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llmx/codex-rs/arg0/Cargo.toml
Michael Bolin 517ffd00c6 feat: use the arg0 trick with apply_patch (#2646)
Historically, Codex CLI has treated `apply_patch` (and its sometimes
misspelling, `applypatch`) as a "virtual CLI," intercepting it when it
appears as the first arg to `command` for the `"container.exec",
`"shell"`, or `"local_shell"` tools.

This approach has a known limitation where if, say, the model created a
Python script that runs `apply_patch` and then tried to run the Python
script, we have no insight as to what the model is trying to do and the
Python Script would fail because `apply_patch` was never really on the
`PATH`.

One way to solve this problem is to require users to install an
`apply_patch` executable alongside the `codex` executable (or at least
put it someplace where Codex can discover it). Though to keep Codex CLI
as a standalone executable, we exploit "the arg0 trick" where we create
a temporary directory with an entry named `apply_patch` and prepend that
directory to the `PATH` for the duration of the invocation of Codex.

- On UNIX, `apply_patch` is a symlink to `codex`, which now changes its
behavior to behave like `apply_patch` if arg0 is `apply_patch` (or
`applypatch`)
- On Windows, `apply_patch.bat` is a batch script that runs `codex
--codex-run-as-apply-patch %*`, as Codex also changes its behavior if
the first argument is `--codex-run-as-apply-patch`.
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[package]
edition = "2024"
name = "codex-arg0"
version = { workspace = true }
[lib]
name = "codex_arg0"
path = "src/lib.rs"
[lints]
workspace = true
[dependencies]
anyhow = "1"
codex-apply-patch = { path = "../apply-patch" }
codex-core = { path = "../core" }
codex-linux-sandbox = { path = "../linux-sandbox" }
dotenvy = "0.15.7"
tempfile = "3"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }