This reverts commit 291b54a762.
This commit was intended to prevent the model from making code changes
during `/review`, which is sometimes does. Unfortunately, it has other
unintended side effects that cause `/review` to fail in a variety of
ways. See #8115 and #7815. We've therefore decided to revert this
change.
refactor the way we load and manage skills:
1. Move skill discovery/caching into SkillsManager and reuse it across
sessions.
2. Add the skills/list API (Op::ListSkills/SkillsListResponse) to fetch
skills for one or more cwds. Also update app-server for VSCE/App;
3. Trigger skills/list during session startup so UIs preload skills and
handle errors immediately.
Changes the `writable_roots` field of the `WorkspaceWrite` variant of
the `SandboxPolicy` enum from `Vec<PathBuf>` to `Vec<AbsolutePathBuf>`.
This is helpful because now callers can be sure the value is an absolute
path rather than a relative one. (Though when using an absolute path in
a Seatbelt config policy, we still have to _canonicalize_ it first.)
Because `writable_roots` can be read from a config file, it is important
that we are able to resolve relative paths properly using the parent
folder of the config file as the base path.
We decided that `*.rules` is a more fitting (and concise) file extension
than `*.codexpolicy`, so we are changing the file extension for the
"execpolicy" effort. We are also changing the subfolder of `$CODEX_HOME`
from `policy` to `rules` to match.
This PR updates the in-repo docs and we will update the public docs once
the next CLI release goes out.
Locally, I created `~/.codex/rules/default.rules` with the following
contents:
```
prefix_rule(pattern=["gh", "pr", "view"])
```
And then I asked Codex to run:
```
gh pr view 7888 --json title,body,comments
```
and it was able to!
1. Skills load once in core at session start; the cached outcome is
reused across core and surfaced to TUI via SessionConfigured.
2. TUI detects explicit skill selections, and core injects the matching
SKILL.md content into the turn when a selected skill is present.
- Make Config.model optional and centralize default-selection logic in
ModelsManager, including a default_model helper (with
codex-auto-balanced when available) so sessions now carry an explicit
chosen model separate from the base config.
- Resolve `model` once in `core` and `tui` from config. Then store the
state of it on other structs.
- Move refreshing models to be before resolving the default model
helpful in the future if we want more granularity for requesting
escalated permissions:
e.g when running in readonly sandbox, model can request to escalate to a
sandbox that allows writes
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Issue #7661 revealed that users are confused by deprecation warnings
like:
> `tools.web_search` is deprecated. Use `web_search_request` instead.
This message misleadingly suggests renaming the config key from
`web_search` to `web_search_request`, when the actual required change is
to **move and rename the configuration from the `[tools]` section to the
`[features]` section**.
This PR clarifies the warning messages and documentation to make it
clear that deprecated `[tools]` configurations should be moved to
`[features]`. Changes made:
- Updated deprecation warning format in `codex-rs/core/src/codex.rs:520`
to include `[features].` prefix
- Updated corresponding test expectations in
`codex-rs/core/tests/suite/deprecation_notice.rs:39`
- Improved documentation in `docs/config.md` to clarify upfront that
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## Summary
This PR is heavily based on #4017, which contains the core logic for the
fix. To reduce the risk, we are first introducing it only on windows. We
can then expand to wsl / other environments as needed, and then tackle
net new files.
## Testing
- [x] added unit tests in apply-patch
- [x] add integration tests to apply_patch_cli.rs
---------
Co-authored-by: Chase Naples <Cnaples79@gmail.com>
- This PR wires `with_remote_overrides` and make the
`construct_model_families` an async function
- Moves getting model family a level above to keep the function `sync`
- Updates the tests to local, offline, and `sync` helper for model
families
- Introduce `with_remote_overrides` and update
`refresh_available_models`
- Put `auth_manager` instead of `auth_mode` on `models_manager`
- Remove `ShellType` and `ReasoningLevel` to use already existing
structs
**Change**: Seatbelt now allows file-ioctl on /dev/ttys[0-9]+ even
without the sandbox extension so pre-created PTYs remain interactive
(Python REPL, shells).
**Risk**: A seatbelted process that already holds a PTY fd (including
one it shouldn’t) could issue tty ioctls like TIOCSTI or termios changes
on that fd. This doesn’t allow opening new PTYs or reading/writing them;
it only broadens ioctl capability on existing fds.
**Why acceptable**: We already hand the child its PTY for interactive
use; restoring ioctls is required for isatty() and prompts to work. The
attack requires being given or inheriting a sensitive PTY fd; by design
we don’t hand untrusted processes other users’ PTYs (we don't hand them
any PTYs actually), so the practical exposure is limited to the PTY
intentionally allocated for the session.
**Validation**:
Running
```
start a python interpreter and keep it running
```
Followed by:
* `calculate 1+1 using it` -> works as expected
* `Use this Python session to run the command just fix in
/Users/jif/code/codex/codex-rs` -> does not work as expected
## Refactor of the `execpolicy` crate
To illustrate why we need this refactor, consider an agent attempting to
run `apple | rm -rf ./`. Suppose `apple` is allowed by `execpolicy`.
Before this PR, `execpolicy` would consider `apple` and `pear` and only
render one rule match: `Allow`. We would skip any heuristics checks on
`rm -rf ./` and immediately approve `apple | rm -rf ./` to run.
To fix this, we now thread a `fallback` evaluation function into
`execpolicy` that runs when no `execpolicy` rules match a given command.
In our example, we would run `fallback` on `rm -rf ./` and prevent
`apple | rm -rf ./` from being run without approval.
this PR enables TUI to approve commands and add their prefixes to an
allowlist:
<img width="708" height="605" alt="Screenshot 2025-11-21 at 4 18 07 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/56a19893-4553-4770-a881-becf79eeda32"
/>
note: we only show the option to whitelist the command when
1) command is not multi-part (e.g `git add -A && git commit -m 'hello
world'`)
2) command is not already matched by an existing rule
This PR moves `ModelsFamily` to `openai_models`. It also propagates
`ModelsManager` to session services and use it to drive model family. We
also make `derive_default_model_family` private because it's a step
towards what we want: one place that gives model configuration.
This is a second step at having one source of truth for models
information and config: `ModelsManager`.
Next steps would be to remove `ModelsFamily` from config. That's massive
because it's being used in 41 occasions mostly pre launching `codex`.
Also, we need to make `find_family_for_model` private. It's also big
because it's being used in 21 occasions ~ all tests.
- Introduce `openai_models` in `/core`
- Move `PRESETS` under it
- Move `ModelPreset`, `ModelUpgrade`, `ReasoningEffortPreset`,
`ReasoningEffortPreset`, and `ReasoningEffortPreset` to `protocol`
- Introduce `Op::ListModels` and `EventMsg::AvailableModels`
Next steps:
- migrate `app-server` and `tui` to use the introduced Operation