fix(sessions): codex opens the TUI by default, not the pairing daemon - #625
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSession creation now supports explicit remote-control modes. Codex defaults to its interactive TUI, while a new pseudo-profile starts the pairing daemon. Supervisor-created sessions reuse seeded harness profiles when available. ChangesRemote control session handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProfilePicker
participant SessionsAdd
participant SessionRegistry
ProfilePicker->>SessionsAdd: Select Codex remote control
SessionsAdd->>SessionsAdd: Resolve Codex with no profile
SessionsAdd->>SessionRegistry: Store remoteControl=true
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Codex sessions declared through NixOS module session options can still start the pairing daemon by default instead of the interactive TUI. Align this seeded-session path with the new Codex default, while preserving explicit remote-control configuration, before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The changes provide a seeded Codex profile and explicit pairing-daemon options. However, the linked issue requires the post-login Codex session to start the pairing daemon automatically, while the described default behavior starts the TUI. The context does not show that the automatic post-login session still explicitly enables remote control. Resolution Ensure the automatic Codex session created after install and login explicitly uses remote-control mode and starts the pairing daemon, while preserving TUI defaults for ordinary Codex sessions. Add a test that verifies this post-login behavior. Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 75.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.) ✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1📝 Generate docstrings 💡
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In `@modules/agent-box.nix`:
- Around line 4169-4178: Update the NixOS session seeding logic in seedSessions
to derive the effective harness and default Codex sessions to
remoteControl=false when the option was not explicitly set, while preserving
true as the default for other harnesses. Apply this consistently to both
sessionOpts.remoteControl and userOpts.remoteControl, without overriding
explicit remote-control values.
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…#623) Both writers of a codex session (settings-daemon.py's /sessions/add and session-cli.sh's `add`) hardcoded remoteControl: true regardless of harness. For codex that is not a flag on the ordinary TUI, as it is for claude -- it replaces the process outright with the app-server pairing daemon (supervisor.sh) -- so picking a codex profile from Add Session, or running `agent-box-session add --harness codex`, always opened the daemon and never a second interactive session. Per lionello's answers on #623: a real codex profile should open the TUI, and the daemon gets its own explicit entry instead. Add-session now offers "codex remote control (pairing daemon, no profile)" as a pseudo-profile alongside `shell`, and both writers default codex sessions to the TUI unless that daemon is explicitly requested (a new --remote-control flag on the CLI side, for parity). ensure_harness_session (the auto-add after install+login, #504) now also references the profile agent-box-profile seed (#508) already creates per installed harness, instead of always leaving profile: None -- so a second codex session added afterwards has a profile to pick. Checks run (aarch64-linux, native): assemble-module-escaping, backend-parity, connect-card, golden-snapshot, module-generated-up-to-date, one-spec-both-backends, profile-panel, runtime-profile, session-route, sessions-registry, plus the full native --keep-going set. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018SPDtQA4fdkFGcqC1YdjFD
CodeRabbit flagged that seedSessions still hardcoded remoteControl=true for sessionOpts/userOpts, so a codex session declared through users.<name>.sessions or the legacy options started the pairing daemon while CLI- and web-created codex sessions already defaulted to the TUI (issue #623). Derive the effective harness (session agent, falling back to the user's) and default remoteControl to false only for codex, mirroring bin/agentbox's sessionsSeedFile resolution and the CLI/web defaults from the rest of this PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Y7vKpgZGw4UgzBfojhFhy
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addressed in 2d43018: seedSessions now derives the effective harness and defaults codex to remoteControl=false when unset, mirroring the CLI/web default
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settings-daemon.py's/sessions/addandsession-cli.sh'sadd) hardcodedremoteControl: trueregardless of harness. For claude that's just a flag on the ordinary TUI, but for codex it replaces the process outright with the app-server pairing daemon (supervisor.sh) - so picking a codex profile from Add Session, oragent-box-session add --harness codex, always started the daemon and never a second interactive session.shell; both writers default a codex session to the TUI unless that entry (or, from the CLI, a new--remote-control trueflag, added for parity between the two writers) explicitly asks for the daemon.ensure_harness_session(the auto-add right after install+login, Server/daemon mode belongs with the pseudo profiles, not as a profile field #504) now references the profileagent-box-profile seed(feat(profiles): a box arrives with profiles, and none of them is a default #508) already creates per installed harness, instead of always leavingprofile: None- so a second codex session added afterwards from the picker has a profile to pick, which is the "prepopulate a default codex profile" half of lionello's second answer (already covered by feat(profiles): a box arrives with profiles, and none of them is a default #508's seed: HARNESS only, no MODEL/EFFORT/prompt, exactly "default model, default effort, no kick-off prompt").Not touched: the deeper gap from the original triage comment - a box where codex is never added to
installAgents(soAGENT_BOX_AGENTS/the seed step never sees it) still gets no session and no profile at all from a successful connect-card login, since the connect card offers codex regardless ofinstallAgents. That's a real, separate design question (does a connect-only harness need a way intoAGENT_BOX_AGENTSat all) and is left for its own issue/PR rather than folded in here.Test plan
Native aarch64-linux checks (VM/interactive checks are x86-only and unavailable on this box):
nix run .#assemble(regeneratedmodules/agent-box.nix) +module-generated-up-to-dateassemble-module-escapingbackend-parityone-spec-both-backendsgolden-snapshot(updated vianix run .#update-golden, diff reviewed)runtime-profileprofile-panel(42 tests, covers the picker and/sessions/add)connect-cardsession-route,sessions-registry--keep-goingset (all 32 aarch64-linux checks) - all greenpython3 tests/test_agentbox.py(no--updateneeded; native fixture stubs profile binaries so this source-level change doesn't show up there)bash -n modules/src/session-cli.sh,flake8over the spliced settings-daemon payload with the same ignore list thewritePython3Binwrapper usesCloses #623.
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