding tests to verify that prepared calls retain environment sandbox paths across refreshes and expose the host working directory for thread permissions. Update elicitation coverage to include hosted Apps with an attached local environment.
GitOrigin-RevId: 87e94605daece324786eebc07b62a507d35e5ced
## Why
Plugin and skill catalog reads currently wait for the Apps server's initial `tools/list` to finish, even after its MCP transport is initialized.
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `features.apps_early_resource_discovery` flag. When enabled, host-owned Apps requests for `mcp/plugin` and `mcp/skill` resources can use the initialized transport while the initial tool inventory is pending. Server readiness still waits for the inventory to complete, and retries use normal readiness.
Bound early client acquisition by the configured startup timeout, propagate startup failures and cancellation, and reject pages if the connection, authentication scope, or resource cache generation changes during discovery.
## Testing
Add coverage for gated discovery, concurrent plugin and skill reads, startup timeouts and failures, cancellation, cache invalidation, and account switches. Verify that early discovery reuses a single handshake and tool inventory, including with the newer MCP protocol and connection sharing enabled.
GitOrigin-RevId: 955b1f6d43b733bdf9763c1caf2ce6913c686c81
## Why
Stdio servers without `CODEX_MCP_PROTOCOL_VERSION` use the legacy handshake, even when they support MCP `2026-07-28`.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `mcp_connection_sharing` feature to enable discovery for eligible local stdio servers.
- Recover from failed or late discovery with a fresh handshake when needed, waiting for the previous helper to release resources before restarting.
- Retain a working legacy connection when an upgrade attempt fails for the same account, except on authentication errors.
- Keep tool catalogs separate by protocol and invalidate legacy catalogs when discovery negotiates the modern protocol.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for failed and late discovery, legacy fallback, protocol-specific catalog reuse, message limits, and Windows descendant cleanup.
GitOrigin-RevId: 36c675ef3b81d32fccf06ccbddda2312cfe602c9
## What changed
Add an optional `NetworkPolicyMetadataProvider` to the MCP runtime. Advertise `codex/network-policy-meta` only to trusted ChatGPT origins when a provider is available, and attach policy metadata only when the sending session also advertises support.
Strip caller-supplied policy metadata and derive restrictions from the call's captured permission profile and server environment. Resolve metadata against each session's capabilities, including after recovery, while retaining one policy snapshot per call. Fail the call before sending if policy resolution fails. Existing runtime callers leave the provider unset.
## Testing
Add tests for capability negotiation, trusted-origin restrictions, forged metadata removal, both tool dispatch paths, and policy snapshot reuse. Add HTTP session-recovery coverage for changing capabilities and policy-resolution failures while preserving caller metadata and read-only restrictions.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4b978f986abc0475fc67659be98fc01a2d6ce7cd
Initialize `client_secret` and `token_endpoint_auth_method` to `None` in
`ema_auth_statuses_do_not_wait_for_account_refresh` to match
`McpServerIdpOAuthConfig`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0c800b4f60d2468d7c2cb0b8d83bbdb4b3998574
## Why
EMA MCP auth status checks acquired an account grant lease, making status inspection wait for account refresh coordination or an existing lease.
## What changed
Add `AuthManager::account_oauth_grant()` to inspect an owner-checked grant without acquiring the refresh lock. Use it for EMA status checks and share a single lazy read across servers, including missing grants and read errors. Keep refresh exclusion for token exchanges through `lease_account_oauth_grant()`.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for status checks across two EMA servers while an account lease is held. Extend account refresh tests to verify inspection completes with a lease held and refresh queued, and returns no grant after logout.
GitOrigin-RevId: 921214dd552eb216c713596f2737460053a07d08
## Why
Enterprise-managed MCP authentication previously required public OAuth clients at both the identity provider and the MCP authorization server, preventing use of registrations that require client secrets.
## What changed
- Accept separate `client_secret` and `token_endpoint_auth_method` settings for the enterprise IdP and MCP server OAuth registration. Support `client_secret_basic` and `client_secret_post`, defaulting to Basic when a secret is configured.
- Validate the registered method against server metadata and use it for enterprise login and both ID-JAG exchanges.
- Require a configured `oauth.authorization_server_issuer` for confidential MCP registrations and reject empty secrets or authentication methods without secrets.
- Require the account OAuth client to match the configured IdP client before reusing an account grant with a provisioned secret; otherwise use dedicated enterprise login.
## Testing
Extend configuration, login, exchange, and app-server lifecycle tests to cover confidential registrations, separate IdP and resource credentials, authentication method validation, and exclusion of client secrets from authorization URLs, stored login grants, and logs.
GitOrigin-RevId: b3be378c2b1bb67e6a3652c648e72fd2e21e956d
## What changed
- Prefer an eligible account grant over saved enterprise credentials, with a fallback to saved enterprise sign-in during initial connection if the account grant is rejected.
- Remember rejected account grants per enterprise MCP registration across threads and report authentication failures as requiring reauthentication. Keep administrator configuration errors distinct from sign-in failures.
- Compare account grants independently of access and ID token rotation, recheck the latest identity eligibility after exchange, and retry once when the refresh grant changes.
- Make MCP authentication status reflect usable account grants, saved enterprise credentials, and completed connection failures.
## Testing
Extend regression coverage for enterprise sign-in failures and recovery, MCP authentication status, account grant identity across token refreshes, and retries after transient credential failures.
GitOrigin-RevId: eeac65f668d5d2d55e9d8bf4547fbcbdd6a6c42d
## Why
Configuration reloads must cancel stale enterprise MCP startups while preserving access for running threads that still pass validation. Replacing a runtime during `thread/revert` must also leave the replacement able to use enterprise tools.
## What changed
- Separate pending startup cancellation from published thread lifetimes, with independent startup state for forks and replacement runtimes.
- Retain eligible enterprise MCP connections across refreshes and explicit reconnects while applying updated tool restrictions and approvals. Do not create replacement enterprise connections after initial startup.
- Revoke enterprise authorization when a thread is removed, drain requests when access is disabled, and revoke a connection's authority when token renewal requires authentication.
## Testing
Extend regression coverage to verify enterprise tool calls survive `thread/revert`, inherited fork configurations are cancelled after a reload, and enterprise calls fail after logout while ordinary MCP calls remain available.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2d634be3011854b57f73c741bd1ec6b5aed94ee5
## What changed
- Connect directly configured MCP servers using account-scoped enterprise grants stored in the keyring, with token exchange and authenticated HTTP requests.
- Retain authorization for the thread across MCP refreshes and revoke it when the account owner changes, cloud configuration becomes invalid, or an enterprise login replaces the grant.
- Negotiate the enterprise-managed authorization extension with the `2026-07-28` protocol, bypass shared tool catalog caching for enterprise servers, and report credential status with enterprise sign-in guidance.
GitOrigin-RevId: c0f96d37194212758a211ae6a4107205df96df26
## Why
Configuration loading can finish before a pending startup is visible to the thread manager. Reloads need a cancellation scope that also covers these configuration snapshots.
## What changed
- Capture an enterprise managed authentication (EMA) cancellation token before loading configuration and carry it through config layers, role overrides, runtime refreshes, and `McpConfig`.
- Cancel the previous scope on MCP or user configuration reloads and cloud config loader changes, then create a fresh scope for subsequent loads.
- Cancel the session's token when enterprise MCP authentication is disabled or a refresh leaves it unavailable.
## Testing
Extend the MCP reload test to verify that existing thread and pending startup tokens are cancelled while a fresh startup receives an uncancelled token.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5fc0658b74c360e7dc9ab3488339fcf19bfe9fae
## Why
MCP tool discovery discarded response-level `_meta`, leaving server-status clients unable to inspect metadata associated with the tool catalog.
## What changed
- Preserve opaque `_meta` from the first `tools/list` page through catalog refreshes and caches.
- Expose it as `toolListMeta` in `McpServerStatus`, with `null` when unavailable, and update generated schemas and bindings.
- Scope cached Apps catalog metadata to discovery settings, including client capabilities and extensions, while retaining tools from older caches without metadata.
- Restrict server capabilities in status snapshots to the selected servers.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for listing legacy cached Apps tools during failed startup, and update protocol serialization expectations for nullable `toolListMeta`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 62335e2fd8c482067a7a78a7612b58c3eaa9fb55
## Why
MCP servers can expose new tools during discovery. Refreshing the catalog after a tool-list notification lets Codex discover and call those tools in the same turn.
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `mcp_tool_list_changed` feature for ordinary MCP servers.
- Track notifications in transport order and refresh catalogs before subsequent discovery or tool binding. Coalesce concurrent refreshes and retry listings invalidated by notifications, including during pagination.
- Retain the previous catalog on refresh failure, apply a retry cooldown, and invalidate affected startup caches. Allow notification refreshes to proceed while admitted calls finish.
## Testing
Add coverage for same-turn discovery and invocation in direct and Code Mode, notifications during startup and pagination, disabled behavior, cache invalidation, and concurrent refreshes with timeout recovery.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9afee8deba00dd9851b5f32625f61f96965aa00c
## Why
MCP servers at `https://gov.chatgpt.com` were treated as untrusted for ChatGPT authentication and switched to OAuth, preventing local Gov Apps from retaining the ChatGPT auth provider.
## What changed
Trust the `https://gov.chatgpt.com` origin alongside the existing ChatGPT origin when resolving MCP server authentication. Origin matching preserves scheme, host, and port restrictions.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for Gov Apps URL construction, trusted origin normalization, rejection of lookalike hosts and nonstandard schemes or ports, and retention of the local ChatGPT auth provider. Verify that explicit OAuth servers and servers in remote environments do not receive the host provider.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7ceaf7c524d963005d9f23204489bbde269f0dd5
## What changed
Remove eight tests covering experimental API schema filtering and marking,
end-of-file unified diffs, MCP prompt auto-approval, and local-link regex
initialization. Remove the associated unused test imports and regex coverage
comment. Runtime behavior is unchanged.
GitOrigin-RevId: 91f59cab82393d43000eadf4e7c55e3a6ec2aa14
## What changed
Support `plugins._default.enabled` with explicit per-plugin `enabled` overrides. Omission preserves existing source and account enablement; configuration cannot activate a plugin disabled at its source. Plugin settings such as remembered tool approvals inherit the default unless `enabled` is explicitly set.
Apply the policy to plugin skills, MCP servers, Apps, and hooks, including selected executor roots and runtime configuration refreshes. Preserve the latest plugin policy when adding MCP dependencies and rebuild hooks when concurrent configuration updates replace their inputs.
Report effective enablement in `plugin/list`, `plugin/installed`, `plugin/read`, and `plugin/share/list`. Remote installation still installs disabled packages, but skips MCP and Apps authentication setup without writing an enablement override.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for default inheritance and explicit overrides, source-disabled plugins, policy refreshes during active turns, disabled or malformed selected plugin roots, and remote installation authentication behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: 83b70c5b47fc95474fec292f248683f1f887221e
## Why
MCP servers receiving sandbox state need a usable Codex executable to launch commands with the issuing call's policy. HTTP and remote servers cannot assume access to the host's filesystem.
## What changed
- Include optional `codexExecutable` metadata for local stdio servers when the host supplies an absolute, UTF-8 path to a CLI supporting `sandbox --sandbox-state-json`. Cache capability probes by executable path and bound them to five seconds.
- Document forwarding the sandbox state unchanged and requiring an explicit opt-out rather than silently falling back to PATH lookup or unsandboxed execution when the launcher is absent.
- Honor `useMxc` from forwarded sandbox state when selecting the Windows sandbox backend and network proxy policies, preserving a parent's selection made through CLI overrides.
## Testing
Add coverage for launcher eligibility across local, remote, and HTTP servers, invalid or missing executable paths, and binaries without sandbox-state support. Extend metadata integration and serialization tests to cover the optional launcher field, legacy state, and unknown future fields.
GitOrigin-RevId: ea8cd3770616e5a620b423a01052a7bc828bceb9
## What changed
Record the total serialized JSON size of raw MCP tool definitions in the `codex.mcp.binding_catalog.raw_definition_json_bytes` histogram, before filtering or model preparation.
Emit an `mcp.binding_catalog` trace event for each server with its tool count, definition size, server kind, plugin ID, and cached or live catalog source. Reuse bounded product SKU attribution for both metrics and events, and skip size measurement when neither telemetry output is enabled.
GitOrigin-RevId: abda7cbf46d5470eb321455f047dd7429084740e
## What changed
Capture each environment's effective Windows sandbox backend in the MCP runtime and include it as `useMxc` in sandbox state metadata for supporting servers. Use the server's captured environment selection, including local fallback, so the local MXC preference does not leak into attached environments. Default missing backend information to `false`.
## Testing
Extend tests to cover MXC metadata handoff, attachment isolation, local fallback without a selected local environment, and preservation of captured backend settings across runtime refreshes.
GitOrigin-RevId: f559bffeff383838334e5a475b1eab608d571fa1
## Why
Configuration reloads must honor current managed restrictions without granting new enterprise MCP authority to existing sessions or overwriting newer configuration with stale snapshots.
## What changed
- Allow enterprise managed authentication only for configured MCP servers. Remove plugin `ema_auth` overlays from the schema and disable servers that still use them.
- Refresh ordinary MCP settings while preserving session settings and initially admitted enterprise registrations. Disable enterprise MCP when its registration changes, policy revokes access, or configuration loading or resolution fails; require a new session to restore enterprise authority.
- Publish refreshes only when their captured configuration is still current, with bounded retries in app-server reloads. Preserve updated managed restrictions even when a refresh is rejected.
- Finish processing other thread refreshes before `config/mcpServer/reload` reports a rejection, and document that an error can accompany partially applied changes.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for stale refreshes, bounded retries, managed-policy revocation, persistent enterprise disablement, ordinary MCP transport changes, and rejection of plugin enterprise authentication. Verify that denied enterprise servers receive no requests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 34429cd339c1ec152a2ee8697cb29f0cff5d9e5f
## Why
Inspecting one MCP server should not require full-inventory discovery or a separate connection when a thread already has one.
## What changed
- Add optional `serverName` to `mcpServerStatus/list` and update generated schemas and bindings.
- With `threadId`, apply any pending runtime refresh and reuse the thread's current connection and tool catalog, waiting only for the selected server during discovery.
- Without `threadId`, create a discovery connection for only the selected server. Unknown names return an empty page; omitting `serverName` preserves full-inventory discovery.
## Testing
Add a regression test covering both status detail modes, checking that tool metadata is preserved and that status reads do not repeat `initialize` or `tools/list` requests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1b361b67a993ab45cae493e88c146f50cfaf753a
## Why
Cached executor MCP declarations must not gain access to host environment credentials when reconnecting to an executor that lacks environment credential resolution.
## What changed
- Retain credential policy through MCP registration, catalog materialization, and runtime setup. Derive selected HTTP plugin policy from the plugin's source environment.
- Reject host bearer-token fallback and transports requiring host environment headers or helpers for executor-owned declarations. Preserve host-configured credential resolution.
- Include credential policy in connection and tool catalog cache identities, and avoid reading host environment values for executor-only identities.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for legacy executors, cached declarations after a capability downgrade, policy preservation through catalog rebuilds, and connection and tool cache isolation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2d5b85e4e98668c637c538cbe528914c936bd831
## Why
Fixed schema budgets can strip parameter descriptions from large MCP tools or render their Code Mode input types as `unknown`. Allow larger budgets to preserve that guidance.
## What changed
- Add `mcp_servers.<name>.tool_input_schema_max_bytes` to configure the UTF-8 byte threshold for best-effort input schema compaction, retaining the 5,000-byte default.
- Add `features.code_mode.tool_input_schema_max_bytes` for rendered input types. Use the largest of the 16,000-byte default, the Code Mode setting, and the ordinary MCP server's explicit setting.
- Apply rendering budgets to prompt declarations and the runtime tool catalog, and avoid reusing cached declarations after the Code Mode budget changes.
## Testing
Add coverage for UTF-8 compaction thresholds, budget precedence, configuration round trips, and preservation of parameter guidance in both the Code Mode prompt and `ALL_TOOLS`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0ef2823a614d4794e636f518b09c0b03a5239b45
## Why
Required MCP servers can block startup while establishing a live connection even when a usable tool catalog is already cached.
## What changed
- Add per-server `startup_readiness = "catalog"` to expose cached tools while the connection starts, retaining `"connection"` as the default.
- Allow an eligible cached catalog to satisfy required-server startup validation and model binding capture. Explicit server or plugin requirements still wait for a live connection, and tool execution still requires the current connection.
- Check tool filters and model visibility when accepting cached catalogs, and preserve cached catalog revisions for binding reuse.
- Serialize the new setting, expose it in the configuration schema, and trace startup readiness at validation and model binding gates.
GitOrigin-RevId: a1cbdf1757ebb5824cffe2cc56408be49711c422
## Why
MCP requests requiring user input previously failed in subagents with guidance to ask the parent agent, blocking browser sign-in, form input, and interactive tool approval in the child thread.
## What changed
Remove the root-only MCP elicitation guard and `allow_user_interaction` plumbing so subagents can surface prompts and wait for responses under the existing approval policy and automatic review rules. Connector authentication can now return retry guidance after acceptance or preserve the original failure when declined.
Keep legacy tool approvals through `request_user_input` restricted to the root thread.
## Testing
Update unit and integration coverage for subagent prompt resolution, form responses, connector authentication acceptance and decline, automatic approval, strict review, and approval-policy updates on reused connections. Update the browser sign-in scenario snapshot to show the subagent continuing after an accepted response.
GitOrigin-RevId: c226fc6dfde724ed22b91dc04dd32bbc15245bee
## Why
MCP requests that need human input, including browser sign-in, must be handled by the root thread. Subagents need guidance to hand these blockers to their parent without prompting the user or automatically accepting requests that require input.
## What changed
- Reject interactive MCP elicitations and tool approval prompts in subagents with guidance to ask the parent and wait before retrying.
- Recognize browser authentication and `codex_requires_user_input` metadata even when the form schema is empty, while preserving automatic permission approvals and review decisions.
- Carry user-interaction eligibility through MCP runtime creation and connection reuse, and guard prompt registration.
- Preserve connector authentication diagnostics alongside handoff guidance, subject to normal tool-output limits.
## Testing
Add unit and integration coverage for blocked subagent prompts, root browser authentication, automatic approval and review, connection reuse, and authentication diagnostic preservation and truncation. Add a request-history snapshot for browser-auth handoff guidance.
GitOrigin-RevId: 83e146b6e5c1a2a22a34681ad45615f504b3c96c
## Why
Read-only MCP discovery and invocation need a consistent policy across requests, connection reuse, and tool catalogs. Reusing an unrestricted connection or cached catalog can bypass filtered discovery.
## What changed
- Thread `requires_read_only_mcp_tools` through MCP configuration and client setup, leaving it disabled by default.
- When enabled, set `openai/readOnly` to `true` in `tools/list` and `tools/call` request metadata, overriding a caller-supplied `false` while preserving other metadata, pagination, and arguments.
- Include the policy in connection identity and bypass shared Apps and persistent tool catalog caches for read-only connections.
## Testing
Add coverage for metadata propagation in legacy and modern protocol modes, preservation through session recovery, and isolation from unrestricted connections and shared Apps catalogs.
GitOrigin-RevId: f4a3a4021a54e302bffd53f08092b080c056246b
## What changed
- Retain the trusted enterprise identity provider in runtime configuration and bind winning MCP registrations during catalog finalization. Require `features.use_xaa` and a configured identity provider for activation, while preserving existing server restrictions.
- Apply plugin `ema_auth` client, issuer, resource, and scope settings to installed and selected plugins. Disable registrations with mismatched endpoints or empty resources without rewriting plugin endpoints.
- Preserve enterprise auth policy across catalog rebuilds and rebind registrations when materialized server settings change. Keep registration rejection separate from persistent server-name vetoes so it does not disable replacement hosted apps.
## Testing
Add coverage for activation gates, configuration ownership, plugin endpoint validation, catalog rebuilds, and skipping interactive OAuth during installation of enterprise-managed plugins. Stabilize the sandbox network proxy test by reading request headers before closing the loopback connection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3374f507d120835b285767cedbbb511fc7b0fba2
## Why
Enterprise MCP authorization must remain controlled by host, user, or managed configuration. Project settings and plugin declarations must not redirect enterprise credentials or downgrade the selected authentication mode.
## What changed
- Add `auth = "ema_auth"`, shared `mcp_enterprise_managed_auth` IdP configuration, and per-plugin enterprise registration settings.
- Require enterprise registrations to come from one non-project configuration layer, preserve managed IdP precedence, and reject project overrides that change authorization or re-enable disabled enterprise servers.
- Add the disabled-by-default `use_xaa` feature flag and require non-project opt-in or a managed requirement.
- Reject plugin declarations that select `ema_auth`. Keep EMA connections unsupported and block ordinary MCP OAuth login and credential fallback for this mode.
- Extend the configuration schema and serialization for the new settings.
## Testing
Add coverage for IdP precedence, incomplete registrations, alternate credential validation, project-only opt-in, plugin self-declaration rejection, configuration round-tripping, and trusted-project attempts to downgrade enterprise auth to OAuth or ChatGPT auth.
GitOrigin-RevId: f193bdfda74208c98e496a23bf2916955b131a1c
## What changed
Add `serverCapabilities` to `mcpServerStatus/list` responses in both `full` and `toolsAndAuthOnly` modes, including thread-scoped reads. Return the initialized server's capabilities object, including its `extensions` map, or `null` when unavailable.
Capture capabilities during initialization so they remain available when tool discovery fails. Clear them on each new connection attempt and keep them independent of shared tool caches. Update the protocol schemas, generated TypeScript and Python types, and documentation.
## Testing
Add coverage for extension capabilities surviving tool-discovery failures in both detail modes. Extend existing tests to check advertised extensions, absent capabilities after initialization failure, and serialization of unavailable capabilities as `null`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8e9d67c10fac3a54e82bef8be5d99caaf82597d1
## What changed
- Apply `disabled_plugin_ids` to plugin skills, recommendations, hooks, and MCP servers without modifying shared plugin state.
- Activate selection changes when the next task starts, keeping pending settings from changing the active runtime.
- Hide app tools contributed only by disabled plugins from model tool catalogs and search. Preserve connectors shared with enabled plugins and existing direct Apps RPC behavior.
- Include plugin identity in MCP approval keys and use that identity when persisting plugin tool approvals.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for disabling and re-enabling plugin skills and tools, deferred activation of settings, shared connector ownership, selected plugin servers, executor hooks, and plugin-specific approval keys and persistence.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1153ff6aa7ab6953d50e838da05203904ecd2956
## Why
Status-only discovery could retain an `OAuth` status based on stored credentials even after the connection attempt failed authentication. This discovery path has no event channel to report the failure.
## What changed
Update the snapshot to report `NotLoggedIn` for servers previously marked `OAuth` whose connection attempts failed authentication. Preserve other authentication statuses and OAuth statuses for failures unrelated to authentication.
## Testing
Add a regression test covering OAuth authentication failure, successful OAuth startup, an unrelated provider error, and a bearer-token authentication failure.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9df68fb1f818e40acab0c71bb4fda118f03a7611
## Why
Hosted Codex Apps shared the `mcp_2026_07_28` protocol setting with other MCP servers, preventing independent protocol selection.
## What changed
- Add `features.codex_apps_mcp_2026_07_28`, disabled by default, for the host-owned HTTP `codex_apps` server. Enabling it attempts 2026-07-28 discovery with Legacy fallback.
- Keep other servers, including third-party registrations with Apps-like names or URLs and local stdio servers, governed by `mcp_2026_07_28`.
- Support the new flag through `experimentalFeature/enablement/set` and refresh protocol settings in existing sessions. Track protocol mode per server when deciding whether to reuse connections.
## Testing
Add coverage for independent feature and protocol selection, hosted event-stream protocol selection, standalone Legacy defaults and discovery fallback, and runtime enablement refreshing an existing app-server thread.
GitOrigin-RevId: 640e8e251f0c45e5f4829cc2b73c3082cf42f715
## Why
An empty tool map does not distinguish a successfully returned empty catalog from a server whose startup or tool discovery failed.
## What changed
- Add nullable `toolsError` to each `mcpServerStatus/list` entry when no catalog is available because startup or tool discovery failed.
- Keep `toolsError` null for returned catalogs, including cached and empty catalogs, and continue returning healthy servers when another server fails.
- Update the protocol schemas and generated TypeScript type.
## Testing
- Extend the app-server status integration test with a broken MCP server and verify its error without losing the healthy server's inventory.
GitOrigin-RevId: 30b4ca4d9a45cec6998f5f626d3fddbee90a525d
## What changed
- Add the under-development `mcp_oauth_refresh_coordination` feature and pin its selected refresh mode to each MCP connection.
- Treat the refresh mode as part of OAuth connection identity so runtime and MCP configuration refreshes reconnect when the mode changes.
- Keep legacy refresh behavior in builds where coordination is unavailable and emit a warning when coordinated mode is selected.
## Testing
- Cover connection replacement when the feature is toggled through both runtime and MCP configuration refresh paths.
GitOrigin-RevId: 89596150f0338e6ede0e712badecea4450831766
## What changed
- Add `mcp_optional_startup_grace_ms` with a default of 1,000 ms to control how long tool catalog capture waits for optional MCP servers.
- Treat a value of `0` as disabling the shared grace, so optional servers use their configured `startup_timeout_sec` instead.
- Apply updated grace values during runtime and MCP configuration refreshes, and reset cached startup deadlines when the configured duration changes.
## Testing
- Cover custom, disabled, refreshed, and shared startup grace behavior in MCP connection and core integration tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 936196215ed6e0a29c9ec72cfee17663978df8ef
## What changed
- Fetch ChatGPT account access and attach `cyber_trusted_access` under
`openai/entitlementContext` when an installed or selected plugin explicitly
requests it from a local, read-only stdio tool with no arguments.
- Reject caller-supplied entitlement context on direct MCP calls, and fall back
to an `unknown` status when access cannot be verified or the account changes
during the lookup.
- Count entitlement lookup time against the MCP tool-call timeout.
## Testing
- Cover eligible calls plus unowned, remote, HTTP, mutable, argument-bearing,
API-key, undeclared, direct, and account-switch cases in core and app-server
integration tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 303b61585ef4530276c373d914a2d0ccef1f4ac2
## Why
MCP servers attached to executor environments must retain their owner's
permission profile instead of inheriting the thread-wide sandbox authority.
## What changed
- Resolve and capture a permission profile for each enabled MCP server when
publishing the runtime, and reject calls or elicitations when that authority
is unavailable.
- Use the captured server profile for tool approval decisions, elicitation, and
sandbox metadata, including after runtime refreshes.
- Materialize `:workspace_roots` from `PathUri` values so permissions preserve
the path convention of remote executor environments.
- Give threadless app discovery and resource reads an explicit default
permission profile.
## Testing
Added coverage for per-server elicitation authority, unresolved attachments,
runtime refreshes, restricted tool calls, and foreign-platform workspace roots.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6b188d4b08b29e9971ff7aa68a7785a0cdf9e394
## Why
MCP servers can share an OAuth callback URL. Without a validated issuer or a
server-specific callback path, an authorization response could be associated
with the wrong server.
## What changed
- Use stable callbacks when authorization metadata advertises issuer-bound
responses, and validate the returned issuer before exchanging the code.
- Retain server-specific callback IDs for providers without issuer support,
including fallback to the global or default callback for legacy registered
clients.
- Persist registered callback URLs for MCP servers and plugins, and insert the
active listener port into portless loopback redirects.
## Testing
Add coverage for issuer validation, callback-mode discovery, registered and
legacy clients, plugin OAuth, CLI persistence, and loopback listener ports.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2878c92e237fc17fd3def0bd2e1cce3e104a3db8
## What changed
- Add Windows sandbox mode, private-desktop behavior, and legacy Landlock selection to each `EnvironmentConfig`.
- Centralize sandbox context construction on `TurnEnvironment`, preserving environment-owned permissions, paths, and backend settings while applying additional permission grants.
- Use the environment-derived context for project instructions, capability discovery, file uploads, and filesystem-oriented tools.
## Testing
- Verify capability discovery uses the selected environment's permission profile and sandbox backends when they differ from the thread defaults.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7ae2fed90c8ada950f2e8431e571e9b2c793c291
## What changed
- Add an optional `connectorId` to `mcpServer/resource/read`.
- Forward the selected connector through `x-codex-turn-metadata` for threaded and threadless resource reads, restricting hosted app resources to that connector.
- Update the generated protocol schemas and app-server documentation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5cc94d703abbbb6086665910c1c9ed5dc7075210
## 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.
GitOrigin-RevId: 84e0e26ce75520b0869d37c72b1678e033bd6818
## Why
Subagents can reuse cached MCP tool definitions without starting every optional
server before any of its tools are used.
## What changed
- Defer startup for subagent-owned, optional MCP servers when their cache has at
least one visible, allowed tool, and trigger startup on the first operation
that needs the live client.
- Keep root sessions, required servers, selected plugin servers, and explicit
reconnects eager.
- Exclude empty catalogs from cache eligibility and keep dormant servers out of
the initial startup summary.
## Testing
- Extend MCP tool-cache coverage for eager root startup, unused and filtered
subagent servers, deferred startup status events, and startup that survives an
interrupted first tool call.
GitOrigin-RevId: e7528ff08312583a6747cbc6550ea5b6eabda9a6
## 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.
GitOrigin-RevId: c9af66b051269f3226628ca280a58d32c808c38f
## What changed
- Treat an MCP server as trusted for ChatGPT authentication when its origin
matches the configured HTTPS `chatgpt-staging.com` host or one of its
subdomains.
- Continue trusting the production ChatGPT origin and falling back to OAuth for
other transports and origins.
## Testing
- Cover both the staging apex domain and a staging subdomain.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1b1d06ab214141d39eb38d46de9dfb74e6fedb3e
## Why
App-server clients need to advertise structured MCP extension settings, including supported MCP App UI MIME types, rather than only opting into OpenAI form elicitation with a boolean.
## What changed
- Add an `extensions` map to initialize capabilities and preserve `mcpServerOpenaiFormElicitation` as a legacy alias for `openai/form`.
- Capture the declared extension profile when a thread is started, resumed, or forked, propagate it to subagents, and advertise it to downstream MCP servers during initialization.
- Keep the profile stable for the lifetime of the loaded session instead of changing it on later turns or direct tool calls.
## Testing
- Cover extension conversion, downstream MCP initialization, session isolation, legacy form support, and subagent inheritance.
GitOrigin-RevId: fbcedbb74ce788e574b0f884a4c45c4cedb9de54
## 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.
GitOrigin-RevId: 12dfcb78bb5c5ecf4d70f38a8b5022792463a27f
## Why
MCP servers running in an executor must not reuse host-owned OAuth credentials,
even when they have the same configured server name and URL.
## What changed
- Derive environment-scoped credential names for executor-owned MCP servers and
use them consistently for login, logout, authentication, and connection setup.
- Mark executor-owned entries in the file credential store and fail closed when
loading or saving an entry could cross the host/executor boundary.
- Preserve compatibility with existing local OAuth credentials, including local
server names that overlap the new reserved prefixes.
## Testing
- Extend the executor MCP integration test to verify that executor requests use
the executor token, never send the host token, and persist both credentials
separately.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4fc92d0533b0fe2e0df34f6d47b81e3d20d07807
## Why
Executor-owned MCP servers must not receive hosted ChatGPT actor credentials or credentials from the host's OAuth store.
## What changed
- Provide the ChatGPT auth provider and consult stored OAuth credentials only for MCP servers in the local environment.
- Require non-local servers configured with `auth = "chatgpt"` to supply a non-empty, valid static `Authorization` header. Reject environment-backed authorization so host secrets are not resolved for an executor-owned server.
- Report unsupported authentication and fail startup before connecting when an executor-owned server has no acceptable explicit authorization.
## Testing
Add coverage for local credential forwarding, non-local credential isolation, static header validation, auth status, OAuth lookup avoidance, and startup rejection.
GitOrigin-RevId: e18f1878f260c93d9babd390a5a7eac86172299b
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