## Why We already plan to remove the shell-tool MCP path, and doing that cleanup first makes the follow-on `shell-escalation` work much simpler. This change removes the last remaining reason to keep `codex-rs/exec-server` around by moving the `codex-execve-wrapper` binary and shared shell test fixtures to the crates/tests that now own that functionality. ## What Changed ### Delete `codex-rs/exec-server` - Remove the `exec-server` crate, including the MCP server binary, MCP-specific modules, and its test support/test suite - Remove `exec-server` from the `codex-rs` workspace and update `Cargo.lock` ### Move `codex-execve-wrapper` into `codex-rs/shell-escalation` - Move the wrapper implementation into `shell-escalation` (`src/unix/execve_wrapper.rs`) - Add the `codex-execve-wrapper` binary entrypoint under `shell-escalation/src/bin/` - Update `shell-escalation` exports/module layout so the wrapper entrypoint is hosted there - Move the wrapper README content from `exec-server` to `shell-escalation/README.md` ### Move shared shell test fixtures to `app-server` - Move the DotSlash `bash`/`zsh` test fixtures from `exec-server/tests/suite/` to `app-server/tests/suite/` - Update `app-server` zsh-fork tests to reference the new fixture paths ### Keep `shell-tool-mcp` as a shell-assets package - Update `.github/workflows/shell-tool-mcp.yml` packaging so the npm artifact contains only patched Bash/Zsh payloads (no Rust binaries) - Update `shell-tool-mcp/package.json`, `shell-tool-mcp/src/index.ts`, and docs to reflect the shell-assets-only package shape - `shell-tool-mcp-ci.yml` does not need changes because it is already JS-only ## Verification - `cargo shear` - `cargo clippy -p codex-shell-escalation --tests` - `just clippy`
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Installing and running Codex CLI
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