This PR fixes a test that is sporadically failing in CI. The problem is that two unit tests (the older `login_and_cancel_chatgpt` and a recently added `login_chatgpt_includes_forced_workspace_query_param`) exercise code paths that start the login server. The server binds to a hard-coded localhost port number, so attempts to start more than one server at the same time will fail. If these two tests happen to run concurrently, one of them will fail. To fix this, I've added a simple mutex. We can use this same mutex for future tests that use the same pattern.
codex-app-server
codex app-server is the harness Codex uses to power rich interfaces such as the Codex VS Code extension. The message schema is currently unstable, but those who wish to build experimental UIs on top of Codex may find it valuable.
Protocol
Similar to MCP, codex app-server supports bidirectional communication, streaming JSONL over stdio. The protocol is JSON-RPC 2.0, though the "jsonrpc":"2.0" header is omitted.
Message Schema
Currently, you can dump a TypeScript version of the schema using codex generate-ts. It is specific to the version of Codex you used to run generate-ts, so the two are guaranteed to be compatible.
codex generate-ts --out DIR