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riley-oai ca6fb194b6 Wire app-server user verification RPCs to the native provider (#43568)
## Why

The existing `userVerification/*` handlers always returned unavailability, leaving local clients unable to use the native verification provider.

## What changed

- Dispatch status, enrollment, deletion, and challenge signing through an account-scoped provider. Enrollment creates or reuses a local key; it does not register credentials with a server.
- Restrict enrollment, deletion, and signing to stdio and in-process connections, rejecting WebSocket and remote-control callers before parameter validation.
- Bound native work to one operation per service with a 120-second timeout, and propagate in-process caller cancellation. Recheck connection, cancellation, and authentication state before delivering results, including after waiting for response queue capacity.
- Add device-gated verification capability wiring for the experimental in-process `codex-tui` client, with automatic activation still disabled by default.

## Testing

Add tests for local key reuse and deletion, decoded challenge signing, cancellation, authentication changes during verification and response queuing, concurrent worker rejection, and stdio/WebSocket RPC behavior.

GitOrigin-RevId: 7eac15a5ffb049d27bf8fedcfbae19a49a3f6a3d
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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.