feat(codex): require Codex 0.156 and regenerate its protocol

[juliusmarminge]

T3 Code's Codex bindings were generated from a July 2026 Codex commit, older than 0.150, with hand patches layered on for 0.150–0.153. We are moving the supported floor to Codex 0.156. On those bindings, 0.156 behavior is wrong in ways that don't show up as errors:

• The isBlocking flag on item/tool/requestUserInput is dropped, because the old schema doesn't know the field.
• thread/revert isn't a known method, and thread/rollback is typed even though Codex 0.156 removed it.
• account/rateLimits/read is typed as taking no params. The generator's parser skipped optional params?: entries.

Stacked on #13480, which makes the generator run again. This PR regenerates the bindings from rust-v0.156.0 and adapts the adapter.

• Rollback. Rollback always uses thread/revert at a turn boundary. Codex rejects a revert of a thread that still uses legacy history (created before Codex 0.151). T3 Code used to fall back to thread/rollback for those threads, but 0.156 no longer has it, so Codex's rejection now reaches the caller.
• Optional params. params?: Foo now maps to the published NullableFoo schema. The usage probe sends null, which Codex treats as absent.
• Compat patches removed. 0.156 publishes the multi-agent enum values, plan types, error codes and async-question fields that the generator used to patch in.
• Stricter fields. Thread.projectId and isBlocking are now required. Every Codex since 0.149 always sends both (checked against the published schemas for 0.129–0.156), so only test fixtures change.
• Compatibility policy. Codex >=0.156.0 is supported. 0.149 through 0.155 are unsupported: they still work, except for rolling back legacy-history threads. Anything older than 0.149 is broken, because it doesn't send Thread.projectId and thread/start fails to decode, so no session can start. Broken shows the stronger warning, and T3 Code never offers an update to a broken or unsupported version. Only builds with remote compatibility checks (0.0.43 nightlies and previews) read this policy, so stable 0.0.42 is unaffected.

Before and after, checked with a probe that decodes Codex 0.156 payloads with each tree's bindings:

== before: main cdb26fe635
thread/rollback                    known, params: typed
thread/revert                      unknown method
account/rateLimits/read            known, params: none
agentMessage async question        decodes, questions kept: [{"title":"Q?"}]
requestUserInput isBlocking=false  decodes, isBlocking: undefined

== after: this branch
thread/rollback                    unknown method
thread/revert                      known, params: typed
account/rateLimits/read            known, params: typed
agentMessage async question        decodes, questions kept: [{"title":"Q?"}]
requestUserInput isBlocking=false  decodes, isBlocking: false

Live check: the real makeCodexAdapter and checkCodexProviderStatus ran against Codex CLI 0.156.1, with an isolated CODEX_HOME and a throwaway repo. The provider probe reported ready and authenticated, with models, skills and usage limits. Then the adapter ran:

1. Two turns, one of them running a shell command.
2. readThread, which returned 2 turns.
3. rollbackThread(1), which left 1 turn, confirmed by rereading.
4. Stop, then resume from the resume cursor, and a third turn that remembered the first answer.
5. A plan-mode turn that asked a question through request_user_input and received the answer.
6. A two-subagent fan-out that reported the task.* lifecycle to idle.

No payload failed to decode. The probe was a temporary test and is not committed.

End-to-end demos

Real runs of this branch against Codex 0.156.1 in the web client. The full set is in the demo comment: banners on old Codex, the in-app update clearing them, a core session, rollback on a new thread, subagents, interrupting subagents, and blocking and async questions.

Codex 0.153.3: unsupported	After the in-app update to 0.156.1

Rollback on a new thread: Edit from here reverts the turn through thread/revert, and Codex no longer remembers it.

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/91a16bc01c7bb79f/30-rollback.mp4

Other verification:

• effect-codex-app-server tests: 36 passed.
• Server Codex, compatibility, manifest, registry and maintenance tests, plus the reset-credit coordinator: 283 passed. That includes a policy boundary test and a test for a rejected legacy-thread revert.
• tsc --noEmit is clean for both packages, and scoped lint reports no errors.

src/_generated/ is machine output. Rerunning scripts/generate.ts on this branch reproduces it with no diff.

No UI changes, so there are no screenshots.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

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Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	13.5 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.1 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.5 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	56.3 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	10	—	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	13.5 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.1 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.5 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	57.1 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	10	—	21	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: e615821 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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The PR updates Codex protocol schema generation and fixtures, changes thread rollback handling, adjusts a rate-limit request parameter, and revises Codex version classifications.

Changes

Codex Protocol and Runtime Updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update protocol schema generation packages/effect-codex-app-server/scripts/generate.ts, packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/*, packages/effect-codex-app-server/test/fixtures/*, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/testFixtures/*	The generator uses a newer Codex upstream ref, removes schema compatibility adaptations, and parses optional request parameters as nullable. Related fixtures and tests add protocol fields, including projectId and isBlocking.
Change thread rollback handling apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexProvider.ts, packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/schema.test.ts	Thread snapshots now use thread-read responses. Rollback uses the read-and-revert path; the legacy-thread test checks that a revert rejection is returned unchanged. The rate-limit request passes null instead of undefined.
Update Codex compatibility ranges apps/server/src/provider/model-manifest.json, apps/server/src/provider/providerCompatibility.test.ts	The manifest classifies versions below 0.149.0 as broken and versions from 0.149.0 up to 0.156.0 as unsupported. Tests cover these ranges and supported versions.

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Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e6158

Rollback requests can fail on ordinary Codex sessions because their legacy history is incompatible with the new revert call. Correct the history-mode or rollback handling before merging.

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🟠 Major · The normal start/resume path does not force paginated history. · CodexSessionRuntime.ts:1275-1283

apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts:1275-1283
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The normal start/resume path does not force paginated history.

buildThreadStartParams omits historyMode, so both thread/start and thread/resume use Codex's documented default, "legacy". rollbackCodexThread then sends the paginated-only thread/revert request for that reachable legacy thread. This can reject the rollback workflow. Preserve the history-specific rollback behavior, or explicitly require paginated history before using thread/revert.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts` around lines 1275 -
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End-to-end demos on Codex 0.156.1

These are real runs of this branch (dev server, web client in headless Chrome) against real Codex CLI binaries, using a throwaway project and an isolated CODEX_HOME.

The server fetches the compatibility policy from main, and main still has the old >=0.129 policy until this merges. So the demo seeded the server's manifest cache with this branch's model-manifest.json. That makes the bundled policy the one in effect.

1. Warnings on old Codex

Codex 0.153.3 (unsupported) shows a polite banner in chat, "Unsupported" in the provider settings, and the version popover with an update action.

Codex 0.148.0 (broken) shows "known to be broken" in chat and "Incompatible" in settings.

2. Updating clears the warning

Clicking Update now in the popover runs the app's own updater (npm install -g --prefix … @openai/codex@latest). It installs 0.156.1, and the warning icon, the "Unsupported" label and the chat banner all disappear.

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/0ab1141a39a7b7be/10-update-flow.mp4

After: settings	After: chat

3. Core session

In one thread: a read-only turn, then a turn that edits palette.js and runs a shell command. The command prints yellow, and the changed-file summary shows +1 -1.

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/905c0060b7b2a847/20-core-session.mp4

4. Rollback on a new thread

Edit from here runs thread/revert on a new thread, which uses paginated history. The second turn disappears and its prompt comes back to the composer. Codex emits thread/reverted. Then I asked Codex from memory whether it had edited palette.js or run node. It answered "No", so the reverted turn is really gone from Codex's history, not just hidden in the UI.

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/91a16bc01c7bb79f/30-rollback.mp4

Before	After	Codex no longer remembers the turn

5. Subagents and what the removed patches covered

The generator used to patch in values for Codex 0.150–0.153. These runs exercise those values on the regenerated 0.156 bindings:

• Multi-agent V2: spawn_agent ×2, followup_task, wait_agent and list_agents. Alpha's second run and both agents idle in the Agents panel.

  https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/fdc5deb89de9f76e/40-subagents.mp4

  

• Interrupted subagents: Stop during a two-subagent sleep 120 run. The turn completes with interrupted status, and the subagent shows Stopped.

  https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/4f4a320fc9ebf2ca/70-interrupt.mp4

  

• Blocking question (item/tool/requestUserInput, isBlocking: true) in Plan mode, answered with Orange. The proposed plan follows.

  https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/2a65262ea9762eb6/50-plan-question.mp4

  

• Async question (agentMessage with delivery: "async"): the turn finishes while the question stays pending. Answering it starts a new turn.

  https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/1ea53a8c9830f6cd/60-async-question.mp4

  

• Account plan types: account/read decoded planType: "pro" (label "ChatGPT Pro 20x Subscription"), and the provider probe returned usage windows and reset credits through account/rateLimits/read with params: null.

No request or notification failed to decode in any of these runs.

Notes from the run

• Rollback of a legacy-history thread is accepted to fail, as discussed. It isn't shown here because every new thread on Codex ≥0.151 uses paginated history.
• Codex was launched through its native binary. When Codex is launched through a vite-plus node shim, the shim leaves VP_TOOL_RECURSION=1 in Codex's environment, and node then fails inside Codex's shell tool. That is a vite-plus setup quirk on this machine, not something this PR changes.