fix: separate codex mcp into codex mcp-server and codex app-server (#4471)

This is a very large PR with some non-backwards-compatible changes.

Historically, `codex mcp` (or `codex mcp serve`) started a JSON-RPC-ish
server that had two overlapping responsibilities:

- Running an MCP server, providing some basic tool calls.
- Running the app server used to power experiences such as the VS Code
extension.

This PR aims to separate these into distinct concepts:

- `codex mcp-server` for the MCP server
- `codex app-server` for the "application server"

Note `codex mcp` still exists because it already has its own subcommands
for MCP management (`list`, `add`, etc.)

The MCP logic continues to live in `codex-rs/mcp-server` whereas the
refactored app server logic is in the new `codex-rs/app-server` folder.
Note that most of the existing integration tests in
`codex-rs/mcp-server/tests/suite` were actually for the app server, so
all the tests have been moved with the exception of
`codex-rs/mcp-server/tests/suite/mod.rs`.

Because this is already a large diff, I tried not to change more than I
had to, so `codex-rs/app-server/tests/common/mcp_process.rs` still uses
the name `McpProcess` for now, but I will do some mechanical renamings
to things like `AppServer` in subsequent PRs.

While `mcp-server` and `app-server` share some overlapping functionality
(like reading streams of JSONL and dispatching based on message types)
and some differences (completely different message types), I ended up
doing a bit of copypasta between the two crates, as both have somewhat
similar `message_processor.rs` and `outgoing_message.rs` files for now,
though I expect them to diverge more in the near future.

One material change is that of the initialize handshake for `codex
app-server`, as we no longer use the MCP types for that handshake.
Instead, we update `codex-rs/protocol/src/mcp_protocol.rs` to add an
`Initialize` variant to `ClientRequest`, which takes the `ClientInfo`
object we need to update the `USER_AGENT_SUFFIX` in
`codex-rs/app-server/src/message_processor.rs`.

One other material change is in
`codex-rs/app-server/src/codex_message_processor.rs` where I eliminated
a use of the `send_event_as_notification()` method I am generally trying
to deprecate (because it blindly maps an `EventMsg` into a
`JSONNotification`) in favor of `send_server_notification()`, which
takes a `ServerNotification`, as that is intended to be a custom enum of
all notification types supported by the app server. So to make this
update, I had to introduce a new variant of `ServerNotification`,
`SessionConfigured`, which is a non-backwards compatible change with the
old `codex mcp`, and clients will have to be updated after the next
release that contains this PR. Note that
`codex-rs/app-server/tests/suite/list_resume.rs` also had to be update
to reflect this change.

I introduced `codex-rs/utils/json-to-toml/src/lib.rs` as a small utility
crate to avoid some of the copying between `mcp-server` and
`app-server`.
This commit is contained in:
Michael Bolin
2025-09-30 00:06:18 -07:00
committed by GitHub
parent 2e95e5602d
commit d9dbf48828
49 changed files with 1525 additions and 414 deletions

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use std::path::PathBuf;
use crate::codex_message_processor::CodexMessageProcessor;
use crate::error_code::INVALID_REQUEST_ERROR_CODE;
use crate::outgoing_message::OutgoingMessageSender;
use codex_protocol::mcp_protocol::ClientInfo;
use codex_protocol::mcp_protocol::ClientRequest;
use codex_protocol::mcp_protocol::InitializeResponse;
use codex_core::AuthManager;
use codex_core::ConversationManager;
use codex_core::config::Config;
use codex_core::default_client::USER_AGENT_SUFFIX;
use codex_core::default_client::get_codex_user_agent;
use mcp_types::JSONRPCError;
use mcp_types::JSONRPCErrorError;
use mcp_types::JSONRPCNotification;
use mcp_types::JSONRPCRequest;
use mcp_types::JSONRPCResponse;
use std::sync::Arc;
pub(crate) struct MessageProcessor {
outgoing: Arc<OutgoingMessageSender>,
codex_message_processor: CodexMessageProcessor,
initialized: bool,
}
impl MessageProcessor {
/// Create a new `MessageProcessor`, retaining a handle to the outgoing
/// `Sender` so handlers can enqueue messages to be written to stdout.
pub(crate) fn new(
outgoing: OutgoingMessageSender,
codex_linux_sandbox_exe: Option<PathBuf>,
config: Arc<Config>,
) -> Self {
let outgoing = Arc::new(outgoing);
let auth_manager = AuthManager::shared(config.codex_home.clone());
let conversation_manager = Arc::new(ConversationManager::new(auth_manager.clone()));
let codex_message_processor = CodexMessageProcessor::new(
auth_manager,
conversation_manager,
outgoing.clone(),
codex_linux_sandbox_exe,
config,
);
Self {
outgoing,
codex_message_processor,
initialized: false,
}
}
pub(crate) async fn process_request(&mut self, request: JSONRPCRequest) {
let request_id = request.id.clone();
if let Ok(request_json) = serde_json::to_value(request)
&& let Ok(codex_request) = serde_json::from_value::<ClientRequest>(request_json)
{
match codex_request {
// Handle Initialize internally so CodexMessageProcessor does not have to concern
// itself with the `initialized` bool.
ClientRequest::Initialize { request_id, params } => {
if self.initialized {
let error = JSONRPCErrorError {
code: INVALID_REQUEST_ERROR_CODE,
message: "Already initialized".to_string(),
data: None,
};
self.outgoing.send_error(request_id, error).await;
return;
} else {
let ClientInfo {
name,
title: _title,
version,
} = params.client_info;
let user_agent_suffix = format!("{name}; {version}");
if let Ok(mut suffix) = USER_AGENT_SUFFIX.lock() {
*suffix = Some(user_agent_suffix);
}
let user_agent = get_codex_user_agent();
let response = InitializeResponse { user_agent };
self.outgoing.send_response(request_id, response).await;
self.initialized = true;
return;
}
}
_ => {
if !self.initialized {
let error = JSONRPCErrorError {
code: INVALID_REQUEST_ERROR_CODE,
message: "Not initialized".to_string(),
data: None,
};
self.outgoing.send_error(request_id, error).await;
return;
}
}
}
self.codex_message_processor
.process_request(codex_request)
.await;
} else {
let error = JSONRPCErrorError {
code: INVALID_REQUEST_ERROR_CODE,
message: "Invalid request".to_string(),
data: None,
};
self.outgoing.send_error(request_id, error).await;
}
}
pub(crate) async fn process_notification(&self, notification: JSONRPCNotification) {
// Currently, we do not expect to receive any notifications from the
// client, so we just log them.
tracing::info!("<- notification: {:?}", notification);
}
/// Handle a standalone JSON-RPC response originating from the peer.
pub(crate) async fn process_response(&mut self, response: JSONRPCResponse) {
tracing::info!("<- response: {:?}", response);
let JSONRPCResponse { id, result, .. } = response;
self.outgoing.notify_client_response(id, result).await
}
/// Handle an error object received from the peer.
pub(crate) fn process_error(&mut self, err: JSONRPCError) {
tracing::error!("<- error: {:?}", err);
}
}