feat: support mcp_servers in config.toml (#829)

This adds initial support for MCP servers in the style of Claude Desktop
and Cursor. Note this PR is the bare minimum to get things working end
to end: all configured MCP servers are launched every time Codex is run,
there is no recovery for MCP servers that crash, etc.

(Also, I took some shortcuts to change some fields of `Session` to be
`pub(crate)`, which also means there are circular deps between
`codex.rs` and `mcp_tool_call.rs`, but I will clean that up in a
subsequent PR.)

`codex-rs/README.md` is updated as part of this PR to explain how to use
this feature. There is a bit of plumbing to route the new settings from
`Config` to the business logic in `codex.rs`. The most significant
chunks for new code are in `mcp_connection_manager.rs` (which defines
the `McpConnectionManager` struct) and `mcp_tool_call.rs`, which is
responsible for tool calls.

This PR also introduces new `McpToolCallBegin` and `McpToolCallEnd`
event types to the protocol, but does not add any handlers for them.
(See https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/836 for initial usage.)

To test, I added the following to my `~/.codex/config.toml`:

```toml
# Local build of https://github.com/hideya/mcp-server-weather-js
[mcp_servers.weather]
command = "/Users/mbolin/code/mcp-server-weather-js/dist/index.js"
args = []
```

And then I ran the following:

```
codex-rs$ cargo run --bin codex exec 'what is the weather in san francisco'
[2025-05-06T22:40:05] Task started: 1
[2025-05-06T22:40:18] Agent message: Here’s the latest National Weather Service forecast for San Francisco (downtown, near 37.77° N, 122.42° W):

This Afternoon (Tue):
• Sunny, high near 69 °F
• West-southwest wind around 12 mph

Tonight:
• Partly cloudy, low around 52 °F
• SW wind 7–10 mph
...
```

Note that Codex itself is not able to make network calls, so it would
not normally be able to get live weather information like this. However,
the weather MCP is [currently] not run under the Codex sandbox, so it is
able to hit `api.weather.gov` and fetch current weather information.

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* #836
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### mcp_servers
Defines the list of MCP servers that Codex can consult for tool use. Currently, only servers that are launched by executing a program that communicate over stdio are supported. For servers that use the SSE transport, consider an adapter like [mcp-proxy](https://github.com/sparfenyuk/mcp-proxy).
**Note:** Codex may cache the list of tools and resources from an MCP server so that Codex can include this information in context at startup without spawning all the servers. This is designed to save resources by loading MCP servers lazily.
This config option is comparable to how Claude and Cursor define `mcpServers` in their respective JSON config files, though because Codex uses TOML for its config language, the format is slightly different. For example, the following config in JSON:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"server-name": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-server"],
"env": {
"API_KEY": "value"
}
}
}
}
```
Should be represented as follows in `~/.codex/config.toml`:
```toml
# IMPORTANT: the top-level key is `mcp_servers` rather than `mcpServers`.
[mcp_servers.server-name]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-server"]
env = { "API_KEY" = "value" }
```
### disable_response_storage
Currently, customers whose accounts are set to use Zero Data Retention (ZDR) must set `disable_response_storage` to `true` so that Codex uses an alternative to the Responses API that works with ZDR: