rdmbair15m5-changelog-20260904-0718-codex-load-normalization

Normalized Codex's broad plugin surface on the fleet canary while preserving its intentionally richer connected-app lane and all host-local state.

Scope, files, and result

Fleet scope: six Macs; file changed here: /Users/richh/.codex/config.toml.
Plugin tables: 78 enabled of 82 before; 24 enabled and 58 disabled after.
Exact byte-identical skill copies suppressed: 11; identical ~/.agents/skills copies remain.
Explicit skill-catalog budget: 10,000 tokens.
Final config SHA-256: ea6a5ae3db9ad442c27b08ae4fdccfc7097e03b40ba50a8c91eaf2dd93ed30d8.
Auth, history, cookies, approvals, sessions, MCP definitions, Mem0, Firecrawl, and plugin/skill caches were untouched.

Read-only loading and exact-duplicate audits; staged dry-run and hash-guarded normalization/dedupe applies; inert-selector cleanup.
Staged and live codex --strict-config doctor --json: config parse successful.
End-state inventory re-read the installed plugin policy and config hash.

Primary backup: /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/backups/codex-load-normalization-20260904T0615/rdmbair15m5/config.toml.before; later phase backups are under codex-load-normalization-20260904T0630-budget, codex-skill-dedupe-20260904T0650-filepaths, and codex-inert-skill-override-cleanup-20260904T0700.
Undo after a current hash comparison and fresh backup by atomically restoring the appropriate before-file, then run strict doctor.
Apple Notes publication is pending because this SSH session is Background; this file record is complete.
The configured full-state backup wrapper is absent; the phase backups above remain the verified rollback path.