## Why
Background and empty-input turns could lack a `root_turn_id`, and detached memory requests omitted turn identity entirely. Tasks without a root could also adopt one from coalesced mailbox input.
## What changed
- Set `root_turn_id` to the task's turn ID at task start unless an inherited or recovered root is already present.
- Stop assigning roots from mailbox input or steering an active turn.
- Give detached memory requests a fresh UUID for both `turn_id` and `root_turn_id`, included in turn headers and client metadata while still omitting session and thread identity.
## Testing
Extend assertions for background turns, empty input, goal continuations, manual compaction, and detached memory requests. Exercise mailbox coalescing with both independent and inherited roots to verify the task keeps its established root.
GitOrigin-RevId: ee0f2f1b43542a9f5884f694c1d94341b476779c
## Why
Directly deserializing the flattened `RolloutLine` envelope can reject nested
decimal values, preventing affected paginated sessions from resuming.
## What changed
- Add canonical string, byte, and reverse-scanner helpers that decode rollout
records through `serde_json::Value` before decoding the flattened item.
- Route rollout readers across session discovery, history, migration, search,
thread storage, and transcript previews through those helpers.
- Remove `Deserialize` from `RolloutLine` so new readers cannot bypass the
canonical persistence decoder.
## Testing
Add coverage that resumes a paginated rollout after a token-count record with
a decimal rate-limit value and verifies that ordinal sequencing continues.
GitOrigin-RevId: 49abac1e0751c073daa5a93a840d8a483fd2d013
## Why
Resumed threads need to continue per-turn and per-thread token totals without scanning arbitrarily far beyond the latest compaction checkpoint.
## What changed
- Add durable `TokenUsageRecord` rollout items with response, turn, thread, session, and root-turn attribution.
- Restore accumulated usage on resume and snapshot the latest record plus the compaction response ID in compaction checkpoints.
- Preserve root-turn lineage in persisted turn context, while ensuring forked child threads start with their own usage totals.
## Testing
- Cover usage accumulation across multiple responses and resumed turns.
- Cover local and remote compaction checkpoints, invalid remote compaction output, rollout reconstruction, and fork isolation.
GitOrigin-RevId: ef9e0c4a9102a08a2c382be4cdac68c84353c90a
## What changed
- Cover the default, explicitly enabled, and explicitly disabled states of
`tools.update_plan.enabled`.
- Verify prompt tool lists remain consistent across requests, including when
custom base and developer instructions are configured.
- Explicitly enable `update_plan` in existing fixtures that depend on the tool.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3be279cb5195dfc5892c2c8ff6a1461fac879309
## What changed
- Promote `compaction_image_budget` to stable and enable it by default.
- Charge retained images against the remote compaction context budget unless the feature is explicitly disabled, trimming older images as needed.
## Testing
- Update remote compaction coverage for the default, explicitly enabled, and explicitly disabled behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0f715347cefc33b814bdcfd9b430ef453d3bd6df
## What changed
- Add the zero-based `window_number` to Responses turn metadata and include it in prewarm requests.
- Persist `forked_from_ordinal_exclusive` separately from the physical history base so fork lineage remains accurate after reverts and cold resumes.
- Report context-inheriting subagents through `parent_thread_id` without also emitting fork lineage.
- Reserve the new metadata keys while accepting and filtering previously valid configured values so Codex-owned values take precedence.
## Testing
- Cover window numbering across compaction, resume, and fork operations.
- Cover fork cutoff persistence across direct forks, legacy rollouts, reverts into inherited history, and cold resumes.
GitOrigin-RevId: 288f6cd632254814c1f166668b33828082d799a1
## What changed
- Add the experimental `turn/start.cyberAccessProgram` option with `standard`,
`daybreakBlue`, and `daybreakRed` values.
- Forward the selection as `access_programs.cyber` on Responses, WebSocket,
and remote-compaction requests made with ChatGPT authentication, while
omitting it for API-key and custom-provider requests.
- Preserve the per-turn selection across recovery, compaction, and child-agent
turns without making it a persistent thread setting.
## Testing
- Cover app-server forwarding, authentication boundaries, WebSocket reuse,
turn recovery, compaction, and child-agent inheritance.
GitOrigin-RevId: d2eb468f365b2214c5099bc21741cf30f8bd2eb5
## Why
Remote compaction's retained-message budget counted text but not images, so
image-heavy history could retain more context than the budget represented.
## What changed
- Add the opt-in `compaction_image_budget` feature to charge retained images
using the existing image size estimate.
- Keep images and their adjacent labels atomic when truncating a boundary
message, while preserving existing text, audio, metadata, and
client-authored developer-message behavior.
- Stop backfilling older messages when an image at the truncation boundary
does not fit.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for image boundaries, annotations, audio, text-only
messages, and client-authored developer messages.
- Add an integration test covering repeated remote compaction with the feature
enabled, disabled, and left at its default.
GitOrigin-RevId: 88868bbd09d2858939dbae3f8402e1f497b4e3c6
## What changed
- Add `context_window_id` to turn metadata for sampling and compaction requests, using the UUID for the model-visible context window.
- Keep the ID stable for requests in the same context window and advance it after compaction, independently of the existing thread-generation `window_id`.
- Reserve `context_window_id` so client metadata cannot override it.
## Testing
- Cover HTTP and WebSocket metadata, remote compaction, token-budget context alignment, resume behavior, and post-compaction window changes.
GitOrigin-RevId: 55cceea377ad509c8dd96ad668f2b5703ea46a63
## What changed
- Switch Amazon Bedrock remote compaction to `compaction_trigger` items sent through `/v1/responses`.
- Remove the legacy dedicated compaction protocol from provider capabilities.
- Default remote compaction to unsupported and explicitly enable it for OpenAI, Azure Responses, and Amazon Bedrock providers.
## Testing
- Cover manual and automatic Amazon Bedrock compaction requests and their compacted history.
- Verify remote-compaction capabilities for configured and Amazon Bedrock providers.
GitOrigin-RevId: cf9ba314595367518b37a85f334f0c105ce47e45
## What changed
- Remove the legacy `shell_command` handler and runtime, leaving `exec_command`
and `write_stdin` as the shell execution tools.
- Treat legacy `shell_command` model metadata as `unified_exec`, and normalize
legacy user opt-outs so they do not disable command execution. Managed feature
requirements and `shell_tool` can still disable it.
- Preserve shell approvals, sandboxing, zsh-fork support, and output truncation
through the unified execution path.
## Testing
- Cover legacy configuration and model-metadata compatibility.
- Exercise unified shell execution, approvals, truncation, and `apply_patch`
serialization across the app-server and core test suites.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5c2fd6164fc3519cdae4944cb9db276b8467311c
## What changed
- Add `additional_developer_instructions` to managed requirements and expose it through `configRequirements/read` as `additionalDeveloperInstructions`, independently of ordinary developer instructions.
- Include the managed instructions in model context, emit explicit replacement or removal messages when requirements change, and preserve the current value across compaction, resume, and agent forks without duplication.
- Reject managed instructions whose rendered context exceeds 10,000 estimated tokens.
## Testing
- Cover requirements layering and API serialization, context updates and removal, size validation, repeated model requests, compaction and resume, rollout migration, and agent forks.
GitOrigin-RevId: bc0b70fb7988944c2f68176dff55f5ed61eb46c8
## What changed
- Run local and remote compaction test turns with approvals disabled and an unrestricted permission profile.
- Keep the full test harness available where compaction turns need the configured model and working directory.
- Enable the Windows sandbox for managed-network unified exec process-event coverage.
- Update request snapshots to reflect the resulting `danger-full-access` sandbox metadata.
GitOrigin-RevId: 38eb46ca6ab28246d738e31eab900b2825072c7d
## What changed
- Exclude descendant-authored `MESSAGE` progress updates from the history retained after remote compaction v2.
- Continue retaining descendant-authored tasks while omitting progress updates and final answers from subsequent requests.
## Testing
- Extend the remote compaction follow-up test to cover descendant progress updates and descendant-authored tasks.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3e3e60bb108d27e99e2a4c222eed4b9d02fd3829
## Why
Client-authored developer instructions should remain available after a context
window is compacted when `retain_client_developer_messages` is enabled.
## What changed
- Preserve annotated client-authored developer messages during remote compaction
v2 and local token-budget context resets.
- Apply the existing retained-message token budget when carrying those messages
into the new context window.
## Testing
- Cover enabled and disabled retention for remote compaction v2, manual
token-budget compaction, and mid-turn automatic compaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4cb3782cb86ef46458413a17a3255d0016fd675f
## What changed
- Add `TurnInputRequest` and typed submission results for atomically starting a turn, steering the active turn, or declining input with a specific reason.
- Expose `start_or_steer_turn`, `start_turn_if_idle`, and `steer_turn` on `CodexThread`, and migrate Core consumers to these APIs.
- Make app-server `turn/start` steer an active regular turn and return that turn's ID. Reject incompatible output schemas and non-steerable turns without applying settings or enqueueing input.
## Testing
- Cover concurrent start-or-steer submissions, accepted and rejected settings updates, output-schema compatibility, idle-start rejection, and app-server steering.
GitOrigin-RevId: dd9b5528d76ec650c019e97af420bc13190ea86a
## What changed
- Add fractional Unix creation times to locally authored user, developer, agent, and tool-output items when they enter durable conversation history.
- Preserve any creation time already supplied with an item across subsequent requests, remote compaction, and resumed history.
## Testing
- Cover timestamp assignment and preservation in session, client, tool, agent-spawn, and remote-compaction tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 431d1770b9746005c808bc0a43953845166d68ad
## What changed
- Wrap response items with optional harness-owned metadata while keeping the persisted response payload shape backward compatible.
- Store compacted-history metadata in an aligned sidecar and reject malformed sidecars.
- Carry metadata through history normalization, compaction, resume, fork, truncation, migration, and rollout recording without sending it to model providers.
## Testing
- Cover legacy rollout compatibility, metadata serialization and validation, compaction retention, and resume/fork reconstruction.
GitOrigin-RevId: 17a6127c9048ff984cb4df4d97c0751a38c29f5f
## What changed
- Add `codex-history` for model-history and persisted-rollout domain types, including `RolloutItem`, `RolloutLine`, `CompactedItem`, and initial/resumed history state.
- Re-export the persisted types from `codex-rollout` and update consumers to use the new crate boundary instead of `codex-protocol`.
- Preserve existing rollout serialization, including legacy numeric compacted-window IDs.
## Testing
- Add `codex-history` tests for rollout JSON round trips, compacted-history compatibility, persisted history modes, and multi-agent version selection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 944daa9297ddd231d3aebbdcb05fff4adf8b4e1b
## What changed
- Add the effective permission profile as `sandbox_mode` in turn metadata for regular, prewarm, compaction, and detached memory requests.
- Reserve `sandbox_mode` so client-provided metadata cannot override the computed value.
## Testing
- Cover metadata headers and request bodies for read-only and danger-full-access modes.
GitOrigin-RevId: 13c690cc99bc2691023f281ca527af049bb1286f
## What changed
- Add an `x-codex-routing-hint` header containing the request model and, when selected, the service tier.
- Send the hint on Responses HTTP requests, remote compaction requests, and WebSocket handshakes, including prewarm connections.
- Limit the header to Codex-backend authentication with the OpenAI provider, omitting it for API-key and provider-specific credential paths.
## Testing
- Cover routing hints for HTTP, remote compaction, WebSocket streaming, and tiered prewarming, along with the credential paths where the header must be absent.
GitOrigin-RevId: d8d415d7fadddecf9a132d05920b856a35ac9960
## What changed
- Add provider-owned remote compaction capabilities for unsupported, v1, and v2 protocols.
- Mark Amazon Bedrock as v1-only so manual and automatic compaction use `/v1/responses/compact`, even when the v2 feature is enabled.
- Preserve v2 support for OpenAI and Azure Responses providers and local compaction for unsupported providers.
## Testing
- Cover Amazon Bedrock manual and automatic remote compaction, including endpoint selection, authentication headers, model selection, and reuse of the compacted summary.
GitOrigin-RevId: d58093178605d1f8155b93d9a161408177f6ac72
## Why
Image resize notices describe the history item immediately before them, so
remote compaction must not preserve or discard them independently of that item.
## What changed
- Group recognized `image_resize_notice` developer messages with their source
history items when filtering compacted history.
- Account for each group together when trimming or truncating history to a token
budget, preserving the notice only when its source is retained.
## Testing
- Extend the remote compaction v2 follow-up test to verify that a retained user
image keeps its resize notice, while notices for discarded items and
unrecognized developer notices are omitted.
GitOrigin-RevId: 82bb70a46eb68b07b4601e7fb345921d0789f442
## What changed
- Add the optional `delegationAckFiller` field to `thread/realtime/start`.
- Forward explicit `true` or `false` values to V3 Frameless Bidi session payloads as `delegation.ack_filler`; leave the field absent when unspecified so the Realtime API default is preserved.
- Document that V1 and V2 ignore this setting.
## Testing
- Cover both boolean values in Frameless Bidi serialization and verify the WebRTC V3 session creation payload.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9fe8efd14e42738c3e86e3e9a8af81d0f4521244
## 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
## What changed
- Retain bounded, non-completion agent messages in remote v2 compaction history so delegated tasks remain available on follow-up turns.
- Account for encrypted agent-message content when estimating token usage and place restored initial context before the latest real user or agent message.
- Exclude child completion messages from retained follow-up history and strip inherited parent agent messages when forking a child.
## Testing
- Extend compaction, history-estimation, and agent-fork tests to cover encrypted delegated tasks, child completions, context ordering, and fork sanitization.
GitOrigin-RevId: ba4392e9cfdf4ecbcdc9c7d8581d58a8d2d78260
## 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 `StartThreadOptions::new` to provide the standard configuration for a new thread.
- Make `ThreadManager::start_thread` the single thread-start entry point and migrate callers from the previous convenience methods.
- Derive default environment selections when `environments` is `None`, while preserving explicit selections, including an empty list.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8977dc11aed54c5e1215a81eaed2b2cf5fc6087a
## Why
ChatGPT token refresh requests need to follow the same configured routing policy as other authentication traffic, including environments that use the system proxy.
## What changed
- Require an `AuthRouteConfig` throughout login, logout, token refresh, personal access token, and agent identity flows.
- Build auth HTTP clients directly from that configuration instead of falling back to a default HTTP client when routing configuration is absent.
## Testing
- Add an integration test that refreshes a token through a cached system-proxy route and verifies the proxy receives the expected request.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7d54ab3219939a49921c51faf08cd4c2eabca51c
## What changed
- Assign IDs to client-created response items in every session, including streamed items, forked history, compaction results, and non-OpenAI provider requests.
- Preserve server-provided IDs and stable generated IDs across persisted and resumed conversations while continuing to omit unprefixed server IDs from outbound requests.
- Retire `features.item_ids` as a configurable feature. Existing configuration and CLI toggles remain accepted as compatibility no-ops.
## Testing
- Cover default ID assignment, persistence and resume behavior, remote compaction, provider requests, WebSocket requests, and removed-feature compatibility.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7a09e2d07d2606c2ef1e8e2283d36cb555557eae
## Why
Audio attachments could be dropped from tool outputs and reconstructed thread history, while inline base64 payload size could overstate their model context cost.
## What changed
- Preserve remote and local audio attachments in legacy user-message events and thread history.
- Keep audio from function and custom tool outputs when the model supports it and the output fits the truncation budget; otherwise replace it with an omission marker.
- Estimate inline audio cost from its duration, with a serialized-size fallback for malformed or unsupported data URLs, so compaction and truncation use model-visible cost instead of raw base64 size.
- Replace audio in messages and tool outputs with an explanatory placeholder for models without audio input support.
## Testing
Add coverage for history round trips, dynamic tool responses, modality filtering, duration-based context estimates, output-budget truncation, and remote compaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5ed4628850a668f8383b7cd73db71b144cc02cd1
## 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
- Represent whether realtime is active as a persisted world-state section.
- Emit start and end instructions from world-state transitions, including when
reconstructing context after resume.
- Retain existing realtime start fragments and avoid emitting another start when
custom instructions change while realtime remains active.
## Testing
- Add snapshot coverage for absent, unknown, active, and inactive realtime state
transitions.
- Cover realtime start and end updates plus resuming with changed custom start
instructions.
GitOrigin-RevId: ec670b8132b0f1c9317738bfdeb272069927d91d
## 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
## 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`
## Stack
This is PR 3 of the simplified HAI single-run-task stack:
- [#19047](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19047) Agent Identity
assertion and task-registration primitives, including the shared
run-task helper used by existing Agent Identity JWT auth.
- [#19049](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19049)
Disabled-by-default ChatGPT auth opt-in that provisions/reuses persisted
Agent Identity runtime auth and its single run task.
- [#19051](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19051) Run-scoped
provider auth that uses one backend-owned task id for first-party
inference and compaction requests.
[#19054](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/19054) collapsed out of
the active stack because the simplified design no longer needs a
separate background/control-plane task helper.
## Summary
This PR moves Agent Identity usage into provider auth resolution. That
keeps `AgentAssertion` auth tied to first-party OpenAI provider requests
instead of applying a late session-wide override that could affect
local, custom, Bedrock, API-key, or external-bearer providers.
What changed:
- adds a small `ProviderAuthScope` struct carrying the run auth policy
and session source needed by provider-scoped auth resolution
- lets `Session` opt the existing `ModelClient` into `ChatGptAuth`
policy when `use_agent_identity` is enabled, without adding a second
model-client constructor
- resolves Agent Identity only for first-party OpenAI provider auth
paths
- uses the persisted run task id from the `AgentIdentityAuth` record to
build `AgentAssertion` auth for Responses requests
- routes shared request setup through scoped provider auth so unary
compact requests use the same run-task assertion path as inference turns
- keeps local/custom/Bedrock/env-key/external-bearer provider auth
unchanged
- lets missing run-task state surface through the existing model-request
error path instead of silently falling back to bearer auth
This PR intentionally does not create thread-scoped, target-scoped, or
background-scoped task identities. The run task is the only task Codex
registers in this POC shape.
## Testing
- `just test -p codex-model-provider`
- `just test -p codex-core client::tests::provider_auth_scope_uses`
- `just test -p codex-core remote_compact_uses_agent_identity_assertion`
## Description
This PR cuts Codex over from generic `ResponseItem.metadata` (introduced
here: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28355) to
`ResponseItem.internal_chat_message_metadata_passthrough`, which is the
blessed path and has strongly-typed keys.
For now we have to drop this MAv2 usage of `metadata`:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28561 until we figure out where
that should live.
## 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.
## Why
`ResponseItem` variants do not have a consistent internal ID shape: some
variants carry required IDs, some carry optional IDs, and some cannot
represent an ID at all. The existing fields also use inconsistent serde,
TypeScript, and JSON-schema annotations. A single enum-level access path
is needed before history recording can assign and retain IDs.
This PR establishes that internal model only. It intentionally does not
generate or serialize IDs; allocation and wire persistence are isolated
in the stacked follow-up.
## What changed
- Give every concrete `ResponseItem` variant an `Option<String>` ID
field.
- Apply the same internal-only annotations to every ID field:
`#[serde(default, skip_serializing)]`, `#[ts(skip)]`, and
`#[schemars(skip)]`.
- Add `ResponseItem::id()` and `ResponseItem::set_id()` as the shared
accessors.
- Preserve IDs when history items are rewritten for truncation.
- Adapt consumers that previously assumed reasoning and image-generation
IDs were required.
- Regenerate app-server schemas so the hidden fields are represented
consistently.
The serde catch-all `ResponseItem::Other` remains ID-less because it
must remain a unit variant.
## Test plan
- `cargo check --tests -p codex-core -p codex-api -p codex-rollout-trace
-p codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just test -p codex-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-api -p codex-rollout-trace -p
codex-image-generation-extension`
- `just test -p codex-core event_mapping`
The workspace denies `clippy::expect_used` in production. Although
`clippy.toml` allows `expect` in tests, Bazel Clippy compiles
integration-test helper code in a way that does not receive that
exemption, which encouraged verbose `unwrap_or_else(... panic!(...))`
and equivalent `match`/`let else` forms.
This allows `clippy::expect_used` once at each integration-test crate
root (including aggregated suites and test-support libraries), then
replaces manual panic-based Result and Option unwraps with
`expect`/`expect_err`. Standalone `tests/*.rs` files remain their own
crate roots. Intentional assertion and unexpected-variant panics remain
unchanged, and the production `expect_used = "deny"` lint remains in
place.
The cleanup is mechanical and net-negative in line count.
## 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`
## Description
This PR adds an optional `metadata` field to `ResponseItem` for
Responses API calls. Only mechanical plumbing, no actual values
populated and sent yet. Turns out just adding a new field to
`ResponseItem` has quite a large blast radius already.
This change is backwards compatible because `metadata` is optional and
omitted when absent, so existing response items and rollout history
without it still deserialize and requests that do not set it keep the
same wire shape. For provider compatibility, we strip out `metadata`
before non-OpenAI Responses requests so Azure and AWS Bedrock never see
this field.
My followup PR here will actually make use of it to start storing and
passing along `turn_id`: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28360
## What changed
- Added `ResponseItemMetadata` with optional `turn_id`, plus optional
`metadata` on Responses API item variants and inter-agent communication.
- Preserved item metadata through response-item rewrites such as
truncation, missing tool-output synthesis, compaction history
rebuilding, visible-history conversion, rollout/resume, and generated
app-server schemas/types.
- Strip item metadata from non-OpenAI Responses requests while
preserving it for OpenAI-shaped requests.
- Updated the mechanical fixture/test construction churn required by the
new optional field.
Follow-up to #27356.
## Stack note
This PR changes Codex's internal dynamic-tool shape while leaving
`thread/start` unchanged. App-server therefore converts the existing
per-tool input into explicit functions and namespaces before passing it
to core.
[#27371](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/27371) updates
`thread/start` to use the same explicit shape and removes this temporary
conversion.
## Why
Dynamic tools repeat namespace metadata on every function. Core should
keep one explicit namespace with its member tools so descriptions and
membership stay consistent across sessions and runtime planning.
## What changed
- Represent dynamic tools as top-level functions or explicit namespaces
in protocol and session state.
- Read old flat rollout metadata and write the canonical hierarchy.
- Flatten namespace members only when registering callable tools.
- Keep `thread/start.dynamicTools` flat for now and normalize it at the
app-server boundary.
New builds can read old rollout metadata. Older builds cannot read newly
written hierarchical metadata.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-app-server
thread_start_normalizes_legacy_dynamic_tools_into_model_request`
- `just test -p codex-protocol
session_meta_normalizes_legacy_dynamic_tools`
- `just test -p codex-core
resume_restores_dynamic_tools_from_rollout_with_sqlite_enabled`
- `just test -p codex-core
tool_search_returns_deferred_dynamic_tool_and_routes_follow_up_call`
- `just test -p codex-core code_mode_can_call_hidden_dynamic_tools`
- `just test -p codex-tools`
## Context
Inline compaction is part of the active logical turn. Compact requests
and the sampling requests around them should use the same turn state,
including when compaction is the first request to establish it.
## Change
Pass the turn-scoped `OnceLock` directly to inline v1 compaction so
`/responses/compact` includes an established value in the existing HTTP
header. Capture `x-codex-turn-state` from the compact response into that
same lock, allowing pre-turn compact to establish the value that
subsequent sampling reuses.
V2 compact already uses the normal Responses HTTP/WebSocket path and
continues to share the same `OnceLock` without separate plumbing. The
first returned value wins for the logical turn.
## Test plan
Integration coverage verifies that:
- pre-turn v1 compact can establish state for the first sampling request
- inline v1 compact receives established state over HTTP
- inline v2 compact reuses established state over HTTP
- inline v2 compact reuses established state over WebSocket
CI validates the full change.
## 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)'`
## What
Introduce a `CodexResponsesMetadata` struct that defines all the core
metadata we send to Responses API. Example fields are `thread_id`,
`turn_id`, `window_id`, etc.
Going forward, `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]` will be the
canonical way Codex sends metadata to Responses API across both HTTP and
websocket transports.
For now, we continue to emit the existing top-level HTTP headers and
top-level `client_metadata` fields from the same
`CodexResponsesMetadata` struct for compatibility reasons.
Also, app-server clients who specify additional
`responsesapi_client_metadata` via `turn/start` and `turn/steer` will
have those fields merged into
`client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, but cannot override the
reserved fields that core uses (i.e. the fields in
`CodexResponsesMetadata`).
## Why
Responses API request instrumentation is the source of truth for
downstream Codex analytics that join requests by Codex IDs such as
session, thread, turn, and context window. Before this change, those
values were assembled through several request-specific paths: HTTP
request bodies, websocket handshake headers, websocket `response.create`
payloads, compaction requests, and the rich `x-codex-turn-metadata`
envelope all had their own wiring.
That made metadata propagation easy to drift across API-key/direct
Responses API requests, ChatGPT-auth/proxied requests, websocket
requests, and compaction requests. It also made additions like
`window_id` error-prone because a field could be added to one transport
projection but missed in another.
## What changed
- Added `CodexResponsesMetadata` as the core-owned snapshot for Codex
metadata sent to ResponsesAPI.
- Render `client_metadata["x-codex-turn-metadata"]`, flat
`client_metadata` projections, and direct compatibility headers from
that same snapshot.
- Include the known Codex-owned fields in the turn metadata blob,
including installation/session/thread/turn/window IDs, request kind,
lineage, sandbox/workspace metadata, timing, and compaction details.
- Treat app-server `responsesapi_client_metadata` as enrichment for the
Codex turn metadata blob while preventing those extras from overriding
Codex-owned fields.
- Use the same metadata path for normal turns, websocket prewarm, local
compaction, remote v1 compaction, and remote v2 compaction.
- Keep websocket connection-only preconnect metadata separate so
handshakes carry compatibility identity headers without inventing a fake
turn metadata blob.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
