Route hosted Apps MCP through extensions (#27191)

## Stack

- Base: #27184
- This PR is the second vertical and should be reviewed against
`jif/external-plugins-1`, not `main`.

## Why

CCA is moving toward a split runtime where the orchestrator may have no
filesystem or executor, but it still needs to activate remotely hosted
plugin components. HTTP MCP servers are the simplest complete example:
they need configuration and host authentication, but they do not need an
executor process.

The Apps MCP endpoint is currently synthesized by a special-purpose
loader inside the MCP runtime. That works locally, but it leaves hosted
MCP activation outside the extension model being established in #27184.
It also makes the Apps path a poor foundation for plugins whose skills,
MCP servers, connectors, and hooks may come from different sources or
execute in different places.

This PR moves that one behavior behind an extension-owned contribution
while preserving the existing local fallback. It deliberately does not
introduce a generic plugin activation framework.

## What changed

### MCP extension contribution

`codex-extension-api` gains an ordered `McpServerContributor` contract.
A contributor returns typed `Set` or `Remove` overlays for MCP server
configuration; later contributors win for the names they own.

The contract stays at the existing MCP configuration boundary.
Extensions do not create a second connection manager or transport
abstraction.

### Hosted Apps MCP extension

A new `codex-mcp-extension` contributes the reserved `codex_apps` server
from the existing Apps feature, ChatGPT base URL, path override, and
product SKU configuration.

When `apps_mcp_path_override` is enabled for `https://chatgpt.com`, the
resulting streamable HTTP endpoint is
`https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/ps/mcp`. The existing ChatGPT-auth gate
remains authoritative, so this server can run in an orchestrator-only
process without being exposed for API-key sessions.

### One resolved runtime view

`McpManager` now distinguishes three views:

- **configured:** config- and plugin-backed servers before extension
overlays;
- **runtime:** configured servers plus host-installed extension
contributions;
- **effective:** runtime servers after auth gating and compatibility
built-ins.

App-server installs the hosted MCP extension and uses the runtime view
for thread startup, refresh, status, threadless resource reads,
connector discovery, and MCP OAuth lookup. This keeps
`mcpServer/oauth/login` consistent with the servers exposed by the other
MCP APIs. The hosted Apps server itself continues to use existing
ChatGPT host authentication rather than MCP OAuth.

## Compatibility

Hosts that do not install the MCP extension retain the existing Apps MCP
synthesis path. This preserves current local-only, CLI, and
standalone-host behavior while app-server exercises the extension path.

Disabling Apps removes the reserved `codex_apps` entry, and losing
ChatGPT auth removes it from the effective runtime view. Executor
availability is not consulted for this HTTP transport.

## Follow-ups

The next vertical will resolve a manifest-declared stdio MCP server from
an executor-selected plugin root and execute it in the environment that
owns that root. Later verticals can add backend-owned skills, connector
metadata, hooks, durable selection semantics, and incremental local
convergence without changing the component-specific runtime boundaries
introduced here.

## Verification

Focused coverage was added for:

- contributing the hosted Apps MCP at `/backend-api/ps/mcp` without an
executor;
- requiring ChatGPT auth in the effective runtime view;
- removing a reserved configured Apps server when the Apps feature is
disabled.

`cargo check -p codex-app-server -p codex-mcp-extension -p
codex-extension-api -p codex-mcp` passed. Tests and Clippy were not run
locally under the current development instruction; CI provides the full
validation pass.
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@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::collections::HashSet;
use std::sync::Arc;
use std::sync::LazyLock;
@@ -41,8 +40,8 @@ use codex_mcp::ToolInfo;
use codex_mcp::ToolPluginProvenance;
use codex_mcp::codex_apps_tools_cache_key;
use codex_mcp::compute_auth_statuses;
use codex_mcp::effective_mcp_servers;
use codex_mcp::host_owned_codex_apps_enabled;
use codex_mcp::with_codex_apps_mcp;
const CONNECTORS_READY_TIMEOUT_ON_EMPTY_TOOLS: Duration = Duration::from_secs(30);
@@ -220,6 +219,23 @@ pub async fn list_accessible_connectors_from_mcp_tools_with_environment_manager(
config: &Config,
force_refetch: bool,
environment_manager: Arc<EnvironmentManager>,
) -> anyhow::Result<AccessibleConnectorsStatus> {
let plugins_manager = Arc::new(PluginsManager::new(config.codex_home.to_path_buf()));
let mcp_manager = Arc::new(McpManager::new(plugins_manager));
list_accessible_connectors_from_mcp_tools_with_mcp_manager(
config,
force_refetch,
environment_manager,
mcp_manager,
)
.await
}
pub async fn list_accessible_connectors_from_mcp_tools_with_mcp_manager(
config: &Config,
force_refetch: bool,
environment_manager: Arc<EnvironmentManager>,
mcp_manager: Arc<McpManager>,
) -> anyhow::Result<AccessibleConnectorsStatus> {
let auth_manager =
AuthManager::shared_from_config(config, /*enable_codex_api_key_env*/ false).await;
@@ -234,8 +250,6 @@ pub async fn list_accessible_connectors_from_mcp_tools_with_environment_manager(
});
}
let cache_key = accessible_connectors_cache_key(config, auth.as_ref());
let plugins_manager = Arc::new(PluginsManager::new(config.codex_home.to_path_buf()));
let mcp_manager = McpManager::new(Arc::clone(&plugins_manager));
let tool_plugin_provenance = mcp_manager.tool_plugin_provenance(config).await;
if !force_refetch && let Some(cached_connectors) = read_cached_accessible_connectors(&cache_key)
{
@@ -250,8 +264,9 @@ pub async fn list_accessible_connectors_from_mcp_tools_with_environment_manager(
});
}
let mcp_config = config.to_mcp_config(plugins_manager.as_ref()).await;
let mcp_servers = with_codex_apps_mcp(HashMap::new(), auth.as_ref(), &mcp_config);
let mcp_config = mcp_manager.runtime_config(config).await;
let mut mcp_servers = effective_mcp_servers(&mcp_config, auth.as_ref());
mcp_servers.retain(|name, _| name == CODEX_APPS_MCP_SERVER_NAME);
let host_owned_codex_apps_enabled = host_owned_codex_apps_enabled(&mcp_config, auth.as_ref());
if mcp_servers.is_empty() {
return Ok(AccessibleConnectorsStatus {