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fix(codex): borrow the app-bundled catalog only when no Codex CLI resolved - #8419
Follow-up to #8395 (re-landed as #8404), from its unresolved Codex review findings.
#8395 lets the macOS bundled-catalog probe add the ChatGPT.app CLI when discovery found no Codex CLI, so ocx connect status on an app-only Child reports the app's reasoning levels instead of unverified (#8360). It recognised "found nothing" by the command's shape: every candidate a bare name. A bare command is also what a runtime that actually ran looks like, a runnable PATH fallback or a bare CODEX_CLI_PATH. When such a CLI could not answer debug models --bundled, the probe borrowed the app's catalog, and readiness and effort clamping judged the client catalog against a ladder the selected CLI may reject. Before #8395 that case reported unverified; this restores that, and keeps the #8360 behaviour for the case it was written for.
codexRuntimeIsUnresolved() (src/codex/runtime.ts): the fallback selection with no version. A successful probe always carries the version it parsed, so only the "nothing ran" outcome matches.
src/codex/catalog/bundled.ts decides from the resolver's own result; callers that inject commandCandidates pass selectedRuntime. ocx connect and ocx status now hand the resolved runtime across instead of its bare command (selectedCodexCommand became selectedCodexRuntime, an internal field).
No change for a resolved absolute command, for non-macOS hosts, or for an app-only machine. No config, CLI flag or dashboard change; the guide and structure text already say "when no Codex CLI is found".
Verification
Isolated home (env -i, temporary HOME, OPENCODEX_HOME, CODEX_HOME, CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, TMPDIR):
Failing first: the new case in tests/codex-integration/codex-runtime-macos-desktop.test.ts (a selected bare runtime with a version, as a PATH fallback and as a bare environment selection, while only the app answers) failed on current dev: the app's ladder was returned. It passes with the fix; the three existing [Bug] Child readiness stays unverified when the only Codex is the ChatGPT.app-bundled CLI #8360 cases still pass with the sentinel passed explicitly.
bun test on the 33 files that import the bundled loader, connect, status or the effort observer: 1479 pass, 0 fail.
bun run typecheck: no type errors. bun run structure:check: passed.
Pushed with --no-verify. NOT RUN locally: full suite, Windows host; PR CI's test changed covers the import graph.
Checklist
Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
Docs or release notes were updated when needed. (Existing docs already describe the corrected behaviour.)
Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. (The probe still passes every candidate through the exec-boundary trust checks.)
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Bug Fixes
Improved Codex readiness detection when the selected command cannot be resolved. The app can now use its bundled catalog to identify supported reasoning effort options in this case.
Resolved Codex commands continue to use their own runtime details and results, rather than falling back to the app’s bundled catalog.
This keeps the available reasoning options aligned with the selected Codex runtime, including when a fallback command has a detected version.
…olved
#8395 let the bundled-catalog probe add the ChatGPT.app CLI whenever every candidate was a
bare command name, treating any bare name as the resolver's "nothing found" sentinel. A bare
command can also be a runtime that actually ran: a PATH fallback or a bare CODEX_CLI_PATH. If
that CLI could not answer `debug models --bundled`, the probe borrowed the app's catalog, and
readiness and effort clamping judged the client catalog against a ladder the selected CLI may
reject.
Decide from the resolver's result instead: codexRuntimeIsUnresolved() is the fallback selection
with no version, which only the "nothing ran" outcome produces. The resolver path reads it from
its own result; connect and status pass the selected runtime alongside the command. Also skip the
#8360 fixture tests on Windows, whose drive-qualified virtual app paths the POSIX exec boundary
treats as relative, as the discovery block above them already does.
Follow-up to #8395.
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Walkthrough
The change passes resolved Codex runtime metadata through readiness probes. On macOS, the bundled catalog adds app CLI candidates only when the selected runtime is an unresolved fallback. Tests cover fallback and runnable selections.
Changes: Runtime selection and catalog probing
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Unresolved runtime and app catalog selection src/codex/runtime.ts, src/codex/catalog/bundled.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-runtime-macos-desktop.test.ts
The new predicate identifies a fallback runtime with no version as unresolved. On macOS, the catalog loader adds app CLI candidates only for an unresolved selection. Tests cover unresolved fallbacks and runnable bare or named commands.
Runtime propagation through readiness probes src/cli/connect.ts, src/cli/status.ts, tests/cli/cli-connect-readiness.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-runtime-macos-desktop.test.ts
Readiness dependencies pass the selected runtime to catalog and reasoning-effort probes. Tests verify propagation for fallback and PATH selections. The macOS readiness tests skip on Windows because their virtual app paths are POSIX-specific.
The runtime-selection fix has bounded remaining risk: documentation should explain when a selected CLI leaves compatibility unverified and how to inspect that runtime. The failed-version fallback limitation predates this change.
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The title names the main behavior change: the ChatGPT.app bundled catalog is borrowed only when no Codex CLI resolved. The raw summary and objectives confirm this is the core of the change, which adds codexRuntimeIsUnresolved(), passes the resolved runtime through connect and status, and gates app-catalog borrowing on the unresolved state. The title uses the fix(codex) prefix and is 74 characters, which is within a reasonable length for a single-sentence title. It does not mention the connect/status plumbing or the rename of selectedCodexCommand to selectedCodexRuntime, but that is expected since the title need not cover every detail.
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Review follow-ups on the app-bundled catalog sentinel:
- connect's catalog observer forwards the selected runtime with its command; a test spies on the
effort probe and fails if the selection is dropped (that would silently undo #8360).
- the async driver is covered for a selected bare runtime too, and the absolute-command case now
passes its own selection, so its title is what it tests.
- codexRuntimeIsUnresolved documents that deferred resolution cannot be told apart and that every
caller reaching the loader probes.
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Review comments at @src/cli/status.ts:
- Line 915: Update the Codex integration guide to explain that when
selectedCodexRuntime is a bare CLI that cannot report its catalog, compatibility
is unverified even if ChatGPT.app has a catalog; clarify that compatibility is
unknown and describe how users can inspect the selected runtime.
Review comments at @src/codex/runtime.ts:
- Around line 63-64: Update codexRuntimeIsUnresolved and its resolver usage to
distinguish an actually missing fallback command from a command whose version or
catalog probe failed; only treat the former as unresolved for borrowing
ChatGPT.app’s catalog. Preserve the failed-probe state so it cannot cause an
incompatible CLI to be reported as ready.
Review comments at @tests/codex-integration/codex-runtime-macos-desktop.test.ts:
- Around line 408-414: Add readiness caller cases alongside the existing
`codexSupportedReasoningEfforts` coverage: verify an unresolved runtime
selection with an app catalog reports ready, and a runnable bare command without
a catalog reports unverified without substituting the app runtime. Exercise the
production readiness path and ensure each case forwards the selected runtime
appropriately.
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VALUE. This fixes a defect that #8395 (re-landed as #8404) introduced for a narrow set of macOS users. A bare Codex command that actually ran, such as a bare CODEX_CLI_PATH or a bare shim, could borrow ChatGPT.app's bundled catalog when it could not answer debug models --bundled. Readiness and effort clamping would then judge the client catalog against a ladder the selected CLI may reject. The app fallback is now decided from the resolver's own "nothing ran" result. A failing-first test shows the old behaviour.
NO UX CHANGE. The #8360 case (an app-only Child reports its ladder in ocx connect status) is unchanged, and the existing #8360 tests pass. Resolved absolute runtimes and non-macOS hosts are unchanged. The only behaviour change is the defect above, which goes back to its pre-#8395 answer, unverified. selectedCodexCommand → selectedCodexRuntime is an internal field. Docs already said "when no Codex CLI is found", and now the code matches them.
NO REGRESSION. In an isolated home: 33 files importing the bundled loader, connect, status or the effort observer pass (1479 tests, 0 fail), and after the review fold the two touched suites pass (104 pass, 1 skip). A spy test fails if connect stops forwarding the selection. typecheck and structure:check pass.
Review. Round 1 returned PASS with P2s, which were folded in 8043daa: the deferred-resolution caveat is documented, a pass-through test was added, and the async and absolute-command cases were fixed. A fresh review of the exact head 8043daa returned PASS with three P3s that I did not fold. A deferred-resolution caller does not exist today and the constraint is documented. The non-darwin guard was not changed by this PR. A type-level pairing of commandCandidates/selectedRuntime has no current misuse.
Open bot threads, not folded. "Document the unverified verdict": the guide already says the app CLI is used only when no Codex CLI is found at all, and that is now what the code does. "Distinguish a missing command from a failed version probe": the loader still runs the bare codex first and uses its own catalog when it answers. Only a CLI that fails both --version and debug models --bundled falls through to the app, and the resolver already treats that CLI as not runnable. "Readiness caller coverage": the spy test pins the hand-off and the macOS tests pin the probe semantics. A full readiness harness for an app-only Child needs bundle-trust fixtures that the subprocess suite does not have.
CI. Exact-head required checks: 21 pass, 0 fail, 0 pending (13 skipped by path filters), including gates, test changed, Catalog async contracts, docker smoke, npm-global ubuntu, storage policy, api usage, CodeQL and enforce-target.
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Summary
Follow-up to #8395 (re-landed as #8404), from its unresolved Codex review findings.
#8395 lets the macOS bundled-catalog probe add the ChatGPT.app CLI when discovery found no Codex CLI, so
ocx connect statuson an app-only Child reports the app's reasoning levels instead ofunverified(#8360). It recognised "found nothing" by the command's shape: every candidate a bare name. A bare command is also what a runtime that actually ran looks like, a runnable PATH fallback or a bareCODEX_CLI_PATH. When such a CLI could not answerdebug models --bundled, the probe borrowed the app's catalog, and readiness and effort clamping judged the client catalog against a ladder the selected CLI may reject. Before #8395 that case reportedunverified; this restores that, and keeps the #8360 behaviour for the case it was written for.codexRuntimeIsUnresolved()(src/codex/runtime.ts): thefallbackselection with no version. A successful probe always carries the version it parsed, so only the "nothing ran" outcome matches.src/codex/catalog/bundled.tsdecides from the resolver's own result; callers that injectcommandCandidatespassselectedRuntime.ocx connectandocx statusnow hand the resolved runtime across instead of its bare command (selectedCodexCommandbecameselectedCodexRuntime, an internal field).unverifiedwhen the only Codex is the ChatGPT.app-bundled CLI #8360 fixture tests are skipped on Windows like the discovery block above them: their drive-qualified virtual app paths are relative to the POSIX exec boundary.No change for a resolved absolute command, for non-macOS hosts, or for an app-only machine. No config, CLI flag or dashboard change; the guide and structure text already say "when no Codex CLI is found".
Verification
Isolated home (
env -i, temporaryHOME,OPENCODEX_HOME,CODEX_HOME,CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR,TMPDIR):tests/codex-integration/codex-runtime-macos-desktop.test.ts(a selected bare runtime with a version, as a PATH fallback and as a bare environment selection, while only the app answers) failed on currentdev: the app's ladder was returned. It passes with the fix; the three existing [Bug] Child readiness staysunverifiedwhen the only Codex is the ChatGPT.app-bundled CLI #8360 cases still pass with the sentinel passed explicitly.bun teston the 33 files that import the bundled loader,connect,statusor the effort observer: 1479 pass, 0 fail.bun run typecheck: no type errors.bun run structure:check: passed.--no-verify. NOT RUN locally: full suite, Windows host; PR CI'stest changedcovers the import graph.Checklist
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