TUI crashes when skills/list fails behind corporate proxy

[jinyule]

Bug description

When running Codex CLI behind a corporate proxy/firewall that intercepts HTTPS requests to chatgpt.com, the TUI crashes with:

Error: skills/list failed in TUI

Caused by:
    0: request to https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/plugins/featured?platform=codex failed
    1: error decoding response body
    2: expected value at line 1 column 1

The proxy redirects the request via 302 to an HTML warning page, which is then returned with a 200 status code. The reqwest client follows the redirect, receives HTML instead of JSON, and fails to parse it.

Root cause

In codex-rs/tui/src/app.rs, the AppCommandView::ListSkills handler propagates errors with ?:

AppCommandView::ListSkills { cwds, force_reload } => {
    let response = app_server
        .skills_list(...)
        .await?;  // <-- crashes TUI on error
    self.handle_skills_list_response(response);
    Ok(true)
}

This error bubbles up through the TUI event loop and causes a fatal exit. However, the startup code path for the same operation already handles this gracefully with match + warn.

Expected behavior

Plugin discovery failures (skills/list, featured plugins, etc.) should degrade gracefully — log a warning and continue operating. The main TUI functionality should not depend on plugin discovery succeeding.

Steps to reproduce

1. Run Codex CLI behind a corporate proxy/firewall that intercepts requests to chatgpt.com
2. The proxy returns HTML instead of JSON for chatgpt.com/backend-api/plugins/featured
3. TUI crashes on startup or when skills are refreshed

Environment

• OS: Windows 11
• Network: Behind corporate proxy/firewall
• Auth: ChatGPT auth mode

[github-actions]

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

• TUI exits to shell on subagent/thread switch when startup skills/list fails; parent rollout stays empty #16914
• 0.118.0 gets stuck on startup when plugins/featured returns a Cloudflare challenge page #16543
• Linux/WSL2: Cloudflare 403 blocks all chatgpt.com API requests — rustls TLS fingerprint detected as bot while macOS native-tls works fine on same network #17860

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[etraut-openai]

Thanks for the bug report. This will be fixed in the next release.