## Summary
Increase the external currentTime/read request timeout from 5 seconds to
10 seconds.
## Validation
- just fmt
- Focused app-server test build was stopped to defer validation to CI.
## Summary
- make the external app-server time provider establish sleep deadlines
using `currentTime/read`
- poll the external clock once per second and complete `clock.sleep`
when the deadline is reached
- keep the system-clock timer and existing steer/agent-message
interruption behavior unchanged
## Why
This lets training control `clock.sleep` through its existing external
simulated clock without adding separate sleep/wake protocol methods.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
external_sleep_polls_current_time_and_emits_items`
## Summary
- track user-like input and tool-output boundaries in current-time
reminder state
- gate reminder injection when delivery_mode is
after_user_or_tool_output
- preserve interval debounce and forced reminders after context-window
changes
## Why
Training can request reminders only after user or tool-output items
while keeping the existing canonical pre-inference history-injection
path.
## Validation
- just test -p codex-core
current_time_reminders_can_follow_only_user_or_tool_outputs
- just test -p codex-core
current_time_reminders_follow_time_interval_and_persist_in_history
- just test -p codex-core
current_time_reminder_is_refreshed_after_compaction
- just fix -p codex-core
A zero interval lets callers request a reminder at every
otherwise-eligible inference boundary.
## Validation
- just test -p codex-core load_config_resolves_current_time_reminder
## Summary
- add a cancellable sleep operation to `TimeProvider`
- route `clock.sleep` through the configured provider
- extend the supported sleep duration to 12 hours
- complete the sleep turn item before propagating provider failures
## Why
This isolates the core clock abstraction needed by external clock
integrations. Existing system and app-server behavior remains wall-clock
based in this PR; the stacked follow-up supplies app-server sleeps from
an external clock.
## Summary
- move sleep tool enablement from top-level `[features].sleep_tool` to
`[features.current_time_reminder].sleep_tool`
- remove the standalone `Feature::SleepTool` flag and gate `clock.sleep`
from resolved current-time configuration
- update config schema, config-lock materialization, and existing sleep
coverage
Stacked on #29907.
## Summary
- expose the interruptible sleep tool as `clock.sleep` instead of
top-level `sleep`
- keep `clock.curr_time` and `clock.sleep` in the same model-visible
namespace when both features are enabled
- update existing core and app-server integration coverage to issue
namespaced sleep calls
## Why
Sleep is a clock operation. Grouping it with `clock.curr_time` gives the
model a more coherent tool surface without changing the sleep feature
gate or runtime behavior.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core sleep_tool_follows_feature_gate`
- `just test -p codex-core any_new_input_interrupts_sleep`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
sleep_emits_started_and_completed_items`
## Summary
- rename the rollout-budget exhaustion error from
`RolloutBudgetExceeded` to `SessionBudgetExceeded`
- expose the matching app-server v2 wire value as
`sessionBudgetExceeded`
- regenerate JSON/TypeScript schema fixtures and update the app-server
docs and focused tests
This is a naming-only follow-up to #29715 based on [Pavel's review
suggestion](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/29715#discussion_r3463183480).
Runtime behavior is unchanged.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-core rollout_budget`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fmt`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
## Summary
- surface shared rollout-budget exhaustion as
`CodexErr::RolloutBudgetExceeded` instead of a generic interrupted turn
- map it through the existing `CodexErrorInfo` and app-server v2
`codexErrorInfo` path
- keep local compaction from retrying after the shared rollout budget is
exhausted
This gives app-server clients a stable `rolloutBudgetExceeded` error
they can classify without guessing from `status="interrupted"`.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-core rollout_budget`
## Summary
Handle `ResponseItem::AdditionalTools` in rollout persistence metrics.
The persistence metrics match was added after the `AdditionalTools`
variant and omitted it, causing release builds to fail with a
non-exhaustive pattern error. This assigns the item the
`response.additional_tools` metrics label.
Release failure:
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/28043786727/job/83016608475
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-rollout` (76 passed)
## Summary
- rename `reminder_interval_model_requests` to
`reminder_interval_seconds`
- read the configured time provider before every model request and
inject a reminder only after the configured number of seconds has
elapsed
- preserve immediate first delivery and forced delivery after compaction
changes the context window
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-core current_time_reminder`
When using Responses Lite, we should all use `additional_tools` and a
developer item instead of the top level tools array & instructions
field. This keeps things 1-to-1.
Forced namespacing for _all_ tools will land in a following PR after
some coordination & fixes in Responses API (around collisions & return
items).
The goal is to eventually expand the scope of this to _all_ requests
from codex, but that will require larger coordination across providers &
slower rollout.
## Summary
- express remote compaction result handling as an exhaustive match
- preserve the special `TurnAborted` path without emitting a generic
compaction error
- rely on the standard `test_codex` provider setup in the compaction
budget test
Follow-up to review feedback on #28707.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core
compaction_budget_exhaustion_aborts_without_error_or_retry`
- `just fmt`
## Stack
Stacked on #29417. Review and land that PR first.
## Summary
- reject HTTP(S) image URLs in the handlers for `turn/start` and
`turn/steer`
- validate `thread/inject_items` after its existing
JSON-to-`ResponseItem` conversion, so each item is deserialized once
- turn invalid dynamic-tool image responses into the existing
unsuccessful text fallback; the model receives the validation message as
the function output
- leave `thread/resume.history` compatible with legacy history; #29417
replaces remote images before model input
- continue accepting inline data URLs and `localImage` inputs
- keep this policy in app-server; this PR does not add a shared protocol
API or change core image preparation
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-app-server -E
'test(/request_handlers_reject_remote_image_urls|dynamic_tool_remote_image_response_becomes_model_visible_error|dynamic_tool_call_round_trip_sends_content_items_to_model|turn_start_tracks_turn_event_analytics|standalone_image_edit_uses_recent_pathless_image/)'`
(5 passed)
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `just fmt`
## What
This PR will extend the existing centralized image-preparation path to
replace HTTP(S) image inputs with a model visible error message. It
won't "ruin" and break existing rollouts, but it will deprecate support
for the pathway. App server clients should no longer use HTTP image urls
if they'd like to upgrade.
The HTTP image url pathway is currently resolved in the responsesapi. It
is slow and not reccomended.
## Behavior
- HTTP(S) image URL: replace with `input_text`
- data URL: use the existing decode and resize path
- other image URL schemes: leave unchanged
This intentionally does not change app-server ingress. That validation
remains a follow-up.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-core -E
'test(/image_preparation|prepares_image_failures_before_history_insertion|prepares_resumed_history_before_installing_it|responses_lite_prepares_images/)'`
— 7 passed
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
- use generated image data URLs in the Python SDK examples and notebook
- document HTTP and HTTPS image URLs as deprecated and recommend
`LocalImageInput`
- replace the remote-URL integration test with data-URL coverage
`ImageInput` remains available for data URLs. The SDK does not duplicate
app-server URL validation.
## Testing
- `uv run --frozen --no-sync ruff check --output-format=full .`
- `uv run --frozen --no-sync ruff format --check .`
- full Python SDK test suite with an isolated writable
`CODEX_SQLITE_HOME` (119 passed, 38 skipped)
## What
- make Fjord's centralized response-item image preparation unconditional
for new and resumed history
- have local user images and `view_image` outputs always defer decoding
and resizing to that path
- retain `resize_all_images` as an ignored, removed compatibility key
for released clients
- delete the flag-off producer paths and obsolete policy-specific tests
## Why
Centralized preparation is now the intended image path. Keeping the
runtime feature checks also kept two image-processing implementations
alive and allowed client config to select the legacy behavior.
This is a clean replacement for #28975, rebuilt from the latest `main`.
## How
`prepare_response_items` now runs whenever items enter history and
whenever persisted history is reconstructed. Producers emit deferred
image data, so malformed images become the existing model-visible
placeholder instead of failing the session at the producer.
## Test plan
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-features`
- `just test -p codex-features` — 52 passed
- focused affected `codex-core` set — 20 passed
- `just test -p codex-core handle_accepts_explicit_high_detail` — 1
passed
- full `just test -p codex-core` attempt — 2,723 passed; 88 unrelated
environment failures from read-only `~/.codex` SQLite state and
unavailable integration helper binaries
## Stack
Depends on #28494.
## Description
This PR propagates shared rollout-budget exhaustion through the existing
`CodexErr::TurnAborted` task result.
Each thread records its model usage against the same ledger. Once the
ledger is exhausted, that usage update and all later usage updates
return `TurnAborted`. The task wrapper emits the normal aborted-turn
event and lifecycle instead of completing the turn.
This is intentionally a soft boundary: there is no cross-thread
`Op::Interrupt` fanout. An in-flight thread can finish its current
response before it observes the exhausted ledger, but every thread
aborts at its next usage-accounting boundary.
## Tests
The integration coverage verifies that:
- the response that exhausts the budget aborts its turn;
- a later response also aborts because the shared ledger remains
exhausted; and
- sub-agent usage draws from the same shared ledger; and
- local and remote-v2 compaction abort without retrying or emitting a
generic error.
Local checks:
- `just test -p codex-core
exhausted_budget_aborts_current_and_later_turns`
- `just test -p codex-core subagent_usage_draws_from_the_shared_budget`
- `just test -p codex-core
abort_regular_task_emits_marker_before_turn_aborted`
- `just test -p codex-core
compaction_budget_exhaustion_aborts_without_error_or_retry`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
- `git diff --check`
The full workspace test suite was not run locally.
## Summary
- expose `clock.curr_time` when current-time reminders are enabled
- query the session's configured time provider with the calling thread
id
- return the existing UTC reminder text for direct model calls
- return `{ "current_time": "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS UTC" }` in Code Mode
Clock lookup failures remain fatal, matching pre-inference reminder
behavior.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core current_time_tool_returns_the_latest_time`
- `just test -p codex-core
code_mode_current_time_returns_structured_result`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
## What
Server should request:
```
{
"id": 42,
"method": "currentTime/read",
"params": {
"threadId": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-aaaaafdc2c11"
}
}
```
Client should respond with something like:
```rust
{
"id": 42,
"result": {
"currentTimeAt": 1781717655
}
}
```
## Why
Sessions configured with `clock_source = "external"` need a
thread-specific external time source before inference. The system clock
remains the default production provider.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
current_time_read_round_trip_adds_reminder_to_model_input`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
first_attestation_capable_connection_for_thread_only_uses_thread_subscribers`
- `cargo test -p codex-analytics`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
Stacked on #28824.
Stacked on #28822.
## Summary
- add a host-injectable current-time provider with a built-in system
implementation
- record UTC developer reminders in history immediately before due model
requests
- keep cadence state per session and force a refresh after compaction
This does NOT include the app server client <-> server clock logic. This
PR is only for the reminder message & system clock that will be used in
prod.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-core varlatency_`
- `just clippy -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-mcp-server -p
codex-thread-manager-sample`
- `just fmt`
## Stack
Depends on #28746. This PR implements shared rollout-budget accounting
and model-visible reminders using the configuration defined in #28746.
# Description / Main changes to Core:
`AgentControl` will now be the area where "rollout level" features &
accounting will have to live. It is incorrectly named for this
responsibility, but I think it can hold all the necessary shared state &
features (rollout token budget, mutliple thread interruption
responsibilitym etc)
In this PR, we have one "token ledger" that each thread will subtract
from when sampling. The "charge" will occur when response.completed() is
done and the calculation will be done on the responses api usage
carrier. The calculation will weigh sampling and pre-fill tokens as
specified.
Every time the budget crosses the configured reminder threshold, a
developer message is appended before the thread's next request
This remaining budget will _always_ be restated/reminded after a
compaction event.
Expiration and fan-out interruption will be in the stacked follow-up
(and also live in Agent Control).
## Reminders
"You have weighted {session_tokens_left} tokens left in the shared
session token budget."
The first request in each thread context receives the current remainder.
Later reminders are emitted after aggregate weighted usage crosses a
configured interval. If several intervals are crossed before a thread
sends another request, Core inserts one reminder with the latest
remainder.
Compaction response usage is charged before the next context starts. The
next reminder is appended after the compaction summary, leaving the
initial context content stable.
## Tests
Integration coverage verifies:
- weighted output and non-cached input accounting
- initial and periodic reminders
- shared accounting between a root and sub-agent
- post-compaction remainder and message placement
Local checks:
- `just fmt`
- `just test -p codex-core rollout_budget`
- `git diff --check`
The full workspace test suite was not run locally.
## What
Deliver the scripted realtime notification batch after the assistant
text append request instead of after the preceding developer text append
request.
## Why
The batch ends with an upstream error that closes the realtime
conversation. When it is emitted after the developer append, it races
the subsequent assistant append: the app-server RPC can acknowledge the
append before its downstream WebSocket send completes, and the test
intermittently observes three requests instead of four.
Making the fake server wait for the assistant append before emitting the
terminal batch establishes the ordering the test asserts without sleeps
or production-code changes.
## Validation
- `git diff --check`
- CI (the failure is timing-dependent and most reproducible in the
Windows Bazel shard)
## What
Run the Windows argument-comment-lint job on the `windows-2022` hosted
runner instead of the custom Windows runner pool.
## Why
The custom pool recently moved from the Visual Studio 2022 Windows image
to `windows-2025-vs2026`. Since that migration, the job fails while
Bazel materializes LLVM external repository sources, before the argument
lint itself runs. The same failure appears across unrelated PRs.
This narrow change tests GitHub’s recommended mitigation for workloads
that still require the Visual Studio 2022 image:
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/14017
## How
Use the standard `windows-2022` runner for only the Windows
argument-comment-lint matrix entry. No product code or lint behavior
changes.
## What
This PR defines the structured configuration contract for shared rollout
token budgets (across ALL agent threads under 1 rollout).
```toml
[features.rollout_budget]
enabled = true
limit_tokens = 100000
reminder_interval_tokens = 10000
sampling_token_weight = 1.0
prefill_token_weight = 0.1
```
The reminder interval defaults to 10% of the rollout limit. Sampling and
prefill weights default to `1.0`.
## Scope
This PR only defines and validates configuration. It does not track
usage, inject reminders, or stop a rollout. Accounting and reminders are
implemented in the stacked follow-up #28494.
The existing `token_budget` feature remains unchanged. `rollout_budget`
has its own feature key and configuration type.
## Tests
The config test verifies that the structured fields resolve into
`RolloutBudgetConfig` and do not enable the existing `token_budget`
feature.
Local checks:
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just test -p codex-core load_config_resolves_rollout_budget`
- `cargo check -p codex-thread-manager-sample`
- `git diff --check`
The full workspace test suite was not run locally.
## Summary
- reject HTTP(S) image URLs from the shared code-mode output-image
normalization path
- return a concise model-visible tool error so the model can recover on
its next turn
- apply the targeted rejection to both `image()` and `generatedImage()`
- leave other non-empty image URL values to existing downstream handling
The returned error is:
> Tool call failed: remote image URLs are not supported in tool outputs.
Pass a base64 data URI instead
## Why
Responses Lite cannot lower a remote image URL emitted from a structured
tool output. Rejecting HTTP(S) values in the Codex harness preserves the
tool-call metadata and gives the model a recoverable next turn instead
of invalidating the sample.
## Test coverage
The regression is covered primarily by a `test_codex()` agent
integration test that simulates the Responses API exchange and asserts
the failed model-visible exec output. A supplemental runtime test covers
both `http://` and `https://` inputs across both image output helpers.
## Test plan
- `cd codex-rs && just test -p codex-code-mode`
- `cd codex-rs && just test -p codex-code-mode-protocol`
- `cd codex-rs && just test -p codex-core
code_mode_image_helper_rejects_remote_url`
- `cd codex-rs && just fmt`
- `git diff --check origin/main...HEAD`
Related context: https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1022346
## Summary
- add contains_external_context() to tool output so other tools can be
opted out of influencing memory when disable_on_external_context=true
- Classify standalone web-search output as external context (to match
behavior as hosted web search)
- Verify with integration test
## What
- Consume plaintext `output` from standalone search while retaining
optional `encrypted_output` parsing.
- Expose `web.run` to code mode and return search output to nested
JavaScript calls.
- Cover direct and code-mode standalone search paths with integration
tests.
## Why
`/v1/alpha/search` now returns plaintext output, which code mode needs
to consume standalone search results.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-api`
- `just test -p codex-web-search-extension`
- `just test -p codex-core code_mode_can_call_standalone_web_search`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
standalone_web_search_round_trips_output`
## Summary
- send `X-OpenAI-Internal-Codex-Responses-Lite: true` on HTTP Responses
requests and WebSocket upgrade requests when model metadata enables
Responses Lite
- use client metadata when sending it over the websocket
This PR is stacked on #26490.
## Why
The Responses Lite marker is request-scoped for HTTP but
connection-scoped for Responses-over-WebSocket because it is carried on
the upgrade request. Reusing a cached socket opened for the opposite
mode would therefore send the wrong transport contract.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-core responses_lite`
- `just test -p codex-core
responses_websocket_reconnects_when_responses_lite_mode_changes`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
Responses Lite does not execute hosted Responses tools, so models using
it must route web search and image generation through Codex-owned
executors & standalone Response's API endpoints.
This PR is stacked on #26487.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-core responses_lite_ --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
standalone_executors_remain_hidden_without_flags_or_responses_lite
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
hosted_tools_follow_provider_auth_model_and_config_gates --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-web-search-extension -p
codex-image-generation-extension`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all standalone_`
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check`
## Summary
- add a defaulted `ModelInfo.use_responses_lite` catalog field
- support serializing `reasoning.context` while preserving the existing
effort and summary path
- has not been turned on for any models yet
I've added an override to parallel tools if responses_lite is on. I've
also forced persistent reasoning when using responses_lite. It would be
ideal if we could centralize all the responses_lite plumbing, but I
think this is best for now to keep the plumbing & diffs small.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
model_info_defaults_availability_nux_to_none_when_omitted`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-core
responses_lite_sets_all_turns_context_and_disables_parallel_tool_calls`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo test -p codex-core
configured_reasoning_summary_is_sent`
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608 cargo clippy -p codex-core --tests` (passes
with pre-existing warnings in `codex-code-mode` and
`codex-core-plugins`)
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