## Why Application network restrictions need to cover clients created by the TUI and `codex exec` before embedded app-server startup, and remain effective when configuration is rebuilt. ## What changed - Introduce `EmbeddedNetworkPolicy` to share live policy between caller-owned transports and the embedded app-server. - Apply loaded requirements before creating telemetry, background HTTP clients, and executor connections. Limit authentication and cloud configuration bootstrap requests to exact endpoints under local policy. - Preserve the shared policy across TUI session changes, permission-profile rebuilds, and worktree cloud loaders so existing clients observe policy reloads and failures. - Document application network policy behavior and transport coverage. ## Testing Add regression coverage for policy activation, reload failure and recovery, retained policy across TUI rebuilds, rejected OAuth and cloud-policy redirects, and workspace network restrictions with `CODEX_API_KEY`. Also cover retaining the caller-selected project during embedded startup. GitOrigin-RevId: 629009f087b8cb21fc34a1ee7ea6fe95d9e0f2b5
codex-app-server-client
Shared in-process app-server client used by conversational CLI surfaces:
codex-execcodex-tui
Purpose
This crate centralizes startup and lifecycle management for an in-process
codex-app-server runtime, so CLI clients do not need to duplicate:
- app-server bootstrap and initialize handshake
- in-memory request/event transport wiring
- lifecycle orchestration around caller-provided startup identity
- graceful shutdown behavior
Startup identity
Callers pass both the app-server SessionSource and the initialize
client_info.name explicitly when starting the facade.
That keeps thread metadata (for example in thread/list and thread/read)
aligned with the originating runtime without baking TUI/exec-specific policy
into the shared client layer.
Transport model
The in-process path uses typed channels:
- client -> server:
ClientRequest/ClientNotification - server -> client:
InProcessServerEventServerRequestServerNotificationLegacyNotification
JSON serialization is still used at external transport boundaries (stdio/websocket), but the in-process hot path is typed.
Typed requests still receive app-server responses through the JSON-RPC result envelope internally. That is intentional: the in-process path is meant to preserve app-server semantics while removing the process boundary, not to introduce a second response contract.
Bootstrap behavior
The client facade starts an already-initialized in-process runtime, but thread bootstrap still follows normal app-server flow:
- caller sends
thread/startorthread/resume - app-server returns the immediate typed response
- richer session metadata may arrive later as a
SessionConfiguredlegacy event
Surfaces such as TUI and exec may therefore need a short bootstrap phase where they reconcile startup response data with later events.
Backpressure and shutdown
- Command queues and the embedded runtime remain bounded, using
DEFAULT_IN_PROCESS_CHANNEL_CAPACITYby default. - The facade's local consumer event queue is unbounded and preserves notification order. This keeps the worker draining the bounded runtime while a caller waits for a request, preventing unread notifications from blocking its response.
shutdown()performs a bounded graceful shutdown and then aborts if timeout is exceeded.