## Summary
1. Add a Security Boundaries section to `SECURITY.md`.
2. Point readers to the Codex Agent approvals and security documentation
for sandboxing, approvals, and network controls.
## Validation
1. Reviewed the `SECURITY.md` diff in a clean worktree.
2. No tests run. Docs only change.
Azure Responses providers were still falling back to local compaction
because the compaction gate only checked
`ModelProviderInfo::is_openai()`.
Move the capability check onto `ModelProviderInfo` with
`supports_remote_compaction()`, backed by the existing Azure Responses
endpoint detection used in `codex-api`, and have `core::compact`
delegate to that helper.
Add regression coverage for:
- OpenAI providers using remote compaction
- Azure providers using remote compaction
- non-OpenAI/non-Azure providers staying on the local path
resolves#17773
---------
Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com>
## Why
#17763 moved sandbox-state delivery for MCP tool calls to request
`_meta` via the `codex/sandbox-state-meta` experimental capability.
Keeping the older `codex/sandbox-state` capability meant Codex still
maintained a second transport that pushed updates with the custom
`codex/sandbox-state/update` request at server startup and when the
session sandbox policy changed.
That duplicate MCP path is redundant with the per-tool-call metadata
path and makes the sandbox-state contract larger than needed. The
existing managed network proxy refresh on sandbox-policy changes is
still needed, so this keeps that behavior separate from the removed MCP
notification.
## What Changed
- Removed the exported `MCP_SANDBOX_STATE_CAPABILITY` and
`MCP_SANDBOX_STATE_METHOD` constants.
- Removed detection of `codex/sandbox-state` during MCP initialization
and stopped sending `codex/sandbox-state/update` at server startup.
- Removed the `McpConnectionManager::notify_sandbox_state_change`
plumbing while preserving the managed network proxy refresh when a user
turn changes sandbox policy.
- Slimmed `McpConnectionManager::new` so startup paths pass only the
initial `SandboxPolicy` needed for MCP elicitation state.
- Kept `codex/sandbox-state-meta` support intact; servers that opt in
still receive the current `SandboxState` on tool-call request `_meta`
([remaining call
path](ff2d3c1e72/codex-rs/core/src/mcp_tool_call.rs (L487-L526))).
- Added regression coverage for refreshing the live managed network
proxy on a per-turn sandbox-policy change.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core
new_turn_refreshes_managed_network_proxy_for_sandbox_change`
- `cargo test -p codex-mcp`
## Summary
- Move auth header construction into the
`AuthProvider::add_auth_headers` contract.
- Inline `CoreAuthProvider` header mutation in its provider impl and
remove the shared header-map helper.
- Update HTTP, websocket, file upload, sideband websocket, and test auth
callsites to use the provider method.
- Add direct coverage for `CoreAuthProvider` auth header mutation.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-api`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
client::tests::auth_request_telemetry_context_tracks_attached_auth_and_retry_phase`
- `cargo test -p codex-core` failed on unrelated/reproducible
`tools::handlers::multi_agents::tests::multi_agent_v2_followup_task_interrupts_busy_child_without_losing_message`
---------
Co-authored-by: Celia Chen <celia@openai.com>
Builds on top of #17659
Move the filesystem + sqlite thread listing-related operations inside of
a local ThreadStore implementation and call ThreadStore from the places
that used to perform these filesystem/sqlite operations.
This is the first of a series of PRs that will implement the rest of the
local ThreadStore.
Testing:
- added unit tests for the thread store implementation
- adjusted some unit tests in the realtime + personality packages whose
callsites changed. Specifically I'm trying to hide ThreadMetadata inside
of the local implementation and make ThreadMetadata a sqlite
implementation detail concern rather than a public interface, preferring
the more generate StoredThread interface instead
- added a corner case test for the personality migration package that
wasn't covered by the existing test suite
- adjust the behavior of searched thread listing to run the existing
local rollout repair/backfill pass _before_ querying SQLite results, so
callers using ThreadStore::list_threads do not miss matches after a
partial metadata warm-up
## Summary
Stack PR 2 of 4 for feature-gated agent identity support.
This PR adds agent identity registration behind
`features.use_agent_identity`. It keeps the app-server protocol
unchanged and starts registration after ChatGPT auth exists rather than
requiring a client restart.
## Stack
- PR1: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17385 - add
`features.use_agent_identity`
- PR2: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17386 - this PR
- PR3: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17387 - register agent tasks
when enabled
- PR4: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/17388 - use `AgentAssertion`
downstream when enabled
## Validation
Covered as part of the local stack validation pass:
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib agent_identity`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib agent_assertion`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib websocket_agent_task`
- `cargo test -p codex-api api_bridge`
- `cargo build -p codex-cli --bin codex`
## Notes
The full local app-server E2E path is still being debugged after PR
creation. The current branch stack is directionally ready for review
while that follow-up continues.
stacked on #17402.
MCP tools returned by `tool_search` (deferred tools) get registered in
our `ToolRegistry` with a different format than directly available
tools. this leads to two different ways of accessing MCP tools from our
tool catalog, only one of which works for each. fix this by registering
all MCP tools with the namespace format, since this info is already
available.
also, direct MCP tools are registered to responsesapi without a
namespace, while deferred MCP tools have a namespace. this means we can
receive MCP `FunctionCall`s in both formats from namespaces. fix this by
always registering MCP tools with namespace, regardless of deferral
status.
make code mode track `ToolName` provenance of tools so it can map the
literal JS function name string to the correct `ToolName` for
invocation, rather than supporting both in core.
this lets us unify to a single canonical `ToolName` representation for
each MCP tool and force everywhere to use that one, without supporting
fallbacks.
## Summary
- Fix marketplace-add local path detection on Windows by using
`Path::is_absolute()`.
- Make marketplace-add local-source tests parse/write TOML through the
same helpers instead of raw string matching.
- Update `rand` 0.9.x to 0.9.3 and document the remaining audited `rand`
0.8.5 advisory exception.
- Refresh `MODULE.bazel.lock` after the Cargo.lock update.
## Why
Latest `main` had two independent CI blockers: marketplace-add tests
were not portable to Windows path/TOML escaping, and cargo-deny still
reported `RUSTSEC-2026-0097` after the recent rustls-webpki fix.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core marketplace_add -- --nocapture`
- `cargo deny --all-features check`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
## Changes
Allows MCPs to opt in to receiving sandbox config info through `_meta`
on model-initiated tool calls. This lets MCPs adhere to the thread's
sandbox if they choose to.
## Details
- Adds the `codex/sandbox-state-meta` experimental MCP capability.
- Tracks whether each MCP server advertises that capability.
- When a server opts in, `codex-core` injects the current `SandboxState`
into model-initiated MCP tool-call request `_meta`.
## Verification
- added an integration test for the capability
`exec()` had a number of arguments that were unused, making the function
signature misleading. This PR aims to clean things up to clarify the
role of this function and to clarify which fields of `ExecParams` are
unused and why.
## Why
`spawn_command_under_seatbelt()` in `codex-rs/core/src/seatbelt.rs` had
fallen out of production use and was only referenced by test-only
wrappers. That left us with sandbox tests that could stay green even if
the actual seatbelt exec path regressed, because production shell
execution now flows through `SandboxManager::transform()` and
`ExecRequest::from_sandbox_exec_request()` instead of that helper.
Removing the dead helper also exposed one downstream `codex-exec`
integration test that still imported it, which broke `just clippy`.
## What Changed
- Removed `codex-rs/core/src/seatbelt.rs` and stopped exporting
`codex_core::seatbelt`.
- Removed the redundant `codex-rs/core/tests/suite/seatbelt.rs` coverage
that only exercised the dead helper.
- Kept the `openpty` regression check, but moved it into
`codex-rs/core/tests/suite/exec.rs` so it now runs through
`process_exec_tool_call()`.
- Fixed the seatbelt denial test in `codex-rs/core/tests/suite/exec.rs`
to use `/usr/bin/touch`, so it actually exercises the sandbox instead of
a nonexistent path.
- Updated `codex-rs/exec/tests/suite/sandbox.rs` on macOS to build the
sandboxed command through `build_exec_request()` and spawn the
transformed command, instead of importing the removed helper.
- Left the lower-level seatbelt policy coverage in
`codex-rs/sandboxing/src/seatbelt_tests.rs`, where the policy generator
is still covered directly.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core suite::exec::`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec`
- `cargo clippy -p codex-exec --tests -- -D warnings`
## Summary
- reuse a shared remote exec-server for remote-aware codex-core
integration tests within a test binary process
- keep per-test remote cwd creation and cleanup so tests retain
workspace isolation
- leave codex_self_exe, codex_linux_sandbox_exe, cwd_path(), and
workspace_path() behavior unchanged
## Validation
- rustfmt codex-rs/core/tests/common/test_codex.rs
- git diff --check
- CI is running on the updated branch
Fix clippy warnings in external agent config migration
```
error: this expression creates a reference which is immediately dereferenced by the compiler
--> core/src/external_agent_config.rs:188:55
|
188 | let migrated = build_config_from_external(&settings)?;
| ^^^^^^^^^ help: change this to: `settings`
|
= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/rust-1.93.0/index.html#needless_borrow
= note: requested on the command line with `-D clippy::needless-borrow`
error: useless conversion to the same type: `codex_utils_absolute_path::AbsolutePathBuf`
--> core/src/external_agent_config.rs:355:27
|
355 | match AbsolutePathBuf::try_from(
| ___________________________^
356 | | add_marketplace_outcome
357 | | .installed_root
358 | | .join(INSTALLED_MARKETPLACE_MANIFEST_RELATIVE_PATH),
359 | | ) {
| |_____________________^
|
= help: consider removing `AbsolutePathBuf::try_from()`
= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/rust-1.93.0/index.html#useless_conversion
= note: `-D clippy::useless-conversion` implied by `-D warnings`
= help: to override `-D warnings` add `#[allow(clippy::useless_conversion)]`
error: aborting due to 2 previous errors
```
## Summary
- wrap routed delegation text in a small XML envelope before submitting
it as a user turn
- escape XML text content so the envelope stays well formed
- update focused coverage for the wrapper and the affected routed-turn
expectations
## What
Disable `Feature::CodexHooks` when building guardian review session
config
## Why
Guardian review sessions were respecting the Stop hook and could ingest
synthetic `<hook_prompt>` user turns Guardian should ignore hooks, while
the main session and regular subagents continue to respect them
In other words Guardian was getting ralph-looped
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
### **Issue**
guardian_parallel_reviews_fork_from_last_committed_trunk_history was
failing on Windows/Bazel with a stack overflow:
`thread
'guardian::tests::guardian_parallel_reviews_fork_from_last_committed_trunk_history'
has overflowed its stack`
- This problem was a stack-headroom problem
### **Solution**
Reduced stack pressure in the guardian async path by boxing thin wrapper
futures, and run the affected test on a dedicated 2 MiB thread stack.
Concretely:
- added Box::pin(...) around thin async wrapper hops in the guardian
review/delegate path
- changed
guardian_parallel_reviews_fork_from_last_committed_trunk_history to run
inside an explicitly sized thread stack so it has enough headroom in
low-stack environments
## Summary
- Port marketplace source support into the shared core marketplace-add
flow
- Support local marketplace directory sources
- Support direct `marketplace.json` URL sources
- Persist the new source types in config/schema and cover them in CLI
and app-server tests
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core marketplace_add`
- `cargo test -p codex-cli marketplace_add`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server marketplace_add`
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-cli`
## Context
Current `main` moved marketplace-add behavior into shared core code and
still assumed only git-backed sources. This change keeps that structure
but restores support for local directories and direct manifest URLs in
the shared path.
## Summary
- Allows selected MCP results to return a larger default result set.
- Keeps the existing default cap for other MCP results.
- Applies the cap consistently when higher explicit limits are
requested.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-core tool_search`
- Ran a local CLI smoke test with two stdio MCP servers exposing 100
tools each; the selected-server query returned 20 tools and the
regular-server query returned 8.
## Summary
- route apply_patch runtime execution through the selected Environment
filesystem instead of the local self-exec path
- keep the standalone apply_patch command surface intact while restoring
its launcher/test/docs contract
- add focused apply_patch filesystem sandbox regression coverage
## Validation
- remote devbox Bazel run in progress
- passed: //codex-rs/apply-patch:apply-patch-unit-tests
--test_filter=test_read_file_utf8_with_context_reports_invalid_utf8
- in progress / follow-up: focused core and exec Bazel test slices on
dev
## Follow-up under review
- remote pre-verification and approval/retry behavior still need
explicit scrutiny for delete/update flows
- runtime sandbox-denial classification may need a tighter assertion
path than rendered stderr matching
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
Adds `thread_source` field to the existing Codex turn metadata sent to
Responses API
- Sends `thread_source: "user"` for user-initiated sessions: CLI, VS
Code, and Exec
- Sends `thread_source: "subagent"` for subagent sessions
- Omits `thread_source` for MCP, custom, and unknown session sources
- Uses the existing turn metadata transport:
- HTTP requests send through the `x-codex-turn-metadata` header
- WebSocket `response.create` requests send through
`client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
session_source_thread_source_name_classifies_user_and_subagent_sources`
- `cargo test -p codex-core turn_metadata_state`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test responses_headers
responses_stream_includes_turn_metadata_header_for_git_workspace_e2e --
--nocapture`
## Summary
This PR removes `image_detail_original` as a runtime experiment and
makes original image detail available whenever the selected model
supports it.
Concretely, this change:
- drops the `image_detail_original` feature flag from the feature
registry and generated config schema
- makes tool-emitted image detail depend only on
`ModelInfo.supports_image_detail_original`
- updates `view_image` and `code_mode`/`js_repl` image emission to use
that capability check directly
- removes now-redundant experiment-specific tests and instruction
coverage
- keeps backward compatibility for existing configs by silently ignoring
a stale `features.image_detail_original` entry
The net effect is that `detail: "original"` is always available on
supported models, without requiring an experiment toggle.
- Add outputModality to thread/realtime/start and wire text/audio output
selection through app-server, core, API, and TUI.\n- Rename the realtime
transcript delta notification and add a separate transcript done
notification that forwards final text from item done without correlating
it with deltas.
This changes multi-agent v2 mailbox handling so incoming inter-agent
messages no longer preempt an in-flight sampling stream at reasoning or
commentary output-item boundaries.
## Summary
Move `codex marketplace add` onto a shared core implementation so the
CLI and app-server path can use one source of truth.
This change:
- adds shared marketplace-add orchestration in `codex-core`
- switches the CLI command to call that shared implementation
- removes duplicated CLI-only marketplace add helpers
- preserves focused parser and add-path coverage while moving the shared
behavior into core tests
## Why
The new `marketplace/add` RPC should reuse the same underlying
marketplace-add flow as the CLI. This refactor lands that consolidation
first so the follow-up app-server PR can be mostly protocol and handler
wiring.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core marketplace_add`
- `cargo test -p codex-cli marketplace_cmd`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-cli`
- `just fmt`
## Summary\n- add an exec-server package-local test helper binary that
can run exec-server and fs-helper flows\n- route exec-server filesystem
tests through that helper instead of cross-crate codex helper
binaries\n- stop relying on Bazel-only extra binary wiring for these
tests\n\n## Testing\n- not run (per repo guidance for codex changes)
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
- Add `turn/inject_items` app-server v2 request support for appending
raw Responses API items to a loaded thread history without starting a
turn.
- Generate JSON schema and TypeScript protocol artifacts for the new
params and empty response.
- Document the new endpoint and include a request/response example.
- Preserve compatibility with the typo alias `turn/injet_items` while
returning the canonical method name.
## Testing
- Not run (not requested)
## Why
For more advanced MCP usage, we want the model to be able to emit
parallel MCP tool calls and have Codex execute eligible ones
concurrently, instead of forcing all MCP calls through the serial block.
The main design choice was where to thread the config. I made this
server-level because parallel safety depends on the MCP server
implementation. Codex reads the flag from `mcp_servers`, threads the
opted-in server names into `ToolRouter`, and checks the parsed
`ToolPayload::Mcp { server, .. }` at execution time. That avoids relying
on model-visible tool names, which can be incomplete in
deferred/search-tool paths or ambiguous for similarly named
servers/tools.
## What was added
Added `supports_parallel_tool_calls` for MCP servers.
Before:
```toml
[mcp_servers.docs]
command = "docs-server"
```
After:
```toml
[mcp_servers.docs]
command = "docs-server"
supports_parallel_tool_calls = true
```
MCP calls remain serial by default. Only tools from opted-in servers are
eligible to run in parallel. Docs also now warn to enable this only when
the server’s tools are safe to run concurrently, especially around
shared state or read/write races.
## Testing
Tested with a local stdio MCP server exposing real delay tools. The
model/Responses side was mocked only to deterministically emit two MCP
calls in the same turn.
Each test called `query_with_delay` and `query_with_delay_2` with `{
"seconds": 25 }`.
| Build/config | Observed | Wall time |
| --- | --- | --- |
| main with flag enabled | serial | `58.79s` |
| PR with flag enabled | parallel | `31.73s` |
| PR without flag | serial | `56.70s` |
PR with flag enabled showed both tools start before either completed;
main and PR-without-flag completed the first delay before starting the
second.
Also added an integration test.
Additional checks:
- `cargo test -p codex-tools` passed
- `cargo test -p codex-core
mcp_parallel_support_uses_exact_payload_server` passed
- `git diff --check` passed
Cap mirrored user text sent to realtime with the existing 300-token turn
budget while preserving the full model turn.
Adds integration coverage for capped realtime mirror payloads.
---------
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
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Include a link to a bug report or enhancement request.
- stop `list_tool_suggest_discoverable_plugins()` from reloading the
curated marketplace for each discoverable plugin
- reuse a direct plugin-detail loader against the already-resolved
marketplace entry
The trigger was to stop those logs spamming:
```
d=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.user_input" submission.id="019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9" codex.op="user_input"}:turn{otel.name="session_task.turn" thread.id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a turn.id=019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9 model=gpt-5.4}: ignoring interface.defaultPrompt: prompt must be at most 128 characters path=/Users/jif/.codex/.tmp/plugins/plugins/life-science-research/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
2026-04-13T12:27:30.402Z WARN [019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a] codex_core::plugins::manifest - session_loop{thread_id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.user_input" submission.id="019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9" codex.op="user_input"}:turn{otel.name="session_task.turn" thread.id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a turn.id=019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9 model=gpt-5.4}: ignoring interface.defaultPrompt: prompt must be at most 128 characters path=/Users/jif/.codex/.tmp/plugins/plugins/build-ios-apps/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
2026-04-13T12:27:30.402Z WARN [019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a] codex_core::plugins::manifest - session_loop{thread_id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.user_input" submission.id="019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9" codex.op="user_input"}:turn{otel.name="session_task.turn" thread.id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a turn.id=019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9 model=gpt-5.4}: ignoring interface.defaultPrompt: prompt must be at most 128 characters path=/Users/jif/.codex/.tmp/plugins/plugins/life-science-research/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
2026-04-13T12:27:30.405Z WARN [019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a] codex_core::plugins::manifest - session_loop{thread_id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.user_input" submission.id="019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9" codex.op="user_input"}:turn{otel.name="session_task.turn" thread.id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a turn.id=019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9 model=gpt-5.4}: ignoring interface.defaultPrompt: prompt must be at most 128 characters path=/Users/jif/.codex/.tmp/plugins/plugins/build-ios-apps/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
2026-04-13T12:27:30.406Z WARN [019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a] codex_core::plugins::manifest - session_loop{thread_id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.user_input" submission.id="019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9" codex.op="user_input"}:turn{otel.name="session_task.turn" thread.id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a turn.id=019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9 model=gpt-5.4}: ignoring interface.defaultPrompt: prompt must be at most 128 characters path=/Users/jif/.codex/.tmp/plugins/plugins/life-science-research/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
2026-04-13T12:27:30.408Z WARN [019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a] codex_core::plugins::manifest - session_loop{thread_id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a}:submission_dispatch{otel.name="op.dispatch.user_input" submission.id="019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9" codex.op="user_input"}:turn{otel.name="session_task.turn" thread.id=019d81cf-6f69-7230-98aa-74294ff2dc5a turn.id=019d86c8-0a8e-7013-b442-109aabbf75c9 model=gpt-5.4}: ignoring interface.defaultPrompt: prompt must be at most 128 characters path=/Users/jif/.codex/.tmp/plugins/plugins/build-ios-apps/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
```
Addresses #16255
Problem: Incomplete Responses streams could leave completed custom tool
outputs out of cleanup and retry prompts, making persisted history
inconsistent and retries stale.
Solution: Route stream and output-item errors through shared cleanup,
and rebuild retry prompts from fresh session history after the first
attempt.
