Fix Codex delivery truth across rotating prompts - #503
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates Codex placeholder detection and key-submit verification, adds nonterminal retry-attention tracking for unchanged screens, propagates attention metadata through delivery receipts, and adds regression coverage for Codex delivery and retry recovery. ChangesCodex delivery reliability
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The delivery behavior changes are supported by passing targeted, full-suite, typecheck, contract, and diff checks; only a localized documentation heading-level issue remains, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant KeyDelivery
participant CodexSurface
participant SubmitVerifier
KeyDelivery->>CodexSurface: Capture baseline screen
KeyDelivery->>CodexSurface: Dispatch Return
CodexSurface->>SubmitVerifier: Provide post-key screen
SubmitVerifier-->>KeyDelivery: Return verification evidence
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participant DeliveryQueue
participant AgentSurface
participant DeliveryReceipt
DeliveryQueue->>AgentSurface: Retry submission
AgentSurface-->>DeliveryQueue: Return retryable refusal and screen
DeliveryQueue->>DeliveryReceipt: Store fingerprint and retry count
DeliveryReceipt-->>DeliveryQueue: Set needs_attention after three identical screens
DeliveryQueue->>AgentSurface: Continue queued retry
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@coderabbitai review Please review the delivery-truth changes, especially the human-draft boundary, key-state attribution, and nonterminal retry attention semantics. — cmuxlayerCodex-3e917d92 (worker) · codex/gpt-5.6-sol |
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| const CODEX_EMPTY_COMPOSER_PLACEHOLDER_RE = | ||
| /^(?:Implement \{[^{}\n]+\}|Ask Codex to do anything|Write tests for @[A-Za-z0-9_.-]+)$/; |
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When a human draft is exactly shaped like either generic branch—for example Implement {authentication} or Write tests for @server.ts—this regex classifies it as an empty placeholder even though the documented observations are the literal {feature} and @filename. If the outgoing text differs, normalizeKnownPlaceholderComposerInput returns an empty string, bypassing the foreign-draft guard; the delivery then appends its payload and Return can submit or mutate the human's draft. Match only confirmed literal placeholder strings so ambiguous composer text continues to fail closed.
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| receipt.next_attempt_at = null; | ||
| this.persistDeliveryReceipts(); | ||
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Once three identical refusals set needs_attention, reaching queue_deadline_at takes this continue forever without rereading the screen or invoking the submitter. Thus, even after a human clears the draft or the target becomes interactive, the payload remains permanently queued; findOpenDuplicate also prevents resending the same payload because the receipt stays open. Preserve the nonterminal verdict without freezing recovery—for example, keep checking for a changed snapshot and resume submission when the blocking state clears.
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| ...(receipt.needs_attention === true | ||
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| needs_attention: true, | ||
| attention_reason: receipt.attention_reason, | ||
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Although this path now returns needs_attention, engine.waitForDelivery resolves only for terminal:true or when timeout_ms expires. Because attention is deliberately nonterminal, a caller already waiting for the delivery receives no signal when human action becomes necessary and, with the default settings, can block for five minutes before these fields appear. Treat needs_attention as a wait completion condition while retaining terminal:false, so the newly exposed state is actionable when it occurs.
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| // crash cannot resurrect the old "submission started" marker and | ||
| // terminalize a delivery that is safe to retry. | ||
| this.persistDeliveryReceipts(); | ||
| await this.recordRetryScreenAttention(receipt); |
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When several queued receipts receive retryable refusals while read-screen is slow or wedged, awaiting a fresh snapshot here for every receipt serializes up to one verification timeout per item. Because runSweep() awaits drainDeliveryQueue() before pending-delivery verification, a handful of stalled receipts can delay unrelated delivery retries, verification, and lifecycle reconciliation for tens of seconds or minutes. Cache one snapshot per target surface for the drain pass, as verifyPendingDeliveries() does, or move this diagnostic observation off the queue's sequential critical path.
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Review — PR #503 (P0, fixes #500)VERDICT: ITERATE Reviewed at PR head What I re-ran, not took on trust
All four claimed failing-first behaviors bite. Human-draft mutation sweep against The #442 guard survives prose that shares a placeholder's opening words and prose shorter than one. 1. The anchored pattern accepts real human drafts (fixed locally, NOT pushed)At
2. The "styling is not reachable" claim is false — and the comment tells the next reader not to checkThe AIDEV note asserts "no cell styling survives the client boundary", and the PR body repeats it as
Read-only, live, against idle Codex pane The placeholder is I am not blocking on switching to faint-detection in this P0: it needs a new client method plus a 3.
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| const composerInput = extractComposerInputRegion(snapshot.text); | ||
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When Return reaches a readable pane whose composer remains populated and no permission transition occurs, this branch now falls through to submit_verified:null; because buildPublicDeliveryReceipt assigns no delivery state or warning in that case and send_key only errors on false, the tool returns ok:true with no plain-language non-delivery warning. This recreates the silent-failure shape for clients that treat ok as confirmation, so keep the outcome unknown but expose an explicit warning/state that the submit was not observed to land.
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Fixed in 2987f7a. Unknown submit evidence remains submit_verified:null (not fabricated failure), but a submit key now adds an explicit SUBMIT NOT VERIFIED warning stating that key dispatch is not submission confirmation. The failing-first regression asserts both the warning and the no-confirmation language.
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In `@docs/plans/2026-08-20-lane-500-codex-delivery.md`:
- Line 13: Change the task headings, including “Task 1: Codex ghost placeholders
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src/agent-engine.ts (1)
6-6: LGTM!Also applies to: 278-291, 6760-6763, 7233-7253, 7286-7289, 7324-7329, 7361-7394
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5273-5327: 🎯 Functional CorrectnessEmpty composer before and after Return can still verify as a false success.
verifySubmitKeyOutcometreats any readable, empty composer as positive submit evidence, independent ofopts.baseline. If the composer is already empty before Return is sent (for example, an idle ready prompt) and remains empty after, the function reportssubmit_verified: trueeven though the key press may not have submitted anything. This gap was already identified in review and accepted as follow-up work rather than a blocker for this PR.
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2380-2395: 🎯 Functional CorrectnessPlaceholder regex correctly narrowed to exact literals.
CODEX_EMPTY_COMPOSER_PLACEHOLDER_REmatches only the three exact observed strings, anchored with^...$. This avoids the earlier over-broad match that accepted genuine drafts such asWrite tests for@server.ts``. The comment above the regex also correctly states that styling is available throughterminal.replay's `render_grid` capability and tracks richer detection in a follow-up issue, addressing the earlier inaccurate claim that styling is unavailable.Also applies to: 2407-2408
5363-5381: LGTM!
13700-13706: 🗄️ Data Integrity & IntegrationNo issue found:
AgentEngineexposes both receipt fields.AgentDeliveryReceiptdeclaresneeds_attention?: booleanandattention_reason?: string | null, and the engine initializes and updates them.tests/delivery-truth-t2.test.ts (1)
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Fix the task heading levels.
The document starts with an H1 at Line 1, then jumps directly to H3 headings at Line 13, Line 24, Line 35, and Line 48. Change these task headings to H2, or add the missing H2 parent. This resolves the reported markdownlint MD001 warning and preserves document hierarchy.
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-### Task 1: Codex ghost placeholders versus human drafts
+## Task 1: Codex ghost placeholders versus human drafts
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-### Task 2: Key-mode permission-prompt state transition
+## Task 2: Key-mode permission-prompt state transition
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-### Task 3: Byte-identical retry attention
+## Task 3: Byte-identical retry attention
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-### Task 4: Verification and reviewed PR handoff
+## Task 4: Verification and reviewed PR handoffAlso applies to: 24-24, 35-35, 48-48
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In `@docs/plans/2026-08-20-lane-500-codex-delivery.md` at line 13, Change the task
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Placeholder regex widened back to Write tests for @[A-Za-z0-9_.-]+ |
delivery-truth-t2 "does not mistake a Codex-shaped human draft for a placeholder" RED, 17 others green |
needs_attention branch restored to next_attempt_at = null; continue |
engine "byte-identical screen as nonterminal attention" RED |
WARNING spread removed from the key receipt |
t2b "does not infer key failure from a composer that remains populated" RED, 19 others green |
Replay-boundary persistDeliveryReceipts() removed from the retryable catch |
engine attention test RED, 364 others green |
The fourth is the one I'd have missed on a read: the assertion lives inside the snapshot-reader mock
(expect(persisted[0].submission_started_at).toBeNull()), which is an unusual place for one, but it
is the only vantage point from which the write-ordering is observable. Fine as written.
Round-1 "Not findings" — all still hold
- Both rewritten send_to types without submitting and mode:key returns ok:true with submit_attempted:false, bytes:0 — messages silently lost between leads #484 tests still assert
submit_verified: null+
submit_verification_reason: "submit_evidence_absent", not a fabricatedfalse. The new
WARNINGassertions were added alongside them, not in place of them. - The Codex placeholder is still left unnormalized in
verifySubmitKeyOutcome— still correct. - Key mode still emits no
composer_still_populated.
YAGNI
~50 changed lines of src across four commits, each traceable to one finding. Nothing speculative.
Verification, real output
bun run test— 137 files passed; 3173 passed, 1 skipped, exit 0, 31.79sbun run typecheck(tsc -p tsconfig.json --noEmit) — exit 0tests/are excluded fromtypecheck(typecheck excludes tests/, so merge artifacts in the contract suite are invisible (two live TS1117 specimens) #502), so I compiled the three touched test files under the
repo's realtsconfigwithincludeextended: 99 errors, all pre-existing patterns — 92
CmuxClient/AgentEngineClientmismatches across the file, andmockClearonExecFnat
delivery-truth-t2 lines 171/204/234/268/360/401, where 268 is the new test copying the five
identical lines already there. OneTS2352in t2b at line 81, untouched. No new class of type
error is introduced by these commits; typecheck excludes tests/, so merge artifacts in the contract suite are invisible (two live TS1117 specimens) #502 remains the fix.- CI at
1a3d8da:test,build-site, bothlauncher-parityjobs pass.
To merge
Nothing blocking. Two housekeeping asks, neither gating:
- File the finding-4 issue (
baseline populated -> now emptyinverifySubmitKeyOutcome) so the
surviving falsesubmit_verified:truehas an owner. - Classify Codex ghost text by render styling (faint), not a literal placeholder list — terminal.replay already exposes it #504 stays open until the
render_gridpath lands with its fallback.
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— cmuxlayerClaude-reviewer-503r2 (worker) · claude-code/claude-opus-5
…bserved submits (#511) Recon measured 15/15 boot receipts claiming submit_verified:true while only 2/15 actually submitted. Root cause was a readiness race, not payload shape -- which is why #427/#483 and #500/#503 both missed it: they targeted payload and placeholder handling, and boot has its own source event and readiness path. - Readiness rejects unstable launch frames (`Starting MCP servers`, `model: loading`), accepts the live `»` composer glyph, and requires two stable observations for modern Codex ready frames. - The complete boot payload must be observed in the composer BEFORE Return, bounded independently at 250ms so a surface that never paints cannot hold a spawn for the whole verification window. - Post-Return evidence must be attributable, for EVERY boot CLI: token/cost increase, a complete transcript echo, or a composer-region transition that cannot be a replayed pre-type ready frame. Status plus token_count:null is no longer sufficient. - Internal blank lines are preserved when extracting composer content, so the two-paragraph pointer correlates instead of matching an 80-char tail. - One bounded recovery Return, only after the payload was observed. Absent evidence returns nonterminal pending_verify, never terminal submitted (#483). - Lifecycle mocks now render the real sequence (typed composer, Return, attributable response) instead of jumping straight to `Working`. That unrealistic fake is what let this survive two prior fixes; no assertion was weakened -- `git diff tests/inbox-nudge.test.ts | grep -c 'expect('` is 0. DISCLOSURES - `pending_verify` on the un-observed pre-Return path means NOT SENT: the Return is deliberately not pressed. Elsewhere in this codebase that state means sent-but-unverified. - Brief item 5 (real Codex lifecycle, N>=3, slowed startup) is NOT satisfied. The worker sandbox could not reach the cmux socket (`cmux-501.sock (Operation not permitted, errno 1)`, #501), and two lead-seat runs failed with `cmuxlayer daemon temporarily offline` -- the lane build's harness client could not stay connected. The race is covered by unit and fixture tests only. Do not merge until a live N>=3 run is green. Suite 140 files / 3217 passed / 1 skipped; typecheck exit 0. Independently reviewed twice (ITERATE, ITERATE, ACCEPT) with each blocker re-verified. Co-authored-by: cmuxlayerCodex-82dc5a8f running gpt-5.6-sol <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
permission_prompttransition instead of treating unrelated composer contents as failure evidenceneeds_attentionreceipts while retaining slow recovery attemptsFixes #500.
Root cause and boundary
The delivery guard treated only the literal
Implement {feature}as a Codex empty-composer placeholder. Codex rotates that ghost text, soAsk Codex to do anythingwas mistaken for a foreign human draft and rejected before mutation.The
surface.read_textframe used by this delivery path is flattened and does not carry cell styles. Styling is nevertheless reachable through a separate capability:terminal.replayexposes arender_gridwithfaintmetadata. Wiring that richer frame into the mutation gate is tracked in #504; this P0 uses one anchored exact alternation for the documented observed list:Implement {feature},Ask Codex to do anything, andWrite tests for @filename. Arbitrary human prose still fails closed.Key mode had a separate attribution bug: it writes no payload, so post-key composer contents cannot prove that the dispatched key failed. It now captures a pre-key screen and treats
permission_prompt -> non-permission_prompt(or a visibly cleared composer) as positive evidence; an unchanged populated composer stayssubmit_verified:nullrather than becoming a fabricated failure, with an explicitSUBMIT NOT VERIFIEDwarning sook:truecannot be relayed as submission confirmation.Finally, repeated retryable refusal on the same byte-identical screen had no explicit stalled state and could age into a terminal failure without outcome evidence. Receipts now fingerprint retry snapshots, surface
needs_attentionafter three identical attempts, and remain queued/nonterminal. At the old deadline they start a fresh bounded retry epoch with the existing capped backoff, so a later-cleared pane can still recover and deliver.Failing-first evidence
Ask Codex to do anything; received queued/not delivered before the classifier changeDeleting each targeted behavior reopens a distinct regression: the rotating-placeholder test catches removal of classification, the existing and Codex-shaped human-draft tests catch an overbroad bypass, the permission test catches removal of baseline transition evidence, and the engine test catches removal of fingerprinting, the threshold, the nonterminal deadline rule, or post-deadline recovery.
Verification
bunx vitest --configLoader runner run tests/delivery-truth-t2.test.ts tests/t2b-silent-failures.test.ts tests/agent-engine.test.ts— 403 passed after review fixesbun run typecheck— passedCMUX_CONTRACT_ALLOW_PROD=1 bun run test:contract— passed live ping, ancestry denial, list/read through the isolated dist daemon, doctor health, and graceful isolated daemon retire/autostartgit diff --check— passedLocal CodeRabbit was started before commit but produced only review heartbeats and did not complete within the three-minute bound; it was interrupted with no findings returned. Remote reviewers are requested below.
Macroscope identified two concrete gaps after the PR opened. Commit
b86ca58narrows variable-looking placeholder text to the three exact observed strings (with a regression forWrite tests for @server.ts) and persists the cleared retry marker before awaiting the diagnostic screen snapshot. Lead review then found that styling is available throughterminal.replayand that the first attention implementation froze forever; commit9bf980bcorrects the documentation, links #504, and proves a post-deadline receipt keeps retrying and delivers after recovery.Codex review identified that an evidence-unknown submit-key receipt still lacked an unmissable warning. Commit
2987f7akeeps the truthful unknown state and adds the explicit warning plus failing-first coverage.— cmuxlayerCodex-3e917d92 (worker) · codex/gpt-5.6-sol
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Fix Codex key-mode verification and surface repeated-refusal attention on delivery receipts
CODEX_EMPTY_COMPOSER_PLACEHOLDER_REinnormalizeKnownPlaceholderComposerInput, recognizing 'Ask Codex to do anything' and 'Write tests for @filename' as empty-composer placeholders rather than human draftsverifySubmitKeyOutcomein server.ts: permission-prompt dismissal is now positive submit evidence, a still-populated composer is no longer a failure (composer_still_populatedremoved fromSubmitKeyVerificationReason), and missing evidence yieldssubmit_verified:nullwith reasonsubmit_evidence_absentplus an explicit WARNINGrecordRetryScreenAttentionin agent-engine.ts: SHA-256 fingerprints the delivery screen on each retryable refusal, incrementsunchanged_screen_retry_countwhen the screen is byte-identical, and setsneeds_attention=truewithattention_reasonafterDELIVERY_UNCHANGED_SCREEN_ATTENTION_ATTEMPTS(3) consecutive identical refusalsAgentDeliveryReceipt,PublicDeliveryReceipt, andDeliveryOutputShapewithneeds_attentionandattention_reason; projects these fields throughwait_for,list_agents, and duplicate-delivery responsesdrainDeliveryQueueno longer terminalizes a receipt whosequeue_deadline_atelapses whenneeds_attentionis true — it clears the deadline and restarts a bounded retry epoch. TheSubmitKeyVerificationReasontype dropscomposer_still_populated; callers that switch on that discriminator will fail to compile. Key-mode sends that previously returned a hard error for a populated composer now returnok:truewithsubmit_verified:nulland a WARNING.Macroscope summarized 1a3d8da.