## Why
The app-server watcher relocation leaves the generic filesystem watcher
as the last watcher-specific implementation still living inside
`codex-core`. Moving that code to a small crate keeps `codex-core`
focused on thread execution and lets app-server depend on the watcher
without reaching back into core for filesystem watching primitives.
This PR is stacked on #21287.
## What changed
- Added a new `codex-file-watcher` crate containing the existing watcher
implementation and its unit tests.
- Updated app-server `fs_watch`, `skills_watcher`, and listener state to
import watcher types from `codex-file-watcher`.
- Removed the `file_watcher` module and `notify` dependency from
`codex-core`.
- Updated Cargo workspace metadata and `Cargo.lock` for the new internal
crate.
## Validation
- `cargo check -p codex-file-watcher -p codex-core -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-file-watcher`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
skills_changed_notification_is_emitted_after_skill_change`
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `just fix -p codex-file-watcher`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
## Why
PR #21460 reverted the earlier move of skills change watching from
`codex-core` into app-server. This reapplies that boundary change so
app-server owns client-facing `skills/changed` notifications and core no
longer carries the watcher.
## What
- Restore the app-server `SkillsWatcher` and register it from thread
listener setup.
- Remove the core-owned skills watcher and its core live-reload
integration surface.
- Restore app-server coverage for `skills/changed` notifications after a
watched skill file changes.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
suite::v2::skills_list::skills_changed_notification_is_emitted_after_skill_change
-- --exact --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib --no-run`
## Why
We'd like SQLite state to become required and load-bearing. As a first
step, let's remove the mechanism that allows us to blow away the SQLite
DB on a version bump, and instead rely on graceful migrations.
The original motivation
([PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/10623)) behind this mechanism
was to care less about backwards compatibility while SQLite was being
landed, but I'd say it's quite important now to keep the data in it.
## What changed
- Make `STATE_DB_FILENAME` and `LOGS_DB_FILENAME` the full canonical
filenames: `state_5.sqlite` and `logs_2.sqlite`.
- Remove `STATE_DB_VERSION` / `LOGS_DB_VERSION` and the helper that
constructed filenames from versions.
- Stop `StateRuntime::init` from scanning for or deleting older SQLite
DB filenames at startup.
- Delete the tests that encoded legacy state/logs DB deletion behavior.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-state`
## Why
Amazon Bedrock Mantle needs a stable client-agent header so requests
from the built-in Bedrock provider can be identified as coming from
Codex for safety stack.
## What changed
- Added `x-amzn-mantle-client-agent: codex` to the built-in Amazon
Bedrock provider default HTTP headers.
## Why
Desktop and mobile Codex clients need a machine-readable way to
bootstrap and manage `codex app-server` on remote machines reached over
SSH. The same flow is also useful for bringing up app-server with
`remote_control` enabled on a fresh developer machine and keeping that
managed install current without requiring a human session.
## What changed
- add the new experimental `codex-app-server-daemon` crate and wire it
into `codex app-server daemon` lifecycle commands: `start`, `restart`,
`stop`, `version`, and `bootstrap`
- add explicit `enable-remote-control` and `disable-remote-control`
commands that persist the launch setting and restart a running managed
daemon so the change takes effect immediately
- emit JSON success responses for daemon commands so remote callers can
consume them directly
- support a Unix-only pidfile-backed detached backend for lifecycle
management
- assume the standalone `install.sh` layout for daemon-managed binaries
and always launch `CODEX_HOME/packages/standalone/current/codex`
- add bootstrap support for the standalone managed install plus a
detached hourly updater loop
- harden lifecycle management around concurrent operations, pidfile
ownership, stale state cleanup, updater ownership, managed-binary
preflight, Unix-only rejection, forced shutdown after the graceful
window, and updater process-group tracking/cleanup
- document the experimental Unix-only support boundary plus the
standalone bootstrap/update flow in
`codex-rs/app-server-daemon/README.md`
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-daemon -p codex-cli`
- live pid validation on `cb4`: `bootstrap --remote-control`, `restart`,
`version`, `stop`
## Follow-up
- Add updater self-refresh so the long-lived `pid-update-loop` can
replace its own executable image after installing a newer managed Codex
binary.
## Why
The environment-backed exec-server transport currently hardcodes 5
second connect and initialize timeouts in `client_transport.rs`. That is
short for SSH-backed stdio environments and remote websocket
environments, and there is currently no way to raise those values from
`CODEX_HOME/environments.toml`.
This stacked follow-up raises the default environment transport timeouts
and lets each configured environment override them in
`environments.toml`.
## What Changed
- raise the default environment transport connect and initialize
timeouts from 5s to 10s
- store concrete timeout values on `ExecServerTransportParams` instead
of hardcoding them in `connect_for_transport(...)`
- add `connect_timeout_sec` and `initialize_timeout_sec` to
`[[environments]]` entries in `environments.toml`
- apply parse-time defaults so runtime transport code receives fully
resolved timeout values
- reject `connect_timeout_sec` on stdio environments because it only
applies to websocket transports
- extend parser tests to cover the new fields and defaults
## Stack
- base: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/21794
- this PR: configurable environment transport timeouts
## Validation
- `cd
/Users/starr/code/codex-worktrees/exec-env-timeouts-config-20260508/codex-rs
&& just fmt`
- not run: tests
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
Support registry-backed remote executors end to end so downstream
services can resolve an executor id into an exec-server URL and make
that environment available to Codex without relying on the legacy cloud
environments flow.
## What changed
- switch remote executor registration to the executor registry bootstrap
contract
- allow named remote environments to be inserted into
`EnvironmentManager` at runtime
- add the experimental app-server RPC `environment/add` so initialized
experimental clients can register those remote environments for later
`thread/start` and `turn/start` selection
## Validation
Ran focused validation locally:
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server environment_manager_`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server
register_executor_posts_with_bearer_token_header`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
## Why
The app-server daemon work needs two app-server behaviors to be safe
when lifecycle management is driven by a helper process:
- a readiness probe must not become the process-wide client identity
just because it connects first
- a graceful reload signal needs to keep draining active turns even if
it is delivered more than once
## What changed
- Treat `codex_app_server_daemon` initialization as a probe-only client
for process-global originator and user-agent suffix state.
- Distinguish forceable shutdown signals from graceful-only ones, and
treat Unix `SIGHUP` as graceful-only while leaving `SIGTERM` and Ctrl-C
forceable.
- Add regression coverage for daemon probe initialization and repeated
`SIGHUP` delivery while a turn is still running.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server`
- The new daemon-probe and repeated-`SIGHUP` coverage passed.
- The run still failed in the existing
`suite::conversation_summary::get_conversation_summary_by_relative_rollout_path_resolves_from_codex_home`
and
`suite::conversation_summary::get_conversation_summary_by_thread_id_reads_rollout`
tests because their initialize handshake timed out.
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
suite::conversation_summary::`
- Reproduced the same two existing initialize-timeout failures in
isolation.
## Summary
- make EnvironmentProvider::snapshot path-free and keep providers
focused on provider-owned remote environments
- let provider snapshots request local inclusion via include_local, with
environments.toml including local and CODEX_EXEC_SERVER_URL excluding
local
- move reserved local environment construction into EnvironmentManager
using ExecServerRuntimePaths
Follow-up to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/20667
## Testing
- just fmt
- git diff --check
- devbox: bazel build --bes_backend= --bes_results_url=
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server
- devbox: bazel test --bes_backend= --bes_results_url=
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-unit-tests
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Why
PR CI should test the exact commit that was pushed to the PR branch. By
default, GitHub's `pull_request` event checks out a synthetic merge
commit from `refs/pull/<number>/merge`, so the tested tree can include
an implicit merge with the current base branch instead of matching the
pushed head SHA.
Using the PR head SHA makes each check result correspond to a concrete
commit the author submitted. This also behaves better for stacked PR
workflows, including Sapling stacks and other Git stack tooling: a
middle PR's head commit already contains the lower stack changes in its
tree, without pulling in commits above it or GitHub's temporary merge
ref.
## What Changed
- Set every `actions/checkout` in `pull_request` workflows under
`.github/workflows` to use `github.event.pull_request.head.sha` on PR
events and `github.sha` otherwise.
- Updated `blob-size-policy` to compare
`github.event.pull_request.base.sha` and
`github.event.pull_request.head.sha`, since it no longer checks out
GitHub's merge commit where `HEAD^1`/`HEAD^2` represented the PR range.
## Verification
- Parsed the edited workflow YAML files with Ruby.
- Checked that every checkout block in the `pull_request` workflows has
the PR-head `ref`.
## Summary
Startup tool construction currently depends on connector directory
metadata for `tool_suggest` discoverables. On a cold directory cache,
that can put slow connector-directory requests on the blocking path even
though the tools array only needs directory data for install
suggestions, not for the live connector MCP tools themselves.
This PR keeps the discoverables path off that cold network fetch:
- read connector directory metadata from cache only when building
discoverable tools
- persist connector directory metadata to
`~/.codex/cache/codex_app_directory/<hash>.json` and use it to hydrate
the in-memory cache on later runs before the normal refresh path updates
it
- use connector-directory-specific cache naming to distinguish this
metadata cache from the separate Codex Apps tools-spec cache
This reduces first-turn startup work without changing how live connector
MCP tools are sourced. Longer term, directory-backed install suggestions
should move to a search-based flow so they no longer need to be inlined
into the tools prompt at all.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-connectors`
- `cargo test -p codex-chatgpt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
request_plugin_install_is_available_without_search_tool_after_discovery_attempts`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
tool_suggest_uses_connector_id_fallback_when_directory_cache_is_empty`
