fix(codex): resolve the Codex App runtime on Windows and stop a stale pin from overriding it - #4585
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…version check The prompt probe carried a private four-path POSIX resolver. The Windows Codex App installs codex.exe under %LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenAI\Codex\bin\<version>, which that list can never match, so the probe reported an absent candidate on machines where Codex was plainly installed (issue 4458). - runtime.ts gains an "installed" source that enumerates the Windows Codex App bin root newest-first (deterministic name tie-break) and keeps the four POSIX paths the probe used to hardcode. It ranks after PATH, so PATH stays authoritative. - deps.probeVersion === false selects a spawnable candidate without running `codex --version`. A request-path probe needs something it can spawn, not a version, and ~1s of blocking exec per candidate is what made the probe give up. - That deferred selection gets its own memo and never publishes into runtime authority, because peekCodexRuntimeProcessCache feeds convergence and the bundled catalog, which would read a null version as "unknown version". - ENOENT from the version probe is now program-not-found rather than a generic --version failure, so a missing program stops looking like a broken one. - prompt-text-probe.ts asks the shared resolver, spawns through codexExecInvocation so a Windows .cmd launches correctly, and reports a stable failure kind. Process stderr is read only to classify and never returned. Co-authored-by: Clive Rosfield <64878945+S0RYUASUKA@users.noreply.github.com>
…wer one codex-runtime.json recorded command, source and version, but not how the record got there. resolveAndPersistCodexRuntime writes every automatically discovered selection, so a "configured" entry proved nothing about operator intent - and resolution then stuck to it even when a newer runtime was present. On the reporting machine a still-runnable codex-cli 0.135.0 kept winning over the 0.153.4 the Codex App was actually running, and the catalog derived its reasoning ladder from the older binary (issue 4204). - PersistedCodexRuntimeState gains origin: "pinned" | "discovered". resolveAndPersistCodexRuntime writes "discovered"; a direct persistCodexRuntime call, which is how doctor --fix selects, stays "pinned". A record with no origin reads as discovered, because auto-discovery is what wrote every one of them, and reading it as a pin would leave the bug unfixed on exactly the installs that have it. - An unpinned record hands over only to a strictly newer valid candidate. A pin is never touched, equal versions stick, and an unknown version on either side is not evidence of an upgrade. The handover is reported as supersededDiscovered, kept separate from replacedConfigured so "superseded" never reads as "gone". - The no-discovery fast path still probes the bounded Codex App roots when the persisted record is unpinned. That path is what the catalog's bundled loader uses, so without it the comparison could never run where the bug actually bites. PATH-wide discovery stays off. - The prompt probe's reported runtime and failure detail now go through displayCodexRuntimePath: the response is served over the management API and a Windows Codex App path contains the account name. No config-schema field was added; codex-runtime.json is runtime-owned state.
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PromptTextProbe->>RuntimeResolver: resolve shared Codex runtime
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Existing installations can have an intentionally selected runtime with no origin: before this commit, ocx doctor --fix-codex-runtime already called persistCodexRuntime, whose version-1 payload did not contain this field. Treating every missing origin as discovered means that, after upgrading, any strictly newer PATH/App candidate silently replaces the operator's explicit selection. The migration needs to distinguish or conservatively preserve legacy manual selections rather than assuming all old records were automatic.
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This adds a new runtime source and changes persisted-selection and discovery contracts under src/codex/, but the commit updates none of the structure documents mapped to that area in structure/INDEX.md:104. Record the new installed-runtime and pin-origin behavior in every mapped owner in the same change so the architecture source of truth describes the current runtime.
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When a connected client has an unpinned persisted runtime, its discoverAlternatives: false resolution can now continue to lower-priority installed candidates after finding a valid runtime. That directly contradicts docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-hub.md:86-89, which tells users lower-priority alternatives are never probed in this flow; update the guide and applicable translations to describe this exception.
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…TH entry pathCandidates splits PATH on node's delimiter, which is ":" on the POSIX runners this suite also runs on. The Windows-style "C:\on-path" therefore split into "C" and "\on-path", neither of which produced a candidate the fixture's existsSync recognised, so every PATH candidate failed and the installed Codex App runtime won — the exact opposite of what the test asserts. It failed on macOS 1/2 and test 1/4 and passed nowhere the split occurs. The entry is now colon-free, so the directory survives the split on every platform and the test proves the ranking it was written for.
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In `@src/codex/prompt-text-probe.ts`:
- Line 623: Update startPromptProbeFlight’s cancellation/result construction so
a pre-existing outcome.failure is retained even when the caller signal is
aborted; only report a plain cancellation when no failure exists. Add assertions
covering direct cancellation without a failure and preservation of an existing
failure during the cancellation race.
In `@src/codex/runtime.ts`:
- Around line 329-342: Update persistedCodexRuntimeIsPinned and the
persisted-runtime loading/migration flow so legacy records without origin retain
provenance when they represent explicit user selections. Ensure automatic
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Keep pre-existing probe failures when cancellation races response construction.
startPromptProbeFlight passes its internal controller signal to runProbe. The caller signal only controls waitForPromptProbeFlight, which returns null on caller abort. Therefore, caller cancellation does not expose the execution-failed result created by termination.
If a pre-existing flight failure wins the wait race before the caller signal aborts, lines 623–625 can still include outcome.failure while reporting "prompt probe cancelled". Do not suppress that failure based only on signal.aborted.
- detail: signal?.aborted
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: outcome.kind === "busy"Add assertions for direct cancellation without a failure and for retaining a pre-existing failure.
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In `@src/codex/prompt-text-probe.ts` at line 623, Update startPromptProbeFlight’s
cancellation/result construction so a pre-existing outcome.failure is retained
even when the caller signal is aborted; only report a plain cancellation when no
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| * A record with no origin is NOT pinned: every such file predates this field | ||
| * and was written by resolveAndPersistCodexRuntime, which is auto-discovery. | ||
| * Reading a missing origin as an intentional pin would leave issue 4204 | ||
| * unfixed on exactly the installs that have it — the still-runnable 0.135.0 | ||
| * CLI that kept winning over a 0.153.4 Desktop runtime sitting right there. | ||
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| export function persistedCodexRuntimeIsPinned( | ||
| state: DeepReadonly<PersistedCodexRuntimeState> | null | undefined, | ||
| ): boolean { | ||
| return state?.origin === "pinned"; | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Pre-field persisted selections without origin are all treated as discovered, so an explicit runtime pin written by older versions can be replaced by a newer PATH or Codex App candidate. Preserve the pin provenance for legacy explicit selections (or migrate those records) before applying automatic handover.
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In `@src/codex/runtime.ts` around lines 329 - 342, Update
persistedCodexRuntimeIsPinned and the persisted-runtime loading/migration flow
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Merging into dev under the single-maintainer dev integration clause in MAINTAINERS.md. Exact-head evidence at e584fb2: 29 successes, 2 skips, no failures. An earlier head was red on a new test that wrote a Windows PATH into a Linux shard, where the path split on the wrong separator and the App binary won; that is fixed at this head. Reviewed independently before merge. src/codex/runtime.ts adds an installed-runtime source, a deferred memo that never publishes into the process cache, and a pinned-versus-discovered origin on the runtime record, so an unpinned stale 0.135.0 entry yields to the 0.153.4 that is actually present instead of stripping max and ultra from the ladder. src/codex/prompt-text-probe.ts moves onto that resolver with a redacted display path, stable failure kinds, and classified stderr that is never returned verbatim. The lane respected the round's schema constraint: no field was added to src/config.ts or src/types/config.ts, which another lane owned this round. Scope of the claim, corrected on the way in. The description says it closes both assigned issues. It closes the stale-CLI one. The Windows prompt-probe issue is only half fixed — program-not-found and deferred spawn are handled, the published base-prompt source is not — so that issue stays open with the landed half recorded on it rather than being closed against this merge. Since pull requests here target dev, GitHub does not auto-close either one, so the correction costs nothing. Thanks to @S0RYUASUKA, whose PR #4461 is carried in with a Co-authored-by trailer on a branch commit. Local suite runs: NOT RUN. Hosted CI at the exact head is the proof of record. |
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On Windows the Codex prompt probe reported
Codex program not foundon machines where Codex was plainly installed, and a stale persisted CLI kept overriding a newer runtime that was sitting right there.The prompt probe could not see the Codex App (issue 4458).
prompt-text-probe.tscarried its own resolver that checked four hardcoded POSIX paths. The Codex App installscodex.exeunder%LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenAI\Codex\bin\<version>\, which that list can never match, so the probe walked its candidates, rejected every one withpath does not exist, and gave up before reaching the installed executable.The probe now asks the shared runtime resolver, and the resolver learned two things it needed:
installedsource enumerates the Windows Codex App bin root newest-directory-first, with a name tie-break so the order is deterministic when two directories share an mtime. POSIX keeps the same four paths the probe used to hardcode, so nothing that resolved before stops resolving. It ranks after PATH, so PATH stays authoritative.probeVersion: falseselects a spawnable candidate without runningcodex --version. A request-path probe needs a command it can spawn, not a version, and ~1s of blocking exec per candidate is what made it report an absent candidate instead of a deferred inspection. That deferred selection gets its own memo and never publishes into runtime authority, becausepeekCodexRuntimeProcessCachefeeds convergence and the bundled catalog, which would read a null version as "unknown version".The probe also spawns through
codexExecInvocationso a resolved Windows.cmdlaunches throughcmd.exe, and reports a stablefailure.kind(program-not-found/command-unsupported/execution-failed/output-invalid) instead of only a prose sentence. An ENOENT from the version probe is now classified program-not-found rather than a generic--versionfailure, so a missing program stops looking like a broken one. Process stderr is read only to classify and never returned, and the reported runtime path goes throughdisplayCodexRuntimePathbecause this response is served over the management API and a Codex App path contains the account name.A stale auto-discovered runtime kept winning (issue 4204).
codex-runtime.jsonrecorded command, source and version, but not how the record got there.resolveAndPersistCodexRuntimewrites every automatically discovered selection, so aconfiguredentry proved nothing about operator intent — and resolution stuck to it even when a newer runtime was present. On the reporting machine a still-runnablecodex-cli 0.135.0kept beating the 0.153.4 the Codex App was actually running, and the catalog derived its reasoning ladder from the older binary.PersistedCodexRuntimeStategainsorigin: "pinned" | "discovered".resolveAndPersistCodexRuntimewritesdiscovered; a directpersistCodexRuntimecall, which is howdoctor --fixselects, stayspinned. A record with no origin reads as discovered, because auto-discovery wrote every one of them and reading it as a pin would leave the bug unfixed on exactly the installs that have it.supersededDiscovered, kept separate fromreplacedConfiguredso "superseded" never reads as "gone".No config-schema field was added;
codex-runtime.jsonis runtime-owned state.Carried contributor work
This carries PR #4461 by @S0RYUASUKA, with a
Co-authored-bytrailer on the first branch commit. Carried as designed: theinstalledruntime source and its newest-mtime ordering, the deferredprobeVersionselection, the isolated non-authoritative memo, the ENOENT classification, and the resolver swap in the prompt probe. Reimplemented against currentdev: the deferred memo is keyed off the sameresolveCacheKeythe rest of the file uses rather than a parallel key, and the newreaddirSync/statSyncdependencies are injected and registered in that key's injection guard, which the original patch did not do — without it an injected test listing would poison the process memo for every later test in the file.Not carried, and deliberately out of scope this round: the base-prompt-source reader (
BasePromptText, catalog andmodel_instructions_filereading), the management route shape, and the Windows service PATH wrapper. Those are separate surfaces owned elsewhere, so this PR does not claim the "base prompt source" half of issue 4458.What issue 4458 still leaves open
The probe now resolves and spawns the Codex App runtime, which is the
Codex program not foundhalf. The report also asks for the selected model's published base prompt in the probe response; that is not in this PR. Tracked as follow-up work on the prompt-source surface.Verification
bun run test/bun test/bun run typecheck/bun install— NOT RUN. This branch was developed under an explicit no-local-suite constraint. Hosted CI at the exact final head is the only proof claimed here.git diff --check— clean.src/config.ts,src/types/config.ts,src/types/provider.ts,src/server/,src/service/,src/web-search/, orgui/.tests/codex-integration/codex-runtime.test.ts: Windows App discovery from an injected listing, deterministic equal-mtime ordering, deferred selection with no exec and no published authority, ENOENT classification, PATH outranking an installed candidate, the POSIX locations still resolving, the 0.135.0-versus-0.153.4 handover with and without a pin, equal and unknown versions sticking, the origin each writer records, parse acceptance of a missing origin and rejection of a junk one, and the bounded App-root scan on the no-discovery path.tests/codex-integration/codex-prompt-text-probe.test.ts: a resolver-found runtime is spawned rather than reported missing, a resolver that finds nothing yieldsprogram-not-foundwith zero spawn attempts, unparseable output yieldsoutput-invalid, an unknown subcommand yieldscommand-unsupported, and no failure detail echoes process stderr.Closes #4204
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