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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions Makefile
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

.PHONY: install-linux install-linux-dry-run uninstall-linux

## Install the Switchyard background server as a systemd user service.
install-linux:

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A plain make in the repo root builds and starts the service and edits the user's shell rc files. install-linux is the first target in this file, so make runs it by default. make -n at the repo root prints scripts/linux/install.sh. The repo had no Makefile before, so people may type make here out of habit.

Please make a harmless target the default. For example, add a help target that lists the three targets, and either put it first or select it with .DEFAULT_GOAL := help.

@scripts/linux/install.sh

## Print what install-linux would do, without changing anything.
install-linux-dry-run:
@scripts/linux/install.sh --dry-run

## Remove the systemd user service, the sy Codex profile, and the codex alias.
uninstall-linux:
@scripts/linux/uninstall.sh
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#
# Paths, markers, and helpers shared by install.sh and uninstall.sh.
# The markers must match between the two, which is why they live here.

SY_HOME="${SY_HOME:-$HOME/.switchyard}"
SY_PORT="${SY_PORT:-4123}"
SERVICE_NAME="switchyard.service"
SYSTEMD_USER_DIR="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/systemd/user"
CODEX_DIR="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- references ---'
rg -n --no-heading 'SY_HOME|SY_PORT|XDG_CONFIG_HOME|CODEX_HOME|SYSTEMD_USER_DIR|CODEX_DIR|write_always|ExecStart|StandardOutput|StandardError' scripts/linux
printf '%s\n' '--- install relevant ranges ---'
nl -ba scripts/linux/install.sh | sed -n '1,240p'
printf '%s\n' '--- common ---'
nl -ba scripts/linux/common.sh | sed -n '1,80p'
printf '%s\n' '--- diff against merge base ---'
git diff --stat a601a9a3f9db149a1ad430fa43b1463a170c8a82 e518721574d8a11785440a8e0d9f46f55736ff72 -- scripts/linux/common.sh scripts/linux/install.sh
git diff --unified=20 a601a9a3f9db149a1ad430fa43b1463a170c8a82 e518721574d8a11785440a8e0d9f46f55736ff72 -- scripts/linux/common.sh scripts/linux/install.sh

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
if command -v man >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  man systemd.syntax 2>/dev/null | col -b | sed -n '1,180p'
else
  printf '%s\n' 'man is unavailable'
fi
printf '%s\n' '--- systemd tools ---'
command -v systemd-analyze || true
systemd-analyze --version 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,5p' || true

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Validate SY_HOME and SY_PORT before generating the systemd unit.

SY_HOME and SY_PORT are expanded directly into the unit heredoc. A space in SY_HOME changes ExecStart argument boundaries. A newline in either value can add unintended unit-file lines. A nonnumeric SY_PORT can produce an invalid service command and profile URL.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME only selects the unit-file path. It is not written into the unit contents. A trailing backslash in SY_HOME does not itself end a unit line because every expansion is followed by a path suffix, but rejecting it remains a safe parser guard.

This is a malformed-configuration and service-startup issue. The available code does not establish a privilege escalation or other security-boundary bypass.

Suggested fix
diff --git a/scripts/linux/common.sh b/scripts/linux/common.sh
@@
 CODEX_PROFILE_CONFIG="$CODEX_DIR/sy.config.toml"
+
+validate_unit_value() {
+  local name="$1" value="$2"
+  if [[ "$value" =~ [[:space:][:cntrl:]] || "$value" == *\\ ]]; then
+    printf 'error: %s contains whitespace, control characters, or a trailing backslash\n' "$name" >&2
+    return 1
+  fi
+}
diff --git a/scripts/linux/install.sh b/scripts/linux/install.sh
@@
 source "$SCRIPT_DIR/common.sh"
 
+validate_unit_value SY_HOME "$SY_HOME" || exit 1
+if [[ ! "$SY_PORT" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+  printf 'error: SY_PORT must be numeric\n' >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 # Runs a command, or prints it when dry running.
 run() {
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[warning] 9-9: SERVICE_NAME appears unused. Verify use (or export if used externally).

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[warning] 10-10: SYSTEMD_USER_DIR appears unused. Verify use (or export if used externally).

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Review comment at @scripts/linux/common.sh around lines 7 - 11:
Validate SY_HOME and SY_PORT before generating the systemd unit: reject
whitespace/control characters and a trailing backslash in SY_HOME, and require
SY_PORT to contain only digits. Keep XDG_CONFIG_HOME validation out of this
change because it only selects the unit-file path.

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# Codex reads `--profile sy` from its own file next to config.toml. A
# [profiles.sy] table in config.toml is rejected outright as legacy config.
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With Codex CLI 0.133.0, codex --profile sy fails with Error: config profile `sy` not found, so with the alias every codex run fails. This setup needs Codex CLI 0.134.0 or newer. That release changed --profile NAME to read NAME.config.toml (https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.134.0).

The comment also says Codex rejects [profiles.sy] "outright", but Codex rejects it only when you pass --profile sy.

Suggested wording: "Since Codex 0.134.0, --profile sy reads sy.config.toml and fails if config.toml still has [profiles.sy]." Please also put the minimum version in the Done message or the docs.

CODEX_PROFILE_CONFIG="$CODEX_DIR/sy.config.toml"
ALIAS_START="# >>> switchyard codex alias >>>"
ALIAS_END="# <<< switchyard codex alias <<<"

say() { printf '%s\n' "$*"; }
step() { printf '\n==> %s\n' "$*"; }

# Deletes the marked block, inclusive, leaving the rest of the file alone.
strip_block() {
local path="$1" start="$2" end="$3" label="${4:-the switchyard block}"
if [[ ! -f "$path" ]] || ! grep -qF "$start" "$path"; then

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If a hand edit removes the end marker, uninstall deletes every line from the alias to the end of the rc file and still prints "removed the codex alias". This line checks only for the start marker, so the awk below skips every line from the start marker to the end of the file.

In my test, I deleted the # <<< switchyard codex alias <<< line and added three lines after the block. Uninstall removed all three.

Please also check for $end, and leave the file unchanged when $end is missing. For example, add this after the start-marker check:

if ! grep -qF "$end" "$path"; then
  say "  $path has no end marker for $label; not editing it" >&2
  return 1
fi

I tested this together with the caller change from the uninstall.sh comment. Uninstall printed the message, stopped, and left .bashrc unchanged.

return 1
fi
if (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would remove $label from $path"
return 0
fi
local temp
temp="$(mktemp)"
awk -v start="$start" -v end="$end" '
index($0, start) { skipping = 1 }
!skipping { print }
index($0, end) { skipping = 0 }
' "$path" > "$temp"
cat "$temp" > "$path"
rm -f "$temp"
say " removed $label from $path"
return 0
}
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#
# Installs the Switchyard background server as a systemd --user service, sets
# up a `sy` Codex profile, and aliases `codex` to use it.
#
# Every step is idempotent and never overwrites a file you have edited.

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This comment says the script never overwrites a file you have edited, but a second run replaces the unit file and sy.config.toml. Only composite.toml works the way the comment says. write_always replaces the unit file with no backup. write_with_backup replaces sy.config.toml and keeps a timestamped copy.

In my test, I added an Environment=FOO=bar line to the unit, and the next run removed it.

Please say what happens to each file. Please also point users to systemctl --user edit switchyard for unit changes. That command saves changes in a separate drop-in file, and this script does not touch that file.

# Run with --dry-run to print what would happen.

set -euo pipefail

SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"

DRY_RUN=0
[[ "${1:-}" == "--dry-run" ]] && DRY_RUN=1

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Unknown arguments silently run the real action. Both scripts only test for the exact string --dry-run. A typo such as --dryrun runs a real install or uninstall.

  • scripts/linux/install.sh#L17-L17: replace the one-line test with a case that accepts only an empty argument or --dry-run. Exit with status 2 and a usage message otherwise.
  • scripts/linux/uninstall.sh#L16-L16: apply the same case argument check.
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Replace the exact `--dry-run` test with a `case` argument check in the install
script, accepting only no argument or `--dry-run`; otherwise print usage and
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# shellcheck source=scripts/linux/common.sh
source "$SCRIPT_DIR/common.sh"

# Runs a command, or prints it when dry running.
run() {
if (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would run: $*"
else
"$@"
fi
}

# Writes stdin to a file, leaving an existing file untouched.
write_once() {
local path="$1"
if [[ -f "$path" ]]; then
say " keeping existing $path"
cat >/dev/null
return
fi
if (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would create $path"
cat >/dev/null
else
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$path")"
cat > "$path"
say " created $path"
fi
}

# Writes stdin to a file, keeping any existing version as a timestamped backup.
write_with_backup() {
local path="$1"
if (( DRY_RUN )); then
[[ -f "$path" ]] && say " would back up $path"
say " would write $path"
cat >/dev/null
return
fi
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$path")"
local incoming
incoming="$(mktemp)"
cat > "$incoming"
if [[ -f "$path" ]] && cmp -s "$incoming" "$path"; then
say " $path is already up to date"
rm -f "$incoming"
return
fi
if [[ -f "$path" ]]; then
local backup
backup="$path.switchyard-backup.$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"
cp "$path" "$backup"
say " backed up $path to $backup"
fi
cat "$incoming" > "$path"
rm -f "$incoming"
say " wrote $path"
}

# Writes stdin to a file, replacing it. Used only for files this script owns.
write_always() {
local path="$1"
if (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would write $path"
cat >/dev/null
else
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$path")"
cat > "$path"
say " wrote $path"
fi
}

if [[ "$(uname -s)" != "Linux" ]]; then
say "This installer is for Linux only." >&2
exit 1
fi

step "Building release binary"
run cargo build --release --manifest-path "$REPO_ROOT/Cargo.toml" -p switchyard-server

step "Installing binary into $SY_HOME/bin"
run mkdir -p "$SY_HOME/bin" "$SY_HOME/logs"
run install -m 755 "$REPO_ROOT/target/release/switchyard-server" "$SY_HOME/bin/switchyard-server"

step "Writing server config"
# The composite router from examples/run_codex.sh: Terra classifies each user
# turn and sets the tier, Stage drives the tool loop underneath it.
write_once "$SY_HOME/composite.toml" <<'EOF'
schema_version = 1

[llm_clients.chatgpt_backend]
format = "openai_responses"
base_url = "https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex"
forward_auth = true

[targets.capable]
id = "gpt-5.6-sol"
llm_client = "chatgpt_backend"

[targets.efficient]
id = "gpt-5.6-luna"
llm_client = "chatgpt_backend"

# chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex is Codex CLI's own private endpoint, not the
# public OpenAI Responses API. It 400s unless store=false and stream=true are
# set explicitly, and it rejects max_output_tokens outright, so the
# classifier's own token cap has to be dropped before the request goes out.
[targets.terra]
id = "gpt-5.6-terra"
llm_client = "chatgpt_backend"
extra_body = { store = false, stream = true }
omit_body_fields = ["max_output_tokens"]

[routes.switchyard]
id = "switchyard"
type = "composite"

[routes.switchyard.classifier]
target = "terra"
base_threshold = 0.5
classify_trigger = "user_turn"

[routes.switchyard.stage]
capable_target = "capable"
efficient_target = "efficient"
confidence_threshold = 0.5
EOF

step "Validating the server config"
if (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would run: $SY_HOME/bin/switchyard-server --config $SY_HOME/composite.toml --dry-run"
else
"$SY_HOME/bin/switchyard-server" --config "$SY_HOME/composite.toml" --dry-run
fi

step "Writing the systemd user service"
write_always "$SYSTEMD_USER_DIR/$SERVICE_NAME" <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Switchyard LLM router server

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=$SY_HOME/bin/switchyard-server --config $SY_HOME/composite.toml --host 127.0.0.1 --port $SY_PORT --routing-log-file $SY_HOME/routing.jsonl
Restart=on-failure
Environment=RUST_LOG=info
StandardOutput=append:$SY_HOME/logs/server.log
StandardError=append:$SY_HOME/logs/server.err.log
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With these two lines, server.log and server.err.log grow on every start and every request, and nothing rotates them. With append:, systemd writes the logs straight to these files.

In my test, each request added about 1.1 KB to server.err.log, and each start added a 1.6 KB banner to server.log.

If you remove these two lines, journald keeps the logs and rotates them. Users then read them with journalctl --user -u switchyard. The Done message at line 213 would then need to point there.


[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
EOF

step "Loading the systemd user service"
if (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would run: systemctl --user daemon-reload"
say " would run: systemctl --user enable --now $SERVICE_NAME"
else
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now "$SERVICE_NAME"

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If the service is already running, a second make install-linux installs the new binary and rewrites the unit file, but the old server process keeps running. systemctl --user enable --now starts the unit only if it is stopped.

I re-ran the installer with SY_PORT=5000 against a stub systemctl. The script called only daemon-reload and enable --now, rewrote the unit to --port 5000 and the Codex profile to http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1, and printed "enabled and started". The running server would stay on 4123, so codex would get connection refused until the user restarts the service by hand.

Please run systemctl --user enable "$SERVICE_NAME" and then systemctl --user restart "$SERVICE_NAME". restart also starts a stopped unit, so these two commands work for both a first install and an upgrade. #863 already restarts its LaunchAgent when you run the installer again.

say " enabled and started $SERVICE_NAME"

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If the server exits right after it starts, this line still prints "enabled and started", and the script goes on to write the Codex profile and the alias. With Type=simple, enable --now returns as soon as systemd starts the process, before the server binds its port.

In my test, a second switchyard-server on a port that was already in use printed Address already in use and exited 1 within 75 ms. A server left running from examples/run_codex.sh is one likely cause, because that script also uses port 4123.

After starting the unit, please wait a couple of seconds and then check systemctl --user is-active --quiet "$SERVICE_NAME". If that check fails, print the path to server.err.log and exit before writing the profile and the alias. A curl of /health alone is not enough, because another process on the port would answer it.

fi

step "Adding the sy Codex profile"
# `codex --profile sy` reads ~/.codex/sy.config.toml. A [profiles.sy] table in
# config.toml is legacy config that Codex refuses to start with, so the
# profile lives in its own file instead.
#
# This profile only changes which router answers. Approval and sandbox
# settings are deliberately left out, so the profile cannot loosen how Codex
# asks before it acts. Set those yourself if you want them.
write_with_backup "$CODEX_PROFILE_CONFIG" <<EOF
model = "switchyard"
model_provider = "sy"

[model_providers.sy]
name = "Switchyard"
base_url = "http://127.0.0.1:$SY_PORT/v1"
wire_api = "responses"
requires_openai_auth = true
EOF

step "Aliasing codex"
for rc in "$HOME/.zshrc" "$HOME/.bashrc"; do
if [[ -f "$rc" ]] && grep -qF "$ALIAS_START" "$rc"; then
say " alias already in $rc"
elif (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would add the codex alias to $rc"
else
printf '\n%s\nalias codex="codex --profile sy"\n%s\n' "$ALIAS_START" "$ALIAS_END" >> "$rc"

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With this alias, codex login, codex logout, codex update, codex doctor, and codex completion bash all exit 1 with Error: --profile only applies to runtime commands and `codex mcp`: …. The alias turns every codex command into codex --profile sy ..., and Codex 0.152.0 rejects --profile on commands that do not start a session.

codex login matters most. Users run it to fix an expired ChatGPT login, and this setup depends on that login. The alias also blocks other profiles: codex -p work exits 2 with error: the argument '--profile <CONFIG_PROFILE_V2>' cannot be used multiple times.

The simplest fix is to drop the alias and print codex -p sy in the Done message. If you keep the alias, make it opt-in and print how to bypass it (command codex login).

Also, the loop at line 201 creates ~/.zshrc for users who only have ~/.bashrc. Please skip rc files that do not exist.

say " added the codex alias to $rc"
fi
done

step "Done"
say "Server: http://127.0.0.1:$SY_PORT (logs in $SY_HOME/logs)"
say "Manage it with: systemctl --user {status,restart,stop} $SERVICE_NAME"
say "Open a new shell, or run: alias codex=\"codex --profile sy\""
say ""
say "If you want the server running even when you are logged out, run:"
say " loginctl enable-linger \$USER"
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#
# Removes what install.sh added: the systemd user service, the `sy` Codex
# profile, and the codex alias. Your config, routing log, and binaries stay
# put; the paths are printed so you can delete them yourself.
#
# Run with --dry-run to print what would happen.

set -euo pipefail

SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"

DRY_RUN=0
[[ "${1:-}" == "--dry-run" ]] && DRY_RUN=1

# shellcheck source=scripts/linux/common.sh
source "$SCRIPT_DIR/common.sh"

# Deletes a file this script owns.
remove_file() {
local path="$1"
if [[ ! -e "$path" ]]; then
say " nothing to remove at $path"
elif (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would delete $path"
else
rm -f "$path"
say " deleted $path"
fi
}

step "Stopping the systemd user service"
if (( DRY_RUN )); then
say " would run: systemctl --user disable --now $SERVICE_NAME"
say " would delete $SYSTEMD_USER_DIR/$SERVICE_NAME"
else
systemctl --user disable --now "$SERVICE_NAME" 2>/dev/null || true
rm -f "$SYSTEMD_USER_DIR/$SERVICE_NAME"
systemctl --user daemon-reload

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If systemctl --user cannot reach the user's systemd instance (for example, in a su - or sudo -iu shell), uninstall deletes the unit file and stops, but it leaves sy.config.toml and both aliases in place. This block runs before the profile and alias steps. Its daemon-reload fails, and set -e stops the script.

After that, codex keeps pointing at a port where nothing listens, and running uninstall again fails the same way.

Please move this block after the profile and alias steps. I tried that order with a failing systemctl stub, and the script removed the profile and both aliases before it stopped.

say " stopped and removed $SERVICE_NAME"
fi

step "Removing the sy Codex profile"
remove_file "$CODEX_PROFILE_CONFIG"

step "Removing the codex alias"
for rc in "$HOME/.zshrc" "$HOME/.bashrc"; do
strip_block "$rc" "$ALIAS_START" "$ALIAS_END" "the codex alias" ||
say " no alias in $rc"
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If mktemp or awk fails, uninstall empties the user's ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc and still reports success. For example, mktemp fails when TMPDIR points at a directory that no longer exists, and awk fails when /tmp is full.

strip_block runs on the left side of ||, so bash turns off set -e for every command inside it. After a failed mktemp or awk, cat "$temp" > "$path" still runs and empties the rc file. The script then prints "removed the codex alias" and exits 0.

I reproduced this with a GNU-style mktemp. After uninstall, .bashrc went from 155 bytes to 0 and .zshrc went from 115 bytes to 0.

Please check for the marker in the caller instead. Then set -e stays on inside strip_block, and a failed mktemp or awk stops the script before it changes the file:

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strip_block "$rc" "$ALIAS_START" "$ALIAS_END" "the codex alias" ||
say " no alias in $rc"
if [[ -f "$rc" ]] && grep -qF "$ALIAS_START" "$rc"; then
strip_block "$rc" "$ALIAS_START" "$ALIAS_END" "the codex alias"
else
say " no alias in $rc"
fi

With this change, the same test stops at mktemp with exit code 1, and both rc files stay unchanged.

done

step "Done"
say "Left in place, delete them if you want:"
say " $SY_HOME (binary, config, routing log, logs)"
say " $CODEX_PROFILE_CONFIG.switchyard-backup.* (backups taken at install time)"
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