## What changed
- Add `iconUrlDark`, `distributionChannel`, `installUrl`, and
`pluginDisplayNames` to the experimental `app/read` connector metadata.
- Populate plugin display names from enabled plugins without starting their MCP
servers.
- Accept both dark-icon field spellings from the batch API and keep the new
upstream fields optional for compatibility with older responses.
## Testing
- Cover the serialized response fields, legacy batch responses, and plugin
display-name lookup without MCP startup.
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## What changed
- Add the experimental `app/read` request for fetching metadata for up to 100
app IDs, with optional display-only tool summaries.
- Preserve first-request order while deduplicating IDs, and report unknown or
unauthorized apps as partial misses.
- Cache metadata by backend and ChatGPT account/workspace identity, refetch
metadata-only entries when tools are requested, and preserve cached records
when a backend request fails.
## Testing
- Cover request serialization, ordering, deduplication, partial misses, caching,
tool-summary refetches, backend failures, cache isolation, and the ID limit.
GitOrigin-RevId: 55fc3281d99291e76d6c4a581e8d11569d3cb1ac
## Summary
- Add `iconAssets` and `iconDarkAssets` to the app-list protocol.
- Preserve structured icons through directory merging and the connector,
app-
server, and TUI boundaries.
- Keep legacy logo URLs unchanged as compatibility fallbacks.
- Update generated protocol schemas and TypeScript types.
## Why
Connector metadata is consumed by connector discovery, ChatGPT
integration, core, and TUI code. Treating app-server's wire DTO as the
shared domain model reverses the intended dependency direction.
## What changed
- Added connector-owned app branding, review, screenshot, metadata, and
info types.
- Added explicit conversions in app-server and TUI while preserving
app-server's wire payloads.
- Removed production app-server-protocol dependencies from connectors
and ChatGPT connector code.
## Stack
This is PR 4 of 6, stacked on [PR
#29722](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29722). Review only the
delta from `codex/split-config-layer-types`. Next: [PR
#29724](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29724).
## Validation
- Connector and tools coverage passed.
- App-server app-list coverage passed: 13 tests.
Matthew Zeng