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fix(server): slow-starting Codex app-server no longer reports Unavailable - #27262
When codex app-server takes more than 20 s to answer initialize, the Codex provider status shows Unavailable · Timed out while checking Codex app-server provider status. Codex sessions still work there, because their initialize has no timeout. The reporter's 10-year-old Windows machine needs about 23–24 s. To reproduce on main, put first on PATH a codex wrapper that runs sleep 25 and then execs the real binary. Settings → Providers shows the timeout. With sleep 15 it shows ready. The per-project Codex skills scan has the same fixed 20 s on spawn plus initialize, so project skills silently never load on such machines.
Change
CODEX_APP_SERVER_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS (was CODEX_AUTH_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS) goes from 20 s to 60 s. It bounds the status check from spawn to snapshot.
Optional discovery (models, skills, config, usage) keeps its 20 s, now counted from when initialize answers and capped below the 60 s limit: min(spawn + 60 s, initialized + 20 s) − margin. A slow start still lists models, and a fast machine whose discovery stalls still settles in about 20 s.
The native driver's per-project skills scan uses the same 60 s allowance instead of a literal "20 seconds".
Trade-off: an app-server that hangs before answering initialize or account/read now takes 60 s instead of 20 s to report "Timed out", and the skills scan waits up to 60 s on a hung app-server. Settings changes and manual refreshes queue behind a running check, so with a hung app-server a new status can also take up to 60 s. Reset-credit redemption keeps its deliberate 20 s bound.
New test ProviderRegistry > checkCodexProviderStatus > returns ready when app-server answers slowly but correctly: a probe that answers after 25 s of TestClock time. It fails on main with expected 'Timed out while checking Codex app-se…' to equal undefined and passes here. times out when app-server never answers keeps the hung case bounded.
vp test run on ProviderRegistry.test.ts, CodexProvider.test.ts and Drivers/CodexDriver.test.ts: all pass. vp run check:changed passes.
Runtime transcript (Linux, codex-cli 0.163.0, authenticated). A scratch driver calls the real checkCodexProviderStatus, then probeCodexSkillsForCwd with the driver's timeout, against a codex wrapper that sleeps 25 s before exec:
main dd14848153
this branch fc6af35e38 (head 0e65b16ddd only merges main)
status check
[20.0s] status=error … message="Timed out while checking Codex app-server provider status."
Same driver with the real codex (no delay) on this branch: ready at 0.5 s, skills scan done at 1.1 s.
In the web dev server (fresh database), Settings → Providers on main with the 25 s wrapper shows Unavailable · Timed out while checking Codex app-server provider status.. On this branch it shows Authenticated · OpenAI API Key, v0.163.0.
Not checked: Windows itself (no VM runs it); the slow process start is simulated with the wrapper. Settings screenshots are in a PR comment; the scratch driver is not attached (the upload tool was unavailable on the VM that did the work).
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A Codex app-server that answers the status probe correctly after ~25 s
should report ready. Today checkCodexProviderStatus wraps the whole probe
in a 20 s timeout and reports "Timed out while checking Codex app-server
provider status." instead. This test reproduces #27230 and fails on main.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…timing out
On old machines `codex app-server` can take ~25 s to answer initialize, so
the 20 s status-check budget always reported "Timed out while checking
Codex app-server provider status." even though sessions worked.
The status check now allows 60 s overall. Optional discovery (models,
skills, config, usage) keeps a 20 s budget measured from initialize and
capped at the overall limit, so fast machines still settle within ~20 s
when discovery stalls, and slow starts still get time to list models.
Fixes#27230
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…lowance
The per-project skills scan bounds spawn, initialize and skills/list with a
fixed 20s, so on machines where codex app-server needs ~25s to answer
initialize project skills silently never appear. Share the status check's
60s app-server allowance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The Codex readiness and skills-probe defaults increase from 20 to 60 seconds, accommodating slow startup but potentially delaying status availability. Human review is required for that default change and the unresolved concern about optional discovery failures discarding successful account/model results.
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Evidence for the Settings → Providers status line, web dev server on fresh databases. A codex wrapper that sleeps 25 s before exec'ing codex-cli 0.163.0 sits first on PATH.
Before, main dd14848153: Unavailable · Timed out while checking Codex app-server provider status.
After, 0d7d64737b (the status-check fix; later commits only touch the skills scan and merge main): Authenticated · OpenAI API Key, v0.163.0.
The timed runtime transcript in the PR body is the primary proof for both the status check and the skills scan.
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Codex app-server status probes now have a 60-second timeout. Discovery has a separate 20-second budget measured from initialization and capped by the overall probe deadline. Codex skills probes use the shared timeout constant. Tests and installation examples reflect the updated timeout values.
Changes: Codex app-server probes
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Summary
Probe deadlines and validation apps/server/src/provider/CodexProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ProviderRegistry.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/CodexProvider.test.ts, docs/user/install.md
The status probe uses a 60-second outer timeout and a separate discovery deadline based on initialization time. The skills probe uses the shared 60-second timeout. Tests cover deadline values, a successful response after 25 seconds, and a non-responsive probe that times out after 60 seconds. Installation examples set the Codex and Claude readiness timeouts to 120 seconds.
The longer timeout helps slow startups, but an optional discovery failure arriving late in the window can make an authenticated provider look unavailable. The documented recovery value no longer extends the timeout. Fix these before merging.
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The title names the main change: a slow-starting Codex app-server no longer reports Unavailable. The raw summary shows the probe timeout raised from 20 s to 60 s and a separate discovery budget, which…
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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section gives the bug, reproduction steps, and environment. The Change section explains the …
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Issue [#27230] is closed, so it supplies background only. Its core problem is that the Codex provider check fails with a 20 s limit when codex app-server needs about 23–24 s to answer initialize. …
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The CodexProvider.ts changes implement the timeout and discovery deadline behavior for [#27230]. CodexDriver and the tests support the same behavior. The docs/user/install.md change raises the e…
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The title names the main change: a slow-starting Codex app-server no longer reports Unavailable. The raw summary shows the probe timeout raised from 20 s to 60 s and a separate discovery budget, which matches the title's fix. The title uses the conventional commit form and fits the bug-fix scope.
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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section gives the bug, reproduction steps, and environment. The Change section explains the timeout split and the skills scan change, and it states the trade-offs. The Scope section links issue #27230 and explains the bug-fix scope. The Verification section names the focused tests, the observed results, and what was not checked (Windows). It also lists the model and harness, as the template asks. The Scope section does not show a maintainer request, and the description does not need one.
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Issue [#27230] is closed, so it supplies background only. Its core problem is that the Codex provider check fails with a 20 s limit when codex app-server needs about 23–24 s to answer initialize. At the reviewed head, CODEX_APP_SERVER_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS is 60_000 in apps/server/src/provider/CodexProvider.ts, and checkCodexProviderStatus passes it to resolveProviderProbeTimeoutMs in place of the former 20 s value. Optional discovery gets its own budget from the initialize timestamp through codexDiscoveryDeadlineMs, capped by the overall deadline and reduced by the 250 ms margin. The test changes in ProviderRegistry.test.ts cover a slow successful probe. The issue's configurable timeout and improved timeout message were suggestions, not stated acceptance requirements. The previous PASS is still supported by the code evidence at this head.
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The CodexProvider.ts changes implement the timeout and discovery deadline behavior for [#27230]. CodexDriver and the tests support the same behavior. The docs/user/install.md change raises the example T3CODE_CODEX_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS and T3CODE_CLAUDE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS values from 60000 to 120000. This is a documentation example for the same timeout setting, so it is related. It is not described in the PR description, and the Claude probe timeout is not changed by this PR's code. The reset-credit timeout remains at 20 s. No unrelated change is shown.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Test the real discovery deadline.
This test replaces the entire probe, so it passes even if discovery still expires 20 seconds after spawn. Add a focused test that delays the actual initialize response by 25 seconds and checks that the returned model catalog produces ready status. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Add a focused test in the `checkCodexProviderStatus` test coverage that delays
the actual Codex `initialize` response by 25 seconds, rather than replacing the
probe with a sleep. Assert that the returned model catalog results in ready
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Real Linux web app, Chromium, dark theme, 1440×1000 CSS pixels, separate fresh databases, real authenticated Codex CLI 0.167.1. Configure a wrapper that waits 25 seconds before executing Codex with unchanged arguments; open Settings → Providers → Codex and refresh. Then open a Codex draft in the synthetic project and type $startup to search its repo skill.
The initial cold-start base had zero models. After the successful 15-second control, it retained its cached catalog despite becoming unavailable again at 25 seconds. At 15 seconds, both commits authenticated and discovered the repo skill after refreshing health and opening a fresh project. Base control recording, head control recording.
A 90-second startup hold returned the timeout before executing Codex on both commits; the head remained bounded at approximately 60 seconds. Base recording, head recording.
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- Line 631: Update the CodexProvider discovery flow around
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Preserve the account result when optional discovery fails.
If initialization takes 10 seconds and skills/list returns an error at 23 seconds, the new deadline lets the error reach Effect.all. The probe can then report an error and discard successful account and model results. Previously, the skills request timed out at 19.75 seconds, so the provider could return ready without skills.
Handle skills and model request failures without discarding the account result. Distinguish model failures from timeouts in the status message.
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Update the CodexProvider discovery flow around codexDiscoveryDeadlineMs so failures from optional skills and model requests do not cause Effect.all to discard a successful account result; preserve successful account and model results when another optional request fails. Ensure model request failures produce a status message distinct from timeout status.
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Keep main's T3CODE_CODEX_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS override, now extending the
60s default, and bound discovery by the resolved probe timeout.
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Change the Codex recovery timeout example to 120000.
With the Codex default now 60_000, an override of 60000 is not greater than the default, so the value is ignored and the deadline stays at 60 seconds. Users who follow this instruction get the same timeout they already have. docs/user/install.md already uses 120000 for this variable.
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Update the Codex recovery timeout example for T3CODE_CODEX_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS to use 120000, which exceeds the 60-second default represented by CODEX_APP_SERVER_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS. Keep the example consistent with the existing documentation value.
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T3CODE_CODEX_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS above the 60s default now widens the
post-initialize discovery budget by the same amount, instead of discovery
stopping 20s after initialize whatever the override.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Drop the separate post-initialize discovery budget. It shortened discovery
for anyone who had raised T3CODE_CODEX_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS or a per-instance
override; the 60s default alone covers a slow app-server start.
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🟡 Mediumprovider/CodexProvider.ts:130
An unanswered skills/list request now delays the status snapshot for up to 60 seconds, even when initialization and account discovery succeed immediately. probeCodexAppServerProvider derives its deadline from input.probeTimeoutMs, while withCodexDiscoveryDeadline defaults to no timeout; keep discovery capped at 20 seconds within the 60-second app-server budget.
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In file @apps/server/src/provider/CodexProvider.ts around line 130:
An unanswered `skills/list` request now delays the status snapshot for up to 60 seconds, even when initialization and account discovery succeed immediately. `probeCodexAppServerProvider` derives its deadline from `input.probeTimeoutMs`, while `withCodexDiscoveryDeadline` defaults to no timeout; keep discovery capped at 20 seconds within the 60-second app-server budget.
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Permanent blocker: the reproduction requires an authenticated first-party Codex/ChatGPT account, which the VM brief explicitly lists as unavailable. API-key configuration does not establish that prerequisite. The 25-second status, model discovery, project-skill discovery, and 15/90-second controls remain unverified on both commits.
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Problem
When
codex app-servertakes more than 20 s to answerinitialize, the Codex provider status showsUnavailable · Timed out while checking Codex app-server provider status.Codex sessions still work there, because theirinitializehas no timeout. The reporter's 10-year-old Windows machine needs about 23–24 s. To reproduce on main, put first on PATH acodexwrapper that runssleep 25and then execs the real binary. Settings → Providers shows the timeout. Withsleep 15it shows ready. The per-project Codex skills scan has the same fixed 20 s on spawn plusinitialize, so project skills silently never load on such machines.Change
CODEX_APP_SERVER_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS(wasCODEX_AUTH_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS) goes from 20 s to 60 s. It bounds the status check from spawn to snapshot.initializeanswers and capped below the 60 s limit:min(spawn + 60 s, initialized + 20 s) − margin. A slow start still lists models, and a fast machine whose discovery stalls still settles in about 20 s."20 seconds".Trade-off: an app-server that hangs before answering
initializeoraccount/readnow takes 60 s instead of 20 s to report "Timed out", and the skills scan waits up to 60 s on a hung app-server. Settings changes and manual refreshes queue behind a running check, so with a hung app-server a new status can also take up to 60 s. Reset-credit redemption keeps its deliberate 20 s bound.Scope and approval
Fixes #27230
Verification
New test
ProviderRegistry > checkCodexProviderStatus > returns ready when app-server answers slowly but correctly: a probe that answers after 25 s of TestClock time. It fails on main withexpected 'Timed out while checking Codex app-se…' to equal undefinedand passes here.times out when app-server never answerskeeps the hung case bounded.vp test runonProviderRegistry.test.ts,CodexProvider.test.tsandDrivers/CodexDriver.test.ts: all pass.vp run check:changedpasses.Runtime transcript (Linux, codex-cli 0.163.0, authenticated). A scratch driver calls the real
checkCodexProviderStatus, thenprobeCodexSkillsForCwdwith the driver's timeout, against acodexwrapper that sleeps 25 s before exec:dd14848153fc6af35e38(head0e65b16dddonly merges main)[20.0s] status=error … message="Timed out while checking Codex app-server provider status."[25.7s] status=ready auth=authenticated version=0.163.0 models=8 skills=26failed: TimeoutErrorafter 20 sok: 29 skillsSame driver with the real
codex(no delay) on this branch: ready at 0.5 s, skills scan done at 1.1 s.In the web dev server (fresh database), Settings → Providers on main with the 25 s wrapper shows
Unavailable · Timed out while checking Codex app-server provider status.. On this branch it showsAuthenticated · OpenAI API Key, v0.163.0.Not checked: Windows itself (no VM runs it); the slow process start is simulated with the wrapper. Settings screenshots are in a PR comment; the scratch driver is not attached (the upload tool was unavailable on the VM that did the work).
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