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Michael Bolin
e7bad650ff feat: support traditional JSON-RPC request/response in MCP server (#2264)
This introduces a new set of request types that our `codex mcp`
supports. Note that these do not conform to MCP tool calls so that
instead of having to send something like this:

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "id": 42,
  "params": {
    "name": "newConversation",
    "arguments": {
      "model": "gpt-5",
      "approvalPolicy": "on-request"
    }
  }
}
```

we can send something like this:


```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "newConversation",
  "id": 42,
  "params": {
    "model": "gpt-5",
    "approvalPolicy": "on-request"
  }
}
```

Admittedly, this new format is not a valid MCP tool call, but we are OK
with that right now. (That is, not everything we might want to request
of `codex mcp` is something that is appropriate for an autonomous agent
to do.)

To start, this introduces four request types:

- `newConversation`
- `sendUserMessage`
- `addConversationListener`
- `removeConversationListener`

The new `mcp-server/tests/codex_message_processor_flow.rs` shows how
these can be used.

The types are defined on the `CodexRequest` enum, so we introduce a new
`CodexMessageProcessor` that is responsible for dealing with requests
from this enum. The top-level `MessageProcessor` has been updated so
that when `process_request()` is called, it first checks whether the
request conforms to `CodexRequest` and dispatches it to
`CodexMessageProcessor` if so.

Note that I also decided to use `camelCase` for the on-the-wire format,
as that seems to be the convention for MCP.

For the moment, the new protocol is defined in `wire_format.rs` within
the `mcp-server` crate, but in a subsequent PR, I will probably move it
to its own crate to ensure the protocol has minimal dependencies and
that we can codegen a schema from it.



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