This adds a simple endpoint that provides the email address encoded in
`$CODEX_HOME/auth.json`.
As noted, for now, we do not hit the server to verify this is the user's
true email address.
This PR adds the following:
* A getAuthStatus method on the mcp server. This returns the auth method
currently in use (chatgpt or apikey) or none if the user is not
authenticated. It also returns the "preferred auth method" which
reflects the `preferred_auth_method` value in the config.
* A logout method on the mcp server. If called, it logs out the user and
deletes the `auth.json` file — the same behavior in the cli's `/logout`
command.
* An `authStatusChange` event notification that is sent when the auth
status changes due to successful login or logout operations.
* Logic to pass command-line config overrides to the mcp server at
startup time. This allows use cases like `codex mcp -c
preferred_auth_method=apikey`.
The existing `wire_format.rs` should share more types with the
`codex-protocol` crate (like `AskForApproval` instead of maintaining a
parallel `CodexToolCallApprovalPolicy` enum), so this PR moves
`wire_format.rs` into `codex-protocol`, renaming it as
`mcp-protocol.rs`. We also de-dupe types, where appropriate.
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This PR adds two new APIs for the MCP server: 1) loginChatGpt, and 2)
cancelLoginChatGpt. The first starts a login server and returns a local
URL that allows for browser-based authentication, and the second
provides a way to cancel the login attempt. If the login attempt
succeeds, a notification (in the form of an event) is sent to a
subscriber.
I also added a timeout mechanism for the existing login server. The
loginChatGpt code path uses a 10-minute timeout by default, so if the
user fails to complete the login flow in that timeframe, the login
server automatically shuts down. I tested the timeout code by manually
setting the timeout to a much lower number and confirming that it works
as expected when used e2e.
Because of a quirk of how implementation tests work in Rust, we had a
number of `#[allow(dead_code)]` annotations that were misleading because
the functions _were_ being used, just not by all integration tests in a
`tests/` folder, so when compiling the test that did not use the
function, clippy would complain that it was unused.
This fixes things by create a "test_support" crate under the `tests/`
folder that is imported as a dev dependency for the respective crate.
## Summary
Adds a new mcp tool call, `codex-reply`, so we can continue existing
sessions. This is a first draft and does not yet support sessions from
previous processes.
## Testing
- [x] tested with mcp client
This PR introduces a single integration test for `cargo mcp`, though it
also introduces a number of reusable components so that it should be
easier to introduce more integration tests going forward.
The new test is introduced in `codex-rs/mcp-server/tests/elicitation.rs`
and the reusable pieces are in `codex-rs/mcp-server/tests/common`.
The test itself verifies new functionality around elicitations
introduced in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1623 (and the fix
introduced in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1629) by doing the
following:
- starts a mock model provider with canned responses for
`/v1/chat/completions`
- starts the MCP server with a `config.toml` to use that model provider
(and `approval_policy = "untrusted"`)
- sends the `codex` tool call which causes the mock model provider to
request a shell call for `git init`
- the MCP server sends an elicitation to the client to approve the
request
- the client replies to the elicitation with `"approved"`
- the MCP server runs the command and re-samples the model, getting a
`"finish_reason": "stop"`
- in turn, the MCP server sends the final response to the original
`codex` tool call
- verifies that `git init` ran as expected
To test:
```
cargo test shell_command_approval_triggers_elicitation
```
In writing this test, I discovered that `ExecApprovalResponse` does not
conform to `ElicitResult`, so I added a TODO to fix that, since I think
that should be updated in a separate PR. As it stands, this PR does not
update any business logic, though it does make a number of members of
the `mcp-server` crate `pub` so they can be used in the test.
One additional learning from this PR is that
`std::process::Command::cargo_bin()` from the `assert_cmd` trait is only
available for `std::process::Command`, but we really want to use
`tokio::process::Command` so that everything is async and we can
leverage utilities like `tokio::time::timeout()`. The trick I came up
with was to use `cargo_bin()` to locate the program, and then to use
`std::process::Command::get_program()` when constructing the
`tokio::process::Command`.
This updates the MCP server so that if it receives an
`ExecApprovalRequest` from the `Codex` session, it in turn sends an [MCP
elicitation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/client/elicitation)
to the client to ask for the approval decision. Upon getting a response,
it forwards the client's decision via `Op::ExecApproval`.
Admittedly, we should be doing the same thing for
`ApplyPatchApprovalRequest`, but this is our first time experimenting
with elicitations, so I'm inclined to defer wiring that code path up
until we feel good about how this one works.
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* #1622
* #1621
* #1620
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.
Historically, we spawned the Seatbelt and Landlock sandboxes in
substantially different ways:
For **Seatbelt**, we would run `/usr/bin/sandbox-exec` with our policy
specified as an arg followed by the original command:
d1de7bb383/codex-rs/core/src/exec.rs (L147-L219)
For **Landlock/Seccomp**, we would do
`tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()`, _invoke
Landlock/Seccomp APIs to modify the permissions of that new thread_, and
then spawn the command:
d1de7bb383/codex-rs/core/src/exec_linux.rs (L28-L49)
While it is neat that Landlock/Seccomp supports applying a policy to
only one thread without having to apply it to the entire process, it
requires us to maintain two different codepaths and is a bit harder to
reason about. The tipping point was
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1061, in which we had to start
building up the `env` in an unexpected way for the existing
Landlock/Seccomp approach to continue to work.
This PR overhauls things so that we do similar things for Mac and Linux.
It turned out that we were already building our own "helper binary"
comparable to Mac's `sandbox-exec` as part of the `cli` crate:
d1de7bb383/codex-rs/cli/Cargo.toml (L10-L12)
We originally created this to build a small binary to include with the
Node.js version of the Codex CLI to provide support for Linux
sandboxing.
Though the sticky bit is that, at this point, we still want to deploy
the Rust version of Codex as a single, standalone binary rather than a
CLI and a supporting sandboxing binary. To satisfy this goal, we use
"the arg0 trick," in which we:
* use `std::env::current_exe()` to get the path to the CLI that is
currently running
* use the CLI as the `program` for the `Command`
* set `"codex-linux-sandbox"` as arg0 for the `Command`
A CLI that supports sandboxing should check arg0 at the start of the
program. If it is `"codex-linux-sandbox"`, it must invoke
`codex_linux_sandbox::run_main()`, which runs the CLI as if it were
`codex-linux-sandbox`. When acting as `codex-linux-sandbox`, we make the
appropriate Landlock/Seccomp API calls and then use `execvp(3)` to spawn
the original command, so do _replace_ the process rather than spawn a
subprocess. Incidentally, we do this before starting the Tokio runtime,
so the process should only have one thread when `execvp(3)` is called.
Because the `core` crate that needs to spawn the Linux sandboxing is not
a CLI in its own right, this means that every CLI that includes `core`
and relies on this behavior has to (1) implement it and (2) provide the
path to the sandboxing executable. While the path is almost always
`std::env::current_exe()`, we needed to make this configurable for
integration tests, so `Config` now has a `codex_linux_sandbox_exe:
Option<PathBuf>` property to facilitate threading this through,
introduced in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1089.
This common pattern is now captured in
`codex_linux_sandbox::run_with_sandbox()` and all of the `main.rs`
functions that should use it have been updated as part of this PR.
The `codex-linux-sandbox` crate added to the Cargo workspace as part of
this PR now has the bulk of the Landlock/Seccomp logic, which makes
`core` a bit simpler. Indeed, `core/src/exec_linux.rs` and
`core/src/landlock.rs` were removed/ported as part of this PR. I also
moved the unit tests for this code into an integration test,
`linux-sandbox/tests/landlock.rs`, in which I use
`env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_codex-linux-sandbox")` as the value for
`codex_linux_sandbox_exe` since `std::env::current_exe()` is not
appropriate in that case.
Previously, running Codex as an MCP server required a standalone binary
in our Cargo workspace, but this PR makes it available as a subcommand
(`mcp`) of the main CLI.
Ran this with:
```
RUST_LOG=debug npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector cargo run --bin codex -- mcp
```
and verified it worked as expected in the inspector at
`http://127.0.0.1:6274/`.
Sets submodules to use workspace lints. Added denying unwrap as a
workspace level lint, which found a couple of cases where we could have
propagated errors. Also manually labeled ones that were fine by my eye.
Some effects of this change:
- New formatting changes across many files. No functionality changes
should occur from that.
- Calls to `set_env` are considered unsafe, since this only happens in
tests we wrap them in `unsafe` blocks
I started this PR because I wanted to share the `format_duration()`
utility function in `codex-rs/exec/src/event_processor.rs` with the TUI.
The question was: where to put it?
`core` should have as few dependencies as possible, so moving it there
would introduce a dependency on `chrono`, which seemed undesirable.
`core` already had this `cli` feature to deal with a similar situation
around sharing common utility functions, so I decided to:
* make `core` feature-free
* introduce `common`
* `common` can have as many "special interest" features as it needs,
each of which can declare their own deps
* the first two features of common are `cli` and `elapsed`
In practice, this meant updating a number of `Cargo.toml` files,
replacing this line:
```toml
codex-core = { path = "../core", features = ["cli"] }
```
with these:
```toml
codex-core = { path = "../core" }
codex-common = { path = "../common", features = ["cli"] }
```
Moving `format_duration()` into its own file gave it some "breathing
room" to add a unit test, so I had Codex generate some tests and new
support for durations over 1 minute.
This PR replaces the placeholder `"echo"` tool call in the MCP server
with a `"codex"` tool that calls Codex. Events such as
`ExecApprovalRequest` and `ApplyPatchApprovalRequest` are not handled
properly yet, but I have `approval_policy = "never"` set in my
`~/.codex/config.toml` such that those codepaths are not exercised.
The schema for this MPC tool is defined by a new `CodexToolCallParam`
struct introduced in this PR. It is fairly similar to `ConfigOverrides`,
as the param is used to help create the `Config` used to start the Codex
session, though it also includes the `prompt` used to kick off the
session.
This PR also introduces the use of the third-party `schemars` crate to
generate the JSON schema, which is verified in the
`verify_codex_tool_json_schema()` unit test.
Events that are dispatched during the Codex session are sent back to the
MCP client as MCP notifications. This gives the client a way to monitor
progress as the tool call itself may take minutes to complete depending
on the complexity of the task requested by the user.
In the video below, I launched the server via:
```shell
mcp-server$ RUST_LOG=debug npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector cargo run --
```
In the video, you can see the flow of:
* requesting the list of tools
* choosing the **codex** tool
* entering a value for **prompt** and then making the tool call
Note that I left the other fields blank because when unspecified, the
values in my `~/.codex/config.toml` were used:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1975058c-b004-43ef-8c8d-800a953b8192
Note that while using the inspector, I did run into
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/issues/293, though the
tip about ensuring I had only one instance of the **MCP Inspector** tab
open in my browser seemed to fix things.
