## Summary
Update the plugin API for the new remote plugin model.
The mental model is no longer “keep local plugin state in sync with
remote.” Instead, local and remote plugins are becoming separate
sources. Remote catalog entries can be shown directly from the remote
API before installation; after installation they are still downloaded
into the local cache for execution, but remote installed state will come
from the API and be held in memory rather than being read from config.
• ## API changes
- Remove `forceRemoteSync` from `plugin/list`, `plugin/install`, and
`plugin/uninstall`.
- Remove `remoteSyncError` from `plugin/list`.
- Add remote-capable metadata to `plugin/list` / `plugin/read`:
- nullable `marketplaces[].path`
- `source: { type: "remote", downloadUrl }`
- URL asset fields alongside local path fields:
`composerIconUrl`, `logoUrl`, `screenshotUrls`
- Make `plugin/read` and `plugin/install` source-compatible:
- `marketplacePath?: AbsolutePathBuf | null`
- `remoteMarketplaceName?: string | null`
- exactly one source is required at runtime
## Summary
- add first-class marketplace support for git-backed plugin sources
- keep the newer marketplace parsing behavior from `main`, including
alternate manifest locations and string local sources
- materialize remote plugin sources during install, detail reads, and
non-curated cache refresh
- expose git plugin source metadata through the app-server protocol
## Details
This teaches the marketplace parser to accept all of the following:
- local string sources such as `"source": "./plugins/foo"`
- local object sources such as
`{"source":"local","path":"./plugins/foo"}`
- remote repo-root sources such as
`{"source":"url","url":"https://github.com/org/repo.git"}`
- remote subdir sources such as
`{"source":"git-subdir","url":"owner/repo","path":"plugins/foo","ref":"main","sha":"..."}`
It also preserves the newer tolerant behavior from `main`: invalid or
unsupported plugin entries are skipped instead of breaking the whole
marketplace.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core plugins::marketplace::tests`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
## Notes
- A full `cargo test -p codex-core` run still hit unrelated existing
failures in agent and multi-agent tests during this session; the
marketplace-focused suite passed after the rebase resolution.
## Summary
Move the Computer Use tool suggestion into core Codex plugin discovery.
Also search `openai-bundled` when listing suggested plugins, with test
coverage for overlap between baked-in suggestions and
`tool_suggest.discoverables`.
## Test plan
Tested locally:
- `cargo test -p codex-core list_tool_suggest_discoverable_plugins`
Load plugin manifests through a shared discoverable-path helper so
manifest reads, installs, and skill names all see the same alternate
manifest location.
## Summary
- Add best-effort auto-upgrade for user-configured Git marketplaces
recorded in `config.toml`.
- Track the last activated Git revision with `last_revision` so
unchanged marketplace sources skip clone work.
- Trigger the upgrade from plugin startup and `plugin/list`, while
preserving existing fail-open plugin behavior with warning logs rather
than new user-visible errors.
## Details
- Remote configured marketplaces use `git ls-remote` to compare the
source/ref against the recorded revision.
- Upgrades clone into a staging directory, validate that
`.agents/plugins/marketplace.json` exists and that the manifest name
matches the configured marketplace key, then atomically activate the new
root.
- Local `.agents/plugins/marketplace.json` marketplaces remain live
filesystem state and are not auto-pulled.
- Existing non-curated plugin cache refresh is kicked after successful
marketplace root upgrades.
## Validation
- `just write-config-schema`
- `cargo test -p codex-core marketplace_upgrade`
- `cargo check -p codex-cli -p codex-app-server`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
Did not run the complete `cargo test` suite because the repo
instructions require asking before a full core workspace run.
Split plugin loading, marketplace, and related infrastructure out of
core into codex-core-plugins, while keeping the core-facing
configuration and orchestration flow in codex-core.
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- 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
```
Added a new top-level `codex marketplace add` command for installing
plugin marketplaces into Codex’s local marketplace cache.
This change adds source parsing for local directories, GitHub shorthand,
and git URLs, supports optional `--ref` and git-only `--sparse` checkout
paths, stages the source in a temp directory, validates the marketplace
manifest, and installs it under
`$CODEX_HOME/marketplaces/<marketplace-name>`
Included tests cover local install behavior in the CLI and marketplace
discovery from installed roots in core. Scoped formatting and fix passes
were run, and targeted CLI/core tests passed.
## Why
This finishes the config-type move out of `codex-core` by removing the
temporary compatibility shim in `codex_core::config::types`. Callers now
depend on `codex-config` directly, which keeps these config model types
owned by the config crate instead of re-expanding `codex-core` as a
transitive API surface.
## What Changed
- Removed the `codex-rs/core/src/config/types.rs` re-export shim and the
`core::config::ApprovalsReviewer` re-export.
- Updated `codex-core`, `codex-cli`, `codex-tui`, `codex-app-server`,
`codex-mcp-server`, and `codex-linux-sandbox` call sites to import
`codex_config::types` directly.
- Added explicit `codex-config` dependencies to downstream crates that
previously relied on the `codex-core` re-export.
- Regenerated `codex-rs/core/config.schema.json` after updating the
config docs path reference.
## Why
`codex-core` was re-exporting APIs owned by sibling `codex-*` crates,
which made downstream crates depend on `codex-core` as a proxy module
instead of the actual owner crate.
Removing those forwards makes crate boundaries explicit and lets leaf
crates drop unnecessary `codex-core` dependencies. In this PR, this
reduces the dependency on `codex-core` to `codex-login` in the following
files:
```
codex-rs/backend-client/Cargo.toml
codex-rs/mcp-server/tests/common/Cargo.toml
```
## What
- Remove `codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` re-exports for symbols owned by
`codex-login`, `codex-mcp`, `codex-rollout`, `codex-analytics`,
`codex-protocol`, `codex-shell-command`, `codex-sandboxing`,
`codex-tools`, and `codex-utils-path`.
- Delete the `default_client` forwarding shim in `codex-rs/core`.
- Update in-crate and downstream callsites to import directly from the
owning `codex-*` crate.
- Add direct Cargo dependencies where callsites now target the owner
crate, and remove `codex-core` from `codex-rs/backend-client`.
## Why
The `plugin/list` force-sync path can race app-server startup's curated
plugin cache refresh.
Startup was capturing the configured curated plugin IDs from the initial
config snapshot. If `plugin/list` with `forceRemoteSync` removed curated
plugin entries from `config.toml` while that background refresh was
still in flight, the startup task could recreate cache directories for
plugins that had just been uninstalled.
That leaves the `plugin/list` response logically correct but the on-disk
cache stale, which matches the flaky Ubuntu arm failure seen in
`codex-app-server::all
suite::v2::plugin_list::plugin_list_force_remote_sync_reconciles_curated_plugin_state`
while validating [#16047](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/16047).
## What
- change `codex-rs/core/src/plugins/manager.rs` so startup curated-repo
refresh rereads the current user `config.toml` before deciding which
curated plugin cache entries to refresh
- factor the configured-plugin parsing so the same logic can be reused
from either the config layer stack or the persisted user config value
- add a regression test that verifies curated plugin IDs are read from
the latest user config state before cache refresh runs
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-core
configured_curated_plugin_ids_from_codex_home_reads_latest_user_config
-- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
suite::v2::plugin_list::plugin_list_force_remote_sync_reconciles_curated_plugin_state
-- --nocapture`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
## Summary
- move skill loading and management into codex-core-skills
- leave codex-core with the thin integration layer and shared wiring
## Testing
- CI
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## Summary
- extract plugin identifiers and load-outcome types into codex-plugin
- update codex-core to consume the new plugin crate
## Testing
- CI
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- Prefer plugin manifest `interface.displayName` for plugin labels.
- Preserve plugin provenance when handling `list_mcp_tools` so connector
`plugin_display_names` are not clobbered.
- Add a TUI test to ensure plugin-owned app mentions are deduped
correctly.
- Split the feature system into a new `codex-features` crate.
- Cut `codex-core` and workspace consumers over to the new config and
warning APIs.
Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
1. Added SessionSource::Custom(String) and --session-source.
2. Enforced plugin and skill products by session_source.
3. Applied the same filtering to curated background refresh.
Resubmit https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15020 with correct
content.
1. Use requirement-resolved config.features as the plugin gate.
2. Guard plugin/list, plugin/read, and related flows behind that gate.
3. Skip bad marketplace.json files instead of failing the whole list.
4. Simplify plugin state and caching.
1. Use requirement-resolved config.features as the plugin gate.
2. Guard plugin/list, plugin/read, and related flows behind that gate.
3. Skip bad marketplace.json files instead of failing the whole list.
4. Simplify plugin state and caching.
- Add shared Product support to marketplace plugin policy and skill
policy (no enforced yet).
- Move marketplace installation/authentication under policy and model it
as MarketplacePluginPolicy.
- Rename plugin/marketplace local manifest types to separate raw serde
shapes from resolved in-memory models.
It now supports:
- Connectors that are from installed and enabled plugins that are not
installed yet
- Plugins that are on the allowlist that are not installed yet.
- Added forceRemoteSync to plugin/install and plugin/uninstall.
- With forceRemoteSync=true, we update the remote plugin status first,
then apply the local change only if the backend call succeeds.
- Kept plugin/list(forceRemoteSync=true) as the main recon path, and for
now it treats remote enabled=false as uninstall. We
will eventually migrate to plugin/installed for more precise state
handling.
## Why
Once the repo-local lint exists, `codex-rs` needs to follow the
checked-in convention and CI needs to keep it from drifting. This commit
applies the fallback `/*param*/` style consistently across existing
positional literal call sites without changing those APIs.
The longer-term preference is still to avoid APIs that require comments
by choosing clearer parameter types and call shapes. This PR is
intentionally the mechanical follow-through for the places where the
existing signatures stay in place.
After rebasing onto newer `main`, the rollout also had to cover newly
introduced `tui_app_server` call sites. That made it clear the first cut
of the CI job was too expensive for the common path: it was spending
almost as much time installing `cargo-dylint` and re-testing the lint
crate as a representative test job spends running product tests. The CI
update keeps the full workspace enforcement but trims that extra
overhead from ordinary `codex-rs` PRs.
## What changed
- keep a dedicated `argument_comment_lint` job in `rust-ci`
- mechanically annotate remaining opaque positional literals across
`codex-rs` with exact `/*param*/` comments, including the rebased
`tui_app_server` call sites that now fall under the lint
- keep the checked-in style aligned with the lint policy by using
`/*param*/` and leaving string and char literals uncommented
- cache `cargo-dylint`, `dylint-link`, and the relevant Cargo
registry/git metadata in the lint job
- split changed-path detection so the lint crate's own `cargo test` step
runs only when `tools/argument-comment-lint/*` or `rust-ci.yml` changes
- continue to run the repo wrapper over the `codex-rs` workspace, so
product-code enforcement is unchanged
Most of the code changes in this commit are intentionally mechanical
comment rewrites or insertions driven by the lint itself.
## Verification
- `./tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh --workspace`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui-app-server -p codex-tui`
- parsed `.github/workflows/rust-ci.yml` locally with PyYAML
---
* -> #14652
* #14651
- clarify app mentions are in user messages
- clarify what it means for tools to be provided via `codex_apps` MCP
- add plugin descriptions (with basic sanitization) to top-level `##
Plugins` section alongside the corresponding plugin names
- explain that skills from plugins are prefixed with `plugin_name:` in
top-level `##Plugins` section
changes to more logically organize `Apps`, `Skills`, and `Plugins`
instructions will be in a separate PR, as that shuffles dev + user
instructions in ways that change tests broadly.
### Tests
confirmed in local rollout, some new tests.
## Why
PR #13783 moved the `codex.rs` unit tests into `codex_tests.rs`. This
applies the same extraction pattern across the rest of `codex-rs/core`
so the production modules stay focused on runtime code instead of large
inline test blocks.
Keeping the tests in sibling files also makes follow-up edits easier to
review because product changes no longer have to share a file with
hundreds or thousands of lines of test scaffolding.
## What changed
- replaced each inline `mod tests { ... }` in `codex-rs/core/src/**`
with a path-based module declaration
- moved each extracted unit test module into a sibling `*_tests.rs`
file, using `mod_tests.rs` for `mod.rs` modules
- preserved the existing `cfg(...)` guards and module-local structure so
the refactor remains structural rather than behavioral
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib` (`1653 passed; 0 failed; 5 ignored`)
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `cargo fmt --check`
- `cargo shear`
- Curated repo sync now uses GitHub HTTP, not local git.
- Curated plugin cache/versioning now uses commit SHA instead of local.
- Startup sync now always repairs or refreshes curated plugin cache from
tmp (auto update to the lastest)
make `AVAILABLE` the default plugin installPolicy when unset in
`marketplace.json`. similarly, make `ON_INSTALL` the default authPolicy.
this means, when unset, plugins are available to be installed (but not
auto-installed), and the contained connectors will be authed at
install-time.
updated tests.
wire plugin marketplace metadata through app-server endpoints:
- `plugin/list` has `installPolicy` and `authPolicy`
- `plugin/install` has plugin-level `authPolicy`
`plugin/install` also now enforces `NOT_AVAILABLE` `installPolicy` when
installing.
added tests.
add `plugin/uninstall` app-server endpoint to fully rm plugin from
plugins cache dir and rm entry from user config file.
plugin-enablement is session-scoped, so uninstalls are only picked up in
new sessions (like installs).
added tests.
1. Add a synced curated plugin marketplace and include it in marketplace
discovery.
2. Expose optional plugin.json interface metadata in plugin/list
3. Tighten plugin and marketplace path handling using validated absolute
paths.
4. Let manifests override skill, MCP, and app config paths.
5. Restrict plugin enablement/config loading to the user config layer so
plugin enablement is at global level
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