feat(codex): add native Goal lifecycle controls - #7935
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCodex Goal support was added end to end. Shared contracts define goal state and events. Providers expose goal operations. WebSocket APIs and reactive client state synchronize goals. Web and mobile composers support Goal commands and status display. ChangesCodex Goal support
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Authorized clients can now control Codex Goals, but competing commands from multiple clients may silently supersede one another and live updates may skip intermediate states. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up for conflict ordering and state reconciliation. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Full details: Description checkExplanation The description explains the change, motivation, architecture, known limitation, UI impact, screenshots, and verification. It does not include the template checklist or a video for the interaction changes, but the required information is otherwise mostly complete. Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The PR satisfies the primary requirements of issue Full details: Out of Scope Changes checkExplanation Most changes support Codex Goal lifecycle controls, but the PR also adds attachment upload/deletion RPC coverage and changes analytics and attachment-related bootstrap tests. These changes are not supported by the linked Goal issue objectives. Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 4.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 25 functions across 20 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.) ✨ Finishing Touches🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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Reviewed the new Codex Goal service/RPC surface against the Effect service conventions. Two related findings on the new CodexGoalOperationError wrapper: it carries an unstructured message as its only data and the wrapping site derives that message from cause.message while discarding the cause. Everything else (namespace imports at the ProviderService boundary, optional codexGoal adapter capability, environment-based dependency acquisition, test-only service stubs) looks consistent with the conventions.
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UI consistency review of the web changes (apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/state/threads.ts).
The new Goal surface correctly reuses the shared systems — ComposerBannerStack/Alert for the banner and stackedThreadToast for command feedback — and useCodexGoal follows the existing useEnvironmentThread atom pattern. Two issues are specific to the banner the diff adds: an unbounded user-authored description in the composer drawer, and stack ordering that lets a permanent informational banner sit in front of the actionable ones.
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One remaining convention issue with CodexGoalOperationError: the wire-visible detail field is populated by copying the provider error's message, and the wrapper's message is then derived from it. Now that operation, threadId, and cause are modelled, detail can be dropped so the message comes only from stable structural attributes and the provider text stays in cause.
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One finding: the Goal banner is ordered ahead of the parked-thread banner, which pushes that banner's Wake now / Un-settle button behind the collapsed stack on Codex threads with an active Goal.
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One finding: the Goal status enum is rendered directly as user-facing copy in the composer banner and the /goal status toast. Prior findings on banner ordering and description clamping look resolved.
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One consistency finding on the new Codex Goal composer banner. Prior notes (status label record, banner ordering behind the actionable parked/woke/branch banners, clamped description) are addressed.
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a complete native Codex Goal workflow across provider sessions, WebSocket contracts, authorization, live event streaming, and web/mobile composers. It also changes shared session recovery/start concurrency and touches authentication routing, so the scope and blast radius require human review. You can add or adjust custom eligibility rules. Learn more. |
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31-46: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMove the duplicated
useCodexGoalhook intopackages/client-runtime. Both apps declare a byte-identicalEMPTY_CODEX_GOAL_ATOManduseCodexGoalbody. The coding guidelines place shared logic inpackages/client-runtime. Export a factory there that takes the app'sthreadEnvironmentanduseAtomValue, then call it from each app so the null-gating andAsyncResultunwrapping cannot drift.
apps/web/src/state/threads.ts#L31-L46: replace the local atom and hook with a call to the shared factory.apps/mobile/src/state/threads.ts#L31-L46: replace the local atom and hook with a call to the same shared factory, keeping the mobile atom label.As per coding guidelines: "Shared logic lives in
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts`:
- Around line 2231-2246: Add focused CodexSessionRuntime tests covering getGoal,
setGoal, and clearGoal. Verify each method issues the correct native Goal RPC
request and uses the provider thread ID returned by readProviderThreadId,
including the setGoal input payload.
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In `@apps/web/src/state/threads.ts`:
- Around line 31-46: Move the duplicated useCodexGoal implementation into
packages/client-runtime by adding a factory that accepts each app’s
threadEnvironment and useAtomValue, while preserving null-gating and AsyncResult
unwrapping. In apps/web/src/state/threads.ts lines 31-46 and
apps/mobile/src/state/threads.ts lines 31-46, remove the local
EMPTY_CODEX_GOAL_ATOM and hook bodies and invoke the shared factory; preserve
the mobile atom label.
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One finding: the new "Provider still loading" toast in ChatView.onSend is unreachable, so /goal sends blocked by an unavailable provider still surface no explanation. Details inline.
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@t3dotgg After watching one of your recent YouTube videos, I wanted to make T3 Code my main interface for coding agents. But I quickly hit one frustrating gap: Goals are one of the Codex features I rely on most, and once a Goal existed, T3 did not expose the controls needed to inspect, steer, pause, resume, or reset it.
I found the original issue #2819, now continued as discussion #6777, and the closed #2877, then implemented the narrowest integration I could: T3 acts only as a remote-capable control surface over Codex App Server's native Goal API. Codex remains the source of truth.
What this adds
Codex threads now expose the complete native Goal lifecycle through the normal conversation composer:
/goal create <objective>thread/goal/setwith the objective and active status/goal statusthread/goal/get/goal steer <objective>thread/goal/setwith the updated objective/goal pausethread/goal/setwith paused status/goal resumethread/goal/setwith active status/goal resetor/goal clearthread/goal/clear/goal <objective>remains a create shorthand. Nativethread/goal/updatedandthread/goal/clearednotifications keep connected clients synchronized while the session is running.The current objective, native status, token usage and budget, and elapsed time are shown when Codex exposes them. The command and status surfaces only appear for Codex.
Architecture
This intentionally takes a narrower approach than #2877: it does not project Goal state into T3's persistence layer. That keeps remote clients synchronized without making T3 compete with Codex as the owner of the state.
Known limitation
When Codex is actively processing a turn while a Goal is active, T3 still shows its existing red stop control. Activating it interrupts the current provider turn only; the native Goal remains active. Changing that shared composer and turn-state behavior would affect more than Goal support, so I deliberately left it unchanged to avoid scope creep.
T3 also does not open Codex's interactive Goal editor.
/goal steer <objective>updates the native objective directly. A broader Goal dashboard or control redesign is out of scope for this PR; the UI is intentionally limited to the existing composer flow and a lightweight status banner or card.UI Changes
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Addresses discussion #6777.
Related: #2819 and #2877.
Implementation and verification were performed with Codex. Additional review and cleanup used Claude Code with Opus 5. Final audit and PR preparation used Codex with GPT-5.6 Sol.
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Touches Codex provider session routing and recovery for goal get/set/clear, and changes composer send behavior for
/goalon Codex threads; scoped to Codex with tests but concurrent recovery deserves a quick review.Overview
Adds native Codex Goal support end-to-end: contracts and WebSocket RPCs (
codexGoalGet/Set/Clear,subscribeCodexGoal), provider runtime events (thread.goal.updated/cleared), and Codex adapter/runtime wiring to Codex App Serverthread/goal/*methods.ProviderServiceroutes goal ops per thread with optional session recovery; recovery and explicit starts for the same thread are serialized via a per-thread semaphore.On web and mobile, Codex threads show a live Goal card/banner (
useCodexGoalsubscription) and the composer intercepts/goalcommands (status, create/steer, pause/resume, clear) instead of sending a chat message—mirroring the new Codex/goalslash command in server config. User docs describe the command surface.Tests cover parsing, streaming snapshots/updates, adapter mapping, provider gating, WS subscription ordering, and collab child notification routing for goal events.
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Add native Codex Goal lifecycle controls across server, client, and UI
CodexGoalcontracts, schemas, andCodexGoalOperationErrorin codexGoal.ts, with a 4,000 Unicode-character cap on objectives and strict status/token-budget validationcodexGoalGet,codexGoalSet,codexGoalClear, and streamingsubscribeCodexGoalin rpc.ts, wired in ws.ts with a snapshot-then-live subscription modelProviderServiceandCodexAdapterwithcodexGoal.{get,set,clear}routed to the active provider session, and adds a per-thread semaphore to serialize concurrent recovery/start operations in ProviderService.tsCodexSessionRuntimeto issuethread/goal/{get,set,clear}client RPCs and mapsthread/goal/{updated,cleared}notifications tothread.goal.updated/thread.goal.clearedruntime events in CodexSessionRuntime.ts and CodexAdapter.ts/goalslash-command parsing, goal status banners, and send gating in ChatView.tsx and ThreadDetailScreen.tsx; client-side subscription atoms and RPC commands live in threadCommands.tsProviderServiceShapeandProviderAdapterShapeinterfaces now requiregetCodexGoal,setCodexGoal, andclearCodexGoalmethods — all in-tree mocks in test harnesses are updated, but out-of-tree implementations of these shapes will fail to compileMacroscope summarized 38c04ee.
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