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Prevent Codex exec tool rejection with Copilot inference #65654

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17 changes: 14 additions & 3 deletions pkg/workflow/codex_config.go
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Expand Up @@ -90,7 +90,11 @@ func (e *CodexEngine) buildNativeConfig(workflowData *WorkflowData, mcpTools []s
Overrides: make(map[string]any),
DisablePlugins: workflowData == nil || len(workflowData.Plugins) == 0,
}
config.Defaults["features"] = map[string]any{"plugins": !config.DisablePlugins}
features := map[string]any{"plugins": !config.DisablePlugins}
if e.ResolveLLMProvider(workflowData) == LLMProviderGitHub {
features["shell_tool"] = false
}
config.Defaults["features"] = features
if isFirewallEnabled(workflowData) {
config.Defaults["model_provider"] = codexOpenAIProxyProviderID
config.Defaults["model_providers"] = map[string]any{
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ func (e *CodexEngine) buildNativeConfig(workflowData *WorkflowData, mcpTools []s
delete(config.Overrides, "mcp_servers")
}
}
if err := validateCodexManagedConfig(config, isFirewallEnabled(workflowData)); err != nil {
if err := validateCodexManagedConfig(config, isFirewallEnabled(workflowData), e.ResolveLLMProvider(workflowData) == LLMProviderGitHub); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -165,7 +169,14 @@ func codexNativeServerDefaults(workflowData *WorkflowData, mcpTools []string) ma
return servers
}

func validateCodexManagedConfig(config *codexNativeConfig, firewallEnabled bool) error {
func validateCodexManagedConfig(config *codexNativeConfig, firewallEnabled, githubProvider bool) error {
if githubProvider {
if features, ok := config.Overrides["features"].(map[string]any); ok {
if shellTool, exists := features["shell_tool"]; exists && shellTool != false {
return errors.New("engine.config: features.shell_tool is disabled for GitHub inference because the Copilot compatibility adapter does not support the Codex exec custom tool")
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[/diagnosing-bugs] Root cause only partially addressed: validateCodexManagedConfig only blocks engine.config TOML overrides. But buildCodexCommand appends workflowData.EngineConfig.Args (customArgsParam) as the last segment of the generated codex exec ... command, after shellToolParam ( -c features.shell_tool=false). Since later -c flags win in Codex CLI arg parsing, a workflow with engine: {id: codex, args: ["-c", "features.shell_tool=true"]} silently re-enables the exec tool for GitHub inference, bypassing the new guard entirely.

💡 Suggested fix

Add a check (alongside/near validateCodexManagedConfig, or in buildCodexCommand) that scans workflowData.EngineConfig.Args for a features.shell_tool override when ResolveLLMProvider(workflowData) == LLMProviderGitHub, and rejects it the same way the TOML override is rejected. Add a regression test mirroring TestCodexGitHubInferenceRejectsExecToolOverride but using Args instead of Config.

@copilot please address this.

}
}
}
if rawServers, exists := config.Overrides["mcp_servers"]; exists {
servers, ok := rawServers.(map[string]any)
if !ok {
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40 changes: 40 additions & 0 deletions pkg/workflow/codex_config_test.go
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Expand Up @@ -98,6 +98,46 @@ process.stdout.write(serializeConfig(buildConfig({github: {headers: {Authorizati
assert.Equal(t, "Bearer \"quoted\"\\token", headers["Authorization"])
}

func TestCodexGitHubInferenceDisablesUnsupportedExecTool(t *testing.T) {
for _, test := range []struct {
name string
model string
disableShell bool
}{
{name: "Copilot provider", model: "copilot/gpt-5.3-codex", disableShell: true},
{name: "OpenAI provider", model: "gpt-5.3-codex"},
} {
t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
data := &WorkflowData{
Name: "provider-tool-config",
Model: test.model,
EngineConfig: &EngineConfig{ID: "codex"},
}
var output strings.Builder
require.NoError(t, renderCodexMCPConfigForTest(t, NewCodexEngine(), &output, map[string]any{}, nil, data))

config := decodeCodexBootstrap(t, output.String())
features := config["features"].(map[string]any)
if test.disableShell {
assert.Equal(t, false, features["shell_tool"])
} else {
assert.NotContains(t, features, "shell_tool")
}
})
}
}

func TestCodexGitHubInferenceRejectsExecToolOverride(t *testing.T) {
_, err := NewCodexEngine().buildNativeConfig(&WorkflowData{
Model: "copilot/gpt-5.3-codex",
EngineConfig: &EngineConfig{
ID: "codex",
Config: "[features]\nshell_tool = true",
},
}, nil)
require.ErrorContains(t, err, "does not support the Codex exec custom tool")
}

func TestCodexNativeConfigShellEnvironment(t *testing.T) {
data := &WorkflowData{
EngineConfig: &EngineConfig{Env: map[string]string{
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11 changes: 2 additions & 9 deletions pkg/workflow/schemas/github-workflow.json
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Expand Up @@ -42,15 +42,8 @@
"queue": {
"$comment": "https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/workflow-syntax#example-queueing-multiple-pending-runs",
"description": "Controls how pending jobs or workflow runs are queued within a concurrency group. With the default `single`, at most one run can be pending — additional pending runs cancel the previous one. With `max`, up to 100 runs can be pending and are processed in FIFO order. The combination of `queue: max` and `cancel-in-progress: true` is not allowed.",
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "string",
"enum": ["single", "max"]
},
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/expressionSyntax"
}
],
"type": "string",
"enum": ["single", "max"],
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[/diagnosing-bugs] Confirmed by running go test ./pkg/workflow/ -run TestConcurrencyQueueSchemaValidation: this change makes the existing test fail, because queue with a GitHub Actions expression (e.g. ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && 'single' || 'max' }}) is a documented, tested case that the compiler generates (see concurrency_command_test.go's mixed-PR scenario). Dropping the expressionSyntax branch regresses that feature, not just a theoretical risk.

💡 Test failure output 
--- FAIL: TestConcurrencyQueueSchemaValidation (0.01s)
Error: GitHub Actions schema validation failed ... '/concurrency/queue': value must be one of 'single', 'max'

Restore the oneOf with expressionSyntax for queue, or update/remove TestConcurrencyQueueSchemaValidation's expression case if dropping expression support for queue is intentional — but as-is this is an unrelated regression bundled into a Codex-provider fix PR.

@copilot please address this.

"default": "single"
}
},
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