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Second of three PRs split out of #5947 by @lcxhh521. Stacked on #6361 (the app-server shim); review only the commit on top of it. After #6361 lands, this branch is rebased onto dev and retargeted.

This carries #5947's local-CA send-unblock intercept, kept experimental, macOS only, and off by default (chatgptDesktop.unblockSend, chatgptDesktop.port):

  • A loopback TLS listener terminates chatgpt.com traffic from the ChatGPT desktop app using a locally issued CA, relays HTTP and WebSocket traffic upstream, and clears the plain-quota send gate in usage responses. It reuses the gate helpers from src/chatgpt/app-server-shim/gate-rewrite.ts and does not redefine them.
  • ocx chatgpt launch | restore | status | install-watcher gain the intercept mode next to the existing shim mode.
  • The shared SOCKS5 handshake is factored into src/lib/socks5-handshake.ts (used by socks5-fetch.ts and the upstream dial), with its own tests.
  • Two fixes on top of feat(chatgpt-unblock): PAC-fallback mode so traffic survives opencodex stopping #5947: an http:// proxy without an explicit port now dials 80 instead of an invented 8080, and a proxy that closes mid-handshake fails the upstream dial (502) instead of hanging the upgrade (tests/clients/desktop-unblock-ws-upstream.test.ts).
  • The PAC fallback from feat(chatgpt-unblock): PAC-fallback mode so traffic survives opencodex stopping #5947 is not here. It comes in the next stacked PR because it only splices into this listener.

Security cost (please weigh this before anything else): enabling this mode issues a local CA and asks the user to trust it in the login keychain (security add-trusted-cert). The listener then terminates TLS for chatgpt.com and relays the signed-in account's credentials. That is a machine-wide trust change for a quota UI convenience.

Evidence against it: in #6196 (2026-09-27..29) TooSpace ran this intercept on current macOS Desktop builds, and the listener saw zero established connections in about 20 hours. The bundled app-server owns the chatgpt.com sockets, so the gate reads never pass through it. The app-server shim in #6361 is the mechanism with field evidence.

It also conflicts with the 260928 maintainer design, which rejects CA installation. It is offered so the decision can be made on a reviewable diff. Closing this PR is an expected outcome.

Security review requested per MAINTAINERS.md (TLS termination, credential relay, keychain trust, new outbound transport).

Refs #6196, #4878. Plan: devlog/_plan/261001_quota_send_lock_split/030_send_unblock_intercept.md.

Co-authored-by: lcxhh521 59329914+lcxhh521@users.noreply.github.com

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  • Local suite not run (maintainer instruction). Verification is the required hosted CI on the exact head of this PR.
  • Independent read-only review of the change set against the split plan before push.
  • Tests carried from feat(chatgpt-unblock): PAC-fallback mode so traffic survives opencodex stopping #5947 without PAC or shim cases: rewrite, CA trust, listener, WebSocket frame and relay, runtime, launch script, watcher install, config boundary (tests/clients/desktop-*.test.ts), plus tests/lib/socks5-handshake.test.ts and the core-lab boundary test.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added experimental, opt-in macOS ChatGPT Desktop tools to launch and restore the app, check integration status, and manage an automatic launch watcher.
    • Added two optional integrations: an app-server shim that adjusts eligible quota information, and a local intercept that relays traffic and adjusts selected conversation and usage data.
    • Added configuration options and guidance covering setup, trust requirements, limitations, and restoring native behavior.
  • Improvements
    • Added shared SOCKS5 connection handling for proxy-based traffic.

lidge-jun and others added 2 commits October 1, 2026 16:25
Split the app-server shim out of #5947. ocx chatgpt launch|restore|status
relaunches ChatGPT with CODEX_CLI_PATH pointing at a generated launcher that
execs the bundled codex app-server unchanged and pipes only its stdout through
the hidden 'ocx internal chatgpt-app-server-filter'. The filter clears the
plain-quota gate in account/rateLimits/read and account/rateLimits/updated and
passes every other line through byte for byte. The launcher falls back to the
untouched binary when the platform check, runtime or filter self-test fails.
Default off behind chatgptDesktop.appServerShim; macOS only; experimental.

Refs #6196

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…5947)

Stacked on the app-server shim. Adds the experimental, default-off
chatgptDesktop.unblockSend mode: a loopback TLS listener with a locally issued
CA terminates chatgpt.com traffic from the ChatGPT desktop app, relays HTTP and
WebSocket traffic upstream through the configured proxy, and clears the
plain-quota send gate using the shim's gate-rewrite helpers. The SOCKS5
handshake moves to src/lib/socks5-handshake.ts and is shared with the fetch
tunnel. The PAC fallback is left for the next stacked PR.

Two fixes on top of #5947: an http:// proxy without an explicit port now dials
80 instead of 8080, and a proxy that closes mid-handshake fails the upstream
dial instead of hanging the upgrade.

Refs #6196

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Adds two opt-in macOS ChatGPT Desktop integrations: an app-server stdout filter and a local TLS intercept for selected HTTP responses. Adds shared SOCKS5 handshake support, configuration and CLI controls, a launch watcher, runtime lifecycle integration, tests, and documentation.

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ChatGPT Desktop integrations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and shared SOCKS5 handshake
src/types/config.ts, src/config/schema/*, src/config/diagnostics.ts, src/lib/socks5-*, tests/clients/desktop-chatgpt-config.test.ts, tests/clients/desktop-unblock-config-boundary.test.ts, tests/lib/socks5-handshake.test.ts, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json, structure/config.md, structure/transports/inventory.md
Adds the optional chatgptDesktop configuration with strict write validation and read-time handling for malformed values. Adds a shared SOCKS5 handshake and credential parser, then updates the fetch tunnel to use them.
App-server quota-gate filter
src/chatgpt/app-server-shim/*, src/cli/internal-command.ts, tests/clients/desktop-app-server-shim*.test.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/chatgpt-desktop.md, structure/clients/chatgpt-desktop.md
Adds quota-gate rewrites for selected JSON-RPC messages and a byte-preserving stdout filter. The launcher uses the filter only on macOS when its executable exists and passes self-test; otherwise it runs the original binary. Adds the internal filter command and tests for rewrite, streaming, and launcher behavior.
HTTP rewriting and WebSocket relay
src/chatgpt/desktop-unblock/rewrite.ts, src/chatgpt/desktop-unblock/listener.ts, src/chatgpt/desktop-unblock/ws-*, tests/clients/desktop-rewrite.test.ts, tests/clients/desktop-unblock-listener.test.ts, tests/clients/desktop-unblock-ws-*.test.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/chatgpt-desktop.md, structure/clients/chatgpt-desktop.md, structure/transports/inventory.md
Adds conversation and usage response rewriting on selected paths, with SSE support and an 8 MiB JSON rewrite limit. Adds a local TLS listener and a WebSocket relay that supports direct, HTTP CONNECT, and SOCKS5 upstream routes; WebSocket traffic is relayed without response rewriting.
Runtime, watcher, and CLI operations
src/chatgpt/desktop-unblock/runtime.ts, src/chatgpt/desktop-unblock/launch-watcher.ts, src/chatgpt/desktop-unblock/ca-trust.ts, src/server/index/chatgpt-unblock-lifecycle.ts, src/server/index/optional-listeners.ts, src/cli/chatgpt-command.ts, src/cli/{capabilities,dispatch,help,registry}.ts, tests/clients/desktop-unblock-{ca-trust,launch-script,runtime,watcher-install}.test.ts, tests/lab/core-lab-boundary.test.ts, docs-site/astro.config.mjs, skills/ocx/references/01_management_surface.md, structure/{INDEX,manifest,runtime}.md
Adds listener startup and shutdown outside the client runtime role, CA trust status, launchd watcher installation and removal, and ocx chatgpt launch, restore, status, and watcher commands. Adds CLI registration and documentation for the options and operating boundaries.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatGPTDesktop
  participant ShimLauncher
  participant CodexBinary
  participant RpcLineFilter
  ChatGPTDesktop->>ShimLauncher: Launch app-server command
  ShimLauncher->>CodexBinary: Start with original arguments
  CodexBinary->>RpcLineFilter: Send stdout lines
  RpcLineFilter->>ChatGPTDesktop: Return rewritten or unchanged stdout
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sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatGPTDesktop
  participant HostResolver
  participant ChatgptUnblockListener
  participant ChatGPTUpstream
  ChatGPTDesktop->>HostResolver: Resolve intercept host to local listener
  ChatGPTDesktop->>ChatgptUnblockListener: Send HTTPS request
  ChatgptUnblockListener->>ChatGPTUpstream: Forward request or WebSocket upgrade
  ChatGPTUpstream->>ChatgptUnblockListener: Return response or WebSocket frames
  ChatgptUnblockListener->>ChatGPTDesktop: Rewrite supported HTTP data and relay response
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Possibly related PRs

  • lidge-jun/opencodex#5733: Adds the earlier ChatGPT Desktop send-unblock implementation in the same listener, rewrite, relay, lifecycle, watcher, CA trust, and CLI areas.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f89bf

Both features are opt-in and off by default. With the intercept enabled, voice and dictation may ignore NO_PROXY settings. An invalid chatgptDesktop config block is silently ignored instead of reported. The guide's evidence paragraph presents an older result as current. These are bounded follow-ups. The decision to approve installing the CA remains with the project owner.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to f89bf

Enabling this experiment exposes signed-in ChatGPT traffic to a local relay and asks you to trust a certificate authority whose authority extends beyond ChatGPT. That trust remains after restoring normal networking. Manual activation and protected key files reduce exposure, but compromise of the signing key could affect other TLS traffic trusted by the same user.

Retained concerns

  • High · security · inferred: The new integration asks users to trust an existing unconstrained signing authority for SSL in their login keychain and exposes signed-in ChatGPT traffic to its relay. Restoring native networking does not revoke that trust. A process able to obtain the signing key and redirect or intercept traffic could impersonate hosts beyond ChatGPT for clients honoring that user's trust settings, including after the experiment is disabled. This is an introduced exposure and trust-lifecycle concern, not evidence that the pre-existing CA implementation was newly made unconstrained or that a remote exploit was verified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Normal activated interception exposes the signed-in account's apex-host credentials and message traffic to the local process. Signing-key compromise has a wider potential scope: TLS clients honoring the affected user's login-keychain trust, not merely ChatGPT. Loopback binding and owner-only key permissions limit direct exposure; the evidence does not establish system-keychain trust for all users, remote listener access, or cross-tenant authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported design risk is durable, broadly trusted signing authority: after manual trust, an attacker with access to the CA key and a traffic-interception position could issue certificates for unrelated hosts. An arbitrary loopback caller does not thereby inherit another caller's account credentials, and configurable upstream test seams were not shown to be remotely attacker-controlled. Those observations do not establish separate credential-theft or SSRF findings.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The default WebSocket tunnel targets chatgpt.com:443 and wraps the resulting connection in TLS with chatgpt.com as server name without disabling certificate verification. HTTP uses manual redirects. In contrast, launch-readiness probes disable TLS verification and accept a public service identifier; they detect ordinary wrong-service responses but do not authenticate process ownership.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — CA publication uses an exclusive lifecycle lease and atomic file replacement, with bounded contention retries during startup. Listener shutdown does not reverse app launch arguments or installed keychain trust, so recovery crosses ownership boundaries and requires explicit operator actions. The normal inspected server startup invokes the optional-listener start once.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Prefer a design that avoids login-keychain root trust. If interception is retained, consider a separately owned, short-lived authority with narrowly scoped certificate constraints, verified enforcement by the target clients, and an explicit trust-removal workflow that cannot disrupt other integrations using the existing shared CA.
  • proposed — If listener ownership is intended to authorize app rerouting or automatic restarts, replace the public service-string check with authenticated per-instance proof, such as appropriately pinned TLS identity. Preserve the existing proxy-independent loopback probe behavior.
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const proxy = options.proxy !== undefined
? options.proxy
: effectiveProxyFor(new URL(`https://${CHATGPT_UPSTREAM_HOST}`), process.env);

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P1 Badge Honor NO_PROXY when selecting the WebSocket route

When HTTPS_PROXY or ALL_PROXY is configured together with NO_PROXY=chatgpt.com, this path still selects the proxy because effectiveProxyFor deliberately does not apply noProxyMatches; the normal provider transport performs that additional check in src/lib/provider-outbound.ts. Consequently, intercepted voice and dictation traffic—including account cookies—travels through a proxy the operator explicitly excluded, or fails if that proxy cannot reach ChatGPT. Apply noProxyMatches before choosing the proxy, while preserving explicit test overrides.

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# One run at a time: quitting the app deletes the SingletonLock, which fires launchd again.
# A lock left by a killed run expires after two minutes.
find "$LOCK_DIR" -maxdepth 0 -mmin +2 -exec rmdir {} \\; 2>/dev/null

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P2 Badge Use a macOS-compatible stale-lock cleanup

If a launch or watcher process is killed while holding this lock, every subsequent watcher run silently exits and explicit ocx chatgpt launch reports another launch in progress. The cleanup cannot recover on the only supported platform because macOS's BSD find does not provide the GNU -maxdepth primary (see the macOS find(1) manual); stderr is discarded, so the failure is invisible. Replace this command with a macOS-compatible age check/removal.

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buffer = Buffer.concat([buffer, chunk]);
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P2 Badge Bound WebSocket handshake response headers

If the upstream keeps sending bytes without the terminating blank line, this loop repeatedly concatenates the entire response and has no size ceiling; the timeout limits duration but not memory, so a fast malformed endpoint can allocate enough memory to terminate the proxy. The pre-TLS HTTP CONNECT reader has the same unbounded accumulation in ProxyHandshakeReader.feed. Enforce a response-head limit, analogous to the existing 64 KiB HTTP response limit, and abort the tunnel once it is exceeded.

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tunnel.socket.write(`${lines.join("\r\n")}\r\n\r\n`);
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P2 Badge Validate the upstream WebSocket accept value

When an upstream or intermediary returns any 101 response—even with a missing or incorrect Sec-WebSocket-Accept—the relay upgrades the app-side socket and starts parsing subsequent bytes as frames. Because this method generated the upstream key, it must verify the corresponding SHA-1 accept value (and required upgrade headers) before reporting success; otherwise a malformed or misrouted upgrade appears connected and then stalls or corrupts the relay.

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lidge-jun and others added 2 commits October 1, 2026 16:58
Fold the send-unblock lifecycle note into one sentence; the details stay in structure/clients/chatgpt-desktop.md.

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The server lifecycle imported the TLS listener, local CA, WebSocket relay and launch watcher modules on every start. Load them dynamically, and only when chatgptDesktop.unblockSend is on, so a default install evaluates none of them and startServer stays synchronous.

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New field evidence in #6196 needs to be reflected in this description before the owner decision: TooSpace now reports a no-shim Group A on the same Desktop build, with bundled-or-dev app-server launches, zero shim-script occurrences, usable Send, and Chromium network-service connections to the local intercept. Therefore the earlier zero-established-connections result is historical, not a valid blanket statement that the intercept is never active or that #6361 is the measured active mechanism. This is a local port and GUI-activation observation, not proof of a submitted routed turn, necessity, or general efficacy; I asked for clarification of the saved 0%-window convention only, not another account trial.\n\nSeparately, current-head CI 36835306658 is not green: test 3/4 job 110281262713 fails tests/clients/client-link-runtime.test.ts:151 after the replacement-runtime ready record, with ConnectionRefused fetching /healthz. It does not establish a defect in this intercept, nor a harmless baseline flake without a controlled comparison. Please diagnose whether the child exited/listener stopped or readiness/port ownership raced; preserve cleanup and assertions, and provide a justified baseline comparison if classifying it as unrelated. No local scan or live CA/Keychain/app restart was performed. The open #6361 stack is valid; CA trust and account-relay approval are still owner decisions.

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Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/chatgpt-desktop.md:
- Around line 173-176: Update the #6196 evidence paragraph to present the
zero-connection report as an earlier observation, then include the later no-shim
observation of Chromium network-service connections and a usable Send button on
the same Desktop build. Clarify that neither observation establishes whether a
routed turn was submitted or the intercept was necessary.

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- Around line 55-58: Update the proxy selection in the WebSocket upstream setup
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check it with noProxyMatches before falling back to effectiveProxyFor, selecting
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and warnDegradedTopLevelOptIns to inspect the raw chatgptDesktop value with
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[#6196](https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex/issues/6196) reported zero established
listener connections over about 20 hours on current Desktop builds: the bundled
app-server performs the gate reads and may bypass Chromium's resolver rule.
The later exhausted-Plus-account report used the shim, intercept and restart

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Update the evidence paragraph so it does not present the 20-hour zero-connection result as current.

Lines 173-176 say that #6196 "reported zero established listener connections over about 20 hours on current Desktop builds". They also say the bundled app-server "may bypass Chromium's resolver rule".

Later evidence on #6196, quoted in the PR discussion, shows a different picture. A no-shim run on the same Desktop build had a usable Send button. It also showed Chromium network-service connections to the local intercept. The reviewer called the earlier zero-connection result historical. The reviewer also noted that port and GUI observations do not prove a routed turn was submitted, or that the intercept was necessary.

The path instruction for docs-site/** says user-facing docs must "stay in sync with actual CLI/API behavior". This guide is the only page a user reads before installing a trusted root CA. It currently gives an outdated and stronger negative claim than the evidence supports.

Reword the paragraph to describe both observations and their limits:

Proposed fix
-[#6196](https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex/issues/6196) reported zero established
-listener connections over about 20 hours on current Desktop builds: the bundled
-app-server performs the gate reads and may bypass Chromium's resolver rule.
+[#6196](https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex/issues/6196) first reported zero
+established listener connections over about 20 hours. A later no-shim run on the
+same Desktop build observed Chromium network-service connections to the intercept
+and a usable Send button. Neither observation proves that a routed turn was
+submitted or that the intercept was necessary.
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[#6196](https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex/issues/6196) reported zero established
listener connections over about 20 hours on current Desktop builds: the bundled
app-server performs the gate reads and may bypass Chromium's resolver rule.
The later exhausted-Plus-account report used the shim, intercept and restart
[#6196](https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex/issues/6196) first reported zero
established listener connections over about 20 hours. A later no-shim run on the
same Desktop build observed Chromium network-service connections to the intercept
and a usable Send button. Neither observation proves that a routed turn was
submitted or that the intercept was necessary.
The later exhausted-Plus-account report used the shim, intercept and restart
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Review comment at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/chatgpt-desktop.md around
lines 173 - 176:
Update the #6196 evidence paragraph to present the zero-connection report as an
earlier observation, then include the later no-shim observation of Chromium
network-service connections and a usable Send button on the same Desktop build.
Clarify that neither observation establishes whether a routed turn was submitted
or the intercept was necessary.

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Comment on lines +55 to +58
const proxy = options.proxy !== undefined
? options.proxy
: effectiveProxyFor(new URL(`https://${CHATGPT_UPSTREAM_HOST}`), process.env);
const route: UpstreamTunnel["route"] = socks5Route(proxy) ? "socks5" : proxy ? "http-connect" : "direct";

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Honor NO_PROXY for the raw WebSocket dial.

effectiveProxyFor selects HTTPS_PROXY without calling noProxyMatches. Therefore, when NO_PROXY or no_proxy includes chatgpt.com, the HTTP relay can connect directly while the WebSocket relay still uses the proxy. Voice and dictation can fail even though text requests work.

🐛 Suggested fix
-import { effectiveProxyFor } from "../../lib/proxy-env";
+import { effectiveProxyFor, noProxyMatches } from "../../lib/proxy-env";
...
+  const upstreamUrl = new URL(`https://${CHATGPT_UPSTREAM_HOST}`);
   const proxy = options.proxy !== undefined
     ? options.proxy
-    : effectiveProxyFor(new URL(`https://${CHATGPT_UPSTREAM_HOST}`), process.env);
+    : (noProxyMatches(upstreamUrl, process.env) ? null : effectiveProxyFor(upstreamUrl, process.env));
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Review comment at @src/chatgpt/desktop-unblock/ws-upstream.ts around lines 55 -
58:
Update the proxy selection in the WebSocket upstream setup to honor
NO_PROXY/no_proxy for CHATGPT_UPSTREAM_HOST. Reuse one upstream URL and check it
with noProxyMatches before falling back to effectiveProxyFor, selecting a direct
connection when it matches; preserve the explicit options.proxy override.

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Comment on lines +106 to +111
if (normalized.chatgptDesktop?.appServerShim === true && process.platform !== "darwin") {
warnings.push("chatgptDesktop.appServerShim is experimental and macOS only; ignored on this platform");
}
if (normalized.chatgptDesktop?.unblockSend === true && process.platform !== "darwin") {
warnings.push("chatgptDesktop.unblockSend is experimental and macOS only; ignored on this platform");
}

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Warn when chatgptDesktop is discarded.

configSchema converts an invalid chatgptDesktop block to undefined. The diagnostics only check valid flags enabled on non-macOS platforms, so malformed blocks are silent. warnDegradedTopLevelOptIns also does not check this block, although loadConfig calls it on all load paths.

Add the raw-schema check to diagnostics and to warnDegradedTopLevelOptIns.

Suggested diagnostics fix
   if (normalized.chatgptDesktop?.unblockSend === true && process.platform !== "darwin") {
     warnings.push("chatgptDesktop.unblockSend is experimental and macOS only; ignored on this platform");
   }
+  {
+    const rawDesktop = rawConfigRecord(rawParsed)?.chatgptDesktop;
+    if (rawDesktop !== undefined && !chatgptDesktopSchema.safeParse(rawDesktop).success) {
+      warnings.push("chatgptDesktop ignored: expected optional boolean appServerShim/unblockSend and an integer port 1..65535, with no other fields");
+    }
+  }
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   runtimeRoleSchema,
   spendSchema,
+  chatgptDesktopSchema,
 } from "./schema/leaf-validators";
 
@@
   warnDegradedStreamMode(rawParsed, validated);
   warnDegradedCompactionRouting(rawParsed, validated);
+  const rawDesktop = rawConfigRecord(rawParsed)?.chatgptDesktop;
+  if (rawDesktop !== undefined && !chatgptDesktopSchema.safeParse(rawDesktop).success) {
+    console.warn("⚠️  invalid chatgptDesktop ignored: expected optional boolean appServerShim/unblockSend and an integer port 1..65535, with no other fields");
+  }
   warnDegradedMemoryModels(rawParsed, validated);
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if (normalized.chatgptDesktop?.appServerShim === true && process.platform !== "darwin") {
warnings.push("chatgptDesktop.appServerShim is experimental and macOS only; ignored on this platform");
}
if (normalized.chatgptDesktop?.unblockSend === true && process.platform !== "darwin") {
warnings.push("chatgptDesktop.unblockSend is experimental and macOS only; ignored on this platform");
}
if (normalized.chatgptDesktop?.appServerShim === true && process.platform !== "darwin") {
warnings.push("chatgptDesktop.appServerShim is experimental and macOS only; ignored on this platform");
}
if (normalized.chatgptDesktop?.unblockSend === true && process.platform !== "darwin") {
warnings.push("chatgptDesktop.unblockSend is experimental and macOS only; ignored on this platform");
}
{
const rawDesktop = rawConfigRecord(rawParsed)?.chatgptDesktop;
if (rawDesktop !== undefined && !chatgptDesktopSchema.safeParse(rawDesktop).success) {
warnings.push("chatgptDesktop ignored: expected optional boolean appServerShim/unblockSend and an integer port 1..65535, with no other fields");
}
}
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Update the diagnostics around the chatgptDesktop checks and
warnDegradedTopLevelOptIns to inspect the raw chatgptDesktop value with
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lcxhh521 added a commit to lcxhh521/opencodex that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
Rebased onto the maintainer's intercept split (lidge-jun#6365). The launch watcher's launchd agent wakes
on the app's SingletonLock and on a readiness marker (`chatgpt-unblock.ready`) that
`startChatgptUnblock` rewrites once the listener is up, so an app that opened at login before
opencodex is routed as soon as the listener answers. In watch mode it only restarts an app that
started within the last five minutes (`ps -o etime=`): the marker also fires when opencodex
restarts under an app the user has been working in, and that one must be left alone. An
unreadable age counts as a fresh launch; `ocx chatgpt launch` always acts.

Carried over from the split, and kept: app lookup by `pgrep -a -x ChatGPT` (without `-a`, pgrep
skips its own ancestors), `bash -n` on the generated script before launchd loads it, and the
shim env passing through the shared launch script. The guide's watcher paragraph is updated in
all eight locales.
lcxhh521 added a commit to lcxhh521/opencodex that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
Brings the branch to the current dev tip. The resolution matches replaying lidge-jun#6365's intercept
commits and the watcher commits onto dev without the pre-squash shim commit, whose content dev
already carries through lidge-jun#6361 and lidge-jun#6412:
- `src/cli/chatgpt-command.ts` keeps lidge-jun#6365's intercept subcommands and adopts dev's shim
  hardening: bundle discovery by com.openai.codex, the OpenAI-signed bundle check before the
  launcher is written, this user's processes only, quit by bundle id, reopen by bundle path.
- The structure doc keeps dev's bundle-trust paragraph; runtime.md keeps dev's line with the
  lifecycle sentence folded in, within its 600-line budget.
- Test layout maps both dev's new files and the intercept's test files.
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@lidge-jun CodeRabbit raised two findings on #6381 that are about the intercept code from this PR, so I'm leaving them to you here instead of changing the intercept in #6381:

  1. CA trust before routing. Neither install-watcher nor the intercept launch checks that the local CA is trusted. With an untrusted CA the watcher still relaunches ChatGPT with the resolver switch whenever the listener answers (its identity probe uses curl -k), and every chatgpt.com request from the app then fails certificate verification. inspectChatgptCaTrust already reports this for status. Refusing install-watcher and the intercept launch while it reads untrusted or missing, and having the script skip an automatic relaunch in that state, would leave the app untouched. feat(chatgpt-unblock): route an app that opened before opencodex #6381's readiness marker makes this easier to hit, because opencodex starting now also wakes the watcher.
  2. Launch the bundle that was discovered. Once this branch is brought up to dev, the CLI finds the app by com.openai.codex (from feat(chatgpt): experimental macOS app-server quota-gate shim (split from #5947) #6361's hardening), but the intercept path (launchChatgptWithRule and the watcher script) still runs open -a ChatGPT and quits by name. With more than one ChatGPT bundle installed it can relaunch a different app than the one the CLI checked.

Separately, for bringing this branch up to dev: dev's gate rewrite counts only usedPercent as quota evidence, so the intercept's web usage snapshot (used_percent) stops opening an exhausted gate. #6463 fixes that on dev.

lcxhh521 added a commit to lcxhh521/opencodex that referenced this pull request Oct 4, 2026
The app-server shim reached dev through lidge-jun#6361 and the send-unblock
intercept is now lidge-jun#6365, with the ready-marker watcher on top in lidge-jun#6381.
This branch takes that tree (dev included) and adds the one part that
is still only here: PAC fallback.

- entry-proxy.ts and pac.ts as before; runtime.ts binds the CONNECT
  entry and rewrites chatgpt-unblock.pac at every start, before the
  readiness marker, and releases both listeners on failure.
- The launch watcher gains the PAC switch, the entry probe and PAC-aware
  restore on top of lidge-jun#6381's script; ocx chatgpt launch, install-watcher
  and status pass and report the entry port.
- chatgptDesktop.pacFallback joins the zod-only schema and the type.
- The old app-server shim copy and the pre-lidge-jun#6365 intercept code from
  this branch are dropped in favour of dev's and lidge-jun#6365's.
- PAC tests move to tests/clients/desktop-unblock-*; the guide and the
  structure doc describe PAC fallback.

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