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Problem

Managed ChatGPT sign-in gives Codex a fixed access token at launch. A turn that outlives that token fails, even though T3 has already renewed its saved credentials, because the running app-server process never sees the new token.

Expected: an active managed Codex process keeps working across a token renewal without being restarted.

Change

  • The managed model provider uses Codex's credential command to fetch the current token on demand, so the running app-server process is preserved.
  • The command reads from a loopback bridge owned by the provider scope. The bridge delegates renewal to the existing locked auth service, binds requests to the account selected at launch, and closes with its scope.
  • The launch environment carries only the bridge URL, secret and account. Static provider tokens are removed from it.
  • The credential command is a hidden t3 codex-managed-token subcommand, dispatched from the bin.ts fast path and resolved with the shared self-invocation helper. The earlier process.execPath -e <script> form cannot run in the packaged T3 executable, which has no Node CLI.
  • The model catalog request takes its token from the auth service, since the launch environment no longer has one.
  • The bridge compares its secret in constant time. Each bridge is bound server-side to its launch account; changing the request's account header cannot expand its authority.
  • A capacity-one ScopedCache owns each bridge's resource scope, so account replacement closes the old listener. The auth service also invalidates issued bridges when sign-in replaces active credentials, on logout, transferred-credential replacement and local revocation; ordinary token renewal preserves the live bridge.

OpenAI endpoint configuration and ordinary CLI authentication are unchanged.

Scope and approval

Fixes #17445. Maintainer triage establishes the active-process failure. This fix does not rely on recycling idle sessions.

All changes serve the one problem: the bridge and credential command renew the token in a live process, and the catalog request, CLI subcommand and driver test changes follow from the token no longer being in the launch environment. Auth lifecycle invalidation retires the new renewable capability when credentials are replaced, without interrupting ordinary renewal.

Verification

Latest checks use the tree merged with upstream 18656a3402459d9d145bb3fa5767723531b27ac7 on Linux x64.

vp test run apps/server/src/provider/CodexManagedRuntime.test.ts apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts apps/server/src/provider/CodexChatGptAuth.test.ts --maxWorkers 1 --no-file-parallelism

All three files pass: 92 tests.

  • The runtime tests execute the configured credential command itself. They expire the saved token and run two concurrent commands, without a prior status read or restarting the runtime: both get the renewed token and the OAuth endpoint is called once.
  • They cover unauthenticated requests (401), account changes (409), provider-scope cleanup, and removal of static tokens and ambient endpoint overrides.
  • The account-isolation regression reuses the old bridge secret with the newly selected account header. It failed in all four managed/local runtime cases before account binding; it now returns an empty 409. A newly resolved runtime gets a separate secret and successfully obtains the selected account's token.
  • The CodeRabbit cleanup follow-up uses the ScopedCache implementation available in pinned Effect 4.0.2. New checks prove account switching closes the old endpoint, logout closes the selected endpoint, and reconnecting the same registration issues a fresh secret while the old capability cannot obtain the new token. All four managed/local runtime cases failed before cleanup; with scoped eviction alone, all four still failed the logout check. Both stages pass after lifecycle invalidation.
  • Failed or cancelled reconnects preserve the active bridge: real endpoint regressions cover cancellation, expired authorization codes, mismatched subjects and invalid nonces. Declined sharing for an inactive profile also preserves the selected account's bridge. Successful same-account reconnect closes the old listener at credential replacement and issues a fresh secret. All six cases failed against the previous head before the fix.
  • Scoped Effect/TypeScript checking for the modified runtime, auth service and their dependencies reports no errors. Targeted lint and formatting pass. Typecheck suggestions in unchanged files remain outside this fix.
  • Package boundary checks on the preceding 1025e41 head: built the server bundle with cd apps/server && vp pack, then the Linux standalone executable with T3CODE_PACK_EXE=1 vp pack under Node 26.8.2. Both built credential commands were run against an isolated loopback fixture: exact token-only stdout before and after rotation, and exit 1 with empty stdout for an invalid secret. No live account was used.

Independent verification and user reports

Three community members contributed evidence for this fix. Thanks to @Proview-China, @ammar-madni, and @tobiasrc98 for checking the behavior and sharing their results:

  • @Proview-China — independently tested the fix. On Linux with Codex app-server 0.162.1 and Node 24.18.1, they ran all 92 focused tests against 26436da249 and exercised the source credential command against a mock token bridge and Responses endpoint. In one active turn, token A was accepted, then rejected with 401 token_expired; Codex fetched token B and completed the turn in the same unchanged process, before the 30-second cache interval elapsed. This native result is theirs: my own mock did not complete thread/start. Verification and request trace.
  • @ammar-madni — independently confirmed the reported failure. They repeatedly encountered the same expired-token 401 while using the managed ChatGPT connection, confirming that the defect affects another user. Their comment does not claim a test run of this branch. Failure report.
  • @tobiasrc98 — supplied detailed independent diagnosis. On macOS nightly builds 3093 and 3105 with Codex 0.156.1, they reported about 155 token_expired events across two managed instances, beginning roughly one hour after creation. The failing processes reported an environment-provided credential and recovery_not_run; existing-login processes in the same period reported no expired-token errors. They also separated the older CLI's model-support error from the credential-expiry problem and documented the existing-login workaround. This supports the failure mechanism and proposed direction; it is not a test of this PR's implementation. Diagnosis and workaround.

The evidence comprises one independent implementation verification and two additional user reports of the defect. It does not establish packaged/Electron native-turn behavior, Windows execution, or a real-account hour-long turn.

Limits: no real-account hour-long turn, Electron or Windows build was checked. The native check above used the source subcommand and a mock bridge; the packaged executable was only checked at the command boundary, not through a native turn.

Implemented and tested with OpenAI Codex (gpt-6.1-sol) in T3 Code. Review follow-ups by Claude Opus 5.5, with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.

Latest hardening and verification: OpenAI Codex (gpt-6.1-sol), ChatGPT Work harness.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR introduces a new loopback credential bridge and hidden subprocess command that changes how managed Codex obtains and refreshes authentication during active turns, including lifecycle invalidation and launch-default changes. It also adds or broadens static-analysis suppressions, so the authentication and default-behavior changes warrant human review.

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Managed Codex now retrieves access tokens through a scoped local credential bridge instead of exposing them through ACCESS_TOKEN. An internal command requests credentials from the bridge. Credential replacement invalidates the cached source. Tests cover renewal, account changes, command dispatch, and bridge shutdown.

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Managed Codex credentials

Layer / File(s) Summary
Credential bridge and lifecycle
apps/server/src/provider/CodexManagedTokenSource.ts, apps/server/src/provider/CodexManagedRuntime.test.ts
Adds a loopback token server. It validates the bearer secret and account, returns current credentials, and closes with its scope.
Token command and dispatch
apps/server/src/provider/codexManagedTokenCommand.ts, apps/server/src/cli/codexManagedToken.ts, apps/server/src/bin.ts, apps/server/src/binCli.ts
Adds an internal command to fetch a token from the bridge. The server entry point and CLI dispatch the command.
Runtime token configuration and validation
apps/server/src/provider/CodexManagedRuntime.ts, apps/server/src/provider/CodexChatGptAuth.ts, apps/server/src/provider/CodexManagedRuntime.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/CodexChatGptAuth.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexManagedProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts
Configures Codex to use the credential command and passes the bridge URL, secret, and account ID to the runtime environment. Credential replacement invalidates the cached source. Tests cover concurrent renewal, account changes, reconnects, and listener closure. Model discovery reads the token from runtime auth access.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Codex
  participant runCodexManagedTokenCommand
  participant CodexManagedTokenSource
  participant authAccess
  Codex->>runCodexManagedTokenCommand: Request credentials
  runCodexManagedTokenCommand->>CodexManagedTokenSource: GET /token with bearer secret and account
  CodexManagedTokenSource->>authAccess: Resolve current credentials
  authAccess-->>CodexManagedTokenSource: Return access token and client ID
  CodexManagedTokenSource-->>runCodexManagedTokenCommand: Return access token
  runCodexManagedTokenCommand-->>Codex: Write token to stdout
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Managed Codex model discovery continues to authenticate with the signed-in account against the existing models endpoint. No concrete user-facing regression remains to address before merge.

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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 51e50

An already-authorized process gains continuing access to renewed credentials, restricted to the selected sign-in. No authorization bypass was established. Deployment-level isolation and unusual revocation and recovery cases remain incompletely validated.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Possession of the child capability enables retrieval of renewed access tokens for its launch account while the source remains live and auth permits access. This extends temporal exposure beyond a single launch token, but does not authorize another selected account or expose the credential store through this protocol.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The inspected account-substitution attack path is rejected: requests naming another account fail the server-bound account check, and credentials returned for a different account are independently rejected. Test assertions cover both substitutions and require empty response bodies.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Local callers must present a random 256-bit bearer secret, compared using fixed-length digests and a constant-time operation. Account identity is fixed server-side rather than delegated to the request header. Token responses are marked no-store, and auth failures return no token.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Active credential replacement, logout, imported-credential replacement and local revoke invoke cache invalidation before changing credential state. Failed reconnects before credential commitment preserve the existing source. Inspected tests assert closure after replacement and logout and a fresh capability on reconnect.
  • observed — Renewal scope loss and unrecoverable refresh removal do not themselves invalidate the listener. They nevertheless block token delivery, and subsequent access rejects missing credentials or sharing scope. Inspected sign-in and import restoration paths perform invalidation; the other production auth constructor uses isolated handoff storage rather than the live persistent store.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make the dormant-capability policy explicit for terminal renewal failure or scope loss. A bridge-level recovery test should verify that an old capability cannot become usable after later same-account credential restoration; retiring the source immediately on terminal authority loss would simplify that lifecycle guarantee.
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The credential command ran `process.execPath -e <script>`, which the packaged
T3 executable cannot evaluate, so it now re-invokes this install's own hidden
`codex-managed-token` subcommand. The model catalog request reads the access
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Resolve managed launch configuration with main, verify command-triggered concurrent renewal, and reject cross-account reuse of bridge credentials.

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Use the pinned Effect ScopedCache to finalize evicted listeners. Retire bridge capabilities during auth session replacement and verify account-switch and logout cleanup without interrupting ordinary token renewal.

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The resource-cleanup finding and logout/reconnect capability concern are addressed in 7c89726, with regression results in the review-thread reply and updated PR description.

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Independent verification of 26436da249dd2dfe8357532fb8025ef8ac5bde45 on Linux, using Codex app-server 0.162.1 and Node 24.18.1.

The three focused test files pass: 92 tests, 3 files.

pnpm exec vp test run \
  apps/server/src/provider/CodexManagedRuntime.test.ts \
  apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts \
  apps/server/src/provider/CodexChatGptAuth.test.ts \
  --maxWorkers 1 --no-file-parallelism

I also checked the native retry boundary using the PR's actual source entry point (node apps/server/src/bin.ts codex-managed-token), a loopback mock token bridge and Responses endpoint, dummy credentials, and an isolated CODEX_HOME and working directory. The command settings match the PR: timeout_ms=25000, refresh_interval_ms=30000.

This completes one active turn in one unchanged app-server process:

  1. The first Responses request uses dummy token A and succeeds, returning a no-op dynamic tool call.
  2. The mock bridge rotates to token B while that same turn is active; the client returns the tool result.
  3. The next Responses request still uses cached token A and receives 401 with code: token_expired.
  4. Codex invokes the source credential command again, retries with token B, and emits turn/completed with status completed.

Observed request trace:

A -> accepted
A -> 401 token_expired
B -> accepted
same process, same active turn -> completed

This covers the source subcommand form that the PR description lists as unverified, including an auth retry before the 30-second cache interval elapses. It does not establish packaged SEA/Electron behavior, Windows support, or a real-account hour-long turn. The native probe uses a mock bridge; the actual bridge/auth-service behavior is covered separately by the focused tests above. No installed T3 binary, live provider settings or real credentials were changed.

Verification performed with Codex in T3 Code; reporting measured results, not a merge approval.

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@Proview-China thank you, this is the piece I couldn't get working myself. My native Responses mock never got past thread/start, so the description listed the native request/retry behaviour as unverified.

Your trace (old token accepted, then 401 token_expired, credential command re-run, retry with the new token, turn completed in the same process) is exactly the behaviour the PR is meant to produce, and it shows the auth retry firing before the 30-second refresh interval.

I've linked your comment from the Verification section and credited the result to you. The remaining limits there match yours: no packaged or Electron native turn, no Windows, and no real-account hour-long run.

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Constantly seeing the following with the "managed Chatgpt connection":

unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: Provided authentication token is expired. Please try signing in again., url: https://api.openai.com/v1/responses

It seems like this fixes that issue.

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@ammar-madni yep, that's the exact error from #17445 and this fixes it. Codex was holding the one token it got at startup and never saw the renewed one, so it 401'd once that expired. With this change it asks T3 for the current token and retries, so the turn keeps going.

Thanks for confirming it's hitting other people too.

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Another data point in support of this PR's approach (fetching the credential on demand instead of a launch-time ACCESS_TOKEN).

Setup: macOS, T3 Code Nightly 0.0.46-nightly.20261014.3093, then 3105. Managed "Connect with ChatGPT", gpt-6.1-sol, Codex 0.156.1.

What happened

  • Two managed instances, created 2026-10-13 13:47Z and 2026-10-14 11:52Z. The 401 token_expired failures started about one hour after each was created (13 Oct 14:48Z and 14 Oct 12:52Z), then recurred several times a day. T3's provider logs hold about 155 token_expired error events across both instances.
  • Codex's own log fields on the failing processes: auth_env_provider_key_present="true", auth_recovery_mode="managed", auth_recovery_phase="reload", auth_recovery_outcome="recovery_not_run". Codex cannot recover from the env-provided key, which matches the triage in [Bug]: Managed ChatGPT conversations keep failing after token renewal until T3 restarts #16132.
  • In the same window, Codex processes that T3 started on the default ~/.codex login (auth_mode="Chatgpt") logged zero token_expired errors.

Workaround for others hitting this
An "existing login" Codex instance on ~/.codex avoids the 401s. For gpt-6.1-sol it needs a current Codex CLI: the bundled 0.156.1 returns The 'gpt-6.1-sol' model is not supported when using Codex with a ChatGPT account, while 0.162.1 (Homebrew) answers normally on the same login. Point the instance's binary path at the newer CLI and add gpt-6.1-sol as a custom model.

That workaround gives up the managed sign-in flow, so this PR is still the real fix.

Posted by Claude on Tobias's behalf. No credentials or raw logs included. Edited: an earlier version wrongly said the ChatGPT login can't use gpt-6.1-sol; that error came from the older CLI.

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@tobiasrc98 thanks for the detailed report. The roughly one-hour failures and auth_env_provider_key_present="true" / recovery_not_run combination are consistent with the launch-time token getting stuck in the running managed process. The existing-login comparison helps narrow that down, though it isn't a test of this branch itself.

This PR removes the static token from the managed launch environment and uses Codex's credential command to ask T3 for the current credential. The independent native probe above exercised the recovery within one active turn: token A was rejected, the command fetched token B, and the same process completed the turn.

Your CLI-version clarification is useful too: the older CLI's model-support error is separate from the managed-token expiry. I've kept the verification limits explicit—this still hasn't been checked with a real-account hour-long turn, a native packaged/Electron turn, or on Windows. Thanks for documenting both the failure and the workaround without exposing credentials.

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Thanks for addressing the active-turn credential expiry in #17445. The defect remains on main, but this unvouched submission changes 519 lines across 11 files, beyond the 500-line scope we can take over. Right now we are only taking focused bug fixes from outside contributors, and Read this first explains our limited review capacity and discretion to close or defer work. Please keep #17445 as the problem record and request reconsideration with a smaller coherent fix or an explicitly agreed maintainer takeover.

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luke2x commented Oct 15, 2026 •

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@maria-rcks I understand the volume of PRs and limited review capacity, but could you reconsider this closure or clarify the specific change needed? This fixes one defect you acknowledge remains on main: managed Codex turns fail when their launch-time token expires, even though T3 has renewed the credential.

Three community members contributed evidence. @Proview-China independently passed all 92 focused tests and verified native token recovery within the same active process using mock endpoints. @ammar-madni and @tobiasrc98 separately confirmed the failure, with Tobias providing detailed diagnosis. CodeRabbit approved the current head. The remaining packaged/Electron, Windows, and real-account testing limits are documented; I'm not treating these results as a substitute for maintainer review.

The diff is 519 changed lines—19 over 500—and CONTRIBUTING.md explicitly says there is no line-count or file-count cutoff. The 11 files serve the same fix: the runtime requests current credentials, the executable subcommand makes that work in packaged builds, and account binding/lifecycle cleanup prevent the new credential capability from surviving account replacement or logout. The associated tests cover those boundaries. Could you identify which part exceeds a focused bug fix, or confirm that the concern is review capacity rather than eligibility?

I'm asking for a concrete path for this PR, not a blanket exception for larger submissions. If getting below 500 lines is required for reconsideration, I'm willing to simplify it while preserving the authentication safeguards and meaningful tests. Guidance on what should change would help me do that without cutting necessary coverage just to meet the count.

If this is incorporated into another PR, I'd appreciate keeping an acknowledgement of my contribution in the release notes.

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luke2x commented Oct 18, 2026 •

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@maria-rcks just bumping this once. I know review capacity is tight. Is there a decision on whether a maintainer can take this branch over under #17445, or would you prefer I cut it below 500 lines and reopen? Either is fine; I just don’t want to keep pushing changes in the wrong direction.

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luke2x commented Oct 21, 2026 •

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@juliusmarminge could you take another look at #17920? I know you guys have a lot of PRs to get through and can’t look at everything, but I’m confused about why mine was closed while #19895 was taken over and became #21786/#21787.

Mine addressed the same active-turn token expiry, had 92 passing focused tests, and had supporting evidence from three people. @Proview-China independently tested recovery in the same running Codex process. @ammar-madni and @tobiasrc98 confirmed the bug, and Tobias shared a detailed diagnosis supporting the approach. CodeRabbit also approved the head. I’ve kept the remaining platform and real-account testing gaps in the description.

The closure said it was 519 lines, so 19 over the takeover limit, but CONTRIBUTING said there wasn’t a line-count cutoff. With the testing and independent verification already there, I don’t really understand why that ruled it out. I’ve asked about reconsideration before but haven’t heard back.

I’m happy to simplify it or update it against main. Is there a technical reason the other approach was preferred, or was it down to review capacity? Could mine be reopened, or could you let me know what would need to change?

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[Bug]: Managed ChatGPT login gets expired-token 401 during long Codex runs

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