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name: codex-result-handling
description: Internal contract for returning Codex companion output without alteration.
user-invocable: false
---

# Codex result handling

- Return companion stdout verbatim. Do not summarize, paraphrase, reformat, prefix, or suffix it.
- Preserve the complete result, file paths, line numbers, Codex thread identifier, job identifier, and `state: done`, `state: error`, or `state: cancelled` footer. Preserve the failure kind for error and cancelled outcomes.
- Preserve `state: running` when an explicit background launch or bounded wait has not reached a terminal outcome. Do not present a receipt as completed work.
- Do not inspect the repository, verify findings, apply edits, poll unrelated jobs, or continue the task after returning the companion output.
- Do not replace a failed, cancelled, malformed, or incomplete Codex run with a Claude-side answer.
- If the helper cannot be invoked, return the invocation failure exactly as reported and stop.