feat(codex): ship the compaction hook as a plugin-provided hook

The compaction re-injection hook previously required users to hand-merge
an example into user-level ~/.codex/hooks.json — which renders in the
Codex hooks UI as an anonymous, unattributed "Hook 1" and puts the
install burden on every user. Restore the plugin-provided delivery this
repo used before "Remove Codex hooks" (640ce6c0): the Codex manifest
points hooks at hooks/hooks-codex.json, which runs session-start-codex
via ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/run-hook.cmd with matcher "compact".

Unlike the removed hook, this one never fires at session start — Codex
surfaces skills natively there, which is why the old startup-injecting
hook was removed. The matcher plus the script's own source gate restrict
it to post-compaction re-starts. The explicit manifest pointer also
keeps suppressing Codex's hooks/hooks.json auto-discovery fallback,
which the previous empty-object declaration existed for (7d8d3d4b).

The Codex portal archive now ships hooks/hooks-codex.json,
hooks/run-hook.cmd, and hooks/session-start-codex; other-harness hook
files stay excluded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.codex-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     "workflow"
   ],
   "skills": "./skills/",
-  "hooks": {},
+  "hooks": "./hooks/hooks-codex.json",
   "interface": {
     "displayName": "Superpowers",
     "shortDescription": "Planning, TDD, debugging, and delivery workflows for coding agents",

README.md

@@ -98,37 +98,18 @@ Superpowers is available via the [official Codex plugin marketplace](https://git
 
 - Select `Install Plugin`.
 
-#### Codex: compaction re-injection hook (recommended)
+#### Codex: compaction re-injection hook
 
 Codex compacts long sessions, replacing the transcript with a summary that
 drops Superpowers' skill instructions mid-run — long autonomous workflows
 (like subagent-driven-development) then drift back to harness defaults.
-Claude Code re-injects the bootstrap after every compaction; this hook
+Claude Code re-injects the bootstrap after every compaction; the plugin ships
-restores the same behavior on Codex (0.145+).
+a SessionStart hook (`hooks/hooks-codex.json`) that restores the same
+behavior on Codex (0.145+). It fires only on post-compaction re-starts
+(`source: "compact"`) and is silent at normal session start.
 
-Merge `hooks/hooks-codex.json.example` from your Superpowers install into
+The hook installs with the plugin — no configuration needed. Codex asks you
-`~/.codex/hooks.json`, replacing the placeholder with the absolute path to
+to review and trust it once, the first time it loads after install or update.
-your install:
-
-```json
-{
-  "hooks": {
-    "SessionStart": [
-      {
-        "hooks": [
-          {
-            "type": "command",
-            "command": "bash \"/path/to/superpowers/hooks/session-start-codex\"",
-            "timeout": 30
-          }
-        ]
-      }
-    ]
-  }
-}
-```
-
-Codex asks you to trust the hook once, the first time it runs in the app.
 Headless automation (CI, eval harnesses) must pass
 `--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust` instead, because untrusted hooks are
 skipped silently.

docs/porting-to-a-new-harness.md

@@ -237,10 +237,12 @@ nesting differ per harness**.
 - Manifests: `.cursor-plugin/plugin.json` is the Shape A manifest example that
   points the harness at `./skills/` and the right `hooks-*.json`. Claude Code's
   `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` sets neither field — it auto-discovers `skills/`
-  and `hooks/hooks.json` by convention. Do **not** copy Codex's
+  and `hooks/hooks.json` by convention. Codex's `.codex-plugin/plugin.json`
-  `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` for Shape A: it declares an empty `hooks` object
+  points `hooks` at `./hooks/hooks-codex.json` — a compaction-only hook, not a
-  specifically to suppress Codex's `hooks/hooks.json` auto-discovery, because
+  bootstrap injector: Codex surfaces skills natively at session start, so its
-  Codex surfaces skills natively and runs no session-start hook.
+  hook fires only on post-compaction re-starts. The explicit pointer also
+  suppresses Codex's `hooks/hooks.json` auto-discovery fallback, which would
+  otherwise run the Claude Code hook.
 
 > **A hook *system* is not a session-start *event*.** A harness can have a
 > `hooks.json` mechanism — and even contain the literal string `SessionStart` in
@@ -785,7 +787,7 @@ Use this as the live index; when in doubt, read the files, not this table.
 | Harness | Entry point | Bootstrap mechanism | Tool mapping | Tests | Distribution |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Claude Code | `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` + `hooks/hooks.json` | shell hook → `hooks/session-start` (`hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext`) | native `Skill` tool; no adapter file needed | `tests/hooks/` | marketplace |
-| Codex | `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` (declares empty `hooks`) | native skill discovery (no session-start hook) | `references/codex-tools.md` | `tests/codex/`, `tests/codex-plugin-sync/` | fork sync (`scripts/sync-to-codex-plugin.sh`) |
+| Codex | `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` + `hooks/hooks-codex.json` | native skill discovery at startup; shell hook → `hooks/session-start-codex` re-injects after compaction only | `references/codex-tools.md` | `tests/codex/`, `tests/codex-plugin-sync/` | fork sync (`scripts/sync-to-codex-plugin.sh`) |
 | Cursor | `.cursor-plugin/plugin.json` + `hooks/hooks-cursor.json` | shell hook → `hooks/session-start` (`additional_context`) | none needed (Claude Code–compatible tool surface) | `tests/hooks/` | hand-authored |
 | Copilot CLI | (shares Claude Code hook path; `COPILOT_CLI` env) | shell hook → `hooks/session-start` (`additionalContext`) | none needed (Claude Code–compatible tool surface) | `tests/hooks/` | — |
 | Gemini CLI | `gemini-extension.json` + `GEMINI.md` | instructions file `@`-includes bootstrap + mapping | `references/gemini-tools.md` | — | `gemini extensions install` |

hooks/hooks-codex.json

@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
   "hooks": {
     "SessionStart": [
       {
+        "matcher": "compact",
         "hooks": [
           {
             "type": "command",
-            "command": "bash \"/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/superpowers/hooks/session-start-codex\"",
+            "command": "\"${PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/run-hook.cmd\" session-start-codex",
+            "async": false,
             "timeout": 30
           }
         ]

scripts/package-codex-plugin.sh

@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ Options:
   -h, --help               Show this help.
 
 The archive is rootless: .codex-plugin/, assets/, skills/, README.md, LICENSE,
-and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md sit at the archive root. Source-only repo files, hooks, tests,
+CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, and the Codex SessionStart hook (hooks/hooks-codex.json plus
-docs, and other harness manifests are intentionally not shipped.
+its two scripts) sit at the archive root. Source-only repo files, other-harness
+hooks, tests, docs, and other harness manifests are intentionally not shipped.
 EOF
 }
 
@@ -238,6 +239,9 @@ git -C "$REPO_ROOT" -c tar.umask=0022 archive --format=tar "$REF" -- \
   LICENSE \
   README.md \
   assets \
+  hooks/hooks-codex.json \
+  hooks/run-hook.cmd \
+  hooks/session-start-codex \
   skills \
   | tar -xpf - -C "$STAGE"
 
@@ -333,7 +337,7 @@ esac
 
 unexpected_paths="$(
   printf '%s\n' "$archive_paths" |
-    grep -E '(^superpowers/|^\.agents/|^hooks/|package\.json$|^\.git|^\.pytest_cache|^\.ruff_cache|^scripts/|^tests/|^docs/|^evals/|^lib/|^\.claude|^\.cursor|^\.kimi|^\.opencode|^\.pi|^AGENTS\.md$|^CLAUDE\.md$|^GEMINI\.md$|^RELEASE-NOTES\.md$|^CHANGELOG\.md$)' || true
+    grep -E '(^superpowers/|^\.agents/|^hooks/hooks\.json$|^hooks/hooks-cursor\.json$|^hooks/session-start$|package\.json$|^\.git|^\.pytest_cache|^\.ruff_cache|^scripts/|^tests/|^docs/|^evals/|^lib/|^\.claude|^\.cursor|^\.kimi|^\.opencode|^\.pi|^AGENTS\.md$|^CLAUDE\.md$|^GEMINI\.md$|^RELEASE-NOTES\.md$|^CHANGELOG\.md$)' || true
 )"
 if [[ -n "$unexpected_paths" ]]; then
   printf '%s\n' "$unexpected_paths" | sed 's/^/  /' >&2

skills/using-superpowers/references/codex-tools.md

@@ -42,12 +42,14 @@ Context compaction replaces your transcript with a summary that keeps
 your progress but not your working instructions — the first
 post-compaction dispatch is where routing drift starts, and once one
 bare spawn lands, the broken pattern becomes its own precedent. The
-compaction re-injection hook (README, "Codex: compaction re-injection
+plugin ships a compaction re-injection hook (`hooks/hooks-codex.json`,
-hook") restores the bootstrap after every compaction; recommend it to
+Codex 0.145+) that restores the bootstrap after every compaction; it
-your human partner if it is not installed. Without it, the printed
+needs one-time trust approval, so if you never see a
-`dispatch:` hints are your only re-grounding — treat every one you see
+`<CONTEXT_RESTORED>` block after a compaction, tell your human partner
-as authoritative, especially right after a summary appears in your
+the hook may be untrusted or unsupported on this version. Without it,
-context.
+the printed `dispatch:` hints are your only re-grounding — treat every
+one you see as authoritative, especially right after a summary appears
+in your context.
 
 ## Environment Detection
 

tests/codex/test-marketplace-manifest.sh

@@ -52,24 +52,36 @@ if not plugin_manifest.exists():
 manifest = json.loads(plugin_manifest.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
 assert_equal(manifest.get("name"), plugin.get("name"), "plugin manifest name")
 
-# Codex auto-discovers a plugin's hooks/hooks.json whenever the Codex manifest
+# The Codex manifest must declare its hooks explicitly. An absent field makes
-# has no `hooks` field: load_plugin_hooks falls back to a hardcoded
+# load_plugin_hooks fall back to a hardcoded DEFAULT_HOOKS_CONFIG_FILE =
-# DEFAULT_HOOKS_CONFIG_FILE = "hooks/hooks.json" and registers it. That file is
+# "hooks/hooks.json" — the Claude Code SessionStart hook, which injects the
-# the Claude Code SessionStart hook, it is tracked in this repo, and this
+# bootstrap at startup and must not run on Codex. The explicit pointer both
-# marketplace installs the whole repo root (source url "./"), so on Codex the
+# registers the Codex compaction re-injection hook and overrides that fallback.
-# fallback re-registers the SessionStart hook and its install-time trust prompt.
-# Declaring an empty inline hooks object ({}) parses as an empty inline hook set
-# and suppresses the auto-discovery. An absent field, an empty array ([]), and
-# an empty inline list all collapse back to the fallback, so the value must be
-# exactly an empty object.
 hooks_config = repo_root / "hooks" / "hooks.json"
 if not hooks_config.exists():
     raise AssertionError("hooks/hooks.json must exist (Claude Code SessionStart hook)")
 
 assert_equal(
     manifest.get("hooks"),
-    {},
+    "./hooks/hooks-codex.json",
-    "Codex manifest must declare empty hooks {} to suppress hooks/hooks.json auto-discovery",
+    "Codex manifest must point hooks at the Codex hook config (an absent field "
+    "falls back to auto-discovering the Claude Code hooks/hooks.json)",
+)
+
+codex_hooks_path = repo_root / "hooks" / "hooks-codex.json"
+if not codex_hooks_path.exists():
+    raise AssertionError("hooks/hooks-codex.json must exist (Codex manifest points at it)")
+
+codex_hooks = json.loads(codex_hooks_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+session_start = codex_hooks["hooks"]["SessionStart"]
+assert_equal(len(session_start), 1, "Codex SessionStart hook group count")
+assert_equal(session_start[0].get("matcher"), "compact", "Codex hook matcher")
+entry = session_start[0]["hooks"][0]
+assert_equal(entry.get("type"), "command", "Codex hook type")
+command = entry.get("command", "")
+if "${PLUGIN_ROOT}" not in command or not command.endswith("session-start-codex"):
+    raise AssertionError(
+        f"Codex hook command must run session-start-codex via ${{PLUGIN_ROOT}}: {command!r}"
     )
 
 print("Codex marketplace manifest looks good")

tests/codex/test-package-codex-plugin.sh

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ tar_extracted="$TEST_ROOT/tar-extracted"
 write_metadata_fixture "$metadata_source"
 
 source_hooks="$(python3 -c 'import json; print(json.load(open("'"$REPO_ROOT"'/.codex-plugin/plugin.json")).get("hooks"))')"
-assert_equals "$source_hooks" "{}" "source Codex manifest suppresses local hook auto-discovery"
+assert_equals "$source_hooks" "./hooks/hooks-codex.json" "source Codex manifest declares the Codex hook config"
 
 if output="$("$SCRIPT_UNDER_TEST" --allow-dirty --metadata-source "$metadata_source" --output "$archive" 2>&1)"; then
   pass "package script exits successfully"
@@ -163,10 +163,13 @@ assert_contains "$output" "SHA-256:" "reports archive checksum"
 extract_archive "$archive" "$extracted"
 
 archive_paths="$(list_archive "$archive" | normalize_archive_paths)"
-unexpected_pattern='(^superpowers/|^\.agents/|^hooks/|package\.json$|^\.git|^\.pytest_cache|^\.ruff_cache|^scripts/|^tests/|^docs/|^evals/|^lib/|^\.claude|^\.cursor|^\.kimi|^\.opencode|^\.pi|^AGENTS\.md$|^CLAUDE\.md$|^GEMINI\.md$|^RELEASE-NOTES\.md$|^CHANGELOG\.md$)'
+unexpected_pattern='(^superpowers/|^\.agents/|^hooks/hooks\.json$|^hooks/hooks-cursor\.json$|^hooks/session-start$|package\.json$|^\.git|^\.pytest_cache|^\.ruff_cache|^scripts/|^tests/|^docs/|^evals/|^lib/|^\.claude|^\.cursor|^\.kimi|^\.opencode|^\.pi|^AGENTS\.md$|^CLAUDE\.md$|^GEMINI\.md$|^RELEASE-NOTES\.md$|^CHANGELOG\.md$)'
 assert_not_matches "$archive_paths" "$unexpected_pattern" "archive excludes source-only paths"
 assert_contains "$archive_paths" ".codex-plugin/plugin.json" "archive includes Codex manifest"
 assert_contains "$archive_paths" "skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md" "archive includes skills"
+assert_contains "$archive_paths" "hooks/hooks-codex.json" "archive includes Codex hook config"
+assert_contains "$archive_paths" "hooks/session-start-codex" "archive includes Codex hook script"
+assert_contains "$archive_paths" "hooks/run-hook.cmd" "archive includes hook runner"
 assert_contains "$archive_paths" "skills/brainstorming/agents/openai.yaml" "archive includes OpenAI skill metadata"
 assert_contains "$archive_paths" "assets/app-icon.png" "archive includes app icon"
 assert_contains "$archive_paths" "assets/superpowers-small.svg" "archive includes composer icon"

tests/hooks/test-session-start-codex.sh

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
 REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"
 HOOK_UNDER_TEST="$REPO_ROOT/hooks/session-start-codex"
-EXAMPLE_UNDER_TEST="$REPO_ROOT/hooks/hooks-codex.json.example"
+CONFIG_UNDER_TEST="$REPO_ROOT/hooks/hooks-codex.json"
 
 FAILURES=0
 
@@ -86,20 +86,25 @@ else
 fi
 
 if node -e '
-const example = JSON.parse(require("fs").readFileSync(process.argv[1], "utf8"));
+const config = JSON.parse(require("fs").readFileSync(process.argv[1], "utf8"));
-const entry = example.hooks.SessionStart[0].hooks[0];
+const group = config.hooks.SessionStart[0];
+if (group.matcher !== "compact") {
+  console.error(`hook matcher is ${JSON.stringify(group.matcher)}, expected "compact"`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+const entry = group.hooks[0];
 if (entry.type !== "command") {
-  console.error(`example hook type is ${JSON.stringify(entry.type)}, expected "command"`);
+  console.error(`hook type is ${JSON.stringify(entry.type)}, expected "command"`);
   process.exit(1);
 }
-if (!/session-start-codex"$/.test(entry.command)) {
+if (!entry.command.includes("${PLUGIN_ROOT}") || !/run-hook\.cmd" session-start-codex$/.test(entry.command)) {
-  console.error(`unexpected example command shape: ${entry.command}`);
+  console.error(`unexpected command shape: ${entry.command}`);
   process.exit(1);
 }
-' "$EXAMPLE_UNDER_TEST"; then
+' "$CONFIG_UNDER_TEST"; then
-    pass "hooks-codex.json.example parses and invokes session-start-codex"
+    pass "hooks-codex.json runs session-start-codex via \${PLUGIN_ROOT} on compact"
 else
-    fail "hooks-codex.json.example parses and invokes session-start-codex"
+    fail "hooks-codex.json runs session-start-codex via \${PLUGIN_ROOT} on compact"
 fi
 
 if [[ "$FAILURES" -gt 0 ]]; then