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Summary

Codex CLI boilerplate can cause Cognition to refuse otherwise valid Devin requests with permission_denied. Add two narrowly matched instruction rewrites and an off-by-default OPENCODEX_DEVIN_SANITIZE_DATA_SURFACES=1 option for histories that quote known trigger phrases.

The option rewrites joined message text, tool-call arguments, image captions and replayed thinking in the outgoing payload. Tool names and call IDs remain unchanged. Rewritten thinking is sent without its stale signature/type; unchanged and signature-only replay retain their original fields. Stored history is unchanged. Exact quoted text may change when opted in, and unsigned replay does not guarantee upstream acceptance.

Local credential-reading diagnostic scripts are excluded from the final diff. Prepared and reviewed first in #817.

Verification

Current head: 33884d887cc1ebecb3049e8ec87330149df045bb, integrated with upstream dev aa30ea9d5e.

• Bun 1.4.4: bun test tests/providers/devin-adapter.test.ts tests/providers/devin-chat-wire-fixes.test.ts tests/providers/devin-reasoning-continuation.test.ts tests/providers/devin-anthropic-signature-fallback.test.ts tests/providers/devin-hardening.test.ts tests/providers/devin-image-passthrough.test.ts: 218 pass, 0 fail, 1,647 assertions.
• bun check --no-script --noEmit: passed, 2,433 files.
• bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan and git diff --check: passed.
• Current-head upstream CI passed: https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex/actions/runs/43181948789 (including changed tests, gates, docs build and smoke checks). Fork CI ran the broader full lane and failed an unchanged GUI target-switch timing assertion (codex-account-pool-target-switch.test.tsx:262, 3 reads expected, 2 observed); that failure is recorded separately and has not been dismissed or rerun.
• Historical native-session acceptance at b534b8849b: the formerly denied Devin chat completed with HTTP 200 and an OK response. This predates the signature-consistency follow-up and is not evidence for live acceptance of rewritten signed thinking.
• Full local suite not repeated because of shared Windows disk contention. Earlier test:changed selection was blocked by automatic approval review for unrelated external Google egress; it was not retried through another route. Focused transport tests use mocked network responses. Broader coverage is left to hosted CI.

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.

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Walkthrough

The Devin adapter adds an opt-in setting that rewrites blocklisted phrases in selected prompt and message data. The setting is enabled only when OPENCODEX_DEVIN_SANITIZE_DATA_SURFACES is exactly "1". Tests cover rewritten content and unchanged tool identifiers and unrelated text.

Changes: Devin data-surface sanitization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Enable and apply data-surface sanitization src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts, tests/providers/devin-adapter.test.ts	BuildArgs carries the optional setting. When enabled, prompt text, tool-call arguments, image captions, and replayed thinking are sanitized. streamChatEvents enables the setting only for the exact environment value "1". Tests check rewritten text, preserved tool names and signatures, and unchanged unrelated text.

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

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: lidge-jun, ingwannu

Merge Risk: Low · up to 451a3

The new opt-in could cause refusals on tool-loop requests when replayed thinking is rewritten but keeps its original signature. The new setting is also undocumented. Default behavior is unchanged, so the risk is limited to users who enable it.

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The title names two things: handling denied Codex boilerplate and optional history rewrites. The changeset centers on the opt-in OPENCODEX_DEVIN_SANITIZE_DATA_SURFACES flag that extends Cognition blocklist rewrites to prompt text, tool-call arguments, image captions, and replayed thinking, plus updates to the permission-denied hint. The title's 'optional history rewrites' part matches the main change. The 'denied Codex boilerplate' part is only loosely reflected: the permission_denied hint text is updated, but the title overstates that as a separate fix. The title is specific and related to the change, but it is not fully precise about the primary change, so it is partially related.

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Review comments at @src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts:
- Line 1265: Document OPENCODEX_DEVIN_SANITIZE_DATA_SURFACES in the Devin
adapter reference and provider/adapter summary, noting it is off by default and
activates only when set to the exact value "1". Explain that it changes literal
model history by rewriting joined message text, tool-call arguments_json, image
captions, and replayed thinking, while tool names, tool_call_id values,
signature blobs, and signature types remain byte-exact.
- Line 267: Update the thinking serialization around opts.thinking so that when
sanitization changes the text, it emits the rewritten #11 text without the
original #12 signature or #18 signature type; preserve all three fields when the
text is unchanged. Keep the existing unsigned replay behavior for rewritten
thinking.

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The same head 33884d8 is now upstream in lidge-jun#8590: lidge-jun#8590, with successful upstream CI. The separate fork full-GUI timing failure was reproduced and fixed without changing Devin behavior in fork #818 / upstream lidge-jun#8592; all 13 target-switch cases and both GUI builds passed locally, and upstream lidge-jun#8592 CI passed. This original fork run remains a historical failure; it was not rerun or represented as green.