Protect first-time project .codex creation across Linux and macOS sandboxes (#15067)

## Problem

Codex already treated an existing top-level project `./.codex` directory
as protected, but there was a gap on first creation.

If `./.codex` did not exist yet, a turn could create files under it,
such as `./.codex/config.toml`, without going through the same approval
path as later modifications. That meant the initial write could bypass
the intended protection for project-local Codex state.

## What this changes

This PR closes that first-creation gap in the Unix enforcement layers:

- `codex-protocol`
- treat the top-level project `./.codex` path as a protected carveout
even when it does not exist yet
- avoid injecting the default carveout when the user already has an
explicit rule for that exact path
- macOS Seatbelt
- deny writes to both the exact protected path and anything beneath it,
so creating `./.codex` itself is blocked in addition to writes inside it
- Linux bubblewrap
- preserve the same protected-path behavior for first-time creation
under `./.codex`
- tests
- add protocol regressions for missing `./.codex` and explicit-rule
collisions
- add Unix sandbox coverage for blocking first-time `./.codex` creation
  - tighten Seatbelt policy assertions around excluded subpaths

## Scope

This change is intentionally scoped to protecting the top-level project
`.codex` subtree from agent writes.

It does not make `.codex` unreadable, and it does not change the product
behavior around loading project skills from `.codex` when project config
is untrusted.

## Why this shape

The fix is pointed rather than broad:
- it preserves the current model of “project `.codex` is protected from
writes”
- it closes the security-relevant first-write hole
- it avoids folding a larger permissions-model redesign into this PR

## Validation

- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-sandboxing seatbelt`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec --test all
sandbox_blocks_first_time_dot_codex_creation -- --nocapture`

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Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com>
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assert_eq!(
args.args,
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// Start from a read-only view of the full filesystem.
"--ro-bind".to_string(),
"/".to_string(),
"/".to_string(),
// Recreate a writable /dev inside the sandbox.
"--dev".to_string(),
"/dev".to_string(),
// Make the writable root itself writable again.
"--bind".to_string(),
"/".to_string(),
"/".to_string(),
// Mask the default protected .codex subpath under that writable
// root. Because the root is `/` in this test, the carveout path
// appears as `/.codex`.
"--ro-bind".to_string(),
"/dev/null".to_string(),
"/.codex".to_string(),
// Rebind /dev after the root bind so device nodes remain
// writable/usable inside the writable root.
"--bind".to_string(),
"/dev".to_string(),
"/dev".to_string(),