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Bohan Jiang ec73710dd2 fix(agent/codex): surface stderr tail in initialize / turn startup errors (#1314)
* fix(agent/codex): surface stderr tail in initialize / turn startup errors

When codex app-server exits before the JSON-RPC handshake completes —
e.g. because the user put a flag in custom_args that the subcommand
rejects — the Result.Error users see is `codex initialize failed:
codex process exited`, while codex's actual complaint (typically
something like `error: unexpected argument '-m' found`) only lives in
daemon logs.

Wrap the stderr writer with a bounded stderrTail that still forwards
to the slog logWriter but also retains the last 2 KiB of bytes
written. Include that tail on the three startup failure paths
(initialize, startOrResumeThread, turn/start). Runtime cancellation
paths are left untouched — they're our own abort and the stderr
context isn't a clear signal there.

Refs #1308. Complement to #1310 / #1312 — lets "bad custom_args fail
loudly" actually be workable by giving the failure a real message.

* fix(agent/codex): join cmd.Wait() before sampling stderr tail

Addressing review of #1314: reading stderrBuf.Tail() right after
c.request returns "codex process exited" was racy. Nothing in that
path synchronizes with os/exec's internal stderr copy goroutine —
cmd.Wait() is the only documented join point. The original defer ran
cmd.Wait() later, but by then we had already built Result.Error from
a potentially-empty Tail().

Replace the ad-hoc deferred stdin.Close()/cmd.Wait() with a
sync.Once-wrapped drainAndWait closure. Call it explicitly on the
three startup failure paths before sampling the tail; keep it as the
cleanup defer so the success path behaves identically.

Also add TestCodexExecuteSurfacesStderrWhenChildExitsEarly: spawns a
real subprocess that prints to stderr and exits before responding to
initialize, runs it through Execute, and asserts Result.Error
contains the stderr hint. This covers the full timing path the
reviewer flagged, which the helper-level tests in this PR did not.
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