## What changed - Replace `send_user_message_async` with `request_user_input_async`, accepting one or more questions with optional suggested answers while allowing the turn to continue. - Attach structured question metadata to asynchronous agent messages while retaining readable fallback text, and preserve it through app-server events, thread history, and generated schemas. - Continue enabling the new tool for model catalogs that advertise either the old or new tool name. ## Testing - Cover tool registration, question validation, emitted items, continued turn execution, history preservation, and backwards-compatible deserialization. GitOrigin-RevId: ffc49aebde2e854c3c50a122aa52805fec3fc6b3
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.