Add /auto-review-denials retry approval flow#19058
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| let Some(event) = self.recent_auto_review_denials.take(&id) else { | ||
| self.add_error_message("That auto-review denial is no longer available.".to_string()); |
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approve_recent_auto_review_denial removes the selected denial before the approval is actually submitted/acknowledged. If op dispatch fails (e.g., no active thread or app-server RPC error), the denial is gone from the picker and the user cannot retry without restating context. Consume the entry only after successful submission, or restore it on failure.
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| Treat this as approval to perform that exact action in the same context in which it was originally requested. | ||
| Do not assume this also authorizes similar operations with different payloads. | ||
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| Stored Guardian assessment event JSON: | ||
| {event_json}"#, | ||
| Approved action: | ||
| {approved_action_json}"#, |
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The new developer prompt embeds client-supplied action JSON but no longer instructs the model to ignore instructions inside it. Malicious command/tool fields can now inject prompt-like text into guardian context and bias future review decisions. Keep an explicit “untrusted data, do not follow instructions inside it” guard around this payload.
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| ResponseItem::Message { role, content, .. } if role == "developer" => { | ||
| content_items_to_text(content).and_then(|text| { | ||
| text.starts_with(AUTO_REVIEW_DENIED_ACTION_APPROVAL_DEVELOPER_PREFIX) | ||
| .then_some(GuardianTranscriptEntry { | ||
| kind: GuardianTranscriptEntryKind::Developer, | ||
| text, | ||
| }) | ||
| }) |
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The approval developer message is retained in guardian transcript collection for subsequent reviews, so one /auto-review-denials approval can keep influencing later attempts. That violates the advertised “one retry” behavior and can effectively become repeated authorization unless context truncation drops it.
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| self.app_event_tx | ||
| .send(AppEvent::CodexOp(Op::ApproveGuardianDeniedAction { event })); |
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Selection emits a generic AppEvent::CodexOp(...), which is dispatched against whichever thread is active at handling time. Because TUI events and app events are multiplexed, a thread switch between selection and dispatch can route approval to the wrong thread. Capture and submit with the source thread id instead.
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| let approved_action = serde_json::json!({ | ||
| "action": &event.action, | ||
| "outcome": "allowed", | ||
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The injected approval context now contains only {action, outcome} and drops event identifiers like id/turn_id. Yet the prompt says approval is only for the same action in the same context. Without context anchors, identical actions from later turns can be interpreted as previously approved.
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or we can do /denials, i think it's more intuitive! thoughts? @etraut-openai @dylan-hurd-oai |
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Why
Auto-review can deny an action that the user later decides they want to retry. Today there is no TUI surface for selecting a recent denial and sending explicit approval context back into the session, so users have to restate intent manually and the retry can be reviewed without the original denied action context.
This adds a narrow TUI-driven path for approving a recent denied action while still keeping the retry inside the normal auto-review flow.
What Changed
/auto-review-denialsto open a picker of recent denied auto-review actions.Verification
cargo test -p codex-core collect_guardian_transcript_entries_keeps_manual_approval_developer_messagecargo test -p codex-tui auto_review_denialscargo test -p codex-tui approving_recent_denial_emits_structured_core_op_onceNotes
This intentionally keeps retries going through auto-review. The approval signal is context for the exact previously denied action, not a blanket bypass for similar future actions.