codex-rs/ is a read-only mirror of openai/codex that just-every refreshes and
we never edit. It sat at the repo root next to code-rs/, the product, and the
only thing separating them was that everyone knew. Nothing checked it.
That knowing is what makes branding endless. There are ~400 upstream-brand
literals in code-rs today and ~224 of ours, hand-placed on the same lines the
sync delta lands on, so every sync re-fights the same 17 files. You cannot fix
that while the line between "theirs" and "ours" is a convention.
vendor/codex/ makes it a boundary. Everything under vendor/ is upstream: never
branded, never edited, replaced wholesale on sync. Everything outside it is
ours and must carry our name — which is now a question a test can ask.
code-rs coupled to the mirror through exactly one line, an include_str! of
models.json, and it still does. The other 17 files are path strings.
Syncing changes by one sed: just-every's delta names codex-rs/, so rewrite the
patch paths to vendor/codex/ before applying it.
Our history is just-every's with author emails rewritten, so the graphs are
disjoint and git finds no merge base. Supplied one by hand: d1f1f51a41, the
just-every commit matching our Oct-2025 fork point (22 files apart). 9618
upstream commits, 7004 files, +1.81M/-159k, 37 conflicts.
Resolution:
- Upstream code where our side was the Oct-2025 prototype of a feature they
have since reimplemented 3-5x larger (agent_runs, browser_sessions,
history_cell/{agent,browser}, the vt100 harness and its snapshots).
- Upstream's config.rs module split (builder/defaults/sources/validation)
kept; zen5-coder and the provider-follows-model rule re-applied on top.
- Ours where the file IS the identity: README, package.json, postinstall,
release notes pipeline, integration-zed.
- Hybrid where upstream improved a file we had branded: updates.rs (their
release-repo migration, our hanzoai/dev), release.yml (their fail-fast npm
auth check, our package name), chatwidget.rs (their turn handling, our
HANZO_USER_KEY hint), exec human output (their 237 lines, our banner).
Superseded and dropped deliberately: our resume_command_name() coder-alias
hack — upstream's derive_resume_command_name() reads the invocation basename
generically, which yields "dev" for us.
LLM.md now records the real topology and the sync point; AGENTS.md and
CLAUDE.md are symlinks to it again. Single parent on purpose: adopting
jecode/main as a second parent would re-import 13,742 commits carrying the
upstream author emails a prior rewrite deliberately removed.
Version 0.2.188 -> 0.2.189.
Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
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