fix(codex): restore Superpowers after compaction

Codex re-fires SessionStart with source "compact" after every context
compaction; the summary keeps progress but sheds the bootstrap and any
active skill's instructions — measured July cause of post-compaction
dispatch drift in long SDD runs (with re-injection: 18/18 hook fires,
66/66 post-compaction dispatch tuples correct in a 12.4h stress run).
Codex discovers skills natively at startup, so the hook is silent
there: the compact re-fire is the one unowned lifecycle point.

Adds the plugin-provided hook (hooks-codex.json + session-start-codex,
compact-only, fails open), wires it into the manifest and package,
documents install/trust behavior, updates codex-tools.md with the
re-grounding fallback, and tests the hook lifecycle, manifest, and
archive contents.

Rebuilt from the July codex-spinout-fixes branch, pared to the hook
core: the dispatch-hints layer it used to ride with is superseded by
the merged 2059-2062/2077-2080 stack and is dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Drew Ritter
2026-08-04 14:55:28 -07:00
parent 05c2393b82
commit 36f3883f4e
10 changed files with 264 additions and 23 deletions

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{
"hooks": {
"SessionStart": [
{
"matcher": "compact",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "\"${PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/run-hook.cmd\" session-start-codex",
"async": false,
"timeout": 30
}
]
}
]
}
}

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hooks/session-start-codex Executable file
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Codex SessionStart hook for the superpowers plugin.
#
# Codex re-fires SessionStart with source:"compact" after every context
# compaction (verified on codex-cli 0.145.0). Compaction replaces the live
# context with a summary, which sheds the using-superpowers bootstrap and any
# active skill's instructions — the measured cause of mid-session dispatch
# drift in long multi-agent runs. This hook re-injects the bootstrap at
# exactly that moment, restoring the same re-injection Claude Code performs
# via its "startup|clear|compact" SessionStart matcher.
#
# On source:"startup" it emits nothing: the native Codex plugin path owns
# session-start injection, and duplicating it here would recreate the
# redundancy that led to the original session-start-codex hook's removal.
#
# Codex injects raw hook stdout into the model's context (verified with
# sentinel probes), so output is plain text — not the JSON envelopes other
# harnesses require of hooks/session-start.
#
# A hook failure must never break a session: every path fails open to empty
# output and exit 0.
set -u
payload="$(cat 2>/dev/null || true)"
# Act only on post-compaction re-fires. Tolerate arbitrary whitespace around
# the JSON colon; anything unparseable falls through to a silent no-op.
if ! printf '%s' "$payload" | grep -qE '"source"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"compact"'; then
exit 0
fi
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
PLUGIN_ROOT="$(cd "${SCRIPT_DIR}/.." && pwd)"
using_superpowers_content="$(cat "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/using-superpowers/SKILL.md" 2>/dev/null)" || using_superpowers_content=""
if [ -z "$using_superpowers_content" ]; then
exit 0
fi
# printf instead of heredocs throughout: heredocs hang on bash 5.3+.
# See: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/issues/571
printf '%s\n' "<EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>"
printf '%s\n\n' "You have superpowers."
printf '%s\n\n' "**Below is the full content of your 'superpowers:using-superpowers' skill - your introduction to using skills. For all other skills, use the 'Skill' tool:**"
printf '%s\n' "$using_superpowers_content"
printf '%s\n\n' "</EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>"
printf '%s\n' "<CONTEXT_RESTORED>"
printf '%s\n' "Your context was just summarized (compacted). The summary preserves your progress but not your working instructions — the files are authoritative."
printf '%s\n' ""
printf '%s\n' "Before your next tool call:"
printf '%s\n' "- Re-read the SKILL.md of any skill you are mid-way through executing. If you are executing subagent-driven-development, re-read skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md."
printf '%s\n' "- On Codex, also re-read skills/using-superpowers/references/codex-tools.md and follow its dispatch rules on every spawn_agent call."
printf '%s\n' "</CONTEXT_RESTORED>"
exit 0