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  • Fix --restart-codex process matcher overlooking codex.opencodex-real launcher backup binaries and wrappers.
  • On remote hosts where the Codex autostart launcher shim is installed (~/.local/bin/codex), the original binary is renamed to codex.opencodex-real. When ChatGPT Desktop or SSH sessions launch codex app-server, the command line starts with codex.opencodex-real.
  • isCodexExecutableToken previously matched only codex, codex.exe, codex.cmd, and target triples, causing ocx sync --restart-codex to miss running app-servers on shim-managed hosts and leaving stale in-memory model catalogs.
  • Admitted codex.opencodex-real, codex.opencodex-real.exe, and codex.opencodex-real.cmd into isCodexExecutableToken and WINDOWS_CODEX_BASENAME_CANDIDATE_RE.

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  • Added unit test assertions in tests/codex-app-server-processes.test.ts for Unix and Windows codex.opencodex-real command lines.
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Codex process detection on Windows to recognize backup launcher variants, including .exe and .cmd forms.
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    • Improved handling of quoted paths, command-line flags, and Node-based launcher invocations while avoiding unrelated processes.
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    • Added root-cause analysis and remediation notes for the Codex restart issue.

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The change updates Codex process detection for codex.opencodex-real shim-backup binaries. It adds plain, .exe, and .cmd matching and tests direct, quoted, flag-bearing, and node command lines.

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Codex shim-backup detection

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Expand Codex executable matching
src/codex/app-server-processes.ts
The Windows candidate regex at line 49 and the token matcher at lines 162–163 now recognize codex.opencodex-real, including .exe and .cmd variants.
Validate shim-backup command lines
tests/codex-app-server-processes.test.ts, devlog/_plan/260829_restart_codex_shim_backup/000_repro_and_root_cause.md
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리뷰 · 우선순위 72 / 80

이 PR은 ocx sync --restart-codex가 원격 호스트의 Codex app-server를 못 찾는 구멍을 좁게 막는다. OpenCodex 자동시작 심은 원래 실행 파일을 codex.opencodex-real로 옮겨 두고, ~/.local/bin/codex 자리에는 심을 넣는다. 그 심이 있는 기계에서 ChatGPT 데스크톱이나 SSH가 codex app-server를 띄우면, 실제 프로세스 명령줄 첫 토큰은 codex.opencodex-real이다. 계획 문서에 적힌 재현도 그 모양이다. /home/ubuntu/.local/bin/codex.opencodex-real -c features.code_mode_host=true app-server --listen unix://.

지금 dev HEAD(8621acb87)의 src/codex/app-server-processes.ts isCodexExecutableTokencodex, codex.exe, codex.cmd, 그리고 공식 타깃 트리플 이름만 인정한다. 백업 이름은 빠져 있어서, 심이 설치되면 목록이 비고 재시작은 0건으로 끝난다. 디스크 카탈로그는 바뀌었는데 오래 떠 있는 app-server는 예전 모델 목록을 메모리에 들고 있는 #476 계열 증상이다. 백업 이름을 만드는 쪽은 이미 src/codex/shim.ts backupPathFor에 있다. 이 PR은 백업 파일을 새로 만드는 쪽이 아니라, 재시작이 그 이름을 알아보게만 한다.

고친 내용은 세 파일이다. 유닉스 매칭에 codex.opencodex-real / .exe / .cmd를 더하고, Windows 사전 필터 WINDOWS_CODEX_BASENAME_CANDIDATE_RE에도 같은 선택 조각을 넣는다. 테스트는 제보 명령줄, Windows 경로, node …/codex.opencodex-real app-server 래퍼, 그리고 exec나 뒤쪽 인자로만 나오는 줄은 여전히 고르지 않는지를 잠근다. 파일 3개, +47/-1이다. types/config 분할과 무관하고, Kiro 쿼터 기차와도 겹치지 않는 독립 버그 PR이다.

초안이다. 위생 검사는 통과했고, 리뷰 준비 체크리스트는 0/4라 GitHub가 draft로 막아 mergeable_state: blocked다. 합치기 전에 네 칸을 채우면 된다. 매칭을 넓히지 않은 점은 맞다. opencodex 경로 문자열, codex-bridge, hermes-codex-*는 예전 테스트가 그대로 거짓을 기대한 채 남아 있다. Windows 정규식이 codex.opencodex-real 뒤에 타깃 트리플을 허용하는 것은 실제 백업 이름보다 조금 넓지만, 그 다음에 오는 isCodexExecutableToken이 정확한 세 이름만 받으므로 재시작 대상은 여전히 좁다.

빠진 이름은 Windows PowerShell 백업 codex.opencodex-real.ps1뿐이다. backupPathFor는 확장자를 가운데에 끼우므로 .ps1도 만든다. 이 PR의 토큰 목록과 Windows 정규식은 .exe/.cmd만 본다. 다만 제보 재현은 유닉스 백업 바이너리이고, PowerShell이 첫 토큰인 줄은 원래 isInterpreterToken에 없어서 .ps1만 넣어도 안 잡힐 수 있다. 유닉스 구멍을 막는 이 PR의 범위를 넘지는 않는다.

src/codex/app-server-processes.ts isCodexExecutableToken - codex.opencodex-real / .exe / .cmd만 넣었다. src/codex/shim.ts backupPathFor가 만드는 codex.opencodex-real.ps1은 없다. Windows에서 데스크톱이 그 스크립트를 직접 띄우는 경우에만 구멍이 남는다.

src/codex/app-server-processes.ts WINDOWS_CODEX_BASENAME_CANDIDATE_RE - codex([.]opencodex-real)?(-triple)?라서 codex.opencodex-real-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.exe 같은 없는 이름에도 GetOwner를 한 번 낼 수 있다. 실제 종료는 정확한 토큰만 보므로 엉뚱한 프로세스를 끄지는 않는다.

tests/codex-app-server-processes.test.ts - 제보 유닉스 줄과 exec처럼 고르면 안 되는 줄은 있다. codex.opencodex-real.ps1 app-server와, 백업 이름이 경로 중간에만 나오는 고르면 안 되는 줄은 없다. 넣으면 Windows 사전 필터 회귀가 더 분명해진다.

devlog/_plan/260829_restart_codex_shim_backup/000_repro_and_root_cause.md - 재현과 원인이 코드와 같다. 다만 이 계획 폴더를 머지 후 _fin으로 옮길지는 메인테이너가 정하면 된다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • 초안 체크리스트를 채운 뒤 이대로 dev에 넣을지
  • Windows .ps1 백업을 이번 PR에 넣을지, 제보가 유닉스이니 후속으로 둘지
  • 계획 문서를 이 PR에 남겨 둘지, 머지 후 devlog/_fin으로 옮길지

너의 추천
체크리스트 네 칸을 채우고 CI가 초록이면 dev에 합쳐라. 범위는 심이 스스로 만드는 백업 이름을 재시작 매칭에 맞추는 것이고, 자격 증명이나 카탈로그 쓰기는 건드리지 않는다. .ps1은 이 PR에 억지로 넣지 말고, Windows에서 그 스크립트가 실제로 app-server 첫 토큰이 되는 재현이 생기면 후속으로 열어라. types/config 분할 때문에 닫을 대상이 아니다. leftover 원본 PR도 없다.

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When the Codex autostart shim is installed (~/.local/bin/codex), the
original Codex binary is moved to codex.opencodex-real. When ChatGPT
Desktop connects over SSH and launches codex app-server, the running
process command line starts with codex.opencodex-real.

isCodexExecutableToken only matched codex, codex.exe, codex.cmd, and
target triples, rejecting codex.opencodex-real. As a result,
`ocx sync --restart-codex` overlooked running app-servers on shim-managed
hosts and left them serving stale in-memory model catalogs.

Admit codex.opencodex-real, codex.opencodex-real.exe, and
codex.opencodex-real.cmd in isCodexExecutableToken and in
WINDOWS_CODEX_BASENAME_CANDIDATE_RE.
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Thank you for this — the report is exactly right, and the ps output from the affected host is what made it actionable. backupPathFor renames the launcher to codex.opencodex-real, isCodexExecutableToken never admitted that name, and --restart-codex silently matched nothing.

I have carried it forward in #2888 with two corrections, both found by reviewing against the shim source:

  • codex.opencodex-real.ps1 is missing here. findWindowsCodexTargets shims codex.ps1 alongside codex.cmd, so that backup runs too and a Windows host would still have been missed.
  • The prefilter group ordering is inverted. This PR writes codex([.]opencodex-real)?(-<triple>)?, which admits codex.opencodex-real-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.exe. backupPathFor inserts the suffix after the stem and before the extension, so the name your regex admits is one nothing produces — while the real one, codex-<triple>.opencodex-real.exe, still would not match. It costs a GetOwner call on a process that cannot be a shim backup.

One thing your patch got right that I initially got wrong: I planned to generalise the matcher by stripping .opencodex-real before the existing checks, and an audit showed that is unsafe — it turns codex-report-generator-worker.opencodex-real into a syntactically valid target triple, making an unrelated process a kill target in a code path that sends SIGTERM. Your exact-name approach was the right instinct; #2888 keeps it and just completes the set.

Your devlog note states codex.opencodex-real.exe is generated by shim installation. It is not — Windows discovery explicitly refuses to rename a native codex.exe. #2888 keeps the .exe name matched as harmless breadth and says so, rather than presenting it as an observed shape.

Closing in favour of #2888. The diagnosis and the reproduction are yours.

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Two blockers from an independent review of the shim-backup matcher.

codex -- app-server matched, and matched before this branch too: the option
loop consumed -- like any other --prefixed token. But -- ends option parsing,
so the next word is a prompt for the interactive TUI. That command opens a
session whose first prompt word is "app-server", and --restart-codex sent it
SIGTERM. The scanner now stops at --.

That bug is not #2884's and not caused by the backup names -- it applies to
every launcher spelling. It is fixed here because this change widens which
processes reach the scanner, and shipping a broader matcher over a known false
positive is the wrong order.

Second: codex.opencodex-real.exe is no longer matched. #2884 included it and so
did my first version, on the reasoning that matching a name nothing produces is
free breadth. It is not free here. This set decides what receives SIGTERM, and
Windows installation refuses to rename a native codex.exe, so that backup
cannot exist.

Mutations: restoring -- as an ordinary option turns the TUI-prompt case red;
readmitting the .exe backup turns its negative red.

56 pass / 0 fail; tsc clean.
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Completes contributor PR #2884, which reported this with `ps` output from an
affected host. The autostart shim renames the original launcher by inserting
.opencodex-real before its extension, so a shimmed host runs
codex.opencodex-real app-server. isCodexExecutableToken never admitted that
name, so ocx sync --restart-codex reported zero processes stopped and left
app-servers alive on stale in-memory catalogs.

Three corrections beyond the contributor patch, each from an independent review:

codex.opencodex-real.ps1 was missing; findWindowsCodexTargets shims codex.ps1
alongside codex.cmd, so that backup runs too.

The Windows prefilter had the optional suffix before the target triple, which
admits a name backupPathFor never writes and pays GetOwner for it.

codex.opencodex-real.exe is not matched at all. Windows installation refuses to
rename a native codex.exe, so that backup cannot exist, and breadth is not free
in the set that decides what receives SIGTERM.

Also fixes a pre-existing false positive found on the way: codex -- app-server
matched, because the option loop consumed -- like any other dash-prefixed
token. But -- ends option parsing, so the next word is an interactive TUI
prompt, and --restart-codex was sending SIGTERM to live sessions.

An audit rejected the first plan, which would have stripped the suffix before
the triple test so any stem matched: that turns
codex-report-generator-worker.opencodex-real into a valid triple and makes an
unrelated process a kill target.

Four mutations driven red. 73 pass / 0 fail across the process-matching and
core-lab-boundary suites, full CI green on e2f2830.

Closes #2884.
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Landed via #2888 at eb52973c5 on dev. The diagnosis and the reproduction are yours — the ps output from the affected host is what made this actionable.

Two things from your patch were carried forward as-is: the exact-name approach (I initially planned to generalise it by stripping the suffix, and an audit showed that turns codex-report-generator-worker.opencodex-real into a valid target triple and makes an unrelated process a SIGTERM target), and the root cause itself.

What changed on the way in: codex.opencodex-real.ps1 was added, since findWindowsCodexTargets shims codex.ps1 too; the Windows prefilter's suffix group was moved after the stem where backupPathFor writes it; and codex.opencodex-real.exe was dropped, because Windows installation refuses to rename a native codex.exe so that backup cannot exist.

Your report also led to a pre-existing bug being found and fixed in the same change: codex -- app-server matched, because the option loop consumed -- like any other flag. Since -- ends option parsing, that command is an interactive session whose first prompt word is app-server, and --restart-codex had been sending it SIGTERM.

Thank you.

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