1. Adds SkillScope::Public end-to-end (core + protocol) and loads skills
from the public cache directory
2. Improves repo skill discovery by searching upward for the nearest
.codex/skills within a git repo
3. Deduplicates skills by name with deterministic ordering to avoid
duplicates across sources
4. Fixes garbled “Skill errors” overlay rendering by preventing pending
history lines from being injected during the modal
5. Updates the project docs “Skills” intro wording to avoid hardcoded
paths
This reverts commit 291b54a762.
This commit was intended to prevent the model from making code changes
during `/review`, which is sometimes does. Unfortunately, it has other
unintended side effects that cause `/review` to fail in a variety of
ways. See #8115 and #7815. We've therefore decided to revert this
change.
refactor the way we load and manage skills:
1. Move skill discovery/caching into SkillsManager and reuse it across
sessions.
2. Add the skills/list API (Op::ListSkills/SkillsListResponse) to fetch
skills for one or more cwds. Also update app-server for VSCE/App;
3. Trigger skills/list during session startup so UIs preload skills and
handle errors immediately.
Changes the `writable_roots` field of the `WorkspaceWrite` variant of
the `SandboxPolicy` enum from `Vec<PathBuf>` to `Vec<AbsolutePathBuf>`.
This is helpful because now callers can be sure the value is an absolute
path rather than a relative one. (Though when using an absolute path in
a Seatbelt config policy, we still have to _canonicalize_ it first.)
Because `writable_roots` can be read from a config file, it is important
that we are able to resolve relative paths properly using the parent
folder of the config file as the base path.
We decided that `*.rules` is a more fitting (and concise) file extension
than `*.codexpolicy`, so we are changing the file extension for the
"execpolicy" effort. We are also changing the subfolder of `$CODEX_HOME`
from `policy` to `rules` to match.
This PR updates the in-repo docs and we will update the public docs once
the next CLI release goes out.
Locally, I created `~/.codex/rules/default.rules` with the following
contents:
```
prefix_rule(pattern=["gh", "pr", "view"])
```
And then I asked Codex to run:
```
gh pr view 7888 --json title,body,comments
```
and it was able to!
1. Skills load once in core at session start; the cached outcome is
reused across core and surfaced to TUI via SessionConfigured.
2. TUI detects explicit skill selections, and core injects the matching
SKILL.md content into the turn when a selected skill is present.
- Make Config.model optional and centralize default-selection logic in
ModelsManager, including a default_model helper (with
codex-auto-balanced when available) so sessions now carry an explicit
chosen model separate from the base config.
- Resolve `model` once in `core` and `tui` from config. Then store the
state of it on other structs.
- Move refreshing models to be before resolving the default model
helpful in the future if we want more granularity for requesting
escalated permissions:
e.g when running in readonly sandbox, model can request to escalate to a
sandbox that allows writes
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Issue #7661 revealed that users are confused by deprecation warnings
like:
> `tools.web_search` is deprecated. Use `web_search_request` instead.
This message misleadingly suggests renaming the config key from
`web_search` to `web_search_request`, when the actual required change is
to **move and rename the configuration from the `[tools]` section to the
`[features]` section**.
This PR clarifies the warning messages and documentation to make it
clear that deprecated `[tools]` configurations should be moved to
`[features]`. Changes made:
- Updated deprecation warning format in `codex-rs/core/src/codex.rs:520`
to include `[features].` prefix
- Updated corresponding test expectations in
`codex-rs/core/tests/suite/deprecation_notice.rs:39`
- Improved documentation in `docs/config.md` to clarify upfront that
`[tools]` options are deprecated in favor of `[features]`
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## Summary
This PR is heavily based on #4017, which contains the core logic for the
fix. To reduce the risk, we are first introducing it only on windows. We
can then expand to wsl / other environments as needed, and then tackle
net new files.
## Testing
- [x] added unit tests in apply-patch
- [x] add integration tests to apply_patch_cli.rs
---------
Co-authored-by: Chase Naples <Cnaples79@gmail.com>
- This PR wires `with_remote_overrides` and make the
`construct_model_families` an async function
- Moves getting model family a level above to keep the function `sync`
- Updates the tests to local, offline, and `sync` helper for model
families
- Introduce `with_remote_overrides` and update
`refresh_available_models`
- Put `auth_manager` instead of `auth_mode` on `models_manager`
- Remove `ShellType` and `ReasoningLevel` to use already existing
structs
**Change**: Seatbelt now allows file-ioctl on /dev/ttys[0-9]+ even
without the sandbox extension so pre-created PTYs remain interactive
(Python REPL, shells).
**Risk**: A seatbelted process that already holds a PTY fd (including
one it shouldn’t) could issue tty ioctls like TIOCSTI or termios changes
on that fd. This doesn’t allow opening new PTYs or reading/writing them;
it only broadens ioctl capability on existing fds.
**Why acceptable**: We already hand the child its PTY for interactive
use; restoring ioctls is required for isatty() and prompts to work. The
attack requires being given or inheriting a sensitive PTY fd; by design
we don’t hand untrusted processes other users’ PTYs (we don't hand them
any PTYs actually), so the practical exposure is limited to the PTY
intentionally allocated for the session.
**Validation**:
Running
```
start a python interpreter and keep it running
```
Followed by:
* `calculate 1+1 using it` -> works as expected
* `Use this Python session to run the command just fix in
/Users/jif/code/codex/codex-rs` -> does not work as expected
## Refactor of the `execpolicy` crate
To illustrate why we need this refactor, consider an agent attempting to
run `apple | rm -rf ./`. Suppose `apple` is allowed by `execpolicy`.
Before this PR, `execpolicy` would consider `apple` and `pear` and only
render one rule match: `Allow`. We would skip any heuristics checks on
`rm -rf ./` and immediately approve `apple | rm -rf ./` to run.
To fix this, we now thread a `fallback` evaluation function into
`execpolicy` that runs when no `execpolicy` rules match a given command.
In our example, we would run `fallback` on `rm -rf ./` and prevent
`apple | rm -rf ./` from being run without approval.
this PR enables TUI to approve commands and add their prefixes to an
allowlist:
<img width="708" height="605" alt="Screenshot 2025-11-21 at 4 18 07 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/56a19893-4553-4770-a881-becf79eeda32"
/>
note: we only show the option to whitelist the command when
1) command is not multi-part (e.g `git add -A && git commit -m 'hello
world'`)
2) command is not already matched by an existing rule
This PR moves `ModelsFamily` to `openai_models`. It also propagates
`ModelsManager` to session services and use it to drive model family. We
also make `derive_default_model_family` private because it's a step
towards what we want: one place that gives model configuration.
This is a second step at having one source of truth for models
information and config: `ModelsManager`.
Next steps would be to remove `ModelsFamily` from config. That's massive
because it's being used in 41 occasions mostly pre launching `codex`.
Also, we need to make `find_family_for_model` private. It's also big
because it's being used in 21 occasions ~ all tests.
- Introduce `openai_models` in `/core`
- Move `PRESETS` under it
- Move `ModelPreset`, `ModelUpgrade`, `ReasoningEffortPreset`,
`ReasoningEffortPreset`, and `ReasoningEffortPreset` to `protocol`
- Introduce `Op::ListModels` and `EventMsg::AvailableModels`
Next steps:
- migrate `app-server` and `tui` to use the introduced Operation
