Prevent code-mode IPC version skew during ChatGPT updates - #19
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe native host stages the Codex CLI and code-mode host in a temporary directory before starting the app server. Runtime discovery resolves the host per platform, preserves fallback behavior, and tests verify staged contents after an installed binary replacement. ChangesCodex runtime staging
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The staging change reduces update-related IPC skew, but an update racing the two staging operations can still pair incompatible binaries and break code mode. This race should be handled or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant NativeHost
participant TempDirectory
participant AppServer
participant AppUpdater
NativeHost->>TempDirectory: Stage Codex CLI and code-mode host
NativeHost->>AppServer: Spawn with staged runtime
AppUpdater->>AppUpdater: Replace installed code-mode host
AppServer->>TempDirectory: Continue using staged host
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In `@native-host/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 278-279: Update the staging flow around the source and destination
hard-link/copy operations to use one updater-immutable release snapshot or
coordinate with the updater, ensuring both runtime files come from the same
release. Add a deterministic test that replaces one source binary between the
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Stage both runtime files from one release snapshot.
These operations can race with an in-place update. If the updater replaces codex-code-mode-host after the CLI link succeeds but before the host link succeeds, the temporary directory contains the old CLI and the new IPC host. The process still has version skew.
Stage from an updater-immutable release directory, or coordinate staging with the updater. Add a deterministic test that replaces one source binary between these two operations and verifies that staging retries or fails safely.
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In `@native-host/src/main.rs` around lines 278 - 279, Update the staging flow
around the source and destination hard-link/copy operations to use one
updater-immutable release snapshot or coordinate with the updater, ensuring both
runtime files come from the same release. Add a deterministic test that replaces
one source binary between the two operations and verifies staging retries or
fails safely.
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Greptile SummaryThis change pins the Codex CLI and code-mode host for Firefox bridge sessions and keeps the staged files available until the official host exits. The retained-file lifetime and incomplete-runtime rejection work as intended. However, an update between the two serial staging operations can still produce a mixed-version CLI and host pair. Confidence Score: 5/5Do not merge until the serial runtime staging race is eliminated. The mixed-version runtime failure was reproduced with an atomic replacement between the same two operations used in production. The bridge was also exercised with a running stand-in host to verify staged-file lifetime and with incomplete and complete runtime directories to verify peer discovery behavior. Files Needing Attention:
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| .or_else(|_| fs::copy(source, destination).map(|_| ()))?; | ||
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The CLI and codex-code-mode-host are pinned one at a time. If the desktop updater atomically replaces the bundle after the CLI is linked or copied but before the host is staged, this returns an old CLI paired with a new code-mode host—the strict IPC mismatch this change is intended to eliminate. Stage from an immutable bundle snapshot, or verify source identities before and after staging and retry when either changes.
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codex-code-mode-hostfrom the same ChatGPT/Codex installation snapshotRoot cause
Code-mode responses are decoded inside OpenAI Codex, not by this repository's JSON relay. OpenAI added
code_mode_host_duration_nstoWireRuntimeResponsein openai/codex@48e22a5. The decoder keeps#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)], and the protocol documents that the app-server and host run at the same version.That assumption can break when the desktop app updates in place:
The Firefox bridge launches the official extension host with one bundled Codex CLI.
The CLI/app-server remains alive.
ChatGPT replaces its files on disk.
A later code-mode call lazily starts
codex-code-mode-hostfrom the same path, which now points to the newer bundle.The old decoder rejects the newer response field:
The local failure had this exact ordering. The running app-server reported
0.151.0-alpha.7.2, then ChatGPT replaced the bundled executables, and a later tool call spawned the newer host. Replaying that newer response through the 0.151 decoder reproduced the reported error.OpenAI issue #42111 independently reports the same error with a
0.152.0CLI and a still-running0.151.0app-server.What changed
Before starting the official extension host, the bridge now:
codex-code-mode-host.fs::copyas the fallback.CODEX_CLI_PATHto the staged CLI. Codex resolves its code-mode host next to its current executable, so both sides come from the same snapshot.The bridge still treats native messages as generic JSON. It does not weaken OpenAI's decoder, ignore malformed frames, or claim arbitrary cross-version protocol compatibility.
The bundled extension assets are unchanged because they contain neither the producer nor the decoder for this frame.
Regression coverage
pins_code_mode_ipc_peer_before_an_in_place_app_updatecreates an old CLI/host pair, stages it, atomically replaces the installed host with a frame containingcode_mode_host_duration_ns, and checks that the staged pair still sees the old compatible frame.Validation
cargo test --locked --manifest-path native-host/Cargo.toml tests::pins_code_mode_ipc_peer_before_an_in_place_app_update -- --exact --nocapture(1 passed)cargo test --locked --manifest-path native-host/Cargo.toml(16 passed)cargo fmt --manifest-path native-host/Cargo.toml -- --checkcargo clippy --locked --manifest-path native-host/Cargo.toml --all-targets -- -D warningsnpm testnpx --yes web-ext lint --source-dir extension --no-input(0 errors, 0 notices, 72 existing bundled-asset warnings)git diff --checkOn macOS, hard-linking the executables out of
/ApplicationsreturnedOperation not permitted, which exercised the copy fallback. Both copied executables remained runnable. The temporary snapshot contains roughly 283 MB for the currently installed bundle and is deleted when the bridge exits.Scope and follow-up
native-host/src/main.rsfor unrelated native-message size limits. Whichever PR merges second will probably need a rebase.Summary by CodeRabbit