Codex hooks: document layered precedence and guard inject-args against copying user hook groups (#12081) - #12141
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change documents Codex hook precedence, clarifies the wrapper contract, adds CLI regression coverage for user and cmux hook layering, and runs the test in CI. ChangesCodex hook layering
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Documentation can misstate whether Codex hook activation and trust bypass occur when all cmux handlers are persistently installed. Clarify this conditional behavior before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 24 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Codex appends the handlers of every configuration layer (managed, the user layer's hooks.json and config.toml [hooks], project .codex layers, the -c session-flags layer, plugins). cmux's per-invocation `-c hooks.<Event>=[...]` values therefore add a handler and never replace the user's hooks.json arrays, which the issue assumed. Document that precedence, the one-cmux-producer rule, the trust side effect of --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust, and the CMUX_CODEX_HOOKS_DISABLED=1 trade-off, and pin the "never copy user-owned groups" contract in the emitter's doc comment: copying them makes Codex register and run them twice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MPAVb9SSqAnuUnPEFQguE9
Behavioral regression test against the real CLI: with user-owned groups on all twelve Codex events, `cmux hooks codex inject-args` must emit exactly one cmux handler per event and never a user command, must leave hooks.json untouched, and must skip an event that already has a persistent cmux handler. Wired into the CLI no-socket regression step so CI runs it against the PR-built CLI. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MPAVb9SSqAnuUnPEFQguE9
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In `@docs/agent-hooks.md`:
- Around line 140-143: Update the documentation around
emitCodexWrapperInjectArgs() to state that --enable hooks and
--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust are added only when cmux injects at least one
event not covered by persistent handlers. Make the trust-bypass behavior
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| Inside cmux, the Codex wrapper adds `--enable hooks`, `--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust`, and one | ||
| `-c hooks.<Event>=[...]` pair for each cmux event that is not already covered by a persistent cmux | ||
| handler in `hooks.json`. These flags apply only to that process; cmux never rewrites `hooks.json` | ||
| or `config.toml` for this injection. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document the complete persistent-handler case.
When persistent cmux handlers cover every event, emitCodexWrapperInjectArgs() returns before it adds --enable hooks and --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust. The current text says these flags apply to every cmux launch. State that these flags apply only when cmux injects at least one missing event. Make the trust-bypass statement conditional too.
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In `@docs/agent-hooks.md` around lines 140 - 143, Update the documentation around
emitCodexWrapperInjectArgs() to state that --enable hooks and
--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust are added only when cmux injects at least one
event not covered by persistent handlers. Make the trust-bypass behavior
conditional, and document that no flags are added when hooks.json already covers
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Valid: emitCodexWrapperInjectArgs() returns before emitting --enable hooks or --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust when persistent cmux handlers already cover every event, so both the activation flags and the trust-bypass sentence should be conditional on at least one event needing injection. This PR is being consolidated into #12140 (now a draft here), and I raised the same correction there for its docs section; leaving this thread open rather than resolving it so the disposition stays visible.
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@austinywang, confirmed. The documentation must make both flag behaviors conditional on cmux injecting at least one missing event. Keeping this thread open is appropriate while #12140 consolidates the correction.
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File: docs/agent-hooks.md:140-143
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Learning: For Codex integration, `emitCodexWrapperInjectArgs()` returns without emitting `--enable hooks` or `--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust` when persistent cmux handlers in `hooks.json` cover every cmux event. Documentation of these flags must state that cmux adds them only when it injects at least one missing event.
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Heads-up from the sibling PR for this issue, #12140 (same account, opened a minute apart by another agent session). Both PRs reach the same conclusion from the same To avoid two conflicting merges I made #12140 a superset of this one:
Your trade-off note that Proposal: keep one PR. Unless there is a gap in #12140 you want kept here, I suggest closing this one once #12140's CI is green; if you see it the other way, say so on #12140 and I will fold the remaining pieces into this one instead. |
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Consolidating into #12140, which reached the same conclusion from the same |
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#12140 merged as 296511d with your three findings and the layer/count coverage folded in, and #12081 is closed with the combined evidence. Closing this draft as superseded, per your note; reopen if anything here still needs to land separately (the |
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Fixes #12081
What the issue claimed, and what is actually true
The issue reports that the cmux Codex wrapper's per-invocation
-c hooks.<Event>=[...]arguments make Codex replace the user'shooks.jsonarrays forSessionStart,UserPromptSubmit,Stop,PreToolUse,PostToolUse, andPermissionRequest, so user hooks stop running inside cmux.That premise is false for every Codex build cmux can inject into, and this PR verifies it rather than working around it:
codex-rs/hooks/src/engine/discovery.rsin openai/codex) walks the config layer stack low→high and appends handlers from each layer: managed hooks, the user layer ($CODEX_HOME/hooks.json, then[hooks]inconfig.toml), project.codexlayers, the command-line (-c, "session flags") layer, then plugin hooks. That loop has had this shape sinceconfig.tomlhooks landed (codex: support hooks in config.toml and requirements.toml openai/codex#18893, 2026‑04‑23), i.e. before--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust(add --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust CLI flag openai/codex#21768, 2026‑05‑13) which cmux's injection requires. It is identical at the installed Codex 0.153.4.CODEX_HOME, real Codex 0.153.4 binary,hooks.jsonwith user-ownedSessionStart/UserPromptSubmit/Stophandlers that append markers to a log):hook:dispatch log--enable hooks --dangerously-bypass-hook-trustonlycmux hooks codex inject-argsoutput of the installed cmux 0.64.22 CLI (cmux-only per-event arrays)-c hooks.SessionStart=[{hooks=[{…marker…}]}]-c+ cmux group)hooks.jsonwas byte-identical after every run. Run B is the issue's step 3–5 with the shipped cmux CLI: the user's hooks still run. Run D shows why the "append the user's array into the-cvalue" fix that was first attempted on this branch must not ship: Codex registers the copied groups a second time and runs them twice.What this PR changes
docs/agent-hooks.md: new Codex hook precedence section describing the layering above, that cmux never copies user groups (double execution), the one-cmux-producer-per-event rule with a persistentcmux hooks codex install, the trust side effect of--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust(untrusted user/project hooks run without the/hooksreview prompt inside cmux), and theCMUX_CODEX_HOOKS_DISABLED=1opt-out trade-off.CLI/CMUXCLI+CodexFireAndForgetHooks.swift: comment-only; the emitter's doc comment now states the contract (Codex appends the-clayer; never copy user-owned groups, Codex wrapper injection replaces existing per-event hook arrays #12081). No code token changes, no runtime change.tests/test_codex_inject_args_layering.py(+ one line in theRun CLI no-socket regressionsCI step): behavioral regression test against the real CLI. With user-owned groups on all twelve Codex events,cmux hooks codex inject-argsmust emit exactly one cmux handler per event and never a user command, must leavehooks.jsonuntouched, and must skip an event that already has a persistent cmux handler.Trade-offs taken (stated, not absorbed)
issue-12081-codex-hook-append(commits337b2c5198test +20aab5c0cefix, plus a later merge of main) implements exactly the double-execution regression shown in run D. That branch was never opened as a PR; it is superseded by this one and should be deleted rather than merged.mainby design; the PR says so instead of faking coverage.timeout=10000/120000in its-cvalues; Codex parsestimeoutas seconds (normalize_command_hookleaves non-SessionEnd hooks uncapped). cmux's hook scripts return immediately, so this is latent, but the unit is wrong.Tests run
python3 -m py_compile tests/test_codex_inject_args_layering.pyCMUX_CLI_BIN=<dev CLI built from a branch containing current main> python3 tests/test_codex_inject_args_layering.py→ PASS (DerivedDatacmux-cmd-2538, commit 97997df). On the shipped 0.64.22 CLI (ddd4a01) case 1 passes and case 2 fails, because that release predates main's persistent-producer skip (6b79b62); the test targets main's contract.-cvalue fails the test ("user-owned hook copied into value"); one that emits two handlers for SessionStart fails ("unexpected cmux hook shape").git diff -U0 … | grep '^[+-]' | grep -v '^[+-] *///'empty)Run CLI no-socket regressionsexecutes the new test against the PR-built CLILocalization audit: no in-app, Settings, menu, schema, or web strings were added or changed; docs are English-only like the rest of
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Clarifies that Codex appends cmux's per-launch
-chook layer on top of user hooks fromhooks.jsonandconfig.tomlinstead of replacing them — the assumption behind #12081 was wrong, so user hooks keep running — and adds a regression test guarding against copying user hook groups into injected values, which would register and run them twice. No runtime behavior changes.docs/agent-hooks.mdgains a Codex hook precedence section covering the layering, the one-cmux-producer-per-event rule, the--dangerously-bypass-hook-trustside effect, and theCMUX_CODEX_HOOKS_DISABLED=1opt-out.tests/test_codex_inject_args_layering.py(wired into the no-socket CLI regression step) asserts one cmux handler per event, never a copied user command, unchangedhooks.json, and skipping events with a persistent cmux handler.Written for commit 11d4c58. Summary will update on new commits.
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Documentation and a CLI contract regression test only; inject-args behavior is unchanged.
Overview
Clarifies that Codex appends cmux’s per-launch
-c hooks.<Event>layer on top ofhooks.json/config.tomlrather than replacing user hooks, and documents precedence, the one-cmux-producer-per-event rule, trust-bypass side effects, andCMUX_CODEX_HOOKS_DISABLED=1. No runtime change — the Swift inject-args emitter only gets an updated doc comment stating cmux must never copy user hook groups into-cvalues (that would double-register handlers).Adds
tests/test_codex_inject_args_layering.pyand wires it into the app-host Run CLI no-socket regressions CI step. The test assertscmux hooks codex inject-argsleaveshooks.jsonuntouched, emits only cmux-owned commands, and skips events that already have a persistent cmux handler inhooks.json.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 11d4c58. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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CMUX_CODEX_HOOKS_DISABLED=1for running Codex with unchanged hook configuration.