## What changed
Add `model` and `reasoningEffort` to `subAgentActivity` items for multi-agent v2 spawns. Capture startup settings before the child begins its turn and resolve the reported effort against model metadata, including model defaults, while preserving the child's configured effort.
Carry these fields through live notifications, persisted activity, thread history, and legacy rollout migration. Update the JSON schemas and generated TypeScript and Python types. Older records and other activity kinds retain null values.
## Testing
Add coverage for resolved spawn settings matching the child's request across legacy and paginated history, preserving configured effort, forwarding metadata through events and history, and reading and migrating older records without the new fields.
GitOrigin-RevId: a9e4241ae21bb8db1ead293f78ffba8257cca0ae
## Why
Clients starting delegated work need to attribute descendant turns to the original turn and retain that attribution through completion and history reads.
## What changed
- Accept optional `parentTurnId` and `rootTurnId` in `turn/start`, and expose `rootTurnId` on returned turns and lifecycle notifications.
- Default new turns to their own root when none is supplied. Preserve the active turn's root when steering, ignoring incoming lineage fields.
- Carry root IDs through completion, interruption, recovery, and fork boundaries, and persist them for paginated history reads. Leave unknown roots null in older history.
- Update protocol schemas and generated TypeScript and Python bindings.
## Testing
Extend coverage for default and explicit roots, steering without changing lineage, interrupted and recovered turns, history reads after restart in both history modes, nested fork pagination, and compatibility with older database writers.
GitOrigin-RevId: f1a570a12bd11742929fd2e8b017e5d35aa07dcb
## Why
Assistant answer text may be followed by more output or tools. A distinct `partial_answer` phase lets callers represent this separately from commentary and a terminal `final_answer`.
## What changed
- Add `MessagePhase::PartialAnswer` and expose `partial_answer` in the app-server schemas and generated TypeScript and Python types.
- Keep the TUI working indicator visible after partial answers and exclude them from the thread history's final-answer summary field.
- Route partial answers to the speakable channel in realtime V3 BEM-tag mode.
## Testing
Add coverage for phase preservation through serialization, input-message conversion, and SSE item start/completion events. Extend TUI snapshot coverage to verify that partial answers keep the working indicator visible while final answers hide it.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1ae3ad9264b6e36ae1cbe6b93df3d345ab4460e6
## What changed
- Carry opaque `review_target` values through misalignment errors and expose optional `reviewTarget` in the app-server protocol and generated clients. Preserve the value verbatim and redact it from debug output.
- Keep target-based `misalignment_override` metadata on turn requests, preserve it across steering updates, and exclude it from compaction and external MCP metadata. Reject overrides from global Responses metadata while retaining legacy timestamp behavior for per-turn overrides.
## Testing
Extend coverage for error propagation, debug and rollout redaction, steering preservation, and metadata filtering. Verify that automatic compaction omits the review target while turn requests before and after compaction retain it.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8c1abb076a206ff5927a4acc31bd25e3efc2bff9
## Why
New error variants should not prevent older clients from handling app-server errors.
## What changed
- Deserialize unknown `CodexErrorInfo` strings and objects as `Other` in Rust, while preserving known variants and the `"other"` serialization.
- Allow arbitrary strings and objects in the exported JSON schemas and TypeScript type.
- Update Python SDK generation and generated models to accept unknown error strings and object payloads.
## Testing
Add Rust tests for `"other"` round trips, unknown string and object fallbacks, known structured variants, and rejection of null, boolean, numeric, and array values.
GitOrigin-RevId: 40c17896019924b2ef7970ee2205ea0154d0d1b3
## Why
Guardian denial-limit interruptions lack a structured error identifying the cause. Make this opt-in because older clients may not recognize the new error in shared history.
## What changed
- Add `auto_review.circuit_break_action = "strict"` to attach `TooManyDenials` to the interrupted turn. The default leaves the error unset.
- Expose `turn.error.codexErrorInfo = "tooManyDenials"` in app-server notifications and saved history, and update protocol schemas and generated types.
- Preserve the warning, denial limit, and interrupted status without emitting a separate error notification.
## Testing
Add an integration test covering omitted, `default`, and `strict` settings, checking warnings, live turn errors, the absence of separate error notifications, and persisted turn errors after restart.
GitOrigin-RevId: cb5d379e64728d4d7b9daf834c13756e4a70db31
## What changed
- Recognize `flex_unavailable` in HTTP 429 responses and streamed `error` and `response.failed` events. End normal turns without retries and report `Flex capacity unavailable.`
- Expose `flexUnavailable` through the core and app-server protocols and generated schemas and SDK types.
- Keep Flex capacity failures eligible for Guardian review and sampler retries, with a distinct telemetry classification.
- Map unexpected HTTP responses to `HttpConnectionFailed`, preserving their status codes.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for terminal Flex failures over HTTP, SSE, and WebSocket, HTTP 504 status preservation after a stream retry, and protocol serialization. Update Guardian retry and sampler recovery tests to cover Flex failures.
GitOrigin-RevId: f2e03a6d2d36a6d9748c35952e40397f8670d121
## Why
Clients need widget presentation details to render MCP Apps without waiting for the full MCP catalog, including when replaying saved history.
## What changed
- Add `mcpToolCall.mcpAppUi` with the invoked descriptor's `resourceUri` and `preferredModelDisplayMode`, and carry it through tool-call events and saved history.
- Support `fullscreen` and default to `inline` when the display preference is missing or unsupported.
- Keep existing resource URI fields for compatibility. Leave `mcpAppUi` null for older history and tools that declare widgets only in result metadata, where clients still use catalog discovery.
- Update protocol schemas, TypeScript and Python types, and app-server documentation.
## Testing
Add parameterized integration coverage for fullscreen, missing and unsupported preferences, legacy URI metadata, and result-only widgets, verifying consistent tool events and preservation across session resume.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2a9bed804dcea8c2b4903b8406fa6710681f7f5e
## What changed
- Accept `fileId` alongside the existing `url` form for app-server image inputs, and forward file references to the Responses API as `file_id`. Update generated schemas and client types.
- Preserve file references, image detail hints, and mixed inline/file image ordering through user-message events, thread history, and rollout migration. Retain file images when truncating tool output.
- Pass file references through image preparation without resolving them, while keeping resize-notice numbering correct. Omit them from unsupported TUI display and Guardian image context.
- Reject image-edit requests whose recent-image window includes a file reference, preventing selection of an older inline image instead.
## Testing
Add coverage for serialization, request and rollout preservation, mixed-image history ordering, incomplete ordering metadata, tool-output truncation, and rejection of unsupported image-edit selections.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6ca20a8577155cc934b720803c3b7b3bffdf972a
## What changed
Represent images in `ContentItem` and `FunctionCallOutputContentItem` with `ImageReference::Inline`, flattened to preserve the existing `image_url` wire format. Update image producers and consumers and regenerate app-server schemas and SDK artifacts.
Preserve the Python SDK's `InputImageContentItem` and `InputImageFunctionCallOutputContentItem` class names during generation.
## Testing
Add a regression test for stable Python image class names and adapt existing image tests to the shared representation.
GitOrigin-RevId: c38a780ac3314c2ac2deb3afc1b93b94b6f93fec
## What changed
- Replace `send_user_message_async` with `request_user_input_async`, accepting one or more questions with optional suggested answers while allowing the turn to continue.
- Attach structured question metadata to asynchronous agent messages while retaining readable fallback text, and preserve it through app-server events, thread history, and generated schemas.
- Continue enabling the new tool for model catalogs that advertise either the old or new tool name.
## Testing
- Cover tool registration, question validation, emitted items, continued turn execution, history preservation, and backwards-compatible deserialization.
GitOrigin-RevId: ffc49aebde2e854c3c50a122aa52805fec3fc6b3
## What changed
- Add an optional `toolOutput` to `turn/start` for starting or steering a turn with a named function-call output instead of user input.
- Emit standalone outputs as `functionCallOutput` thread items, persist them in durable history, and include them in resumed threads.
- Validate that tool outputs have a name, are not combined with nonempty `input`, satisfy the text-size limit, and use supported image URLs.
## Testing
- Cover standalone tool-output notifications, model input, and resumed history in both legacy and paginated history modes.
- Cover the text-size limit for structured tool output.
GitOrigin-RevId: a1eeec7b9b7de67b1a1c5e829a54552b85ec118b
## Why
App-server clients need the explanation and steering instruction returned with a
misalignment policy violation to offer a user-confirmed continuation. Missing or
incomplete details must continue to behave as a terminal block.
## What changed
- Parse optional misalignment classification, explanation, and steering details
from streamed and HTTP Responses errors and propagate them through core errors.
- Include the details in live app-server `error` and `turn/completed` payloads and
export the corresponding protocol schemas and TypeScript types.
- Keep explanations and steering messages out of serialized rollout events and
redact them from debug output.
- Document how clients can resume with `turn/start` after user confirmation.
## Testing
- Cover streamed, HTTP, and WebSocket-wrapped errors, including malformed and
classification-only details.
- Verify live app-server notifications expose resumable details without writing
the explanation or steering message to the rollout.
GitOrigin-RevId: 329258a444c2cd91d0c57ab1720830b33ddcfac5
## What changed
- Classify `response.failed` events with the `rate_limit_exceeded` code as a distinct retryable error while preserving any parsed retry delay.
- Expose the error as `rateLimitExceeded` through the core protocol and app-server schemas after stream retries are exhausted.
- Preserve the upstream message for TUI display while keeping it out of telemetry summaries.
## Testing
- Cover SSE classification, retry metadata, protocol conversion and serialization, exhausted stream retries, telemetry redaction, and TUI rendering.
GitOrigin-RevId: 02dab4d3477dcd7653a58c49c4bd38687a616579
## What changed
- Make `thread/turns/list`, `thread/items/list`, and `thread/revert` available
without the experimental API capability.
- Stabilize `thread/reverted`, `thread.historyMode`, and the pagination fields
used by `thread/resume` and `thread/fork`.
- Publish the promoted requests, responses, and fields in the stable JSON and
TypeScript schemas, and update the app-server documentation accordingly.
GitOrigin-RevId: 18b8c53c265211597bb1a62fd62f66f4a3df5f06
Deferred dynamic tools need to round-trip a namespace so a tool returned
by `tool_search` can be called through the same registry key that core
uses for dispatch.
This change adds namespace support for dynamic tool specs/calls,
persists it through app-server thread state, and routes dynamic tool
calls by full `ToolName` while still sending the app the leaf tool name.
Deferred dynamic tools must provide a namespace; non-deferred dynamic
tools may remain top-level.
It also introduces `LoadableToolSpec` as the shared
function-or-namespace Responses shape used by both `tool_search` output
and dynamic tool registration, so dynamic tools use the same wrapping
logic in both paths.
Validation:
- `cargo test -p codex-tools`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tool_search`
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Co-authored-by: Sayan Sisodiya <sayan@openai.com>
To improve performance of UI loads from the app, add two main
improvements:
1. The `thread/list` api now gets a `sortDirection` request field and a
`backwardsCursor` to the response, which lets you paginate forwards and
backwards from a window. This lets you fetch the first few items to
display immediately while you paginate to fill in history, then can
paginate "backwards" on future loads to catch up with any changes since
the last UI load without a full reload of the entire data set.
2. Added a new `thread/turns/list` api which also has sortDirection and
backwardsCursor for the same behavior as `thread/list`, allowing you the
same small-fetch for immediate display followed by background fill-in
and resync catchup.
Steve Coffey