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## Why

TUI preferences and persistence paths belong to the local client, while thread
configuration and account requirements may come from the active app server.
Keeping both in the same resolved `Config` can replace live local preferences
when a thread is resumed, forked, reconnected, or switched.

## What changed

- Add `LocalSettings` as the TUI-owned source for UI, history, notice, and local
  persistence settings, and preserve it across session lifecycle transitions.
- Write preference changes to the selected user config file and reload local
  settings from disk when changing roots.
- Use the app server's account response for authentication-dependent onboarding
  and status UI instead of the local model-provider configuration.
- Retain platform family and OS metadata reported by remote app servers.

## Testing

- Cover local setting defaults, overrides, persistence destinations, reloads,
  and preservation across widget replacement and root switching.
- Cover remote platform metadata and server-controlled authentication UI.

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Separate TUI preferences from server configuration (#42202 )

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fix(bazel) add missing app-server-client BUILD.bazel (#14027 )

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Add support for UDS in codex --remote (#22414 )

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README.md

Prevent unread events from blocking in-process requests (#38381 )

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README.md

codex-app-server-client

Shared in-process app-server client used by conversational CLI surfaces:

codex-exec
codex-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: InProcessServerEvent
- ServerRequest
- ServerNotification
- LegacyNotification

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/start or thread/resume
app-server returns the immediate typed response
richer session metadata may arrive later as a SessionConfigured legacy 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_CAPACITY by 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.