## Why
`TurnContext::cwd` and `TurnContext::resolve_path` are being phased out
in favor of using the selected turn environment cwd directly.
Deprecating both APIs makes any new direct dependency visible while
preserving the existing migration path for current callers.
## What Changed
- Marked `TurnContext::cwd` and `TurnContext::resolve_path` as
deprecated with guidance to use the selected turn environment cwd
instead.
- Added exact `#[allow(deprecated)]` suppressions at each existing
direct usage site, including tests, rather than adding crate-wide
suppression.
- Kept the change behavior-preserving: current cwd reads, writes, and
path resolution continue to use the same values.
## Verification
- `just fmt`
- `cargo check -p codex-core`
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
- add a scoped level_id to ExtensionData and expose it through
level_id()
- remove thread_id/turn_id parameters from extension contributor inputs
where the scoped ExtensionData already carries that identity
- move turn-scoped extension data onto TurnContext so token usage and
lifecycle contributors can share the same turn store
## Testing
- cargo check -p codex-extension-api -p codex-core --tests
- cargo test -p codex-extension-api
- cargo test -p codex-guardian
- cargo test -p codex-core --lib
record_token_usage_info_notifies_extension_contributors
- cargo test -p codex-core --lib
submission_loop_channel_close_emits_thread_stop_lifecycle
- cargo test -p codex-core --lib
submission_loop_channel_close_aborts_active_turn_before_thread_stop_lifecycle
- just fix -p codex-extension-api
- just fix -p codex-guardian
- just fix -p codex-core
- just fmt
## Note
- Attempted cargo test -p codex-core; it aborted in
agent::control::tests::spawn_agent_fork_last_n_turns_keeps_only_recent_turns
with the existing stack overflow before the full suite completed.
## Why
The thread lifecycle contributor hooks from #22476 should observe every
session teardown. The explicit `Op::Shutdown` path already emitted
`on_thread_stop`, but when `submission_loop` exited because its
submission channel closed, it only tore down runtime services. That
meant extensions could miss the thread-stop lifecycle signal on implicit
runtime shutdown.
## What Changed
- Split shared runtime teardown into `shutdown_runtime_services(...)`.
- Split thread-stop lifecycle emission into
`emit_thread_stop_lifecycle(...)`.
- Reused those helpers from both explicit shutdown and the channel-close
shutdown path.
- Tracked whether `Op::Shutdown` was received so the explicit path does
not double-emit lifecycle events after it exits the loop.
- Added a regression test that closes the submission channel and asserts
`ThreadLifecycleContributor::on_thread_stop` runs once with the expected
thread/session stores.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-core
submission_loop_channel_close_emits_thread_stop_lifecycle`
## Why
Extensions that need thread-scoped state currently only get a start-time
callback. That is enough for seeding stores, but it leaves the host
without a shared extension seam for later thread rehydrate and flush
work as thread ownership evolves. This PR turns that start-only seam
into a host-owned thread lifecycle contributor contract so
extension-private state can stay behind the extension API instead of
leaking extra orchestration through core.
## What changed
- Replaced `ThreadStartContributor` with `ThreadLifecycleContributor`
and added typed lifecycle inputs for thread start, resume, and stop. The
contract lives in
[`contributors/thread_lifecycle.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/d0e9211f70e58d6b07ef07e84f359d1b9aa25955/codex-rs/ext/extension-api/src/contributors/thread_lifecycle.rs#L1-L64).
- Kept the existing start-time behavior intact by routing session
construction through `on_thread_start`.
- Invoked `on_thread_stop` during session shutdown before thread-scoped
extension state is dropped, while isolating contributor failures behind
warning logs.
- Migrated `git-attribution` and `guardian` onto the lifecycle
registration path.
- Renamed the extension registry plumbing from start-specific
contributors to lifecycle-specific contributors.
## Notes
`on_thread_resume` is introduced at the API boundary here so extensions
can target the final lifecycle shape; host resume dispatch can be wired
where that runtime path is finalized.
# Motivation
Browser Use origin-access prompts are MCP elicitations, not direct
tool-call approval prompts, so they were bypassing the Guardian approval
path. We need a generic opt-in that lets eligible MCP elicitations use
Guardian when the current turn already routes approvals there.
# Description
Add a generic elicitation reviewer hook in codex-mcp and wire codex-core
to pass a Guardian reviewer callback when creating the MCP connection
manager. The reviewer validates explicit mcp_tool_call opt-in metadata,
builds a Guardian MCP tool-call review request from
server/tool/connector metadata and tool params, and maps Guardian
approval, denial, timeout, and cancellation decisions back to MCP
elicitation responses.
The new option to trigger this in the `_meta` object is:
```
"codex_request_type": "approval_request",
```
# Testing
- RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 NEXTEST_STATUS_LEVEL=leak cargo nextest run
--no-fail-fast --cargo-profile ci-test --test-threads 2
- cargo clippy --tests -- -D warnings
- cargo fmt -- --config imports_granularity=Item --check
- cargo shear
- pnpm run format
- python3 .github/scripts/verify_cargo_workspace_manifests.py
- python3 .github/scripts/verify_tui_core_boundary.py
- python3 .github/scripts/verify_bazel_clippy_lints.py
- git diff --check
## Why
The core `Op::ListMcpTools` request path is no longer needed. Keeping it
around left a dead request/response surface alongside the app-server MCP
inventory APIs that own current server status listing.
## What Changed
- Removed `Op::ListMcpTools`, `EventMsg::McpListToolsResponse`, and the
core handler that built the MCP snapshot response.
- Removed the now-unused `codex-mcp` snapshot wrapper/export and passive
event handling arms in rollout and MCP-server consumers.
- Updated tests that used the old op as a synchronization hook to wait
on existing startup/skills events, and deleted the plugin test that only
exercised the removed listing op.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-mcp`
- `cargo test -p codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p
codex-mcp-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
pending_input::queued_inter_agent_mail`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
rmcp_client::stdio_mcp_tool_call_includes_sandbox_state_meta`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
rmcp_client::stdio_image_responses`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-protocol -p codex-mcp -p
codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server`
## Why
Message history was implemented inside `codex-core` and surfaced through
core protocol ops and `SessionConfiguredEvent` fields even though the
current consumer is TUI-local prompt recall. That made core own UI
history persistence and exposed `history_log_id` / `history_entry_count`
through surfaces that app-server and other clients do not need.
This change moves message history persistence out of core and keeps the
recall plumbing local to the TUI.
## What changed
- Added a new `codex-message-history` crate for appending, looking up,
trimming, and reading metadata from `history.jsonl`.
- Removed core protocol history ops/events: `AddToHistory`,
`GetHistoryEntryRequest`, and `GetHistoryEntryResponse`.
- Removed `history_log_id` and `history_entry_count` from
`SessionConfiguredEvent` and updated exec/MCP/test fixtures accordingly.
- Updated the TUI to dispatch local app events for message-history
append/lookup and keep its persistent-history metadata in TUI session
state.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-message-history -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec event_processor_with_json_output`
- `cargo test -p codex-mcp-server outgoing_message`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
- `just fix -p codex-message-history -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p
codex-tui -p codex-exec -p codex-mcp-server`
## Why
`skills/list` is already exposed through app-server v2 and covered by
the app-server test suite. Keeping the separate core `Op::ListSkills`
path leaves a duplicate legacy protocol surface that no longer needs to
be maintained.
## What Changed
- Removed `Op::ListSkills` and `EventMsg::ListSkillsResponse` from the
core protocol.
- Deleted the corresponding core session handler and stale core
integration tests.
- Removed rollout/MCP ignore branches and protocol v1 docs references
for the deleted event/op.
- Left app-server `skills/list` and its existing coverage intact.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all suite::skills`
- `cargo check -p codex-mcp-server -p codex-rollout -p
codex-rollout-trace`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
## Why
Thread names are app-server metadata now, backed by the thread store and
sqlite state database. Keeping a core `SetThreadName` op plus a rollout
`thread_name_updated` event made rename persistence live in the wrong
layer and required historical replay support for an event that new
app-server flows should not write.
## What changed
- Removed `Op::SetThreadName` and `EventMsg::ThreadNameUpdated` from the
core protocol and deleted the core handler path that appended rename
events to rollouts.
- Updated app-server `thread/name/set` so both loaded and unloaded
threads write through thread-store metadata and app-server emits
`thread/name/updated` notifications.
- Updated local thread-store name metadata updates to write sqlite title
metadata and the legacy thread-name index without appending rollout
events.
- Removed state extraction and rollout handling for the deleted
thread-name event.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_name_updated_broadcasts`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
thread_name_set_is_reflected_in_read_list_and_resume`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-store
update_thread_metadata_sets_name_on_active_rollout_and_indexes_name`
- `cargo test -p codex-state`
- `cargo check -p codex-mcp-server -p codex-rollout-trace`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server -p codex-thread-store -p codex-state -p
codex-mcp-server -p codex-rollout-trace`
## Docs
No external documentation update is expected for this internal ownership
change.
## Why
Several legacy `EventMsg` variants were still emitted or mapped even
though clients either ignored them or had moved to item/lifecycle
events. `Op::Undo` had also degraded to an unavailable shim, so this
removes that dead task path instead of preserving a command that cannot
do useful work.
`McpStartupComplete`, `WebSearchBegin`, and `ImageGenerationBegin` are
intentionally kept because useful consumers still depend on them: MCP
startup completion drives readiness behavior, and the begin events let
app-server/core consumers surface in-progress web-search and
image-generation items before the final payload arrives.
## What Changed
- Removed weak legacy event variants and payloads from `codex-protocol`,
including legacy agent deltas, background events, and undo lifecycle
events.
- Kept/restored `EventMsg::McpStartupComplete`,
`EventMsg::WebSearchBegin`, and `EventMsg::ImageGenerationBegin` with
serializer and emission coverage.
- Updated core, rollout, MCP server, app-server thread history,
review/delegate filtering, and tests to rely on the useful replacement
events that remain.
- Removed `Op::Undo`, `UndoTask`, the undo test module, and stale TUI
slash-command comments.
- Stopped agent job/background progress and compaction retry notices
from emitting `BackgroundEvent` payloads.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-core -p codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all suite::items`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-core
-p codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server`
- Earlier coverage on this PR also included `codex-mcp`, `codex-tui`,
core library tests, MCP/plugin/delegate/review/agent job tests, and MCP
startup TUI tests.
- Fetches and caches remote /installed plugin state
- Lets skills/list load skills from remote-installed cached plugins
without requiring a local marketplace entry
- Routes plugin list/startup/install/uninstall changes through async
plugin cache invalidation and MCP refresh
## Why
Several bug reports describe thread shutdown (including subagent
threads) leaving stdio MCP server processes behind. These reports all
point at the same lifecycle gap: Codex launches stdio MCP servers, but
the session-level shutdown path does not explicitly close MCP clients or
terminate the server process tree.
Fixes#12491Fixes#12976Fixes#18881Fixes#19469
## History
This is best understood as a regression/coverage gap in MCP session
lifecycle management, not as stdio MCP cleanup being absent all along.
#10710 added process-group cleanup for stdio MCP servers, but that
cleanup only runs when the `RmcpClient`/transport is dropped. The older
reports (#12491 and #12976) came after that cleanup existed, which
suggests the remaining problem was that some higher-level shutdown paths
kept the MCP manager alive or replaced it without explicitly draining
clients. The newer reports (#18881 and #19469) exposed the same family
around manager replacement and shutdown.
## What changed
- Added an explicit stdio MCP process handle in `codex-rmcp-client` so
local MCP servers terminate their process group and executor-backed MCP
servers call the executor process terminator.
- Added `RmcpClient::shutdown()` and manager-level MCP shutdown draining
so session shutdown, channel-close fallback, MCP refresh, and connector
probing stop owned MCP clients.
- Added regression coverage that starts a stdio MCP server, begins an
in-flight blocking tool call, shuts down the client, and asserts the
server process exits.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-rmcp-client`
- `cargo test -p codex-mcp`
- `just fix -p codex-rmcp-client`
- `just fix -p codex-mcp`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- Manual before/after validation with a temporary repro script:
- Pre-fix binary from `HEAD^` (`fed0a8f4fa`): reproduced the leak with
surviving MCP server and child PIDs, `survivors=[77583, 77592]`,
`leaked=true`.
- Post-fix binary from this branch (`67e318148b`): verified both MCP
processes were gone after interrupting `codex exec`, `survivors=[]`,
`leaked=false`.
Keep extracting memories out of core and moving the write trigger in the
app-server
This is temporary and it should move at the client level as a follow-up
This makes core fully independant from `codex-memories-write`
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## Why
Fixes#19475.
`codex exec` can finish successfully and then emit an `ERROR` on stderr:
```text
failed to record rollout items: thread <id> not found
```
That happens because shutdown closes the live thread writer before
emitting `ShutdownComplete`. The terminal event was still using the
normal `send_event_raw` path, so it tried to append rollout items
through a recorder that had already been removed. The answer is correct,
but wrappers that treat stderr as failure can retry completed exec runs.
This looks like a likely recent regression from
[#18882](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18882), which routed live
thread writes through `ThreadStore` and added the shutdown-time live
writer close. I have not bisected this, so the PR treats #18882 as the
likely source based on the affected shutdown code path rather than a
proven first-bad commit.
## What Changed
`ShutdownComplete` now bypasses rollout persistence after thread
shutdown and is delivered directly to clients. The shutdown path still
records the protocol event in the rollout trace before delivery,
preserving trace visibility without attempting a post-shutdown
thread-store append.
The change also adds a regression test with the in-memory thread store
to assert that shutdown creates and shuts down the live thread without
appending another item after shutdown.
## Why
Auto-review can deny an action that the user later decides they want to
retry. Today there is no TUI surface for selecting a recent denial and
sending explicit approval context back into the session, so users have
to restate intent manually and the retry can be reviewed without the
original denied action context.
This adds a narrow TUI-driven path for approving a recent denied action
while still keeping the retry inside the normal auto-review flow.
## What Changed
- Added `/auto-review-denials` to open a picker of recent denied
auto-review actions.
- Added a small in-memory TUI store for the 10 most recent denied
auto-review events.
- Selecting a denial sends the structured denied event back through the
existing core/app-server op path.
- Core now injects a developer message containing the approved action
JSON rather than the full assessment event.
- Auto-review transcript collection now preserves this specific approval
developer message so follow-up review sessions can see the user approval
context.
- Added TUI snapshot/unit coverage for the picker and approval dispatch
path.
- Added core coverage for retaining the approval developer message in
the auto-review transcript.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core
collect_guardian_transcript_entries_keeps_manual_approval_developer_message`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui auto_review_denials`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui
approving_recent_denial_emits_structured_core_op_once`
## Notes
This intentionally keeps retries going through auto-review. The approval
signal is context for the exact previously denied action, not a blanket
bypass for similar future actions.
# Why
Requirements support host-specific
`remote_sandbox_config.hostname_patterns`, but config loading previously
resolved and passed the system hostname through every config-loading
path even when no requirements layer used `remote_sandbox_config`. On
machines where hostname lookup is slow, startup and app-server config
reads paid for a feature that was not active.
We only need the hostname when a requirements layer actually declares
`remote_sandbox_config`, so this moves hostname resolution to the single
requirements merge point and keeps all other config callers unaware of
hostname matching.
# What
- Removed the eager `host_name` plumbing from
`load_config_layers_state`, `load_requirements_toml`, `ConfigBuilder`,
app-server `ConfigManager`, network proxy loading, and related call
sites.
- Resolve the hostname inside
`merge_requirements_with_remote_sandbox_config` only when the incoming
requirements contain `remote_sandbox_config`.
## Why
Config loading had become split across crates: `codex-config` owned the
config types and merge logic, while `codex-core` still owned the loader
that assembled the layer stack. This change consolidates that
responsibility in `codex-config`, so the crate that defines config
behavior also owns how configs are discovered and loaded.
To make that move possible without reintroducing the old dependency
cycle, the shell-environment policy types and helpers that
`codex-exec-server` needs now live in `codex-protocol` instead of
flowing through `codex-config`.
This also makes the migrated loader tests more deterministic on machines
that already have managed or system Codex config installed by letting
tests override the system config and requirements paths instead of
reading the host's `/etc/codex`.
## What Changed
- moved the config loader implementation from `codex-core` into
`codex-config::loader` and deleted the old `core::config_loader` module
instead of leaving a compatibility shim
- moved shell-environment policy types and helpers into
`codex-protocol`, then updated `codex-exec-server` and other downstream
crates to import them from their new home
- updated downstream callers to use loader/config APIs from
`codex-config`
- added test-only loader overrides for system config and requirements
paths so loader-focused tests do not depend on host-managed config state
- cleaned up now-unused dependency entries and platform-specific cfgs
that were surfaced by post-push CI
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_loader_tests::`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-exec-server -p
codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-rmcp-client --lib`
- `cargo test --lib -p codex-app-server-client -p codex-exec`
- `cargo test --no-run --lib -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-linux-sandbox --lib`
- `cargo shear`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Notes
- I did not chase unrelated full-suite failures outside the migrated
loader surface.
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib` still hits unrelated proxy-sensitive
failures on this machine, and Windows CI still shows unrelated
long-running/timeouting test noise outside the loader migration itself.
## Summary
Adds the debug CLI entry point for reducing recorded rollout traces.
This gives developers a direct way to inspect whether the emitted trace
stream reduces into the expected conversation/runtime model.
## Stack
This is PR 5/5 in the rollout trace stack.
- [#18876](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18876): Add rollout
trace crate
- [#18877](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18877): Record core
session rollout traces
- [#18878](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18878): Trace tool and
code-mode boundaries
- [#18879](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18879): Trace sessions
and multi-agent edges
- [#18880](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18880): Add debug trace
reduction command
## Review Notes
This PR is intentionally last: it depends on the trace crate, core
recorder, runtime/tool events, and session/agent edge data all existing.
The command should remain a debug/developer tool and avoid adding new
runtime behavior.
The useful review question is whether the CLI exposes the reducer in the
smallest practical way for local inspection without turning the debug
command into a supported user-facing workflow.
## Why
Per-turn permission overrides should use the same canonical profile
abstraction as session configuration. That lets TUI submissions preserve
exact configured permissions without round-tripping through legacy
sandbox fields.
## What changed
This adds `permission_profile` to user-turn operations, threads it
through TUI/app-server submission paths, fills the new field in existing
test fixtures, and adds coverage that composer submission includes the
configured profile.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui permissions -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all permissions_messages --
--nocapture`
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* #18288
* #18287
* #18286
* __->__ #18285
Begin migrating the thread write codepaths to ThreadStore.
This starts using ThreadStore inside of core session code, not only in
the app server code.
Rework the interfaces around thread recording/persistence. We're left
with the following:
* `ThreadManager`: owns the process-level registry of loaded threads and
handles cross-thread orchestration: start, resume, fork, lookup, remove,
and route ops to running CodexThreads.
* `CodexThread`: represents one loaded/running thread from the outside.
It is the handle app-server and callers use to submit ops, inspect
session metadata, and shut the thread down.
* `LiveThread`: session-owned persistence lifecycle handle for one
active thread. Core session code uses it to append rollout items,
materialize lazy persistence, flush, shutdown, discard init-failed
writers, and load that thread’s persisted history.
* `ThreadStore`: storage backend abstraction. It answers “how are
threads persisted, read, listed, updated, archived?” Local and remote
implementations live behind this trait.
* `LocalThreadStore`: local ThreadStore implementation. It owns the
file/sqlite-specific details and keeps RolloutRecorder as a local
implementation detail.
This is a few too many Thread abstractions for my liking, but they do
all represent different concepts / needs / layers.
Migration note: in places where the core code explicitly requires a
path, rather than a thread ID, throw an error if we're running with a
remote store.
Cover the new local live-writer lifecycle with focused tests and
preserve app-server thread-start behavior, including ephemeral pathless
sessions.
## Why
`PermissionProfile` is becoming the canonical permissions shape shared
by core and app-server. After app-server responses expose the active
profile, clients need to be able to send that same shape back when
starting, resuming, forking, or overriding a turn instead of translating
through the legacy `sandbox`/`sandboxPolicy` shorthands.
This still needs to preserve the existing requirements/platform
enforcement model. A profile-shaped request can be downgraded or
rejected by constraints, but the server should keep the user's
elevated-access intent for project trust decisions. Turn-level profile
overrides also need to retain existing read protections, including
deny-read entries and bounded glob-scan metadata, so a permission
override cannot accidentally drop configured protections such as
`**/*.env = deny`.
## What changed
- Adds optional `permissionProfile` request fields to `thread/start`,
`thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and `turn/start`.
- Rejects ambiguous requests that specify both `permissionProfile` and
the legacy `sandbox`/`sandboxPolicy` fields, including running-thread
resume requests.
- Converts profile-shaped overrides into core runtime filesystem/network
permissions while continuing to derive the constrained legacy sandbox
projection used by existing execution paths.
- Preserves project-trust intent for profile overrides that are
equivalent to workspace-write or full-access sandbox requests.
- Preserves existing deny-read entries and `globScanMaxDepth` when
applying turn-level `permissionProfile` overrides.
- Updates app-server docs plus generated JSON/TypeScript schema fixtures
and regression coverage.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol schema_fixtures`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
session_configuration_apply_permission_profile_preserves_existing_deny_read_entries`
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* #18288
* #18287
* #18286
* #18285
* #18284
* #18283
* #18282
* #18281
* #18280
* __->__ #18279
## Summary
This adds the structural plumbing needed for an app-server client to
approve a previously denied Guardian review and carry that approval
context into the next model turn.
This PR does not add the actual `/auto-review-denials` tool
## What Changed
- Added app-server v2 RPC `thread/approveGuardianDeniedAction`.
- Added generated JSON schema and TypeScript fixtures for
`ThreadApproveGuardianDeniedAction*`.
- Added core `Op::ApproveGuardianDeniedAction`.
- Added a core handler that validates the event is a denied Guardian
assessment and injects a developer message containing the stored denial
event JSON.
- Queues the approval context for the next turn if there is no active
turn yet.
- Added the TUI app-server bridge so `Op::ApproveGuardianDeniedAction {
event }` is routed to the app-server request.
## What This Does Not Do
- Does not add `/auto-review-denials`.
- Does not add chat widget recent-denial state.
- Does not add popup/list UI.
- Does not add a product-facing denial lookup/store.
- Does not change where Guardian denials are originally emitted or
persisted.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui thread_approve_guardian_denied_action`
## Summary
- add experimental turn/start.environments params for per-turn
environment id + cwd selections
- pass selections through core protocol ops and resolve them with
EnvironmentManager before TurnContext creation
- treat omitted selections as default behavior, empty selections as no
environment, and non-empty selections as first environment/cwd as the
turn primary
## Testing
- ran `just fmt`
- ran `just write-app-server-schema`
- not run: unit tests for this stacked PR
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## Summary
This PR fully reverts the previously merged Agent Identity runtime
integration from the old stack:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17387/changes
It removes the Codex-side task lifecycle wiring, rollout/session
persistence, feature flag plumbing, lazy `auth.json` mutation,
background task auth paths, and request callsite changes introduced by
that stack.
This leaves the repo in a clean pre-AgentIdentity integration state so
the follow-up PRs can reintroduce the pieces in smaller reviewable
layers.
## Stack
1. This PR: full revert
2. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18871: move Agent Identity
business logic into a crate
3. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18785: add explicit
AgentIdentity auth mode and startup task allocation
4. https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18811: migrate auth callsites
through AuthProvider
## Testing
Tests: targeted Rust checks, cargo-shear, Bazel lock check, and CI.
## Why
This PR prepares the stack to enable Clippy await-holding lints that
were left disabled in #18178. The mechanical lock-scope cleanup is
handled separately; this PR is the documentation/configuration layer for
the remaining await-across-guard sites.
Without explicit annotations, reviewers and future maintainers cannot
tell whether an await-holding warning is a real concurrency smell or an
intentional serialization boundary.
## What changed
- Configures `clippy.toml` so `await_holding_invalid_type` also covers
`tokio::sync::{MutexGuard,RwLockReadGuard,RwLockWriteGuard}`.
- Adds targeted `#[expect(clippy::await_holding_invalid_type, reason =
...)]` annotations for intentional async guard lifetimes.
- Documents the main categories of intentional cases: active-turn state
transitions that must remain atomic, session-owned MCP manager accesses,
remote-control websocket serialization, JS REPL kernel/process
serialization, OAuth persistence, external bearer token refresh
serialization, and tests that intentionally serialize shared global or
session-owned state.
- For external bearer token refresh, documents the existing
serialization boundary: holding `cached_token` across the provider
command prevents concurrent cache misses from starting duplicate refresh
commands, and the current behavior is small enough that an explicit
expectation is easier to maintain than adding another synchronization
primitive.
## Verification
- `cargo clippy -p codex-login --all-targets`
- `cargo clippy -p codex-connectors --all-targets`
- `cargo clippy -p codex-core --all-targets`
- The follow-up PR #18698 enables `await_holding_invalid_type` and
`await_holding_lock` as workspace `deny` lints, so any undocumented
remaining offender will fail Clippy.
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* #18698
* __->__ #18423
## Why
Customers need finer-grained control over allowed sandbox modes based on
the host Codex is running on. For example, they may want stricter
sandbox limits on devboxes while keeping a different default elsewhere.
Our current cloud requirements can target user/account groups, but they
cannot vary sandbox requirements by host. That makes remote development
environments awkward because the same top-level `allowed_sandbox_modes`
has to apply everywhere.
## What
Adds a new `remote_sandbox_config` section to `requirements.toml`:
```toml
allowed_sandbox_modes = ["read-only"]
[[remote_sandbox_config]]
hostname_patterns = ["*.org"]
allowed_sandbox_modes = ["read-only", "workspace-write"]
[[remote_sandbox_config]]
hostname_patterns = ["*.sh", "runner-*.ci"]
allowed_sandbox_modes = ["read-only", "danger-full-access"]
```
During requirements resolution, Codex resolves the local host name once,
preferring the machine FQDN when available and falling back to the
cleaned kernel hostname. This host classification is best effort rather
than authenticated device proof.
Each requirements source applies its first matching
`remote_sandbox_config` entry before it is merged with other sources.
The shared merge helper keeps that `apply_remote_sandbox_config` step
paired with requirements merging so new requirements sources do not have
to remember the extra call.
That preserves source precedence: a lower-precedence requirements file
with a matching `remote_sandbox_config` cannot override a
higher-precedence source that already set `allowed_sandbox_modes`.
This also wires the hostname-aware resolution through app-server,
CLI/TUI config loading, config API reads, and config layer metadata so
they all evaluate remote sandbox requirements consistently.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-config remote_sandbox_config`
- `cargo test -p codex-config host_name`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
load_config_layers_applies_matching_remote_sandbox_config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
system_remote_sandbox_config_keeps_cloud_sandbox_modes`
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core` unit tests passed; `tests/all.rs`
integration matrix was intentionally stopped after the relevant focused
tests passed
- `just fix -p codex-config`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server`
## Why
Cloud-hosted sessions need a way for the service that starts or manages
a thread to provide session-owned config without treating all config as
if it came from the same user/project/workspace TOML stack.
The important boundary is ownership: some values should be controlled by
the session/orchestrator, some by the authenticated user, and later some
may come from the executor. The earlier broad config-store shape made
that boundary too fuzzy and overlapped heavily with the existing
filesystem-backed config loader. This PR starts with the smaller piece
we need now: a typed session config loader that can feed the existing
config layer stack while preserving the normal precedence and merge
behavior.
## What Changed
- Added `ThreadConfigLoader` and related typed payloads in
`codex-config`.
- `SessionThreadConfig` currently supports `model_provider`,
`model_providers`, and feature flags.
- `UserThreadConfig` is present as an ownership boundary, but does not
yet add TOML-backed fields.
- `NoopThreadConfigLoader` preserves existing behavior when no external
loader is configured.
- `StaticThreadConfigLoader` supports tests and simple callers.
- Taught thread config sources to produce ordinary `ConfigLayerEntry`
values so the existing `ConfigLayerStack` remains the place where
precedence and merging happen.
- Wired the loader through `ConfigBuilder`, the config loader, and
app-server startup paths so app-server can provide session-owned config
before deriving a thread config.
- Added coverage for:
- translating typed thread config into config layers,
- inserting thread config layers into the stack at the right precedence,
- applying session-provided model provider and feature settings when
app-server derives config from thread params.
## Follow-Ups
This intentionally stops short of adding the remote/service transport.
The next pieces are expected to be:
1. Define the proto/API shape for this interface.
2. Add a client implementation that can source session config from the
service side.
## Verification
- Added unit coverage in `codex-config` for the loader and layer
conversion.
- Added `codex-core` config loader coverage for thread config layer
precedence.
- Added app-server coverage that verifies session thread config wins
over request-provided config for model provider and feature settings.
## Summary
Introduces a single background/control-plane agent task for ChatGPT
backend requests that do not have a thread-scoped task, with
`AuthManager` owning the default ChatGPT backend authorization decision.
Callers now ask `AuthManager` for the default ChatGPT backend
authorization header. `AuthManager` decides whether that is bearer or
background AgentAssertion based on config/internal state, while
low-level bootstrap paths can explicitly request bearer-only auth.
This PR is stacked on PR4 and focuses on the shared background task auth
plumbing plus the first tranche of backend/control-plane consumers. The
remaining callsite wiring is split into PR4.2 to keep review size down.
## Stack
- PR1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17385 - add
`features.use_agent_identity`
- PR2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17386 - register agent
identities when enabled
- PR3: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17387 - register agent tasks
when enabled
- PR3.1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17978 - persist and
prewarm registered tasks per thread
- PR4: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17980 - use task-scoped
`AgentAssertion` for downstream calls
- PR4.1: this PR - introduce AuthManager-owned background/control-plane
`AgentAssertion` auth
- PR4.2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18260 - use background
task auth for additional backend/control-plane calls
## What Changed
- add background task registration and assertion minting inside
`codex-login`
- persist `agent_identity.background_task_id` separately from
per-session task state
- make `BackgroundAgentTaskManager` private to `codex-login`; call sites
do not instantiate or pass it around
- teach `AuthManager` the ChatGPT backend base URL and feature-derived
background auth mode from resolved config
- expose bearer-only helpers for bootstrap/registration/refresh-style
paths that must not use AgentAssertion
- wire `AuthManager` default ChatGPT authorization through app listing,
connector directory listing, remote plugins, MCP status/listing,
analytics, and core-skills remote calls
- preserve bearer fallback when the feature is disabled, the backend
host is unsupported, or background task registration is not available
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-login -p codex-analytics -p
codex-app-server -p codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-cloud-tasks -p
codex-models-manager -p codex-chatgpt -p codex-model-provider -p
codex-mcp -p codex-core-skills`
- `cargo test -p codex-login agent_identity`
- `cargo test -p codex-model-provider bearer_auth_provider`
- `cargo test -p codex-core agent_assertion`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server remote_control`
- `cargo test -p codex-cloud-requirements fetch_cloud_requirements`
- `cargo test -p codex-models-manager manager::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-chatgpt`
- `cargo test -p codex-cloud-tasks`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-login -p codex-analytics -p
codex-app-server -p codex-cloud-requirements -p codex-cloud-tasks -p
codex-models-manager -p codex-chatgpt -p codex-model-provider -p
codex-mcp -p codex-core-skills`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `git diff --check`
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