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@t3dotgg After watching one of your recent YouTube videos, I wanted to make T3 Code my main interface for coding agents. But I quickly hit one frustrating gap: Goals are one of the Codex features I rely on most, and once a Goal existed, T3 did not expose the controls needed to inspect, steer, pause, resume, or reset it.

I found the original issue #2819, now continued as discussion #6777, and the closed #2877, then implemented the narrowest integration I could: T3 acts only as a remote-capable control surface over Codex App Server's native Goal API. Codex remains the source of truth.

What this adds

Codex threads now expose the complete native Goal lifecycle through the normal conversation composer:

T3 command Native Codex operation
/goal create <objective> thread/goal/set with the objective and active status
/goal status thread/goal/get
/goal steer <objective> thread/goal/set with the updated objective
/goal pause thread/goal/set with paused status
/goal resume thread/goal/set with active status
/goal reset or /goal clear thread/goal/clear

/goal <objective> remains a create shorthand. Native thread/goal/updated and thread/goal/cleared notifications keep connected clients synchronized while the session is running.

The current objective, native status, token usage and budget, and elapsed time are shown when Codex exposes them. The command and status surfaces only appear for Codex.

Architecture

  • Codex App Server remains authoritative for all Goal state and lifecycle semantics.
  • Goal requests use the existing Codex session runtime, provider adapter, provider service, and WebSocket RPC path.
  • Native Goal notifications are translated into provider runtime events and streamed to subscribed clients.
  • Operations and subscriptions are scoped to the active environment and thread. There is no global Goal singleton.
  • T3 does not persist a duplicate Goal record, add a database migration, or introduce a second Goal state machine. Client state is only an ephemeral projection of the native snapshot and notifications.
  • Unsupported providers do not expose Goal capability or commands.

This intentionally takes a narrower approach than #2877: it does not project Goal state into T3's persistence layer. That keeps remote clients synchronized without making T3 compete with Codex as the owner of the state.

Known limitation

When Codex is actively processing a turn while a Goal is active, T3 still shows its existing red stop control. Activating it interrupts the current provider turn only; the native Goal remains active. Changing that shared composer and turn-state behavior would affect more than Goal support, so I deliberately left it unchanged to avoid scope creep.

T3 also does not open Codex's interactive Goal editor. /goal steer <objective> updates the native objective directly. A broader Goal dashboard or control redesign is out of scope for this PR; the UI is intentionally limited to the existing composer flow and a lightweight status banner or card.

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Verification

  • Focused contract, adapter, provider service, WebSocket, client projection, command parsing, notification ordering, error handling, provider gating, and thread-scoping tests pass.
  • Typecheck passes for contracts, client-runtime, server, web, and mobile.
  • Lint and formatting pass for all changed TypeScript files.
  • The web production build passes.
  • Native Goal creation, status display, asynchronous banner updates, and continued instructions while a Goal remains active were manually exercised through T3.

Addresses discussion #6777.

Related: #2819 and #2877.

Implementation and verification were performed with Codex. Additional review and cleanup used Claude Code with Opus 5. Final audit and PR preparation used Codex with GPT-5.6 Sol.


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Adds new WebSocket RPCs, provider session recovery, and send-path intercepts for Codex-only Goal ops. Scope is gated and tested, but it sits on provider routing and live session control.

Overview
Adds a Codex-only control surface for native Goals. Codex stays the source of truth; T3 does not persist Goal state.

Server: Codex session runtime now calls thread/goal/get|set|clear and maps thread/goal/updated|cleared into provider events. ProviderService routes those ops (recovering inactive Codex sessions on mutate/get unless allowRecovery: false), rejects unsupported providers, and WS RPCs (codex.goal.* plus subscribe) stream a snapshot then live updates with a sliding buffer so late snapshots cannot clobber native updates. Child collab notifications for goals are dropped.

Clients: /goal (create/status/steer/pause/resume/clear) is intercepted in web and mobile send handlers instead of becoming a chat turn. Active Goals show as a composer banner/card with status and usage. Subscriptions are keyed by environment + thread.

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Add native Codex Goal lifecycle controls and UI commands

  • Adds CodexGoal schemas and WebSocket RPC specs for get, set, clear, and subscribe operations
  • Implements goal lifecycle methods in ProviderService, CodexAdapter, and CodexSessionRuntime, routing native RPCs and translating notifications to runtime events
  • Adds /goal slash command support and a goal status banner in web and mobile chat interfaces
  • Risk: Goal RPCs on providers without codexGoal adapter support return ProviderValidationError; child goal notifications are suppressed from parent thread state

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  • New Features

    • Added native Codex Goal management with commands to create, view status, update, pause, resume, and clear goals.
    • Goals now stay synchronized across conversations and display their current status in the composer.
    • Added support across web and mobile experiences, including live updates and clear operation feedback.
    • Added validation and safeguards to prevent actions on unavailable or outdated conversations.
  • Documentation

    • Documented Codex Goal commands, shorthand usage, and synchronization behavior.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for goal commands, lifecycle operations, live updates, errors, and subscription behavior.

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Codex Goal support was added end to end. Shared contracts define goal state and events. Providers expose goal operations. WebSocket APIs and reactive client state synchronize goals. Web and mobile composers support Goal commands and status display.

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Codex Goal support

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Goal contracts and service interfaces
packages/contracts/src/codexGoal.ts, packages/contracts/src/providerRuntime.ts, packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Services/*
Added typed Goal schemas, runtime events, WebSocket RPCs, and provider capability interfaces.
Codex runtime and provider operations
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/*, apps/server/src/provider/Services/*, apps/server/src/auth/RpcAuthorization.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/*
Added Codex app-server Goal requests, response normalization, lifecycle event mapping, child-event filtering, provider service routing, recovery behavior, and authorization scopes.
WebSocket APIs and reactive client state
apps/server/src/ws.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadCommands.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/client.ts, apps/server/src/server.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadCommands.test.ts
Added Goal get/set/clear RPCs, snapshot and live subscriptions, stale-snapshot protection, command parsing, formatting, error handling, and concurrency control.
Composer commands and Goal presentation
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/state/threads.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/*, apps/mobile/src/state/threads.ts, docs/user/providers-codex.md
Added /goal command handling, in-flight and thread-switch guards, Goal banners and status panels, mobile alerts, and Codex Goal documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9f3c8

This PR adds remote Codex Goal controls and live updates, but slow clients can cause Goal events to accumulate without limit, and thread access relies on deployment-level isolation rather than an explicit ownership check. These bounded availability and authorization risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, juliusmarminge

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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR implements the requested Codex /goal command and UI support, including status, pause, resume, clear, and goal information display [#2877].
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The contract, server, client, UI, documentation, and test changes directly support the Codex Goal lifecycle objectives.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the primary change: native Codex Goal lifecycle controls.
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Reviewed the new Codex Goal service/RPC surface against the Effect service conventions. Two related findings on the new CodexGoalOperationError wrapper: it carries an unstructured message as its only data and the wrapping site derives that message from cause.message while discarding the cause. Everything else (namespace imports at the ProviderService boundary, optional codexGoal adapter capability, environment-based dependency acquisition, test-only service stubs) looks consistent with the conventions.

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UI consistency review of the web changes (apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/state/threads.ts).

The new Goal surface correctly reuses the shared systems — ComposerBannerStack/Alert for the banner and stackedThreadToast for command feedback — and useCodexGoal follows the existing useEnvironmentThread atom pattern. Two issues are specific to the banner the diff adds: an unbounded user-authored description in the composer drawer, and stack ordering that lets a permanent informational banner sit in front of the actionable ones.

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One remaining convention issue with CodexGoalOperationError: the wire-visible detail field is populated by copying the provider error's message, and the wrapper's message is then derived from it. Now that operation, threadId, and cause are modelled, detail can be dropped so the message comes only from stable structural attributes and the provider text stays in cause.

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One finding: the Goal banner is ordered ahead of the parked-thread banner, which pushes that banner's Wake now / Un-settle button behind the collapsed stack on Codex threads with an active Goal.

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One finding: the Goal status enum is rendered directly as user-facing copy in the composer banner and the /goal status toast. Prior findings on banner ordering and description clamping look resolved.

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One consistency finding on the new Codex Goal composer banner. Prior notes (status label record, banner ordering behind the actionable parked/woke/branch banners, clamped description) are addressed.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a cross-cutting native Codex Goal feature with new authenticated WebSocket APIs, provider/session lifecycle behavior, live event synchronization, and web/mobile composer UI. The auth-scope change and broad runtime surface require human review despite the additive contracts and lack of persisted Goal state.

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One finding on the web Goal work: the new send-blocking guard has no matching disabled/reason state, so the composer send button lies about being usable while a /goal command is in flight.

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description: "Wait for the thread's provider to load before running a Goal command.",
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Goal loading toast ignores provider

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When the composer provider is still loading, any draft that parses as /goal shows the Goal-specific loading toast without checking that the thread is Codex. Non-Codex threads can get a misleading Goal message for ordinary text that only happens to look like a Goal command.

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Status refresh restarts Goal stream

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Successful getCodexGoal always calls refreshCodexGoal, which tears down and recreates the live Goal subscription. /goal status is read-only, so that refresh can briefly clear the composer Goal banner and replay snapshot state even when nothing changed.

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