## Why
Authorization updates during a pending Guardian approval can invalidate its decision. Retries need the updated guidance without inheriting the invalidated review or losing earlier valid context.
## What changed
- Validate authorization while the reviewer is reserved, before publishing its history checkpoint.
- Roll back stale attempts to the last committed review, preserving earlier valid reviews across repeated invalidations.
- Pin the issuing action's repository instruction snapshot for reviewers and retries, avoiding fresh instruction discovery through disconnected executors.
- Treat stale authorization as a request for a new review rather than a failed decision.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for repeated approval invalidation, retention of earlier valid context, exclusion of stale decisions, and execution of the pending action exactly once. Extend the disconnected-executor test to verify that retries retain repository instructions and use updated authorization.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0bff6cc551fee1f0905082eb97ccdecaa8628867
## Why
Subagents inherit applied instruction snapshots, so later provider updates do not reach running descendants. Hosts need an explicit way to share current thread instructions across an agent tree.
## What changed
- Add `ThreadInstructionsProvider::share_with_subagents()`, defaulting to `false`. Opted-in descendants refresh instructions at their next model-request boundary.
- Retain shared providers across root unloads and descendant reloads. Let a resumed root replace the provider for surviving descendants, or preserve their last shared instructions when it supplies a non-sharing provider.
- Keep providers scoped to their root tree and preserve snapshot-only instructions for root forks and isolated sessions, including Guardian reviews.
## Testing
Add coverage for child and grandchild instruction updates and clearing, provider replacement after root restart, lazy descendant reloads, default snapshot inheritance, and isolation between roots and Guardian sessions.
GitOrigin-RevId: 44c9fb7fe9ae1f96156bdf3c47ab6c4a81bd65e9
## What changed
- Expose `ThreadInstructionsProvider` through `StartThreadOptions`. Load its snapshot at startup and model-request boundaries, composing it after global instructions and before repository instructions. Empty or blank output clears only the thread contribution.
- Reject thread instructions exceeding 10,000 estimated tokens independently of the repository instruction budget. Allow host-provided instructions without a filesystem source and rename the shared future type to `LoadInstructionsFuture`.
- Retain the provider across warm resumes; require hosts to supply it again for cold resumes and offline forks. Live forks and subagents inherit applied snapshots without inheriting the source thread's provider, including when the parent is unloaded during setup or reload.
- Include thread instructions in guardian reviewer inheritance and reuse decisions.
## Testing
Add coverage for composition and clearing, refresh within an active turn, size rejection before sampling, cancellation-safe refresh, fork and resume behavior, parent eviction, and reviewer reuse invalidation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7be9a523cbbfd67704067dfd526188dad89a3c88
## Why
Running root threads retained their startup global instructions, so edits to global `AGENTS.md` files did not take effect during an active session.
## What changed
- Reload global instructions when capturing model-request context, including after tools within the same turn. Apply changes without repeating unchanged instructions or rediscovering repository instructions when the environment and trust level are unchanged.
- Preserve the last successful global instructions on read failures, suppress recurring warnings until recovery, and clear instructions when their source is removed or blank.
- Serialize refreshes and allow cancellation without blocking subsequent requests.
- Give new subagents the parent's applied instruction snapshot and update Guardian reviewer reuse to account for refreshed instructions.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for live edits and removal, read failures and recovery, warning suppression, cancellation, subagent inheritance, and Guardian reviewer reuse. Update resume, fork, and compaction tests to verify refreshed instructions.
GitOrigin-RevId: f7e9b399740fa4f45e482c070f6e901ee7cf85cd
## What changed
Rename the `UserInstructions` type to `Instructions` across the extension API,
its core API re-export, and all consumers. This keeps loading behavior and the
`LoadedUserInstructions` provider interface unchanged.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1ac236b34c31718e7aa38ff5eae5e9b179aeedd8
## 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
- Skip project-scoped `AGENTS.md` discovery when the active project is untrusted, while preserving user-level instructions.
- Include the active project trust level in the instruction cache key so runtime trust changes reload the applicable instructions.
- Preserve updated project trust metadata during runtime configuration refreshes.
## Testing
Add coverage for initially untrusted projects and for switching between trusted and untrusted states at runtime.
GitOrigin-RevId: 284bf7693943f585013fb5fe4b6aa3309bc50cf3
## Why
Project instructions must respect the selected environment's filesystem read
permissions. Tightening those permissions for a later turn must not allow
previously cached instructions to reach the model.
## What changed
- Apply each environment's filesystem sandbox while discovering and reading
`AGENTS.md` files.
- Fail thread or turn setup when sandboxing blocks a discovered instruction
file, while allowing a restricted project with no instructions to start.
- Clear cached instructions before refresh and include the Windows sandbox
level in the cache key.
- Ignore inaccessible ancestor marker probes so readable instructions in the
selected working directory can still load.
## Testing
Added coverage for restricted projects, denied instruction files, cache
invalidation after permissions tighten, and unreadable ancestor markers.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6ea1a27b9c873a6260e4f87d42ae1317a6a4ae4b
## What changed
Add named tracing spans around step environment snapshots, capability and
executor plugin resolution, `AGENTS.md` refreshes, and MCP runtime projection
and refresh operations. Skip recording function arguments to keep these spans
focused on timing and execution flow.
GitOrigin-RevId: 73a452ef1b5da6f7f2b00d24421a815c5d514eaf
## Why
With deferred executors, a turn can begin before a remote environment
attaches. AGENTS.md discovery previously ran only during session setup,
so instructions from a later environment never reached the model or the
session instruction sources.
WorldState persistence has now landed, so this uses the durable
model-visible baseline directly instead of carrying a temporary
resume/fork compatibility path.
## What
- Add an `AgentsMdManager` in `SessionServices` to own host
instructions, loaded state, and refresh caching.
- When `DeferredExecutor` is enabled, refresh AGENTS.md when attached
environment selections change and freeze the result in the corresponding
`StepContext`.
- Represent AGENTS.md as a persisted WorldState section for every
session, with bounded initial, replacement, and removal updates.
- Remove duplicate AGENTS.md state and rendering from
`SessionConfiguration` and `TurnContext`.
- Build initial context, per-request updates, and compaction context
from the same step-scoped value.
- On resume and fork, compare current instructions with the restored
WorldState baseline and inject a replacement exactly once when they
differ.
Builds on #29833, #29835, and #29837.
## Tests
- Covers a remote environment becoming ready mid-turn, with AGENTS.md
appearing on the next request exactly once and updating canonical
instruction sources.
- Covers full, unchanged, replaced, and removed AGENTS.md WorldState
rendering.
- Covers changed instructions across cold resume and fork without
duplicate reinjection.
- Covers remote-v2 compaction retaining creation-time instructions in
the live session and cold resume appending one replacement when the
source changed.
- Ran focused `codex-core` AGENTS.md, WorldState, and context-update
test suites.
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