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feat: record messages from user in ~/.codex/history.jsonl (#939)
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2025-05-15 23:26:23 +00:00 This is a large change to support a "history" feature like you would
expect in a shell like Bash.History events are recorded in
$CODEX_HOME/history.jsonl. Because it
is a JSONL file, it is straightforward to append new entries (as opposed
to the TypeScript file that uses$CODEX_HOME/history.json, so to be
valid JSON, each new entry entails rewriting the entire file). Because
it is possible for there to be multiple instances of Codex CLI writing
tohistory.jsonlat once, we use advisory file locking when working
withhistory.jsonlincodex-rs/core/src/message_history.rs.Because we believe history is a sufficiently useful feature, we enable
it by default. Though to provide some safety, we set the file
permissions ofhistory.jsonlto beo600so that other users on the
system cannot read the user's history. We do not yet support a default
list ofSENSITIVE_PATTERNSas the TypeScript CLI does:We are going to take a more conservative approach to this list in the
Rust CLI. For example, while/\b[A-Za-z0-9-_]{20,}\b/might exclude
sensitive information like API tokens, it would also exclude valuable
information such as references to Git commits.As noted in the updated documentation, users can opt-out of history by
adding the following toconfig.toml:[history] persistence = "none"Because
history.jsonlcould, in theory, be quite large, we take a[n
arguably overly pedantic] approach in reading history entries into
memory. Specifically, we start by telling the client the current number
of entries in the history file (history_entry_count) as well as the
inode (history_log_id) ofhistory.jsonl(see the new fields on
SessionConfiguredEvent).The client is responsible for keeping new entries in memory to create a
"local history," but if the user hits up enough times to go "past" the
end of local history, then the client should use the new
GetHistoryEntryRequestin the protocol to fetch older entries.
Specifically, it should pass thehistory_log_idit was given
originally and work backwards fromhistory_entry_count. (It should
really fetch history in batches rather than one-at-a-time, but that is
something we can improve upon in subsequent PRs.)The motivation behind this crazy scheme is that it is designed to defend
against:- The
history.jsonlbeing truncated during the session such that the
index into the history is no longer consistent with what had been read
up to that point. We do not yet have logic to enforce amax_bytesfor
history.jsonl, but once we do, we will aspire to implement it in a way
that should result in a new inode for the file on most systems. - New items from concurrent Codex CLI sessions amending to the history.
Because, in absence of truncation,history.jsonlis an append-only
log, so long as the client reads backwards fromhistory_entry_count,
it should always get a consistent view of history. (That said, it will
not be able to read new commands from concurrent sessions, but perhaps
we will introduce a/command to reload latest history or something
down the road.)
Admittedly, my testing of this feature thus far has been fairly light. I
expect we will find bugs and introduce enhancements/fixes going forward.下载附件
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