## Summary
- accumulate completed tool-item counts per turn from the item lifecycle
- populate the reserved count fields on `codex_turn_event`
- add reducer coverage for zero-count turns and mixed completed tool
items
## Why
PR #17090 moved tool-item analytics onto the item lifecycle, so the turn
reducer can now derive the per-turn tool counts from the same completed
items instead of leaving the reserved fields null.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
## Why
Long-running turns can accumulate enough denied auto-review decisions to
trip the global short-circuit even when those denials are spread far
apart. The breaker should still stop genuinely bad loops, but it should
judge recent behavior instead of lifetime turn history.
## What changed
- Replaced the lifetime `10 total denials` threshold with `10 denials in
the last 50 reviews`.
- Kept the existing `3 consecutive denials` interrupt behavior
unchanged.
- Tracked recent auto-review outcomes in the circuit breaker and updated
the warning copy to report the rolling-window count.
- Renamed the new rolling-window coverage to `auto_review_*` test names.
- Added coverage that confirms older denials fall out of the 50-review
window and no longer trigger the breaker.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core guardian_rejection_circuit_breaker --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core auto_review_rejection_circuit_breaker --lib`
## Why
Users have requested the ability to edit a goal's objective after a goal
has been created. This PR exposes a new `/goal edit` command in the TUI
to address this request.
In the process of implementing this, I also noticed an existing bug in
the goal runtime. When a goal's objective is updated through the
`thread/goal/set` app server API, the goal runtime didn't emit a new
steering prompt to tell the agent about the new objective. This PR also
fixes this hole.
## What Changed
- Adds `/goal edit` in the TUI, opening an edit box prefilled with the
current goal objective.
- Keeps active and paused goals in their current state, resets completed
goals to active, keeps budget-limited goals budget-limited, and
preserves the existing token budget.
- Changes the existing `thread/goal/set` behavior so editing an
objective preserves goal accounting instead of resetting it. The older
reset-on-new-objective behavior was left over from before
`thread/goal/clear`; clients that need to reset accounting can now clear
the existing goal and create a new one.
- Reuses the existing goal set API path; this does not add or change
app-server protocol surface area.
- Adds a dedicated goal runtime steering prompt when an externally
persisted goal mutation changes the objective, so active turns receive
the updated objective.
## Validation
- Make sure `/goal edit` returns an error if no goal currently exists
- Make sure `/goal edit` displays an edit box that can be optionally
canceled with no side effects
- Make sure that an edited goal results in a steer so the agent starts
pursuing the new objective
- Make sure the new objective is reflected in the goal if you use
`/goal` to display the goal summary
- Make sure that `/goal edit` doesn't reset the token budget, time/token
accounting on the updated goal
## Why
The app-server no longer needs to expose a TCP websocket listener.
Keeping that transport also kept around a separate listener/auth surface
that is unnecessary now that local clients can use stdio or the
Unix-domain control socket, while remote connectivity is handled by
`remote_control`.
## What Changed
- Removed `ws://IP:PORT` parsing and the `AppServerTransport::WebSocket`
startup path.
- Deleted the app-server websocket listener auth module and removed
related CLI flags/dependencies.
- Kept websocket framing only where it is still needed: over the
Unix-domain control socket and in the outbound `remote_control`
connection.
- Updated app-server CLI/help text and `app-server/README.md` to
document only `stdio://`, `unix://`, `unix://PATH`, and `off` for local
transports.
- Converted affected app-server integration coverage from TCP websocket
listeners to UDS-backed websocket connections, and added a parse test
that rejects `ws://` listen URLs.
- Removed the now-unused workspace `constant_time_eq` dependency and
refreshed `Cargo.lock` after `cargo shear` caught the drift.
- Moved test app-server UDS socket paths to short Unix temp paths so
macOS Bazel test sandboxes do not exceed Unix socket path limits.
## Verification
- Added/updated tests around UDS websocket transport behavior and
`ws://` listen URL rejection.
- `cargo shear`
- `cargo metadata --no-deps --format-version 1`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server unix_socket_transport`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server unix_socket_disconnect`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `git diff --check`
Local full Rust test execution was blocked before compilation by an
external fetch failure for the pinned `nornagon/crossterm` git
dependency. `just bazel-lock-update` and `just bazel-lock-check` were
retried after the manifest cleanup but remain blocked by external
BuildBuddy/V8 fetch timeouts.
Fixes#20792
## Why
`/goal`-first threads are valid resumable threads, but they can be
missing from `codex resume` and app recents because discovery depends on
metadata derived from a normal first user message.
PR #21489 attempted to fix this by using the goal objective as
`first_user_message`. Review feedback pointed out that
`first_user_message` does more than provide visible text today: it gates
listing, supplies preview text, and participates in deciding whether a
later title should surface as a distinct thread name. Reusing it for the
goal objective could leave a `/goal`-first thread with
`first_user_message=<goal>` and `title=<later prompt>`, even though the
goal should only provide the initial visible preview.
This PR follows that feedback by and keeps the `first_user_message` as
is but introduces a new `preview` field to separate concerns. The
`preview` field is populated from the first user message or the goal
objective. We can extend it in the future to include other sources.
## What Changed
- Added internal thread `preview` metadata in `codex-state`, including a
SQLite migration that backfills from `first_user_message` and from
existing `thread_goals` objectives when needed.
- Treated `ThreadGoalUpdated` as preview-bearing metadata so goal-first
threads can be listed and searched without mutating
`first_user_message`.
- Updated rollout listing, state queries, thread-store conversion, and
app-server mapping to use preview metadata while continuing to expose
the existing public `preview` field.
- Preserved title/name distinctness behavior around literal
`first_user_message`, so a later normal prompt after `/goal` does not
surface as a separate name just because the goal supplied the initial
preview.
- Preserved compatibility for older/internal metadata writes by deriving
preview from `first_user_message` when explicit preview metadata is
absent.
## Verification
- Manually verified that a thread that starts with a `/goal <objective>`
shows up in the resume picker.
## Summary
This PR updates the goal continuation prompt to address feedback from
early adopters. There are two primary changes:
1. Goal continuation and budget-limit steering prompts now use hidden
user-context messages instead of hidden developer messages.
2. The goal continuation prompt is refined to improve the model's
ability to fully complete the active goal rather than stop at a smaller
or merely passing subset.
The user-message transition is important for two reasons. First, it
eliminates an issue where older steering messages could be responded to
again after a new turn. Second, it works better with compaction because
user messages are treated differently from developer messages during
compaction.
The prompt refinements make persistence explicit, ground work in current
evidence, encourage `update_plan` for multi-step progress visibility,
and require stronger completion audits before calling `update_goal`. It
also removes the elapsed-time reporting in the prompt; I saw evidence
that this was causing the model to shortcut work as it became nervous
about time.
These changes were tested with evals. Chriss4123 has also been running
independent evals in
[#19910](https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/19910), and many of the
improvements in this PR were suggested by him.
## Verification
- Tested with evals.
- Added and updated focused `codex-core` coverage for hidden goal user
context, continuation and budget-limit request shape, prompt rendering,
and objective delimiter escaping.
Addresses #22101
## Why
Side conversations are ephemeral forks of the active thread, but `/side`
was building its fork config from the app-level config after refreshing
it from disk. If the parent thread had runtime settings that differed
from the current persisted defaults, such as a changed model, reasoning
effort, permissions, reviewer, or fast-mode selection, the side
conversation could start with different behavior than its parent.
## What changed
- Build side fork config from the active parent `ChatWidget` config,
then overlay the parent thread's effective model, reasoning effort,
service tier, and fast-mode opt-out state.
- Forward model reasoning summary, verbosity, personality, web search
mode, and service-tier overrides through TUI app-server
start/resume/fork lifecycle params.
- Add focused tests for parent runtime inheritance, side developer
guardrail preservation, and lifecycle param forwarding.
## Why
Dogfooder feedback exposed two correctness gaps in normal-loop overflow
recovery:
1. a sampling request that hit `ContextWindowExceeded` could keep
re-entering auto-compaction indefinitely if the compacted retry still
did not fit, and
2. local compact-history rebuilds flattened user messages down to text,
so an overflowing `[image, "what is this?"]` turn could be retried
without the image after compaction.
That means recovery could either fail to terminate cleanly or proceed
with a materially weakened version of the user request.
## What changed
- Move normal-loop `ContextWindowExceeded` handling into the sampling
retry loop, so successful rescue compaction consumes the provider retry
budget instead of creating an unbounded outer-turn loop.
- Keep compacted user-history rebuilds structured:
`collect_user_messages` now carries user `UserInput` content rather than
flattened strings, and `build_compacted_history` reconstructs full user
messages from that structured representation.
- Preserve image inputs while retaining the existing text-budget
truncation behavior for compacted user history.
- Preserve existing compaction-task failure handling and client-session
reset behavior while bounding repeated overflow retries.
- Add focused regression coverage for:
- recovery after a normal-loop overflow,
- retry-budget exhaustion after repeated overflow,
- local recovery preserving image + text input,
- remote recovery preserving image + text input,
- remote compaction v2 preserving image + text input, and
- compaction failure still terminating cleanly.
The main behavior changes are in `codex-rs/core/src/session/turn.rs` and
`codex-rs/core/src/compact.rs`.
## Verification
- Not run locally; relying on PR CI for this update.
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## Summary
A user reported that `/goal` was not saved to the TUI command history,
which made it unavailable for later recall even though other accepted
input paths persist history entries.
This updates the TUI goal slash-command dispatch so successful `/goal`
invocations append the command text to message history. The change
covers the bare `/goal` menu command, goal control commands such as
`/goal pause`, and objective-setting commands such as `/goal improve
benchmark coverage`.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tui goal_slash_command -- --nocapture`
## Why
This is the next narrow step toward moving concrete tool families out of
core. After #22138 introduced `codex-tool-api`, we still needed a real
end-to-end seam that lets an extension own an executable tool definition
once and have core install it without the temporary `extension-api`
wrapper or a dependency on `codex-tools`.
`codex-tool-api` is the small extension-facing execution contract, while
`codex-tools` still has a different job: host-side shared tool metadata
and planning logic that is not “run this contributed tool”, like spec
shaping, namespaces, discovery, code-mode augmentation, and
MCP/dynamic-to-Responses API conversion
## What changed
- Moved the shared leaf tool-spec and JSON Schema types into
`codex-tool-api`, so the executable contract now lives with
[`ToolBundle`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/c538758095337d4fe0a52a172363ccede4066bda/codex-rs/tool-api/src/bundle.rs#L19-L70).
- Replaced the temporary extension-side tool wrapper with direct
`ToolBundle` use in `codex-extension-api`.
- Taught core to collect contributed bundles, include them in spec
planning, register them through
[`ToolRegistryBuilder::register_tool_bundle`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/c538758095337d4fe0a52a172363ccede4066bda/codex-rs/core/src/tools/registry.rs#L653-L667),
and dispatch them through the existing router/runtime path.
- Added focused coverage for contributed tools becoming model-visible
and dispatchable, plus spec-planning coverage for contributed function
and freeform tools.
## Verification
- Added `extension_tool_bundles_are_model_visible_and_dispatchable` in
`core/src/tools/router_tests.rs`.
- Added spec-plan coverage in `core/src/tools/spec_plan_tests.rs` for
contributed extension bundles.
## Related
- Follow-up to #22138
## Summary
- make the shared `ToolExecutor::is_mutating` default conservative by
returning `true`
- update the trait docs to say read-only tools should opt out explicitly
- add a regression test covering the default behavior
## Why
Hosts use this signal for serialization and approval policy. Treating
unknown contributed tools as read-only lets a write-capable tool
accidentally bypass mutating-tool safeguards if it forgets to override
the hook.
## Validation
- not run, per request
## Why
The tool-extraction work needs one shared executable-tool seam that
hosts and tool owners can depend on without reaching into `codex-core`.
Landing that seam first makes the later tool-family ports incremental
and keeps the reusable contract separate from any one migration.
## What changed
- add a new `codex-tool-api` crate and workspace wiring
- move the common executable-tool contracts into that crate:
`ToolBundle`, `ToolDefinition`, `ToolExecutor`, `ToolCall`, `ToolInput`,
`ToolOutput`, `JsonToolOutput`, and `ToolError`
- keep host state generic through `ToolBundle<C>` / `ToolCall<C>` so
later integrations can provide their own runtime context without baking
core types into the API
- carry the host signals the runtime will need later, including
parallel-call support and mutability probing
- leave existing tool families in place for now; this PR only
establishes the reusable API surface
- add the Bazel target and lockfile updates for the new crate
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-tool-api`
## Why
[#21736](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/21736) introduces the
typed extension API, but the runtime does not yet carry a registry
through thread/session startup or give contributors host-owned stores to
read from. This PR wires that host-side path so later feature migrations
can move product-specific behavior behind typed contributions without
adding another bespoke seam directly to `codex-core`.
## What changed
- Thread `ExtensionRegistry<Config>` through `ThreadManager`,
`CodexSpawnArgs`, `Session`, and sub-agent spawn paths.
- Wire `ThreadStartContributor` and `ContextContributor`
- Expose the small supporting surface needed by non-core callers that
construct threads directly, including `empty_extension_registry()`
through `codex-core-api`.
This PR lands the host plumbing only: the app-server registry is still
empty, and concrete feature migrations are intended to follow
separately.
## Why
`codex-core` still owns a growing amount of product-specific behavior.
This PR starts the extraction path by introducing a small, typed
first-party extension seam: features can install the contribution
families they actually own, while the host keeps lifecycle and state
ownership instead of pushing a broad service locator into the API.
See the `examples/` for illustration
## Known limitations
* Tool contract definition will be shared with core
* Fragments must be extracted
* Missing some contributors
## Summary
- Populate `plugin/list` interface metadata for installed Git-sourced
marketplace plugins from the active cached plugin bundle.
- Preserve marketplace category precedence so list behavior matches
`plugin/read`.
- Keep existing fallback behavior when the cache or manifest is missing
or invalid.
## Test Plan
- `cd codex-rs && just fmt`
- `cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-core-plugins
list_marketplaces_installed_git_source_reads_metadata_from_cache_without_cloning`
- `cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-app-server
plugin_list_returns_installed_git_source_interface_from_cache`
- `cd codex-rs && just fix -p codex-core-plugins`
- `cd codex-rs && just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `git diff --check`
Server-truth check: OpenAI monorepo app-server generated types already
expose `PluginSummary.interface`, and the webview consumes it for plugin
cards. This PR keeps the protocol/schema unchanged and fills the
existing field from the cached installed bundle for Git-backed
cross-repo plugins.
## Why
The TUI currently treats Markdown tables as ordinary wrapped text, which
makes table-heavy responses hard to read and brittle across narrow panes
and terminal resizes.
This change teaches the TUI to render Markdown tables responsively while
preserving the raw Markdown source needed to re-render streamed and
finalized transcript content after width changes. The goal is to keep
tables legible during streaming, after resize, and once a turn has
finished, without corrupting scrollback ordering.
## What Changed
- add table detection and responsive table rendering in the Markdown
renderer
- render standard tables with Unicode box-drawing borders when the pane
is wide enough
- add a vertical readability fallback for constrained or dense tables so
narrow panes still show each row clearly
- keep links and `<br>` content inside table cells instead of leaking
text outside the table
- avoid table normalization inside fenced or indented code blocks
- preserve raw streamed Markdown source and keep the active table as a
mutable tail until finalization
- consolidate finalized streamed content into source-backed transcript
cells so post-resize re-rendering stays correct
- add snapshot and targeted streaming/resize regression coverage for the
new table behavior
## How to Test
1. Start Codex TUI from this branch.
2. Paste this exact prompt:
`This is a session to test codex, no need to do any thinking, just end
different markdown tables, with columns exploring different markdown
contents, like links, bold italic, code, etc. Make them different sizes,
some 30+ rows, some not and intertwine them with some paragraphs with
complex formatting as well.`
3. Confirm the response includes several Markdown tables mixed with
richly formatted paragraphs.
4. Confirm wide-enough tables render with box-drawing borders instead of
plain wrapped pipe text.
5. Resize the terminal narrower while the answer is still streaming and
confirm the in-progress table stays coherent instead of duplicating
headers or leaving broken scrollback behind.
6. Resize again after the turn finishes and confirm the finalized
transcript re-renders cleanly at the new width.
7. In a narrow pane, verify dense tables fall back to the vertical
per-row layout instead of producing unreadable wrapped columns.
8. Also verify pipe-heavy fenced code blocks still render as code, not
as tables.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui table_readability_fallback --no-fail-fast`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui markdown_render --no-fail-fast`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui streaming::controller --no-fail-fast`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui table_resize_lifecycle --no-fail-fast`
## Docs
No developer docs update appears necessary.
## Summary
The issue digest uses recent posts, comments, and reactions to decide
which issues deserve attention. A single active user could previously
raise an issue's apparent importance by commenting or reacting multiple
times in the window.
This changes `codex-issue-digest` so `user_interactions` counts unique
human GitHub users per issue across new issue posts, new comments, and
new reactions. Raw reaction/comment counts are still preserved for
detail output, and the skill guidance now describes `Interactions` as a
unique-human-user count.
## Why
On native Windows, running `/mcp` can leak `taskkill`'s normal
`SUCCESS:` messages into the Codex TUI while the temporary MCP inventory
process tree is being torn down. That corrupts the screen even though
MCP itself is working correctly.
Fixes#20845.
## What Changed
- Redirect the Windows-only MCP teardown `taskkill` subprocess to null
stdio so its console output cannot reach the TUI.
## How to Test
1. On native Windows, configure a stdio MCP server, for example:
```powershell
codex mcp add sequential-thinking -- npx -y
@modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking
```
2. With the latest released Codex CLI, start Codex and run `/mcp`.
3. Confirm the current behavior: `taskkill` `SUCCESS:` lines appear in
the TUI during the MCP refresh.
4. Switch to this branch's build, start Codex again, and run `/mcp`.
5. Confirm the MCP inventory still renders normally and the `taskkill`
lines no longer appear.
6. Repeat `/mcp` once more on this branch to verify the regression does
not recur on repeated inventory requests.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-rmcp-client`
- `cargo test -p codex-rmcp-client --test process_group_cleanup --quiet`
## Why
Inside tmux, `Shift+Enter` can still reach Codex as a plain `Enter` even
when tmux has extended keys enabled. In `csi-u` tmux panes, Codex needs
to request `modifyOtherKeys` mode 2 so tmux moves the pane from `VT10x`
into extended-key mode and preserves the Shift modifier. Without that
extra request, composer `Shift+Enter` submits the draft instead of
inserting a newline.
Fixes#21699.
## What Changed
- Detect tmux sessions and read the active `extended-keys-format`,
preferring the pane-local value before falling back to the global
option.
- Request `modifyOtherKeys` mode 2 for tmux panes using `csi-u` extended
keys, and reset it when restoring keyboard reporting.
- Add unit coverage for tmux detection, the format gate, and the emitted
`modifyOtherKeys` escape sequence.
## How to Test
1. In tmux, configure:
```tmux
set-option -g extended-keys on
set-option -g extended-keys-format csi-u
```
2. Start Codex in a fresh tmux pane from this branch.
3. From another pane, confirm the Codex pane reports `mode=Ext 2`:
```bash
tmux list-panes -a -F '#{session_name}:#{window_index}.#{pane_index}
mode=#{pane_key_mode} cmd=#{pane_current_command}'
```
4. Type a draft in the composer and press `Shift+Enter`; confirm it
inserts a newline instead of submitting.
5. Also confirm plain `Enter` still submits as before.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
## Notes
- Manual verification used both real `Shift+Enter` in iTerm2/tmux and
`tmux send-keys ... S-Enter` to confirm the tmux pane changes from
`VT10x` to `Ext 2` and preserves newline behavior.
- On this checkout, the broader `codex-tui` test run currently reaches
unrelated existing failures in `status::tests::*` plus a later stack
overflow in
`tests::fork_last_filters_latest_session_by_cwd_unless_show_all`.
### Motivation
- Normalize persisted service tier so selecting the request value
`priority` (or legacy `fast`) is stored as `fast` while preserving
unknown tier IDs and keeping request-time behavior unchanged.
### Description
- Update persistence logic in `codex-rs/core/src/config/edit.rs` so
`ConfigEdit::SetServiceTier` maps request values: `priority`/`fast` ->
`"fast"`, `flex` -> `"flex"`, and leaves unknown strings unchanged.
- Add unit tests in `codex-rs/core/src/config/edit_tests.rs` that verify
a `priority` selection is written to `config.toml` as `"fast"` and that
unknown tiers are preserved.
- Add a config load test in `codex-rs/core/src/config/config_tests.rs`
to ensure `service_tier = "priority"` still resolves to the `priority`
request value at load time.
- Add the required import `use
codex_protocol::config_types::ServiceTier;` to the edited modules.
### Testing
- Ran `just fmt` and `just fix -p codex-core` to apply formatting and
lints and they completed successfully.
- Ran `cargo test -p codex-core --lib service_tier` (focused unit tests
for the change) and the tests passed.
- Ran `cargo test -p codex-protocol` and the protocol test suite passed.
- Note: an initial broader `cargo test -p codex-core service_tier`
invocation matched integration tests and produced unrelated
failures/hangs, so that run was interrupted and the focused `--lib`
unit-test invocation was used instead.
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