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Summary

Adds the design record required to move #6196 beyond an unsupported interception proposal.

  • records why the macOS signed-in Codex app's authoritative quota gate is owned by its bundled Rust app-server rather than the Chromium PAC path in feat(chatgpt-unblock): PAC-fallback mode so traffic survives opencodex stopping #5947
  • rejects bundle patching, ASAR/dylib injection, credential interception, trust-store changes, and undocumented bundled-server replacement
  • recommends an upstream provider-aware admission contract that keeps native account/rate-limit state authentic while allowing only independently funded exact routes
  • scopes the contract to normalized request evidence, final transport/auth funding, an immutable ordered target plan or closure, and a generation fence checked before every retry/fallback
  • defines fail-closed lifecycle, rollback, permissions, and actual original-composer macOS UAT requirements

Existing primitives and design choice

The record explicitly evaluates account/read.requiresOpenaiAuth, Thread.modelProvider, modelProvider/capabilities/read, and OpenCodex's current requires_openai_auth=true injection. Those provider-wide primitives cannot express a multiplexed downstream route within one signed-in composer; setting the bit false would disable native account admission too broadly. The proposed capability is therefore a separate request-scoped upstream contract, not an undocumented reinterpretation of the existing boolean.

Status

This PR is documentation only and does not claim #6196 is fixed. The issue remains blocked on:

  1. an upstream-supported native consumer hook for provider-aware request admission;
  2. implementation of the native consumer and route-plan fence together; and
  3. signed/notarized macOS UAT with natural quota exhaustion in the original composer and proof of independent-provider completion.

It also records why #5947 and the Windows-only #6079 must not be merged as macOS proof.

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  • source/PR/issue evidence rechecked against dev 09f8e5e
  • git diff --check: pass
  • independent design review after two P2 revisions: GO, no remaining P0-P2
  • no runtime code changed, so no tests or build were run
  • no live app launch, account request, quota mutation, deployment, privacy scan, or security scan was performed

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  • Documentation
    • Added a design proposal for a macOS signed-in desktop quota gate, covering request admission, route validation, lifecycle constraints, failure handling, and staged rollout criteria.
    • The proposal separates native account and quota traffic from inference routing and specifies how stale, mismatched, expired, or already-used admissions are handled.
    • It also describes fallback behavior when an inference attempt may have started.
    • No implementation or validation was completed.

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The pull request adds a design document for a macOS signed-in desktop quota gate. It proposes request-scoped route admission and specifies lifecycle, failure, validation, and rollout requirements. The document states that it does not implement or execute the proposed changes.

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Quota gate design

Layer / File(s) Summary
Decision, evidence, and alternatives
devlog/_plan/260928_macos_quota_gate/000_design.md
Recommends upstream provider-aware admission, assesses available routing evidence, and compares integration options.
Admission contract and route fencing
devlog/_plan/260928_macos_quota_gate/000_design.md
Defines funding scopes and request-bound admission. Specifies route classification, generation checks, and handling for invalid leases or possible prior upstream execution.
macOS lifecycle and recovery
devlog/_plan/260928_macos_quota_gate/000_design.md
Sets endpoint ownership and lease lifecycle requirements. Describes failure and rollback outcomes.
Validation and staged rollout
devlog/_plan/260928_macos_quota_gate/000_design.md
Lists an unexecuted validation plan and staged rollout criteria, including rejection boundaries and blockers.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~4 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 46bf1

The proposal does not change runtime behavior and is mergeable as a design record. Clarifying redirect refusal would make the future implementation contract more precise.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 46bf1

The proposal does not enable quota bypass or change live request handling. It specifies narrow admission and failure controls, but its redirect rule should be made explicit before implementation. The supported desktop integration and macOS validation are still outstanding.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — If implemented as specified, independent admission grants one bound request access only to independently funded closure members, not the signed-in ChatGPT fallback lane. No additional tenant, credential, or runtime exposure is established by this document alone.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The four retained findings identify exposure or admission-bypass paths if an executor were to follow an unapproved HTTP redirect after target and TLS checks. The design does not expressly specify HTTP Location handling, but current credential-bearing OpenCodex HTTP transports leave redirects as responses rather than sending to their destinations. This PR does not activate a new path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The proposed boundary binds a request digest and session to a short-lived reservation, excludes credentials and prompt text from the admission result, and rejects foreign or stale local endpoint ownership before accepting payloads. These are specified controls, not verified native-consumer behavior.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Lease revocation on lifecycle changes, draft retention on unavailable independent routes, and suppression of automatic fallback after possible upstream execution are specified to contain stale authority and duplicate sends.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make the no-follow HTTP redirect rule explicit in the future admission contract and qualification tests: treat a 3xx as a terminal response, or require any new destination to undergo fresh closure, funding, TLS, and credential-domain authorization before a send. Verify this at every eventual physical executor, not just the initial route.
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@Ingwannu Ingwannu added platform OS/service/tray/ACL (Windows-heavy, not Windows-only) needs-design 설계 필요. Implementation waits on a written design. priority: P1 High: reproducible failure in a core path (routing, failover, account pool, streaming, usage, auth, labels Sep 28, 2026
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Exact head f205cd7 is based on current dev. The design was independently reviewed, revised for existing App Server primitives and exact-route retry/fallback atomicity, and re-reviewed GO with no remaining P0-P2. @lidge-jun please review the proposed contract; @coderabbitai please review the planning record.

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@Ingwannu, I’ll review the planning record at f205cd7d0d677f23cd14ad73261b36e398914810. I’ll check the proposed admission contract against the existing App Server primitives, exact-route retry and fallback behavior, and the stated macOS validation requirements.

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- Line 249: Update the natural-exhaustion UAT instructions to require an
authorized test account and specify its known quota reset or recovery procedure
before exhausting it; do not treat a disposable home directory as account-quota
isolation.
- Around line 144-146: Update the request-binding description in the design to
require a keyed binding, such as an HMAC over the complete logical request,
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Pushed d5e92ad to address both review findings: keyed HMAC request binding across the admission contract, and authorized test-account/reset requirements for natural-exhaustion UAT. Diff check remains clean. @coderabbitai please re-review the exact head; @lidge-jun please use d5e92ad for the design decision.

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@Ingwannu, I’ll re-review the planning record at d5e92ad6e9. I’ll check the keyed HMAC request binding and the authorized test-account and reset requirements for natural-exhaustion UAT. I’ll also check that the contract still handles exact-route retry and fallback safely.

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리뷰 · 우선순위 42 / 80

이 PR은 설계 문서 한 장을 더합니다. 맥에서 로그인한 Codex 앱의 사용량이 바닥났을 때, 원래 입력창으로 따로 돈을 낸 모델에 보내는 방법을 적습니다. 베이스는 dev입니다. dev 09f8e5eb보다 앞에 있는 커밋은 이 문서뿐입니다.

#6196에서 맥 앱은 사용량 숫자를 앱 안에 들어 있는 Rust 서버로 읽습니다. #5947이 쓰는 크롬 PAC 설정은 그 연결을 맡지 못합니다. 이 문서는 앱 꾸러미를 고치거나, 토큰을 복사하거나, 사용량 숫자를 바꿔 적는 일을 빼 둡니다. 그 자리에 요청마다 돈이 ChatGPT 계정에서 나가는지, 다른 공급자에서 나가는지 가르는 계약을 둡니다. 앱이 그 계약을 받기 전에는 버그를 고친 것으로 보지 말라고 적혀 있습니다. dev에 있는 인용 줄은 09f8e5eb에서 대조했습니다. 문서에 적힌 #5947, #6079 헤드도 지금 열린 PR과 같습니다.

devlog/_plan/260928_macos_quota_gate/000_design.md:141 - 요청 본문을 해시로 줄여 계약 너머로 보냅니다. 비밀키 없는 해시는 요청이 다른지 가르는 데는 쓰입니다. 짧은 문장은 그 해시만 보고 맞혀 볼 수 있어서, 본문을 숨기는 장치는 아닙니다. 130번 줄은 모델 선택과 대화 묶음을 예약 결과에 같이 넣습니다. 144번 줄의 "해시만 넘어간다"가 본문만 말하는지, 그 선택까지 말하는지 문장이 갈립니다.

000_design.md:249 - 검증은 계정 사용량을 실제로 바닥내야 합니다. 258번 줄의 임시 홈 폴더는 설정 파일만 갈라 놓습니다. ChatGPT 계정 한도는 그 폴더 밖에 있습니다. 평소 쓰는 계정을 쓰면, 한도가 돌아올 때까지 보내기 버튼이 잠깁니다. 시험용 계정과 한도가 돌아오는 방법이 없습니다.

000_design.md:162 - 독립 자금으로 인정하는 예약이 두 종류입니다. 보낼 순서를 고정하는 예약과, 허용 대상 묶음입니다. 묶음 안에 ChatGPT로 가는 대상이 있으면 174번 줄과 어긋납니다. 바닥난 ChatGPT 길로 다시 보낼 수 있습니다. 묶음에는 독립 자금 대상만 둔다는 문장이 없습니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점
이 문서를 dev에 넣는 일은 방향 승인입니다. 넣어도 맥 앱은 이 계약을 모릅니다. 데스크톱이 요청마다 자금을 나눠 주는 연결점을 주기 전에는 OpenCodex 릴리스만으로 #6196이 끝나지 않습니다.
#5947은 맥 사용량 문제의 해결로 머지하지 않는 편이 이 문서와 맞습니다. #6079는 윈도우 초안이니 이 PR과 따로 두면 됩니다.

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방향은 맞습니다. 141번, 162번, 249번을 고친 다음 머지하세요. 고친 문서는 #6196의 설계 기록으로 충분합니다. 이슈는 앱 연결점이 생기기 전까지 열어 두면 됩니다.

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Pushed exact head 46bf1c9931 for the remaining review points.

  • The immutable plan or allowed-target closure may be admitted as independent only when every member is finally classified independent; any chatgpt, mixed, or unknown member rejects the whole reservation.
  • Credential-bearing targets require certificate- and hostname-validated TLS before independent classification or credential attachment. Plaintext or unverifiable transports become unknown; this stricter rule is scoped to the bypass gate.

git diff --check is clean, and the file remains owned by ubuntu:ubuntu. @lidge-jun please use 46bf1c9931 for the design decision; @coderabbitai please re-review the exact head.

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@Ingwannu, the checked-out head is 46bf1c9931982ab7a9d25d9450061f4b130211f3. In devlog/_plan/260928_macos_quota_gate/000_design.md, Lines 166–177 require every member of an independent reservation to have a final independent classification. Lines 158–164 require validated TLS before a credential-bearing target can receive that classification or credentials. The document scopes that TLS rule to bypass admission.

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Exact head 46bf1c9931982ab7a9d25d9450061f4b130211f3 is ready for the architecture decision. All three maintainer points are now explicit: keyed request binding, authorized test-account recovery for natural exhaustion, and an independent-only immutable target closure. CodeRabbit also confirmed the TLS admission fix at the current head; doc-only hosted gates are green.

This merges a design record only. #6196 must remain open until the upstream desktop exposes the required request-scoped admission hook and the implementation/UAT land. @lidge-jun please approve the direction if this contract is acceptable.

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it may not return `independent` from an unfenced preview. Every member of either form
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`unknown` member makes the entire reservation ineligible for independent admission,
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CWE: CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

Document redirect refusal in the reservation contract. The supported provider paths use manual or error redirect policies and reject 3xx responses without fetching Location, so no redirect hop currently escapes the immutable closure or generation fence. Rejecting 3xx is sufficient and needs no separate TLS or credential-domain rule. If redirects become supported, each Location must be resolved as a new immutable target and pass the existing funding, closure, generation, TLS, and credential-attachment checks before dispatch.

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Reviewed exact head 46bf1c9. Approved within the design-document scope: native consumer support, immutable independently funded target closure, generation checks, and unexecuted platform qualification are clearly separated. The existing redirect-explicitness nit remains a useful non-blocking clarification; this change adds no runtime redirect path. This approval does not attest an implemented integration, macOS recovery, or release readiness. Hosted privacy/metadata checks passed; skipped runtime/platform tests are not claimed as executed.

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Landed on dev as df951bc through #6224 (2.71.0 integration), with you as the commit author. A follow-up commit (9155880) pins the two source paths and adds the 3xx refusal sentence from the open CodeRabbit thread. It ships in 2.71.0. Thank you!

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Review follow-up for lidge-jun#6206: two citations named files without their directory, and the
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