## Why
The VS Code extension and desktop app do not need the full TUI binary,
and `codex-app-server` is materially smaller than standalone `codex`. We
still want to publish it as an official release artifact, but building
it by tacking another `--bin` onto the existing release `cargo build`
invocations would lengthen those jobs.
This change keeps `codex-app-server` on its own release bundle so it can
build in parallel with the existing `codex` and helper bundles.
## What changed
- Made `.github/workflows/rust-release.yml` bundle-aware so each macOS
and Linux MUSL target now builds either the existing `primary` bundle
(`codex` and `codex-responses-api-proxy`) or a standalone `app-server`
bundle (`codex-app-server`).
- Preserved the historical artifact names for the primary macOS/Linux
bundles so `scripts/stage_npm_packages.py` and
`codex-cli/scripts/install_native_deps.py` continue to find release
assets under the paths they already expect, while giving the new
app-server artifacts distinct names.
- Added a matching `app-server` bundle to
`.github/workflows/rust-release-windows.yml`, and updated the final
Windows packaging job to download, sign, stage, and archive
`codex-app-server.exe` alongside the existing release binaries.
- Generalized the shared signing actions in
`.github/actions/linux-code-sign/action.yml`,
`.github/actions/macos-code-sign/action.yml`, and
`.github/actions/windows-code-sign/action.yml` so each workflow row
declares its binaries once and reuses that list for build, signing, and
staging.
- Added `codex-app-server` to `.github/dotslash-config.json` so releases
also publish a generated DotSlash manifest for the standalone app-server
binary.
- Kept the macOS DMG focused on the existing `primary` bundle;
`codex-app-server` ships as the regular standalone archives and DotSlash
manifest.
## Verification
- Parsed the modified workflow and action YAML files locally with
`python3` + `yaml.safe_load(...)`.
- Parsed `.github/dotslash-config.json` locally with `python3` +
`json.loads(...)`.
- Reviewed the resulting release matrices, artifact names, and packaging
paths to confirm that `codex-app-server` is built separately on macOS,
Linux MUSL, and Windows, while the existing npm staging and Windows
`codex` zip bundling contracts remain intact.
The Windows Elevated Sandbox uses two new binaries:
codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe
codex-command-runner.exe
This PR includes them when installing native deps and packaging for npm
This should make the `codex-responses-api-proxy` binaries available for
all platforms in a GitHub Release as well as a corresponding DotSlash
file.
Making `codex-responses-api-proxy` available as an `npm` module will be
done in a follow-up PR.
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This is in support of https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2979.
Once we have a release out, we can update the npm module and the VS Code
extension to take advantage of this.
Release builds are taking awhile and part of the reason that we are
building binaries that we are not really using. Adding Windows binaries
into releases (https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/2035) slows things
down, so we need to get some time back.
- `codex-exec` is basically a standalone `codex exec` that we were
offering because it's a bit smaller as it does not include all the bits
to power the TUI. We were using it in our experimental GitHub Action, so
this PR updates the Action to use `codex exec` instead.
- `codex-linux-sandbox` was a helper binary for the TypeScript version
of the CLI, but I am about to axe that, so we don't need this either.
If we decide to bring `codex-exec` back at some point, we should use a
separate instances so we can build it in parallel with `codex`. (I think
if we had beefier build machines, this wouldn't be so bad, but that's
not the case with the default runners from GitHub.)
Now that we have published a GitHub Release that contains arm64 musl
artifacts for Linux, update the following scripts to take advantage of
them:
- `dotslash-config.json` now uses musl artifacts for the `linux-aarch64`
target
- `install_native_deps.sh` for the TypeScript CLI now includes
`codex-linux-sandbox-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl` instead of
`codex-linux-sandbox-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu` for sandboxing
- `codex-cli/bin/codex.js` now checks for `aarch64-unknown-linux-musl`
artifacts instead of `aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu` ones
This introduces a standalone executable that run the equivalent of the
`codex debug landlock` subcommand and updates `rust-release.yml` to
include it in the release.
The idea is that we will include this small binary with the TypeScript
CLI to provide support for Linux sandboxing.
Taking a pass at building artifacts per platform so we can consider
different distribution strategies that don't require users to install
the full `cargo` toolchain.
Right now this grabs just the `codex-repl` and `codex-tui` bins for 5
different targets and bundles them into a draft release. I think a
clearly marked pre-release set of artifacts will unblock the next step
of testing.
