fix(sessions): codex opens the TUI by default, not the pairing daemon - #625
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…#623) Both writers of a codex session (settings-daemon.py's /sessions/add and session-cli.sh's `add`) hardcoded remoteControl: true regardless of harness. For codex that is not a flag on the ordinary TUI, as it is for claude -- it replaces the process outright with the app-server pairing daemon (supervisor.sh) -- so picking a codex profile from Add Session, or running `agent-box-session add --harness codex`, always opened the daemon and never a second interactive session. Per lionello's answers on #623: a real codex profile should open the TUI, and the daemon gets its own explicit entry instead. Add-session now offers "codex remote control (pairing daemon, no profile)" as a pseudo-profile alongside `shell`, and both writers default codex sessions to the TUI unless that daemon is explicitly requested (a new --remote-control flag on the CLI side, for parity). ensure_harness_session (the auto-add after install+login, #504) now also references the profile agent-box-profile seed (#508) already creates per installed harness, instead of always leaving profile: None -- so a second codex session added afterwards has a profile to pick. Checks run (aarch64-linux, native): assemble-module-escaping, backend-parity, connect-card, golden-snapshot, module-generated-up-to-date, one-spec-both-backends, profile-panel, runtime-profile, session-route, sessions-registry, plus the full native --keep-going set. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018SPDtQA4fdkFGcqC1YdjFD
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSession creation now supports explicit remote-control modes. Codex defaults to its interactive TUI, while a new pseudo-profile starts the pairing daemon. Supervisor-created sessions reuse seeded harness profiles when available. ChangesRemote control session handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Codex sessions declared through NixOS module session options can still start the pairing daemon by default instead of the interactive TUI. Align this seeded-session path with the new Codex default, while preserving explicit remote-control configuration, before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProfilePicker
participant SessionsAdd
participant SessionRegistry
ProfilePicker->>SessionsAdd: Select Codex remote control
SessionsAdd->>SessionsAdd: Resolve Codex with no profile
SessionsAdd->>SessionRegistry: Store remoteControl=true
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The changes provide a seeded Codex profile and explicit pairing-daemon options. However, the linked issue requires the post-login Codex session to start the pairing daemon automatically, while the described default behavior starts the TUI. The context does not show that the automatic post-login session still explicitly enables remote control. Resolution Ensure the automatic Codex session created after install and login explicitly uses remote-control mode and starts the pairing daemon, while preserving TUI defaults for ordinary Codex sessions. Add a test that verifies this post-login behavior. Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 75.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)
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In `@modules/agent-box.nix`:
- Around line 4169-4178: Update the NixOS session seeding logic in seedSessions
to derive the effective harness and default Codex sessions to
remoteControl=false when the option was not explicitly set, while preserving
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| # codex's remote control is a different PROGRAM entirely - the app-server | ||
| # pairing daemon, not a TUI flag (see supervisor.sh) - so an unqualified | ||
| # codex session now opens the TUI by default (issue #623); claude's own | ||
| # remote control is just a flag on its ordinary TUI and keeps its old | ||
| # default. Resolved AFTER the profile above, since a profile can change | ||
| # $harness. An explicit --remote-control always wins. | ||
| if [ -z "$remote_control" ]; then | ||
| remote_control=true | ||
| [ "$harness" = codex ] && remote_control=false | ||
| fi |
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Align NixOS-seeded Codex sessions with the adaptive default.
sessionOpts.remoteControl and userOpts.remoteControl default to true, and seedSessions passes that value unchanged. Therefore, a first-boot Codex session declared through users.<name>.sessions or the legacy options starts the remote-control daemon, while CLI and web-created Codex sessions default to the normal TUI. If module seeds should follow the new default, derive the effective harness during seeding and default Codex to false only when remoteControl is not explicitly set.
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In `@modules/agent-box.nix` around lines 4169 - 4178, Update the NixOS session
seeding logic in seedSessions to derive the effective harness and default Codex
sessions to remoteControl=false when the option was not explicitly set, while
preserving true as the default for other harnesses. Apply this consistently to
both sessionOpts.remoteControl and userOpts.remoteControl, without overriding
explicit remote-control values.
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Summary
settings-daemon.py's/sessions/addandsession-cli.sh'sadd) hardcodedremoteControl: trueregardless of harness. For claude that's just a flag on the ordinary TUI, but for codex it replaces the process outright with the app-server pairing daemon (supervisor.sh) - so picking a codex profile from Add Session, oragent-box-session add --harness codex, always started the daemon and never a second interactive session.shell; both writers default a codex session to the TUI unless that entry (or, from the CLI, a new--remote-control trueflag, added for parity between the two writers) explicitly asks for the daemon.ensure_harness_session(the auto-add right after install+login, Server/daemon mode belongs with the pseudo profiles, not as a profile field #504) now references the profileagent-box-profile seed(feat(profiles): a box arrives with profiles, and none of them is a default #508) already creates per installed harness, instead of always leavingprofile: None- so a second codex session added afterwards from the picker has a profile to pick, which is the "prepopulate a default codex profile" half of lionello's second answer (already covered by feat(profiles): a box arrives with profiles, and none of them is a default #508's seed: HARNESS only, no MODEL/EFFORT/prompt, exactly "default model, default effort, no kick-off prompt").Not touched: the deeper gap from the original triage comment - a box where codex is never added to
installAgents(soAGENT_BOX_AGENTS/the seed step never sees it) still gets no session and no profile at all from a successful connect-card login, since the connect card offers codex regardless ofinstallAgents. That's a real, separate design question (does a connect-only harness need a way intoAGENT_BOX_AGENTSat all) and is left for its own issue/PR rather than folded in here.Test plan
Native aarch64-linux checks (VM/interactive checks are x86-only and unavailable on this box):
nix run .#assemble(regeneratedmodules/agent-box.nix) +module-generated-up-to-dateassemble-module-escapingbackend-parityone-spec-both-backendsgolden-snapshot(updated vianix run .#update-golden, diff reviewed)runtime-profileprofile-panel(42 tests, covers the picker and/sessions/add)connect-cardsession-route,sessions-registry--keep-goingset (all 32 aarch64-linux checks) - all greenpython3 tests/test_agentbox.py(no--updateneeded; native fixture stubs profile binaries so this source-level change doesn't show up there)bash -n modules/src/session-cli.sh,flake8over the spliced settings-daemon payload with the same ignore list thewritePython3Binwrapper usesCloses #623.
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