feat(codex): keep native-main credentials in memory with one writer and a reliable watcher by MarcTCruz · Pull Request #7344 · lidge-jun/opencodex

MarcTCruz · 2026-10-19T02:12:35Z

Summary

Keeps the native-main ChatGPT login in memory, with one reader of auth.json (a watcher) and one writer. Follow-up to #2999; the explanation is in my comment there: #2999 (comment) and in the linked issue #7345.

One point of reading. src/codex/native-main-credentials.ts holds the credentials in memory. Every OpenCodex reader gets them from that copy. Only its watcher reads the file: it watches the directory, re-checks the file on a short timer, and re-checks it before every refresh and every write.
Hiccups are not logouts. An empty, half-written or missing auth.json keeps the last good login in memory. A missing file becomes a logout only after a grace period. codex login clears the file before it writes the new login (codex login removes the existing auth.json before the flow can succeed, so a failed login logs the user out openai/codex#46430).
One point of writing. In "opencodex" refresh mode, one writer writes the file (temp file, then rename) and re-checks the file just before the rename. If Codex changed it, the writer keeps the Codex version.
feat(codex): let Codex own the native main refresh when a supported binary exists #7048 and fix(codex): serve the in-flight token when a native main save is refused #7035 stay as they are. "codex" refresh mode still lets Codex own the refresh; it only starts from the in-memory copy. When the writer does not store a refreshed grant because another writer changed the file, that request still gets the new access token (fix(codex): serve the in-flight token when a native main save is refused #7035).
A guard test lists every "auth.json" literal in src/ by file and line, so a new direct reader or writer fails the test.

Size against dev (d11f067): 81 files, +5,492 / −922 lines; src/: 18 files, +2,300 / −183.

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bun test --preload ./tests/preload.ts tests/codex-integration on this branch (f59aa99): 8,827 pass / 5 fail. The same run on dev d11f067: 8,772 pass / 9 fail. Every failure on this branch also fails on dev alone on the same machine (the 5 are a subset of the 9).
bun run typecheck, bun run privacy:scan, bun run structure:check: pass.
Review findings: the five correct CodeRabbit findings are fixed in f59aa99; the two others are answered in their threads.
The in-memory store has its own test file (32 cases): empty and half-written Codex rewrites, deletion and restore inside the grace period, a dropped directory event caught by the timer, a Codex login at the rename boundary, and write-error retry with back-off. A second file is the "auth.json" literal guard.

Checklist

Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
Docs or release notes were updated when needed (structure/ documents the store).
Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults (no token is logged or written anywhere except auth.json by the one writer).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Native Codex credentials are kept available from the last complete snapshot while the auth file is temporarily incomplete or changing.
- Missing credentials are treated as signed out only after a 10-minute grace period.
Bug Fixes
- Credential refreshes now preserve newer credentials written externally instead of overwriting them.
- Accounts marked as needing reauthorization are reported as requiring reauthentication.
- Native profile changes and recovery now verify credentials remain valid and unchanged before writing.

…nd a reliable watcher (lidge-jun#2999) All OpenCodex code reads the native-main ChatGPT credentials from one in-memory store instead of CODEX_HOME/auth.json. One module writes the file (refresh, device reauth, profile switch, rollback). Only the store observes the file: a directory watcher, a short stat timer and a forced check before every refresh and write. - Adopt only complete credentials; empty, partial or malformed content is a hiccup that keeps memory and blocks writes. - A missing file is a logout only after a grace period; no refresh or write during it. - Writes use temp file + rename and re-observe before the rename; an external change wins over the pending write. - A rotated refresh token is written right away; refresh and write stay under the existing CODEX_HOME claim. - Consumers that rejected a symlinked auth.json on base still do. Accepted risk: a Codex write that lands within the same split second as OpenCodex's rename can still be lost (needs a lock Codex also honors). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> This builds on dev 4ae4936, which already contains lidge-jun#7048 and lidge-jun#7035. "codex" mode is unchanged and starts from the in-memory copy. In "opencodex" mode, a save that the store refuses because another writer changed auth.json still serves the in-flight token to that request, while memory follows the file. That keeps the behavior of lidge-jun#7035. A confirmed deletion still gives no token. The desktop-compatibility identity reader (lidge-jun#6079) now reads through the store observe step.

…ile:line allowlist (lidge-jun#2999) A flat substring scan over src/**/*.{ts,mts,mjs}: any added, moved or removed line that contains "auth.json" fails until the allowlist is updated on purpose. It guards the one-writer and memory-only-reader rules of the native-main credentials change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…for the in-memory store (lidge-jun#2999) The in-memory store adopts only complete ChatGPT credentials (access and refresh token), as a real Codex login always is. codex-preserve-signed-in (lidge-jun#7144) and native-ultrafast-picker (lidge-jun#7050) wrote logins without a refresh token, so the product saw no login. Their fixtures now include one, and the cases that rewrite auth.json mid-test call the store's observe step, which the watcher runs in production. No assertion changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Upstream moved four auth.json literal lines (allowlist line numbers updated in the guard test), and structure/providers/openai-accounts.md was 613 lines against the 600-line budget. The in-flight refresh paragraph was condensed to nine lines with the same result meanings; its two dropped sentences already live in structure/native-main-credentials.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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This pull request adds a shared in-memory store for native Codex credentials. It routes credential reads, refreshes, profile operations, and imports through observed snapshots and fenced writes. It also expands integration coverage and documents the store’s behavior.

Changes: Native-main credential handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Credential observation and publication `src/codex/native-main-credentials.ts`, `src/codex/native-main-credential-config.ts`, `src/config/atomic-write.ts`, `src/lib/windows-atomic-replace.ts`	Adds bounded credential observations, cached snapshots, file fences, publication evidence, deletion grace, retry scheduling, and shutdown handling. Atomic writes add hooks to validate rename attempts and capture publication evidence.
Refresh and credential readers `src/codex/main-account.ts`, `src/codex/auth-collision.ts`, `src/codex/auth-api/account-pause-group.ts`, `src/codex/desktop-compatibility/native-identity.ts`, `src/codex/account-lifecycle.ts`, `src/codex/account-usability.ts`, `src/cli/doctor.ts`, `src/codex/orca-import.ts`	Refresh and reauthentication use the central writer and expected fences. Credential readers use observed snapshots, clear raw buffers, and apply status and file-provenance checks. Orca import rejects disallowed observations and unsafe paths.
Profile switching and recovery `src/codex/native-profile-manager.ts`, `src/codex/native-profile-startup.ts`, `src/codex/native-profile-store.ts`	Profile operations validate auth fences and publication receipts through switching, rollback, and recovery. Startup recovery runs under an exclusive native-main claim.
Credential-store and profile validation `tests/codex-integration/native-main-credential-memory.test.ts`, `tests/codex-integration/native-profile-manager.test.ts`, `tests/codex-integration/codex-main-account-refresh.test.ts`, `tests/codex-integration/orca-import.test.ts`, `tests/codex-integration/native-main-credential-literal-guard.test.ts`	Adds coverage for snapshot retention, deletion grace, symlink and bounded-read handling, retries, publication fencing, profile recovery, and imports. A literal guard restricts source locations containing the `auth.json` string.
Fixture, documentation, and test-harness updates `tests/codex-integration/`, `tests/helpers/`, `tests/server/`, `tests/clients/`, `tests/responses/`, `structure/`, `devlog/_plan/261014_native_main_memory_credentials/*`, `scripts/test-layout/layout.json`, `tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json`	Migrates native-auth fixtures to test helpers, adds refresh tokens to many fixtures, assigns new tests to the integration shard, updates credential documentation, and standardizes tracked server cleanup in affected tests.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Request
  participant MainAccount
  participant NativeCredentialStore
  participant AtomicWriter
  participant AuthFile
  Request->>MainAccount: Request access token
  MainAccount->>NativeCredentialStore: Observe credentials and fence
  NativeCredentialStore-->>MainAccount: Snapshot and fence
  MainAccount->>MainAccount: Validate refresh grant
  MainAccount->>NativeCredentialStore: Persist refreshed credentials against fence
  NativeCredentialStore->>AtomicWriter: Request fenced publication
  AtomicWriter->>AuthFile: Rename temporary file and capture evidence
  AtomicWriter-->>NativeCredentialStore: Publication evidence
  NativeCredentialStore-->>MainAccount: Publication result
  MainAccount-->>Request: Return access token or no token

Possibly related PRs

lidge-jun/opencodex#2848: Adds native-main token refresh and atomic persistence in the same refresh flow that this PR changes to use credential memory and claimed writes.

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Users who have never signed in to native Codex can no longer run an Orca import, and there is no workaround. Main-account refresh in Codex mode can stall, or send an expired token, when OpenCodex cannot write auth.json. Fix both before merging. A smaller issue: after a profile switch, cached credential views may not be invalidated in a rare race.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/codex/main-account.ts:
- Around line 489-496: Update the `canRefreshOrWrite` gate in the refresh flow
so it blocks OpenCodex-owned writes but not Codex mode, allowing Codex refreshes
to reach `refreshThroughCodex`. In the gated fallback, return a different
`locked.accessToken` only when `mainAccessTokenFresh` confirms it is fresh with
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Review comments at @src/codex/native-profile-manager.ts:
- Around line 1369-1376: Replace the inline source observation and fence
predicate with `this.assertNativeAuthFenceCurrent(sourceFence)` so the source
re-check applies the shared validity rule and cleanup behavior. Keep the
subsequent `readEnvelope` flow unchanged; do not modify `recoverLocked` unless
separately required.
- Around line 1421-1426: In the target publication flow, validate the written
envelope with verifyWrittenEnvelope and advance the credential mutation epoch
before the receipt check that can reject the publication. Keep the epoch
unchanged when envelope validation fails, and avoid adding unconditional epoch
advancement to the catch or rollback path.

Review comments at @src/codex/orca-import.ts:
- Around line 155-158: Update the main-observation check in the Orca import flow
to accept status "missing" without requiring deletionConfirmed, while continuing
to reject unconfirmed retained credentials. Add an orca-import.test.ts case
covering an empty CODEX_HOME for both preview and apply behavior.

Review comments at @src/config/atomic-write.ts:
- Around line 505-514: Update validateRenameAttempt to inspect the result of
hooks.validateBeforeRename and fail closed if it is thenable, since this check
must remain synchronous before renameSync. Consume any rejection from the
returned promise so it cannot become an unhandled rejection.

Review comments at
@tests/codex-integration/native-main-credential-literal-guard.test.ts:
- Around line 7-27: Replace the exact file-and-line entries in ALLOWED with
per-file expected occurrence counts, and update the scan and comparison to count
each file’s "auth.json" literals. Keep the guard sensitive to added or removed
literals while allowing existing literals to move within a file.

Review comments at
@tests/codex-integration/native-main-credential-memory.test.ts:
- Around line 280-292: Update both hiccup tests to explicitly observe the
rewritten file with observeNativeMainAuthFile before checking the retained
credential, and assert the observation has fileStatus "invalid" so each test
verifies the rewrite was processed. Clear any raw buffers returned by the
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- Codex refresh mode refreshes through Codex even when auth.json is a symlink; the fallback serves a retained token only while it is fresh. - A profile switch advances the credential mutation epoch right after the written login is verified, before the receipt check. - The Orca import continues when no main Codex login exists at all, as it did before; a login retained through the deletion grace stays refused. - validateBeforeRename is synchronous in its type, matching how it runs. - The empty and half-written rewrite cases observe the file and assert the store saw it as invalid. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Ingwannu · 2026-10-19T04:32:01Z

Intake/scoped review at f59aa991f60cae18147f31ee564aa8ab3efc2bc9.

This is an 81-file native-main ownership change with a ten-minute missing-file grace, a watcher and an atomic writer. #7345 is now needs-design: the retention/logout/account-switch policy needs explicit owner disposition. The current gate still reports unsponsored_surface on authentication paths; a checked author security box does not supply that review. Keep Draft while ownership, refresh-mode parity and the gate are resolved; no sponsorship waiver is being applied here.

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MarcTCruz · 2026-10-21T18:29:48Z

Thanks for the review, @Ingwannu. You are right: this changes logout and ownership semantics, not only how the file is read. Below is what the code at f59aa99 does for each case, where it does not yet tell the cases apart, and the changes I propose for your decision.

The store decides only from the contents of auth.json. A complete file replaces memory at once. Any other state keeps the last complete login. All test files below are in tests/codex-integration/; a bare src file name refers to the full path given earlier in the comment.

Case	How the PR detects it	What it does with the in-memory grant	Test
1. Transient empty/partial replacement	Empty file, `{}`, partial JSON, ChatGPT tokens without a refresh token, or a read/stat error (`src/codex/native-main-credentials.ts:370-408`, `:901-929`)	Keeps serving it. Blocks refresh and every OpenCodex write until a complete file returns (`:1009-1020`). No time limit.	`tests/codex-integration/native-main-credential-memory.test.ts:280`, `:291`, `:515`, `:1059`
2. Intentional logout	Not distinguished. The file is absent, which is also what a `codex login` start and a rewrite gap look like (`:907-917`)	Keeps serving it to requests, routing and quota calls for ten minutes, then clears memory and any pending refresh	`native-main-credential-memory.test.ts:302`, `:678`; `main-account-hard-lock-recovery.test.ts:824`
3. Account switch	A complete file from another writer, adopted at once with no account or expiry precedence (`:956-969`). Alias state is purged on the next reconcile when the account id changes (`src/codex/account-lifecycle.ts:77-95`)	Replaced at once; any pending OpenCodex refresh is dropped. Through `codex login`, which deletes the file first (openai/codex#46430), the old account's grant is served until the new file lands, up to ten minutes	`codex-main-rotation.test.ts:186`, `:271`; `codex-main-account-refresh.test.ts:93`. Delete, then another account: none
4. Pause / revocation	Pause is a routing check outside the store (`src/codex/routing.ts:305`). Revocation marks the grant rejected by path and refresh-token fingerprint (`src/codex/main-account.ts:569-572`, `:643-648`)	The retained grant has the same fingerprint, so a refused grant is not used again (`main-account.ts:442`). Pause linking reads the identity through the store, so in the window it uses the retained identity	`codex-main-grant-refusal.test.ts:104`, `:335`; `native-main-refresh-mode.test.ts:263`. With a hiccup or in the window: none
5. Writer that lost ownership	Fence on digest, dev/ino and observation generation, checked before refresh, at publish and just before rename; receipt after rename (`native-main-credentials.ts:1215-1229`, `:1354-1360`)	Complete external change: OpenCodex drops its write and adopts the other file. Hiccup during publish: the rotated grant stays in memory and is retried under the CODEX_HOME claim only if the same physical file returns (`:1362-1385`)	`native-main-credential-memory.test.ts:411`, `:561`, `:714`, `:849`; `codex-main-account-refresh.test.ts:285`, `:305`

#7048 and #7035

feat(codex): let Codex own the native main refresh when a supported binary exists #7048: in "codex" mode OpenCodex never calls the store's writer. Its only call site (main-account.ts:277) is in the "opencodex" branch, and "codex" mode returns through refreshThroughCodex first (main-account.ts:516-520). Tests: native-main-refresh-mode.test.ts:223 (file and epoch unchanged), :237, :305.
fix(codex): serve the in-flight token when a native main save is refused #7035: kept when another writer leaves a complete file. The request gets its own new token, the file is untouched, and the grant is not marked rejected (main-account.ts:580-589). Tests: codex-main-account-refresh.test.ts:93, :285, :305. Two differences that my description should have stated: the credential epoch now advances by one in that case, because the store adopts the other writer's file; and when the other writer leaves the file empty or partial, or a read fails, the rotated grant is no longer request-local. It becomes the process's in-memory credential until the file settles, and after a read failure on an unchanged file it is published (native-main-credentials.ts:1041-1070, main-account.ts:291-295; tests codex-main-account-refresh.test.ts:323, :345, native-main-credential-memory.test.ts:849). "Stay as they are" overstated this.

Not distinguished yet: proposals for your disposition

Logout, login in progress and a rewrite gap are all "file absent". My position: keep a grace, but make it a setting and lower the default from ten minutes to 60 seconds. The grace is a sanity check for the middle state of codex login, which revokes and deletes the old login before the browser step (codex login removes the existing auth.json before the flow can succeed, so a failed login logs the user out openai/codex#46430): until the new login is visible, the old one keeps requests alive, like a hot reload. It never delays an account switch: a new complete file replaces memory at once (src/codex/native-main-credentials.ts:962-969). A logout takes effect within the configured time; if you want a different default, it is one value. I will push this change and a logout test.
Empty, partial and unreadable states have no time limit today, and a stat error resets the absence timer (native-main-credentials.ts:873-876). Part of the same change: the configured limit covers every non-complete state, counted from the first such observation and not reset by a stat error.
In the window, main stays routable even when it cannot produce a token (expired access token in "opencodex" mode, or Codex logged out in "codex" mode). Proposal: while the file is not valid, routing uses the retained grant only if its access token is still fresh.
In "codex" mode, Codex answering "no ChatGPT login" is treated as transient (main-account.ts:651-653). Proposal: Codex owns the login in that mode, so drop the retained grant at once on that answer.
A rotated grant retained in "opencodex" mode keeps retrying after the mode resolves to "codex": the retry takes the CODEX_HOME claim and checks the file fence before publishing, but it does not check the refresh mode (native-main-credentials.ts:1500-1527). Proposal: check the mode before each retry and discard the pending grant when it is "codex".
fix(codex): serve the in-flight token when a native main save is refused #7035 empty, partial or unreadable case. Proposal A: restore request-local behaviour (serve that one request, keep nothing). Proposal B: keep the new behaviour and record it as an intended change to fix(codex): serve the in-flight token when a native main save is refused #7035.
The "recovery required" state keeps a rotated grant that differs from the file, with no time limit and no operator signal (native-main-credentials.ts:941-945, :1192-1197). Proposal: apply the limit from item 2 and report the state in ocx doctor.
Pause linking in the window uses the retained identity. Proposal: refuse pause linking while the file is not valid, as Orca import already does.
Also missing from my description: an ordinary needs-reauth mark now excludes main even when it has an unrejected refresh grant (src/codex/account-usability.ts:98). I can split this out or document it, as you prefer.

Whatever you decide, I will add one test per case: logout, a delete followed by a login to another account, revocation and pause in the window, "codex" mode in the window, and a mode change with a retained grant.

Keeping Draft. Requesting maintainer security review of the auth paths for maintainer-sponsored.

…for every non-complete auth.json - New setting nativeMainAuthGraceSeconds (integer 1-86400, default 60) replaces the fixed ten-minute deletion grace. An invalid value is ignored with a warning on load and refused on write. The store reads it once when it is created for a path. - One timer covers every observation that is not a complete file: missing, empty, partial, malformed or unreadable. It starts at the first such observation; a read error or another incomplete observation does not restart it. Only a complete file ends it, and a complete file still replaces memory at once, so a new login or an account switch is never delayed. - When the grace ends without a complete file, memory, the pending refresh and its retry timer are cleared; this is how a logout takes effect. witnessedPresence is removed (nothing reads it now). - graceActive reports the running grace for every non-complete kind. - Tests: default and configured grace, read error and partial file do not restart it, empty and partial files past the grace clear the retained grant and its retry, a complete file inside the grace switches at once, a logout through the process-level accessors with a 1 s configured grace, and config load/write validation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Ingwannu · 2026-10-22T06:59:08Z

The explicit case matrix is useful, particularly the acknowledgement that request-local refresh results and process-wide retained credentials are different contracts. I am treating that matrix as evidence about its stated f59aa991f checkpoint, not as an independent review of the newer f51fba7042 tree.

For the proposed policy choices, preserve the existing request-local #7035 outcome (proposal A) until a deliberate ownership change is approved. An explicit logout/no-login/revocation signal and a refresh-mode change must fence retained/pending grants; a shorter configurable grace alone does not resolve ambiguous ownership. Do not treat choosing 60 seconds as a routine implementation detail or a policy approval from this maintenance pass.

The next review needs the final-head matrix with the missing delete→different-account, pause/revocation-during-retention and mode-switch/pending-publication controls. The existing owner/design and auth-boundary review holds remain; no sponsorship waiver or live credential operation is being granted here.

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Keep the native-main login in memory while Codex rewrites auth.json #7345

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