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+# The sdist is meant to be a source distribution you can actually verify:
+# unpack it, run the test suite, run the hygiene scan, run the examples.
+# Without these grafts setuptools ships a partial `tests/` directory whose
+# fixtures, scanner and package marker are all missing, so the suite it
+# carries cannot run at all.
+graft tests
+graft examples
+graft tools
+
+global-exclude *.py[cod]
+global-exclude .DS_Store
+prune **/__pycache__

codex_preserve-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: codex-preserve
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Export OpenAI Codex sessions to durable, human-readable packages and verify them against a manifest.
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+Keywords: codex,session,export,archive,provenance,integrity
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Environment :: Console
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Version Control
+Classifier: Topic :: System :: Archiving
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# codex-preserve
+
+`codex-preserve` exports an OpenAI Codex session out of Codex into durable,
+human-readable files, and verifies that every manifest-attested member is
+present and byte-identical to the SHA-256 and size recorded in the manifest.
+It reads a Codex session; it never modifies one.
+
+> **This is not `codex archive`.** The built-in `codex archive` command changes
+> a saved session's lifecycle state *inside* Codex. `codex-preserve` exports a
+> durable copy *outside* Codex and verifies the exported package. It does not
+> modify session state, and it is not a replacement for `codex archive`.
+
+**Not affiliated with OpenAI.** `codex-preserve` is an independent, unofficial
+tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or certified by
+OpenAI, and it is not an OpenAI product or a first-party Codex component. It
+ships no OpenAI logo or other visual branding. It is named for the Codex
+sessions it reads.
+
+## What it does
+
+- **Exports** one already-persisted local Codex rollout into a per-session
+  package: a readable conversation file, a machine receipt, input attachments
+  and output files, and a manifest.
+- **Verifies** an exported package against that manifest: every attested
+  member must be present with the attested size and SHA-256. See
+  [What verification does and does not prove](#what-verification-does-and-does-not-prove).
+- **Records provenance** for exported artifacts and attachments, including
+  which turn produced them and whether the payload is complete.
+- **Normalizes and redacts** by default: home paths are normalized for
+  readability, and credential-shaped values are removed before anything is
+  written.
+- **Fails closed.** What the tool cannot prove mechanically is reported as
+  unknown rather than guessed, and a package that cannot be verified is never
+  reported as intact.
+
+## What it does not do
+
+- It does not modify, archive, unarchive, delete or move Codex sessions.
+- It makes no model call and no network call. There is no daemon, no hook, no
+  telemetry and no event database. It does run local read-only `git` queries by
+  default — see [What it reads](#what-it-reads).
+- It does not decode opaque or encrypted reasoning. Such items are counted,
+  never reconstructed.
+- It does not sign anything. The manifest attests SHA-256 completeness and
+  integrity; that is not a cryptographic signature and says nothing about who
+  produced a package.
+
+## What verification does and does not prove
+
+`codex-preserve verify` answers exactly one question: **is every member the
+manifest attests present, and do its bytes still hash to the SHA-256 and size
+the manifest records?**
+
+That is worth having. It detects accidental loss, truncation, corruption in
+transit or storage, and edits made to a payload without also rewriting the
+manifest.
+
+It is not tamper-proofing, and the following are outside the proof:
+
+- **The manifest is co-distributed and is not independently signed.** It
+  travels inside the package it describes. There is no signature, no
+  certificate, no trust root and no transparency log, so the check is
+  *manifest-relative* integrity, not authenticity. It says nothing about who
+  produced the package.
+- **A coordinated rewrite is not detected.** Anyone who edits a payload *and*
+  recomputes its manifest row produces a package that verifies. Detecting that
+  requires a trust anchor this tool does not have.
+- **Extra files are not part of the current check.** Verification walks the
+  members the manifest lists. A file added to the package directory that the
+  manifest never mentions does not make verification fail, so "complete" means
+  "nothing attested is missing", not "nothing else is present".
+
+If you need authenticity rather than integrity, sign the exported package with
+a tool built for that. `codex-preserve` deliberately does not implement one.
+
+## What it reads
+
+Export is local and read-only, but it is not limited to the one rollout file
+you name. On a normal run it may also:
+
+- **read `~/.codex/session_index.jsonl`**, read-only, to recover the session's
+  display name. The lookup is filtered by session id and returns silently if
+  the file is absent or unreadable. Nothing under `~/.codex` is ever written.
+- **run local read-only `git` queries in the session's recorded workspace**
+  (`rev-parse`, `branch --show-current`, `remote get-url`, `merge-base`) to
+  record where the work happened. These are local repository queries; they
+  contact no network and no remote.
+- **include a normalized repository identity such as `owner/repo`** in the
+  exported provenance, in the receipt and in the human-readable file.
+  The raw remote URL is discarded and never exported — but if you share an
+  export, the `owner/repo` name goes with it.
+
+Pass `--no-git-probe` to skip the live git queries entirely. That is the
+entire scope of the flag: it stops the export from *asking* the local
+repository anything. It does not erase repository identity that is already
+persisted in the rollout's own session metadata. A persisted identity is
+still normalized to `owner/repo` and may appear in the receipt, in the
+human-readable export, in the stable output basename, and in the output
+directory / bucket names. The raw remote URL is discarded and never
+exported, with or without the flag.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install .
+```
+
+Python 3.9 or newer. No runtime dependencies.
+
+## Try it in one command
+
+You do not need a Codex session to see what this tool does. Three synthetic
+example packages ship with the repository and exercise the entire
+verification contract:
+
+```bash
+./examples/run_examples.sh
+```
+
+That prints one `PASS`, one `FAIL` and one `UNVERIFIABLE` verdict and checks
+that each exits `0`, `1` and `2` respectively. See
+[examples/README.md](examples/README.md) for what each one demonstrates and
+why. The same three packages are asserted by the test suite, so they stay
+honest.
+
+## Use
+
+```bash
+# See the surfaces.
+codex-preserve --help
+
+# List the sessions that could be exported (sanitized output).
+codex-preserve --list-candidates
+
+# Export one session by id.
+codex-preserve --session-id <uuid> --output-dir ./exports
+
+# The same export surface, named explicitly.
+codex-preserve export --session-id <uuid> --output-dir ./exports
+
+# Verify an exported package.
+codex-preserve verify ./exports/<bucket>/<package-dir>
+
+# Machine-readable verification receipt.
+codex-preserve verify ./exports/<bucket>/<package-dir> --json
+```
+
+`codex-preserve export --help` lists the full export option set, including
+selection (`--rollout`, `--session-id`, `--workspace`, `--since-hours`),
+provenance (`--artifact ROLE=PATH`, `--review-bundle`, `--no-git-probe`) and
+policy (`--no-normalize`, `--reasoning-cap`, `--max-package-bytes`).
+
+Sessions are discovered under `~/.codex/sessions` and
+`~/.codex/archived_sessions` only. The home directory is never scanned
+broadly.
+
+### Verify exit codes
+
+| exit | meaning |
+| ---- | ------- |
+| `0`  | every manifest-attested member is present and matches |
+| `1`  | a manifest-attested member is missing or altered |
+| `2`  | the package could not be verified at all — fails closed |
+
+The reason is always printed. `--json` emits the same verdict as a receipt
+with per-member reason codes.
+
+Manifest-attested package members must be real files under the package tree;
+symlinked member paths are rejected.
+
+Exit 2 also covers a manifest this build cannot interpret: an unrecognized or
+missing `package_schema_version`, or a manifest collection or row whose shape
+is not the expected JSON array/object. A verifier that cannot read the
+manifest reports UNVERIFIABLE rather than claiming the members it never looked
+at are fine.
+
+## Development
+
+```bash
+PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest discover -t . -s tests
+python3 tools/public_hygiene_scan.py .
+./examples/run_examples.sh
+```
+
+The test suite is deterministic and entirely synthetic: it builds its own
+rollout fixtures in a temporary directory and never reads a real Codex session
+directory.
+
+`tools/public_hygiene_scan.py` is a deterministic check that no private
+coordinate or credential-shaped literal has entered the tree.
+
+## Localization
+
+Package member filenames and the default output directory are currently
+Simplified Chinese, because they are part of the already-proven package format
+this tool exports. Changing them is a package-format decision rather than a
+cosmetic one, and it is still open. Everything else — the CLI, the receipts,
+the manifest keys and this documentation — is English.
+
+## License
+
+Apache License 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for the full text.
+
+```text
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+```
+
+## Status
+
+Version 0.1.0, first public release line. The export/verify contract
+described above — the three verdicts, the exit codes, and the limits of what
+the manifest proves — is what this version commits to. Package member
+filenames are still an open question; see [Localization](#localization).
+
+**Not affiliated with OpenAI.** `codex-preserve` is an independent, unofficial
+tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or certified by
+OpenAI, and it is not an OpenAI product or a first-party Codex component. It
+ships no OpenAI logo or other visual branding.

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+# codex-preserve
+
+`codex-preserve` exports an OpenAI Codex session out of Codex into durable,
+human-readable files, and verifies that every manifest-attested member is
+present and byte-identical to the SHA-256 and size recorded in the manifest.
+It reads a Codex session; it never modifies one.
+
+> **This is not `codex archive`.** The built-in `codex archive` command changes
+> a saved session's lifecycle state *inside* Codex. `codex-preserve` exports a
+> durable copy *outside* Codex and verifies the exported package. It does not
+> modify session state, and it is not a replacement for `codex archive`.
+
+**Not affiliated with OpenAI.** `codex-preserve` is an independent, unofficial
+tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or certified by
+OpenAI, and it is not an OpenAI product or a first-party Codex component. It
+ships no OpenAI logo or other visual branding. It is named for the Codex
+sessions it reads.
+
+## What it does
+
+- **Exports** one already-persisted local Codex rollout into a per-session
+  package: a readable conversation file, a machine receipt, input attachments
+  and output files, and a manifest.
+- **Verifies** an exported package against that manifest: every attested
+  member must be present with the attested size and SHA-256. See
+  [What verification does and does not prove](#what-verification-does-and-does-not-prove).
+- **Records provenance** for exported artifacts and attachments, including
+  which turn produced them and whether the payload is complete.
+- **Normalizes and redacts** by default: home paths are normalized for
+  readability, and credential-shaped values are removed before anything is
+  written.
+- **Fails closed.** What the tool cannot prove mechanically is reported as
+  unknown rather than guessed, and a package that cannot be verified is never
+  reported as intact.
+
+## What it does not do
+
+- It does not modify, archive, unarchive, delete or move Codex sessions.
+- It makes no model call and no network call. There is no daemon, no hook, no
+  telemetry and no event database. It does run local read-only `git` queries by
+  default — see [What it reads](#what-it-reads).
+- It does not decode opaque or encrypted reasoning. Such items are counted,
+  never reconstructed.
+- It does not sign anything. The manifest attests SHA-256 completeness and
+  integrity; that is not a cryptographic signature and says nothing about who
+  produced a package.
+
+## What verification does and does not prove
+
+`codex-preserve verify` answers exactly one question: **is every member the
+manifest attests present, and do its bytes still hash to the SHA-256 and size
+the manifest records?**
+
+That is worth having. It detects accidental loss, truncation, corruption in
+transit or storage, and edits made to a payload without also rewriting the
+manifest.
+
+It is not tamper-proofing, and the following are outside the proof:
+
+- **The manifest is co-distributed and is not independently signed.** It
+  travels inside the package it describes. There is no signature, no
+  certificate, no trust root and no transparency log, so the check is
+  *manifest-relative* integrity, not authenticity. It says nothing about who
+  produced the package.
+- **A coordinated rewrite is not detected.** Anyone who edits a payload *and*
+  recomputes its manifest row produces a package that verifies. Detecting that
+  requires a trust anchor this tool does not have.
+- **Extra files are not part of the current check.** Verification walks the
+  members the manifest lists. A file added to the package directory that the
+  manifest never mentions does not make verification fail, so "complete" means
+  "nothing attested is missing", not "nothing else is present".
+
+If you need authenticity rather than integrity, sign the exported package with
+a tool built for that. `codex-preserve` deliberately does not implement one.
+
+## What it reads
+
+Export is local and read-only, but it is not limited to the one rollout file
+you name. On a normal run it may also:
+
+- **read `~/.codex/session_index.jsonl`**, read-only, to recover the session's
+  display name. The lookup is filtered by session id and returns silently if
+  the file is absent or unreadable. Nothing under `~/.codex` is ever written.
+- **run local read-only `git` queries in the session's recorded workspace**
+  (`rev-parse`, `branch --show-current`, `remote get-url`, `merge-base`) to
+  record where the work happened. These are local repository queries; they
+  contact no network and no remote.
+- **include a normalized repository identity such as `owner/repo`** in the
+  exported provenance, in the receipt and in the human-readable file.
+  The raw remote URL is discarded and never exported — but if you share an
+  export, the `owner/repo` name goes with it.
+
+Pass `--no-git-probe` to skip the live git queries entirely. That is the
+entire scope of the flag: it stops the export from *asking* the local
+repository anything. It does not erase repository identity that is already
+persisted in the rollout's own session metadata. A persisted identity is
+still normalized to `owner/repo` and may appear in the receipt, in the
+human-readable export, in the stable output basename, and in the output
+directory / bucket names. The raw remote URL is discarded and never
+exported, with or without the flag.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install .
+```
+
+Python 3.9 or newer. No runtime dependencies.
+
+## Try it in one command
+
+You do not need a Codex session to see what this tool does. Three synthetic
+example packages ship with the repository and exercise the entire
+verification contract:
+
+```bash
+./examples/run_examples.sh
+```
+
+That prints one `PASS`, one `FAIL` and one `UNVERIFIABLE` verdict and checks
+that each exits `0`, `1` and `2` respectively. See
+[examples/README.md](examples/README.md) for what each one demonstrates and
+why. The same three packages are asserted by the test suite, so they stay
+honest.
+
+## Use
+
+```bash
+# See the surfaces.
+codex-preserve --help
+
+# List the sessions that could be exported (sanitized output).
+codex-preserve --list-candidates
+
+# Export one session by id.
+codex-preserve --session-id <uuid> --output-dir ./exports
+
+# The same export surface, named explicitly.
+codex-preserve export --session-id <uuid> --output-dir ./exports
+
+# Verify an exported package.
+codex-preserve verify ./exports/<bucket>/<package-dir>
+
+# Machine-readable verification receipt.
+codex-preserve verify ./exports/<bucket>/<package-dir> --json
+```
+
+`codex-preserve export --help` lists the full export option set, including
+selection (`--rollout`, `--session-id`, `--workspace`, `--since-hours`),
+provenance (`--artifact ROLE=PATH`, `--review-bundle`, `--no-git-probe`) and
+policy (`--no-normalize`, `--reasoning-cap`, `--max-package-bytes`).
+
+Sessions are discovered under `~/.codex/sessions` and
+`~/.codex/archived_sessions` only. The home directory is never scanned
+broadly.
+
+### Verify exit codes
+
+| exit | meaning |
+| ---- | ------- |
+| `0`  | every manifest-attested member is present and matches |
+| `1`  | a manifest-attested member is missing or altered |
+| `2`  | the package could not be verified at all — fails closed |
+
+The reason is always printed. `--json` emits the same verdict as a receipt
+with per-member reason codes.
+
+Manifest-attested package members must be real files under the package tree;
+symlinked member paths are rejected.
+
+Exit 2 also covers a manifest this build cannot interpret: an unrecognized or
+missing `package_schema_version`, or a manifest collection or row whose shape
+is not the expected JSON array/object. A verifier that cannot read the
+manifest reports UNVERIFIABLE rather than claiming the members it never looked
+at are fine.
+
+## Development
+
+```bash
+PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest discover -t . -s tests
+python3 tools/public_hygiene_scan.py .
+./examples/run_examples.sh
+```
+
+The test suite is deterministic and entirely synthetic: it builds its own
+rollout fixtures in a temporary directory and never reads a real Codex session
+directory.
+
+`tools/public_hygiene_scan.py` is a deterministic check that no private
+coordinate or credential-shaped literal has entered the tree.
+
+## Localization
+
+Package member filenames and the default output directory are currently
+Simplified Chinese, because they are part of the already-proven package format
+this tool exports. Changing them is a package-format decision rather than a
+cosmetic one, and it is still open. Everything else — the CLI, the receipts,
+the manifest keys and this documentation — is English.
+
+## License
+
+Apache License 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for the full text.
+
+```text
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+```
+
+## Status
+
+Version 0.1.0, first public release line. The export/verify contract
+described above — the three verdicts, the exit codes, and the limits of what
+the manifest proves — is what this version commits to. Package member
+filenames are still an open question; see [Localization](#localization).
+
+**Not affiliated with OpenAI.** `codex-preserve` is an independent, unofficial
+tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or certified by
+OpenAI, and it is not an OpenAI product or a first-party Codex component. It
+ships no OpenAI logo or other visual branding.