feat: configurable notifications in the Rust CLI (#793)

With this change, you can specify a program that will be executed to get
notified about events generated by Codex. The notification info will be
packaged as a JSON object. The supported notification types are defined
by the `UserNotification` enum introduced in this PR. Initially, it
contains only one variant, `AgentTurnComplete`:

```rust
pub(crate) enum UserNotification {
    #[serde(rename_all = "kebab-case")]
    AgentTurnComplete {
        turn_id: String,

        /// Messages that the user sent to the agent to initiate the turn.
        input_messages: Vec<String>,

        /// The last message sent by the assistant in the turn.
        last_assistant_message: Option<String>,
    },
}
```

This is intended to support the common case when a "turn" ends, which
often means it is now your chance to give Codex further instructions.

For example, I have the following in my `~/.codex/config.toml`:

```toml
notify = ["python3", "/Users/mbolin/.codex/notify.py"]
```

I created my own custom notifier script that calls out to
[terminal-notifier](https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier) to
show a desktop push notification on macOS. Contents of `notify.py`:

```python
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json
import subprocess
import sys


def main() -> int:
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        print("Usage: notify.py <NOTIFICATION_JSON>")
        return 1

    try:
        notification = json.loads(sys.argv[1])
    except json.JSONDecodeError:
        return 1

    match notification_type := notification.get("type"):
        case "agent-turn-complete":
            assistant_message = notification.get("last-assistant-message")
            if assistant_message:
                title = f"Codex: {assistant_message}"
            else:
                title = "Codex: Turn Complete!"
            input_messages = notification.get("input_messages", [])
            message = " ".join(input_messages)
            title += message
        case _:
            print(f"not sending a push notification for: {notification_type}")
            return 0

    subprocess.check_output(
        [
            "terminal-notifier",
            "-title",
            title,
            "-message",
            message,
            "-group",
            "codex",
            "-ignoreDnD",
            "-activate",
            "com.googlecode.iterm2",
        ]
    )

    return 0


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())
```

For reference, here are related PRs that tried to add this functionality
to the TypeScript version of the Codex CLI:

* https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/160
* https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/498
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Michael Bolin
2025-05-02 19:48:13 -07:00
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@@ -30,6 +30,28 @@ pub struct Config {
/// System instructions.
pub instructions: Option<String>,
/// Optional external notifier command. When set, Codex will spawn this
/// program after each completed *turn* (i.e. when the agent finishes
/// processing a user submission). The value must be the full command
/// broken into argv tokens **without** the trailing JSON argument - Codex
/// appends one extra argument containing a JSON payload describing the
/// event.
///
/// Example `~/.codex/config.toml` snippet:
///
/// ```toml
/// notify = ["notify-send", "Codex"]
/// ```
///
/// which will be invoked as:
///
/// ```shell
/// notify-send Codex '{"type":"agent-turn-complete","turn-id":"12345"}'
/// ```
///
/// If unset the feature is disabled.
pub notify: Option<Vec<String>>,
}
/// Base config deserialized from ~/.codex/config.toml.
@@ -52,6 +74,10 @@ pub struct ConfigToml {
/// who have opted into Zero Data Retention (ZDR).
pub disable_response_storage: Option<bool>,
/// Optional external command to spawn for end-user notifications.
#[serde(default)]
pub notify: Option<Vec<String>>,
/// System instructions.
pub instructions: Option<String>,
}
@@ -161,6 +187,7 @@ impl Config {
disable_response_storage: disable_response_storage
.or(cfg.disable_response_storage)
.unwrap_or(false),
notify: cfg.notify,
instructions,
}
}