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TASK-645 item 6: the Codex listener gets its folder note

Tier 1 (UI copy on the Bring your own page; one gate from ux-lead).

The Claude Code listener says what it can reach and how --allow widens it. The Codex listener said nothing, so a Codex user could not tell which folder it works in.

Code check, so the copy is true:

• cli/src/lib/workspace-trust.js firstRunWorkspace returns a folder only for claude. A Codex seat therefore runs in its scratch folder under the temp directory.
• cli/src/commands/agent.js refuses --allow when the seat has no workspace folder, so the Codex command gets no flag.

The note under the Codex listener says exactly that. The command itself is unchanged.

• frontend/src/i18n/locales/en.json and zh-CN.json: new agentByo.listen.reachCodex.
• frontend/src/v2/components/V2AgentBYO.tsx: the note renders for the Codex listener, where the Claude note used to be the only one.
• Test: V2AgentBYOListenSnippet.test.tsx checks the Codex note after the switch.

Checks run: V2AgentBYOListenSnippet.test.tsx and src/i18n, 49/49.

Not done yet: the headless Playwright check at 1440 and 390 with screenshots.

Not in this PR: item 5 (the post-issue name switch, pending Lily's ruling), items 3 and 4, and the moved affordances (TASK-647).

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Re-stamp: working directory of the Codex snippet (Lily's ask, 2026-10-30)

The snippet is commonly agent run <name> --adapter codex, with no --env. Traced in the CLI:

• cli/src/commands/agent.js (run action): the workspace comes only from an environment file, and run passes --env through only when given. The BYO first run bootstraps its record from the connect page's env vars (bootstrapAgentRecordFromEnv), which never sets workspacePath. workspacePath is written only by cli/src/lib/daemon-supervisor.js, for a daemon seat with an environment.
• agent.js:1041: agentCwd = workspacePath || join(tmpdir(), 'commonly-agents', agentName).

So the Codex snippet always runs in $TMPDIR/commonly-agents/<name>. It never gets the workspace path, so the sentence is right in both languages. A daemon seat with an environment is the only case that gets a workspace, and that path is not on this page.

--allow is not a flag on agent run. The run command's options are --interval, --adapter, and the three --cascade-* flags. Nothing in cli/src declares --allow. Commander rejects unknown options by default, and cli/src has no allowUnknownOption. So the Codex sentence's "--allow does not apply to Codex" is weaker than the truth: the flag is not accepted for either runner. I did not run the CLI to confirm the rejection; there are no cli dependencies in this checkout.

The Claude copy (agentByo.listen.reachClaude, unchanged here) tells people to add --allow write / --allow web to the same line. That names a flag the command does not have. Fixing it is a copy decision and sits outside this PR's Codex scope, so it is flagged for a ruling rather than changed here.

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When the listener is available and Codex is selected, the BYO instructions show a Codex-specific reachability note. English and Simplified Chinese translations and test assertions are added.

Changes: Codex BYO Listener Note

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Codex note text and display frontend/src/v2/components/V2AgentBYO.tsx, frontend/src/i18n/locales/en.json, frontend/src/i18n/locales/zh-CN.json, frontend/src/v2/__tests__/V2AgentBYOListenSnippet.test.tsx	The component displays the Codex-specific note when the listener is available and Codex is selected. The English and Simplified Chinese text describes Codex’s temporary scratch folder and says --allow does not apply. Tests check the note’s content and its absence when Codex is unavailable.

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The Codex listener now displays a localized scratch-folder note. No merge-blocking issue is established.

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Title check		The title names the main change: the Codex listener on the Bring your own page gets its folder-reach note, which matches the changeset (en.json, zh-CN.json, V2AgentBYO.tsx, and the snippet test). It a…
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Describe only the unsupported --allow flag.

The rendered Codex command still contains --adapter codex (Line 1012), so “the last line has no flag” is false. Change this string and the Simplified Chinese string to say that users must not add --allow to the last line.

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Review comment at @frontend/src/i18n/locales/en.json at line 1711:
Update the reachCodex message in the English and Simplified Chinese locale
strings to clarify that users must not add --allow to the last line, while
preserving the accurate scratch-folder guidance and avoiding the incorrect claim
that the last line has no flag.

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Head: 3e3ef2b.

HOLD on two items. I ran it on a probe merge of this head onto main c496b8f (after #3019). The merge is clean, and the new Codex assertions land in "a Codex listener shows no Claude folder note". The 16 BYO and i18n suites pass, 170/170.

1. The note contradicts the command above it. "--allow does not apply to Codex, so the last line has no flag" sits under a last line that reads commonly agent run <name> --adapter codex, which has a flag. The zh-CN "所以最后一行不带参数" says the same. CodeRabbit flagged this at 8b3d6cb in its review body, with no thread, and the two-pass wording commit left both strings as they were. Say the last line has no --allow (en and zh-CN).
2. Nothing pins "renders only for the Codex listener". Two mutants stay 170/170 green:
   • Dropping listenAdapter === 'codex' &&, so a Claude Code listener shows the Codex note under its own.
   • Dropping listenerAvailable &&, so Linux and Windows Codex installs show a note about a last line they don't have.
     Only deleting the block entirely goes red (1 test). Fix: assert queryByTestId('byo-listen-reach-codex') is null in the Claude reach test, and in the Linux-with-Codex and Codex-on-Windows tests.

The CLI claim holds:

• firstRunWorkspace returns null for any adapter but claude (workspace-trust.js).
• The bootstrap then throws on --allow with no workspace ("applies only to an agent that works in the folder it starts in", agent.js). On a re-run of a saved Codex record, checkRunAllowRequest refuses it and exits 1.
• The bootstrap returns workspacePath: null, so agentCwd falls back to join(tmpdir(), 'commonly-agents', agentName), and codex.js spawns with that ctx.cwd.

Non-blocking:

• The PR body's re-stamp section says agent run has no --allow option and that the Claude note names a flag the command lacks. That isn't so. .option('--allow <grants>', …) is declared on run at the merge base, at this head and on main, so the Claude copy needs no ruling.
• After the merge, the test titled "a Claude Code listener says what it can reach…; Codex says nothing of folders" no longer matches the behaviour, since Codex now has a folder note.

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Head: 3cf7c1a.

PASS. This supersedes my HOLD at 3e3ef2b.

The ask named c121c4b. The branch was rebased onto current main after that, and the PR's own changed lines are byte-identical between the two heads. I gated this one, probing its merge onto current main.

• The wording defect is fixed. en and zh-CN now say the last line has no --allow (最后一行不带 --allow). The Codex command's last line is commonly agent run <name> --adapter codex, so the note agrees with the command it sits under.
• The render gates are witnessed now. Baseline is 170/170 across the BYO and i18n suites, and all three mutants redden:
  • K1, dropping listenAdapter === 'codex': the Claude listener test goes red.
  • K2, dropping listenerAvailable: both the Codex-on-Windows and the Linux-with-Codex tests go red.
  • K3, removing the note: the Codex listener test goes red.
• The CLI claim still holds on the merged tree:
  • firstRunWorkspace returns null for any adapter but claude.
  • agent run refuses --allow without a workspace path.
  • A folderless run works in tmpdir()/commonly-agents/<name>.
• The diff touches four files, all in the BYO flow.

When I filed, the rebase's CI was still running: 13 checks pass, 8 are pending, none fail.

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BYO lane and zh-CN two-pass review for #3017 (TASK-645 item 6) at 3cf7c1a, rebased onto e957b1e.

• The claim is true (Vera traced it; the PR body cites it). A Codex seat has no first-run workspace, so it runs in $TMPDIR/commonly-agents/<name>, and --allow is refused without a workspace.
• The note no longer contradicts the command. "the last line has no --allow" sits correctly under commonly agent run <name> --adapter codex, which was CodeRabbit's review-body point at 8b3d6cb.
• It renders only where it applies. The Claude reach, Linux+Codex and Codex-on-Windows tests assert no Codex note, so dropping either guard goes red (Vera's mutants).
• The rebase kept #3016 and #3019. The EACCES tests and the runner-before-install tests are both present.

key	before	after	reason
en agentByo.listen.reachCodex	(new)	…so the last line has no --allow.	names the one flag that's absent
zh-CN agentByo.listen.reachCodex	(new)	Codex 会在系统临时目录里用自己的暂存文件夹工作，不在你运行命令的这个文件夹。--allow 对 Codex 无效，所以最后一行不带 --allow。	voice pass: no nested 在…下…里; 你 not 您; half-width spaces around Latin

GATE: PASS