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Summary

  • Ask Codex's read-only hooks/list API whether the configured SessionStart and Stop relay commands are enabled and trusted.
  • Report stale, missing, or unverifiable Codex hook trust as a non-green result in validate and probe-adapter, including JSON output.
  • Check the selected binary, effective PATH, policy arguments, and relevant directory while preserving validation's packaged-profile execution boundary.

Verification

  • uv run pytest -q — 10,800 passed, 82 skipped.
  • uv run pyright — 0 errors; existing psutil source warning.
  • trunk fmt, trunk check, trunk check --all — no issues.
  • Negative assertions were ablated against their gates and turned red before restoration.
  • A read-only hooks/list query with the installed Codex binary reported this checkout's SessionStart and Stop hooks trusted.

Operational note

A fresh temporary Codex live-probe directory has no prior trust grant, so the probe reports a non-green hook-trust diagnostic before launch. For worktree isolation, validate reports that future worktree trust cannot be certified from the main checkout.

Related to #461.

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  • New Features

    • Added Codex hook-trust validation to validate and probe-adapter.
    • Commands now verify required SessionStart and Stop hooks are enabled, trusted, and correctly configured.
    • Results report trusted, untrusted, or unverifiable status with diagnostic guidance.
    • Live probes stop before launching when temporary hook configuration lacks trust.
    • Configurations that may alter hook discovery, or unavailable Codex profiles, are reported as unverifiable.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance covering trust checks, worktree limitations, and live probe behavior.

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The change adds Codex hook trust checks. validate reports trust findings. Live probes verify temporary workspace trust before launch. CLI output, reports, tests, and documentation expose the result.

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Codex hook trust validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Codex trust query and classification
src/bmad_loop/codex_trust.py, tests/test_codex_trust.py
The new module resolves the Codex binary, validates both relay events, queries hooks/list, and returns trusted, untrusted, or unverifiable.
Validation trust finding
src/bmad_loop/checks.py, tests/test_cli.py, tests/test_codex_trust.py
validate registers hooks.trust and reports trust results for the selected project and role. Tests cover trusted fixtures, invalid profiles, project paths, and stage arguments.
Probe gating and output
src/bmad_loop/probe.py, src/bmad_loop/cli.py, src/bmad_loop/adapters/generic.py, tests/test_codex_trust.py, tests/test_generic_tmux.py
Scanning records hook trust. Live probes resolve the Codex binary and check the temporary workspace before launch. Unverifiable profile failures propagate to findings, warnings, next steps, and rendered output.
User-facing behavior documentation
CHANGELOG.md, docs/FEATURES.md
The documentation describes Codex hook-trust checks and temporary-workspace validation.

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  participant User
  participant validate
  participant project_hook_trust
  participant CodexAppServer
  User->>validate: run validation
  validate->>project_hook_trust: check configured relay hooks
  project_hook_trust->>CodexAppServer: request hooks/list
  CodexAppServer-->>project_hook_trust: return hook trust statuses
  project_hook_trust-->>validate: return trust result
  validate-->>User: report hooks.trust finding
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/cli.py
elif not hooks_ok:
trust_message = "hook trust cannot pass: Codex relay hooks are not registered"
else:
trust = project_hook_trust(project, profile)

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P1 Badge Resolve the executable before querying Codex

On native Windows with the npm-installed codex.cmd shim, this passes the bare profile name into Popen, which searches only executable extensions rather than honoring PATHEXT; the repository already handles this exact case by passing shutil.which()'s resolved .cmd path in opencode_http.py. As a result, adapter.binary can report Codex as found while every hooks.trust query becomes unverifiable, making validate fail for an otherwise runnable supported Windows setup. Pass the resolved executable into project_hook_trust rather than reusing profile.binary.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L1-L3

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Comment on lines +153 to +158
# The default bypass switch changes approvals, not hook configuration. Other
# launch arguments can select a different config and cannot be mirrored here.
if profile.launch_args or any(
arg != "--dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox" for arg in profile.bypass_args
):
return TrustResult("unverifiable", "hook trust cannot verify profile launch arguments")

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P2 Badge Account for policy extra_args in the trust verdict

This validation only rejects hook-affecting arguments stored on the profile, but the actual adapter replaces profile.bypass_args with each role's resolved policy extra_args. For example, codex --help documents -C/--cd as changing the working root, and extra_args = ["-C", "/another/project"] is accepted after the prompt by the same argv shape used in GenericAdapter.interactive_argv; validation can therefore report the current checkout's hooks as trusted while the session loads hooks for another directory and stalls waiting for Stop. Validate each role's effective arguments, or fail the trust check closed when policy arguments can alter discovery.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L23-L26

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In `@src/bmad_loop/codex_trust.py`:
- Around line 64-65: Update _hooks_list to resolve the configured binary with
shutil.which using the same PATH from env before passing it to subprocess.Popen,
while falling back to the original binary when resolution fails; add the
required import and preserve the existing app-server arguments and process
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- Around line 51-67: Make the Codex stub setup in tests/test_codex_trust.py
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🟡 Minor · Stub binary resolution in this test. · test_codex_trust.py:145-149

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Stub binary resolution in this test.

project_hook_trust now calls shutil.which("codex") before the mocked _hooks_list. This test supplies no resolver mock or fake binary. On a test host without Codex, the call returns unverifiable instead of trusted.

Patch codex_trust.shutil.which to return a fixture launcher path in this test.

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In `@tests/test_codex_trust.py` around lines 145 - 149, Update the test covering
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and return the fixture launcher path, so binary resolution succeeds before the
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- Around line 145-149: Update the test covering project_hook_trust with the
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Comment on lines +61 to +63
command = hook.get("command")
if isinstance(command, str) and marker in command:
commands.append(command)

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P1 Badge Validate relay targets against the current project

When a checkout is moved or its .codex/hooks.json is copied from another checkout, the configured commands can still point at the old absolute relay path. _commands treats any marker-containing command from that config as the expected command, so if Codex reports that stale handler as trusted, validate emits hooks.trust as current even though the current session's Stop event will reach the wrong relay and can leave the unattended loop waiting indefinitely. Derive and compare the expected relay command for project instead of accepting the configured string as ground truth.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L25-L26

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