## Why
The model list needs to carry display-ready service tier metadata so
clients can render tier choices with stable IDs, names, and
descriptions. A raw speed-tier string list is not enough for richer UI
copy or future tier labels.
## What changed
- Added `ModelServiceTier` to shared model metadata with string `id`,
`name`, and `description` fields.
- Added `service_tiers` to `ModelInfo` and `ModelPreset`, preserving
empty defaults for older cached model payloads.
- Exposed `serviceTiers` on app-server v2 `Model` responses and threaded
it through TUI app-server model conversion.
- Marked legacy `additional_speed_tiers` / `additionalSpeedTiers`
metadata as deprecated in source and generated schema output.
- Regenerated app-server protocol JSON schema and TypeScript fixtures,
including `ModelServiceTier.ts`.
## Verification
- Ran `just write-app-server-schema`.
- Did not run local tests per repo instruction; relying on PR CI.
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Migrate token usage replay, rollback responses, and detached review
setup (a special case of forking) to be served from ThreadStore reads
rather direct rollout files.
- replay restored token usage from already-loaded `RolloutItem` history
instead of reopening `Thread.path`
- rebuild rollback responses from loaded `ThreadStore` snapshots and
history
- start detached reviews from store-backed parent history and stored
review-thread metadata
- remove obsolete app-server rollout-summary helper code that became
dead after the store-backed migration
- preserve response/notification ordering for resume, fork, rollback,
and detached review flows
- add integration test coverage for the affected paths
- Route `thread/metadata/update` through
`ThreadStore::update_thread_metadata`.
- Add `LocalThreadStore` git metadata patch support for set, partial
update, and clear semantics.
- Add some unit tests for the new thread store code
- Remove a lot of dead code/tests!
## Why
App-server clients sometimes need argv-based local process execution
while sandbox policy is controlled outside Codex. Those environments can
reject sandbox-disabling paths before a command ever starts, even when
the caller intentionally wants unsandboxed execution.
This PR adds a distinct `process/*` API for that use case instead of
extending `command/exec` with another sandbox-disabling shape. Keeping
the new surface separate also makes the future removal of `command/exec`
simpler: clients that need explicit process lifecycle control can move
to the newer handle-based API without depending on `command/exec`
business logic.
## What changed
- Added v2 process lifecycle methods: `process/spawn`,
`process/writeStdin`, `process/resizePty`, and `process/kill`.
- Added process notifications: `process/outputDelta` for streamed
stdout/stderr chunks and `process/exited` for final exit status and
buffered output.
- Made `process/spawn` intentionally unsandboxed and omitted
sandbox-selection fields such as `sandboxPolicy` and
`permissionProfile`.
- Added client-supplied, connection-scoped `processHandle` values for
follow-up control requests and notification routing.
- Supported cwd, environment overrides, PTY mode and size, stdin
streaming, stdout/stderr streaming, per-stream output caps, and timeout
controls.
- Killed active process sessions when the originating app-server
connection closes.
- Wired the implementation through the modular `request_processors/`
app-server layout, with process-handle request serialization for
follow-up control calls.
- Updated generated JSON/TypeScript schema fixtures and documented the
new API in `codex-rs/app-server/README.md`.
- Added v2 app-server integration coverage in
`codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/v2/process_exec.rs` for spawn
acknowledgement before exit, buffered output caps, and process
termination.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server`
---------
Co-authored-by: Owen Lin <owen@openai.com>
## Summary
Remove the hardcoded remote plugin ID prefix allow-list from app-server
uninstall routing. IDs that do not parse as local `plugin@marketplace`
IDs now flow through the remote uninstall path, where the existing
remote ID safety validation still rejects empty IDs, spaces, slashes,
and other unsafe characters before URL/cache use.
## Why
Plugin-service owns the backend remote plugin ID contract. Codex should
not require remote IDs to start with the local hardcoded prefixes
`plugins~`, `plugins_`, `app_`, `asdk_app_`, or `connector_`, because
newer backend ID families could otherwise be rejected before
plugin-service sees the request.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server plugin_uninstall`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `git diff --check`
## Why
Tool families already disagree on what their existing `duration` fields
mean, so lifecycle latency should live on the shared item envelope
instead of being inferred from per-tool execution fields. Carrying that
envelope through app-server notifications gives downstream consumers one
reusable timing signal without pretending every tool has the same
execution semantics.
## What changed
- Adds `started_at_ms` to core `ItemStartedEvent` values and
`completed_at_ms` to core `ItemCompletedEvent` values.
- Populates those timestamps in the shared session lifecycle emitters,
so protocol-native items get timing without each producer tracking its
own clock state.
- Exposes `startedAtMs` on app-server `item/started` notifications and
`completedAtMs` on `item/completed` notifications.
- Maps the lifecycle timestamps through the app-server boundary while
leaving legacy-converted notifications nullable when no lifecycle
timestamp exists.
- Regenerates the app-server JSON schema and TypeScript fixtures for the
notification-envelope change and updates downstream fixtures that
construct those notifications directly.
- Extends the existing web-search and image-generation integration flows
to assert the new lifecycle timestamps on the native item events.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p
codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-app-server -p codex-tui -p codex-exec
-p codex-app-server-client`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all web_search_item_is_emitted`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
image_generation_call_event_is_emitted`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
---
[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/20514).
* #18748
* #18747
* #17090
* #17089
* __->__ #20514
## Summary
Moves the WebRTC realtime sideband websocket join out of the voice start
critical path. Call creation still posts the SDP offer and session
config synchronously so the client gets the SDP answer, but the sideband
websocket now connects in the input task async and doesn't block
conversation state installation.
This lets the normal realtime input channels buffer text, handoff
output, and audio while the WebRTC sideband websocket is connecting. If
the sideband join fails while the conversation is still active, the task
sends a RealtimeEvent::Error through the existing events_tx / fanout
path.
To rephrase this:
* No longer blocked on sideband: the client can receive the SDP answer
earlier, set up the WebRTC peer connection, and let the media leg
progress while the sideband websocket joins.
* Still blocked on sideband: queued text, handoff output, and sideband
server events cannot flow until connect_webrtc_sideband(...).await
finishes and then run_realtime_input_task(...) starts
## Validation
- `env CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test --manifest-path
codex-rs/Cargo.toml -p codex-core --test all
conversation_webrtc_start_posts_generated_session`
`CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1` is needed in this local environment
because `libcap.pc` is not installed for the vendored bubblewrap build.
## Testing
I tested this locally by running `cargo run -p codex-cli --bin codex --
--enable realtime_conversation` and invoking `/realtime`. Then, we get
logs emitted in `~/.codex/log/codex-tui.log`.
### Before the Change
Logging commit
(c0299e6edf)
```
2026-05-04T16:06:09.251956Z INFO session_loop{thread_id=019df3b9-e3d8-7271-b13a-b880119aa4c2}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.realtime_conversation_start" submission.id="019df3bd-65df-7ee2-8125-1d6701fe39d2" codex.op="realtime_conversation_start"}: codex_core::realtime_conversation: starting realtime conversation
2026-05-04T16:06:09.251980Z INFO session_loop{thread_id=019df3b9-e3d8-7271-b13a-b880119aa4c2}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.realtime_conversation_start" submission.id="019df3bd-65df-7ee2-8125-1d6701fe39d2" codex.op="realtime_conversation_start"}: codex_core::realtime_conversation: creating realtime call transport="webrtc"
2026-05-04T16:06:10.365722Z INFO session_loop{thread_id=019df3b9-e3d8-7271-b13a-b880119aa4c2}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.realtime_conversation_start" submission.id="019df3bd-65df-7ee2-8125-1d6701fe39d2" codex.op="realtime_conversation_start"}: codex_core::realtime_conversation: realtime call created; sdp answer ready transport="webrtc" call_id=rtc_u0_Dbq65nhak5eLjQZ73yhAy elapsed_ms=1113 total_elapsed_ms=1113
2026-05-04T16:06:10.365843Z INFO session_loop{thread_id=019df3b9-e3d8-7271-b13a-b880119aa4c2}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.realtime_conversation_start" submission.id="019df3bd-65df-7ee2-8125-1d6701fe39d2" codex.op="realtime_conversation_start"}: codex_core::realtime_conversation: connecting realtime sideband websocket call_id=rtc_u0_Dbq65nhak5eLjQZ73yhAy
2026-05-04T16:06:10.784528Z INFO session_loop{thread_id=019df3b9-e3d8-7271-b13a-b880119aa4c2}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.realtime_conversation_start" submission.id="019df3bd-65df-7ee2-8125-1d6701fe39d2" codex.op="realtime_conversation_start"}: codex_core::realtime_conversation: connected realtime sideband websocket call_id=rtc_u0_Dbq65nhak5eLjQZ73yhAy elapsed_ms=418 total_elapsed_ms=1532
2026-05-04T16:06:10.784665Z INFO session_loop{thread_id=019df3b9-e3d8-7271-b13a-b880119aa4c2}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.realtime_conversation_start" submission.id="019df3bd-65df-7ee2-8125-1d6701fe39d2" codex.op="realtime_conversation_start"}: codex_core::realtime_conversation: realtime conversation started
```
### After the Change
Logging commit
(c8b00ac21a)
```
2026-05-04T15:41:24.080363Z INFO ... codex_core::realtime_conversation: starting realtime conversation
2026-05-04T15:41:24.080434Z INFO ... codex_core::realtime_conversation: creating realtime call transport="webrtc"
2026-05-04T15:41:25.106906Z INFO ... codex_core::realtime_conversation: realtime call created; sdp answer ready transport="webrtc" call_id=rtc_u0_Dbpi8nhak5eLjQZ73yhAy elapsed_ms=1026 total_elapsed_ms=1026
2026-05-04T15:41:25.107067Z INFO ... codex_core::realtime_conversation: spawned realtime sideband connection task transport="webrtc" total_elapsed_ms=1026
2026-05-04T15:41:25.107160Z INFO ... codex_core::realtime_conversation: realtime conversation started
2026-05-04T15:41:25.107185Z INFO codex_core::realtime_conversation: connecting realtime sideband websocket call_id=rtc_u0_Dbpi8nhak5eLjQZ73yhAy
2026-05-04T15:41:25.107352Z INFO ... codex_core::realtime_conversation: sent realtime sdp answer to client
2026-05-04T15:41:26.076685Z INFO codex_core::realtime_conversation: connected realtime sideband websocket call_id=rtc_u0_Dbpi8nhak5eLjQZ73yhAy elapsed_ms=969 total_elapsed_ms=1996
2026-05-04T15:41:26.573893Z INFO codex_core::realtime_conversation: realtime session updated realtime_session_id=sess_u0_Dbpi8nhak5eLjQZ73yhAy
2026-05-04T15:41:26.573970Z INFO codex_core::realtime_conversation: received realtime conversation event event=SessionUpdated { ... }
```
### Conclusion
Here we see that we saved about a half a second in conversation startup
(1532ms -> 969ms). This also checks out with my sanity tests; I was
seeing at most a second of saving.
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Why
SQLite state was still being opened from consumer paths, including lazy
`OnceCell`-backed thread-store call sites. That let one process
construct multiple state DB connections for the same Codex home, which
makes SQLite lock contention and `database is locked` failures much
easier to hit.
State DB lifetime should be chosen by main-like entrypoints and tests,
then passed through explicitly. Consumers should use the supplied
`Option<StateDbHandle>` or `StateDbHandle` and keep their existing
filesystem fallback or error behavior when no handle is available.
The startup path also needs to keep the rollout crate in charge of
SQLite state initialization. Opening `codex_state::StateRuntime`
directly bypasses rollout metadata backfill, so entrypoints should
initialize through `codex_rollout::state_db` and receive a handle only
after required rollout backfills have completed.
## What Changed
- Initialize the state DB in main-like entrypoints for CLI, TUI,
app-server, exec, MCP server, and the thread-manager sample.
- Pass `Option<StateDbHandle>` through `ThreadManager`,
`LocalThreadStore`, app-server processors, TUI app wiring, rollout
listing/recording, personality migration, shell snapshot cleanup,
session-name lookup, and memory/device-key consumers.
- Remove the lazy local state DB wrapper from the thread store so
non-test consumers use only the supplied handle or their existing
fallback path.
- Make `codex_rollout::state_db::init` the local state startup path: it
opens/migrates SQLite, runs rollout metadata backfill when needed, waits
for concurrent backfill workers up to a bounded timeout, verifies
completion, and then returns the initialized handle.
- Keep optional/non-owning SQLite helpers, such as remote TUI local
reads, as open-only paths that do not run startup backfill.
- Switch app-server startup from direct
`codex_state::StateRuntime::init` to the rollout state initializer so
app-server cannot skip rollout backfill.
- Collapse split rollout lookup/list APIs so callers use the normal
methods with an optional state handle instead of `_with_state_db`
variants.
- Restore `getConversationSummary(ThreadId)` to delegate through
`ThreadStore::read_thread` instead of a LocalThreadStore-specific
rollout path special case.
- Keep DB-backed rollout path lookup keyed on the DB row and file
existence, without imposing the filesystem filename convention on
existing DB rows.
- Verify readable DB-backed rollout paths against `session_meta.id`
before returning them, so a stale SQLite row that points at another
thread's JSONL falls back to filesystem search and read-repairs the DB
row.
- Keep `debug prompt-input` filesystem-only so a one-off debug command
does not initialize or backfill SQLite state just to print prompt input.
- Keep goal-session test Codex homes alive only in the goal-specific
helper, rather than leaking tempdirs from the shared session test
helper.
- Update tests and call sites to pass explicit state handles where DB
behavior is expected and explicit `None` where filesystem-only behavior
is intended.
## Validation
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo check -p
codex-rollout -p codex-thread-store -p codex-app-server -p codex-core -p
codex-tui -p codex-exec -p codex-cli --tests`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout state_db_`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout find_thread_path`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout find_thread_path -- --nocapture`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout try_init_ -- --nocapture`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-rollout`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo clippy -p
codex-rollout --lib -- -D warnings`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-thread-store
read_thread_falls_back_when_sqlite_path_points_to_another_thread --
--nocapture`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-thread-store`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
shell_snapshot`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
--test all personality_migration`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
--test all rollout_list_find`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
--test all rollout_list_find::find_prefers_sqlite_path_by_id --
--nocapture`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
--test all rollout_list_find -- --nocapture`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p codex-core
interrupt_accounts_active_goal_before_pausing`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-app-server get_auth_status -- --test-threads=1`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo test -p
codex-app-server --lib`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db cargo check -p codex-rollout
-p codex-app-server --tests`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-rollout
-p codex-thread-store -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-tui -p
codex-exec -p codex-cli`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-rollout -p
codex-app-server`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p
codex-rollout`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1
CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-target-state-db just fix -p codex-core`
- `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-core`
- `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-rollout`
Focused coverage added in `codex-rollout`:
- `recorder::tests::state_db_init_backfills_before_returning` verifies
the rollout metadata row exists before startup init returns.
- `state_db::tests::try_init_waits_for_concurrent_startup_backfill`
verifies startup waits for another worker to finish backfill instead of
disabling the handle for the process.
-
`state_db::tests::try_init_times_out_waiting_for_stuck_startup_backfill`
verifies startup does not hang indefinitely on a stuck backfill lease.
-
`tests::find_thread_path_accepts_existing_state_db_path_without_canonical_filename`
verifies DB-backed lookup accepts valid existing rollout paths even when
the filename does not include the thread UUID.
-
`tests::find_thread_path_falls_back_when_db_path_points_to_another_thread`
verifies DB-backed lookup ignores a stale row whose existing path
belongs to another thread and read-repairs the row after filesystem
fallback.
Focused coverage updated in `codex-core`:
- `rollout_list_find::find_prefers_sqlite_path_by_id` now uses a
DB-preferred rollout file with matching `session_meta.id`, so it still
verifies that valid SQLite paths win without depending on stale/empty
rollout contents.
`cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_list_respects_search_term_filter
-- --test-threads=1 --nocapture` was attempted locally but timed out
waiting for the app-server test harness `initialize` response before
reaching the changed thread-list code path.
`bazel test //codex-rs/thread-store:thread-store-unit-tests
--test_output=errors` was attempted locally after the thread-store fix,
but this container failed before target analysis while fetching `v8+`
through BuildBuddy/direct GitHub. The equivalent local crate coverage,
including `cargo test -p codex-thread-store`, passes.
A plain local `cargo check -p codex-rollout -p codex-app-server --tests`
also requires system `libcap.pc` for `codex-linux-sandbox`; the
follow-up app-server check above used `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1` in
this container.
## Why
Whenever we return a thread's history (turns and items) over app-server,
always return the limited form as specified by the rollout policy
`EventPersistenceMode::Limited`, even if the thread was previously
started with `EventPersistenceMode::Extended`.
We're finding it is quite unscalable to be returning the extended
history, so let's apply the same filtering logic of the rollout policy
when we load and return the thread's history.
## What Changed
- Reuse the rollout persistence policy when reconstructing app-server
`ThreadItem` history so only `EventPersistenceMode::Limited` rollout
items are replayed into API turns.
- Route `thread/read`, `thread/resume`, `thread/fork`,
`thread/turns/list`, and rollback responses through the same filtered
app-server history projection.
- Keep live active turns intact when composing a response for a
currently running thread.
- Update command execution coverage so persisted extended command events
are excluded from returned history for `thread/read`, `thread/fork`, and
`thread/turns/list`.
## Test Plan
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server limited`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_shell_command`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_read`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_rollback`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_fork`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
## Why
The app-server request path had grown around a large
`CodexMessageProcessor` plus separate API wrapper/helper modules. That
made the dependency graph hard to see and forced unrelated request
families to share broad processor state.
This PR makes the split mechanical and command-prefix oriented so
request families own only the dependencies they use.
## What changed
- Replaced `CodexMessageProcessor` with command-prefix request
processors under `app-server/src/request_processors/`.
- Removed the old config, device-key, external-agent-config, and fs API
wrapper files by moving their API handling into processors.
- Split apps, plugins, marketplace, catalog, account, MCP, command exec,
fs, git, feedback, thread, turn, thread goals, and Windows sandbox
handling into dedicated processors.
- Kept shared lifecycle, summary conversion, token usage replay, and
shared error mapping only where multiple processors use them; single-use
helpers were inlined into their owning processor.
- Removed the fallback processor path and moved processor tests to
`_tests` files.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
## Summary
Early adopters of the `/goal` feature have provided feedback that they
expect a goal they explicitly paused to remain paused when they resume a
thread. Previously, resuming a thread would reactivate a paused goal.
This PR keeps persisted goal status unchanged during thread resume. This
honors the user feedback while also simplifying the core goal logic.
Rather than have the core logic automatically resume a paused goal, that
responsibility is transferred to the client. The TUI now detects a
resumed thread with a paused goal and asks the user whether to `Resume
goal` or `Leave paused`. The prompt appears only for quiet resume flows,
so users who resume with an immediate prompt are not interrupted.
<img width="544" height="111" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0ac9de1c-6ee6-47ba-b223-c03c8eb4c192"
/>
## Why
`McpToolCall` was still an app-server item synthesized from deprecated
legacy begin/end events. Recent item migrations moved this ownership
into core `TurnItem`s, so MCP tool calls now follow the same canonical
lifecycle and leave legacy events as compatibility fanout.
Keeping the core item close to the v2 `ThreadItem::McpToolCall` shape
also avoids spreading MCP result semantics across app-server conversion
code. Core now owns whether a completed call is `completed` or `failed`,
and whether the payload is a tool result or an error.
## What changed
- Added core `TurnItem::McpToolCall` with flattened `server`, `tool`,
`arguments`, `status`, `result`, and `error` fields.
- Updated MCP tool call emitters, including MCP resource tools, to emit
`ItemStarted`/`ItemCompleted` around directly constructed core MCP
items.
- Updated app-server v2 conversion to project the core MCP item into
`ThreadItem::McpToolCall` without deriving status or splitting `Result`
locally.
- Ignored live deprecated MCP legacy fanout in app-server v2 to avoid
duplicate item notifications, while keeping thread history replay on the
legacy event path.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib mcp_tool_call`
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
mcp_tool_call_completion_notification_contains_truncated_large_result`
## Why
App-server request handling had response sending spread across many
individual handlers, which made it harder to see which requests return
payloads, which methods send their own delayed response, and which
branches emit notifications after a response.
## What changed
- Centralized normal `ClientResponsePayload` sending in the dispatch
path.
- Kept explicit-response methods explicit where they need custom
ordering or delayed delivery.
- Removed forward-only handler wrappers and immediate `async { ...
}.await` bodies where they were not needed.
- Moved branch-specific post-response notifications into the branches
that own the response ordering.
- Replaced unreachable delegated request-family error arms with explicit
`unreachable!` cases.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_goal`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
# Why
Codex currently negotiates MCP `2025-06-18`, where the client
elicitation capability is represented as an empty object. We were still
serializing `capabilities.elicitation.form`, which belongs to the later
capability shape and can cause strict `2025-06-18` servers to reject
`initialize` with an unrecognized-field error.
This keeps the handshake aligned with the protocol version Codex
actually negotiates and fixes the compatibility regression tracked in
#17492.
# What
- Serialize the client elicitation capability as `elicitation: {}` for
`2025-06-18`.
- Keep elicitation advertised for both Codex Apps and custom MCP
servers.
- Tighten regression coverage so the unit test asserts both the Rust
value and the serialized wire shape.
- Add an app-server integration test that round-trips a form elicitation
from a custom MCP server; the existing connector round-trip continues to
cover the connector path.
# Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-mcp`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server mcp_server_elicitation_round_trip`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
mcp_server_tool_call_round_trips_elicitation`
# Next steps
- Decide whether `tool_call_mcp_elicitation=false` should also suppress
capability advertisement during `initialize`.
- Revisit `form` / `url` capability advertisement when Codex is ready to
negotiate MCP `2025-11-25`, which defines that newer shape.
## Why
Image-view results should be represented as a core-produced turn item
instead of being reconstructed by app-server. At the same time, existing
rollout/history paths still understand the legacy `ViewImageToolCall`
event, so this keeps that event as compatibility output generated from
the new item lifecycle.
## What changed
- Added `TurnItem::ImageView` to `codex-protocol`.
- Emitted image-view item start/completion directly from the core
`view_image` handler.
- Kept `ViewImageToolCall` as a legacy event and generate it from
completed `TurnItem::ImageView` items.
- Kept `thread_history.rs` on the legacy `ViewImageToolCall` replay
path, with `ImageView` item lifecycle events ignored there.
- Updated app-server protocol conversion, rollout persistence, and
affected exhaustive event matches for the new item plus legacy fan-out
shape.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p codex-mcp-server -p
codex-app-server --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
view_image_tool_attaches_local_image`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol -p codex-core -p codex-app-server-protocol
-p codex-app-server -p codex-rollout -p codex-rollout-trace -p
codex-mcp-server`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
- make selected turn environments the source of truth for session
runtime cwd and MCP runtime environment selection
- keep local/no-selection fallback behavior intact
- add coverage for duplicate selected environments, cwd resolution, and
MCP runtime environment selection
## Validation
- git diff --check
- rustfmt was run on touched Rust files during the implementation
workflow
CI should provide the full Bazel/test signal.
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## Summary
- Route loaded `thread/read` + `includeTurns` through
`CodexThread::load_history` / ThreadStore history instead of direct
rollout JSONL reads.
- Add an in-memory ThreadStore regression test covering loaded
`thread/read includeTurns` without a local rollout path.
## Why
`codex-app-server` currently owns both request-processing code and
transport implementation details. Splitting the transport layer into its
own crate makes that boundary explicit, reduces the amount of
transport-specific dependency surface carried by `codex-app-server`, and
gives future transport work a narrower place to evolve.
## What changed
- Added `codex-app-server-transport` and moved the existing transport
tree into it, including stdio, unix socket, websocket, remote-control
transport, and websocket auth.
- Moved shared transport-facing message types into the new crate so both
the transport implementation and `codex-app-server` use the same
definitions.
- Kept processor-facing connection state and outbound routing in
`codex-app-server`, with the routing tests moved next to that local
wrapper.
- Updated workspace metadata, Bazel crate metadata, and
`codex-app-server` dependencies for the new crate boundary.
## Validation
- `cargo metadata --locked --no-deps`
- `git diff --check`
- Attempted `cargo test -p codex-app-server-transport`, `cargo test -p
codex-app-server`, `just fix -p codex-app-server-transport`, and `just
fix -p codex-app-server`; all were blocked before compilation by the
existing `packageproxy` resolution failure for locked `rustls-webpki =
0.103.13`.
- Attempted Bazel build / lockfile validation; those were blocked by
external fetch failures against BuildBuddy / GitHub while resolving
`v8`.
## Why
Apply-patch file changes are now part of the core turn item stream, so
v2 clients can consume the same first-class item lifecycle path used by
other turn items instead of relying on app-server-specific remapping
from legacy patch events.
## What changed
- Added a core `TurnItem::FileChange` carrying apply-patch changes and
completion metadata.
- Updated the apply-patch tool emitter to send `ItemStarted` /
`ItemCompleted` with the new `FileChange` item while preserving legacy
`PatchApplyBegin` / `PatchApplyEnd` fan-out.
- Updated app-server v2 conversion to render the new core item directly
and stopped `event_mapping` from remapping old patch begin/end events
into item notifications.
- Kept thread history reconstruction based on the existing old
apply-patch events for rollout compatibility.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
apply_patch_tool_executes_and_emits_patch_events`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server bespoke_event_handling`
When a local plugin is shared, Codex now records the local plugin path
by remote plugin id under CODEX_HOME/.tmp.
plugin/share/list includes the remote share URL and the matching local
plugin path when available, and plugin/share/delete
clears the local mapping after deleting the remote share.
Also add sharedURL to plugin/share/list.
## Summary
Adds an app-server `plugin/skill/read` method for remote plugin skill
markdown. The new method calls the plugin-service skill detail endpoint
and returns `skill_md_contents`, so clients can preview skills for
remote plugins before the bundle is installed locally.
## Why
Uninstalled remote plugin skills do not have local `SKILL.md` files.
Without an on-demand remote read, the desktop plugin details UI cannot
render the skill details modal for those skills.
## Validation
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all --
suite::v2::plugin_read::plugin_skill_read_reads_remote_skill_contents_when_remote_plugin_enabled
--exact`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-core-plugins -p
codex-app-server`
## Summary
- Refresh the remote installed-plugin cache after login/logout instead
of keying it by account or eagerly clearing it.
- Reuse the existing single-flight remote installed refresh loop so
newer queued auth refreshes replace older pending requests and the API
result eventually overwrites or clears the cache.
- Keep derived plugin/skills cache and MCP refresh side effects behind
the existing effective-plugin-changed task when the refreshed installed
state changes.
- Leave `clear_plugin_related_caches` scoped to derived plugin/skills
caches so share mutations do not drop remote installed plugins.
## Tests
- `cargo fmt --all --manifest-path codex-rs/Cargo.toml` (passes; stable
rustfmt warns that `imports_granularity = Item` is nightly-only)
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins remote_installed_cache`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
skills_list_loads_remote_installed_plugin_skills_from_cache`
- Build one app-server process ThreadStore from startup config and share
it with ThreadManager and CodexMessageProcessor.
- Remove per-thread/fork store reconstruction so effective thread config
cannot switch the persistence backend.
- Add params to ThreadStore create/resume for specifying thread
metadata, since otherwise the metadata from store creation would be used
(incorrectly).
## Summary
Remote plugin-service returns plugin availability separately from a
user's installed/enabled state. This adds `PluginAvailabilityStatus` to
the app-server protocol, propagates remote catalog `status` into
`PluginSummary`, and rejects install attempts for remote plugins marked
`DISABLED_BY_ADMIN` before downloading or caching the bundle.
This is the `openai/codex` half of the change. The companion
`openai/openai` webview PR is
https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/873269.
## Validation
- `cargo run -p codex-app-server-protocol --bin write_schema_fixtures`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
plugin_list_marks_remote_plugin_disabled_by_admin`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
plugin_list_includes_remote_marketplaces_when_remote_plugin_enabled`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
plugin_install_rejects_remote_plugin_disabled_by_admin_before_download`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol schema_fixtures`
## Why
Remote-control protocol v3 makes segmentation an explicit wire-level
feature. The app-server transport needs to support that protocol
directly so large messages can be chunked, acknowledged, replayed, and
reassembled consistently.
## What changed
- Bump the remote-control websocket protocol version from `2` to `3`.
- Add explicit client/server chunk envelope variants plus chunk-aware
acknowledgements.
- Split oversized outbound server messages into bounded transport
chunks.
- Reassemble ordered inbound client chunks with bounded memory usage and
stream/client invalidation handling.
- Track inbound chunk cursors and outbound ack cursors as `(seq_id,
segment_id)` so duplicate chunks and partial replays behave correctly.
- Add focused coverage for chunk splitting, reassembly, duplicate
suppression, and stream replacement behavior.
## Validation
- Added targeted unit coverage for segmented message handling in
`remote_control`.
- Local validation is currently blocked before compilation because
`packageproxy` does not serve the locked `rustls-webpki 0.103.13`
dependency required by the workspace.
# Why
The hooks feature flag should use the concise canonical name `hooks`,
while existing configs that still use `codex_hooks` continue to work
during the rename.
# What
- change the canonical `Feature::CodexHooks` key from `codex_hooks` to
`hooks`
- register `codex_hooks` through the existing legacy-alias path
- update the config schema and canonical config fixtures to prefer
`hooks`
- add regression coverage that both `hooks` and `codex_hooks` resolve to
`Feature::CodexHooks`
# Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-features`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config::schema_tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
pre_tool_use_blocks_shell_when_defined_in_config_toml`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
hooks_list_uses_each_cwds_effective_feature_enablement`
## Summary
- emit `codex_plugin_installed` after a remote plugin install succeeds
- keep local installs unchanged, but let remote installs override the
analytics `plugin_id` with the backend remote plugin id
(`plugins~Plugin_...`)
- preserve the local/display identity in `plugin_name` and
`marketplace_name`, plus capability metadata from the installed bundle
- add regression coverage for local install analytics, remote install
analytics, and analytics id override serialization
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server`
## Summary
- Download missing remote installed plugin bundles during app-server
startup and plugin/list refresh.
- Upgrade cached remote installed bundles when the backend installed
version changes.
- Remove stale remote installed bundle caches without writing remote
plugin state into config.toml.
## Review note
This is a clean PR branch cut from the current diff on top of latest
`origin/main`. The diff intentionally has no `codex-rs/core/**` files,
so CODEOWNERS should not request the core-directory owner review from
stale PR history.
## Validation
Already run on the source branch before creating this clean PR:
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
app_server_startup_sync_downloads_remote_installed_plugin_bundles --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
plugin_list_sync_upgrades_and_removes_remote_installed_plugin_bundles --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
app_server_startup_remote_plugin_sync_runs_once -- --nocapture`
- `just fix -p codex-core-plugins`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `git diff --check`
- migrate `thread/turns/list` to ThreadStore. Uses ThreadStore for most
data now but merges in the in-memory state from thread manager
- keep v2 `thread/list` pathless-store friendly by converting
`StoredThread` directly to API `Thread`
- add regression coverage for pathless store history/listing
## Why
`item/fileChange/outputDelta` text output was only the tool's summary or
error text and not used by client surfaces.
We keep `item/fileChange/outputDelta` in the app-server protocol as a
deprecated compatibility entry, but the server no longer emits it.
## What changed
- stop the `apply_patch` runtime from emitting `ExecCommandOutputDelta`
events
- simplify `item_event_to_server_notification` so command output deltas
always map to `item/commandExecution/outputDelta`
- remove the app-server bookkeeping that tried to detect whether an
output delta belonged to a file change
- mark `item/fileChange/outputDelta` as a deprecated legacy protocol
entry in the v2 types, schema, and README
- simplify the file-change approval tests so they only wait for
completion instead of expecting output-delta notifications
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-manager-sample`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
protocol::event_mapping::tests::exec_command_output_delta_maps_to_command_execution_output_delta
-- --exact`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
turn_start_file_change_approval_accept_for_session_persists_v2 --
--exact` *(failed before the test assertions because the wiremock
`/responses` mock received 0 requests in setup)*
## Why
Follow-up to #20291.
The v2 item-event-to-notification translation had been embedded in
`app-server/src/bespoke_event_handling.rs`, which made it hard to reuse
anywhere else. This PR moves that stateless mapping into shared protocol
code so other entry points can produce the same `ServerNotification`
payloads without copying app-server logic.
That also lets `thread-manager-sample` demonstrate the same notification
surface that the app server exposes, instead of only printing the final
assistant message.
## What changed
- move `item_event_to_server_notification` into
`codex-app-server-protocol::protocol::event_mapping`
- keep the mapper tests next to the shared implementation in
`codex-app-server-protocol`
- re-export the mapper from `codex-core-api` so lightweight consumers
can use it without reaching into `app-server-protocol` directly
- simplify `app-server/src/bespoke_event_handling.rs` so it delegates
the stateless event-to-notification projection to the shared helper
- update `thread-manager-sample` to:
- print mapped notifications as newline-delimited JSON
- use the shared mapper through `codex-core-api`
- enable the default feature set so the sample exposes the normal tool
surface
- use a `read_only` permission profile so shell commands can run in the
sample without widening permissions
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-api`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server bespoke_event_handling::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-thread-manager-sample`
- `cargo run -p codex-thread-manager-sample -- "briefly explore the repo
with pwd and ls, then summarize it"`
## Why
Large MCP tool call outputs can make rollout JSONL files enormous. In
the session that motivated this change, the biggest JSONL records were:
- `event_msg/mcp_tool_call_end`
- `response_item/function_call_output`
both containing the same unbounded MCP payloads - just 3 MCP tool calls
that each were multi-hundred MBs 😱
This PR truncates both of those JSONL records.
## How
#### For `response_item/function_call_output`
Unified exec already bounds tool output before it is injected into
model-facing history, which also keeps the corresponding rollout
`response_item/function_call_output` records small.
MCP should follow the same pattern: truncate the model-facing tool
output at the tool-output boundary, while leaving code-mode/raw hook
consumers alone.
#### For `event_msg/mcp_tool_call_end`
`McpToolCallEnd` also needs its own bounded event copy because it is the
app-server/replay/UI event shape that backs `ThreadItem::McpToolCall`.
Unfortunately this is _not_ downstream of the `ToolOutput` trait.
## Model behavior
Model behavior is actually unchanged as a result of this PR.
Before this PR, MCP output was:
1. Converted to `FunctionCallOutput`.
2. Recorded into in-memory history.
3. Truncated by `ContextManager::record_items()` before later model
turns saw it.
After this branch, MCP output is truncated earlier, in
`McpToolOutput::response_payload()`, using the same helper. Then
`ContextManager::record_items()` sees an already-truncated output and
effectively has little/no additional work to do.
So the model should still see the same kind of truncated function-call
output. The practical difference is where truncation happens: earlier,
before rollout persistence/app-server emission can see the giant
payload.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core mcp_tool_output`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
mcp_tool_call::tests::truncate_mcp_tool_result_for_event`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
mcp_post_tool_use_payload_uses_model_tool_name_args_and_result`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
Codex is repurposing `session` to mean a thread group, so the realtime
provider session id should no longer use `session_id` / `sessionId` in
Codex-facing protocol payloads. This PR renames that provider-specific
field to `realtime_session_id` / `realtimeSessionId` and intentionally
breaks clients that still send the old field names.
## What Changed
- Renamed realtime provider session fields in `ConversationStartParams`,
`RealtimeConversationStartedEvent`, and `RealtimeEvent::SessionUpdated`.
- Renamed app-server v2 realtime request and notification fields to
`realtimeSessionId`.
- Removed legacy serde aliases for `session_id` / `sessionId`; clients
must send the new names.
- Propagated the rename through core realtime startup, app-server
adapters, codex-api websocket handling, and TUI realtime state.
- Regenerated app-server protocol schema/TypeScript outputs and updated
app-server README examples.
- Kept upstream Realtime API concepts unchanged: provider `session.id`
parsing and `x-session-id` headers still use the upstream wire names.
## Testing
- CI is running on the latest pushed commit.
- Earlier local verification on this PR:
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-core
realtime_conversation`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-app-server
realtime_conversation`
- attempted `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-tui` (local
linker bus error while linking the test binary)
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## Why
Fixes#20145.
`config/value/write` treats a JSON `null` value as a request to clear
the config key. Clearing a key that is already absent should be
idempotent, but clearing a nested key such as `features.personality`
from an empty `config.toml` returned `configPathNotFound` because
`clear_path` treated the missing `features` parent table as an error.
That makes app-server reset flows brittle because clients have to read
first and avoid sending a clear request unless the parent path already
exists.
## What Changed
- Updated app-server config clearing so missing intermediate tables, or
non-table parents, are treated as an unchanged no-op.
- Removed the now-unreachable `MergeError::PathNotFound` path from
config write merging.
- Added a regression test covering `features.personality = null` against
an empty user config.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server clear_missing_nested_config_is_noop`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server` was run; the config manager unit
suite passed, but one unrelated integration test failed because
`turn_start_emits_thread_scoped_warning_notification_for_trimmed_skills`
expected `7` trimmed skills and observed `8`.
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
1. Adds v2 plugin/share/save, plugin/share/list, and plugin/share/delete
RPCs.
2. Implements save by archiving a local plugin root, enforcing a size
limit, uploading through the workspace upload flow, and supporting
updates via remotePluginId.
3. Lists created workspace plugins
4. Deletes a previously uploaded/shared plugin.
## Why
After `hooks/list` exposes the hook inventory, clients need a way to
persist user hook preferences, make those changes effective in
already-open sessions, and distinguish user-controllable hooks from
managed requirements without adding another bespoke app-server write
API.
## What
- Extends `hooks/list` entries with effective `enabled` state.
- Persists user-level hook state under `hooks.state.<hook-id>` so the
model can grow beyond a single boolean over time.
- Uses the existing `config/batchWrite` path for hook state updates
instead of introducing a dedicated hook write RPC.
- Refreshes live session hook engines after config writes so
already-open threads observe updated enablement without a restart.
## Stack
1. openai/codex#19705
2. openai/codex#19778
3. This PR - openai/codex#19840
4. openai/codex#19882
## Reviewer Notes
The generated schema files account for much of the raw diff. The core
behavior is in:
- `hooks/src/config_rules.rs`, which resolves per-hook user state from
the config layer stack.
- `hooks/src/engine/discovery.rs`, which projects effective enablement
into `hooks/list` from source-derived managedness.
- `config/src/hook_config.rs`, which defines the new `hooks.state`
representation.
- `core/src/session/mod.rs`, which rebuilds live hook state after user
config reloads.
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Summary:
- Return from external agent import before session history import
finishes
- Run session import work in the background and emit the existing
completion notification when it is done
- Serialize session imports so duplicate requests do not create
duplicate imported threads
Verification:
- cargo test -p codex-app-server external_agent_config_
- cargo test -p codex-external-agent-sessions
- just fix -p codex-app-server
- just fix -p codex-external-agent-sessions
- git diff --check
## Summary
- Support Claude Code `ai-title` / `aiTitle` records when detecting and
importing external agent sessions.
- Preserve existing `custom-title` / `customTitle` precedence; only fall
back to `aiTitle` when no custom title is present.
- Add coverage for both detection and import title selection, including
the custom-title-over-ai-title case.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-external-agent-sessions`
- `just fix -p codex-external-agent-sessions`
## Why
We need a way to list the available hooks to expose via the TUI and App
so users can view and manage their hooks
## What
- Adds `hooks/list` for one or more `cwd` values that returns discovered
hook metadata
## Stack
1. openai/codex#19705
2. This PR - openai/codex#19778
3. openai/codex#19840
4. openai/codex#19882
## Review Notes
The generated schema files account for most of the raw diff, these files
have the core change:
- `hooks/src/engine/discovery.rs` builds the inventory entries during
hook discovery while leaving runtime handlers focused on execution.
- `app-server/src/codex_message_processor.rs` wires `hooks/list` into
the app-server flow for each requested `cwd`.
- `app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2.rs` defines the new v2
request/response payloads exposed on the wire.
### Core Changes
`core/src/plugins/manager.rs` adds `plugins_for_layer_stack(...)` so
`skills/list` and `hooks/list`can resolve plugin state for each
requested `cwd`
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## Summary
update the local login success page to match the Codex desktop auth UX
use theme-aware colors and an inline 20px Codex mark
keep the actual localhost success page aligned with the browser auth UX
PR
## Tests
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Plugin MCP servers are loaded from plugin manifests rather than
top-level `[mcp_servers]`, so their tool approval preferences need to be
stored and applied through the owning plugin config. Without this,
choosing "Always allow" for a plugin MCP tool could write a preference
that was not reliably used on later tool calls.
## Summary
- Add plugin-scoped MCP policy config under
`plugins.<plugin>.mcp_servers`, including server enablement, tool
allow/deny lists, server defaults, and per-tool approval modes.
- Overlay plugin MCP policy onto manifest-provided server configs when
plugins are loaded.
- Route persistent "Always allow" writes for plugin MCP tools back to
the owning `plugins.<plugin>.mcp_servers.<server>.tools.<tool>` config
entry.
- Reload user config after persisting an approval and make the plugin
load cache config-aware so stale plugin MCP policy is not reused after
`config.toml` changes.
- Regenerate the config schema and add coverage for plugin MCP policy
loading, approval lookup, persistence, and stale-cache prevention.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core-plugins`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib plugin_mcp`
## Why
The precursor PR keeps successful client responses typed until
app-server's outgoing response seam. This follow-up uses that seam to
move successful client-response analytics out of individual handlers and
into the shared sender path, while keeping filtering decisions inside
`codex-analytics`.
## What changed
- Emit successful client-response analytics centrally from
`OutgoingMessageSender::send_response`.
- Remove duplicate handler-local response tracking for the current
thread/turn lifecycle responses.
- Keep analytics ingestion selective inside `AnalyticsEventsClient`, so
unrelated client traffic is ignored before cloning or boxing.
- Collapse client-response analytics facts onto one typed path and
normalize payloads in the reducer.
- Add direct client-filter coverage plus sender-level coverage for the
centralized forwarding path.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server outgoing_message::tests --lib`
