## What changed
- Add optional `realtimeStartInstructions` and `realtimeEndInstructions` fields to `thread/realtime/start`.
- Apply the instructions when Codex enters and leaves realtime mode, while preserving the existing defaults when either field is omitted.
- Limit each field to 8,192 estimated tokens.
## Testing
- Cover custom entry and exit instructions across realtime state transitions.
- Cover token-limit validation for both fields.
GitOrigin-RevId: b9cfa1ff22e084d8a6b2ed56bd27d95ffdd6b6bd
## Why
Normal app-server protocol builds do not need the `ts-rs` and `schemars`
implementations used to generate schema exports.
## What changed
- Embed compressed stable and experimental TypeScript and JSON schema exports,
and serve the existing export APIs from those artifacts.
- Use no-op schema derives in non-test builds while keeping the real generators
available for fixture regeneration and tests.
- Move schema fixture regeneration behind a Python helper and update
`just write-app-server-schema --experimental` to refresh the experimental
embedded exports.
## Testing
- Verify embedded exports match freshly generated stable and experimental
schemas.
- Verify export options and on-disk output remain compatible.
GitOrigin-RevId: e8536338b457e6eec34bdf29ec0684144bd13734
## What changed
- Route realtime V3 `bemTags` handoffs using `[ANALYSIS]`, `[COMMENTARY]`, and `[FINAL]` prefixes by default.
- Add `codexResponseHandoffChannelPrefixes` to realtime start requests so clients can replace the accepted prefixes for individual channels. Each channel may accept multiple prefixes, and omitted channels retain their defaults.
- Apply the configured prefixes to both complete and streamed handoff messages, without treating empty prefixes as matches.
## Testing
- Cover request deserialization, default and custom routing, partial streamed prefixes, empty-prefix handling, and end-to-end V3 handoffs.
GitOrigin-RevId: d0aef50aa71362a5beef2c6f6d28b8633da4e529
## What changed
- Add an optional `initialItems` field to `thread/realtime/start` for seeding
realtime V3 session history with `user`, `developer`, and `assistant` text.
- Encode the items in Frameless Bidi session bootstrap payloads for websocket
and WebRTC transports while preserving existing payloads when the list is
omitted or empty.
- Reject non-empty initial items for V1 and V2, more than 128 items, any item
over 8,192 estimated tokens, or a combined total over 8,192 estimated tokens.
## Testing
- Cover protocol serialization, app-server forwarding, websocket and WebRTC
payloads, empty-list compatibility, version checks, and size limits.
GitOrigin-RevId: 09af367f9a07543e3f8d59b7fa5387f932dc5a6a
## What changed
- Add `codexResponseHandoffMode` to `thread/realtime/start` for V3 sessions, with `thinking` as the default and `commentary` and `bemTags` routing modes.
- Map BEM `analysis` and `commentary` output to the commentary channel and `final` output to the speakable channel, while preserving the original BEM envelope. Unrecognized output falls back to speakable.
- Mark explicit speech appends as speakable and stop adding the legacy `"Agent Final Message"` prefix to V3 handoffs. V1 and V2 continue to ignore the new setting.
## Testing
- Cover channel selection for every routing mode, streamed BEM header parsing, fallback behavior, explicit speech, and V1 compatibility.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1974578257488f2914b252c9c1990ba38831c96b
## What changed
- Stream V3 agent message deltas to `delegation.context.append` at 200 ms intervals instead of waiting for each completed message.
- Send commentary without a prefix and label final or phase-less V1/V3 output with `"Agent Final Message":`.
- Bound streamed output while preserving both its beginning and final tail when truncation is required.
- Remove `codexResponseHandoffPrefix` from `thread/realtime/start`; unknown fields from older clients remain ignored.
## Testing
- Cover incremental V3 commentary and final output, Unicode-safe truncation, V1/V3 phase labeling, and legacy request compatibility.
GitOrigin-RevId: 633c18b5eb9a4f5756a264b63b7bfc185b073951
## What changed
- Add realtime conversation version `v3`, which preserves the V1 Codex Voice behavior while using Frameless Bidi `delegation.*` events.
- Translate audio, transcripts, handoffs, session context, and lifecycle events between the app server and the Frameless Bidi wire protocol.
- Support `v3` over WebSocket and WebRTC, including the Frameless `/live` endpoint, session configuration, headers, and default model selection.
- Update the app-server protocol schemas and documentation for the new version.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for Frameless event parsing, outbound messages, context chunking, URL construction, and call creation.
- Add app-server end-to-end coverage for WebSocket delegation and WebRTC session startup.
GitOrigin-RevId: 79a3307bc209e1a54582ebd2febc07c909fca016
## Why
A realtime session can end after more transcript has accumulated than
was included in its last handoff. That tail already lives in core's
active transcript state, but the stop path aborted the realtime
input/fanout tasks before routing it, so the final bit of the
conversation could disappear before `thread/realtime/closed`.
This behavior is still being evaluated, so clients must opt in per
realtime session. Omitted or false leaves shutdown behavior unchanged.
## What changed
- Add optional `flushTranscriptTailOnSessionEnd` to
`thread/realtime/start`, defaulting to false in app-server.
- Expose an idempotent `take_transcript_tail()` from the existing active
transcript state using `last_handoff_entry_count`.
- When enabled, let shutdown cancel the input owner cleanly and publish
at most one final existing `<realtime_delegation>` with the remaining
text in `<transcript_delta>`.
- Have the existing fanout drain already-parsed events before routing
that final delegation, so a queued handoff wins first and is not
duplicated in the tail.
- Flush realtime shutdown before ordinary session task abort during core
cleanup.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
realtime_conversation_stop_emits_closed_notification`
- `just test -p codex-core conversation_transport_close_`
- `just test -p codex-core
conversation_close_routes_only_remaining_transcript_tail_once`
- scoped `just fix` for `codex-app-server-protocol`, `codex-app-server`,
`codex-protocol`, and `codex-core`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
- Remove the realtime `architecture` selector from core protocol,
app-server protocol, config parsing, generated schemas, and callers.
- Always create WebRTC realtime calls with the AVAS query params:
`intent=quicksilver&architecture=avas`.
- Keep direct websocket realtime behavior on the existing config/default
path, while WebRTC starts without an explicit version now default to
realtime v1 because AVAS requires v1.
## Notes
- WebRTC realtime now means AVAS. If a caller explicitly asks to start
WebRTC with realtime v2, Codex rejects that request because the AVAS
WebRTC path only supports realtime v1. Websocket realtime is separate
and can still use realtime v2.
- The old `[realtime] architecture = "realtimeapi" | "avas"` config knob
is removed. Local configs that still set it will need to delete that
line.
- Some app-server tests that were only trying to exercise realtime v2
protocol behavior now use websocket transport, because WebRTC is
intentionally locked to AVAS/v1. Separate WebRTC tests cover the AVAS
query params, v1 startup, SDP flow, and sideband join.
## Validation
- Merged fresh `origin/main` at `83e6a786a2`.
- `just fmt`
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `git diff --check`
- `just test -p codex-api -p codex-core -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-app-server realtime` (176 passed)
- `just test -p codex-protocol -p codex-config` (413 passed)
## What
Built on the realtime speech-control plumbing merged in #27917.
- Add optional `codexResponseHandoffPrefix` to `thread/realtime/start`.
- Apply that prefix only to automatic V1 commentary sent through
`conversation.handoff.append`; final answers remain unprefixed.
- Add opt-in `clientManagedHandoffs`. When true, core suppresses
automatic response handoffs and completion output so delivery is
controlled by explicit client append APIs.
- Preserve existing automatic behavior by default.
`codexResponsesAsItems: true` continues to select item routing when
client-managed mode is disabled.
## Why
Voice clients need two delivery policies: automatic background context
with silent commentary instructions and fully client-owned handoffs.
Phase-aware prefixing keeps routine commentary silent without
suppressing the final answer, while client-managed mode lets an app
decide exactly which updates to append.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol
serialize_thread_realtime_start`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=16777216 cargo test -p codex-core --test all
conversation_handoff_persists_across_item_done_until_turn_complete`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=16777216 cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
webrtc_v1_client_managed_handoffs_disable_automatic_output`
- `RUST_MIN_STACK=16777216 cargo test -p codex-app-server --test all
webrtc_v1_final_automatic_handoff_omits_silent_prefix`
- `cargo build -p codex-cli --bin codex`
- Local Codex Apps compatibility check: 43 focused webview tests passed,
and a live voice session routed through the source-built app-server.
The explicit `RUST_MIN_STACK` avoids a macOS Tokio test-worker stack
overflow seen with the default test environment.
## Summary
- Add `includeStartupContext` to realtime start requests so callers can
explicitly skip Codex startup context while keeping the backend prompt
- Thread the new flag through protocol types, request processing, and
realtime session config
- Update app-server docs and coverage for the new default and opt-out
behavior
## Testing
- Added protocol serialization coverage for `includeStartupContext`
- Added realtime integration coverage for starting a session with
startup context disabled
## Why
Realtime voice harness tuning needs app-side control over what backend
Codex text is spoken. Backend orchestrator text is written for a reading
UI, so automatically speaking every preamble, progress update, or final
assistant message can make the realtime voice model too chatty.
For experimentation, clients need two simple controls: keep app/client
text-item injection on the existing item-create path, and add an
explicit speakable path that app code can call only when it wants
realtime to speak. Automatic Codex output also needs an opt-in way to
switch from the protocol's default speakable path to regular realtime
items, with a caller-provided prefix so prompt wording can be tuned
outside core.
The default remains unchanged: if a client omits the new start fields
and never calls `appendSpeech`, automatic backend output continues down
the existing speakable path for the selected realtime protocol.
## What Changed
- Adds experimental `thread/realtime/appendSpeech` for app-provided
speakable text.
- Keeps existing `thread/realtime/appendText` as the item-create API for
app-provided realtime text items.
- Adds `codexResponsesAsItems` / `codex_responses_as_items` on
`thread/realtime/start` to send automatic Codex responses with
`conversation.item.create` instead of the protocol's default speakable
output path.
- Adds `codexResponseItemPrefix` / `codex_response_item_prefix` so
clients can prepend experiment instructions to those automatic Codex
response items.
- Keeps literal `conversation.handoff.append` routing scoped to the v1
speakable path; v2 default speech uses its item/function-output plus
`response.create` behavior.
- Removes the earlier public silent-context API and hardcoded
silent-context prefix.
- Updates realtime tests to cover default automatic speakable behavior,
opt-in automatic item-create behavior, and explicit `appendSpeech`
behavior.
## Validation
- `cargo check -p codex-core -p codex-app-server -p codex-api`
- `just test -p codex-app-server realtime_conversation`
- `just test -p codex-core realtime_conversation` (50/51 passed in the
filtered parallel run; the lone failure passed when rerun in isolation)
- `just test -p codex-core
conversation_mirrors_assistant_message_text_to_realtime_handoff`
- `just test -p codex-api
e2e_connect_and_exchange_events_against_mock_ws_server`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-app-server`
- `cargo build -p codex-cli`
## Summary
Add an explicit `user` or `developer` role to
`thread/realtime/appendText` and propagate it through the realtime input
queue into `conversation.item.create`. Older JSON clients that omit the
field continue to default to `user`.
This lets app-provided context such as memory retain developer authority
without bypassing app-server through a renderer-owned data channel. The
app-server schemas, API documentation, and focused protocol and
websocket coverage are updated with the new contract.
The Codex Apps consumer is tracked in
[openai/openai#1025261](https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1025261).
## Summary
Adds a `RealtimeConversationArchitecture` option for realtime
conversation startup, with `realtimeapi` as the default and `avas` as an
opt-in architecture.
The AVAS path is limited to realtime v1 conversational WebRTC starts,
and WebRTC call creation appends `intent=quicksilver&architecture=avas`
to `/v1/realtime/calls`. The existing sideband websocket still joins by
`call_id`.
This also exposes the per-session architecture override through
app-server v2 `thread/realtime/start` params and updates the config
schema for `[realtime].architecture`.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just test -p codex-api sends_avas_session_call_query_params`
- `just test -p codex-core -E
'test(~conversation_webrtc_start_uses_avas_architecture_query)'`
- `just test -p codex-core -E 'test(realtime_loads_from_config_toml)'`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol -E
'test(~serialize_thread_realtime_start) |
test(generated_ts_optional_nullable_fields_only_in_params)'`
- `just test -p codex-app-server -E
'test(realtime_webrtc_start_emits_sdp_notification)'`
## Why
Clients need to select a realtime session configuration for an
individual start without rewriting persisted configuration or restarting
the app-server process.
## What Changed
- Add optional `model` and `version` fields to `thread/realtime/start`
- Forward those optional values through the realtime start operation and
apply them only for that session
- Preserve existing configured/default behavior when the new fields are
omitted
- Update generated protocol schema and app-server documentation
## Validation
- Added/updated protocol serialization coverage for the new optional
request fields
- Added focused core coverage for a session override taking precedence
over configured realtime selection
- Added focused app-server coverage that a request override reaches the
realtime WebSocket handshake
## Why
`codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2.rs` had grown into a
single ~12k-line definition file for the entire app-server v2 API.
This is purely a mechanical refactor to break up the monolithic `v2.rs`
file that contains all app-server API v2 types into more modular files,
grouped by resource (e.g. account, thread, turn, etc.).
`just write-app-server-schema` shows no real changes, so we can be sure
that this is purely an internal organizational change.
## What changed
- Replaced the monolithic `protocol/v2.rs` with a `protocol/v2/` module
tree and a small `mod.rs` that only declares and reexports modules.
- Grouped v2 API definitions by conceptual owner, including `account`,
`apps`, `collaboration_mode`, `command_exec`, `config`, `device_key`,
`experimental_feature`, `feedback`, `fs`, `hook`, `item`, `mcp`,
`model`, `notification`, `permissions`, `plugin`, `process`, `realtime`,
`review`, `thread`, `thread_data`, `turn`, and `windows_sandbox`.
- Moved v2 tests into `protocol/v2/tests.rs` so `mod.rs` stays small.
- Kept shared protocol helpers in `protocol/v2/shared.rs`, including the
enum mirroring macro and common cross-resource types.
- Co-located resource-specific notifications and server-request payloads
with the modules that own those resources.
- Regenerated app-server protocol schema fixtures. The schema diffs are
non-semantic newline-only changes after the refactor.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just write-app-server-schema`
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