I discovered that `cargo build` worked for the entire workspace, but not
for the `mcp-client` or `core` crates.
* `mcp-client` failed to build because it underspecified the set of
features it needed from `tokio`.
* `core` failed to build because it was using a "feature" of its own
crate in the default, no-feature version.
This PR fixes the builds and adds a check in CI to defend against this
sort of thing going forward.
In order to expose Codex via an MCP server, I realized that we should be
taking `cwd` as a parameter rather than assuming
`std::env::current_dir()` as the `cwd`. Specifically, the user may want
to start a session in a directory other than the one where the MCP
server has been started.
This PR makes `cwd: PathBuf` a required field of `Session` and threads
it all the way through, though I think there is still an issue with not
honoring `workdir` for `apply_patch`, which is something we also had to
fix in the TypeScript version: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/556.
This also adds `-C`/`--cd` to change the cwd via the command line.
To test, I ran:
```
cargo run --bin codex -- exec -C /tmp 'show the output of ls'
```
and verified it showed the contents of my `/tmp` folder instead of
`$PWD`.
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
Previous to this PR, `SandboxPolicy` was a bit difficult to work with:
237f8a11e1/codex-rs/core/src/protocol.rs (L98-L108)
Specifically:
* It was an `enum` and therefore options were mutually exclusive as
opposed to additive.
* It defined things in terms of what the agent _could not_ do as opposed
to what they _could_ do. This made things hard to support because we
would prefer to build up a sandbox config by starting with something
extremely restrictive and only granting permissions for things the user
as explicitly allowed.
This PR changes things substantially by redefining the policy in terms
of two concepts:
* A `SandboxPermission` enum that defines permissions that can be
granted to the agent/sandbox.
* A `SandboxPolicy` that internally stores a `Vec<SandboxPermission>`,
but externally exposes a simpler API that can be used to configure
Seatbelt/Landlock.
Previous to this PR, we supported a `--sandbox` flag that effectively
mapped to an enum value in `SandboxPolicy`. Though now that
`SandboxPolicy` is a wrapper around `Vec<SandboxPermission>`, the single
`--sandbox` flag no longer makes sense. While I could have turned it
into a flag that the user can specify multiple times, I think the
current values to use with such a flag are long and potentially messy,
so for the moment, I have dropped support for `--sandbox` altogether and
we can bring it back once we have figured out the naming thing.
Since `--sandbox` is gone, users now have to specify `--full-auto` to
get a sandbox that allows writes in `cwd`. Admittedly, there is no clean
way to specify the equivalent of `--full-auto` in your `config.toml`
right now, so we will have to revisit that, as well.
Because `Config` presents a `SandboxPolicy` field and `SandboxPolicy`
changed considerably, I had to overhaul how config loading works, as
well. There are now two distinct concepts, `ConfigToml` and `Config`:
* `ConfigToml` is the deserialization of `~/.codex/config.toml`. As one
might expect, every field is `Optional` and it is `#[derive(Deserialize,
Default)]`. Consistent use of `Optional` makes it clear what the user
has specified explicitly.
* `Config` is the "normalized config" and is produced by merging
`ConfigToml` with `ConfigOverrides`. Where `ConfigToml` contains a raw
`Option<Vec<SandboxPermission>>`, `Config` presents only the final
`SandboxPolicy`.
The changes to `core/src/exec.rs` and `core/src/linux.rs` merit extra
special attention to ensure we are faithfully mapping the
`SandboxPolicy` to the Seatbelt and Landlock configs, respectively.
Also, take note that `core/src/seatbelt_readonly_policy.sbpl` has been
renamed to `codex-rs/core/src/seatbelt_base_policy.sbpl` and that
`(allow file-read*)` has been removed from the `.sbpl` file as now this
is added to the policy in `core/src/exec.rs` when
`sandbox_policy.has_full_disk_read_access()` is `true`.
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/642 introduced support for the
`--disable-response-storage` flag, but if you are a ZDR customer, it is
tedious to set this every time, so this PR makes it possible to set this
once in `config.toml` and be done with it.
Incidentally, this tidies things up such that now `init_codex()` takes
only one parameter: `Config`.
This changes how instantiating `Config` works and also adds
`approval_policy` and `sandbox_policy` as fields. The idea is:
* All fields of `Config` have appropriate default values.
* `Config` is initially loaded from `~/.codex/config.toml`, so values in
`config.toml` will override those defaults.
* Clients must instantiate `Config` via
`Config::load_with_overrides(ConfigOverrides)` where `ConfigOverrides`
has optional overrides that are expected to be settable based on CLI
flags.
The `Config` should be defined early in the program and then passed
down. Now functions like `init_codex()` take fewer individual parameters
because they can just take a `Config`.
Also, `Config::load()` used to fail silently if `~/.codex/config.toml`
had a parse error and fell back to the default config. This seemed
really bad because it wasn't clear why the values in my `config.toml`
weren't getting picked up. I changed things so that
`load_with_overrides()` returns `Result<Config>` and verified that the
various CLIs print a reasonable error if `config.toml` is malformed.
Finally, I also updated the TUI to show which **sandbox** value is being
used, as we do for other key values like **model** and **approval**.
This was also a reminder that the various values of `--sandbox` are
honored on Linux but not macOS today, so I added some TODOs about fixing
that.
Previously, the Rust TUI was writing log files to `/tmp`, which is
world-readable and not available on Windows, so that isn't great.
This PR tries to clean things up by adding a function that provides the
path to the "Codex config dir," e.g., `~/.codex` (though I suppose we
could support `$CODEX_HOME` to override this?) and then defines other
paths in terms of the result of `codex_dir()`.
For example, `log_dir()` returns the folder where log files should be
written which is defined in terms of `codex_dir()`. I updated the TUI to
use this function. On UNIX, we even go so far as to `chmod 600` the log
file by default, though as noted in a comment, it's a bit tedious to do
the equivalent on Windows, so we just let that go for now.
This also changes the default logging level to `info` for `codex_core`
and `codex_tui` when `RUST_LOG` is not specified. I'm not really sure if
we should use a more verbose default (it may be helpful when debugging
user issues), though if so, we should probably also set up log rotation?
As stated in `codex-rs/README.md`:
Today, Codex CLI is written in TypeScript and requires Node.js 22+ to
run it. For a number of users, this runtime requirement inhibits
adoption: they would be better served by a standalone executable. As
maintainers, we want Codex to run efficiently in a wide range of
environments with minimal overhead. We also want to take advantage of
operating system-specific APIs to provide better sandboxing, where
possible.
To that end, we are moving forward with a Rust implementation of Codex
CLI contained in this folder, which has the following benefits:
- The CLI compiles to small, standalone, platform-specific binaries.
- Can make direct, native calls to
[seccomp](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/seccomp.2.html) and
[landlock](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/landlock.7.html) in
order to support sandboxing on Linux.
- No runtime garbage collection, resulting in lower memory consumption
and better, more predictable performance.
Currently, the Rust implementation is materially behind the TypeScript
implementation in functionality, so continue to use the TypeScript
implmentation for the time being. We will publish native executables via
GitHub Releases as soon as we feel the Rust version is usable.
