fix(codex): safely unlink generated profiles

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Summary

Generated-profile cleanup now refuses a final-component symlink before changing Codex configuration or recovery evidence.

• Guard pathname unlink with the held configuration lock, canonical parent, and identity rechecks. The operation is not atomic against a writer that ignores that lock.
• Preserve configuration and journal state when an eligible profile has been replaced by a symlink, including a dangling generated-profile link. Treat ENOENT at the final type observation as absence.
• Keep config publication before profile removal and cover it with withConfigWriteRecovery, so a later removal refusal can restore the owned config preimage.
• Extend the existing journal regressions and update the Codex-home contract.

Verification

Current head: cc7897e4576d159782cb26ef916dd84da4758d8c.

• Bun 1.4.3: bun test --isolate --timeout 60000 tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts tests/codex-integration/codex-journal-recovery.test.ts — 52 passed, 0 failed, 6 POSIX-only skips on Windows.
• Three cross-platform regressions failed before the fix: config was left published after a profile-removal refusal, dangling-link metadata was treated as a completed restore, and ENOENT at the type check escaped. All three pass with the patch. A real dangling-symlink test is included for POSIX CI, and the existing symlink-refusal case now asserts overall failure.
• bun run typecheck, bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan, and git diff --check passed.
• The four follow-up review threads have fixes and author replies. Current-head aggregate CI passed on cc7897e45.
• A full local repository run was not repeated across the active worktrees. The focused journal files and completed hosted CI provide the validation scope.

Checklist

• Cleanup preserves the existing configuration-lock and recovery contracts.
• Focused regression coverage and validation limits are recorded.
• Current-head CI passed.
• Codex-home documentation is updated.

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📝 Walkthrough

Codex profile removal now uses a lock-validated helper and refuses symlinked profiles. Journal restoration also stops when the injected profile is a symlink. Integration tests and documentation cover these checks.

Changes: Codex profile safety

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guarded profile removal src/codex/config-write-lock.ts, src/codex/inject/config-write-section.ts, src/codex/inject/remove.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts	The new removal helper verifies the lock, destination, and inode before unlinking, then verifies absence. removeCodexConfig refuses a symlinked profile and uses the helper for profile removal. Tests check that refusal preserves the config, journal, symlink, and target.
Journal restoration guard src/codex/journal.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts, structure/codex-home.md	Journal restoration stops before changing config, profile, or journal when the injected profile is a symlink. Tests cover regular and symlinked profiles. The documentation describes the removal and restoration checks.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lidge-jun

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4b493

Resolve the recovery-evidence loss and partial-removal paths before merging; both can leave Codex profile state requiring manual repair.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/codex/inject/remove.ts:
- Around line 257-263: Wrap the Codex config update and profile-removal sequence
inside `withConfigWriteRecovery`, within the existing `withConfigWriteLockHeld`
callback. Keep `publishCodexArtifact` before `removeCodexProfileEntry` so a late
write refusal restores the published config and leaves the profile unchanged.

Review comments at @src/codex/journal.ts:
- Line 352: Update the profile-symlink check in restoreJournalState to use
lstatSync safely when generated-profile restoration is otherwise eligible: treat
ENOENT as an absent path, propagate other errors through the existing recovery
handling, and refuse restoration for both existing and dangling symlinks. Ensure
the eligibility check covers currentProfile being null as well as profiles not
already original.

Review comments at @structure/codex-home.md:
- Line 82: Update the removal guarantee in the description of the
preserveProfile behavior to state that unlinking is guarded by the held config
write lock and identity checks, but is not atomic against writers that ignore
the lock.

Review comments at @tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts:
- Around line 449-455: Add an assertion in the symlinked branch of the test to
verify that `out.success` is false, alongside the existing failed-state and
artifact-preservation checks.

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• src/codex/config-write-lock.ts
• src/codex/inject/config-write-section.ts
• src/codex/inject/remove.ts
• src/codex/journal.ts
• structure/codex-home.md
• tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts

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Closing completed source tracking after the full seven-file change at cc7897e was preserved byte for byte in published commit 798080e. This includes rollback after profile-removal refusal, dangling generated-profile link checks, ENOENT handling, the recovery regressions, and the cooperative-lock limitation documentation. On the integration candidate, Bun 1.4.3 ran the two journal files: 52 passed, 6 POSIX-only skipped, 0 failed, with 318 assertions; typecheck, structure checks, privacy scan and diff checks also passed. Published-head CI and maintainer security review remain separate pending stages, so this closure does not claim merge or release readiness. The source branch and validation history are retained.