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feat(messaging): add bounded waits for stored Codex replies - #8090
MCP clients can queue a message with merged #7999 and read its stored reply with merged #8053. Add codex_wait_reply so a caller can wait briefly for eligible final text without implementing its own retry loop. It uses the existing --allow-reply-read grant; default hosts still expose only the two queue/metadata tools.
This PR is independent of automatic session resume (#8273). The active workflow is: the user opens/resumes the selected Codex conversation through its native client when execution is needed, the caller submits one authorized message, then reads or waits for its stored reply. Waiting reads stored data and does not wake an unloaded recipient. Claude Code/Desktop registration and end-to-end client integration remain separate work.
The wait accepts the existing exact thread/receipt/cursor input plus integer waitMs (1–20,000, default 20,000). One inherited deadline covers at most three snapshots, cancellable two-second pauses and at most nine sequential owned helpers. It reuses the scoped reader's association, projection, cursor validation and text limits. Already-eligible text returns immediately; this is not a new-message subscription or exclusive reply ownership. Ambiguity and required pagination return immediately. Exhaustion preserves the last successful observation, attempts and conservative age; timeout before any observation, read failure and parent cancellation remain unavailable. Refresh starts again at the matched turn; stored terminal summaries never prove live completion.
The maintainer fixes from 4eecc30, 40a61f2 and 86b45de are retained: a failure observed before the deadline survives delayed helper shutdown, malformed/stale snapshots retain their timely failure, and observation age starts at the successful snapshot's start rather than after later metadata/cleanup. This update refreshes dev and clarifies the split workflow without replacing those runtime changes.
Shared admission: a wait holds one of four shared host slots until it settles, including helper termination/reaping after its at-most-20-second wait budget. Four waits can make sends and metadata return busy beyond that budget while cleanup finishes. Excess calls are refused, not queued; no send slot is reserved. The tool description, English reference, translated guidance and ownership doc distinguish wait budget from slot lifetime.
No new message submission, daemon start, thread creation/resume, steer, persistent watcher or automatic reply delivery is added. This advances #6478; it does not depend on #8273 or complete the whole Claude–Codex bridge.
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Current head 3f2b116cc500d9f6a4ae42bd7647c587457f3701, tree fbbb169d07bd1fe348f2cdb8883589f346271515, includes fetched dev 289727ddaabb77721447311571ad028499cca0a1. The connector-created tree equals staged validated content. Bun 1.4.4 / macOS.
bun run test:changed: 2,264 passed / 1 skipped / 0 failed, 74 files / 104.39 seconds, merge base 289727dd.
Explicit regressions:
bun test tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-wait.test.ts tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-replies.test.ts tests/cli/cli-message-mcp.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
107 passed / 0 failed, 7 files / 60.55 seconds. Covers late final text/refresh, timely errors surviving delayed cleanup, malformed snapshots, conservative observation age, bounded attempts/helpers, pagination/ambiguity, parent cancellation, actual stdio MCP/default surface, layout and ratchet guards.
bun run typecheck: passed, 2,367 files. bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan, bun run skill:surface:check, and git diff --cached --check: passed.
cd docs-site && bun install --frozen-lockfile && bun run build: passed, 665 pages / 97,239 internal links / 14.62 seconds; existing highlighting/chunk warnings remain.
The full local suite was not rerun. An earlier full attempt took 803 seconds with active-session/platform baseline constraints; isolated worktrees share resources. Fresh changed-graph plus explicit subprocess/MCP/layout regressions are the documented local scope exception. Broader coverage remains with required exact-head CI as configured by maintainers. Older-head green checks are not current-head evidence; approval-pending CI is not passing. No per-PR lane=all dispatch is requested.
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The MCP host now offers codex_wait_reply when reply reads are enabled. The tool makes up to three reply-read attempts within a bounded time budget. Documentation and integration tests describe and cover its outcomes, pagination, cancellation, and operation limits.
The wait handler validates its input and cursor, makes up to three reply reads, and handles observations, exhaustion, cancellation, and read failures. Integration tests cover these cases. Supporting test fixtures cover helper behavior and layout. The mapping line in scripts/test-layout/layout.json is unchanged.
Tool registration and CLI integration src/cli/capabilities-agents-routing.ts, src/messaging/mcp-queue-server.ts, tests/cli/cli-message-mcp.test.ts
The server conditionally registers codex_wait_reply when reply reads are enabled. CLI capability text names both reply tools. CLI tests cover tool invocation, pending-operation limits, and disconnect cleanup.
sequenceDiagram
participant MCPClient
participant serveQueueMcp
participant queueMcpWaitReply
participant queueMcpReadReply
MCPClient->>serveQueueMcp: Invoke codex_wait_reply
serveQueueMcp->>queueMcpWaitReply: Dispatch wait input
loop Up to three snapshots
queueMcpWaitReply->>queueMcpReadReply: Read stored reply
queueMcpReadReply-->>queueMcpWaitReply: Return observation
end
queueMcpWaitReply-->>MCPClient: Return observation or outcome
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lidge-jun/opencodex#8053: Adds the reply reader and scoped cursors that the bounded wait calls for each snapshot.
lidge-jun/opencodex#7999: Adds the MCP host operation wrapper used to register and manage the wait tool.
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The opt-in wait has two narrow caveats: helper cleanup can keep capacity occupied beyond the advertised budget, and a read failure can be reported as an exhausted wait. Merge risk is low, with these limitations requiring owner awareness or correction.
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Please review current head fcc8622f5141fbcb7678d4e33a2af252f8ad3ad0 while this PR remains in draft. It depends on #8053; the incremental wait implementation is the latest feature commit after the dev integration merge.
Please focus on the inherited whole-call deadline across snapshots and pauses, timeout versus cancellation/read-failure semantics, preserving the last observation with its age, cursor scope/revalidation and pagination, late finalization despite stored terminal summaries, the three-snapshot/nine-helper and shared four-operation bounds, disconnect cleanup, and preservation of the default two-tool surface. Same-turn text must not be described as a new or exclusive reply. This change adds no session creation, resume, remote execution or automatic delivery.
Local validation and its full-suite exception are documented in the PR. Required current-head CI still awaits maintainer approval.
Rename the paging-loop test or cover multi-step cursor cycles.
The test named a repeated native cursor cannot create a history paging loop only checks an immediate repeat, where a cursor returns itself. The reader rejects only that case. A cycle such as A → B → A passes each check and is returned to the caller. Add a multi-step fixture, or narrow the test name and the comment at src/messaging/mcp-reply-tools.ts:26.
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Rename the test around queueMcpReadReply to describe only the immediate
repeated-cursor case it verifies, and narrow the corresponding comment in the
reply reader to that same behavior; do not imply that multi-step cursor cycles
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I reviewed the full diff at 1050883b against dev aaa3c20f3f and found no blocking issues.
The wait loop looks correct:
one inherited MessageBudget deadline;
at most three snapshots, with cancellable two-second pauses between them;
the cursor is validated before any helper starts;
the last observation is kept when time runs out;
parent cancellation is reported separately from a timeout.
The tests cover each exit: immediate final text, a late item after a stored terminal status, pagination, ambiguity, attempt and deadline exhaustion, hang reaping, read failure and cancellation.
Design note (non-blocking): codex_wait_reply holds one of the host's four run() slots for up to 20 s, and run() in mcp-queue-server.ts refuses rather than queues when all four are busy. Four concurrent waits would therefore make codex_queue_message and codex_threads fail as busy for up to 20 s. If clients are expected to wait on several threads at once, consider capping concurrent waits below the host limit so a send slot always stays free. Otherwise, mention this limit in the tool description.
Not approving yet: Cross-platform CI on this head is action_required, so no test run is bound to this head, and the branch is 11 commits behind dev. Approval should wait for a green CI run on the current head.
Please review new head 6f56f11663ce351338180095e230fbac8a51d0a1. This brings the branch onto dev 0627a2c2 and documents the maintainer's shared-admission note in the MCP description and docs: four concurrent waits can occupy every slot, so sends/metadata return busy rather than queue. Scheduling and the reviewed wait loop are unchanged.
Current-head local validation: changed graph 2,253 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail; explicit regressions 135 pass; typecheck, ownership/privacy/surface/file-size checks and docs build passed. Exact commands and the full-suite scope exception are recorded in the PR. Required fresh-head CI still needs maintainer execution approval.
Please reassess the existing risk summary against the merged reader fixes already in dev (omitted phases accepted; the reader deadline test uses an explicit request barrier). No resume/execution capability from #8273 is part of this PR.
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- Around line 144-146: Update the wait-capacity guidance on both documentation
pages and the tool description to distinguish the 20-second wait budget from
slot occupancy: when a helper remains active at the deadline, the slot stays
occupied until the helper is terminated and reaped, so sends and metadata calls
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Re-review of the delta since my last review: 1050883b..6f56f116, a merge of dev 0627a2c2. Against the auto-merge, the merge commit changes only three things:
the codex_wait_reply tool description in src/messaging/mcp-queue-server.ts;
three lines in docs-site/.../reference/cli/messaging.md;
three lines in structure/local-messaging.md.
No runtime logic changed. The new text answers my earlier design note: it documents that each wait holds one of the four shared slots and that excess calls are refused, not queued. That is fine with me.
CI on 6f56f116 is green, including test 1/5–5/5 (ci:full), gates, docker smoke, storage policy and docs site build.
I'm not approving yet because two CodeRabbit threads on this head are still open with no reply:
Slot time (docs messaging.md:144, structure/local-messaging.md:258, tool description). This finding is valid. The new text says a wait holds its slot "up to 20 seconds". A helper that is still running when the budget ends is stopped by cancel → finish in mcp-queue-rpc.ts. finish sends SIGTERM at +300 ms and SIGKILL at +600 ms. The run() promise settles only on the child's close. So the slot can stay busy for roughly 20 s plus up to about 0.6 s of termination, plus however long the exit takes. A one-line wording fix is enough, for example: "about 20 seconds, plus a short helper-termination grace".
Read failure masked as exhaustion (mcp-reply-wait.ts:39-42). Valid, but very narrow. A helper can report a JSON-RPC error before the deadline but close after it. Its outcome is set early and the promise resolves only on close, inside the ≤600 ms termination window. The wait then checks budget.signal.aborted before result.available and returns wait_exhausted / reply_wait_timeout instead of the failure. I'm fine with either fix: preserve the failure, or decline in the thread with that rationale. Since wait_exhausted is already documented as "not non-delivery", declining is defensible.
Once (1) is fixed and (2) is answered, I expect to approve, provided CI stays green on the new head.
Keep a completed read rejection when helper shutdown crosses the wait
deadline, and document that cleanup can extend shared-slot occupancy.
Co-authored-by: Hojoon Kim <99799197+HojooonKim@users.noreply.github.com>
Track when an RPC outcome arrives before helper cleanup so invalid
responses cannot become successful wait exhaustion at the deadline.
Co-authored-by: Hojoon Kim <99799197+HojooonKim@users.noreply.github.com>
Measure age from the start of a successful snapshot so metadata reads
and helper cleanup do not make an older reply appear fresh.
Co-authored-by: Hojoon Kim <99799197+HojooonKim@users.noreply.github.com>
Refresh dev while retaining the existing wait failure/observation-age fixes.
Document native-owner execution separately from queue submission and stored
reply waiting; preserve the explicit helper-termination grace in slot guidance.
Co-authored-by: JUN <jun@lidgeai.com>
A bounded reply wait counted a completed success only if the helper's
cleanup also finished before the caller deadline. Helper shutdown is
allowed to outlive the deadline, so a valid snapshot whose frames all
arrived in time could be discarded and reported as wait_exhausted or as a
stale earlier snapshot.
Track timeliness per RPC inside queueMcpReadReply and report it to callers
through onObservedSuccess. A snapshot now succeeds only when every read
behind it arrived before the deadline: late cleanup keeps a timely
snapshot, a snapshot whose reads completed late is expired even when its
data looks valid, and a stale timely snapshot cannot authorize a later
late one. Parent cancellation still takes precedence.
Cover both cases deterministically with synthetic helper fixtures, for a
first and a subsequent snapshot, and document the arrival rule.
Co-authored-by: Hojoon Kim <99799197+HojooonKim@users.noreply.github.com>
UX: The new tool is opt-in under the existing reply-read grant; the default MCP tool surface and existing read/queue behavior remain unchanged. Its bounded wait, shared-slot occupancy through helper cleanup, and non-exclusive association are documented.
Existing users: Isolated-home wait/read regressions passed 54/54 on this head. The new timing cases fail on 3f2b116 and pass at ce2f4d0: timely results survive late helper cleanup, late results are not exposed, and cancellation wins. Focused surrounding tests and test:changed passed (2,270 pass, 1 skip); typecheck, structure and privacy checks passed. Fresh independent technical and security/privacy reviews both passed on ce2f4d0 (hyds/deepseek-v4.1-flash-free). Full local suite and real Codex app-server interop were not run.
Windows: Existing platform guards decline this MCP service on Windows; no new Windows behavior is exposed. Windows execution was not run.
Prior objections: Slot occupancy wording was corrected in the retained 3f2b116 changes; timely read failures are retained by 40a61f2/86b45de and covered by delayed-cleanup tests. ce2f4d0 adds the corresponding successful-snapshot fix. All review threads were resolved when checked.
CI: Event checks for this exact pushed head are pending; they are not claimed as passing. No exact-head change-caused failure is known. The earlier 86b45 ownership-race failure was separately investigated and is not evidence about this head.
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MCP clients can queue a message with merged #7999 and read its stored reply with merged #8053. Add
codex_wait_replyso a caller can wait briefly for eligible final text without implementing its own retry loop. It uses the existing--allow-reply-readgrant; default hosts still expose only the two queue/metadata tools.This PR is independent of automatic session resume (#8273). The active workflow is: the user opens/resumes the selected Codex conversation through its native client when execution is needed, the caller submits one authorized message, then reads or waits for its stored reply. Waiting reads stored data and does not wake an unloaded recipient. Claude Code/Desktop registration and end-to-end client integration remain separate work.
The wait accepts the existing exact thread/receipt/cursor input plus integer
waitMs(1–20,000, default 20,000). One inherited deadline covers at most three snapshots, cancellable two-second pauses and at most nine sequential owned helpers. It reuses the scoped reader's association, projection, cursor validation and text limits. Already-eligible text returns immediately; this is not a new-message subscription or exclusive reply ownership. Ambiguity and required pagination return immediately. Exhaustion preserves the last successful observation, attempts and conservative age; timeout before any observation, read failure and parent cancellation remain unavailable. Refresh starts again at the matched turn; stored terminal summaries never prove live completion.The maintainer fixes from 4eecc30, 40a61f2 and 86b45de are retained: a failure observed before the deadline survives delayed helper shutdown, malformed/stale snapshots retain their timely failure, and observation age starts at the successful snapshot's start rather than after later metadata/cleanup. This update refreshes dev and clarifies the split workflow without replacing those runtime changes.
Shared admission: a wait holds one of four shared host slots until it settles, including helper termination/reaping after its at-most-20-second wait budget. Four waits can make sends and metadata return busy beyond that budget while cleanup finishes. Excess calls are refused, not queued; no send slot is reserved. The tool description, English reference, translated guidance and ownership doc distinguish wait budget from slot lifetime.
No new message submission, daemon start, thread creation/resume, steer, persistent watcher or automatic reply delivery is added. This advances #6478; it does not depend on #8273 or complete the whole Claude–Codex bridge.
Verification
Current head
3f2b116cc500d9f6a4ae42bd7647c587457f3701, treefbbb169d07bd1fe348f2cdb8883589f346271515, includes fetched dev289727ddaabb77721447311571ad028499cca0a1. The connector-created tree equals staged validated content. Bun 1.4.4 / macOS.bun run test:changed: 2,264 passed / 1 skipped / 0 failed, 74 files / 104.39 seconds, merge base289727dd.bun test tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-wait.test.ts tests/codex-integration/messaging-mcp-replies.test.ts tests/cli/cli-message-mcp.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.tsbun run typecheck: passed, 2,367 files.bun run structure:check,bun run privacy:scan,bun run skill:surface:check, andgit diff --cached --check: passed.cd docs-site && bun install --frozen-lockfile && bun run build: passed, 665 pages / 97,239 internal links / 14.62 seconds; existing highlighting/chunk warnings remain.The full local suite was not rerun. An earlier full attempt took 803 seconds with active-session/platform baseline constraints; isolated worktrees share resources. Fresh changed-graph plus explicit subprocess/MCP/layout regressions are the documented local scope exception. Broader coverage remains with required exact-head CI as configured by maintainers. Older-head green checks are not current-head evidence; approval-pending CI is not passing. No per-PR lane=all dispatch is requested.
Native delayed arrival, Linux/Windows execution, actual Claude client registration and autonomous idle-session delivery were not independently exercised for this feature. The author checklist is not independent security/maintainer approval. All correct current Codex/CodeRabbit findings have been addressed; current-head review and successful required CI remain necessary before merge.
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Co-authored-by: JUN jun@lidgeai.com