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## Why

Applications need to deliver content from other agents, tools, or services with tool-level authority, without treating it as user input or granting authorization.

## What changed

- Export `ExternalMessage` for sync and async `run(...)` and `turn(...)`, accepting text or structured content with a tool name and optional namespace. Send it through `toolOutput` and require CLI 0.151.0 or newer.
- Support starting a turn or joining an active regular turn while preserving external content as function output in history. Keep external messages separate from user-input lists and `steer(...)`.
- Give turn handles independent subscriptions, replaying completed items and latest usage to joining handles. Release consumed transient events and clean up subscriptions on closure, failure, or cancellation.
- Document the authority boundary and add sync and async examples.

## Testing

Add coverage for wire representations, input validation, runtime compatibility, tool authority across resume, active-turn joins, and tool-output truncation. Add subscription tests for replay, concurrent consumers, early completion, cancellation, and cleanup.

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# Python SDK Examples
Each example folder contains runnable versions:
- `sync.py` (public sync surface: `Codex`)
- `async.py` (public async surface: `AsyncCodex`)
All examples intentionally use only public SDK exports from `openai_codex`
and `openai_codex.types`.
Examples use plain strings for text-only turns and typed input objects for
multimodal or structured input lists.
Use `ExternalMessage` for untrusted content from another agent, tool, or
application. It retains tool-level authority and does not grant user
authorization or approval; example 16 establishes the user's task first.
## Prerequisites
- Python `>=3.10`
- Install the SDK for the same Python interpreter you will use to run examples
Install the published SDK:
```bash
python -m pip install openai-codex
```
The SDK installs its pinned `openai-codex-cli-bin` runtime dependency.
The pinned runtime version comes from the SDK package dependency.
## Run From A Checkout
Contributors using these checked-in scripts should install development
dependencies from `sdk/python`:
```bash
uv sync --group dev
source .venv/bin/activate
```
The examples bootstrap local SDK imports from `sdk/python/src`. If the pinned
runtime is not already installed, the bootstrap installs the matching runtime
package for the active interpreter and cleans up temporary files afterward.
## Run examples
From `sdk/python`:
```bash
python examples/<example-folder>/sync.py
python examples/<example-folder>/async.py
```
The checked-in examples use the local SDK source tree automatically.
## Recommended first run
```bash
python examples/01_quickstart_constructor/sync.py
python examples/01_quickstart_constructor/async.py
```
## Index
- `01_quickstart_constructor/`
- first run / sanity check
- `02_turn_run/`
- inspect full turn output fields
- `03_turn_stream_events/`
- stream a turn with a small curated event view
- `04_models_and_metadata/`
- discover visible models for the connected runtime
- `05_existing_thread/`
- resume a real existing thread (created in-script)
- `06_thread_lifecycle_and_controls/`
- thread lifecycle + control calls
- `07_image_and_text/`
- image data URL + text multimodal turn
- `08_local_image_and_text/`
- local image + text multimodal turn using a generated temporary sample image
- `09_async_parity/`
- parity-style sync flow (see async parity in other examples)
- `10_error_handling_and_retry/`
- overload retry pattern + typed error handling structure
- `11_cli_mini_app/`
- interactive chat loop
- `12_turn_params_kitchen_sink/`
- structured output with a curated advanced `turn(...)` configuration
- `13_model_select_and_turn_params/`
- list models, pick highest model + highest supported reasoning effort, run turns, print message and usage
- `14_turn_controls/`
- separate `steer()` and `interrupt()` demos with concise summaries
- `15_login_and_account/`
- browser-login handle lifecycle, cancellation, and account inspection
- `16_external_message/`
- process an untrusted external notification within a user-authorized task