## Why
Cloud-hosted sessions need a way for the service that starts or manages
a thread to provide session-owned config without treating all config as
if it came from the same user/project/workspace TOML stack.
The important boundary is ownership: some values should be controlled by
the session/orchestrator, some by the authenticated user, and later some
may come from the executor. The earlier broad config-store shape made
that boundary too fuzzy and overlapped heavily with the existing
filesystem-backed config loader. This PR starts with the smaller piece
we need now: a typed session config loader that can feed the existing
config layer stack while preserving the normal precedence and merge
behavior.
## What Changed
- Added `ThreadConfigLoader` and related typed payloads in
`codex-config`.
- `SessionThreadConfig` currently supports `model_provider`,
`model_providers`, and feature flags.
- `UserThreadConfig` is present as an ownership boundary, but does not
yet add TOML-backed fields.
- `NoopThreadConfigLoader` preserves existing behavior when no external
loader is configured.
- `StaticThreadConfigLoader` supports tests and simple callers.
- Taught thread config sources to produce ordinary `ConfigLayerEntry`
values so the existing `ConfigLayerStack` remains the place where
precedence and merging happen.
- Wired the loader through `ConfigBuilder`, the config loader, and
app-server startup paths so app-server can provide session-owned config
before deriving a thread config.
- Added coverage for:
- translating typed thread config into config layers,
- inserting thread config layers into the stack at the right precedence,
- applying session-provided model provider and feature settings when
app-server derives config from thread params.
## Follow-Ups
This intentionally stops short of adding the remote/service transport.
The next pieces are expected to be:
1. Define the proto/API shape for this interface.
2. Add a client implementation that can source session config from the
service side.
## Verification
- Added unit coverage in `codex-config` for the loader and layer
conversion.
- Added `codex-core` config loader coverage for thread config layer
precedence.
- Added app-server coverage that verifies session thread config wins
over request-provided config for model provider and feature settings.
Addresses #17283
Problem: `codex --remote wss://...` could panic because
app-server-client did not install rustls' process-level crypto provider
before opening TLS websocket connections.
Solution: Add the existing rustls provider utility dependency and
install it before the remote websocket connect.
When running with remote executor the cwd is the remote path. Today we
check for existence of a local directory on startup and attempt to load
config from it.
For remote executors don't do that.
This PR completes the conversion of non-interactive `codex exec` to use
app server rather than directly using core events and methods.
### Summary
- move `codex-exec` off exec-owned `AuthManager` and `ThreadManager`
state
- route exec bootstrap, resume, and auth refresh through existing
app-server paths
- replace legacy `codex/event/*` decoding in exec with typed app-server
notification handling
- update human and JSONL exec output adapters to translate existing
app-server notifications only
- clean up "app server client" layer by eliminating support for legacy
notifications; this is no longer needed
- remove exposure of `authManager` and `threadManager` from "app server
client" layer
### Testing
- `exec` has pretty extensive unit and integration tests already, and
these all pass
- In addition, I asked Codex to put together a comprehensive manual set
of tests to cover all of the `codex exec` functionality (including
command-line options), and it successfully generated and ran these tests
- Split the feature system into a new `codex-features` crate.
- Cut `codex-core` and workspace consumers over to the new config and
warning APIs.
Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
This PR replicates the `tui` code directory and creates a temporary
parallel `tui_app_server` directory. It also implements a new feature
flag `tui_app_server` to select between the two tui implementations.
Once the new app-server-based TUI is stabilized, we'll delete the old
`tui` directory and feature flag.
This is a subset of PR #13636. See that PR for a full overview of the
architectural change.
This PR implements the in-process app server and modifies the
non-interactive "exec" entry point to use the app server.
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Co-authored-by: Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@gmail.com>
