feat: add support for -c/--config to override individual config items (#1137)

This PR introduces support for `-c`/`--config` so users can override
individual config values on the command line using `--config
name=value`. Example:

```
codex --config model=o4-mini
```

Making it possible to set arbitrary config values on the command line
results in a more flexible configuration scheme and makes it easier to
provide single-line examples that can be copy-pasted from documentation.

Effectively, it means there are four levels of configuration for some
values:

- Default value (e.g., `model` currently defaults to `o4-mini`)
- Value in `config.toml` (e.g., user could override the default to be
`model = "o3"` in their `config.toml`)
- Specifying `-c` or `--config` to override `model` (e.g., user can
include `-c model=o3` in their list of args to Codex)
- If available, a config-specific flag can be used, which takes
precedence over `-c` (e.g., user can specify `--model o3` in their list
of args to Codex)

Now that it is possible to specify anything that could be configured in
`config.toml` on the command line using `-c`, we do not need to have a
custom flag for every possible config option (which can clutter the
output of `--help`). To that end, as part of this PR, we drop support
for the `--disable-response-storage` flag, as users can now specify `-c
disable_response_storage=true` to get the equivalent functionality.

Under the hood, this works by loading the `config.toml` into a
`toml::Value`. Then for each `key=value`, we create a small synthetic
TOML file with `value` so that we can run the TOML parser to get the
equivalent `toml::Value`. We then parse `key` to determine the point in
the original `toml::Value` to do the insert/replace. Once all of the
overrides from `-c` args have been applied, the `toml::Value` is
deserialized into a `ConfigToml` and then the `ConfigOverrides` are
applied, as before.
This commit is contained in:
Michael Bolin
2025-05-27 23:11:44 -07:00
committed by GitHub
parent eba0e32909
commit d60f350cf8
20 changed files with 522 additions and 98 deletions

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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use std::io::IsTerminal;
use std::sync::Arc;
use clap::Parser;
use codex_common::CliConfigOverrides;
use codex_core::Codex;
use codex_core::config::Config;
use codex_core::config::ConfigOverrides;
@@ -13,9 +14,12 @@ use tracing::error;
use tracing::info;
#[derive(Debug, Parser)]
pub struct ProtoCli {}
pub struct ProtoCli {
#[clap(skip)]
pub config_overrides: CliConfigOverrides,
}
pub async fn run_main(_opts: ProtoCli) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
pub async fn run_main(opts: ProtoCli) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
if std::io::stdin().is_terminal() {
anyhow::bail!("Protocol mode expects stdin to be a pipe, not a terminal");
}
@@ -24,7 +28,12 @@ pub async fn run_main(_opts: ProtoCli) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
.with_writer(std::io::stderr)
.init();
let config = Config::load_with_overrides(ConfigOverrides::default())?;
let ProtoCli { config_overrides } = opts;
let overrides_vec = config_overrides
.parse_overrides()
.map_err(anyhow::Error::msg)?;
let config = Config::load_with_cli_overrides(overrides_vec, ConfigOverrides::default())?;
let ctrl_c = notify_on_sigint();
let (codex, _init_id) = Codex::spawn(config, ctrl_c.clone()).await?;
let codex = Arc::new(codex);