core-agent-ide/codex-rs/protocol
Charley Cunningham cb1a182bbe
Clarify sandbox permission override helper semantics (#13703)
## Summary
Today `SandboxPermissions::requires_additional_permissions()` does not
actually mean "is `WithAdditionalPermissions`". It returns `true` for
any non-default sandbox override, including `RequireEscalated`. That
broad behavior is relied on in multiple `main` callsites.

The naming is security-sensitive because `SandboxPermissions` is used on
shell-like tool calls to tell the executor how a single command should
relate to the turn sandbox:
- `UseDefault`: run with the turn sandbox unchanged
- `RequireEscalated`: request execution outside the sandbox
- `WithAdditionalPermissions`: stay sandboxed but widen permissions for
that command only

## Problem
The old helper name reads as if it only applies to the
`WithAdditionalPermissions` variant. In practice it means "this command
requested any explicit sandbox override."

That ambiguity made it easy to read production checks incorrectly and
made the guardian change look like a standalone `main` fix when it is
not.

On `main` today:
- `shell` and `unified_exec` intentionally reject any explicit
`sandbox_permissions` request unless approval policy is `OnRequest`
- `exec_policy` intentionally treats any explicit sandbox override as
prompt-worthy in restricted sandboxes
- tests intentionally serialize both `RequireEscalated` and
`WithAdditionalPermissions` as explicit sandbox override requests

So changing those callsites from the broad helper to a narrow
`WithAdditionalPermissions` check would be a behavior change, not a pure
cleanup.

## What This PR Does
- documents `SandboxPermissions` as a per-command sandbox override, not
a generic permissions bag
- adds `requests_sandbox_override()` for the broad meaning: anything
except `UseDefault`
- adds `uses_additional_permissions()` for the narrow meaning: only
`WithAdditionalPermissions`
- keeps `requires_additional_permissions()` as a compatibility alias to
the broad meaning for now
- updates the current broad callsites to use the accurately named broad
helper
- adds unit coverage that locks in the semantics of all three helpers

## What This PR Does Not Do
This PR does not change runtime behavior. That is intentional.

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
2026-03-06 09:57:48 -08:00
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src Clarify sandbox permission override helper semantics (#13703) 2026-03-06 09:57:48 -08:00
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.