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Summary

Adds codex-profile menu install. It builds the macOS menu-bar app on the user's own Mac and installs it, so there is no signed DMG, no unsigned prebuilt download and no git clone:

brew install Ducksss/tap/codex-profile
codex-profile menu install

It builds the immutable GitHub Release that matches the running CLI (v$VERSION), using that release's own scripts/macos/build-menu-app.sh. The Command Line Tools are enough; Xcode is not needed. The app lands in /Applications, or in ~/Applications when /Applications is not writable, replacing an existing copy in place. --dir and --dry-run are available.

Draft, for a maintainer decision on the approach. It doesn't touch #89 or the tap, and publishes nothing.

Why a CLI subcommand, not a tap formula

	Source-built formula in Ducksss/homebrew-tap	codex-profile menu install (this PR)
Puts the app in Applications	No. Homebrew's sandbox only lets install and post_install write the formula's Cellar rack, etc/var/logs, temp and cache (formula_installer.rb, Homebrew 7.0.11). Users would have to copy or alias the app by hand.	Yes, in one command
Stable path for Open at Login and Spotlight	No. The Cellar path is versioned and brew upgrade deletes it	Yes. A rerun replaces the copy at the same path
Bundled CLI matches the installed CLI	Only if both formulae move together	By construction: it builds the tag of the CLI that runs it, then checks the bundled file byte for byte
Works for npm, standalone and Nix installs	No (Homebrew only)	Yes
Release-channel work	New formula, updater anchors, release-workflow and tap changes	None. Reuses upgrade's release check
Updates	brew upgrade	Rerun menu install after upgrading the CLI (follow-up idea: have doctor flag a mismatch)

Both options need the Command Line Tools, which Homebrew already requires.

What the command does

1. Prints the plan: version, repo, v$VERSION and destination, and warns when another copy stays in /Applications or ~/Applications. --dry-run stops here and makes no network requests. On macOS older than 13 it stops before anything else.
2. Requires the Command Line Tools. It checks xcode-select -p and xcrun --find swiftc first, because the /usr/bin stubs would open an install dialog, and otherwise tells the user to run xcode-select --install.
3. Refuses to replace a destination that is a symlink, a bundle whose CFBundleIdentifier isn't dev.ducksss.codex-profiles.menu, or a copy that is running.
4. Requires the GitHub Release for v$VERSION to be immutable and final, the same policy upgrade applies to latest. A version with no published release is pointed at make menu-app.
5. Makes a shallow clone of only that tag into a temporary folder. It never uses or changes the upgrade cache, and upgrade is unchanged. It refuses a tag whose bin/codex-profile declares another version.
6. Builds there and logs the output, which it prints only if the build fails. It checks the bundle ID, the Info.plist version, and that Contents/Resources/bin/codex-profile matches the cloned tag's bin/codex-profile byte for byte.
7. Copies the app to a hidden staging folder next to the destination, created only after the build, checks again that no copy is running, then swaps it in with two renames. A failed build or check leaves the installed copy untouched, and a cleanup failure after the swap only warns. It never signs the app, removes attributes or calls spctl, and the tests enforce that.

Review fixes (2026-11-04)

An independent review found 11 issues; 1eb5a72 fixes eight of them:

• Source: builds from a shallow clone of the tag instead of the shared upgrade checkout. That fetches only the tag (the first install had pulled every branch), removes the cache race and the dirty-cache failure, and restores upgrade to its original form.
• Running copy: refuses to replace a copy that is running.
• Smaller fixes:
  • It checks for macOS 13 before building.
  • It warns about a second copy.
  • It creates the staging folder only after the build.
  • A cleanup failure after the swap only warns.
  • An unreleased version gets a next step.

The tests cover each of these. Not changed:

• Tag-name-only release check: it only matters when CODEX_PROFILE_UPGRADE_REPO is overridden.
• Test-only override for /Applications: that would add to the command surface.
• Shared bundle-swap helper with launcher create: left for a separate refactor.

The evidence below predates these fixes. The maintainer's 2026-11-03 run is in the PR comments.

Evidence (macOS 27.0.1 26A434, Command Line Tools only, Swift 6.4)

End to end against the published v1.3.0 release. I ran this branch's CLI (which declares 1.3.0) with a scratch cache and --dir:

Menu-bar app install plan
Version: codex-profile 1.3.0
Repository: https://github.com/Ducksss/codex-profiles.git
Ref: v1.3.0
...
Building Codex Profiles.app from v1.3.0; this takes a few minutes.
Installed Codex Profiles 1.3.0 to …/Applications/Codex Profiles.app
Bundled CLI: codex-profile 1.3.0

It took 1m31s in total and left nothing behind in $TMPDIR or the install folder.

Gatekeeper: confirmed for this Mac.

• No file in the bundle has com.apple.quarantine. The only attribute is com.apple.provenance, which doesn't trigger an assessment.
• codesign -dv reports adhoc,linker-signed, Sealed Resources=none. As expected, spctl -a -t exec rejects it ("no usable signature"), and that check only applies to quarantined apps when they open.
• I launched the installed copy through LaunchServices with open -n, using an isolated HOME. It stayed running and MenuBarAgent registered its status item. log show has no syspolicyd entries for it. I then stopped that one process by its pid.
• test/macos/menu-app-test.sh now fails if any file of a local build is quarantined. I checked that it catches a single quarantined Info.plist.

Bundled CLI version: confirmed. The app's codex-profile is byte-identical to v1.3.0:bin/codex-profile (sha256 d7123645…e15eb). Info.plist says 1.3.0, and the bundled version prints codex-profile 1.3.0. Homebrew (bin.install) and npm install that same file unchanged.

Still needs a manual check on a real Mac

I couldn't do these from this session: registering a real login item changes the user's system, and there are no tools here for clicking the menu-bar UI.

• Open at Login on macOS 27 for a menu install copy in /Applications: turn it on in the gear menu, log out and in, and check the app starts quietly. Earlier evidence: on 2026-10-07, Open at Login and the quiet launch worked on macOS 26.6 for a locally built 1.2.0 with the same linker-only signature.
• After a rerun of menu install (replaced in place), the login item still starts the app, and System Settings › Login Items shows a single entry.
• Whether Terminal automation is asked for again after a rebuild. That's expected for ad hoc code, which macOS identifies by cdhash, and the docs say "may ask again".
• Intel: with CLT 6.4, linking the x86_64 slice prints ignoring file …libswiftCompatibilityPacks.a: fat file missing arch 'x86_64'. make menu-app already does this today; I didn't introduce it. This Mac has no Rosetta, so whether the slice launches is unchecked.

Release coupling (please read before merging)

• The command exists only in the CLI release that ships it, and it builds that same tag. The README now tells users to run it. Merged before that release, codex-profile menu install fails on 1.4.0 and earlier with "Unknown command 'menu'". Please merge this with, or just before, the next release prep. The from-source block stays in the README as a fallback.
• This targets the release after 1.4.0. v1.4.0 shipped on 2026-11-03 without it. main, including the 1.4.0 prep and frontend(feat): remove a profile from the menu #107, is merged into this branch; the only conflict was CHANGELOG.md, where this entry and frontend(feat): remove a profile from the menu #107's now share ## Unreleased. With v1.4.0 tagged, the packaging tests hash the tag, so this branch passes them.
• The README's npx -y codex-profile@latest menu install line can't be tested until that release is on npm.
• I left docs/index.html (its FAQ and JSON-LD) as it is: it still says "built from a source checkout with make menu-app". Update it with the release; the FAQ has to match the JSON-LD.

Docs and tests

• usage(), help for menu and menu install, bash/zsh/fish completions, USAGE.md (menu-bar section, command reference, environment table, platform support), docs/llms.txt, SECURITY.md (network activity), agent.md, macos/README.md (new "Install on this Mac" section), README "Getting started", CHANGELOG ## Unreleased.
• New test/cli/menu-test.sh (10 cases) runs on Linux and macOS. It fakes uname, xcode-select and xcrun, plus plutil and ditto where they're missing. git, cmp and the CLI's logic run for real against a local fixture repo whose main has moved past the tag. It covers the dry run with no side effects, the default folder choice, building the detached tag, replacing in place, refusing foreign or symlinked bundles, macOS-only, missing CLT, mutable, mismatched or unsafe release metadata, a tag declaring another version, keeping the old copy on build or check failure, no leftovers, and the forbidden codesign/spctl/xattr/sudo calls.
• help-test.sh and completions-test.sh cover menu. test/lib/cli-fixtures.sh gains write_fake_plutil, split out of the ChatGPT open-tool fakes.
• make check passes locally after merging main: exit 0 in 7m05s on macOS 27.2, covering every behaviour suite, the native menu app build and tests with the new quarantine check, and ShellCheck. The first CI run failed once in test/cli/interactive-test.sh, where BSD script echoed ^D into one pty capture. That is a harness timing race unrelated to this change; I re-ran the job and kept the harness fix out of this PR.

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• New Features
  • Added codex-profile menu install to build and install the macOS menu-bar app using the release matching the installed CLI.
  • Preview the installation with --dry-run or choose a destination with --dir. By default, the app is installed in /Applications or ~/Applications.
  • The installer requires macOS 13 or later and Apple’s Command Line Tools. It checks app identity and version, and protects an existing installation if replacement fails.
  • The locally built app includes the matching CLI but is unsigned and intended for use on the Mac where it was built.
• Documentation
  • Updated setup instructions, command references, and platform guidance with installation requirements and behavior.

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Walkthrough

The CLI adds menu install to build and install the macOS menu-bar app from the immutable release matching the running CLI. The command validates release metadata and the built app, supports dry-run and destination options, and includes replacement safeguards, tests, shell completions, and documentation.

Changes: macOS menu app installation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release validation and app installation bin/codex-profile	The installer checks release metadata, clones the matching tag, builds and validates the app, and stages installation. It refuses unsafe replacements and preserves the existing app if installation fails.
Command interface and usage guidance bin/codex-profile, README.md, SECURITY.md, USAGE.md, agent.md, CHANGELOG.md, docs/llms.txt, macos/README.md	The CLI adds menu install, help, and Bash, Zsh, and Fish completions. The documentation describes options, prerequisites, release behavior, install locations, network activity, and unsigned-build limitations.
Installer and command validation test/cli/menu-test.sh, test/cli/completions-test.sh, test/cli/help-test.sh, test/cli/shell-test.sh, test/lib/cli-fixtures.sh, test/macos/menu-app-test.sh	Tests cover install planning, release and app validation, replacement and refusal cases, cleanup, help, and completions. Test fixtures add reusable plist tooling; the macOS app test checks quarantine attributes and bundled CLI identity.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as codex-profile menu install
  participant API as GitHub Releases API
  participant Git
  participant Build as Menu app build script
  participant Apps as Applications folder
  CLI->>API: Request release metadata for the CLI version
  CLI->>Git: Shallow-clone the matching release tag
  CLI->>Build: Build the app from the cloned source
  Build-->>CLI: Return the built app bundle
  CLI->>Apps: Validate and stage the app for installation

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Possibly related PRs

• Ducksss/codex-profiles#93: Adds immutable-final release validation that this change reuses for menu app installation.
• Ducksss/codex-profiles#105: Sets the CLI and app version that this installer uses to select and validate its release.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 8e18b

A repository override can build source not covered by the verified release. Align the source and release metadata before relying on that guarantee.

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Manual check results on the maintainer's Mac (2026-11-03)

These come from running codex-profile menu install from this branch (CLI 1.4.0, building v1.4.0) on macOS 27.2, Apple silicon, with Command Line Tools only.

Verified

• Install: /Applications/Codex Profiles.app is bundle dev.ducksss.codex-profiles.menu 1.4.0, and its bundled codex-profile version prints codex-profile 1.4.0. codesign reports adhoc,linker-signed, and no file in the bundle has com.apple.quarantine. It launched from /Applications through LaunchServices.
• Reinstall in place: a second menu install replaced the bundle at the same path (new inode). The second run reused the cache and fetched nothing.
• Same-version rebuilds are byte-identical: the CDHash was c6d3aae92401d980b5f5ac52ee9193c359444d38 before and after the reinstall. macOS identifies ad hoc code by CDHash, so rerunning menu install for the same version should keep the Terminal automation grant. A rebuild for a new version changes the CDHash and may ask again, which the docs already say.

Not verified (maintainer chose to skip)

• Open at Login on macOS 27 for a menu install copy, and whether the login item survives a reinstall. No logout was done. Earlier evidence: it worked on macOS 26.6 on 2026-10-07 for a locally built, linker-signed 1.2.0.
• Intel slice launch: no Rosetta on this Mac.

Noticed during the run (for review)

• The first menu install fetched every branch and tag into the shared upgrade cache, including old claude/* branches and a force-updated imgbot. It only needs v$VERSION. This comes from upgrade_prepare_checkout's full fetch: harmless, but slower and noisier than a tag-only fetch.
• menu install replaced the bundle while the previous copy was running. The command prints a hint to quit first. The running process kept the old image until it was relaunched.

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Bind the configured source repository to the validated release.

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Bind the configured source repository to the validated release.

CODEX_PROFILE_UPGRADE_REPO is documented for menu install, but command_menu_install validates CODEX_PROFILE_MENU_RELEASE_URL before cloning the independently configured repository. menu_app_fetch_source only proves that the alternate repository's HEAD matches its own v$VERSION tag. It does not prove that the source belongs to the repository or commit described by the validated release.

Require matching release metadata for the configured repository, or explicitly reject repository overrides unless CODEX_PROFILE_MENU_RELEASE_URL is overridden to that repository. This preserves trusted source overrides without claiming that the default immutable release validates unrelated source.

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Re the outside-diff finding "Bind the configured source repository to the validated release": fixed in 14db84b. When CODEX_PROFILE_UPGRADE_REPO names a non-default repository and CODEX_PROFILE_MENU_RELEASE_URL is still the official release, menu install now refuses before printing its plan or fetching anything, and says to set the release URL for that repository too. Overriding both still works, and the default path is unchanged. A new test covers the refusal, and USAGE.md and SECURITY.md describe it.

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