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fix(server): Codex sessions can use the OpenAI Chrome plugin again - #34704
Since Chrome plugin 26.1023, Codex threads started from T3 can't use the OpenAI Chrome/browser plugin. cua.listBrowsers() and cua.getState() fail with The browser access host is unavailable, and agents fall back to Allow prompts, bringing Chrome to the foreground, or Computer Use. The same plugin works in sessions the Codex desktop app starts. Reported in #26098 and #26756 (macOS, Windows), with more reports after the duplicate closure, and in #27083 (Linux).
The plugin's browser service now needs BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_PIPE_PATH, _EXECUTOR_ID and _VERIFYING_IDENTITY. Before each turn it asks the host on that pipe whether the turn may use the browser, and it accepts only a signed answer. T3 never sets these variables. A T3 launched by the desktop app can pass that app's values to Codex, and that app refuses sessions it didn't start (#27083).
Change
Each Codex session T3 starts now runs its own browser-access host for the lifetime of the session. Codex already talks to T3 over the app-server protocol; this adds a second channel that the plugin uses:
CodexBrowserAccessHost listens on an owner-only Unix socket (inside a fresh 0700 directory) or a random named pipe. It creates a new Ed25519 key and executor ID for each session and hands them to codex app-server. It reads the plugin's native frame (length prefix, then JSON-RPC browser/access), and signs the codex.browserAccess.v1 decision the plugin verifies. It rejects malformed or oversized frames without replying, and it closes the listener and removes the socket directory when the session ends.
CodexAdapterV2 allows a request only when:
its executor ID is this session's,
its turn is running in this session (a subagent's turn counts under its root session), and
the thread's existing agent browser-access setting (browserToolsAvailable) allows it.
Values passed down from a parent process are always replaced, so an inherited host from another app is never used. If the host can't start (including key generation), the variables are set to empty and the session continues without browser access.
The owner-only socket/pipe setup is moved out of CodexManagedTokenBroker into privateIpcEndpoint.ts, unchanged, and both listeners use it.
On the maintainer's comment on #26756: this does not copy or reuse another process's identity or access decision. T3 is the process that hosts these Codex sessions, and it uses its own key to approve only turns it is running, under T3's own browser-access setting. The plugin still checks the signature on every decision. The variables are the same ones the desktop app sets for the sessions it hosts. OpenAI hasn't documented this protocol for other app-server hosts yet (openai/codex#57641), so the plugin could change it. If it does, the plugin just reports the host as unavailable again, as it does today.
Project-level browser-access overrides depend on #31412. Without it, a project override still fails closed, so this PR follows the global setting until #31412 lands.
Scope and approval
This fixes#26098 / #26756, which maintainers triaged as an upstream limitation. The objection there was to copying another process's identity, and this change doesn't do that. If you'd rather handle it differently or wait for OpenAI, I'm happy to move this to a discussion. It changes no UI, settings, dependencies or public API, and doesn't touch prompts.
Verification
Reproduced on main: the new adapter regression test fails on the base commit. The plugin gets no host, and an inherited host identity is passed through.
Focused tests, 382 passed after rebasing on current main:
vp test run src/provider/CodexBrowserAccessHost.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts
The adapter test drives a replayed Codex session and asks the host over its real socket, the way the plugin does. It covers:
signature verification of every decision against the published identity,
denial for a foreign executor ID, a wrong session, a finished turn, and cleared or withdrawn browser access, then allowing again once access is restored,
a 0700 socket directory that is removed on close (host test),
replacement of inherited BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_* values.
Other checks:vp run check:changed passes format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck and tests.
Live, macOS 27, dev desktop build: OpenAI Chrome plugin 26.1029.61003 and Chrome 157, with a real Codex turn in T3 Code (Dev) against the signed-in Chrome profile.
The agent opened its own tab, read the DOM, clicked, filled a field and read the value back, then closed its tab.
Chrome stayed in the background throughout, with no Allow or foreground prompt and no Computer Use fallback.
Turning browser access off made the same request fail before any browser access. Turning it back on in a fresh session made it work again, including reconnecting after a browser reset.
I also tested my own signed-in Chrome workflows by hand on that build.
Not checked: Windows named pipes and Linux in a live session (the pipe and socket paths are covered by unit tests only), and native Codex subagent turns in a live session. The live runs used this change plus the layer fix that fix(server): agent sessions honour per-project device and browser access #31412 covers, on a base a day older than this branch. The rebased branch is covered by the focused tests above.
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This restores Codex browser-plugin access through a signed, session-scoped host governed by existing browser permissions. It also adds file-level nodeBuiltinImport diagnostic suppressions in three files, which require human review.
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Walkthrough
The Codex adapter now provides browser-access environment variables to launched sessions. A private IPC host validates and signs access decisions based on the active turn and MCP browser-tool availability. The managed token broker now uses the shared private IPC endpoint helper.
The helper acquires private IPC endpoints and releases Unix socket directories after verifying their identity. The managed token broker uses the helper to obtain its listener endpoint.
The host validates length-prefixed requests, limits connections, and signs decisions for matching executor IDs when its authorization callback approves. The client verifies signed responses. The test checks socket-directory permissions and cleanup.
The adapter passes browser-access environment variables to the Codex client and checks active turns, session IDs, and MCP browser-tool availability. Replay tests check access decisions across session and turn states.
sequenceDiagram
participant CodexAppServer
participant CodexBrowserAccessHost
participant CodexAdapterV2
participant ActiveTurn
CodexAppServer->>CodexBrowserAccessHost: Send browser/access request
CodexBrowserAccessHost->>CodexAdapterV2: Check session and turn authorization
CodexAdapterV2->>ActiveTurn: Check active turn and browser tools
ActiveTurn-->>CodexAdapterV2: Return turn and MCP session state
CodexAdapterV2-->>CodexBrowserAccessHost: Return authorization decision
CodexBrowserAccessHost->>CodexAppServer: Return signed decision
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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review f018f
This change restores Chrome plugin access for Codex sessions through an owner-only, signed access check. No concrete merge-blocking risk is evident. Windows and Linux live behavior is covered only by unit tests.
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The title names the main change: Codex sessions started by T3 can use the OpenAI Chrome plugin again. The changeset adds a per-session browser-access host, gates access in CodexAdapterV2, and moves th…
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The only directly linked issue, #26098, is closed and completed. The linked-issue block marks it as historical context only. No active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding require…
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All changed areas in the whole-PR summary serve one purpose: giving each T3-hosted Codex session its own browser-access host. CodexBrowserAccessHost.ts and its test implement the host, including the o…
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The title names the main change: Codex sessions started by T3 can use the OpenAI Chrome plugin again. The changeset adds a per-session browser-access host, gates access in CodexAdapterV2, and moves the owner-only IPC setup into privateIpcEndpoint.ts. The title uses the conventional commit form and stays specific to the bug and its fix.
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The only directly linked issue, #26098, is closed and completed. The linked-issue block marks it as historical context only. No active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply. The whole-PR summary (merge base 4fd40e1 to head f018f1b) shows the work the PR describes: a per-session CodexBrowserAccessHost, a session-scoped gate in CodexAdapterV2 (executor ID, active turn, and browserToolsAvailable), replacement of inherited BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_* values, and a shared privateIpcEndpoint.ts. The PR description says the endpoint extraction is 'unchanged'. The summary shows added checks (ownership and permission validation, a /tmp fallback, a 100-byte path limit, and a random named pipe on Windows). This wording mismatch does not affect any active requirement. The incremental changes since the previous reviewed heads were not separately inspected. The whole-PR summary was used as evidence.
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All changed areas in the whole-PR summary serve one purpose: giving each T3-hosted Codex session its own browser-access host. CodexBrowserAccessHost.ts and its test implement the host, including the owner-only socket directory, signed decisions, and cleanup. CodexAdapterV2.ts and its test start the host, replace inherited values, and gate requests. testFixtures/browserAccessClient.ts supports the new tests. privateIpcEndpoint.ts and CodexManagedTokenBroker.ts move owner-only endpoint setup into one shared function used by both listeners. The summary shows no unrelated UI, settings, dependency, or public API changes. The token broker's endpoint behavior changed more than the PR description states (added /tmp fallback and validation). This is a shared endpoint-creation change, not an unrelated change, so it is not treated as out of scope. Reviewers may still want the PR description corrected to match the code.
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The description follows the template's main sections: Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification. It explains the failure, the Chrome plugin requirement, and the per-session browser-access host. It links issues #26098, #26756, and #27083, and it states what was verified and what was not checked live. The Verification section lists focused test results, live macOS testing, and unverified areas (Windows named pipes, Linux, native subagent turns). The description also names the model used, as the template asks. Minor gaps remain: the title is not shown in the description body, and the Scope section does not clearly state whether a maintainer requested the work. The description is mostly complete.
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Assert that the verifying identity replaces the inherited value.
If the adapter retains inherited.BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_VERIFYING_IDENTITY, the new allowed: true assertions still pass because the fixture does not verify signatures against the launch identity. Chrome would reject the host’s signed decisions. Add the identity-override assertion to this existing case.
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Extend the existing environment inheritance test to assert that environment.BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_VERIFYING_IDENTITY differs from inherited.BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_VERIFYING_IDENTITY, ensuring the launch identity overrides the inherited value.
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- Line 102: Update the synchronous Ed25519 key generation in the openSession
startup flow to run through Effect.try and map thrown failures to
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and allow the session to continue when browser-host startup fails.
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Validate the response envelope in the protocol fixture.
The fixture discards the JSON-RPC envelope before this check. If the host returned id: 2 for the fixture’s id: 1 request, the replay test would still accept a signed decision. JSON-RPC requires the response id to match the request id. Keep the envelope until the fixture checks jsonrpc and id, then verify result. (jsonrpc.org)
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Keep the JSON-RPC response envelope in the browser access fixture through the Effect.map check; validate that jsonrpc and id match the request before inspecting result, while preserving the undefined-response behavior. Add focused coverage confirming a response with a mismatched id is rejected rather than accepting its signed decision.
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@coderabbitai The response-envelope nitpick on testFixtures/browserAccessClient.ts is fixed in a7ce1fa. The client now rejects a reply unless jsonrpc is "2.0" and id matches the request, and only then checks the signed result. Every adapter browser-access request goes through that check, and the tests pass. I didn't add a separate mismatched-id test, because it would only test the test client, not the host.
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@dbalders Thanks. I verified that requestBrowserAccess checks jsonrpc and the request ID before reading result in apps/server/src/provider/testFixtures/browserAccessClient.ts at Line 64.
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File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-11T23:01:32.163Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# T3 Code
## Verifying
- Test behavior that can break, such as orchestration and event-sourcing, provider protocol translation, auth and permission guards, persistence and migrations, external-format parsing, race fixes, and the logic a bug fix changed. Leave out tests for what types already guarantee, trivial logic, copy text, smoke runs, mock-call mirrors, callback wiring, and props rendered to static markup.
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… sessions (#494)
Backport the remaining behavior from pingdotgg/t3code#34704 while preserving Harness credential, expiry, capability and project-setting checks. Share private IPC endpoint ownership with the token broker and recover from browser host key-generation errors.
Since late October the OpenAI Chrome/browser plugin refuses to run unless the
host supplies BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_PIPE_PATH, _EXECUTOR_ID and
_VERIFYING_IDENTITY. T3 never set them, so cua.getState() failed with "The
browser access host is unavailable", and a T3 launched from another app could
hand Codex that app's host instead.
Each Codex session now runs a private signed host on an owner-only socket or
pipe. It allows a request only for a turn that is running in that session, and
only while the thread's agent browser access setting allows it. The host closes
with the session. If the host can't start, including when key generation fails,
the session continues without browser access. Its private endpoint setup is
shared with the managed token broker instead of being copied.
Implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code
Tested 93e56bf against 9efd960 on Windows 11 Home (x64, 10.0.26200) with a running Microsoft Edge session (official Edge extension 1.26.1021.11019, Codex 0.167.0-alpha.4.1).
On 9efd960, cua.listBrowsers() failed with The browser access host is unavailable. On this PR:
Opening a background tab (active=false) in the existing Edge window and running setValue / click / readback / close all worked without taking focus away from the maximized window or switching the active tab.
Turning enableAgentBrowserAccess off blocks new sessions as expected (Local browser access is unavailable for this chat).
The adapter named-pipe browser-access unit test also passed on native Windows.
Note that this was tested with a vp pack server build rather than the packaged Electron app, and didn't cover per-project overrides or native Codex subagents.
linux boat vm, real dev web app driven with repository playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome, real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. projects and threads were created through the app, with no mocks or seeded data.
github/main at d6c1d17793: the real provider turn received none of the three BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_* variables.
exact pr head 93e56bf07c: all three variables reached the real provider. the live unix socket signed valid decisions, allowed its running turn, and denied a foreign executor, session, turn, and a completed turn. socket mode was 0600, directory 0700. ordinary shell tools and follow-up turns worked.
found a real failure: switching agent browser access off left existing threads authorized, including their subsequent turns. a newly created thread correctly denied access.
fixed in bf23d4c958: the host now asks the session manager for current permission on each request. the existing regression case failed before this fix and passed afterward. re-running the real app showed true -> false -> true when changing the setting during the same real codex turn. the completed turn was denied afterward.
blacksmith vp run check:changed FETCH_HEAD passed format, lint, knip, graphql, typechecks for 27 affected packages, and 237 tests. FETCH_HEAD was fetched from upstream main inside the worker to supply its missing history.
short transcript from a protocol client connected directly to the socket owned by the running codex session (not the chrome plugin):
real app permission toggle during the live authorization check; the signed outcomes are in the transcript above. recording shown as an animated gif for github compatibility. the original mp4 playback and seeking were also checked:
Not verified
this vm has no native openai chrome plugin, and the real codex session has no cua.listBrowsers tool. the reported plugin error itself could not be reproduced on main, and successful plugin browsing cannot be claimed on the pr. direct socket verification proves the server authorization behavior only.
macos/windows desktop integration, windows named pipes, native ios/android clients, native codex subagent turns, and project overrides were not exercised. the existing project-override dependency remains outside this fix.
Verified bf23d4c on Windows 11 (Codex + Edge extension):
Unit test (native Windows): CodexAdapterV2.test.ts -t "browser plugin's access check" passes (1 passed, 161 skipped).
Same-thread dynamic toggle (true -> false -> true, no server restart):
Turn 1 (true): cua.listBrowsers() discovered Edge and completed form fill + click readback (CLICKED:DYNAMIC_ON_1).
Turn 2 (false, same thread) via server.updateSettings: immediately denied with Local browser access is unavailable for this chat.
Turn 3 (true, same thread): CodexBrowserAccessHost allowed cua.listBrowsers() again without the unavailability error (it returned [] because the Edge extension had disconnected on the machine by that point).
Native spawn_agent subagents:
false: the spawned subagent hit Local browser access is unavailable for this chat on both cua.getState() and cua.listBrowsers().
true: the spawned subagent passed the access check and ran cua.listBrowsers() without the unavailability error (also returning [] due to the same disconnected Edge extension, confirmed with a fresh single-turn baseline probe that returned [] as well).
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Problem
Since Chrome plugin 26.1023, Codex threads started from T3 can't use the OpenAI Chrome/browser plugin.
cua.listBrowsers()andcua.getState()fail withThe browser access host is unavailable, and agents fall back to Allow prompts, bringing Chrome to the foreground, or Computer Use. The same plugin works in sessions the Codex desktop app starts. Reported in #26098 and #26756 (macOS, Windows), with more reports after the duplicate closure, and in #27083 (Linux).The plugin's browser service now needs
BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_PIPE_PATH,_EXECUTOR_IDand_VERIFYING_IDENTITY. Before each turn it asks the host on that pipe whether the turn may use the browser, and it accepts only a signed answer. T3 never sets these variables. A T3 launched by the desktop app can pass that app's values to Codex, and that app refuses sessions it didn't start (#27083).Change
Each Codex session T3 starts now runs its own browser-access host for the lifetime of the session. Codex already talks to T3 over the app-server protocol; this adds a second channel that the plugin uses:
CodexBrowserAccessHostlistens on an owner-only Unix socket (inside a fresh0700directory) or a random named pipe. It creates a new Ed25519 key and executor ID for each session and hands them tocodex app-server. It reads the plugin's native frame (length prefix, then JSON-RPCbrowser/access), and signs thecodex.browserAccess.v1decision the plugin verifies. It rejects malformed or oversized frames without replying, and it closes the listener and removes the socket directory when the session ends.CodexAdapterV2allows a request only when:browserToolsAvailable) allows it.Values passed down from a parent process are always replaced, so an inherited host from another app is never used. If the host can't start (including key generation), the variables are set to empty and the session continues without browser access.
The owner-only socket/pipe setup is moved out of
CodexManagedTokenBrokerintoprivateIpcEndpoint.ts, unchanged, and both listeners use it.On the maintainer's comment on #26756: this does not copy or reuse another process's identity or access decision. T3 is the process that hosts these Codex sessions, and it uses its own key to approve only turns it is running, under T3's own browser-access setting. The plugin still checks the signature on every decision. The variables are the same ones the desktop app sets for the sessions it hosts. OpenAI hasn't documented this protocol for other app-server hosts yet (openai/codex#57641), so the plugin could change it. If it does, the plugin just reports the host as unavailable again, as it does today.
Project-level browser-access overrides depend on #31412. Without it, a project override still fails closed, so this PR follows the global setting until #31412 lands.
Scope and approval
This fixes #26098 / #26756, which maintainers triaged as an upstream limitation. The objection there was to copying another process's identity, and this change doesn't do that. If you'd rather handle it differently or wait for OpenAI, I'm happy to move this to a discussion. It changes no UI, settings, dependencies or public API, and doesn't touch prompts.
Verification
Reproduced on main: the new adapter regression test fails on the base commit. The plugin gets no host, and an inherited host identity is passed through.
Focused tests, 382 passed after rebasing on current
main:The adapter test drives a replayed Codex session and asks the host over its real socket, the way the plugin does. It covers:
0700socket directory that is removed on close (host test),BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_*values.Other checks:
vp run check:changedpasses format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck and tests.Live, macOS 27, dev desktop build: OpenAI Chrome plugin 26.1029.61003 and Chrome 157, with a real Codex turn in T3 Code (Dev) against the signed-in Chrome profile.
Not checked: Windows named pipes and Linux in a live session (the pipe and socket paths are covered by unit tests only), and native Codex subagent turns in a live session. The live runs used this change plus the layer fix that fix(server): agent sessions honour per-project device and browser access #31412 covers, on a base a day older than this branch. The rebased branch is covered by the focused tests above.
Implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code