Decide remote inbox and Discord UI for Codex-base session continuity

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Finish Line

Every Code has a deliberate decision for remote inbox / Discord UI in the Codex-base port, based on whether Codex Desktop can discover and continue sessions created by GitHub/LaunchPlane/remote automation paths.

Current Status

State: Preserve backend; Desktop replacement remains unproven after current Codex-base copied-app validation.

Latest #387 signal:

• Current Codex-base Every Code can be embedded in a copied Codex Desktop bundle and launched as the Desktop app-server.
• With a clean temporary CODE_HOME, the copied Desktop app initializes the app-server, reaches window ready-to-show, and successfully calls baseline methods such as config/read, thread/list, model/list, skills/list, account/read, and mcpServerStatus/list.
• The copied Desktop app still requests remoteControl/status/read and remoteControl/enable, which the current app-server does not support.
• The copied Desktop app still requests unsupported remote_plugin feature enablement and sends a plugin/list request shape containing vertical, which the current app-server rejects.
• Externally-created GitHub/LaunchPlane session discovery/resume/continue and approval/reply flow were not validated.

Decision state:

• Do not remove remote-inbox backend capability.
• Do not drop Discord-specific presentation yet.
• Desktop is promising as the preferred GUI, but it is not yet a validated replacement for remote-inbox/Discord session-continuity flows.

Concrete validation bar before marking Discord UI removable:

• App-server accepts or harmlessly no-ops Desktop's remote-control startup calls.
• Desktop can discover an externally-created session with origin metadata.
• Desktop can resume/continue that session.
• Desktop can handle at least one approval/reply/user-input flow for that session.
• Evidence is captured in Validate Codex-base Every Code in copied Codex Desktop app #387 with logs/screenshots or protocol traces.

Next action:

• Under Validate Codex-base Every Code in copied Codex Desktop app #387/Inventory and port Every Code features onto Codex base #386, implement the narrow missing Desktop startup compatibility slice first.
• Then rerun copied-app validation with a clean CODE_HOME and an externally-created session fixture.

Acceptance Criteria

• Map all current remote-inbox/session-continuity paths: GitHub label/LaunchPlane origin, remote inbox bridge, Cloud Tasks, TUI session catalog/resume, and Discord reply/approval paths.
• Preserve remote-inbox backend capability until a replacement path is validated.
• Determine whether Codex Desktop can replace Discord UI for GitHub/LaunchPlane-created sessions.
• Do not remove Discord-specific remote-inbox presentation until Desktop or another UI can discover, resume/continue, and handle approval/reply flow for externally-created sessions.
• Persist or otherwise expose session origin metadata needed for GitHub/LaunchPlane-created sessions across restart.
• Validate by creating or simulating a GitHub/LaunchPlane-origin session, discovering it, resuming/continuing it, and handling approval/reply flow through the chosen UI.
• Update Inventory and port Every Code features onto Codex base #386 with the final keep/drop/defer decision.

Relationships

• Parent: Inventory and port Every Code features onto Codex base #386
• Related to Combine Every Code with the Codex Desktop app #377 and Validate Codex-base Every Code in copied Codex Desktop app #387 because copied Desktop validation should include externally-created session continuity if Desktop is meant to replace Discord UI.
• related: Validate Codex-base Every Code in copied Codex Desktop app #387 - Validate Codex-base Every Code in copied Codex Desktop app #387

[shiny-code-bot]

Related #387 update: Desktop startup compatibility improved, but this issue should remain open.

The copied Codex Desktop app now starts cleanly against the Codex-base Every Code app-server with the prior protocol/schema blockers shimmed or accepted (remoteControl/status/read, remoteControl/enable, remote_plugin feature enablement, and plugin/list vertical). That moves Desktop closer to being the preferred GUI.

It does not yet prove Desktop can replace Discord/remote inbox for GitHub/LaunchPlane-created sessions. We still need the externally-created session fixture path, discovery/resume/continue validation, and approval/reply/user-input validation before removing Discord-specific presentation or remote-inbox backend capability.