Codex Styler 0.1.0-alpha.5 — macOS Apple Silicon Alpha

Codex Styler 0.1.0-alpha.5

This Alpha adds two flagship themes, a six-character companion library, and a signed in-app update path. It also strengthens theme creation, runtime styling, companion rendering, and recovery behavior across the complete Codex workspace.

Warning

The macOS application is ad-hoc signed but not signed with an Apple Developer ID and not notarized by Apple. On first launch, use Finder's Control-click → Open flow. Do not disable Gatekeeper globally.

Download and install

1. Download Codex-Styler_0.1.0-alpha.5_aarch64-unsigned.dmg.
2. Open the DMG and drag Codex Styler to Applications.
3. In Applications, Control-click Codex Styler, choose Open, then confirm once.
4. Choose a theme, select a companion, and use Apply to Codex.

Requires macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon. Intel Macs and Windows are not included in this preview.

What changed

• Add Gilded Grandeur, an obsidian-and-gold flagship theme paired with Reset God by default.
• Add Merry Big Top, a playful circus theme paired with Token Thief by default.
• Ship six independent companions: Moss, Reset God, Token Thief, Pico, Puddle, and Mochi.
• Keep themes and companions independent while presenting intentional default pairings.
• Apply complete semantic palettes, themed icon containers, composition modes, decorations, readability protection, and motion recipes across Codex.
• Create themes from a blank canvas, an imported image, or an existing design without forcing an unrelated base theme.
• Save, validate, export, apply, reset, and delete local themes through one consistent workflow.
• Check GitHub Releases from Settings, inspect release notes, skip a version, or download, install, and restart from the update panel.

Companion quality

• Preserve source resolution and use shared crops and ground lines instead of per-frame resizing.
• Calibrate directions from cardinal anchors and perceptual motion rather than assuming constant video speed.
• Remove blue, purple, and magenta key backgrounds, gray plate noise, floor shadows, and corner watermarks without altering centered subject pixels.
• Keep natural blinks and small character motions while providing smooth pointer-aware transitions.
• Reposition attached companions when the Codex composer changes height, while retaining free drag placement.

Safety and compatibility

• Theme packages remain data-only and cannot execute scripts, load remote resources, inject arbitrary CSS, or include executable content.
• Enhanced mode applies and verifies the complete theme first; Conservative mode keeps styling isolated when a safer fallback is needed.
• Codex Styler can request permission to close and restart Codex instead of requiring manual process management.
• Restore removes injected roots and returns Codex to the official interface without patching the application bundle.
• Update manifests and archives are signed and verified before installation.

Verification

• 27 desktop tests and 16 theme-core tests pass.
• Rust formatting, Clippy, tests, and dependency audit are release gates.
• Desktop and bilingual Astro documentation production builds pass.
• The generated validator is synchronized with the public JSON Schema.
• All 19 generated documentation pages pass local-link validation.

Verify checksums from the directory containing the downloaded files:

shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt

Verify GitHub build provenance:

gh attestation verify Codex-Styler_0.1.0-alpha.5_aarch64-unsigned.dmg \
  --repo xuhuanstudio/codex-styler

Known limitations

• The preview is currently built for macOS Apple Silicon only.
• The app is not yet Developer ID signed or notarized.
• Codex updates can change internal semantic surfaces; Enhanced mode verifies the result and falls back instead of relying only on version numbers.