diff --git a/.github/workflows/ai-moderator.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/ai-moderator.lock.yml
index 37888572000..7ca798b50b3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ai-moderator.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ai-moderator.lock.yml
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.githubusercontent.com\",\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"codeload.github.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"docs.github.com\",\"github-cloud.githubusercontent.com\",\"github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com\",\"github.blog\",\"github.com\",\"github.githubassets.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"lfs.github.com\",\"objects.githubusercontent.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"patch-diff.githubusercontent.com\",\"patchdiff.githubusercontent.com\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"raw.githubusercontent.com\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":5},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" -c features.shell_tool=false --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'gpt-5.4' }}
@@ -1595,7 +1595,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1707,7 +1707,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: evals
diff --git a/.github/workflows/changeset.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/changeset.lock.yml
index 9ee5efda6db..c32075d635b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/changeset.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/changeset.lock.yml
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' 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pt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"containerRuntime\":\"gvisor\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: gpt-5.4
@@ -1640,7 +1640,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1657,8 +1657,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1671,7 +1671,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -1871,7 +1871,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -1958,7 +1958,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1983,7 +1983,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: gpt-5.4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codex-github-remote-mcp-test.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/codex-github-remote-mcp-test.lock.yml
index 4e6a77967cd..aee32c7cb48 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codex-github-remote-mcp-test.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codex-github-remote-mcp-test.lock.yml
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.githubcopilot.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":5},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'gpt-5.4' }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily-cache-strategy-analyzer.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/daily-cache-strategy-analyzer.lock.yml
index 2f08ba4dc82..c9328d031c9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/daily-cache-strategy-analyzer.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily-cache-strategy-analyzer.lock.yml
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\",\"awmg-cli-proxy\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":60},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ needs.activation.outputs.model_size }}
@@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1856,8 +1856,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1870,7 +1870,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -2078,7 +2078,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -2165,7 +2165,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: ${{ needs.activation.outputs.model_size }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily-evals-report.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/daily-evals-report.lock.yml
index 664d6a8a0b8..8362055dbfe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/daily-evals-report.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily-evals-report.lock.yml
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' 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a*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":45},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: gpt-5.4
@@ -1736,7 +1736,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1753,8 +1753,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -1967,7 +1967,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -2054,7 +2054,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -2079,7 +2079,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: gpt-5.4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily-fact.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/daily-fact.lock.yml
index 1635dc02301..64bb5aab1b9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/daily-fact.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily-fact.lock.yml
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' 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gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":15},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: gpt-5.4
@@ -1764,7 +1764,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1781,8 +1781,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -2088,7 +2088,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: gpt-5.4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily-observability-report.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/daily-observability-report.lock.yml
index 2fe5f786e6a..aa3beb7d170 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/daily-observability-report.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily-observability-report.lock.yml
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           # shellcheck disable=SC2016
           printf '%s\n' '{"$schema":"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json","network":{"allowDomains":["*.grafana.net","*.sentry.io","172.30.0.1","api.github.com","api.openai.com","api.snapcraft.io","archive.ubuntu.com","azure.archive.ubuntu.com","chatgpt.com","crl.geotrust.com","crl.globalsign.com","crl.identrust.com","crl.sectigo.com","crl.thawte.com","crl.usertrust.com","crl.verisign.com","crl3.digicert.com","crl4.digicert.com","crls.ssl.com","github.com","host.docker.internal","json-schema.org","json.schemastore.org","keyserver.ubuntu.com","ocsp.digicert.com","ocsp.geotrust.com","ocsp.globalsign.com","ocsp.identrust.com","ocsp.sectigo.com","ocsp.ssl.com","ocsp.thawte.com","ocsp.usertrust.com","ocsp.verisign.com","openai.com","packagecloud.io","packages.cloud.google.com","packages.microsoft.com","ppa.launchpad.net","s.symcb.com","s.symcd.com","security.ubuntu.com","ts-crl.ws.symantec.com","ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com","www.googleapis.com"],"isolation":true,"topologyAttach":["awmg-mcpg","awmg-cli-proxy"]},"apiProxy":{"enabled":true,"enableTokenSteering":true,"maxRuns":500,"maxCacheMisses":5,"maxAiCredits":1500,"models":{"agent":["sonnet-6x","gpt-5.4","gpt-5.5","gpt-5.6","gpt-5.3","gemini-pro","any"],"antigravity":["copilot/antigravity*","google/antigravity*","gemini/antigravity*"],"any":["copilot/*","anthropic/*","openai/*","google/*","gemini/*"],"auto":["copilot/auto","large"],"claude":["agent"],"codex":["agent"],"coding":["copilot/gpt-5*codex*","openai/gpt-5*codex*","gpt-5-codex","kimi"],"computer-use":["copilot/*computer-use*","google/*computer-use*","gemini/*computer-use*","openai/*computer-use*"],"copilot":["agent"],"deep-research":["copilot/deep-research*","copilot/o3-deep-research*","copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*","google/deep-research*","gemini/deep-research*","openai/o3-deep-research*","openai/o4-mini-deep-research*"],"detection":["small"],"evals":["small"],"fable":["copilot/*fable*","anthropic/*fable*"],"gemini":["agent"],"gemini-3-flash":["copilot/gemini-3*flash*","google/gemini-3*flash*","gemini/gemini-3*flash*"],"gemini-3-pro":["copilot/gemini-3*pro*","google/gemini-3*pro*","google/nano-banana*","gemini/gemini-3*pro*"],"gemini-3.1-flash":["copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*","google/gemini-3.1*flash*","gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*"],"gemini-3.1-pro":["copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*","google/gemini-3.1*pro*","gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*"],"gemini-3.5-flash":["copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*","google/gemini-3.5*flash*","gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*"],"gemini-3.6-flash":["copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*","google/gemini-3.6*flash*","gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*"],"gemini-3.7-flash":["copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*","google/gemini-3.7*flash*","gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*"],"gemini-flash":["copilot/gemini-*flash*","google/gemini-*flash*","gemini/gemini-*flash*"],"gemini-flash-lite":["copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*","google/gemini-*flash*lite*","gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*"],"gemini-omni":["copilot/gemini-omni*","google/gemini-omni*","gemini/gemini-omni*"],"gemini-pro":["copilot/gemini-*pro*","google/gemini-*pro*","gemini/gemini-*pro*"],"gemma":["copilot/gemma*","google/gemma*","gemini/gemma*"],"gpt-5":["copilot/gpt-5*","openai/gpt-5*"],"gpt-5-codex":["copilot/gpt-5*codex*","openai/gpt-5*codex*"],"gpt-5-mini":["copilot/gpt-5*mini*","openai/gpt-5*mini*"],"gpt-5-nano":["copilot/gpt-5*nano*","openai/gpt-5*nano*"],"gpt-5-pro":["copilot/gpt-5*pro*","openai/gpt-5*pro*"],"gpt-5.1":["copilot/gpt-5.1*","openai/gpt-5.1*"],"gpt-5.2":["copilot/gpt-5.2*","openai/gpt-5.2*"],"gpt-5.3":["copilot/gpt-5.3*","openai/gpt-5.3*"],"gpt-5.4":["copilot/gpt-5.4*","openai/gpt-5.4*"],"gpt-5.5":["copilot/gpt-5.5*","openai/gpt-5.5*"],"gpt-5.6":["copilot/gpt-5.6*","openai/gpt-5.6*"],"grok":["copilot/*grok*","openai/*grok*"],"haiku":["copilot/*haiku*","anthropic/*haiku*"],"image-generation":["copilot/gpt-image*","openai/gpt-image*","openai/chatgpt-image*","copilot/gemini-*image*","google/gemini-*image*","gemini/gemini-*image*","google/imagen*"],"kimi":["copilot/kimi*","openai/kimi*"],"kiwi":["copilot/kiwi*","openai/kiwi*"],"large":["sonnet","gpt-5-pro","gpt-5","gemini-pro"],"lyria":["google/lyria*","gemini/lyria*","copilot/lyria*"],"mai-code":["copilot/MAI-Code*","copilot/mai-code*","openai/MAI-Code*"],"mai-code-1-flash-picker":["copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*","copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*","openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*"],"mini":["haiku","gpt-5-mini","gpt-5-nano","gemini-flash-lite"],"nano-banana":["copilot/nano-banana*","google/nano-banana*","gemini/nano-banana*"],"opus":["copilot/*opus*","anthropic/*opus*"],"opusplan":["opus?effort=high"],"raptor-mini":["copilot/raptor*","openai/raptor*"],"reasoning":["copilot/o1*","copilot/o3*","copilot/o4*","openai/o1*","openai/o3*","openai/o4*"],"robotics":["copilot/*robotics*","google/*robotics*","gemini/*robotics*"],"small":["mini"],"small-agent":["haiku","gpt-5-mini","gemini-flash"],"sonnet":["copilot/*sonnet*","anthropic/*sonnet*"],"sonnet-6x":["copilot/*sonnet-4.5*","copilot/*sonnet-4.6*","copilot/*sonnet-5*","copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*","anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*","copilot/*sonnet-4-6*","anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*","anthropic/*sonnet-5*"],"summarization":["haiku","gpt-5-mini","gemini-flash-lite","mini"],"veo":["google/veo*","gemini/veo*"],"vision":["copilot/gemini-*image*","google/gemini-*image*","gemini/gemini-*image*","copilot/gemini-*flash*","google/gemini-*flash*","gemini/gemini-*flash*"]}},"container":{"imageTag":"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b"},"logging":{"proxyLogsDir":"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs","auditDir":"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit"}}' > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: gpt-5.4
@@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1662,8 +1662,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -1876,7 +1876,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           # shellcheck disable=SC2016
           printf '%s\n' '{"$schema":"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json","network":{"allowDomains":["172.30.0.1","api.github.com","api.openai.com","chatgpt.com","github.com","host.docker.internal","openai.com"]},"apiProxy":{"enabled":true,"enableTokenSteering":true,"maxRuns":500,"maxCacheMisses":5,"maxAiCredits":1500,"models":{"agent":["sonnet-6x","gpt-5.4","gpt-5.5","gpt-5.6","gpt-5.3","gemini-pro","any"],"antigravity":["copilot/antigravity*","google/antigravity*","gemini/antigravity*"],"any":["copilot/*","anthropic/*","openai/*","google/*","gemini/*"],"auto":["copilot/auto","large"],"claude":["agent"],"codex":["agent"],"coding":["copilot/gpt-5*codex*","openai/gpt-5*codex*","gpt-5-codex","kimi"],"computer-use":["copilot/*computer-use*","google/*computer-use*","gemini/*computer-use*","openai/*computer-use*"],"copilot":["agent"],"deep-research":["copilot/deep-research*","copilot/o3-deep-research*","copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*","google/deep-research*","gemini/deep-research*","openai/o3-deep-research*","openai/o4-mini-deep-research*"],"detection":["small"],"evals":["small"],"fable":["copilot/*fable*","anthropic/*fable*"],"gemini":["agent"],"gemini-3-flash":["copilot/gemini-3*flash*","google/gemini-3*flash*","gemini/gemini-3*flash*"],"gemini-3-pro":["copilot/gemini-3*pro*","google/gemini-3*pro*","google/nano-banana*","gemini/gemini-3*pro*"],"gemini-3.1-flash":["copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*","google/gemini-3.1*flash*","gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*"],"gemini-3.1-pro":["copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*","google/gemini-3.1*pro*","gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*"],"gemini-3.5-flash":["copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*","google/gemini-3.5*flash*","gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*"],"gemini-3.6-flash":["copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*","google/gemini-3.6*flash*","gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*"],"gemini-3.7-flash":["copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*","google/gemini-3.7*flash*","gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*"],"gemini-flash":["copilot/gemini-*flash*","google/gemini-*flash*","gemini/gemini-*flash*"],"gemini-flash-lite":["copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*","google/gemini-*flash*lite*","gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*"],"gemini-omni":["copilot/gemini-omni*","google/gemini-omni*","gemini/gemini-omni*"],"gemini-pro":["copilot/gemini-*pro*","google/gemini-*pro*","gemini/gemini-*pro*"],"gemma":["copilot/gemma*","google/gemma*","gemini/gemma*"],"gpt-5":["copilot/gpt-5*","openai/gpt-5*"],"gpt-5-codex":["copilot/gpt-5*codex*","openai/gpt-5*codex*"],"gpt-5-mini":["copilot/gpt-5*mini*","openai/gpt-5*mini*"],"gpt-5-nano":["copilot/gpt-5*nano*","openai/gpt-5*nano*"],"gpt-5-pro":["copilot/gpt-5*pro*","openai/gpt-5*pro*"],"gpt-5.1":["copilot/gpt-5.1*","openai/gpt-5.1*"],"gpt-5.2":["copilot/gpt-5.2*","openai/gpt-5.2*"],"gpt-5.3":["copilot/gpt-5.3*","openai/gpt-5.3*"],"gpt-5.4":["copilot/gpt-5.4*","openai/gpt-5.4*"],"gpt-5.5":["copilot/gpt-5.5*","openai/gpt-5.5*"],"gpt-5.6":["copilot/gpt-5.6*","openai/gpt-5.6*"],"grok":["copilot/*grok*","openai/*grok*"],"haiku":["copilot/*haiku*","anthropic/*haiku*"],"image-generation":["copilot/gpt-image*","openai/gpt-image*","openai/chatgpt-image*","copilot/gemini-*image*","google/gemini-*image*","gemini/gemini-*image*","google/imagen*"],"kimi":["copilot/kimi*","openai/kimi*"],"kiwi":["copilot/kiwi*","openai/kiwi*"],"large":["sonnet","gpt-5-pro","gpt-5","gemini-pro"],"lyria":["google/lyria*","gemini/lyria*","copilot/lyria*"],"mai-code":["copilot/MAI-Code*","copilot/mai-code*","openai/MAI-Code*"],"mai-code-1-flash-picker":["copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*","copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*","openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*"],"mini":["haiku","gpt-5-mini","gpt-5-nano","gemini-flash-lite"],"nano-banana":["copilot/nano-banana*","google/nano-banana*","gemini/nano-banana*"],"opus":["copilot/*opus*","anthropic/*opus*"],"opusplan":["opus?effort=high"],"raptor-mini":["copilot/raptor*","openai/raptor*"],"reasoning":["copilot/o1*","copilot/o3*","copilot/o4*","openai/o1*","openai/o3*","openai/o4*"],"robotics":["copilot/*robotics*","google/*robotics*","gemini/*robotics*"],"small":["mini"],"small-agent":["haiku","gpt-5-mini","gemini-flash"],"sonnet":["copilot/*sonnet*","anthropic/*sonnet*"],"sonnet-6x":["copilot/*sonnet-4.5*","copilot/*sonnet-4.6*","copilot/*sonnet-5*","copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*","anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*","copilot/*sonnet-4-6*","anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*","anthropic/*sonnet-5*"],"summarization":["haiku","gpt-5-mini","gemini-flash-lite","mini"],"veo":["google/veo*","gemini/veo*"],"vision":["copilot/gemini-*image*","google/gemini-*image*","gemini/gemini-*image*","copilot/gemini-*flash*","google/gemini-*flash*","gemini/gemini-*flash*"]}},"container":{"imageTag":"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b"},"logging":{"proxyLogsDir":"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs","auditDir":"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit"}}' > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1988,7 +1988,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: gpt-5.4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dev.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/dev.lock.yml
index e4cbeaab4a1..24a3605ad35 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dev.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dev.lock.yml
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\",\"awmg-cli-proxy\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: gpt-5.4
@@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1648,8 +1648,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -1949,7 +1949,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1974,7 +1974,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: gpt-5.4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/duplicate-code-detector.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/duplicate-code-detector.lock.yml
index 349fb7b2670..8db77195b95 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/duplicate-code-detector.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/duplicate-code-detector.lock.yml
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":15},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'gpt-5.4' }}
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1647,8 +1647,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -1948,7 +1948,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: evals
diff --git a/.github/workflows/grumpy-reviewer.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/grumpy-reviewer.lock.yml
index c58bc6029cc..82f6d72b9ef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/grumpy-reviewer.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/grumpy-reviewer.lock.yml
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":10},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'gpt-5.4' }}
@@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1742,8 +1742,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1756,7 +1756,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
diff --git a/.github/workflows/issue-arborist.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/issue-arborist.lock.yml
index 19545159b75..00664ff01f8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/issue-arborist.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/issue-arborist.lock.yml
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.githubusercontent.com\",\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"codeload.github.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"docs.github.com\",\"github-cloud.githubusercontent.com\",\"github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com\",\"github.blog\",\"github.com\",\"github.githubassets.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"lfs.github.com\",\"objects.githubusercontent.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"patch-diff.githubusercontent.com\",\"patchdiff.githubusercontent.com\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"raw.githubusercontent.com\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\",\"awmg-cli-proxy\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'gpt-5.4' }}
@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1729,8 +1729,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -1949,7 +1949,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -2061,7 +2061,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: evals
diff --git a/.github/workflows/necromancer.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/necromancer.lock.yml
index a6b40eb015c..f588bd9b5f5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/necromancer.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/necromancer.lock.yml
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.githubusercontent.com\",\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.npms.io\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"bun.sh\",\"cdn.jsdelivr.net\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"codeload.github.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"deb.nodesource.com\",\"deno.land\",\"docs.github.com\",\"esm.sh\",\"get.pnpm.io\",\"github-cloud.githubusercontent.com\",\"github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com\",\"github.blog\",\"github.com\",\"github.githubassets.com\",\"go.dev\",\"golang.org\",\"googleapis.deno.dev\",\"googlechromelabs.github.io\",\"goproxy.io\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"jsr.io\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"lfs.github.com\",\"nodejs.org\",\"npm.pkg.github.com\",\"npmjs.com\",\"npmjs.org\",\"objects.githubusercontent.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"patch-diff.githubusercontent.com\",\"patchdiff.githubusercontent.com\",\"pkg.go.dev\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"proxy.golang.org\",\"raw.githubusercontent.com\",\"registry.bower.io\",\"registry.npmjs.com\",\"registry.npmjs.org\",\"registry.yarnpkg.com\",\"repo.yarnpkg.com\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"skimdb.npmjs.com\",\"storage.googleapis.com\",\"sum.golang.org\",\"telemetry.vercel.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\",\"www.npmjs.com\",\"www.npmjs.org\",\"yarnpkg.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\",\"awmg-cli-proxy\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'gpt-5.4' }}
@@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1699,8 +1699,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1713,7 +1713,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
@@ -1913,7 +1913,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -2000,7 +2000,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_EVALS_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -2025,7 +2025,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/evals/evals.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_EVALS_CODEX: evals
diff --git a/.github/workflows/schema-feature-coverage.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/schema-feature-coverage.lock.yml
index 19e9c39867f..56558fc05ff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/schema-feature-coverage.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/schema-feature-coverage.lock.yml
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.githubusercontent.com\",\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.githubcopilot.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"codeload.github.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"docs.github.com\",\"github-cloud.githubusercontent.com\",\"github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com\",\"github.blog\",\"github.com\",\"github.githubassets.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"lfs.github.com\",\"objects.githubusercontent.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"patch-diff.githubusercontent.com\",\"patchdiff.githubusercontent.com\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"raw.githubusercontent.com\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":30},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'gpt-5.4' }}
@@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         run: |
-          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
+          mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs/"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"mcpServers\":{}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
           # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.
           cat > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" << GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
@@ -1591,8 +1591,8 @@ jobs:
           env_key = "OPENAI_API_KEY"
           supports_websockets = false
           GH_AW_CODEX_DETECTION_CONFIG_5face6846efecd71_EOF
-          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
-          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml"
+          cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
+          chmod 600 "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml" "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home/config.toml"
       - name: Install threat-detect binary
         if: always() && steps.detection_guard.outputs.run_detection == 'true'
         continue-on-error: true
@@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_JOB_TIMEOUT_MINUTES || '10' }}
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
diff --git a/.github/workflows/smoke-call-workflow.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/smoke-call-workflow.lock.yml
index 1a674231969..b36bd0dfa80 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/smoke-call-workflow.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/smoke-call-workflow.lock.yml
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"*.grafana.net\",\"*.sentry.io\",\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"api.snapcraft.io\",\"archive.ubuntu.com\",\"azure.archive.ubuntu.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"crl.geotrust.com\",\"crl.globalsign.com\",\"crl.identrust.com\",\"crl.sectigo.com\",\"crl.thawte.com\",\"crl.usertrust.com\",\"crl.verisign.com\",\"crl3.digicert.com\",\"crl4.digicert.com\",\"crls.ssl.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"json-schema.org\",\"json.schemastore.org\",\"keyserver.ubuntu.com\",\"ocsp.digicert.com\",\"ocsp.geotrust.com\",\"ocsp.globalsign.com\",\"ocsp.identrust.com\",\"ocsp.sectigo.com\",\"ocsp.ssl.com\",\"ocsp.thawte.com\",\"ocsp.usertrust.com\",\"ocsp.verisign.com\",\"openai.com\",\"packagecloud.io\",\"packages.cloud.google.com\",\"packages.microsoft.com\",\"ppa.launchpad.net\",\"s.symcb.com\",\"s.symcd.com\",\"security.ubuntu.com\",\"ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\",\"ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com\",\"www.googleapis.com\"],\"isolation\":true,\"topologyAttach\":[\"awmg-mcpg\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\",\"agentTimeout\":20},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/engine-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: gpt-5.4-mini
@@ -1644,7 +1644,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -1731,7 +1731,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md && mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection && printf '%s' '{"type":"object","properties":{"prompt_injection":{"type":"boolean"},"secret_leak":{"type":"boolean"},"malicious_patch":{"type":"boolean"},"reasons":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"string"}}},"required":["prompt_injection","secret_leak","malicious_patch","reasons"],"additionalProperties":false}' > /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection/detection_schema.json
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md && mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection && printf '%s' '{"type":"object","properties":{"prompt_injection":{"type":"boolean"},"secret_leak":{"type":"boolean"},"malicious_patch":{"type":"boolean"},"reasons":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"string"}}},"required":["prompt_injection","secret_leak","malicious_patch","reasons"],"additionalProperties":false}' > /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection/detection_schema.json
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection/detection.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1758,7 +1758,7 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY: /tmp/gh-aw/step-summary.md
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
diff --git a/.github/workflows/smoke-codex.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/smoke-codex.lock.yml
index e0a8d534b88..84782c9aae1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/smoke-codex.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/smoke-codex.lock.yml
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST: ${{ vars.GH_AW_POLICY_ALLOW_CREATE_PULL_REQUEST || 'true' }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH: ${{ steps.set-runtime-paths.outputs.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_CONFIG_PATH }}
@@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' 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/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'gpt-5.4' }}
@@ -2111,7 +2111,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
         run: |
           set -eo pipefail
           mkdir -p "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-config"
@@ -2198,7 +2198,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md && mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection && printf '%s' '{"type":"object","properties":{"prompt_injection":{"type":"boolean"},"secret_leak":{"type":"boolean"},"malicious_patch":{"type":"boolean"},"reasons":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"string"}}},"required":["prompt_injection","secret_leak","malicious_patch","reasons"],"additionalProperties":false}' > /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection/detection_schema.json
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md && mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection && printf '%s' '{"type":"object","properties":{"prompt_injection":{"type":"boolean"},"secret_leak":{"type":"boolean"},"malicious_patch":{"type":"boolean"},"reasons":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"string"}}},"required":["prompt_injection","secret_leak","malicious_patch","reasons"],"additionalProperties":false}' > /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection/detection_schema.json
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/threat-detection/detection.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_DETECTION_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '400' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "{\"\$schema\":\"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.28.4/awf-config.schema.json\",\"network\":{\"allowDomains\":[\"172.30.0.1\",\"api.github.com\",\"api.openai.com\",\"chatgpt.com\",\"github.com\",\"host.docker.internal\",\"openai.com\"]},\"apiProxy\":{\"enabled\":true,\"enableTokenSteering\":true,\"maxRuns\":500,\"maxAiCredits\":${GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS},\"maxCacheMisses\":5,\"models\":{\"agent\":[\"sonnet-6x\",\"gpt-5.4\",\"gpt-5.5\",\"gpt-5.6\",\"gpt-5.3\",\"gemini-pro\",\"any\"],\"antigravity\":[\"copilot/antigravity*\",\"google/antigravity*\",\"gemini/antigravity*\"],\"any\":[\"copilot/*\",\"anthropic/*\",\"openai/*\",\"google/*\",\"gemini/*\"],\"auto\":[\"copilot/auto\",\"large\"],\"claude\":[\"agent\"],\"codex\":[\"agent\"],\"coding\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\",\"gpt-5-codex\",\"kimi\"],\"computer-use\":[\"copilot/*computer-use*\",\"google/*computer-use*\",\"gemini/*computer-use*\",\"openai/*computer-use*\"],\"copilot\":[\"agent\"],\"deep-research\":[\"copilot/deep-research*\",\"copilot/o3-deep-research*\",\"copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*\",\"google/deep-research*\",\"gemini/deep-research*\",\"openai/o3-deep-research*\",\"openai/o4-mini-deep-research*\"],\"detection\":[\"small\"],\"evals\":[\"small\"],\"fable\":[\"copilot/*fable*\",\"anthropic/*fable*\"],\"gemini\":[\"agent\"],\"gemini-3-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*flash*\"],\"gemini-3-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3*pro*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/gemini-3*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.1-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.1-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"google/gemini-3.1*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.1*pro*\"],\"gemini-3.5-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.5*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.5*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.6-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.6*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.6*flash*\"],\"gemini-3.7-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"google/gemini-3.7*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-3.7*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"],\"gemini-flash-lite\":[\"copilot/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*lite*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*lite*\"],\"gemini-omni\":[\"copilot/gemini-omni*\",\"google/gemini-omni*\",\"gemini/gemini-omni*\"],\"gemini-pro\":[\"copilot/gemini-*pro*\",\"google/gemini-*pro*\",\"gemini/gemini-*pro*\"],\"gemma\":[\"copilot/gemma*\",\"google/gemma*\",\"gemini/gemma*\"],\"gpt-5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*\",\"openai/gpt-5*\"],\"gpt-5-codex\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*codex*\",\"openai/gpt-5*codex*\"],\"gpt-5-mini\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*mini*\",\"openai/gpt-5*mini*\"],\"gpt-5-nano\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*nano*\",\"openai/gpt-5*nano*\"],\"gpt-5-pro\":[\"copilot/gpt-5*pro*\",\"openai/gpt-5*pro*\"],\"gpt-5.1\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.1*\",\"openai/gpt-5.1*\"],\"gpt-5.2\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.2*\",\"openai/gpt-5.2*\"],\"gpt-5.3\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.3*\",\"openai/gpt-5.3*\"],\"gpt-5.4\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.4*\",\"openai/gpt-5.4*\"],\"gpt-5.5\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.5*\",\"openai/gpt-5.5*\"],\"gpt-5.6\":[\"copilot/gpt-5.6*\",\"openai/gpt-5.6*\"],\"grok\":[\"copilot/*grok*\",\"openai/*grok*\"],\"haiku\":[\"copilot/*haiku*\",\"anthropic/*haiku*\"],\"image-generation\":[\"copilot/gpt-image*\",\"openai/gpt-image*\",\"openai/chatgpt-image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"google/imagen*\"],\"kimi\":[\"copilot/kimi*\",\"openai/kimi*\"],\"kiwi\":[\"copilot/kiwi*\",\"openai/kiwi*\"],\"large\":[\"sonnet\",\"gpt-5-pro\",\"gpt-5\",\"gemini-pro\"],\"lyria\":[\"google/lyria*\",\"gemini/lyria*\",\"copilot/lyria*\"],\"mai-code\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code*\",\"copilot/mai-code*\",\"openai/MAI-Code*\"],\"mai-code-1-flash-picker\":[\"copilot/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\",\"copilot/mai-code-1-flash-picker*\",\"openai/MAI-Code-1-Flash-picker*\"],\"mini\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gpt-5-nano\",\"gemini-flash-lite\"],\"nano-banana\":[\"copilot/nano-banana*\",\"google/nano-banana*\",\"gemini/nano-banana*\"],\"opus\":[\"copilot/*opus*\",\"anthropic/*opus*\"],\"opusplan\":[\"opus?effort=high\"],\"raptor-mini\":[\"copilot/raptor*\",\"openai/raptor*\"],\"reasoning\":[\"copilot/o1*\",\"copilot/o3*\",\"copilot/o4*\",\"openai/o1*\",\"openai/o3*\",\"openai/o4*\"],\"robotics\":[\"copilot/*robotics*\",\"google/*robotics*\",\"gemini/*robotics*\"],\"small\":[\"mini\"],\"small-agent\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash\"],\"sonnet\":[\"copilot/*sonnet*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet*\"],\"sonnet-6x\":[\"copilot/*sonnet-4.5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4.6*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-5*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-5-*\",\"copilot/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-4-6*\",\"anthropic/*sonnet-5*\"],\"summarization\":[\"haiku\",\"gpt-5-mini\",\"gemini-flash-lite\",\"mini\"],\"veo\":[\"google/veo*\",\"gemini/veo*\"],\"vision\":[\"copilot/gemini-*image*\",\"google/gemini-*image*\",\"gemini/gemini-*image*\",\"copilot/gemini-*flash*\",\"google/gemini-*flash*\",\"gemini/gemini-*flash*\"]}},\"container\":{\"imageTag\":\"0.28.4,squid=sha256:35953d0beac18f642aa0bc98bb726a85288539b1fc630c16e94da33300058258,agent=sha256:8f18587981eff7e6291784200a88a7191d23bfd8f5723db848c640d6b4e88e46,api-proxy=sha256:64e668297d1b9d83ee102626e104c054ac2cf5cfd7225bf6e144f86962229882,cli-proxy=sha256:7ad9113203642c5b12303b97e221fc6b5dd0fb0655c09a2eba9d5c6fa3201a3b\"},\"logging\":{\"proxyLogsDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs\",\"auditDir\":\"/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit\"}}" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -2225,7 +2225,7 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY: /tmp/gh-aw/step-summary.md
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_HARNESS_MAX_RETRIES: 0
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
diff --git a/pkg/constants/constants.go b/pkg/constants/constants.go
index c9cb7817f83..fffe651b336 100644
--- a/pkg/constants/constants.go
+++ b/pkg/constants/constants.go
@@ -605,6 +605,11 @@ const McpServersJsonPathExpr = GhAwRootDir + "/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json"
 // CodexMcpConfigTomlPath is the Codex MCP config TOML file path in Actions expression form.
 const CodexMcpConfigTomlPath = GhAwRootDir + "/mcp-config/config.toml"
 
+// CodexHomeDirExpr is a GitHub Actions expression string (not a shell-resolved path)
+// for the writable CODEX_HOME directory used by Codex runs.
+// Use github.workspace instead of /tmp so Codex can create MCP helper aliases.
+const CodexHomeDirExpr = "${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home"
+
 // System path constants
 //
 // Well-known host system paths used by CLI tools and shell completion.
diff --git a/pkg/workflow/codex_engine.go b/pkg/workflow/codex_engine.go
index 493b97383d1..c94f2f68bbd 100644
--- a/pkg/workflow/codex_engine.go
+++ b/pkg/workflow/codex_engine.go
@@ -369,21 +369,26 @@ func (e *CodexEngine) buildCodexExecutionCommand(workflowData *WorkflowData, log
 	if workflowData.IsDetectionRun {
 		schemaWritePrefix = detectionSchemaWriteCmd + " && "
 	}
+	codexTmpConfigDir := constants.TmpMcpConfigDir
 	if harnessScriptName != "" {
 		return fmt.Sprintf(`set -o pipefail
 printf '%%s' "$(date +%%s%%3N)" > %s
 touch %s
 (umask 177 && touch %s)
-mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs"
-%s%s 2>&1 | tee %s`, AgentCLIStartMsPath, AgentStepSummaryPath, logFile, schemaWritePrefix, codexCommand, logFile)
+mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" %s
+rm -rf %s/logs
+ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" %s/logs
+%s%s 2>&1 | tee %s`, AgentCLIStartMsPath, AgentStepSummaryPath, logFile, codexTmpConfigDir, codexTmpConfigDir, codexTmpConfigDir, schemaWritePrefix, codexCommand, logFile)
 	}
 	return fmt.Sprintf(`set -o pipefail
 printf '%%s' "$(date +%%s%%3N)" > %s
 touch %s
 (umask 177 && touch %s)
 INSTRUCTION="$(cat "$GH_AW_PROMPT")"
-mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs"
-%s%s 2>&1 | tee %s`, AgentCLIStartMsPath, AgentStepSummaryPath, logFile, schemaWritePrefix, codexCommand, logFile)
+mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" %s
+rm -rf %s/logs
+ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" %s/logs
+%s%s 2>&1 | tee %s`, AgentCLIStartMsPath, AgentStepSummaryPath, logFile, codexTmpConfigDir, codexTmpConfigDir, codexTmpConfigDir, schemaWritePrefix, codexCommand, logFile)
 }
 
 func (e *CodexEngine) codexAllowedDomains(workflowData *WorkflowData) string {
@@ -398,7 +403,7 @@ func (e *CodexEngine) codexAllowedDomains(workflowData *WorkflowData) string {
 }
 
 func (e *CodexEngine) codexPathSetup(workflowData *WorkflowData, detectionSchemaWriteCmd string) string {
-	base := "mkdir -p \"$CODEX_HOME/logs\" && touch " + AgentStepSummaryPath
+	base := fmt.Sprintf("mkdir -p \"$CODEX_HOME/logs\" %s && rm -rf %s/logs && ln -sfn \"$CODEX_HOME/logs\" %s/logs && touch %s", constants.TmpMcpConfigDir, constants.TmpMcpConfigDir, constants.TmpMcpConfigDir, AgentStepSummaryPath)
 	if workflowData.IsDetectionRun {
 		return base + " && " + detectionSchemaWriteCmd
 	}
@@ -409,7 +414,7 @@ func (e *CodexEngine) buildCodexExecutionEnv(workflowData *WorkflowData, firewal
 	effectiveGitHubToken := getEffectiveGitHubToken("")
 	env := map[string]string{
 		"CODEX_API_KEY":                "${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}",
-		"CODEX_HOME":                   constants.TmpMcpConfigDir,
+		"CODEX_HOME":                   constants.CodexHomeDirExpr,
 		"GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN":           effectiveGitHubToken,
 		"GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG":             constants.CodexMcpConfigTomlPath,
 		"GH_AW_PROMPT":                 constants.AwPromptsFile,
diff --git a/pkg/workflow/codex_engine_test.go b/pkg/workflow/codex_engine_test.go
index 249283d3ea0..a048b36e902 100644
--- a/pkg/workflow/codex_engine_test.go
+++ b/pkg/workflow/codex_engine_test.go
@@ -211,8 +211,14 @@ func TestCodexEngineExecutionUsesWritableCodexHome(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	stepContent := strings.Join([]string(steps[0]), "\n")
-	if !strings.Contains(stepContent, "CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config") {
-		t.Errorf("Expected CODEX_HOME to use writable /tmp path, got:\n%s", stepContent)
+	if !strings.Contains(stepContent, "CODEX_HOME: "+constants.CodexHomeDirExpr) {
+		t.Errorf("Expected CODEX_HOME to use workspace path for MCP helper aliases, got:\n%s", stepContent)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(stepContent, `ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs`) {
+		t.Errorf("Expected execution command to mirror Codex logs to /tmp for diagnostics, got:\n%s", stepContent)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(stepContent, `rm -rf /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs`) {
+		t.Errorf("Expected execution command to replace legacy /tmp logs path before linking, got:\n%s", stepContent)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/workflow/mcp_environment.go b/pkg/workflow/mcp_environment.go
index e46b2728cff..cdce5450552 100644
--- a/pkg/workflow/mcp_environment.go
+++ b/pkg/workflow/mcp_environment.go
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ func collectMCPEnvironmentVariables(tools map[string]any, mcpTools []string, wor
 	// the converted MCP config can be copied into the writable Codex home directory.
 	// This matches the value set on the agent step in codex_engine.go.
 	if workflowData != nil && workflowData.AI == string(constants.CodexEngine) {
-		envVars["CODEX_HOME"] = constants.TmpMcpConfigDir
+		envVars["CODEX_HOME"] = constants.CodexHomeDirExpr
 	}
 
 	return envVars
diff --git a/pkg/workflow/mcp_environment_test.go b/pkg/workflow/mcp_environment_test.go
index f1bac246843..608ea3c96e5 100644
--- a/pkg/workflow/mcp_environment_test.go
+++ b/pkg/workflow/mcp_environment_test.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/github/gh-aw/pkg/constants"
 	"github.com/github/gh-aw/pkg/workflow/compilerenv"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -190,8 +191,8 @@ func TestCollectMCPEnvironmentVariables_CodexEngineIncludesCODEXHOME(t *testing.
 
 	envVars := collectMCPEnvironmentVariables(tools, mcpTools, workflowData, false)
 
-	assert.Equal(t, "/tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config", envVars["CODEX_HOME"],
-		"CODEX_HOME should be set to /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config for Codex engine")
+	assert.Equal(t, constants.CodexHomeDirExpr, envVars["CODEX_HOME"],
+		"CODEX_HOME should use the workspace-backed Codex home for Codex engine")
 }
 
 // TestCollectMCPEnvironmentVariables_NonCodexEngineExcludesCODEXHOME verifies that
diff --git a/pkg/workflow/testdata/TestWasmGolden_AllEngines/codex.golden b/pkg/workflow/testdata/TestWasmGolden_AllEngines/codex.golden
index 2ee80c8238d..9e00053086e 100644
--- a/pkg/workflow/testdata/TestWasmGolden_AllEngines/codex.golden
+++ b/pkg/workflow/testdata/TestWasmGolden_AllEngines/codex.golden
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Start MCP Gateway
         id: start-mcp-gateway
         env:
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_SINK_VISIBILITY: ${{ steps.determine-automatic-lockdown.outputs.visibility }}
           GITHUB_MCP_GUARD_MIN_INTEGRITY: ${{ steps.determine-automatic-lockdown.outputs.min_integrity }}
           GITHUB_MCP_GUARD_REPOS: ${{ steps.determine-automatic-lockdown.outputs.repos }}
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           trap 'gh_aw_exit_code=$?; mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; printf "%s" "$gh_aw_exit_code" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_execution_exit_code.txt || true; if [ "$gh_aw_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then echo "::error::Agent execution exited with code $gh_aw_exit_code"; fi' EXIT
           printf '%s' "$(date +%s%3N)" > /tmp/gh-aw/agent_cli_start_ms.txt
-          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
+          mkdir -p "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config && rm -rf /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && ln -sfn "$CODEX_HOME/logs" /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/logs && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS="${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_AI_CREDITS || '1000' }}"
           printf '%s\n' "AWF_CONFIG_PAYLOAD" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'set +o histexpand; : "${RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE:?RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE must be set}"; GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE="$RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE"; export PATH="$(find "$GH_AW_TOOL_CACHE" -maxdepth 5 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true; [ -n "$ERLANG_HOME" ] && export PATH="$ERLANG_HOME/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || true)"; fi; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then echo "node runtime missing on this runner — check runtimes.node in workflow YAML" >&2; exit 127; fi; GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT="$(npm root -g 2>/dev/null || true)"; if [ -n "$GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT" ]; then export NODE_PATH="${GH_AW_NPM_GLOBAL_ROOT}${NODE_PATH:+:${NODE_PATH}}"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/codex_harness.cjs codex exec${GH_AW_MODEL_DETECTION_CODEX:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_DETECTION_CODEX"} -c web_search="disabled" -c fetch="disabled" --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check  --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-          CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
+          CODEX_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.gh-aw/codex-home
           GH_AW_MAX_TURNS: ${{ vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MAX_TURNS || '' }}
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_DETECTION_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_DETECTION_CODEX || vars.GH_AW_DEFAULT_MODEL_CODEX || 'default' }}
diff --git a/pkg/workflow/threat_detection_external.go b/pkg/workflow/threat_detection_external.go
index 3be16b9de09..53d5d756416 100644
--- a/pkg/workflow/threat_detection_external.go
+++ b/pkg/workflow/threat_detection_external.go
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ func (c *Compiler) buildPrepareDetectionEngineConfigForExternalDetectorStep(data
 
 	const emptyMCPServersJSON = `{"mcpServers":{}}`
 	shellCodexConfigPath := constants.ShellMcpConfigDir + "/config.toml"
-	codexHomeConfigPath := constants.TmpMcpConfigDir + "/config.toml"
+	codexHomeConfigPath := constants.CodexHomeDirExpr + "/config.toml"
 	codexAPIBase := NewCodexEngine().getOpenAIProxyProviderBaseURL()
 	codexWSSBase := codexProxyWebsocketBaseURL(codexAPIBase)
 	codexConfig := buildExternalDetectorCodexConfig(codexAPIBase, codexWSSBase)
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ func (c *Compiler) buildPrepareDetectionEngineConfigForExternalDetectorStep(data
 		"      - name: Prepare Codex config for threat-detect\n",
 		fmt.Sprintf("        if: %s\n", detectionStepCondition),
 		"        run: |\n",
-		fmt.Sprintf("          mkdir -p %q %q %q\n", constants.ShellMcpConfigDir, constants.TmpMcpConfigDir, constants.TmpMcpConfigLogsDir),
+		fmt.Sprintf("          mkdir -p %q %q %q %q\n", constants.ShellMcpConfigDir, constants.CodexHomeDirExpr, constants.CodexHomeDirExpr+"/logs", constants.TmpMcpConfigDir),
+		fmt.Sprintf("          rm -rf %q\n", constants.TmpMcpConfigLogsDir),
+		fmt.Sprintf("          ln -sfn %q %q\n", constants.CodexHomeDirExpr+"/logs", constants.TmpMcpConfigLogsDir),
 		fmt.Sprintf("          printf '%%s\\n' %q > %q\n", emptyMCPServersJSON, constants.ShellMcpServersJsonPath),
 		"          # Point Codex at the AWF OpenAI proxy and disable websocket startup.\n",
 		fmt.Sprintf("          cat > %q << %s\n", shellCodexConfigPath, codexConfigDelimiter), //nolint:generatedyamlheredoc // Legacy detector config rendering remains to be migrated.
diff --git a/pkg/workflow/threat_detection_isolation_test.go b/pkg/workflow/threat_detection_isolation_test.go
index c276f958e11..f55b0e5b948 100644
--- a/pkg/workflow/threat_detection_isolation_test.go
+++ b/pkg/workflow/threat_detection_isolation_test.go
@@ -673,9 +673,15 @@ Test workflow`
 	if !strings.Contains(detectionSection, string(constants.ShellMcpServersJsonPath)) {
 		t.Error("Codex external detector path must create an empty mcp-servers.json for Codex")
 	}
-	if !strings.Contains(detectionSection, string(constants.TmpMcpConfigDir)+"/config.toml") {
+	if !strings.Contains(detectionSection, constants.CodexHomeDirExpr+"/config.toml") {
 		t.Error("Codex external detector path must create a writable CODEX_HOME config.toml")
 	}
+	if !strings.Contains(detectionSection, "rm -rf \""+constants.TmpMcpConfigLogsDir+"\"") {
+		t.Error("Codex external detector path must replace legacy /tmp logs dir before linking")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(detectionSection, "ln -sfn \""+constants.CodexHomeDirExpr+"/logs\" \""+constants.TmpMcpConfigLogsDir+"\"") {
+		t.Error("Codex external detector path must mirror logs to legacy /tmp diagnostics path")
+	}
 	if !strings.Contains(detectionSection, "model_provider = \"openai-proxy\"") {
 		t.Error("Codex external detector path must route Codex through the AWF OpenAI proxy")
 	}