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An MCP client can queue text to Codex through #7999 but cannot inspect the resulting stored turn text. Add an explicitly enabled codex_read_reply tool:
Without --allow-reply-read, the existing two-tool surface remains unchanged. The new content-read capability is checked by the host, tool handler and RPC owner; ordinary startup/import/initialization starts no helper.
The caller supplies an exact thread UUID and the clientMessageId from a queue receipt. One bounded item page searches for that persisted user input; one matched-turn page projects only explicit final_answer agent text. Results distinguish observed input, no match in this search page, ambiguous matches, and unavailable reads. observed can have no replies and is not evidence of successful processing.
Association is always same_turn_not_exclusive: all final texts in the matched turn are eligible, including text preceding a later input in that turn. This is not a certified answer solely to the matching input or completion of a goal. Status is observed from the newest 50 turn summaries, otherwise unverified.
Caller-owned scoped cursors continue search/reply pages; refresh rescans the matched turn so an item finalized later is not silently dropped. Cursors are forgeable position data, not credentials: matched-turn continuations re-read the exact user item and verify item ID, turn and client correlation before projecting turn text. Callers keep/update stable item IDs; there is no new persistent inbox or background polling.
Each read uses at most three sequential owned helpers under one shared 20-second operation budget, retaining 12-second per-helper RPC and 1 MiB output bounds. Each returned page has a shared 16 KiB UTF-8 text budget with explicit truncation. Cursors continue items, not truncated text bytes. User bodies, reasoning, command/tool output, citations and native diagnostics are excluded. Existing send receipts, executable trust and cancellation/cleanup remain in place.
This advances the response-observation stage of #6478; it does not close the broader interoperability request. Automatic reply notifications, reverse Claude delivery, context handoff, live session control and client registration are outside this PR.
Review fixes make the shared-deadline regression deterministic: the first helper completes, the second records its request and waits at a fixture barrier, and the test then explicitly fires the captured outer deadline callback. It verifies an unavailable result, reaped second helper and no subsequent turn-summary RPC. There is no 650 ms/200 ms race. Cursor test names/comments describe immediate repetition only. Omitted/null agent phases are accepted but never projected as final answers; malformed present phases/text still fail closed.
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Current validated head: 90a3707ba2b81cd6f189cb1c3dc90af22e8ca2e6, integrating dev at a369a4a3226aba5747e29dab68cb19de960d1d51. The next dev commit landed during validation, so this head was 1 commit behind at attestation (within the allowed 10). Tests used Bun 1.4.4/macOS and local commit 928f7ada; the connector-published complete tree exactly equals the tested tree 14bbd2482a4fa999b4dab86f2a00cda6665cdfaa.
bun run test:changed: 2,230 passed / 1 skipped / 0 failed, 72 files, 93.74 seconds, merge base a369a4a3.
bun test tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-replies.test.ts: 30 passed / 0 failed, including the request-barrier deadline test and omitted-phase regressions.
bun test tests/cli/cli-message-mcp.test.ts tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-queue.test.ts tests/codex-integration/messaging-local-lifecycle.test.ts tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/skill-ocx.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/release-version-line.test.ts: 90 passed / 0 failed, 8 files.
After git fetch origin --tags, bun test tests/ci-workflows/release-version-line.test.ts: 3 passed / 0 failed. Current dev provides version 2.99.0, ahead of fetched v2.98.0; no PR-specific version bump or release-policy change.
bun run typecheck: passed, 2,327 files. bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan, bun run skill:surface:check, and git diff --check: passed.
cd docs-site && bun run build: passed, 641 pages / 93,188 internal links, 12.45 seconds; existing highlighting/chunk warnings remain.
Earlier native read-only MCP smoke on feature head c15f767a, Codex 0.166.0, returned the expected stored final answer and stable refresh results from the previously authorized dedicated test conversation. No send/resume/model turn was used. This smoke was not repeated for the review fixes.
The old exact-head Ubuntu failure in shard 2/4 was the timing-dependent test addressed above. The old shard 4/4 failure compared version 2.96.0 to release v2.98.0; current dev integration and the fresh tagged-version test address that separate stale-base failure. These local results do not claim successful current-head Ubuntu CI; new fork workflows require maintainer approval and must pass before merge.
The full local suite was not rerun. The earlier #7999 full attempt took 803 seconds with active-session/platform baseline constraints; a full rerun is disproportionate to these bounded review fixes. Fresh changed-graph and explicit subprocess/lifecycle/layout regressions are the documented local scope exception; broader coverage remains with required current-head CI. No per-PR lane=all dispatch is requested.
Native Linux/Windows interoperability, actual Claude Code/Desktop registration, active-goal consumption, and live compaction/deletion were not verified. Conversation-text disclosure remains opt-in within the selected local-user home; client IDs/cursors are not authorization. Independent execution/content-disclosure review remains pending. This PR is ready for maintainer review; this attestation does not claim an approval or a bot re-review of the new commit.
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New Features
Added the optional --allow-reply-read setting for MCP messaging. When enabled, codex_read_reply can retrieve bounded final-answer text from a stored conversation turn using a message ID, with pagination for longer results.
Reply reads are off by default. Results may be unavailable or ambiguous, and a same-turn match does not prove exclusive reply ownership, live session status, or task completion.
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Updated messaging references to explain how to enable reply reads, their limits, and how to interpret stored replies.
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Adds the opt-in --allow-reply-read flag and the codex_read_reply MCP tool. The tool searches stored thread items for an exact client message ID and returns eligible final-answer text with bounded pagination. Without the flag, the existing MCP tool surface remains unchanged.
The CLI accepts one --allow-reply-read flag. When enabled, the server registers codex_read_reply and the RPC layer permits the three read methods. Duplicate flags are rejected.
The reader validates scoped cursors and stored item data, searches bounded pages for an exact user-message match, and returns only eligible final_answer text. It reports ambiguous, absent, stale, or unavailable reads without reply text. Tests cover pagination, refresh, validation, turn status, truncation, timeout, and cancellation.
The references describe matching, returned content, pagination, limits, statuses, and unavailable cases. They state that stored-turn reads do not establish liveness, exclusive reply ownership, or goal completion, and do not add remote read access.
sequenceDiagram
participant MCPClient
participant MCPServer
participant queueMcpReadReply
participant queueMcpRpc
participant CodexHelper
MCPClient->>MCPServer: Invoke codex_read_reply
MCPServer->>queueMcpReadReply: Pass input and abort signal
queueMcpReadReply->>queueMcpRpc: Request stored thread data
queueMcpRpc->>CodexHelper: Send allowed read RPC
CodexHelper-->>queueMcpRpc: Return stored data
queueMcpRpc-->>queueMcpReadReply: Return RPC result
queueMcpReadReply-->>MCPServer: Return bounded reply result
MCPServer-->>MCPClient: Return result
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Possibly related PRs
lidge-jun/opencodex#8090: Adds codex_wait_reply using the reply-reading path, cursor contract, and opt-in flag introduced here.
lidge-jun/opencodex#7999: Introduces the stored-queue MCP host and interfaces that this change extends.
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The opt-in reply-read tool no longer lets an unrelated history item without a client ID make a search page unavailable. The default two-tool surface is unchanged, and no merge-blocking risk is identified. The CI results and the native Linux and Windows interoperability checks that the author lists as pending remain normal pre-merge checks.
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Please review current head c15f767a452f053ad79febc510bc87b48b85ad75 while this PR remains in draft. Please focus on explicit content-read opt-in, receipt/client correlation and non-exclusive same-turn semantics, cursor scoping/revalidation, bounded text projection, the shared operation deadline, owned-helper cleanup, and preservation of the default two-tool surface.
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Minor · Qualify the earlier queue-only statement. · messaging.md:61-62
docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/cli/messaging.md:61-62 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Qualify the earlier queue-only statement.
Line 61 says the MCP host “does not ... read the resulting answer.” With --allow-reply-read, the new codex_read_reply tool does read stored final-answer text. State that the default queue tools do not read answers, then direct readers to the opt-in section. As per coding guidelines: “Document current shipped or intentionally pending behavior.”
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Update the messaging documentation’s queue-only statement to clarify that
default queue tools do not read answers, while the opt-in `--allow-reply-read`
section describes `codex_read_reply` for reading stored final answers.
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Review comments at @src/messaging/mcp-reply-tools.ts:
- Line 19: Update the userMessage clientId validation in entries() to treat
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reject malformed non-null IDs and requiring an exact clientId match for the
requested queued message.
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Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/cli/messaging.md:
- Around line 61-62: Update the messaging documentation’s queue-only statement
to clarify that default queue tools do not read answers, while the opt-in
`--allow-reply-read` section describes `codex_read_reply` for reading stored
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Fixed both findings in 518323763e0f3575800dfd10cfb450afeb9e48c2: omitted/null user client IDs no longer invalidate unrelated history entries; malformed non-null IDs remain rejected and exact correlation is still required. Clarified that default queue tools do not read answers and linked the opt-in read section.
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The approved exact-head CI run found a separate failure in tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-replies.test.ts:147-152: Ubuntu shard 2/4 expected an unavailable result but received an available result after 463 ms. The test shortens the outer deadline to 650 ms, while the reply-delay fixture delays individual responses by 200 ms; the outcome therefore depends on helper startup and scheduling overhead exceeding the remaining time. Please make the deadline scenario deterministic, for example by synchronizing the delayed helper with an explicit barrier, so it proves the shared deadline without depending on machine speed. This is separate from the release-version failure in shard 4/4.
Maintainer integration decision for head 90a3707ba2b81cd6f189cb1c3dc90af22e8ca2e6: fresh independent technical and security reviews passed, including the revised deadline and phase handling. Exact-head CI passed ci and all five Ubuntu shards; enforce-target and hygiene passed. The local union with dev4b821cf299a2f5fdf5b760719c8ea018f8ad8cb3 merged cleanly; 92 focused, layout and file-size tests passed, as did typecheck and the structure check. Review threads are resolved. I am integrating under the maintainer exception in MAINTAINERS.md, retaining contributor attribution in the squash body.
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Summary
An MCP client can queue text to Codex through #7999 but cannot inspect the resulting stored turn text. Add an explicitly enabled
codex_read_replytool:Without
--allow-reply-read, the existing two-tool surface remains unchanged. The new content-read capability is checked by the host, tool handler and RPC owner; ordinary startup/import/initialization starts no helper.The caller supplies an exact thread UUID and the
clientMessageIdfrom a queue receipt. One bounded item page searches for that persisted user input; one matched-turn page projects only explicitfinal_answeragent text. Results distinguish observed input, no match in this search page, ambiguous matches, and unavailable reads.observedcan have no replies and is not evidence of successful processing.Association is always same_turn_not_exclusive: all final texts in the matched turn are eligible, including text preceding a later input in that turn. This is not a certified answer solely to the matching input or completion of a goal. Status is observed from the newest 50 turn summaries, otherwise unverified.
Caller-owned scoped cursors continue search/reply pages; refresh rescans the matched turn so an item finalized later is not silently dropped. Cursors are forgeable position data, not credentials: matched-turn continuations re-read the exact user item and verify item ID, turn and client correlation before projecting turn text. Callers keep/update stable item IDs; there is no new persistent inbox or background polling.
Each read uses at most three sequential owned helpers under one shared 20-second operation budget, retaining 12-second per-helper RPC and 1 MiB output bounds. Each returned page has a shared 16 KiB UTF-8 text budget with explicit truncation. Cursors continue items, not truncated text bytes. User bodies, reasoning, command/tool output, citations and native diagnostics are excluded. Existing send receipts, executable trust and cancellation/cleanup remain in place.
This advances the response-observation stage of #6478; it does not close the broader interoperability request. Automatic reply notifications, reverse Claude delivery, context handoff, live session control and client registration are outside this PR.
Review fixes make the shared-deadline regression deterministic: the first helper completes, the second records its request and waits at a fixture barrier, and the test then explicitly fires the captured outer deadline callback. It verifies an unavailable result, reaped second helper and no subsequent turn-summary RPC. There is no 650 ms/200 ms race. Cursor test names/comments describe immediate repetition only. Omitted/null agent phases are accepted but never projected as final answers; malformed present phases/text still fail closed.
Verification
Current validated head:
90a3707ba2b81cd6f189cb1c3dc90af22e8ca2e6, integratingdevata369a4a3226aba5747e29dab68cb19de960d1d51. The next dev commit landed during validation, so this head was 1 commit behind at attestation (within the allowed 10). Tests used Bun 1.4.4/macOS and local commit928f7ada; the connector-published complete tree exactly equals the tested tree14bbd2482a4fa999b4dab86f2a00cda6665cdfaa.bun run test:changed: 2,230 passed / 1 skipped / 0 failed, 72 files, 93.74 seconds, merge basea369a4a3.bun test tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-replies.test.ts: 30 passed / 0 failed, including the request-barrier deadline test and omitted-phase regressions.bun test tests/cli/cli-message-mcp.test.ts tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-queue.test.ts tests/codex-integration/messaging-local-lifecycle.test.ts tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/skill-ocx.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/release-version-line.test.ts: 90 passed / 0 failed, 8 files.git fetch origin --tags,bun test tests/ci-workflows/release-version-line.test.ts: 3 passed / 0 failed. Current dev provides version 2.99.0, ahead of fetched v2.98.0; no PR-specific version bump or release-policy change.bun run typecheck: passed, 2,327 files.bun run structure:check,bun run privacy:scan,bun run skill:surface:check, andgit diff --check: passed.cd docs-site && bun run build: passed, 641 pages / 93,188 internal links, 12.45 seconds; existing highlighting/chunk warnings remain.c15f767a, Codex 0.166.0, returned the expected stored final answer and stable refresh results from the previously authorized dedicated test conversation. No send/resume/model turn was used. This smoke was not repeated for the review fixes.The old exact-head Ubuntu failure in shard 2/4 was the timing-dependent test addressed above. The old shard 4/4 failure compared version 2.96.0 to release v2.98.0; current dev integration and the fresh tagged-version test address that separate stale-base failure. These local results do not claim successful current-head Ubuntu CI; new fork workflows require maintainer approval and must pass before merge.
The full local suite was not rerun. The earlier #7999 full attempt took 803 seconds with active-session/platform baseline constraints; a full rerun is disproportionate to these bounded review fixes. Fresh changed-graph and explicit subprocess/lifecycle/layout regressions are the documented local scope exception; broader coverage remains with required current-head CI. No per-PR lane=all dispatch is requested.
Native Linux/Windows interoperability, actual Claude Code/Desktop registration, active-goal consumption, and live compaction/deletion were not verified. Conversation-text disclosure remains opt-in within the selected local-user home; client IDs/cursors are not authorization. Independent execution/content-disclosure review remains pending. This PR is ready for maintainer review; this attestation does not claim an approval or a bot re-review of the new commit.
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--allow-reply-readsetting for MCP messaging. When enabled,codex_read_replycan retrieve bounded final-answer text from a stored conversation turn using a message ID, with pagination for longer results.