feat(linux): systemd switchyard service

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What

systemd servce for switchyard and make install target to setup codex with switchyard.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added Linux installation options to set up the Switchyard server, its system service, and Codex profile.
  • Added a dry-run option to preview installation or removal steps without applying changes.
  • Added an uninstall option to remove the service, Codex profile, and shell aliases.
  • Uninstalling leaves Switchyard data and profile backups in place.

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Walkthrough

The change adds Make targets and Linux scripts to install, preview, and remove the Switchyard server setup. The scripts configure a systemd user service, a Codex profile, and shell aliases.

Changes

Linux installation lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Commands and shared setup Makefile, scripts/linux/common.sh, scripts/linux/install.sh	The Makefile adds install, dry-run, and uninstall targets. Shared settings define configurable paths. The installer loads those settings and defines command and file-writing helpers.
Server and Codex provisioning scripts/linux/install.sh	The installer builds and installs the server, writes and validates a composite config when none exists, configures and starts a systemd user service, writes the Codex profile, and adds aliases to existing shell configuration files.
Service and configuration removal scripts/linux/common.sh, scripts/linux/uninstall.sh	The uninstall script removes the service and Codex profile, and strips marked aliases from shell configuration files. It leaves the server home and profile backups in place.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e5187

A mistyped flag can run an install or uninstall instead of a preview, and some custom paths or ports can prevent the service from starting. These are bounded risks, but the argument check and configuration validation should be fixed before relying on the commands.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 75.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: adding a Linux systemd service for Switchyard. It also aligns with the installer and service setup objectives.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 75.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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The server starts beneath its sail.
A Codex profile joins the ride,
Shell aliases hop alongside.
Then marked blocks are cleared away,
While backups safely choose to stay.}

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @scripts/linux/common.sh:
- Around line 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.

Review comments at @scripts/linux/install.sh:
- Line 17: 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 exit with status 2. Apply the same check in scripts/linux/install.sh
at line 17 and scripts/linux/uninstall.sh at line 16.

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• scripts/linux/common.sh
• scripts/linux/install.sh
• scripts/linux/uninstall.sh

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[elyasmnvidian]

The biggest problems are that uninstall.sh can empty ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc, the codex alias breaks codex login, and running the installer again does not restart the service. I left the details in the line comments.

I tested the scripts on macOS in a temporary HOME directory, with stub systemctl, cargo, and uname commands. I also built switchyard-server from this branch and tested the Codex profile with codex-cli 0.152.0 against a local server that records requests. These checks passed:

• The composite.toml in install.sh passes switchyard-server --dry-run.
• Every flag in ExecStart exists.
• codex --profile sy reads sy.config.toml as written.
• I sent requests through the server to a local stub instead of chatgpt.com. server.err.log and routing.jsonl recorded no tokens and no prompt text.

I did not have a real systemd user session. My comments about systemd behavior come from the systemd docs, not from a run.

Three points outside the diff:

• #863 (the macOS installer) adds the same root Makefile and a nearly identical common.sh. Whichever PR merges second will conflict on Makefile. #863 also adds a third copy of the composite.toml from examples/run_codex.sh, and all three copies are byte-identical. It has the same strip_block and argument bugs (scripts/macos/common.sh:30-46, scripts/macos/uninstall.sh:49 and :71, scripts/macos/install.sh:18). If both installers shared one common.sh and one config file, you would fix each bug once.
• README.md:86 says switchyard-server is for "Demos and evaluation only. Not for production." This PR installs it as an always-on service, and every codex call goes through it. If that is the plan, please update that row. Please also add a short section to INSTALLATION.md that names make install-linux, the files it changes, and make uninstall-linux.
• On a shared Linux machine, another user's process can receive this user's ChatGPT login and prompts. The Codex profile sends the login to whatever process listens on 127.0.0.1:4123, and all users share that port. If this user's service is not running, another user's process can hold the port. Please say in the docs that this setup is for single-user machines.

CodeRabbit's comment on install.sh line 17 is right. In my test, --help and -n also ran the full install, and uninstall.sh --dryrun removed everything.

The PR description could list what the installer changes: the systemd unit, ~/.codex/sy.config.toml, and both shell rc files. It could also list what the installer needs: a systemd user session, a Rust toolchain, and Codex CLI 0.134.0 or newer logged in with a ChatGPT account. A short transcript from a Linux run would help reviewers: make install-linux, systemctl --user status switchyard, and one Codex turn with the /v1/stats output.