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Adds tests for Codex MCP discovery and Studio authentication. The connection fix from #810 is already merged.

Problem and motivation

A correct-looking setup file does not prove that Codex can find Sapiom's tools or connect with the right credentials.

Summary and scope

Run real Codex with temporary settings to check two cases:

  1. A new user has no saved MCP servers.
  2. A user already has saved MCP servers.

Check that Codex finds the tools, uses the test credentials, and gives local servers the required settings. Saved user settings must stay unchanged. Forwarded credentials must stay out of shell commands.

Separate Studio server tests cover login, changed credentials, resume, logout, and invalid setup files. The local HTTP fixture returns a safe error response if an MCP operation fails.

flowchart LR
    F["Fresh setup"] --> C["Run real Codex"]
    E["Existing MCP setup"] --> C
    C --> T["Check tools, credentials, and server settings"]
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Related work

Validates #810, which is merged. This PR now targets main directly.

The tests are separate to keep each PR below 600 added lines.

Validation

  • Rebased on 452a9f84 and kept both sets of authentication tests from the merge conflict.
  • Real Codex discovery passed for fresh and existing settings (CLI 0.153.4). Uses local servers and test credentials; no login or model call.
  • Fault injection confirmed the CodeRabbit finding. Registration, connection, and request failures now return HTTP 500 with no unhandled rejection or credential output.
  • Workspace build, typecheck, and lint passed. All other package suites and all 10 performance tests passed.
  • Full Harness: 4,025 passed, three failed, two opt-in tests skipped. The session-manager timeout and Mac watcher failure also reproduced on main. The unchanged auto-bind test failed here but passed in the full main comparison; it remains a local validation failure.
  • The authentication comparison passed all 22 tests across the main and PR versions after an intermittent restart assertion in the first concurrent run.
Diff, checklist, and release details

Diff overview

Changed area What changes Additions
Real Codex tests Fresh setup, saved servers, credentials, process settings 403
Studio authentication tests Login, new sessions, changed credentials, resume, logout 104
README Opt-in integration command 21
Total Tests and documentation 528

Primary change type

  • Bug fix
  • Documentation
  • Feature
  • Tests
  • Dependency update
  • Maintenance or refactor

Tests and documentation

Real Codex tests check tool discovery, credentials, local server settings, and saved user settings. Studio server tests cover login, changed credentials, logout, and resume. The README gives the test command.

Compatibility and release impact

  • Breaking or externally visible changes: none. This PR adds tests and documentation.
  • Changeset: N/A; application behavior does not change.

Security

  • I have not included secrets, credentials, private data, or unsanitized logs.
  • This pull request does not publicly disclose a suspected vulnerability.

AI assistance

  • I did not use AI assistance for this change.
  • I used AI assistance and have described it below.

Codex added and reviewed the tests. Validation results are above.

Checklist

  • I read CONTRIBUTING.md and followed the contribution policy.
  • This pull request addresses one focused problem.
  • I added or updated tests.
  • I ran the relevant build, typecheck, lint, and test commands as described above.
  • I updated documentation.
  • I added a Changeset, or marked it N/A above.
  • I can explain and maintain every submitted change, including any AI-assisted work.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Codex session credential handling across login, resume, credential rotation, and logout.
    • Prevented credential exposure when MCP configuration encounters an error.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for Codex MCP discovery, tool availability, configuration conflicts, environment handling, and credential forwarding.
  • Documentation

    • Documented opt-in validation for Codex MCP integration, including setup, testing, configuration scenarios, and credential checks.

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Review — PR #879 (test(harness): verify Codex MCP discovery and auth lifecycle)

Tests + README only; files in packages/harness/package.json is ["dist", "LICENSE", "CHANGELOG.md", "README.md"], so neither test file ships. No confidentiality issue in the diff: no non-Sapiom company, no business arrangement, no private host. SAP-3122 follows 300+ existing in-repo occurrences of that convention. Changeset N/A matches CONTRIBUTING.md:202 (docs/tests exempt). No new dependency; @modelcontextprotocol/sdk is already a harness dep and server/streamableHttp.js already has precedent in src/server/agent-map-mcp.ts.

Findings

1. Nothing ever runs the vendor test, so it cannot detect the drift it exists for — MEDIUM

packages/harness/src/core/adapters/codex-mcp.integration.test.ts:216 gates the suite on
RUN_CODEX_MCP_INTEGRATION !== "1". RUN_CODEX_MCP_INTEGRATION appears exactly once in the repo —
in the README you added. No workflow in .github/workflows/ sets it, and packages/harness's
test script (vitest run && vitest run --config vitest.perf.config.ts) skips it.

The suite depends on two undocumented Codex app-server JSON-RPC methods (mcpServerStatus/list
with detail: "full", and command/exec) plus the shape of result.data, validated against one CLI
build (0.153.4 per the PR body). When Codex renames a method or changes that payload, the artifact
whose whole purpose is catching vendor drift is the last thing in the repo to find out — and it will
fail as a surprise to whoever next runs it manually, months later, with no signal about which of the
two changed. Either add a scheduled job that installs the CLI and sets the variable, or state in the
README who runs this and on what trigger so the staleness is at least owned.

2. Every failure mode collapses to one opaque string with stderr discarded — MEDIUM

In discover() (codex-mcp.integration.test.ts:79-99), child.stderr.resume() drops all
diagnostics, and one fail() handler serves three unrelated causes — spawn ENOENT (codex not
installed), premature exit, and the 25s timeout — all reporting "Codex MCP probe failed; check CLI compatibility." response.error is discarded for "Codex MCP RPC failed."
(codex-mcp.integration.test.ts:110), and a non-zero command/exec says only "Codex command environment probe failed."

Given finding 1, a human running this locally is the only consumer of these messages, and the most
likely failure is the most misleading one: no codex on PATH reports as a CLI compatibility problem.
The stated justification — "never include subprocess output/config in failures" — does not apply
here: the credential is synthetic-integration-credential, every endpoint is loopback, and both
homes are mkdtemp. Distinguish spawn-error / exit / timeout, and carry the JSON-RPC
error.code/message through.

3. The README's repro is not runnable as written — LOW

packages/harness/README.md:100-107 says "first build the workspace dependencies", but the test
hard-requires exactly one artifact: packages/mcp/dist/index.js
(codex-mcp.integration.test.ts:311). Say pnpm --filter @sapiom/mcp build. The README also omits
CODEX_TEST_BINARY, which the file header documents as the way to select a CLI version — the one
knob a reader needs given the suite is pinned to a specific Codex build. The README ships in the npm
tarball; it is the only place this procedure is written down.

Nits

  • auth-mcp-wiring.test.ts:281,335: boot() spreads options over the base, and
    server/index.ts:789 is options.adapters ?? <defaults> — not a merge. So these two tests run with
    capturingClaudeAdapter silently discarded and availableHarnesses (index.ts:3468) reduced to
    ["codex"]. Correct today; a future assertion in this file about harness availability will read as
    though both are registered.
  • auth-mcp-wiring.test.ts:343: expect(captures).toHaveLength(0) is true by construction — the
    wrapper's own JSON.parse at line 115 would throw on the same corrupt file even if
    CodexAdapter.launch had swallowed the error. It does not show the server refused to spawn.
    Assert on the absence of a session record instead.
  • capturingCodexAdapter omits launchTask, so the headless/background launch path is covered for
    claude-code but not codex; the sibling capturingClaudeAdapter captures all three LaunchKinds.

Verdict

Approve with follow-up. The assertions are well chosen — the shell_environment_policy.set /
exclude preservation checks and the create-vs-resume alias-stability check are exactly the
regressions that matter — but finding 1 means this only counts as verification the day someone
remembers to run it, and finding 2 makes that day expensive.

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Follow-up review — PR #879

The reviewed commit 46746de9 is not fetchable here (git fetch and gh api are both blocked in this
environment), so I re-verified each prior finding against head 30e210c5 and re-read the changed files.
The push did restructure the integration test (describe.skipIf moved 216 → 153; file is now 355 lines),
but it did not touch any reported issue.

Earlier findings NOT fixed

  1. MED — nothing runs the vendor test. RUN_CODEX_MCP_INTEGRATION still occurs only in
    packages/harness/README.md:107 and the test's own gate (codex-mcp.integration.test.ts:153); no
    workflow sets it.
  2. MED — failure modes still collapse to one string. child.stderr.resume() (:77), one fail()
    serving spawn-error/exit/timeout (:68:79), response.error discarded (:91).
  3. LOW — README repro still not runnable as written. Still "build the workspace dependencies" with no
    mention of the one required artifact packages/mcp/dist/index.js (:288) and no CODEX_TEST_BINARY.

Nits also unchanged: boot()'s ...options replaces the whole adapters map, so capturingClaudeAdapter
is discarded in the two new tests (auth-mcp-wiring.test.ts:244 vs :246; server/index.ts:789 is ??,
not a merge); expect(captures).toHaveLength(0) (:343) is true by construction; capturingCodexAdapter
still omits launchTask.

New

  • LOW — child death is not sticky (codex-mcp.integration.test.ts:68:106). fail() rejects and
    clears pending but nothing records that the child is gone, so any request issued afterwards — e.g. the
    child dies between initialize and mcpServerStatus/list — never settles: the run hangs to the 60s
    vitest timeout with no message, and child.stdin.write (:98) can raise an unhandled EPIPE on a
    destroyed stream. Same fix surface as finding 2: record a terminal state and reject new requests at once.

Nothing new on publishing hygiene: neither test file is in files, README text stays provider-neutral, no
new dependency. Nothing the earlier round got wrong.

Verdict: unchanged — approve with follow-up; this push addressed none of the earlier findings.

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The pull request adds opt-in Codex MCP integration coverage and lifecycle regression tests. It validates generated configuration, credential propagation and removal, CLI discovery, environment scrubbing, configuration preservation, and credential-safe errors.

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Codex MCP validation

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Codex credential lifecycle coverage
packages/harness/src/server/auth-mcp-wiring.test.ts
The tests capture Codex launch configuration and validate credential behavior across login, rotation, resume, logout, and corrupted MCP configuration handling.
Codex CLI MCP integration validation
packages/harness/src/core/adapters/codex-mcp.integration.test.ts, packages/harness/README.md
An opt-in test launches Codex, checks MCP discovery and tool availability, verifies environment handling, preserves existing registrations, and documents execution requirements.

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Comment thread packages/harness/src/core/adapters/codex-mcp.integration.test.ts
BYWallace and others added 3 commits September 9, 2026 13:14
The opt-in Codex probe reported one opaque message for a missing
binary, a crashed CLI, and a timeout, dropped JSON-RPC error details,
and could crash the vitest worker with an unhandled EPIPE after the
CLI died.

Failures now settle through one terminal promise driven by the child's
close event, so each cause is named: spawn error, exit code or signal,
the request that timed out, or the CLI's JSON-RPC error code and
message. Stdin write errors are swallowed because close reports why.
A sapiom-dev server that fails to start now surfaces Codex's
toolsError instead of a bare empty-tools assertion.

The README build step is now the concrete command for the harness's
workspace dependencies, and CODEX_TEST_BINARY is documented as
optional.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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