## Why
The BuildBuddy runs for PR #19086 and the later `main` build had the
same source tree, but their Windows Bazel action and test cache keys did
not line up. Comparing the downloaded execution logs showed the full
GitHub-hosted Windows runner `PATH` had changed from
`apache-maven-3.9.14` to `apache-maven-3.9.15`.
This repo is not using Maven; the Maven entry was just ambient
hosted-runner state. The problem was that Windows Bazel CI was still
forwarding the whole runner `PATH` into Bazel via `--action_env=PATH`,
`--host_action_env=PATH`, and `--test_env=PATH`, which made otherwise
reusable cache entries sensitive to unrelated runner image churn.
After discussion with the Bazel and BuildBuddy folks, the better shape
for this change was to stop asking Bazel to inherit the ambient Windows
`PATH` and instead compute one explicit cache-stable `PATH` in the
Windows setup action that already prepares the CI toolchain environment.
## What
- remove Windows `PATH` passthrough from `.bazelrc`
- export `CODEX_BAZEL_WINDOWS_PATH` from
`.github/actions/setup-bazel-ci/action.yml`
- move the PATH derivation logic into
`.github/scripts/compute-bazel-windows-path.ps1` so the allow-list is
easier to review and document
- keep only the Windows tool locations these Bazel jobs actually need:
MSVC and SDK paths, Git, PowerShell, Node, DotSlash, and the standard
Windows system directories
- update `.github/scripts/run-bazel-ci.sh` to require that explicit
value and forward it to Bazel action, host action, and test environments
- log the derived `CODEX_BAZEL_WINDOWS_PATH` in the setup step to
simplify cache-key debugging
## Verification
- `bash -n .github/scripts/run-bazel-ci.sh`
- `ruby -e 'require "yaml"; YAML.load_file(ARGV[0])'
.github/actions/setup-bazel-ci/action.yml`
- PowerShell parse check for
`.github/scripts/compute-bazel-windows-path.ps1`
- simulated a representative Windows `PATH` in PowerShell; the
allow-list retained MSVC, Git, PowerShell, Node, Windows, and DotSlash
entries while dropping Maven
We used to attempt a read-ACL on the same dir as `codex.exe` to grant
the sandbox user the ability to invoke `codex-command-runner.exe`. That
worked for the CLI case but it always fails for the installed desktop
app.
We have another solution already in place that copies
`codex-command-runner.exe` to `CODEX_HOME/.sandbox-bin` so we don't even
need this anymore. It causes a scary looking error in the logs that is a
non-issue and is therefore confusing
Sometimes codex runs `Start-Process` to start up a service or something
similar, which launches a user-visible powershell window that probably
doesn't get cleaned up. This instruction change encourages it to do so
using a hidden window.
This was reported in
https://openai.slack.com/archives/C09K6H5DZC4/p1776741272870519
One caveat is that this change won't do anything to cleanup these
processes, but it will stop them from polluting the user's visible
workspace
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Why
Several approval-focused tests were unintentionally sensitive to
host-level rule files. On machines with broader allowed command
prefixes, commonly allowed commands such as `/bin/date` could bypass the
approval path these tests were meant to exercise, making the fixtures
depend on the developer or CI host configuration.
## What changed
- Pins the approval matrix fixture to the explicit user reviewer so it
does not inherit a host reviewer.
- Changes OTel approval fixtures to request `/usr/bin/touch
codex-otel-approval-test`, avoiding a command that may be pre-approved
by local rules.
- Clears the config layer stack for the permissions-message assertion
that needs to compare only the permissions text under test.
## Verification
- `env -u CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED cargo test -p codex-core --test
all approval_matrix_covers_all_modes -- --nocapture`
- `env -u CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED cargo test -p codex-core --test
all permissions_messages -- --nocapture`
## Summary
The plugin MCP tool-listing test could hide MCP startup failures by
polling `ListMcpTools` until its own 30s deadline. If the plugin MCP
server startup had already failed or timed out, the session-owned MCP
manager would keep returning an empty tool list, so CI only reported
`discovered tools: []` instead of the startup state that mattered.
This makes the test synchronize on `McpStartupComplete` for the sample
plugin MCP server before asserting listed tools, and gives the
Bazel-launched test server a larger startup window.
## Notes
Confidence is about 80%. The source path strongly supports the RCA: a
failed MCP startup is represented as an empty tool list through
`ListMcpTools`, so the old polling contract could not distinguish "not
ready yet" from "startup already failed." I could not retrieve the CI
execution-log artifact to confirm the exact hidden startup error, but
the observed Ubuntu Bazel failure matches this path: repeated
`ListMcpTools` responses with no tools until the test-local timeout
fired.
I think this is the right solution because it keeps plugin behavior
unchanged and fixes only the test contract. Future startup failures
should now report the `McpStartupComplete` failure/cancellation instead
of timing out on an empty tool snapshot.
This test was introduced in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/12864.
Addresses #11267
## Summary
`/review` can be interrupted while it is still spawning the review
sub-agent. That spawn path lives in `codex-core` and did not observe the
task cancellation token until after `Codex::spawn` returned, so an
interrupted review could keep building a child session and leave the TUI
in a wedged state.
The TUI exit path also waited indefinitely for app-server
`thread/unsubscribe`, which made Ctrl+C look broken if the app-server
was already stuck. This makes interactive delegate startup
cancellation-aware and bounds the TUI shutdown-first unsubscribe wait
with a short UI escape-hatch timeout.
## Testing
I reproed the hang using the steps in the bug report. Confirmed hang no
longer exists after fix.
## Summary
The Windows Bazel job has been failing in
`chatwidget::tests::permissions::approvals_popup_navigation_skips_disabled`
because the test assumed a fixed approvals popup row order and shortcut
for the disabled permissions option. The approvals popup can include
platform-specific rows, so those assumptions made the test brittle.
This updates the test to derive the disabled row shortcut from the
rendered popup and assert navigation continues to skip disabled rows
before checking that disabled numeric shortcuts do not close or accept
the popup.
we copy `codex-command-runner.exe` into `CODEX_HOME/.sandbox-bin/` so
that it can be executed by the sandbox user.
We also detect if that version is stale and copy a new one in if so.
This can fail when you are running multiple versions of the app - the
file in `.sandbox-bin` can look stale because it comes from another app
build.
This change allows us to have multiple versions in there for different
CLI versions, and it fallsback to a `size+mtime` hash in the filename
for dev builds that don't report a real CLI version.
## Why
A Mac Bazel run hit a flake in
`server::handler::tests::output_and_exit_are_retained_after_notification_receiver_closes`
where the read path observed process exit but lost the expected buffered
stdout (`first\nsecond\n`). See the [GitHub Actions
job](https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/24758468552/job/72436716505)
and [BuildBuddy
invocation](https://app.buildbuddy.io/invocation/37475a12-4ef2-45fb-ab8a-e49a2aba1d59).
The underlying race is that process exit is not the same thing as
stdout/stderr closure. If a child or grandchild inherits the pipe write
end, or a process duplicates it with `dup2`, the watched process can
exit while the stream is still open and more output can still arrive.
The exec-server was starting exited-process retention cleanup from the
exit event, so the process entry could be removed before the output
streams had actually closed.
While stress-testing the exec-server unit suite,
`server::handler::tests::long_poll_read_fails_after_session_resume`
exposed a separate test race: it started a short-lived command that
could exit and wake the pending long-poll read before the session-resume
assertion observed the resumed-session error. That test is intended to
cover resume eviction, not process-exit delivery, so this change keeps
the process alive and quiet while the second connection resumes the
session.
## What changed
- Keep exec-server process entries retained until stdout/stderr streams
close, then start the post-exit retention timer from the closed event.
- Wake long-poll readers when the closed event is emitted.
- Add focused `local_process` unit coverage that proves late output is
still retained after the short test retention interval has elapsed, and
that closed process entries are eventually evicted.
- Add a local and remote regression test where a parent exits while a
child keeps inherited stdout open. The child waits on an explicit
release file, so the test deterministically observes exit first,
releases the child, then requires a nonzero-wait read from the exit
sequence to receive the late output.
- In `codex-rs/exec-server/src/server/handler/tests.rs`, make
`long_poll_read_fails_after_session_resume` run a long-lived silent
command instead of a short command that prints and exits. This isolates
the test to session-resume behavior and prevents a normal process exit
from satisfying the pending long-poll read first.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server
exec_process_retains_output_after_exit_until_streams_close`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server local_process::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server`
- `just fix -p codex-exec-server`
- `bazel test //codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-unit-tests
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-exec_process-test
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-file_system-test
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-http_client-test
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-initialize-test
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-process-test
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-websocket-test`
- `bazel test --runs_per_test=25
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-unit-tests`
## Documentation
No docs update needed; this is an internal exec-server correctness fix.
## Why
Shell escalation still has adapter code that expects a legacy sandbox
policy, but command approvals should carry the resolved
`PermissionProfile` so callers can reason about the granted permissions
canonically.
## What changed
This introduces profile-shaped resolved escalation permissions while
retaining the derived legacy sandbox policy for the Unix escalation
adapter. It updates approval types, the escalation server protocol, and
tests that inspect escalated command permissions.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all handle_container_exec_ --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all handle_sandbox_ -- --nocapture`
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## Summary
Extends rollout tracing across tool dispatch and code-mode runtime
boundaries. This records canonical tool-call lifecycle events and links
code-mode execution/wait operations back to the model-visible calls that
caused them.
## Stack
This is PR 3/5 in the rollout trace stack.
- [#18876](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18876): Add rollout
trace crate
- [#18877](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18877): Record core
session rollout traces
- [#18878](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18878): Trace tool and
code-mode boundaries
- [#18879](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18879): Trace sessions
and multi-agent edges
- [#18880](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18880): Add debug trace
reduction command
## Review Notes
This PR is about attribution. Reviewers should focus on whether direct
tool calls, code-mode-originated tool calls, waits, outputs, and
cancellation boundaries are recorded with enough source information for
deterministic reduction without coupling the reducer to live runtime
internals.
The stack remains valid after this layer: tool and code-mode traces
reduce through the existing crate model, while the broader session and
multi-agent relationships are added in the next PR.
## Why
MCP tool calls can receive a serialized `SandboxState` when a server
declares the sandbox-state capability. That state is one of the places
MCP runtimes learn what permissions Codex is operating under. As the
permissions migration makes `PermissionProfile` the canonical
representation, MCP consumers should be able to read that profile
directly instead of reconstructing permissions from the legacy
`SandboxPolicy`.
## What changed
- Adds optional `permissionProfile` to `codex_mcp::SandboxState`, while
keeping `sandboxPolicy` for existing MCP consumers.
- Populates `permissionProfile` from the current `TurnContext` when
serializing sandbox state for MCP tool calls.
## Verification
- Current GitHub Actions for this PR are passing.
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## Why
Per-turn permission overrides should use the same canonical profile
abstraction as session configuration. That lets TUI submissions preserve
exact configured permissions without round-tripping through legacy
sandbox fields.
## What changed
This adds `permission_profile` to user-turn operations, threads it
through TUI/app-server submission paths, fills the new field in existing
test fixtures, and adds coverage that composer submission includes the
configured profile.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui permissions -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all permissions_messages --
--nocapture`
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## Why
App-server needs a way to fetch thread-scoped config from the remote
thread config service when the user config opts into that behavior. This
mirrors the existing experimental remote thread store endpoint while
keeping local/noop behavior as the default.
Startup paths also need to avoid silently dropping the remote config
endpoint after the first config load. The stdio app-server path
discovers the endpoint from the initial config and installs the real
thread config loader for later config builds, while in-process clients
used by TUI/exec now select the same remote loader directly from their
provided config.
## What changed
- Added `experimental_thread_config_endpoint` to `ConfigToml`, `Config`,
and `core/config.schema.json`.
- Added config parsing coverage for the new setting.
- Updated app-server startup to select `RemoteThreadConfigLoader` from
the initially loaded config, falling back to `NoopThreadConfigLoader`
when unset.
- Let `ConfigManager` replace its thread config loader after startup
discovery so later config loads use the selected loader.
- Updated in-process app-server client startup to pass
`RemoteThreadConfigLoader` when its config has
`experimental_thread_config_endpoint` set.
## Verification
- Added `experimental_thread_config_endpoint_loads_from_config_toml`.
- Added
`runtime_start_args_use_remote_thread_config_loader_when_configured`.
- Ran `cargo check -p codex-app-server --lib`.
- Ran `cargo test -p codex-app-server-client`.
## Why
PR #18797 currently surfaces fallback rationale text that names Guardian
directly.
## What changed
- Updated the bare allow and bare deny fallback rationales in
`codex-rs/core/src/guardian/prompt.rs` from Guardian to Auto-review.
- Updated the existing bare allow parser test and added explicit bare
deny parser coverage.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core parse_guardian_assessment_treats_bare`
