Let codex exec resume runs by session UUID #4374
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I've been bouncing between #3712 and #3187 trying to understand why automation runs kept stalling out, and it finally clicked that the real blocker is tracked in #3817: once codex exec finishes, there’s no ergonomic way to pick the session back up.
This PR teaches both the headless CLI and the shared proto entrypoint how to resume cleanly.
--session <UUID>
now accepts the conversation identifier that we print in the banner, discovers the matching rollout on disk, and wires it through as the experimental_resume override.For folks who already know the rollout path,
--resume-rollout <FILE>
skips the lookup and normalizes the path for them. While I was in there I made sure the JSON-mode SessionConfigured event echoes the rollout location, and I updated the docs so the happy path is obvious.This should fix both
codex exec
usage andcodex mcp
conversation resuming, so closes #3712 amd #3817 🎉 Exec usage looks like:I did my best to follow the contributing guidelines!