## Why Added support for UDS connections in `codex --remote`. TUI also now connects to local app-server using UDS by default if it is running and set to listen to UDS connection. ## What Changed - Introduced `RemoteAppServerEndpoint` with `WebSocket` and `UnixSocket` variants. - Reused the existing JSON-RPC-over-WebSocket protocol over either a TCP WebSocket stream or a UDS stream. - Updated `codex --remote` to accept `ws://host:port`, `wss://host:port`, `unix://`, and `unix://PATH`. - Kept `--remote-auth-token-env` restricted to `wss://` and loopback `ws://` remotes. - Added a fast TUI startup probe for the default daemon socket, falling back to the embedded app server when the daemon is absent or unresponsive. ## Verification - Manually verified that the updated remote flow works. - Added coverage for UDS remote round trips, WebSocket auth headers, auth-token transport policy, remote address parsing, and missing-daemon fallback. - Ran focused remote test coverage locally.
codex-app-server-client
Shared in-process app-server client used by conversational CLI surfaces:
codex-execcodex-tui
Purpose
This crate centralizes startup and lifecycle management for an in-process
codex-app-server runtime, so CLI clients do not need to duplicate:
- app-server bootstrap and initialize handshake
- in-memory request/event transport wiring
- lifecycle orchestration around caller-provided startup identity
- graceful shutdown behavior
Startup identity
Callers pass both the app-server SessionSource and the initialize
client_info.name explicitly when starting the facade.
That keeps thread metadata (for example in thread/list and thread/read)
aligned with the originating runtime without baking TUI/exec-specific policy
into the shared client layer.
Transport model
The in-process path uses typed channels:
- client -> server:
ClientRequest/ClientNotification - server -> client:
InProcessServerEventServerRequestServerNotificationLegacyNotification
JSON serialization is still used at external transport boundaries (stdio/websocket), but the in-process hot path is typed.
Typed requests still receive app-server responses through the JSON-RPC result envelope internally. That is intentional: the in-process path is meant to preserve app-server semantics while removing the process boundary, not to introduce a second response contract.
Bootstrap behavior
The client facade starts an already-initialized in-process runtime, but thread bootstrap still follows normal app-server flow:
- caller sends
thread/startorthread/resume - app-server returns the immediate typed response
- richer session metadata may arrive later as a
SessionConfiguredlegacy event
Surfaces such as TUI and exec may therefore need a short bootstrap phase where they reconcile startup response data with later events.
Backpressure and shutdown
- Queues are bounded and use
DEFAULT_IN_PROCESS_CHANNEL_CAPACITYby default. - Full queues return explicit overload behavior instead of unbounded growth.
shutdown()performs a bounded graceful shutdown and then aborts if timeout is exceeded.
If the client falls behind on event consumption, the worker emits
InProcessServerEvent::Lagged and may reject pending server requests so
approval flows do not hang indefinitely behind a saturated queue.