## Why
The Desktop app can use Codex or ChatGPT branding while retaining stable platform identities. CLI discovery and TUI handoff should not depend on a single display name or hardcoded executable path.
## What changed
- On macOS, search for both `ChatGPT.app` and `Codex.app`, and accept only bundles with the `com.openai.codex` identifier.
- On Windows, detect installs by their package app ID and resolve the `codex` protocol executable from the AppX manifest before handing off a TUI session.
- Use “Desktop app” consistently in CLI and TUI user-facing text.
## Testing
Add coverage for selecting a ChatGPT-named Codex bundle and rejecting the classic ChatGPT bundle.
GitOrigin-RevId: b84a56eb6e960712152e1a9b023ab530ec9a354a
## Summary
Fixes#26423.
On Windows, `codex app PATH` detected Codex Desktop and launched the app
shell target, then only printed a manual instruction to open the
workspace. The Desktop app already supports
`codex://threads/new?path=...`, so the CLI can open the requested
workspace directly.
This updates the Windows launcher to normalize the workspace path,
encode it into a `codex://threads/new` deep link, and open that URL when
Codex Desktop is installed. The installer fallback still opens the
Windows installer and prints the workspace path for after installation.
## Why
`codex app [PATH]` is the documented CLI entry point for opening Codex
Desktop on a workspace. Recent desktop builds can focus the app while
failing to honor paths passed as macOS document-open arguments via `open
-a Codex.app <workspace>`, which broke `codex app .` for users. See
#25333; related report: #25166.
The desktop app still supports the explicit
`codex://threads/new?path=...` route, so the CLI should use that
app-owned launch surface instead of depending on folder-open event
delivery.
## What Changed
- Build a `codex://threads/new?path=<workspace>` URL in the macOS app
launcher.
- Pass that URL to `open -a <Codex.app>` instead of passing the
workspace path as a document argument.
- Add coverage that workspace paths needing escaping round-trip through
URL query encoding.
## Verification
- `just test -p codex-cli codex_new_thread_url_encodes_workspace_path`
## Summary
`codex app` should be a platform-aware entry point for opening Codex
Desktop or helping users install it. Before this change, the command
only existed on macOS and its default installer URL always pointed at
the Apple Silicon DMG, which sent Intel Mac users to the wrong build.
This updates the macOS path to choose the Apple Silicon or Intel DMG
based on the detected processor, while keeping `--download-url` as an
advanced override. It also enables `codex app` on Windows, where the CLI
opens an installed Codex Desktop app when available and otherwise opens
the Windows installer URL.
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Co-authored-by: Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@openai.com>
Eric Traut