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Benjamin Carlsson e6bf88ae02 Support Cloud image messages and editable draft handoffs (#60061)
## Why

Cloud messages previously accepted only plain text, and switching a draft to Cloud waited for session preparation without processing composer input.

## What changed

- Support ordered text and image parts in Cloud submissions and user-message summaries, preserving attachment placeholders, image detail, and client message IDs.
- Accept inline data URLs and uploaded file IDs, including image-only messages. Reject invalid references and text spans locally, and cap encoded image requests at 3.75 MiB while retaining the existing plain-text limit.
- Keep the composer editable and redraw the TUI while Cloud prepares a conversation. Carry the latest draft, attachments, and Vim mode into the destination, retain drafts on failure, and prevent submission to the outgoing session during the handoff.
- Preserve buffered paste input and pending clipboard reads across the handoff, with connection and failure hints.

## Testing

Add regression coverage for image wire encoding, receipt identity, validation and size boundaries, draft editing during successful and failed handoffs, clipboard completion, Vim state, and attachment recovery after rejected submissions.

GitOrigin-RevId: 0cbcde0ab89ba961780b5f88456057e6b6a19cd5
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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.