Fixes#2558
Codex uses alternate screen mode (CSI 1049) which, per xterm spec,
doesn't support scrollback. Zellij follows this strictly, so users can't
scroll back through output.
**Changes:**
- Add `tui.alternate_screen` config: `auto` (default), `always`, `never`
- Add `--no-alt-screen` CLI flag
- Auto-detect Zellij and skip alt screen (uses existing `ZELLIJ` env var
detection)
**Usage:**
```bash
# CLI flag
codex --no-alt-screen
# Or in config.toml
[tui]
alternate_screen = "never"
```
With default `auto` mode, Zellij users get working scrollback without
any config changes.
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Co-authored-by: Josh McKinney <joshka@openai.com>
Some enterprises do not want their users to be able to `/feedback`.
<img width="395" height="325" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2dae9c0b-20c3-4a15-bcd3-0187857ebbd8"
/>
Adds to `config.toml`:
```toml
[feedback]
enabled = false
```
I've deliberately decided to:
1. leave other references to `/feedback` (e.g. in the interrupt message,
tips of the day) unchanged. I think we should continue to promote the
feature even if it is not usable currently.
2. leave the `/feedback` menu item selectable and display an error
saying it's disabled, rather than remove the menu item (which I believe
would raise more questions).
but happy to discuss these.
This will be followed by a change to requirements.toml that admins can
use to force the value of feedback.enabled.
**Motivation**
The `originator` header is important for codex-backend’s Responses API
proxy because it identifies the real end client (codex cli, codex vscode
extension, codex exec, future IDEs) and is used to categorize requests
by client for our enterprise compliance API.
Today the `originator` header is set by either:
- the `CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` env var (our VSCode extension
does this)
- calling `set_default_originator()` which sets a global immutable
singleton (`codex exec` does this)
For `codex app-server`, we want the `initialize` JSON-RPC request to set
that header because it is a natural place to do so. Example:
```json
{
"method": "initialize",
"id": 0,
"params": {
"clientInfo": {
"name": "codex_vscode",
"title": "Codex VS Code Extension",
"version": "0.1.0"
}
}
}
```
and when app-server receives that request, it can call
`set_default_originator()`. This is a much more natural interface than
asking third party developers to set an env var.
One hiccup is that `originator()` reads the global singleton and locks
in the value, preventing a later `set_default_originator()` call from
setting it. This would be fine but is brittle, since any codepath that
calls `originator()` before app-server can process an `initialize`
JSON-RPC call would prevent app-server from setting it. This was
actually the case with OTEL initialization which runs on boot, but I
also saw this behavior in certain tests.
Instead, what we now do is:
- [unchanged] If `CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` env var is set,
`originator()` would return that value and `set_default_originator()`
with some other value does NOT override it.
- [new] If no env var is set, `originator()` would return the default
value which is `codex_cli_rs` UNTIL `set_default_originator()` is called
once, in which case it is set to the new value and becomes immutable.
Later calls to `set_default_originator()` returns
`SetOriginatorError::AlreadyInitialized`.
**Other notes**
- I updated `codex_core::otel_init::build_provider` to accepts a service
name override, and app-server sends a hardcoded `codex_app_server`
service name to distinguish it from `codex_cli_rs` used by default (e.g.
TUI).
**Next steps**
- Update VSCE to set the proper value for `clientInfo.name` on
`initialize` and drop the `CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` env var.
- Delete support for `CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` in codex-rs.
Handle null tool arguments in the MCP resource handler so optional
resource tools accept null without failing, preserving normal JSON
parsing for non-null payloads and improving robustness when models emit
null; this avoids spurious argument parse errors for list/read MCP
resource calls.
Elevated Sandbox NUX:
* prompt for elevated sandbox setup when agent mode is selected (via
/approvals or at startup)
* prompt for degraded sandbox if elevated setup is declined or fails
* introduce /elevate-sandbox command to upgrade from degraded
experience.
This seems to be necessary to get the Bazel builds on ARM Linux to go
green on https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8875.
I don't feel great about timeout-whack-a-mole, but we're still learning
here...
I have seen this test flake out sometimes when running the macOS build
using Bazel in CI: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8875. Perhaps
Bazel runs with greater parallelism, inducing a heavier load, causing an
issue?
Historically we started with a CodexAuth that knew how to refresh it's
own tokens and then added AuthManager that did a different kind of
refresh (re-reading from disk).
I don't think it makes sense for both `CodexAuth` and `AuthManager` to
be mutable and contain behaviors.
Move all refresh logic into `AuthManager` and keep `CodexAuth` as a data
object.
This updates core shell environment policy handling to match Windows
case-insensitive variable names and adds a Windows-only regression test,
so Path/TEMP are no longer dropped when inherit=core.
**Before:**
```
Error loading configuration: value `Never` is not in the allowed set [OnRequest]
```
**After:**
```
Error loading configuration: invalid value for `approval_policy`: `Never` is not in the
allowed set [OnRequest] (set by MDM com.openai.codex:requirements_toml_base64)
```
Done by introducing a new struct `ConfigRequirementsWithSources` onto
which we `merge_unset_fields` now. Also introduces a pair of requirement
value and its `RequirementSource` (inspired by `ConfigLayerSource`):
```rust
pub struct Sourced<T> {
pub value: T,
pub source: RequirementSource,
}
```
## Summary
- avoid setting a new process group when stdio is inherited (keeps child
in foreground PG)
- keep process-group isolation when stdio is redirected so killpg
cleanup still works
- prevents macOS job-control SIGTTIN stops that look like hangs after
output
## Testing
- `cargo build -p codex-cli`
- `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1
CARGO_BIN_EXE_codex=/Users/denis/Code/codex/codex-rs/target/debug/codex
/opt/homebrew/bin/timeout 30m cargo test -p codex-core -p codex-exec`
## Context
This fixes macOS sandbox hangs for commands like `elixir -v` / `erl
-noshell`, where the child was moved into a new process group while
still attached to the controlling TTY. See issue #8690.
## Authorship & collaboration
- This change and analysis were authored by **Codex** (AI coding agent).
- Human collaborator: @seeekr provided repro environment, context, and
review guidance.
- CLI used: `codex-cli 0.77.0`.
- Model: `gpt-5.2-codex (xhigh)`.
Co-authored-by: Eric Traut <etraut@openai.com>
Include project-level AGENTS.md and skills in /review sessions so the
review sub-agent uses the same instruction pipeline as standard runs,
keeping reviewer context aligned with normal sessions.
Sort list_dir entries before applying offset/limit so pagination matches
the displayed order, update pagination/truncation expectations, and add
coverage for sorted pagination. This ensures stable, predictable
directory pages when list_dir is enabled.
Add metrics capabilities to Codex. The `README.md` is up to date.
This will not be merged with the metrics before this PR of course:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8350
To support Bazelification in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8875,
this PR introduces a new `find_resource!` macro that we use in place of
our existing logic in tests that looks for resources relative to the
compile-time `CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR` env var.
To make this work, we plan to add the following to all `rust_library()`
and `rust_test()` Bazel rules in the project:
```
rustc_env = {
"BAZEL_PACKAGE": native.package_name(),
},
```
Our new `find_resource!` macro reads this value via
`option_env!("BAZEL_PACKAGE")` so that the Bazel package _of the code
using `find_resource!`_ is injected into the code expanded from the
macro. (If `find_resource()` were a function, then
`option_env!("BAZEL_PACKAGE")` would always be
`codex-rs/utils/cargo-bin`, which is not what we want.)
Note we only consider the `BAZEL_PACKAGE` value when the `RUNFILES_DIR`
environment variable is set at runtime, indicating that the test is
being run by Bazel. In this case, we have to concatenate the runtime
`RUNFILES_DIR` with the compile-time `BAZEL_PACKAGE` value to build the
path to the resource.
In testing this change, I discovered one funky edge case in
`codex-rs/exec-server/tests/common/lib.rs` where we have to _normalize_
(but not canonicalize!) the result from `find_resource!` because the
path contains a `common/..` component that does not exist on disk when
the test is run under Bazel, so it must be semantically normalized using
the [`path-absolutize`](https://crates.io/crates/path-absolutize) crate
before it is passed to `dotslash fetch`.
Because this new behavior may be non-obvious, this PR also updates
`AGENTS.md` to make humans/Codex aware that this API is preferred.
Skills discovery now follows symlink entries for SkillScope::User
($CODEX_HOME/skills) and SkillScope::Admin (e.g. /etc/codex/skills).
Added cycle protection: directories are canonicalized and tracked in a
visited set to prevent infinite traversal from circular links.
Added per-root traversal limits to avoid accidentally scanning huge
trees:
- max depth: 6
- max directories: 2000 (logs a warning if truncated)
For now, symlink stat failures and traversal truncation are logged
rather than surfaced as UI “invalid SKILL.md” warnings.
Fixes#8609
# Summary
Emphasize single-line name/description values and quoting when values
could be interpreted as YAML syntax.
# Testing
Not run (skill-only change.)
Adds a new feature
`enable_request_compression` that will compress using zstd requests to
the codex-backend. Currently only enabled for codex-backend so only enabled for openai providers when using chatgpt::auth even when the feature is enabled
Added a new info log line too for evaluating the compression ratio and
overhead off compressing before requesting. You can enable with
`RUST_LOG=$RUST_LOG,codex_client::transport=info`
```
2026-01-06T00:09:48.272113Z INFO codex_client::transport: Compressed request body with zstd pre_compression_bytes=28914 post_compression_bytes=11485 compression_duration_ms=0
```
We used to override truncation policy by comparing model info vs config
value in context manager. A better way to do it is to construct model
info using the config value
**Summary**
This PR makes “ApprovalDecision::AcceptForSession / don’t ask again this
session” actually work for `apply_patch` approvals by caching approvals
based on absolute file paths in codex-core, properly wiring it through
app-server v2, and exposing the choice in both TUI and TUI2.
- This brings `apply_patch` calls to be at feature-parity with general
shell commands, which also have a "Yes, and don't ask again" option.
- This also fixes VSCE's "Allow this session" button to actually work.
While we're at it, also split the app-server v2 protocol's
`ApprovalDecision` enum so execpolicy amendments are only available for
command execution approvals.
**Key changes**
- Core: per-session patch approval allowlist keyed by absolute file
paths
- Handles multi-file patches and renames/moves by recording both source
and destination paths for `Update { move_path: Some(...) }`.
- Extend the `Approvable` trait and `ApplyPatchRuntime` to work with
multiple keys, because an `apply_patch` tool call can modify multiple
files. For a request to be auto-approved, we will need to check that all
file paths have been approved previously.
- App-server v2: honor AcceptForSession for file changes
- File-change approval responses now map AcceptForSession to
ReviewDecision::ApprovedForSession (no longer downgraded to plain
Approved).
- Replace `ApprovalDecision` with two enums:
`CommandExecutionApprovalDecision` and `FileChangeApprovalDecision`
- TUI / TUI2: expose “don’t ask again for these files this session”
- Patch approval overlays now include a third option (“Yes, and don’t
ask again for these files this session (s)”).
- Snapshot updates for the approval modal.
**Tests added/updated**
- Core:
- Integration test that proves ApprovedForSession on a patch skips the
next patch prompt for the same file
- App-server:
- v2 integration test verifying
FileChangeApprovalDecision::AcceptForSession works properly
**User-visible behavior**
- When the user approves a patch “for session”, future patches touching
only those previously approved file(s) will no longer prompt gain during
that session (both via app-server v2 and TUI/TUI2).
**Manual testing**
Tested both TUI and TUI2 - see screenshots below.
TUI:
<img width="1082" height="355" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/adcf45ad-d428-498d-92fc-1a0a420878d9"
/>
TUI2:
<img width="1089" height="438" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dd768b1a-2f5f-4bd6-98fd-e52c1d3abd9e"
/>
