We had this annotation everywhere in app-server APIs which made it so that fields get serialized as `field?: T`, meaning if the field as `None` we would omit the field in the payload. Removing this annotation changes it so that we return `field: T | null` instead, which makes codex app-server's API more aligned with the convention of public OpenAI APIs like Responses. Separately, remove the `#[ts(optional_fields = nullable)]` annotations that were recently added which made all the TS types become `field?: T | null` which is not great since clients need to handle undefined and null. I think generally it'll be best to have optional types be either: - `field: T | null` (preferred, aligned with public OpenAI APIs) - `field?: T` where we have to, such as types generated from the MCP schema: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/blob/main/schema/2025-06-18/schema.ts (see changes to `mcp-types/`) I updated @etraut-openai's unit test to check that all generated TS types are one or the other, not both (so will error if we have a type that has `field?: T | null`). I don't think there's currently a good use case for that - but we can always revisit.
codex-protocol
This crate defines the "types" for the protocol used by Codex CLI, which includes both "internal types" for communication between codex-core and codex-tui, as well as "external types" used with codex app-server.
This crate should have minimal dependencies.
Ideally, we should avoid "material business logic" in this crate, as we can always introduce Ext-style traits to add functionality to types in other crates.