fix(cli-registry): codex launch defaults as registry data, ultra footer, schema doc defaults

- Codex footer model detection (c28): the modelDetect.screenLine effort
  alternation is now built from CODEX_REASONING_EFFORTS plus 'default', so
  'ultra' (offered by the codexReasoningEffort App Setting and codex's own
  /model picker) is read and the launch enum and the footer reader cannot
  drift again. Still one capture group, 125 characters, no new quantifier.
  New session-display-model case loops every effort level, ultra included.

- No CLI-id branching for launch defaults (c27): the two mode === 'codex'
  branches the synced codex model/effort defaults added to the create and
  quick-start routes are replaced by a registry capability,
  capabilities.launchDefaults (launch param -> settings key, values from a
  closed enum), declared on the codex entry only. The resolver moved from
  web/codex-launch-defaults.ts to web/launch-defaults.ts as
  applyLaunchDefaults(mode, configs, customEndpoint), filling the entry's
  legacyConfigField object through legacyConfigAliases, still re-validating
  with SettingsUpdateSchema and never overwriting a caller's value. The
  route exclusions are unchanged (create: not remote; quick-start: not
  remote, not Docker, not a custom model endpoint), and quick-start still
  derives the session model from a bag without ompConfig, as before.
  schema.ts refuses an undeclared param, an unknown settings key, an empty
  map, and launchDefaults on an entry with no legacyConfigField.

- The no-id-branching guard now carries an exact occurrence count per
  allowlisted key, so a new copy of an already approved expression fails
  instead of riding the old approval, with a synthetic anti-vacuity case.

- SettingsUpdateSchema JSDoc (c21/c29): 'classic' is the tabArrangement
  default and 'compact' the headerStatsStyle default, matching the
  resolvers and the pre-paint script; state/case/ledger are marked opt-in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/config/cli-registry/schema.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 import { z } from 'zod';
 import { compileVersionRegex, countCaptureGroups, TOKEN_PATTERNS } from './patterns.js';
 import { isKnownLauncherProfile, isKnownSetenvProfile } from './profiles.js';
-import type { McpConfigFormat, ModelConfigResolverName } from './types.js';
+import type { LaunchDefaultSettingKey, McpConfigFormat, ModelConfigResolverName } from './types.js';
 
 /** A bare CLI id: lowercase, starts with a letter, at most 24 chars. Also used as a CSS/URL token. */
 const cliId = z
@@ -409,6 +409,17 @@ const capabilitiesSchema = z
         'rejectWords has nothing to filter without a screenLine'
       )
       .optional(),
+    // Launch param -> synced App Settings key. The values are a closed enum, like
+    // configResolver: a clis.json override names one of the settings this build knows
+    // how to validate, never an arbitrary key. Params are checked against the declared
+    // ones in the superRefine below.
+    launchDefaults: z
+      .record(
+        z.string(),
+        z.enum(['codexModel', 'codexReasoningEffort'] as const satisfies readonly LaunchDefaultSettingKey[])
+      )
+      .refine((v) => Object.keys(v).length >= 1 && Object.keys(v).length <= 8, 'launchDefaults takes 1 to 8 params')
+      .optional(),
     privilegedParams: z
       .array(
         z
@@ -627,6 +638,30 @@ export const CliEntrySchema = z
       }
     });
 
+    // Same silent-no-op class again: a launch default for a param the entry never declared
+    // would be filled into the config object and then read by nothing. And without a
+    // `legacyConfigField` the entry's params are read off the request body itself, where a
+    // filled `model` would be a different field (claude's per-session one), so refuse it.
+    const { launchDefaults } = entry.capabilities;
+    if (launchDefaults !== undefined) {
+      if (entry.launch.legacyConfigField === undefined) {
+        ctx.addIssue({
+          code: 'custom',
+          message: 'launchDefaults needs launch.legacyConfigField to fill',
+          path: ['capabilities', 'launchDefaults'],
+        });
+      }
+      for (const param of Object.keys(launchDefaults)) {
+        if (!declaredParams.has(param)) {
+          ctx.addIssue({
+            code: 'custom',
+            message: `launchDefaults param "${param}" is not a declared launch param`,
+            path: ['capabilities', 'launchDefaults', param],
+          });
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
     const { setenvProfile } = entry.env;
     if (setenvProfile !== undefined && !isKnownSetenvProfile(setenvProfile)) {
       ctx.addIssue({

src/config/cli-registry/stock.ts

@@ -671,6 +671,11 @@ const CODEX: CliEntry = {
     // popup or a bare line of prose does not have that shape. A footer without an effort
     // word (a model with no reasoning setting) is not read, and the session keeps its
     // last known or launch model.
+    // The effort words are built from CODEX_REASONING_EFFORTS, the same list the
+    // `reasoningEffort` launch param above admits, plus `default` (what codex prints when
+    // no effort is configured). A hand-kept copy once left out `ultra`, so a session at
+    // that level never named its model. Every word is plain letters, so the join adds no
+    // quantifier and only a few characters to the 200-character compileVersionRegex cap.
     // ⚠️ It is not always the LAST row. 0.162.0 (measured 2026-10-09) adds a hint row
     // under it at rest, `  ← for agents · ? for shortcuts` or `  ? for shortcuts`, and
     // drops it again while a prompt is being typed. With a one-row window the footer was
@@ -681,9 +686,13 @@ const CODEX: CliEntry = {
     // and the `›` composer, and a forged footer-shaped transcript line is not followed by
     // an indented row, so it is not read.
     modelDetect: {
-      screenLine: String.raw`(?:^|\n) {2}([A-Za-z0-9][\w.:/@+-]{0,79}) (?:none|minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh|max|default) · [^\n]*(?:\n {2}[^\n]*)?$`,
+      screenLine: String.raw`(?:^|\n) {2}([A-Za-z0-9][\w.:/@+-]{0,79}) (?:${[...CODEX_REASONING_EFFORTS, 'default'].join('|')}) · [^\n]*(?:\n {2}[^\n]*)?$`,
       screenLines: 2,
     },
+    // App Settings → Codex model / reasoning effort (synced), filled into a LOCAL launch's
+    // codexConfig wherever the caller left the field unset. Launch-only: nothing writes
+    // codex's own config.toml. Read by applyLaunchDefaults() in src/web/launch-defaults.ts.
+    launchDefaults: { model: 'codexModel', reasoningEffort: 'codexReasoningEffort' },
     // Two columns, like claude's, measured on a live 0.154.0 answer: the `•`/`›`/`⚠`
     // markers sit in the gutter, prose continuations sit at 2, and a nested YAML block
     // the model wrote rendered at 2/4/6/8 for its own 0/2/4/6. Replayed at 100, 120,

src/config/cli-registry/types.ts

@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ export type NewlineSequence = 'line-feed' | 'esc-enter';
 /** The config readers `capabilities.modelDetect.configResolver` may name (src/model-config-resolvers.ts). */
 export type ModelConfigResolverName = 'deepseek-route';
 
+/**
+ * The synced App Settings keys `capabilities.launchDefaults` may name (src/web/launch-defaults.ts).
+ * A closed list rather than any settings key, so a clis.json override cannot feed an
+ * arbitrary setting onto a command line; each name must also be a `SettingsUpdateSchema`
+ * key, which the resolver's typing enforces.
+ */
+export type LaunchDefaultSettingKey = 'codexModel' | 'codexReasoningEffort';
+
 /** The MCP config dialects `src/mcp-sync.ts` has an adapter for. */
 export type McpConfigFormat = 'claude-json' | 'gemini-json' | 'codex-toml' | 'opencode-json' | 'antigravity-json';
 
@@ -529,6 +537,20 @@ export interface CliCapabilities {
     rejectWords?: string[];
     configResolver?: ModelConfigResolverName;
   };
+  /**
+   * Synced App Settings that seed this CLI's launch params when the caller left them unset,
+   * keyed by LAUNCH PARAM name (`{ model: 'codexModel' }`), never the legacy wire name; the
+   * resolver translates through `launch.legacyConfigAliases` like every other `param`.
+   *
+   * Filled into the entry's `launch.legacyConfigField` object at create time by
+   * `applyLaunchDefaults()` (src/web/launch-defaults.ts), which re-validates each value
+   * with `SettingsUpdateSchema` and never overwrites a value the caller sent. Which
+   * launches get it is the CALLER's decision (local ones only: never remote, Docker or a
+   * custom model endpoint). `schema.ts` refuses an undeclared param, and an entry without
+   * a `legacyConfigField`, whose params would otherwise be read off the request body itself.
+   * Absent = no launch defaults.
+   */
+  launchDefaults?: Record<string, LaunchDefaultSettingKey>;
   /**
    * Params a non-granted multi-user owner may not set freely, and what they are forced to.
    * Data-driven so a CUSTOM CLI's bypass flag is clampable exactly like codex's.

src/web/codex-launch-defaults.ts

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * @fileoverview Launch-time defaults for Codex sessions.
- *
- * Resolves the synced App Settings `codexModel` / `codexReasoningEffort` into the
- * `codexConfig` a launch uses, filling ONLY the fields the caller left unset.
- * Persisted values are re-validated with `SettingsUpdateSchema`, so a hand-edited
- * settings.json can never smuggle an unchecked value onto the codex command line.
- *
- * Scope is the caller's decision: the create and quick-start routes apply it to
- * local launches only, never to remote, Docker or custom-endpoint launches.
- * Nothing here writes Codex's own config files.
- */
-
-import type { CodexConfig } from '../types.js';
-import { SettingsUpdateSchema } from './schemas.js';
-import { readJsonConfig, SETTINGS_PATH } from './route-helpers.js';
-
-/** Resolve launch-only defaults without changing Codex's own configuration files. */
-export async function resolveCodexLaunchDefaults(
-  config: CodexConfig | undefined,
-  customEndpoint = false
-): Promise<CodexConfig | undefined> {
-  if (customEndpoint) return config;
-  const settings = await readJsonConfig<Record<string, unknown>>(SETTINGS_PATH, 'Codex launch defaults', {});
-  const model = SettingsUpdateSchema.shape.codexModel.safeParse(settings.codexModel);
-  const effort = SettingsUpdateSchema.shape.codexReasoningEffort.safeParse(settings.codexReasoningEffort);
-  const defaultModel = model.success ? model.data || undefined : undefined;
-  const defaultEffort = effort.success ? effort.data || undefined : undefined;
-  if (!defaultModel && !defaultEffort) return config;
-  return {
-    ...config,
-    model: config?.model ?? defaultModel,
-    reasoningEffort: config?.reasoningEffort ?? defaultEffort,
-  };
-}

src/web/launch-defaults.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/**
+ * @fileoverview Launch-time defaults from synced App Settings, driven by registry data.
+ *
+ * A CLI entry declares `capabilities.launchDefaults` (launch param -> settings key; today
+ * only codex, `{ model: 'codexModel', reasoningEffort: 'codexReasoningEffort' }`), and
+ * `applyLaunchDefaults()` fills those settings into the entry's `launch.legacyConfigField`
+ * object, setting ONLY the fields the caller left unset. Persisted values are re-validated
+ * with `SettingsUpdateSchema`, so a hand-edited settings.json can never smuggle an
+ * unchecked value onto the command line.
+ *
+ * Scope is the caller's decision: the create and quick-start routes apply it to local
+ * launches only, never to remote, Docker or custom-endpoint launches. Nothing here writes
+ * a CLI's own config files.
+ */
+
+import { getCli } from '../config/cli-registry/registry.js';
+import { SettingsUpdateSchema } from './schemas.js';
+import { readJsonConfig, SETTINGS_PATH } from './route-helpers.js';
+
+/**
+ * Return `configs` with the launch defaults of `mode`'s registry entry filled into its
+ * legacy config object (e.g. `codexConfig`). Every other field of `configs` is passed
+ * through untouched, and `configs` itself comes back unchanged (same object) when the entry
+ * declares no defaults, `customEndpoint` is set, or no setting names a value.
+ */
+export async function applyLaunchDefaults<T extends object>(
+  mode: string,
+  configs: T,
+  customEndpoint = false
+): Promise<T> {
+  const entry = getCli(mode);
+  const declared = entry?.capabilities.launchDefaults;
+  const field = entry?.launch.legacyConfigField;
+  if (customEndpoint || !declared || field === undefined) return configs;
+
+  const settings = await readJsonConfig<Record<string, unknown>>(SETTINGS_PATH, 'CLI launch defaults', {});
+  const aliases = entry.launch.legacyConfigAliases ?? {};
+  const current = (configs as Record<string, unknown>)[field] as Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+  const defaults: Record<string, unknown> = {};
+  for (const [param, settingKey] of Object.entries(declared)) {
+    const parsed = SettingsUpdateSchema.shape[settingKey].safeParse(settings[settingKey]);
+    // '' is the settings' "leave it to the CLI" value, the same as unset.
+    const value = parsed.success ? parsed.data || undefined : undefined;
+    const wireKey = aliases[param] ?? param;
+    if (value !== undefined && (current?.[wireKey] ?? undefined) === undefined) defaults[wireKey] = value;
+  }
+  if (Object.keys(defaults).length === 0) return configs;
+  return { ...configs, [field]: { ...current, ...defaults } };
+}

src/web/routes/session-routes.ts

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ import { clampEnvOverridesForOwner } from '../../session-env-clamp.js';
 import { enabledClis, getCli } from '../../config/cli-registry/registry.js';
 import type { NewlineSequence } from '../../config/cli-registry/types.js';
 import { resolveCliLaunchError } from '../../utils/cli-launcher.js';
-import { resolveCodexLaunchDefaults } from '../codex-launch-defaults.js';
+import { applyLaunchDefaults } from '../launch-defaults.js';
 import { legacyConfigForMode } from '../../session-cli-registry-bridge.js';
 import { isMultiUserMode } from '../../config/multiuser.js';
 import { AUTH_COOKIE_NAME } from '../middleware/auth.js';
@@ -1150,8 +1150,10 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
     const globalNice = await ctx.getGlobalNiceConfig();
     const modelConfig = await ctx.getModelConfig();
     const mode = body.mode || 'claude';
-    const launchCodexConfig =
-      mode === 'codex' && !remote ? await resolveCodexLaunchDefaults(body.codexConfig) : body.codexConfig;
+    // Synced App Settings launch defaults (capabilities.launchDefaults, codex's model and
+    // effort today) fill the CLI's own config object where the caller left it unset.
+    // Local launches only: a remote attach runs whatever the remote pane already runs.
+    const launchBody = remote ? body : await applyLaunchDefaults(mode, body);
     // Where a model override comes from is a capability, and the three answers are
     // genuinely different mechanisms:
     //   'flag'                 — the CLI takes --model, so read the value the caller sent
@@ -1166,10 +1168,9 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
     const modelSource = getCli(mode)?.capabilities.model;
     const model =
       modelSource?.source === 'flag'
-        ? (legacyConfigForMode(mode, { ...body, codexConfig: launchCodexConfig } as unknown as Record<
-            string,
-            unknown
-          >)?.[modelSource.param ?? 'model'] as string | undefined)
+        ? (legacyConfigForMode(mode, launchBody as unknown as Record<string, unknown>)?.[
+            modelSource.param ?? 'model'
+          ] as string | undefined)
         : modelSource?.source === 'claude-settings-file'
           ? body.model || modelConfig?.defaultModel || undefined
           : undefined;
@@ -1186,12 +1187,12 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
       deepSeekConfig: gatedDeepSeekConfig,
     } = await _clampExternalCliBypassForOwner(
       owner,
-      launchCodexConfig,
-      body.geminiConfig,
-      body.antigravityConfig,
-      body.piConfig,
-      body.grokConfig,
-      body.deepSeekConfig
+      launchBody.codexConfig,
+      launchBody.geminiConfig,
+      launchBody.antigravityConfig,
+      launchBody.piConfig,
+      launchBody.grokConfig,
+      launchBody.deepSeekConfig
     );
     const terminalHistoryConfig = await ctx.getTerminalHistoryConfig();
     const session = new Session({
@@ -1204,14 +1205,14 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
       model,
       claudeMode: effectiveClaudeMode,
       allowedTools: claudeModeConfig.allowedTools,
-      openCodeConfig: mode === 'opencode' ? body.openCodeConfig : undefined,
+      openCodeConfig: mode === 'opencode' ? launchBody.openCodeConfig : undefined,
       codexConfig: mode === 'codex' ? gatedCodexConfig : undefined,
       geminiConfig: mode === 'gemini' ? gatedGeminiConfig : undefined,
       antigravityConfig: mode === 'antigravity' ? gatedAntigravityConfig : undefined,
       piConfig: mode === 'pi' ? gatedPiConfig : undefined,
       grokConfig: mode === 'grok' ? gatedGrokConfig : undefined,
       deepSeekConfig: mode === 'deepseek' ? gatedDeepSeekConfig : undefined,
-      ompConfig: resolveOmpConfigForCreate(mode, workingDir, body.ompConfig),
+      ompConfig: resolveOmpConfigForCreate(mode, workingDir, launchBody.ompConfig),
       resumeSessionId: validatedResumeId,
       envOverrides: await clampEnvOverridesForOwner(owner, body.envOverrides),
       effort: body.effort,
@@ -3875,23 +3876,31 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
     // Apply global Nice priority config and model config from settings
     const niceConfig = await ctx.getGlobalNiceConfig();
     const qsModelConfig = await ctx.getModelConfig();
-    const qsLaunchCodexConfig =
-      mode === 'codex' && !remote && !docker
-        ? await resolveCodexLaunchDefaults(codexConfig, !!customModel)
-        : codexConfig;
+    // Synced App Settings launch defaults, as on the create path: local launches only, so
+    // never a remote or Docker case, and never a custom model endpoint launch.
+    const qsRequestConfigs = {
+      openCodeConfig,
+      codexConfig,
+      geminiConfig,
+      antigravityConfig,
+      piConfig,
+      grokConfig,
+      deepSeekConfig,
+      ompConfig,
+    };
+    const qsLaunchConfigs =
+      remote || docker ? qsRequestConfigs : await applyLaunchDefaults(mode, qsRequestConfigs, !!customModel);
+    // ⚠️ The model is read from a bag WITHOUT ompConfig, as it always was here: quick-start
+    // has never taken omp's session model from ompConfig (the create path does). Kept as
+    // found rather than changed in passing.
+    const { ompConfig: qsLaunchOmpConfig, ...qsModelConfigs } = qsLaunchConfigs;
     // See the create path for why this is a capability rather than a mode ladder.
     const qsModelSource = getCli(mode)?.capabilities.model;
     const qsModel =
       qsModelSource?.source === 'flag'
-        ? (legacyConfigForMode(mode, {
-            openCodeConfig,
-            codexConfig: qsLaunchCodexConfig,
-            geminiConfig,
-            antigravityConfig,
-            piConfig,
-            grokConfig,
-            deepSeekConfig,
-          } as unknown as Record<string, unknown>)?.[qsModelSource.param ?? 'model'] as string | undefined)
+        ? (legacyConfigForMode(mode, qsModelConfigs as unknown as Record<string, unknown>)?.[
+            qsModelSource.param ?? 'model'
+          ] as string | undefined)
         : qsModelSource?.source === 'claude-settings-file'
           ? qsModelConfig?.defaultModel || undefined
           : undefined;
@@ -3907,16 +3916,16 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
       deepSeekConfig: qsGatedDeepSeekConfig,
     } = await _clampExternalCliBypassForOwner(
       owner,
-      qsLaunchCodexConfig,
-      geminiConfig,
-      antigravityConfig,
-      piConfig,
-      grokConfig,
-      deepSeekConfig
+      qsLaunchConfigs.codexConfig,
+      qsLaunchConfigs.geminiConfig,
+      qsLaunchConfigs.antigravityConfig,
+      qsLaunchConfigs.piConfig,
+      qsLaunchConfigs.grokConfig,
+      qsLaunchConfigs.deepSeekConfig
     );
     const qsTerminalHistoryConfig = await ctx.getTerminalHistoryConfig();
     const qsGatedEnvOverrides = await clampEnvOverridesForOwner(owner, envOverrides);
-    const qsResolvedOmpConfig = resolveOmpConfigForCreate(mode, resolvedCasePath, ompConfig);
+    const qsResolvedOmpConfig = resolveOmpConfigForCreate(mode, resolvedCasePath, qsLaunchOmpConfig);
 
     // Custom Model Endpoint Profiles, applied AT CREATE TIME (docs/custom-model-endpoints-plan.md)
     // rather than via the dedicated restart-in-place route (POST /api/sessions/:id/custom-
@@ -4073,7 +4082,7 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
       claudeMode: qsEffectiveClaudeMode,
       allowedTools: qsClaudeModeConfig.allowedTools,
       owner,
-      openCodeConfig: mode === 'opencode' ? openCodeConfig : undefined,
+      openCodeConfig: mode === 'opencode' ? qsLaunchConfigs.openCodeConfig : undefined,
       codexConfig: mode === 'codex' ? qsGatedCodexConfig : undefined,
       geminiConfig: mode === 'gemini' ? qsGatedGeminiConfig : undefined,
       antigravityConfig: mode === 'antigravity' ? qsGatedAntigravityConfig : undefined,

src/web/schemas.ts

@@ -1406,14 +1406,14 @@ export const SettingsUpdateSchema = z
     /**
      * Tab layout, the arrangement of the tab list (Discussion #426). Display key
      * (per-device).
+     * 'classic' = one flat list in tab order, as before. The default.
      * 'state'   = a row per state in the header strip (needs you, waiting,
      *             working, idle; option C), sections in the flat side rail and
-     *             the sidebar. The default.
+     *             the sidebar. Opt-in.
      * 'case'    = one cluster per case (option A): a labelled box in the strip,
-     *             a section in the side rail and the sidebar.
+     *             a section in the side rail and the sidebar. Opt-in.
      * 'ledger'  = the flat list on an aligned column grid with a status bar
-     *             per cell (option B). Header strip on desktop only.
-     * 'classic' = one flat list in tab order, as before.
+     *             per cell (option B). Header strip on desktop only. Opt-in.
      */
     tabArrangement: z.enum(['state', 'case', 'ledger', 'classic']).optional(),
     /**
@@ -1457,8 +1457,9 @@ export const SettingsUpdateSchema = z
      * How the header draws its WS / CPU / MEM / plan-usage cluster. Display key
      * (per-device), desktop only (the cluster is hidden below 768px).
      * 'classic' = the bars and the 5H · 7D chip, as before
-     * 'compact' = two pills (WS/CPU/MEM, the plan windows), a ring beside every value
-     * 'tiles'   = label over value with a bar underneath, no icons. The default.
+     * 'compact' = two pills (WS/CPU/MEM, the plan windows), a ring beside every value.
+     *             The default.
+     * 'tiles'   = label over value with a bar underneath, no icons
      */
     headerStatsStyle: z.enum(['classic', 'compact', 'tiles']).optional(),
     showTokenCount: z.boolean().optional(),