[InvixGG]

Problem

Fixes #34295.

When a Codex instance's probe fails on auth (for example "your refresh token was revoked") and the user signs in again with codex logout; codex login, the provider card keeps the old error. It clears only at the next health interval (5 minutes by default) or when the user clicks Retry. Nothing watched the instance's auth.json. A settings reconcile only rebuilds an instance when its own entry changes, and changing the background-activity interval only restarts the timer, so neither runs a new probe.

Change

CodexDriver.create now watches the instance's auth home and runs snapshot.refresh when auth.json is created, rewritten, or removed. That is the same forced refresh the card's Retry uses.

• Directory: homeLayout.effectiveHomePath ?? homeLayout.sharedHomePath, the directory the driver already treats as "the auth.json directory" for reset-credit locking. That is the shadow home's private copy when shadowHomePath is set, and otherwise the shared home (including an instance-level CODEX_HOME).
• Debounce: events are debounced by 250 ms, so a login's multiple writes cause one probe.
• Lifetime: the watcher is forked in the instance scope, so a rebuild or disable closes it.
• Failures: a failed refresh is logged and does not stop the watcher. A missing home directory is skipped quietly.
• Not watched: disabled instances, and managed (setupMode: "managed") instances, which T3 signs in itself and which already refresh on its own auth-flow events.

codex logout now also takes effect right away, because removing auth.json triggers a probe too.

Scope and approval

I think this fits the "very small, focused fix for an obvious bug" exception:

• Issue [Bug]: Codex provider keeps a failed auth probe after signing in again until the next health interval #34295 describes the failure and points at the code involved.
• The fix adds one 11-line watcher in one driver, plus one test.
• It changes no contracts, settings, or defaults, and touches no client.

Claude: not included. On macOS the Claude CLI keeps its credentials in the Keychain, and it uses ~/.claude/.credentials.json only on Linux and Windows, so a file watch would not cover it in the same few lines. It may have the same gap, but that needs its own change.

Verification

Regression test: apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts, "probes again when auth.json in the Codex home changes".

• It creates an enabled Codex instance on a temp home and records each codex app-server probe spawn.
• It asserts that the driver watches that home, then sends an auth.json change event and waits for the next probe. There are no sleeps and no timeouts.
• The test supplies the watch stream itself. A first version wrote a real file through fs.watch, and it was flaky under parallel load on macOS: FSEvents can drop events written right after a watcher starts.
• On main's CodexDriver.ts it fails: no second probe arrives, and the test hits the 120 s project timeout. With the fix it passes, along with the other 15 tests in the file.

vp test run apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts
 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  16 passed (16)

vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (3 packages), and tests (2 files).

Runtime check: on macOS arm64 with Codex CLI 0.167.1, I ran vp run dev --home-dir <scratch>/t3home --no-seed with CODEX_HOME=<scratch>/codex-home. At startup that home held a broken ChatGPT auth.json (an expired access token and an invalid refresh token). I read the persisted Codex status from <home>/caches/codex.json.

With this branch:

startup        checkedAt=11:18:55.000Z status=error auth=unauthenticated models=0
               message='Codex CLI is not authenticated. Run `codex login` and try again.'
11:19:48.3     valid auth.json written (no Retry)
+3.0 s         checkedAt=11:19:48.669Z status=ready auth=authenticated models=3
11:20:00       broken auth.json written again
+1.0 s         checkedAt=11:20:01.220Z status=error auth=unauthenticated

The new probe started about 0.4 s after the write: 250 ms of debounce, then the probe. Between startup and the fix, the startup error at 11:18:55 was still the latest probe at 11:19:37. So with the watcher running, a failed probe did not rewrite auth.json or set off another probe.

The same steps with main's CodexDriver.ts:

startup        checkedAt=11:20:23.820Z status=error auth=unauthenticated
11:21:37       valid auth.json written
+71.3 s        checkedAt=11:20:23.820Z status=error auth=unauthenticated   (still the startup probe)

Not checked:

• Windows and Linux at runtime. The watcher uses Effect's FileSystem.watch, like the settings and keybindings watchers.
• A real codex login browser flow. I replaced the file directly.
• Codex's keyring credential store (cli_auth_credentials_store = keyring). It does not write auth.json, so this watcher cannot see it.

[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at ba84ca8

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Codex provider status now refreshes automatically when its auth.json changes. The change reuses existing bounded probes with debouncing and scoped watcher cleanup, without changing credentials or permissions.

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Walkthrough

When Codex is enabled, the driver watches for auth.json updates, debounces matching events, and refreshes the snapshot. A test checks that an update is followed by another app-server probe.

Changes: Codex auth refresh

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Watch auth.json and refresh the snapshot apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts	Enabled configurations start a scoped watcher that filters for auth.json events and debounces them by 250 milliseconds before refreshing the snapshot. NotFound watch errors are no-ops. Other watch and refresh failures are logged and ignored. The test supplies an update and checks for another app-server probe.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FileSystem
  participant CodexDriver
  participant Snapshot
  participant CodexAppServer
  FileSystem->>CodexDriver: auth.json update event
  CodexDriver->>Snapshot: Refresh after debounce
  Snapshot->>CodexAppServer: Trigger app-server probe

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Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: Provider settings and credential changes (Codex binary path, ChatGPT/Grok account) only take effect after a full T3 restart #28098 — The issue reports that external Codex credential changes remain ineffective until a full restart. This change refreshes the snapshot after an auth.json update, but does not address every runtime process or provider-setting change described in the issue.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to e700b

The change refreshes Codex status when auth.json changes. The new test could hang on Windows if codex resolves to a command shim, so pin the binary path in the test fixture. There is no identified production-facing defect.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: re-probing Codex when auth.json changes.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the bug, implementation, scope limits, tests, runtime checks, and unverified scenarios…
Linked Issues check		Issue #34295 requires automatic recovery after a Codex credential change. CodexDriver.create now watches homeLayout.effectiveHomePath ?? homeLayout.sharedHomePath, filters for auth.json, debounc…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes are limited to the Codex driver watcher and its regression test. The watcher directly addresses #34295. The test verifies the new behavior. No unrelated contract, setting, default, or clie…

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The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the bug, implementation, scope limits, tests, runtime checks, and unverified scenarios.

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Explanation

Issue #34295 requires automatic recovery after a Codex credential change. CodexDriver.create now watches homeLayout.effectiveHomePath ?? homeLayout.sharedHomePath, filters for auth.json, debounces events for 250 ms, and calls snapshot.refresh. The watcher runs only for enabled unmanaged instances, runs in the instance scope, and logs refresh failures without stopping. The added test supplies an auth.json event and verifies a second app-server probe.

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The changes are limited to the Codex driver watcher and its regression test. The watcher directly addresses #34295. The test verifies the new behavior. No unrelated contract, setting, default, or client change is present.

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apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts: 1

731-732: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Use TestClock for the simulated watcher.

This test replaces both the filesystem watcher and the process spawner. It does not need a live subprocess or network fixture. The debounce alone does not justify a wall-clock test.

Use it.effect and advance TestClock after the event reaches the debounce stage. Keep the Deferred and queue synchronization.

As per coding guidelines and path instructions, “it.live is wall-clock and only for subprocess or network fixtures.”

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts around lines 731 - 732:
Replace `it.live` with `it.effect` in the auth.json watcher test, and use `TestClock` to advance the debounce after the event reaches that stage. Preserve the existing `Deferred` and queue synchronization.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts:
- Line 382: Update the watcher’s NotFound handling at Effect.catchReason so a
missing Codex home does not permanently terminate change detection. Resume
watching when the home appears and refresh the snapshot then, preserving
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts:
- Around line 731-732: Replace `it.live` with `it.effect` in the auth.json
watcher test, and use `TestClock` to advance the debounce after the event
reaches that stage. Preserve the existing `Deferred` and queue synchronization.

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On the nitpick about CodexDriver.test.ts:731-732 (it.effect with TestClock instead of it.live): keeping it.live.

The debounce timer is registered inside the stream fiber after Queue.offer. The test has no signal for when that happens. TestClock.adjust yields only briefly before firing due sleeps. If it runs before the debounce has scheduled its timer, that timer is scheduled from the already-advanced time and never fires, so the test would hang depending on scheduling. A retry loop around adjust would be the polling the test rules forbid.

As written, the test uses only the real clock for the 250 ms debounce and waits on a Deferred and a Queue, with no sleeps, polling, or timeouts. The comment above the test gives the reason.

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Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

Linux VM, Codex CLI 0.164.0. vp run dev ran with CODEX_HOME set to a scratch Codex home that had no auth.json. A headless Chrome driven by Playwright stayed on Settings > Providers while I ran the real Codex CLI: codex login --with-api-key, then codex logout. I did not click Retry.

On main (d2c2595): 12 s after codex login, the card still said "Not authenticated". checkedAt in .t3/caches/codex.json was still the startup probe. As a control, a manual refresh right after login showed "Authenticated · OpenAI API Key". So the login itself works, and only the automatic re-probe was missing.

On this PR (ba84ca8): the card turned to "Authenticated · OpenAI API Key" after codex login and went back to "Not authenticated" after codex logout, with no Retry. The logout probe's checkedAt (15:09:28.880Z) came 245 ms after codex logout returned (15:09:28.635Z).

Recording of the full sequence on the PR (before, login, logout):

https://uploads-production-47e4.up.railway.app/files/088d0776-60f6-474b-afdd-c4d989038fe5/pr-codex-login-logout.mp4

Composer model picker: this also updates with no reload. In a new thread on a scratch git repo, searching "gpt" showed "No models found" before login, listed the Codex models after codex login, and showed "No models found" again after codex logout.

Nearby behavior:

• No probe loop. After the logout probe, checkedAt did not change for the next 40 s, even though each probe writes sqlite and log files into the same Codex home.
• Two real Claude Haiku 5.5 turns ran to completion through the composer.
• The dev server log has no watcher or PlatformError entries.

All CI checks on ba84ca8 are green.

Not verified

• macOS and Windows file watching. This VM is Linux only.
• The ChatGPT browser codex login flow. I used codex login --with-api-key, which writes auth.json through the real CLI.
• An instance with a shadow home path set. I tested only the shared-home case through CODEX_HOME.
• Managed (setupMode: "managed") instances and the keyring credential store.
• Desktop and mobile clients. The change is server-side, and I checked it through the web client.

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- Around line 756-757: Update the CodexDriver test fixture configuration to set
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Script executed:

sed -n '720,785p' apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts
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printf '%s\n' '--- test setup and config ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- spawn resolution ---'
cat -n packages/shared/src/shell.ts | sed -n '870,975p'
printf '%s\n' '--- test imports and layers ---'
cat -n apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts | sed -n '1,245p'
printf '%s\n' '--- new test ---'
cat -n apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts | sed -n '725,785p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Windows CI references ---'
rg -n -i -e 'windows' -e 'vitest' -e 'vp test' .github/workflows
printf '%s\n' '--- resolved references in provider ---'
rg -n -F -e 'resolveSpawnCommand(' -e '"app-server"' -e 'binaryPath' apps/server/src/provider packages/provider-core/src | sed -n '1,240p'

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printf '%s\n' '--- spawn resolution ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- test imports and layers ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- new test ---'
cat -n apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts | sed -n '725,785p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Windows CI references ---'
rg -n -i -e 'windows' -e 'vitest' -e 'vp test' .github/workflows
printf '%s\n' '--- resolved references in provider ---'
rg -n -F -e 'resolveSpawnCommand(' -e '"app-server"' -e 'binaryPath' apps/server/src/provider packages/provider-core/src | sed -n '1,240p'

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rg -n -F -e 'decodeCodexSettings' -e 'defaultCodexSettings' packages/contracts/src apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts
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cat -n apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts | sed -n '1,70p;245,290p'
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Use a controlled binary path in the probe fixture.

On Windows, codex can resolve to a .cmd or .bat shim. The spawner then receives empty args, so the fixture records no probe and the first Queue.take(probes) can time out.

Use a fixture path

-        config: { ...CodexDriver.defaultConfig(), homePath: codexHome },
+        config: {
+          ...CodexDriver.defaultConfig(),
+          binaryPath: NodePath.join(codexHome, "missing-codex"),
+          homePath: codexHome,
+        },

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts around lines 756 - 757:
Update the CodexDriver test fixture configuration to set binaryPath to a controlled path under codexHome, while preserving the existing default configuration and homePath. This ensures the probe test does not resolve a Windows .cmd or .bat shim.

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[juliusmarminge]

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the proof has no capture anyone can open:

• Permanent blocker: first-party ChatGPT OAuth is unavailable on this VM, preventing completion of codex login with valid replacement credentials.
• Base retaining the authentication error and head automatically clearing it remain unverified; both verdict flags are false because neither behavior was observed.
• No qualifying capture or public capture URL exists. ghdrop upload was not attempted because no evidence was produced.

It stays open for a person to finish or close.