core-agent-ide/codex-rs/protocol
friel-openai ba463a9dc7
Preserve background terminals on interrupt and rename cleanup command to /stop (#14602)
### Motivation
- Interrupting a running turn (Ctrl+C / Esc) currently also terminates
long‑running background shells, which is surprising for workflows like
local dev servers or file watchers.
- The existing cleanup command name was confusing; callers expect an
explicit command to stop background terminals rather than a UI clear
action.
- Make background‑shell termination explicit and surface a clearer
command name while preserving backward compatibility.

### Description
- Renamed the background‑terminal cleanup slash command from `Clean`
(`/clean`) to `Stop` (`/stop`) and kept `clean` as an alias in the
command parsing/visibility layer, updated the user descriptions and
command popup wiring accordingly.
- Updated the unified‑exec footer text and snapshots to point to `/stop`
(and trimmed corresponding snapshot output to match the new label).
- Changed interrupt behavior so `Op::Interrupt` (Ctrl+C / Esc interrupt)
no longer closes or clears tracked unified exec / background terminal
processes in the TUI or core cleanup path; background shells are now
preserved after an interrupt.
- Updated protocol/docs to clarify that `turn/interrupt` (or
`Op::Interrupt`) interrupts the active turn but does not terminate
background terminals, and that `thread/backgroundTerminals/clean` is the
explicit API to stop those shells.
- Updated unit/integration tests and insta snapshots in the TUI and core
unified‑exec suites to reflect the new semantics and command name.

### Testing
- Ran formatting with `just fmt` in `codex-rs` (succeeded). 
- Ran `cargo test -p codex-protocol` (succeeded). 
- Attempted `cargo test -p codex-tui` but the build could not complete
in this environment due to a native build dependency that requires
`libcap` development headers (the `codex-linux-sandbox` vendored build
step); install `libcap-dev` / make `libcap.pc` available in
`PKG_CONFIG_PATH` to run the TUI test suite locally.
- Updated and accepted the affected `insta` snapshots for the TUI
changes so visual diffs reflect the new `/stop` wording and preserved
interrupt behavior.

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src Preserve background terminals on interrupt and rename cleanup command to /stop (#14602) 2026-03-15 22:17:25 -07:00
BUILD.bazel fix(core) Preserve base_instructions in SessionMeta (#9427) 2026-01-19 21:59:36 -08:00
Cargo.toml client side modelinfo overrides (#12101) 2026-02-19 10:38:57 -08:00
README.md fix: separate codex mcp into codex mcp-server and codex app-server (#4471) 2025-09-30 07:06:18 +00:00

codex-protocol

This crate defines the "types" for the protocol used by Codex CLI, which includes both "internal types" for communication between codex-core and codex-tui, as well as "external types" used with codex app-server.

This crate should have minimal dependencies.

Ideally, we should avoid "material business logic" in this crate, as we can always introduce Ext-style traits to add functionality to types in other crates.