**Stack position:** [1 of 7]
## Summary
The first three PRs in this stack are a cleanup pass before the actual
thread settings API work.
Today, core has several overlapping "user input" ops: `UserInput`,
`UserInputWithTurnContext`, and `UserTurn`. They differ mostly in how
much next-turn state they carry, which makes the later queued thread
settings update harder to reason about and review.
This PR starts that cleanup by adding the shared
`ThreadSettingsOverrides` payload and allowing `Op::UserInput` to carry
it. Existing variants remain in place here, so this layer is mostly a
behavior-preserving API shape change plus mechanical constructor
updates.
## End State After PR3
By the end of PR3, `Op::UserInput` is the only "user input" core op. It
can carry optional thread settings overrides for callers that need to
update stored defaults with a turn, while callers without updates use
empty settings. `Op::UserInputWithTurnContext` and `Op::UserTurn` are
deleted.
## End State After PR5
By the end of PR5, core will have only two ops for this area:
- `Op::UserInput` for user-input-bearing submissions.
- `Op::ThreadSettings` for settings-only updates.
## Stack
1. [1 of 7] [Add thread settings to
UserInput](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23080) (this PR)
2. [2 of 7] [Remove
UserInputWithTurnContext](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23081)
3. [3 of 7] [Remove
UserTurn](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23075)
4. [4 of 7] [Placeholder for OverrideTurnContext
cleanup](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23087)
5. [5 of 7] [Replace OverrideTurnContext with
ThreadSettings](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22508)
6. [6 of 7] [Add app-server thread settings
API](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22509)
7. [7 of 7] [Sync TUI thread
settings](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/22510)
## Summary
- mark `ToolSearch` as removed and ignore stale config writes for its
legacy key
- make search tool exposure depend only on model capability, not a
feature toggle
- remove app-server enablement support and prune now-obsolete test
coverage/setup
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-features`
- `cargo test -p codex-tools`
- `cargo test -p codex-core search_tool_requires_model_capability`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server experimental_feature_enablement_set_`
## Notes
- This keeps the legacy config key as a no-op for compatibility while
removing the ability to toggle the behavior off cleanly.
- No developer-facing docs update outside the touched app-server README
was needed.
Deletes the skill env var dependency prompt feature and its runtime
path. env_var entries in skill dependency metadata are now silently
ignored during skill loading.
## Why
Compaction now installs replacement history inside the session, but the
turn and compaction callers were still reaching into
`ModelClientSession` to reset websocket transport state after that
install. That made a transport-level reset part of the compaction API
even though websocket incremental request selection already checks
whether the next request is a strict extension of the previous one and
falls back to a full `response.create` when it is not.
## What changed
- Removed the compaction-side calls to `reset_websocket_session` from
`compact.rs` and `session/turn.rs`.
- Simplified pre-sampling and mid-turn compaction helpers so they return
`CodexResult<()>` instead of carrying a reset flag.
- Made `ModelClientSession::reset_websocket_session` private to
`client.rs`, leaving only the websocket timeout recovery path inside the
client as a caller.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
responses_websocket_creates_on_non_prefix`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
steered_user_input_waits_for_model_continuation_after_mid_turn_compact`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
pre_sampling_compact_runs_on_switch_to_smaller_context_model`
## Why
The v2 app-server permission profile fields are experimental, but the
previous migration kept a legacy object payload for profile selection.
That made clients aware of server-owned `activePermissionProfile`
metadata such as `extends`, and it kept a
`legacy_additional_writable_roots` path even though
`runtimeWorkspaceRoots` now owns runtime workspace-root selection.
This PR makes the client contract match the intended model: clients
select a permission profile by id, and the server resolves and reports
active profile provenance in response payloads.
Follow-up to #22611.
## What Changed
- Changed `thread/start`, `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`, and
`turn/start` permission profile selection to plain profile id strings.
- Changed `command/exec.permissionProfile` to a plain profile id string
for the same client/server ownership split.
- Removed `PermissionProfileSelectionParams` and the legacy `{ type:
"profile", modifications: [...] }` compatibility deserializer.
- Updated app-server, TUI, and `codex exec` call sites to send only ids,
while keeping `activePermissionProfile` as server response metadata.
- Updated app-server docs and schema fixtures for the revised
`command/exec.permissionProfile` shape.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-tui`
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* #23368
* __->__ #23360
## Why
- Follows #20949.
- The above moved `thread_source` attribution from the reducer to
explicit caller provided metadata
- The `codex exec` path still omitted this metadata, leaving
exec-created threads without `thread_source`
## What Changed
- Ensures exec threads are marked as user created (`thread_source =
"user"`)
- Preserves thread-source metadata in exec’s startup session event
## Verification
- Updated unit tests to validate exec `thread_source` propagation.
- `cargo +1.93.0 test -p codex-exec --manifest-path codex-rs/Cargo.toml`
- `cargo +1.93.1 build -p codex-cli --manifest-path codex-rs/Cargo.toml`
- Validated locally with a freshly built `codex exec` run:
- Startup logs showed `thread_source: Some(User)`.
- Rollout metadata recorded `"thread_source":"user"`.
## Why
Older iTerm2 builds can be detected as supporting the image transport
that terminal pets use, but in practice they fail to render the pet flow
correctly. Instead of silently attempting image rendering, Codex should
tell the user that their iTerm2 version is too old and that upgrading is
the fix.
## What Changed
- gate iTerm2 pet auto-detection on version `3.6.0` or newer
- show a dedicated upgrade message for older or unknown iTerm2 versions
instead of the generic unsupported-terminal warning
- keep the existing generic unsupported-terminal path for non-iTerm
terminals
- add regression coverage for iTerm2 version parsing and the old-iTerm
warning path
## How to Test
1. Start Codex in iTerm2 3.6 or newer.
2. Run `/pets`.
3. Confirm the pets picker opens instead of showing a warning.
4. Start Codex in an older iTerm2 build, or exercise the equivalent test
path.
5. Run `/pets`.
6. Confirm Codex warns that pets require iTerm2 3.6 or newer and tells
the user to upgrade.
7. Also verify that a non-iTerm unsupported terminal still shows the
generic unsupported-terminal message.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-terminal-detection`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui pets::`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui slash_pets_on_unsupported_terminal`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui slash_pets_on_old_iterm2`
