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A review of the 179 commits sitting on dev ahead of main turned up thirteen
confirmed regressions. This PR fixes the four rated high. The review itself is
committed as devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/001_regression_review.md
and covers all thirteen plus fourteen findings it explicitly cleared.

A chmod could fence the entire data plane behind 503. The package-tree guard
compared the inode CHANGE time, which moves for metadata writes that replace
nothing: a chmod, a chown, a touch, an editor normalizing permissions, a backup
tool restoring modes. Device, inode and size were all unchanged in those cases,
so the guard's own definition of "replaced" was met by a file nobody had
replaced, and every /v1/* request then answered 503 with "restart OpenCodex
before retrying". A negative reading is deliberately never cached, so there was
no recovery short of a restart. Comparing the content modification time instead.

The prompt-write routes accepted a bare admin token. /api/codex-prompt
writes config.toml — the file that decides what the model reads — and the auth
gate accepts the raw admin token before it consults the session table, so any
process able to read ~/.opencodex/admin-api-token could rewrite a prompt.
Mutating verbs now require a minted GUI session, the same check the star endpoint
uses. Reads stay open. The honest limit is stated in the code: a process running
as the user can mint its own session or edit the file directly, so this removes
the casual path rather than being a technical barrier.

A UTF-8 BOM was relocated out of byte 0. The generated block was inserted at
line index 0, ahead of a byte that is only legal at position 0. The write verified
its own bytes and reported success; Codex could then no longer parse the file.

An unwritable store left the config half-changed. Only config readability was
pre-checked, so a store the filesystem refused threw out of durableWrite after
the config had already been renamed into place. The exception escaped the
transaction, so rollback never ran and the orphaned journal made every later write
fail recovery_required.

Two of the thirteen findings in the review document are mine, from work merged
earlier the same day. They are fixed in a later PR of this stack, not here.

Verification

bun test tests/package-tree-integrity.test.ts        7 pass 0 fail
bun test tests/codex-prompt-layers-write.test.ts    28 pass 0 fail
bun test tests/codex-prompt-route.test.ts           46 pass 0 fail
bun test tests/core-lab-boundary.test.ts            13 pass 0 fail
bun test <8 codex-prompt files>                    200 pass 0 fail
bun x tsc --noEmit                                  exit 0
bun run privacy:scan                                passed
git diff --check                                    clean

Each fix was confirmed by mutation, because a regression test that cannot fail is
not protection:

Mutation Result
mtimeNs back to ctimeNs the permission test fails, both replacement tests stay green
splitBom neutered in setProjection the projection test fails, the other four BOM tests stay green
throw instead of rollback the refused-store test fails

The filesystem semantics behind the first fix were measured before it was chosen,
not assumed: a chmod moves ctime and leaves mtime alone; a same-length in-place
rewrite moves mtime while inode and size hold; a write-then-rename install changes
the inode. So mtime drops the false positive and keeps every real detection.

The BOM tests parse the result rather than asserting the bytes we intended to
write — the old path was self-consistent and still produced an unloadable file.
Bun.TOML is not the parser Codex uses, so a pass there is not proof Codex
accepts the file, but a failure is proof it does not.

No GUI files are touched, so no screenshot applies.

Checklist

  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

The auth change is the security-sensitive one. It tightens a boundary rather than
relaxing one, no credential is logged or serialized, and the refusal is asserted
to leave config.toml byte-identical.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added planning and documentation for prompt variants and account-based prompt attribution.
    • Added support for preserving UTF-8 markers in prompt configuration files.
    • Added the glm-5.3-flash model to supported provider listings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Failed configuration writes now roll back safely and report a clear error.
    • Permission-only file changes no longer trigger false package replacement alerts.
    • Prompt configuration updates now require an active dashboard session, while read-only access remains available.
    • Broken-pipe errors during desktop command execution are handled gracefully.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for rollback behavior, encoding preservation, access controls, file integrity, and broken-pipe handling.

Five parallel read-only lanes over the 179 commits in origin/main..dev found 13
confirmed regressions, 1 suspected, and 14 explicitly cleared. Four are high.

The one the user asked about is real and cheap to trigger: package-tree-integrity
compares ctimeNs, which a chmod changes without replacing anything, so a
permission change fences every /v1/* request behind a 503 until restart. Verified
in a temp directory rather than argued about - chmod alone flips the guard from ok
to package_tree_replaced, while mtimeNs stays put through chmod and moves for both
an in-place rewrite and an atomic replace.

Also recorded: a BOM-prefixed config.toml is corrupted by a custom-layer write, an
unreadable store leaves config.toml half-changed with an orphaned journal, the
prompt write routes accept a bare admin token where AGENTS.md requires a dashboard
session, and the closed-PR branch cleanup deletes a branch whose name matches an
old closed PR without checking the SHA. Two of the thirteen are mine, from the
glm-5.3-flash work merged earlier today.

The unit also plans what the user asked for next. "annotation" turned out to be
ext/git-attribution, which lives in the 120_codex-cli checkout and not in
121_openai-codex, and which our LAYER_INVENTORY is missing entirely. It is
account-resolved rather than config-gated, so it is a runtime-conditional row with
no switch.

The base-prompt variant selector rests on model_instructions_file, and its default
variant is the ABSENCE of that key rather than a copy of Codex's prompt, so
immutability is structural instead of enforced. Auditing that claim broke it once:
a hand-set key would have read as "default" while the base prompt was in fact
replaced, so the selection is three-valued and the external state keeps the notice
the panel already ships in ten locales.
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The change documents regression findings and plans for prompt attribution and base variants. It preserves BOMs, rolls back failed prompt writes, restricts prompt mutations to GUI sessions, uses mtimeNs for package-tree checks, and updates provider allowlist tests.

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Prompt regression remediation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Regression scope and findings
devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/000_plan.md, devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/001_regression_review.md
Documents the review scope, confirmed findings, suspected prompt-lock issue, cleared claims, and remediation order.
Git attribution layer plan
devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/010_wp2_git_attribution_layer.md
Defines the runtime-conditional, non-configurable git_attribution layer across inventory, probing, GUI metadata, localization, routes, and tests.
Base prompt variant plan
devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/020_wp3_base_variants.md, devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/021_audit_blockers.md
Defines default, authored, authored-2, and external states, with storage, selection, route protection, GUI behavior, fixtures, and enforcement rules.
Stack and documentation close-out
devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/030_wp4_docs_and_stack.md
Defines stack ordering, localized documentation, source-of-truth synchronization, validation commands, and merge close-out steps.
Prompt write recovery and route authorization
src/codex/prompt-layers.ts, src/server/management/codex-prompt-routes.ts, tests/codex-prompt-layers-write.test.ts, tests/codex-prompt-route.test.ts
Prompt writes preserve BOMs and roll back filesystem failures. Failed writes return write_failed and map to HTTP 500. Mutations require a GUI session.
Package-tree observation correction
src/lib/package-tree-integrity.ts, tests/package-tree-integrity.test.ts
Package-tree observations use contentTimeNs from mtimeNs. Tests tolerate permission changes and detect rewrites and atomic replacements.

Provider allowlist validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider model allowlist expectations
tests/digitalocean-scaleway-provider.test.ts
DigitalOcean and Scaleway tests include glm-5.3-flash and update their expected allowlist counts.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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The PR fixes four concrete regressions affecting request availability, prompt-write authorization, configuration parsing, and transactional safety, with focused tests and static checks passing. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness that the base-variant plan still has two correctness/integration follow-ups and one test-comment cleanup item.

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  • lidge-jun/opencodex#886: Both changes modify src/codex/prompt-layers.ts; this change extends its configuration-write transaction behavior.

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// Reads stay open to the admin token: describing the prompt stack changes nothing,
// and the dashboard's own cold load needs it.
if (req.method !== "GET" && req.method !== "HEAD" && ctx.principal !== "gui-session") {

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P1 Badge Preserve prompt writes for remote dashboards

On a non-loopback deployment, this rejects every prompt-layer write from the actual dashboard: docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/management-api.md:48-50 states that remote binds never mint GUI sessions and require the raw admin token, while gui/src/api.ts:131-160 deliberately falls back to that token. Consequently toggles, custom-layer saves, adoption, and repair all return 403, and the fetch wrapper does not re-bootstrap because it retries only 401 responses (gui/src/api.ts:273-299). Either provide remote dashboards with an admissible session mechanism or retain an authenticated remote mutation path, and document the resulting behavior.

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const undone = rollback(record, journalPath, "write_failed");
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P1 Badge Contain failures raised during rollback

When the forward write fails because the filesystem is full after config.toml has already been published, rollback() may encounter the same ENOSPC while restoring the config preimage via durableWrite, or may fail to delete the journal. This call is itself unguarded, so that second error escapes commit() instead of returning a WriteResult, leaving the post-image and journal behind—the same half-written state this change is intended to prevent. Catch rollback failures and return recovery_required while preserving the journal and the rollback error details.

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In `@devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/000_plan.md`:
- Line 4: Update the plan’s Opened date in the header to August 26, 2026 so the
chronology is consistent, unless the plan is explicitly intended to be
future-dated; do not alter the work class or branch target.

In
`@devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/001_regression_review.md`:
- Around line 9-11: Reconcile the regression totals with the actual H1-H12
findings: update the confirmed and high-severity counts, and ensure unresolved
H7 is included in the no-promotion gate. If H7 is intentionally excluded,
document its changed severity or status alongside the gate criteria.

In
`@devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/010_wp2_git_attribution_layer.md`:
- Around line 93-100: Update the Tests section to remove the separate assertion
that the new descriptor is absent from TOGGLE_IDS, while retaining the exact
descriptor-shape assertion. State that the existing table-driven route test
covers every non-config-toggle descriptor and provides refusal coverage for this
row.
- Around line 67-78: Correct the claim around LAYER_CONDITION_KEYS: because it
is partial, LayerId does not enforce condition-key coverage. Either make
runtime-conditional entries exhaustive or add a focused test that fails when a
LayerId lacks a condition entry, and update the bypass/fallback record so
missing entries cannot silently render codexSet.row.alwaysOn for DISABLED or
ABSENT states.

In
`@devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/020_wp3_base_variants.md`:
- Around line 130-135: Update PromptLayerRow and its base-row wiring so the base
switch invokes a separate onSelectBase callback rather than onToggle. Keep
base-instructions outside TOGGLE_KEYS and route selection through the existing
base-select flow, while preserving onToggle for config-toggle layers only.
- Around line 137-144: Update the plan’s Tests section to name all six existing
snapshot fixtures from the referenced audit blockers, alongside the two new
tests, and include those fixtures in the required verification for the new
baseVariants and baseSelection fields.
- Around line 40-43: Add an explicit external base-selection state for
model_instructions_file values outside opencodex-prompt-base/, so unmatched
paths are not reported as default; preserve the existing baseReplaced notice,
disable the variant ring while external is selected, prevent default selection
from removing external paths, and add the acceptance test specified in the audit
blockers document.
- Around line 32-38: Constrain BaseVariantSelection to “default”, “authored”,
and “authored-2”, validate this allowlist before resolving prompt-base files,
and reject undeclared IDs. Represent a manually configured
model_instructions_file outside the prompt-base directory as “external” while
preserving the baseReplaced notice and requiring an explicit adopt-or-leave
choice. Route base changes through a dedicated onSelectBase callback rather than
the toggle API or TOGGLE_KEYS, and update all six snapshot fixtures with
baseVariants and baseSelection.

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- Around line 26-35: Update the stack verification loop to execute the
write-recovery tests for every branch in addition to typechecking and linting,
and update the final verification gate to include
tests/codex-prompt-layers-write.test.ts alongside its existing checks. Preserve
the current branch iteration and verification commands.

In `@src/codex/prompt-layers.ts`:
- Around line 748-754: Update the catch path in commit to catch failures from
rollback(record, journalPath, "write_failed") instead of allowing them to
escape; preserve the journal and return the defined recovery_required result
when rollback restoration fails, while returning write_failed only after
rollback completes. Add a fault-injection regression test covering rollback’s
durableWrite failure after the config write.

In `@src/lib/package-tree-integrity.ts`:
- Around line 28-39: Resolve the inconsistency in package-tree replacement
detection around contentTimeNs: either compare manifest content so a
metadata-only touch does not mark the tree as replaced, or remove touch from the
documented safe operations and explicitly retain mtime updates as replacement
signals. Add a regression test covering the chosen behavior, anchored to the
package-tree integrity check and its manifest snapshot comparison.

In `@src/server/management/codex-prompt-routes.ts`:
- Around line 286-293: Update the authorization check in the codex prompt route
so admin-token requests are allowed through non-mutating adopt and repair
operations with confirm false, while GUI-session enforcement remains for confirm
true, toggle writes, and custom-layer writes. Add tests covering both preview
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# 000 — dev regression review + prompt base variants and git_attribution

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Opened: 2026-08-27 · Work class: C4 · Branch target: `dev`

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the plan date.

Line [4] records Opened: 2026-08-27, but the current date is August 26, 2026. Correct the date or label the plan as intentionally future-dated. The current value makes the unit chronology inconsistent.

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In `@devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/000_plan.md` at line
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chronology is consistent, unless the plan is explicitly intended to be
future-dated; do not alter the work class or branch target.

Comment on lines +9 to +11
Result: **13 CONFIRMED regressions, 1 SUSPECTED, 14 explicitly CLEARED.** Four of
the confirmed ones are severity-high. The 503 the user asked about is real, and it
is worse than a rare edge: `chmod` on a file is enough to trigger it.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reconcile the finding totals before using the promotion gate.

The confirmed-findings section contains H1-H12, which is 12 findings, but Line [9] says 13. The headings mark H1, H3, H4, H5, H6, and H7 as high, which is six high findings, but Line [10] says four. H7 remains unresolved at Lines [110]-[119], but the no-promotion list at Lines [183]-[187] omits it. Correct the totals and either include H7 in the gate or document why its severity or status changed.

Also applies to: 181-187

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around lines 9 - 11, Reconcile the regression totals with the actual H1-H12
findings: update the confirmed and high-severity counts, and ensure unresolved
H7 is included in the no-promotion gate. If H7 is intentionally excluded,
document its changed severity or status alongside the gate criteria.

Comment on lines +67 to +78
Four edits, each in a map whose exhaustiveness the `LayerId` union enforces (the
stated point of that union at lines 12-27):

- `LayerId`: add `| "git-attribution"`
- `LAYER_LABEL_KEYS`: add `"git-attribution": "codexSet.layer.git-attribution"`
- `LAYER_ABOUT_KEYS`: add `"git-attribution": "codexSet.about.git-attribution"`
- `LAYER_CONDITION_KEYS` (partial by design, lines 74-80): add
`"git-attribution": "codexSet.condition.git-attribution"`

The condition entry is mandatory, not optional: without it the row falls through to
`codexSet.row.alwaysOn`, and "always on" is false — DISABLED and ABSENT are both
reachable states.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not claim compiler enforcement for the condition map.

The plan describes LAYER_CONDITION_KEYS as partial at Line [73]. A LayerId union cannot require a key in a partial record. If the entry is omitted, the existing fallback at Lines [76]-[78] renders alwaysOn. Make runtime-conditional entries exhaustive or add a focused test that fails when a condition entry is missing. Update the bypass record accordingly.

Also applies to: 131-137

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In
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around lines 67 - 78, Correct the claim around LAYER_CONDITION_KEYS: because it
is partial, LayerId does not enforce condition-key coverage. Either make
runtime-conditional entries exhaustive or add a focused test that fails when a
LayerId lacks a condition entry, and update the bypass/fallback record so
missing entries cannot silently render codexSet.row.alwaysOn for DISABLED or
ABSENT states.

Comment on lines +93 to +100
### 5. Tests

- `tests/codex-prompt-layers.test.ts` — inventory now has 16 entries; assert the new
descriptor's exact shape and assert it is NOT in `TOGGLE_IDS`. The second assertion
is the protective one: it fails if someone later makes the row writable.
- `tests/codex-prompt-route.test.ts` — the served inventory includes it.
- `gui/tests/codex-set-prompt-layers.test.tsx` — the row renders, shows the condition
string, and renders NO element with `role="switch"`.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Align the test plan with the audit amendment.

devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/021_audit_blockers.md Lines [35]-[39] says the proposed TOGGLE_IDS assertion is redundant because the existing table-driven route test already covers every non-config-toggle descriptor. Remove the duplicate assertion and state that the existing test provides refusal coverage. Keep the descriptor-shape assertion.

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In
`@devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/010_wp2_git_attribution_layer.md`
around lines 93 - 100, Update the Tests section to remove the separate assertion
that the new descriptor is absent from TOGGLE_IDS, while retaining the exact
descriptor-shape assertion. State that the existing table-driven route test
covers every non-config-toggle descriptor and provides refusal coverage for this
row.

Comment on lines +32 to +38
Three variants, exactly the "2-3번 옵션" asked for:

| # | Variant | Source | Editable | Deletable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | `default` | Codex's own base prompt; NO `model_instructions_file` written | never | never |
| 2 | `authored` | a body the user writes, stored by us | yes | yes |
| 3 | `authored-2` | a second such body | yes | yes |

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  'writeBaseVariant|selectBaseVariant|opencodex-prompt-base|/api/codex-prompt/base|BaseVariantSelection' \
  src gui tests

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printf '%s\n' '--- related audit ---'
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Define the base-variant boundary before implementing the routes.

  • 020_wp3_base_variants.md:97-104 declares BaseVariantSelection = "default" | string, while :115-122 only rejects default. Use "default" | "authored" | "authored-2" and validate the allowlist before resolving opencodex-prompt-base/<id>.md; otherwise a request can create an undeclared variant or escape the directory.
  • Represent a hand-set model_instructions_file outside that directory as external, not default. Preserve the existing baseReplaced notice and require an explicit adopt-or-leave choice.
  • Route the base switch through a separate onSelectBase callback. Do not call /api/codex-prompt/toggle or add base-instructions to TOGGLE_KEYS.
  • Update all six snapshot fixtures with baseVariants and baseSelection in the same commit as the type change.
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In
`@devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/020_wp3_base_variants.md`
around lines 32 - 38, Constrain BaseVariantSelection to “default”, “authored”,
and “authored-2”, validate this allowlist before resolving prompt-base files,
and reject undeclared IDs. Represent a manually configured
model_instructions_file outside the prompt-base directory as “external” while
preserving the baseReplaced notice and requiring an explicit adopt-or-leave
choice. Route base changes through a dedicated onSelectBase callback rather than
the toggle API or TOGGLE_KEYS, and update all six snapshot fixtures with
baseVariants and baseSelection.

Comment on lines +137 to +144
### Tests

- `tests/codex-prompt-base-variants.test.ts` (NEW): default selection removes the
key; variant selection writes an absolute path; write-then-point ordering holds;
a `default` write is refused; revision mismatch is refused.
- `gui/tests/codex-set-base-variant.test.tsx` (NEW): the ring wraps, ArrowLeft and
ArrowRight step, the default variant's editor is read-only, and Save is absent
for it.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Name the existing snapshot fixtures in the change map.

Adding required baseVariants and baseSelection fields affects the six existing fixtures identified in devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/021_audit_blockers.md Lines [84]-[95]. This plan lists only the two new tests. An intermediate stack commit can therefore fail GUI typechecking or tests before the variant behavior is validated. Name and update all six fixtures in the same commit and include them in verification.

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In
`@devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/020_wp3_base_variants.md`
around lines 137 - 144, Update the plan’s Tests section to name all six existing
snapshot fixtures from the referenced audit blockers, alongside the two new
tests, and include those fixtures in the required verification for the new
baseVariants and baseSelection fields.

Comment on lines +26 to +35
Verification rule, the one that cost 13 CI jobs last time: test EVERY branch of the
stack, not just the head. i18n keys used at layer 3 but defined at layer 4 typecheck
fine at the tip and fail at the intermediate commit.

```
for B in pkgtree-503 prompt-write-auth git-attribution base-variants prompt-docs; do
git switch codex/$B
(cd gui && bun x tsc -b --force) && (cd gui && bun run lint)
bun x tsc --noEmit
done

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Run the write-recovery tests in the stack gate.

The stated rule at Lines [26]-[28] requires testing every stack branch, but the loop at Lines [31]-[35] runs only typechecking and linting. The final gate also omits tests/codex-prompt-layers-write.test.ts, which covers the BOM-preservation and rollback paths named in the PR objectives. Add test execution for every branch and include this file in the final gate.

Also applies to: 68-76

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In
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around lines 26 - 35, Update the stack verification loop to execute the
write-recovery tests for every branch in addition to typechecking and linting,
and update the final verification gate to include
tests/codex-prompt-layers-write.test.ts alongside its existing checks. Preserve
the current branch iteration and verification commands.

Comment on lines +748 to +754
} catch (error) {
// `rollback` is byte-hash driven and refuses to touch a file it does not
// recognise, so it is safe to run against a partially applied pair. If it
// cannot account for what it finds it returns recovery_required, which is the
// honest answer — better than a silent half-write either way.
const undone = rollback(record, journalPath, "write_failed");
return { ...undone, detail: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error) } as WriteResult;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle rollback failures before returning write_failed.

If the store write fails after the config write, rollback() can also throw from durableWrite() or durableDelete(). For example, a full filesystem can prevent both the store write and restoration of config.toml. That throw escapes commit(), leaves the journal in place, and bypasses the defined recovery_required result.

Catch failures from rollback(). Preserve the journal and return recovery_required when restoration cannot complete. Return write_failed only after rollback completes. Add a fault-injection regression test for the rollback-write failure path.

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In `@src/codex/prompt-layers.ts` around lines 748 - 754, Update the catch path in
commit to catch failures from rollback(record, journalPath, "write_failed")
instead of allowing them to escape; preserve the journal and return the defined
recovery_required result when rollback restoration fails, while returning
write_failed only after rollback completes. Add a fault-injection regression
test covering rollback’s durableWrite failure after the config write.

Comment on lines +28 to +39
// mtimeNs, NOT ctimeNs. An inode-change time moves for METADATA writes that
// replace nothing: chmod, chown, touch, an editor normalizing permissions, a
// backup tool restoring modes. Each of those left device, inode and size
// identical, so the comparison below called the manifest "replaced" and every
// /v1/* request answered 503 until the process was restarted. Measured on
// macOS: chmod alone moved ctimeNs and left mtimeNs untouched.
//
// mtimeNs still catches every real replacement. An in-place rewrite of the
// same byte length moves mtimeNs while inode and size hold; an atomic
// install (write-then-rename, which is what a package manager does) changes
// the inode as well. Both were measured before this change was made.
contentTimeNs: stat.mtimeNs,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Handle touch without marking the package tree as replaced.

Lines 28-30 list touch as a safe metadata-only operation. touch package.json updates mtimeNs without changing the file content. Line 39 records that new value, so Line 50 marks the package tree as replaced after one second. The server then rejects /v1/* requests until restart.

If touch must remain safe, compare manifest content instead of using mtimeNs as the replacement signal. Add a regression test that advances the manifest mtime without changing its bytes. If only permission changes are in scope, remove touch from the documented safe operations and state that mtime updates remain replacement signals.

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In `@src/lib/package-tree-integrity.ts` around lines 28 - 39, Resolve the
inconsistency in package-tree replacement detection around contentTimeNs: either
compare manifest content so a metadata-only touch does not mark the tree as
replaced, or remove touch from the documented safe operations and explicitly
retain mtime updates as replacement signals. Add a regression test covering the
chosen behavior, anchored to the package-tree integrity check and its manifest
snapshot comparison.

Comment on lines +286 to +293
if (req.method !== "GET" && req.method !== "HEAD" && ctx.principal !== "gui-session") {
return fail(
ctx,
"dashboard_session_required",
403,
"prompt layers are written from the dashboard; an admin token alone cannot rewrite config.toml",
);
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep read-only previews available to the admin token.

POST /api/codex-prompt/adopt and POST /api/codex-prompt/repair with confirm: false only return previews. Their route branches do not mutate configuration. This method-wide check returns dashboard_session_required before those branches execute.

Authorize only requests that can commit a mutation. Keep GUI-session enforcement for confirm: true, toggle writes, and custom-layer writes. Add admin-token tests for both confirm: false preview paths and assert that the files remain unchanged.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@src/server/management/codex-prompt-routes.ts` around lines 286 - 293, Update
the authorization check in the codex prompt route so admin-token requests are
allowed through non-mutating adopt and repair operations with confirm false,
while GUI-session enforcement remains for confirm true, toggle writes, and
custom-layer writes. Add tests covering both preview paths with an admin token
and verify configuration files remain unchanged.

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In `@tests/digitalocean-scaleway-provider.test.ts`:
- Around line 109-112: Update the test-history comment near the DigitalOcean and
Scaleway length assertions to reflect that both expected lengths were stale
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Comment on lines +109 to +112
// 28 since glm-5.3-flash was seeded into this allowlist. The seeding commit added
// the id to both the DigitalOcean and Scaleway lists and moved neither length
// assertion; Scaleway's happened to still match, so only this one went red - and it
// stayed red on dev, which is how a broken shard reached the branch that noticed it.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the stale test-history comment.

The comment says Scaleway’s assertion still matched and only DigitalOcean failed. This change also updates Scaleway’s expected length from 11 to 12 at Lines 143-148. State that both length assertions were stale, or remove the historical explanation.

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In `@tests/digitalocean-scaleway-provider.test.ts` around lines 109 - 112, Update
the test-history comment near the DigitalOcean and Scaleway length assertions to
reflect that both expected lengths were stale after adding glm-5.3-flash, or
remove the historical explanation entirely. Keep the assertions’ corrected
expected lengths unchanged.

Test shard 1 of 4 has been red on dev, and the cause is a platform-specific race
rather than anything about the assertion.

runExternalJson writes its JSON payload to the child's stdin. A command that
exits before reading - echo, a script that rejects a flag, anything that fails
early - closes the pipe while that write is in flight. On Linux the write then
fails with EPIPE, and EPIPE on a stream arrives as an asynchronous 'error' EVENT,
not a throw. The try/catch wrapped around the write never saw it, so the error
escaped as an unhandled stream error and took the shard down. On macOS the same
write is simply discarded, which is why this never reproduced locally: measured
here, a 4 MiB write to a pipe whose child has already exited yields neither an
async error nor a throw.

An error handler on stdin now swallows EPIPE and ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED, and the
existing catch does the same for the synchronous case. That is deliberate rather
than defensive: a broken INPUT pipe is not a failure of the executor contract.
The child's exit code and its stdout are what decide the result, and both are
already handled in the close listener - which is exactly what makes the existing
"bad output maps to failure" case reachable instead of exploding. Any other
stdin error still rejects.

The new test drives a command that exits before reading, with a payload far past
any pipe buffer. On Linux that is the EPIPE path. On macOS it proves the weaker
half - a non-reading child never becomes a rejection - and both platforms have to
agree on the outcome, which is the contract worth pinning. The test comment says
plainly which half each platform exercises rather than implying the race is
reproduced everywhere.
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설명

이 풀 리퀘스트는 current dev HEAD 5d0a97bd1 위에, 메인 대비 회귀 검토에서 높은 등급으로 잡은 네 가지를 고칩니다. 베이스는 dev 이고 초안이 아닙니다. types.tsconfig.ts 는 건드리지 않습니다. package.json 은 그대로 2.32.1-preview.20260825 입니다.

첫째, src/lib/package-tree-integrity.tspackage.jsonctimeNs 를 비교하던 것을 mtimeNs(contentTimeNs) 로 바꿉니다. chmod 같은 메타데이터만 바뀌는 쓰기에서도 ctime 이 움직여 /v1/* 전체가 503 으로 막히는 문제를 없앱니다. 같은 길이의 내용 덮어쓰기와 rename 설치는 여전히 교체로 잡히도록 실제 파일시스템 테스트가 추가되었습니다.

둘째, /api/codex-prompt 의 쓰기 동사는 ctx.principal === "gui-session" 일 때만 허용합니다. 관리 게이트가 관리자 토큰을 먼저 받는 경로를 통해 config.toml 을 고치는 일상적 경로를 막습니다. 읽기는 그대로입니다. 셋째, UTF-8 BOM 이 있는 config.toml 에 생성 블록을 0번 줄에 넣으면 BOM 이 뒤로 밀려 Codex 파서가 깨지던 문제를 splitBom 으로 고칩니다. 넷째, store 쓰기가 실패해도 config 가 이미 바뀐 채 저널이 남는 문제를 try/catch 와 write_failed 롤백으로 막습니다.

같은 커밋 묶음에 devlog/_plan/260827_dev_regression_and_prompt_variants/ 계획 문서가 들어 있습니다. 이후 스택(#2691, #2692, #2695)과 계획을 공유합니다. CI 는 test 1/4ci 가 실패로 보이며 mergeable_state 는 blocked 입니다. 그 실패 원인으로 #2695 가 Cursor desktop stdin EPIPE 를 지목합니다. 미리보기 배포는 계획에 없습니다.

src/lib/package-tree-integrity.ts - changeTimeNs(ctime) 를 contentTimeNs(mtime) 로 바꾼 방향은 HEAD 대비 맞습니다
src/server/management/codex-prompt-routes.ts - 쓰기만 gui-session 요구, GET 은 관리자 토큰 허용은 본문과 일치합니다
src/codex/prompt-layers.ts - splitBom 과 write_failed 롤백이 실제 깨짐 경로를 겨냥합니다
tests/digitalocean-scaleway-provider.test.ts - glm-5.3-flash 시드 후 길이만 맞춘 수정이고, 비전 분류 수정은 #2691 에 있습니다
경로/심볼 - CI test 1/4 실패가 열려 있어 지금 합치면 안 됩니다
devlog/plan/260827* - #2695 와 같은 계획 커밋을 공유하므로 합치기 순서를 맞춰야 합니다

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • fix(cursor): survive a desktop executor that never reads stdin #2695 의 EPIPE 수정을 이 PR 에 먼저 얹을지, dev 에 따로 넣을지 정해야 합니다
  • 계획 문서를 이 회귀 수정 PR 에 같이 둘지, 문서만 따로 둘지 정해야 합니다
  • admin-token 읽기 허용을 계속 둘지 더 좁힐지 정해야 합니다
  • CI 가 초록이 될 때까지 Ready 를 유지할지 정해야 합니다

너의 추천

지금 합치지 마세요. 네 고치기 자체는 current dev 에 필요한 방향입니다. 먼저 #2695 의 EPIPE 수정을 이 브랜치에 가져오거나 dev 에 먼저 넣어 test 1/4 를 초록으로 만드세요. 그다음 exact-head/CI 가 통과하면 합치세요. 계획 문서는 스택(#2691/#2692)과 충돌하지 않게 한 번만 들어가게 하세요. types.ts/config.ts 분할 캠페인에 무효화되어 닫을 대상이 아닙니다. 미리보기 배포는 계획에 없습니다.

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Both assertions were left behind by the glm-5.3-flash seeding commit, which added
the id to the DigitalOcean and Scaleway discovery allowlists and moved neither
length. DigitalOcean went 27 -> 28 and Scaleway 11 -> 12.

This was failing on dev, not just here: test shard 4 of 4 has been red since that
commit landed, and it surfaced on this branch only because this is the branch that
ran the shard. The regression review that opened this unit missed it because it
read diffs rather than running the suite, which is the honest limit of a
read-only review.

The Scaleway half only appeared after the DigitalOcean assertion stopped failing -
the test aborts at the first failure, so one stale count was hiding the other.
Both now also assert the id itself, so a count that drifts says which model it is
counting instead of just naming a number.
The package-tree guard compared the inode CHANGE time, which moves for metadata
writes that replace nothing. A chmod, a chown, a touch, an editor normalizing
permissions, a backup tool restoring modes - each left device, inode and size
identical, so the guard's own definition of "replaced" was met by a file nobody
had replaced. Every /v1/* request then answered 503 with "restart OpenCodex
before retrying", and since a negative reading is deliberately never cached,
there was no recovery short of a restart.

Comparing the CONTENT modification time instead. Measured on macOS before
changing anything: a chmod moves ctime and leaves mtime alone, an in-place
rewrite of the same byte length moves mtime while inode and size hold, and an
atomic write-then-rename install changes the inode as well. So mtime drops the
false positive and keeps every real detection.

The three new tests drive the real filesystem rather than a hand-built
observation, because the defect was in which stat field was read and a synthetic
fixture cannot tell the two apart - it would have passed before and after.
Confirmed by mutation: putting ctimeNs back turns the permission test red and
leaves the two replacement tests green.

The guard's comment claimed it was detecting "an event that happens at most once
per install". That is true of a tree replacement and was never true of a ctime
change.
/api/codex-prompt writes the user's config.toml - the file that decides what the
model reads - and its write verbs accepted the raw admin token. The auth gate
checks that token before it ever consults the session table, so any process that
can read ~/.opencodex/admin-api-token could rewrite a prompt. AGENTS.md is
explicit that this is the case the session requirement exists to stop.

Mutating verbs now require the gui-session principal, the same check the star
endpoint uses and for the same reason. Reads stay open to the admin token:
describing the layer stack changes nothing and the CLI parity path depends on it.

The honest limit, which the code comment states rather than implies: a process
running as the user can mint its own session from the loopback dashboard
bootstrap, and can edit config.toml directly without going through this proxy at
all. This removes the casual path - an agent that would have PUT here because the
endpoint existed and the token was lying on disk - and makes the refusal legible.
The real boundary is normative.

The new test drives all four mutating verbs with an admin-token principal, asserts
the 403 and the code, and then asserts config.toml is byte-identical: a refusal
that wrote something on the way to refusing is not a refusal. The route harness
now passes an explicit principal, which is what surfaced this in the first place -
32 of its cases were silently exercising the untrusted path.

The GUI is unaffected: gui/src/api.ts:95-109 authenticates with an ocx_session_
token, which resolves to gui-session.
Two ways the composer could damage a config file it had just reported writing.

A UTF-8 BOM is only legal at byte 0, and setProjection inserted its two generated
lines at line index 0 - ahead of the BOM. The write verified its own bytes and
reported success; Codex could then no longer parse the file. Editors on Windows
emit that byte routinely, so this was not an exotic input. The BOM is now split
off before line editing and restored after, in all three editors that insert
lines: the projection block and both boolean setters.

The new tests parse the RESULT rather than asserting the bytes we meant to write.
That distinction is the whole lesson here - the old write path was self-consistent
and still produced an unloadable file. Bun.TOML is not the parser Codex uses, so a
pass is not proof Codex accepts the file, but a failure is proof it does not, and
that is the direction the assertion needs to hold in.

Separately, only the CONFIG was checked for readability before the transaction
began. An unwritable STORE - a directory on its path, a mode change, a full disk -
threw out of durableWrite after the config had already been renamed into place.
The exception escaped the transaction entirely, so rollback never ran: the caller
saw a raw error, the config carried a projection whose store did not exist, and
the orphaned journal made every later write fail recovery_required. The write steps
are now wrapped, and a throw rolls back to the recorded pre-state and drops the
journal.

That failure gets its own error, write_failed, mapped to 500 rather than folded
into write_superseded. The two are not the same: superseded means another writer
won a race, while here nobody won and nothing landed, and retrying the same
request unchanged will fail identically until the path or the disk is fixed.

Both fixes confirmed by mutation. Removing the BOM handling turns exactly the
projection test red; rethrowing instead of rolling back turns exactly the store
test red.

The two exhaustiveness guards on the write-error status map caught the new error
on their own, which is what they were written for.
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lidge-jun force-pushed the codex/pkgtree-503-false-positive branch from 8c83b6f to 583f5a2 Compare August 26, 2026 17:56
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lidge-jun changed the base branch from codex/desktop-exec-epipe to dev August 26, 2026 18:03
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lidge-jun merged commit 942cb04 into dev Aug 26, 2026
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lidge-jun deleted the codex/pkgtree-503-false-positive branch August 26, 2026 18:04
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