## What changed
- Add the opt-in `features.guardianv2.free_guardian` setting to route eligible
Guardian reviews to `/guardian` and asynchronous classifications to
`/guardian-classifier`.
- Support endpoint selection for both HTTP and WebSocket Responses clients,
including endpoint-aware connection reuse.
- Keep `/responses` for API-key authentication, custom provider URLs,
non-Guardian models, and configurations where the option is disabled.
- Omit routing hints and `service_tier` from requests sent to the dedicated
Guardian endpoints.
## Testing
- Cover route selection across authentication modes, provider URLs, HTTP
fallback, WebSocket review sessions, and classifier sampling.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9c88673c710d009e0239559b9245a4e6c4f4befc
## What changed
- Split the approval review contributor into a `fast_decision` path for existing evidence and a `full_review` path for structured reviews.
- Add host-owned full-review inputs with action evidence, conversation history, thread and turn identifiers, approval context, and extension data.
- Add structured assessment and error types, and resolve full reviews using the first contributor that claims the request.
## Testing
- Cover full-review input propagation, first-claim ordering, and short-circuit behavior in the extension registry tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6f763d874af8c0b66a0d760b7b7c7dfe32251c9e
## Why
Commands requesting `sandbox_permissions=require_escalated` need a full Guardian review even when they are not marked as retries.
## What changed
- Treat escalated command requests, along with retries, as requiring synchronous Guardian review.
- Bypass extension approval and Guardian V2 shortcuts for these requests.
## Testing
Add an integration test that installs an auto-approving extension and verifies that an escalated command still reaches Guardian and honors its denial.
GitOrigin-RevId: 30eed273460f3c3c6b24d1ce2d29889e34513afd
## What changed
- Remove the legacy `shell_command` handler and runtime, leaving `exec_command`
and `write_stdin` as the shell execution tools.
- Treat legacy `shell_command` model metadata as `unified_exec`, and normalize
legacy user opt-outs so they do not disable command execution. Managed feature
requirements and `shell_tool` can still disable it.
- Preserve shell approvals, sandboxing, zsh-fork support, and output truncation
through the unified execution path.
## Testing
- Cover legacy configuration and model-metadata compatibility.
- Exercise unified shell execution, approvals, truncation, and `apply_patch`
serialization across the app-server and core test suites.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5c2fd6164fc3519cdae4944cb9db276b8467311c
## What changed
- Allow the Guardian V2 approval monitor to handle reviews for models that require automatic review.
- Preserve full Guardian review when Guardian V2 is disabled by configuration or managed requirements.
- Cover required-model routing for low- and high-risk actions, plus both Guardian V2 disable paths.
GitOrigin-RevId: d1201cc3dbd7c4a07de633388b14f17ada9feb39
## What changed
- Pass metrics bound to the active turn's model to approval-review contributors.
- Add counter support to `ExtensionMetrics` while preserving host session attribution.
- Record Guardian v2 tool-call score lag and count stale-score fallbacks with the `score_lag` reason.
## Testing
- Cover counter forwarding and session metadata tags.
- Verify Guardian v2 metric samples for current and stale scores.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0ec34736d29d2e37ed217a27e773b4f6230ae38a
## What changed
- Give approval review contributors the first opportunity to resolve an action when automatic review is not required for the model.
- Return an extension's decision directly and fall back to Guardian when no extension claims the review.
- Update Guardian V2 to approve actions below its risk threshold through the review contributor API, and remove the extension approval-policy API.
## Testing
- Verify that an extension approval bypasses both the Guardian model call and the user approval prompt.
- Cover Guardian V2 review decisions for low-risk, high-risk, and disabled threads.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5be56941143aff6f358b75b5f8101b7c047147ae
## What changed
- Add a thread-scoped extension API for requesting automatic review, resolving
multiple contributors to the strongest requirement.
- Have Guardian v2 request automatic review when it is enabled and the latest
`action_risk` score is at least `0.8`.
- Honor extension review requirements across tool approvals, MCP elicitation,
and remote execution while preserving host configuration and managed-policy
constraints.
## Testing
- Cover contributor registration and requirement resolution.
- Verify Guardian v2 requests review at the threshold, returns to the default
below it, and does not affect threads where the extension is disabled.
- Exercise extension-requested strict review with a remote model override.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6329fc23585d5cc7173c39bb9952c3109ec3884b
## What changed
- Set `parallel_tool_calls` for regular and remote compaction prompts without consulting model metadata.
- Remove `supports_parallel_tool_calls` from `ModelInfo`, the bundled model catalog, and related fixtures.
- Preserve the existing Responses Lite behavior that disables parallel tool calls at request construction.
GitOrigin-RevId: 49552bdf97e71fa57325abb49f8adc0c88f1401a
## What changed
- Add `TurnInputRequest` and typed submission results for atomically starting a turn, steering the active turn, or declining input with a specific reason.
- Expose `start_or_steer_turn`, `start_turn_if_idle`, and `steer_turn` on `CodexThread`, and migrate Core consumers to these APIs.
- Make app-server `turn/start` steer an active regular turn and return that turn's ID. Reject incompatible output schemas and non-steerable turns without applying settings or enqueueing input.
## Testing
- Cover concurrent start-or-steer submissions, accepted and rejected settings updates, output-schema compatibility, idle-start rejection, and app-server steering.
GitOrigin-RevId: dd9b5528d76ec650c019e97af420bc13190ea86a
## What changed
- Parse `node_repl_auto_review_required` and `node_repl_disabled` from model catalog entries and include their values in each turn's Responses API metadata.
- Treat both fields as reserved metadata so client-provided values cannot override the selected model's policy.
- Use the selected review model's catalog entry when building metadata for review turns.
## Testing
- Cover metadata propagation across model switches, review turns, Responses API requests, and MCP tool calls.
GitOrigin-RevId: c1f63426eeb8e559abff439fbc618716a4908aff
## What changed
- Add `include_apps_usage_instructions` to model metadata, defaulting to true for compatibility with existing metadata.
- Emit generic Apps guidance only when apps are available and the selected model enables it.
- Enable the capability for interactive model presets while leaving `codex-auto-review` and local models opted out.
## Testing
- Verify that missing metadata defaults to enabled and an explicit opt-out survives serialization.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6a20573cddfd3b80083d2b4b015829b49e6cc283
## What changed
- Propagate the optional `modelSpecialty` field through the model catalog and
app-server `model/list` response.
- When a newly selected model has the `cyber` specialty, default an active TUI
thread to workspace-write permissions with on-request approval. Use auto
review when available, otherwise keep the user as reviewer, while respecting
configured permission requirements.
- Show a notice when auto review is applied and strengthen the full-access
warning for cyber models.
- Preserve explicitly selected permissions when only reasoning settings change.
## Testing
- Cover auto-review defaults, requirement-aware fallback behavior, permission
preservation across reasoning changes, and the new warning notice.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8f25b0082d3051d9ff91f7355921236d0f82f758
## What changed
- Add `include_plugin_usage_instructions` to model metadata, defaulting to false.
- Emit generic plugin guidance only when plugins are available and the selected model enables it.
- Enable the capability for interactive model presets while leaving `codex-auto-review` opted out.
GitOrigin-RevId: 67f5a97e978033f5f1d533956c0b9deeae610283
## What changed
- Remove `ModelInfo.base_instructions` as an in-memory instruction source and use `model_messages.instructions_template` consistently for bundled, remote, fallback, and overridden model metadata.
- Preserve compatibility by promoting legacy `base_instructions` values when reading model responses and caches, and by including rendered legacy instructions when serializing `ModelsResponse` for older clients.
- Treat templates without instruction variables as literal text and retain the other model-message fields when applying instruction overrides.
This completes the consolidation proposed in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/31302.
## Testing
- Cover legacy response and cache migration, canonical-template precedence, fallback instructions, personality rendering, overrides, and model switching.
GitOrigin-RevId: 089d986ca5e30da67db2c77a1b6a046d2cff52dc
## What changed
- Force an online model-catalog refresh and verify that the mock server receives it.
- Allow the catalog mock to handle repeated requests.
- Bound the catalog refresh and session shutdown with timeouts, and explicitly wait for shutdown before completing the test.
GitOrigin-RevId: 503b52fd296928757b982abc053c74ed36700ff0
## What changed
- Add `supports_reasoning_summary_parameter` to model metadata, defaulting to
`true` for backward compatibility.
- Omit `reasoning.summary` and its summary-delivery stream option when the
selected model does not support the parameter.
- Apply the capability of the final selected model when a spawned agent uses a
different model.
## Testing
- Cover unsupported models in regular requests and spawned-agent model
overrides.
GitOrigin-RevId: 72b783799fc0685cef1501ef2dbf62d1308ceead
## What changed
- Build a reasoning payload for every Responses request and always include `reasoning.encrypted_content`.
- Remove `supports_reasoning_summaries` from model metadata and retire the `model_supports_reasoning_summaries` configuration override.
- Use configured or model-default reasoning effort without a capability gate, including for guardian reviews and tracing.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2c9f194a5d2d4d688a2235299e6358f82ab8e1ea
## Summary
- add a false-by-default `include_skills_usage_instructions` model
metadata field
- enable the field for the bundled `gpt-5.5` model metadata
- consume the metadata in both core and extension skill rendering
- remove hardcoded legacy-model matching and its marker plumbing
The workspace denies `clippy::expect_used` in production. Although
`clippy.toml` allows `expect` in tests, Bazel Clippy compiles
integration-test helper code in a way that does not receive that
exemption, which encouraged verbose `unwrap_or_else(... panic!(...))`
and equivalent `match`/`let else` forms.
This allows `clippy::expect_used` once at each integration-test crate
root (including aggregated suites and test-support libraries), then
replaces manual panic-based Result and Option unwraps with
`expect`/`expect_err`. Standalone `tests/*.rs` files remain their own
crate roots. Intentional assertion and unexpected-variant panics remain
unchanged, and the production `expect_used = "deny"` lint remains in
place.
The cleanup is mechanical and net-negative in line count.
## Summary
- add optional `comp_hash` metadata to `ModelInfo`
- update `ModelInfo` fixtures for the shared schema change
- keep older model responses compatible by defaulting the field to
`None`
## Why
The models endpoint needs an opaque identifier for compaction-compatible
model configurations. This PR only exposes that value in model metadata;
it does not add it to turn context or change runtime behavior.
Follow-up #27520 carries the value through turn context and rollouts,
then uses it to trigger compaction.
## Stack
- based directly on `main`
- replaces #27519, which was accidentally merged into the wrong base
branch
- functionality follow-up: #27520
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-protocol
model_info_defaults_availability_nux_to_none_when_omitted`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-protocol -p codex-analytics -p
codex-models-manager`
## Why
Thread cwd and environment selections are a single logical setting in
core: updating one without the other can silently desynchronize the
next-turn execution context. This change makes that relationship
explicit in the internal thread settings flow while preserving the
existing app-server public API shape.
## What changed
- Moved the cwd/environment pair through internal
`ThreadSettingsOverrides.environment_settings` instead of a top-level
internal `cwd` field.
- Kept `thread/settings/update` public params unchanged, with app-server
translating top-level `cwd` into the paired internal settings shape.
- Moved `Op::UserInput` environment overrides into thread settings so
user turns and settings updates use the same core path.
- Updated core, app-server, MCP, memories, sample, and test callsites to
construct the paired settings shape.
## Verification
- `git diff --check`
- Local test run starting after PR creation.
## Why
Thread settings cwd overrides are expected to be resolved before they
enter core. Keeping this boundary as a plain `PathBuf` made it easy for
core/session code to keep fallback normalization and relative-path
resolution logic in places that should only receive an already-resolved
cwd.
This is intentionally the absolute-cwd-only slice: it does not change
environment selection stickiness or cwd-to-default-environment fallback
behavior.
## What changed
- Changes `ThreadSettingsOverrides.cwd`,
`CodexThreadSettingsOverrides.cwd`, and `SessionSettingsUpdate.cwd` to
use `AbsolutePathBuf`.
- Removes core-side cwd normalization/resolution from session settings
updates.
- Updates affected core/app-server test helpers and callsites to pass
existing absolute cwd values or use `abs()` helpers.
## Validation
Opening as draft so CI can start while local validation continues.
## Summary
- add a defaulted `ModelInfo.use_responses_lite` catalog field
- support serializing `reasoning.context` while preserving the existing
effort and summary path
- has not been turned on for any models yet
I've added an override to parallel tools if responses_lite is on. I've
also forced persistent reasoning when using responses_lite. It would be
ideal if we could centralize all the responses_lite plumbing, but I
think this is best for now to keep the plumbing & diffs small.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
model_info_defaults_availability_nux_to_none_when_omitted`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-core
responses_lite_sets_all_turns_context_and_disables_parallel_tool_calls`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-core
configured_reasoning_summary_is_sent`
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo clippy -p codex-core --tests` (passes
with pre-existing warnings in `codex-code-mode` and
`codex-core-plugins`)
Stack split from #25708. Original PR intentionally left open. This first
PR adds the multi-agent runtime metadata types and catalog plumbing used
by the rest of the stack.
## Why
Guardian auto-review normally uses the provider-preferred review model
when one is available. Some parent models need model-catalog metadata to
select a different review model while keeping older `/models` payloads
compatible when that metadata is absent.
## What changed
- Added optional `ModelInfo::auto_review_model_override` metadata to the
public model payload as a review-model slug.
- Updated Guardian review model selection to prefer the catalog override
when present, while preserving the existing provider preferred-model
path and parent-model fallback when it is omitted.
- Added focused Guardian coverage for override and no-override model
selection.
- Added an `auto_review` core integration suite test that loads override
metadata from a remote model catalog path and asserts the strict
auto-review `/responses` request uses the catalog-selected review model.
- Updated existing `ModelInfo` fixtures and local catalog constructors
for the new optional field.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
model_info_defaults_availability_nux_to_none_when_omitted`
- `cargo test -p codex-core guardian_review_uses_`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
remote_model_override_uses_catalog_model_for_strict_auto_review --test
all`
- `just fix -p codex-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
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