codex — Engineering Performance
33 engineers all time · Apr 2025 – Aug 2026 · built 2026-08-23 · GitHub
Performance snapshot
Today's rolling 90-day reading for codex, compared with the start of the series. Pick a window to move that comparison point.
Eff. capacity added
+137.6engineers
23 devs deliver like 161 (7.0x pre-AI)
Avg. perf / dev / mo (ETV)
+262.9%
1.65 → 6.00
Active engineers
+228.6%
7.0 → 23.0
Features
−25.5pp
61.1% → 35.6%
codex vs. OpenAI
Per-engineer ETV for codex against OpenAI as a whole. Both lines are 90-day rolling averages scaled to a 30-day month, so they share one axis and can be read against each other at any point. Pick a window to zoom the chart to it.
Performance over time
ETV stacked by Features / Maintenance / Tests / Docs / Fixes — 90-day moving average, normalized to ETV / month.
Engineering capacity
Effective engineers behind codex, in pre-AI terms. Per-engineer ETV divided by the Q1 2025 baseline of 0.86 ETV / dev / mo gives a capacity multiple, and that multiple applied to the engineers active in the trailing 90 days turns it into engineer-equivalents. The line is the real headcount, so the gap between line and area is what the leverage is worth.
Knowledge concentration
How dependent is this repo on a small number of engineers? Higher top-1 share = higher key-person risk.
jif owns 21.3 % of commits.
Reports
Written summary of the work completed each month.
No monthly reports available yet.
Top engineers
Most impactful commits
Top 10 by ETV in the all-time window.
- 6.9ETVSimplify app-server integration test setup (#34786) ## What changed - Add typed helpers for initialized app-server instances, JSON-RPC requests, responses, notifications, and thread startup. - Add a composable `MockResponsesConfig` builder while preserving the existing mock config writers. - Migrate the app-server integration suite to the shared helpers, removing repeated request ID management, deserialization, initialization, and config assembly. ## Testing - Add unit coverage for composing mock provider, feature, and extra config, and for compatibility of the existing mock config writer. GitOrigin-RevId: 62da177c1d6e8299400de64bd6766567bf1ba3d8pakrym-oai · 10cc57c9 · 2026-07-22
- 4.9ETVchore: migrate from Config::load_from_base_config_with_overrides to ConfigBuilder (#8276) https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8235 introduced `ConfigBuilder` and this PR updates all call non-test call sites to use it instead of `Config::load_from_base_config_with_overrides()`. This is important because `load_from_base_config_with_overrides()` uses an empty `ConfigRequirements`, which is a reasonable default for testing so the tests are not influenced by the settings on the host. This method is now guarded by `#[cfg(test)]` so it cannot be used by business logic. Because `ConfigBuilder::build()` is `async`, many of the test methods had to be migrated to be `async`, as well. On the bright side, this made it possible to eliminate a bunch of `block_on_future()` stuff.Michael Bolin · 3d4ced3f · 2025-12-19
- 4.6ETVHarden unsandboxed patch filesystem access (#39659) ## Why An `apply_patch` path can be replaced with a symlink after verification, allowing an unsandboxed patch operation to reach a different file than the one that was approved. ## What changed - Add `follow_symlinks` options to executor filesystem reads, writes, metadata lookups, directory creation, and removal, including the corresponding `followSymlinks` protocol fields. - Implement no-follow filesystem operations on Unix and Windows that reject links in any path component and restrict file access to regular files. - Run `apply_patch` with symlink traversal disabled when an otherwise-required sandbox is bypassed, while retaining the existing follow-symlink default for standalone callers. ## Testing - Cover leaf and ancestor symlinks across patch add, update, delete, and move operations, including a path swap after verification. - Exercise local and remote no-follow filesystem behavior, concurrent directory creation, special-file rejection, and Windows reparse points. GitOrigin-RevId: 43fd479084891493ce13564fbd894b98f329c6ddpakrym-oai · e3e5ad28 · 2026-08-20
- 4.1ETVfeat: spreadsheet artifact (#13345)jif-oai · 8c5e50ef · 2026-03-03
- 3.6ETVAdd experimental app-server project APIs (#38940) ## What changed - Add SQLite-backed `project/list`, `project/read`, `project/create`, `project/import`, `project/update`, `project/move`, and `project/delete` endpoints with ordered roots, metadata, manual positioning, pagination, and idempotent creation. - Add project assignment to thread start, metadata updates, list filtering, and fork inheritance. Project deletion clears assignments without deleting threads. - Emit `project/changed` and `thread/project/updated` notifications after committed changes, and export the new protocol schemas and TypeScript types. ## Testing - Cover project lifecycle and ordering, idempotency, atomic imports, cursor and filter validation, thread assignment, deletion, and fork inheritance. GitOrigin-RevId: 47ae621be01ab8ef70a74a629fb29a5c5709ea33Anton Panasenko · 3b4569a9 · 2026-08-17
- 3.6ETVfeat: introducing a network sandbox proxy (#8442) This add a new crate, `codex-network-proxy`, a local network proxy service used by Codex to enforce fine-grained network policy (domain allow/deny) and to surface blocked network events for interactive approvals. - New crate: `codex-rs/network-proxy/` (`codex-network-proxy` binary + library) - Core capabilities: - HTTP proxy support (including CONNECT tunneling) - SOCKS5 proxy support (in the later PR) - policy evaluation (allowed/denied domain lists; denylist wins; wildcard support) - small admin API for polling/reload/mode changes - optional MITM support for HTTPS CONNECT to enforce “limited mode” method restrictions (later PR) Will follow up integration with codex in subsequent PRs. ## Testing - `cd codex-rs && cargo build -p codex-network-proxy` - `cd codex-rs && cargo run -p codex-network-proxy -- proxy`viyatb-oai · 77222492 · 2026-01-24
- 3.4ETVfeat: presentation artifact p1 (#13341) Part 1 of presentation tool artifactjif-oai · 4874b929 · 2026-03-03
- 3.2ETVfix: handle deferred network proxy denials (#19184) ## Why This bug is exposed by Guardian/auto-review approvals. With the managed network proxy enabled, a blocked network request can be reported back through the network approval service as an approval denial after the command has already started. Before this change, the shell and unified exec runtimes registered those network approval calls, but did not have a way to observe an async proxy denial as a cancellation/failure signal for the running process. The result was confusing: Guardian/auto-review could correctly deny network access, but the command path could keep running or unregister the approval without surfacing the denial as the command failure. ## What Changed - `NetworkApprovalService` now attaches a cancellation token to active and deferred network approvals. - Proxy-denial outcomes are recorded only for active registrations, cancel the owning token, and are consumed when the approval is finalized. - The shell runtime combines the normal command timeout with the network-denial cancellation token. - Unified exec stores the deferred network approval object, terminates tracked processes when the proxy denial arrives, and returns the denial as a process failure while polling or completing the process. - Tool orchestration passes the active network approval cancellation token into the sandbox attempt and preserves deferred approval errors instead of silently unregistering them. - App-server `command/exec` now handles the combined timeout-or-cancellation expiration variant used by the runtime. ## Verification - `cargo test -p codex-core network_approval --lib` - `cargo clippy -p codex-app-server --all-targets -- -D warnings` - `cargo clippy -p codex-core --all-targets -- -D warnings` --------- Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>viyatb-oai · 07c8b8c7 · 2026-04-29
- 3.1ETVRoute Windows sandbox proxy traffic by restricting SID (#34613) ## Why Elevated Windows sandboxes need stable managed-proxy ports while preserving the network policy and environment attribution of each sandboxed process. ## What changed - Keep shared HTTP and SOCKS5 loopback ingress listeners alive across managed-proxy instances. - Add a per-route restricting SID to elevated sandbox tokens and dispatch incoming connections to the matching proxy policy after attributing the client process. - Reject connections without exactly one registered route, remove routes when their proxy handle is dropped, and keep unsandboxed Windows launches off the managed ingress. - Provision the elevated sandbox with the configured proxy ports and local-binding setting, honoring the selected profile and CLI overrides. ## Testing - Add Windows unit tests for TCP ownership attribution, route selection, restricting-token propagation, and setup settings. - Add an end-to-end Windows test covering stable ports, isolated environment policies, HTTP and SOCKS5 routing, and route teardown. GitOrigin-RevId: 783fac6e0f904dc9bb1955b75d4a5895e8bb9690iceweasel-oai · 999a7150 · 2026-07-21
- 3.0ETVInject state DB, agent graph store (#20689) ## Why We want the agent graph store to be passed down the stack as a real dependency, the same way we already treat the thread store. This will let us inject the agent graph store as a real dependency and support implementations other than the local SQLite-backed one. Right now most code instantiates a state DB and an agent graph store just-in-time. Ideally, we would not depend on the state DB directly but only read through the higher-level interfaces. This change makes the dependency boundaries explicit and moves state DB initialization to process bootstrap instead of hiding it inside local store implementations. ## What changed - `ThreadManager` now requires a `StateDbHandle` and an `AgentGraphStore` at construction time instead of treating them as optional internals. - The local store constructors no longer lazily initialize SQLite. Callers now initialize the state DB once per process and use that shared handle to build: - `LocalThreadStore` - `LocalAgentGraphStore` - App bootstraps (`app-server`, `mcp-server`, `prompt_debug`, and the thread-manager sample) now initialize the state DB up front and inject the resulting handle down the stack. - `app-server` now consistently uses its process-scoped state DB handle instead of reopening SQLite or trying to recover it from loaded threads. - Device-key storage now reuses the shared state DB handle instead of maintaining its own lazy opener. - The thread archive / descendant traversal paths now use the injected `AgentGraphStore` instead of reaching through local thread-store-specific state. ## Verification - `cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-thread-store -p codex-app-server -p codex-mcp-server -p codex-thread-manager-sample --tests` - `cargo test -p codex-thread-store` - `cargo test -p codex-core thread_manager_accepts_separate_agent_graph_store_and_thread_store -- --nocapture` - `cargo test -p codex-app-server thread_archive_archives_spawned_descendants -- --nocapture`Rasmus Rygaard · 7e310bc7 · 2026-05-05